The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-18
Business Sessions of Press Asso-
Citations Cut Short That Mem
bers May BE Free.
RECEPTIONS ARE ANNOUNCED.
Visiting Newspaper Men and
Women Will Do Exposition
and Attend Entertainments
at State Buildings.

snort and see the show" eharacterizes
the meetings of the various press associa
| tions at the Worlds Fair, and little bust.
ness will be transacted. The time OF the
visiting editors will be taken up principal.
ly with seeing the Exposition and attend.
ing receptions at the State buildings
Many receptions. all OF which are infor.
NAL. have been announced, and others are
being arranged for. The visiting editor is
welcomed everywhere and does not have
TO wait for invitations. as the latch string
is on the outside at all of the buildings.
The thirty-second annual meeting Of the
Arkansas Press Association was held yes
terday afternoon in the Arkansas building
In the Plateau of States at the Worlds
Fair. The session was brief, because the
Arkansas editors wished to devote all of
their time to seeing the Exposition.
The business session set for tomorrow
afternoon was dispensed with and papers
which had been prepared were ordered
printed in the proceedings.
The following officers were elected with
out contests:
, J. J. Baugh. president: p. H. Thomas.
hrst vice president; A. VI. Wood. second
vice presidentt w: Z. Spencer. third vice
President; J. r. lobe. corresponding sec
tary; S. \. McNish. financial secretary;
s. q. Sewer, orator: 7. NJ Wood. his,
torian; Mrs. II. NJ. Folsom, poet.
BY vote of the members of the Utah
Press Association, which met at the Utah
ouIding Yesterday. the programme pre-
pared WIS postponed. Members OF the
association decided TO use the time seeing
the Exposition and to call a business
meeting on their return home
As an extra inducement to the newspa-
per men of the world TO attend the recep-
ton at the Kentucky building from TO
. O'Clock this afternoon, Secretary r. +.
Will be given away with every drink dur
ing the afternoon. and that every visitor
may have as many drinks and apples as
ne can carry. To fulfill the promise Mr..
Hughes has had a pyramid OF red apples
built in the reception hall of the Kentucky
building.
An informal reception will be given this
morning at the South Dakota building
after the South Dakota Press As@ocia-
ton holds a brief business session. Every
one Is invited
Oklahoma delegates 20 the Worlds Press
Parianent have started a boom for Guth-
re as the meeting place of the next Par
Eament A book containing literature
about Guthrie and button showing Guthrie
upon the map are being distributed
Visiting newspaper men will be guests
at reception at the Indiana building at 2
O'Clock this afternoon. All delegates to
the Press Parliament and members of the
National Press Association and other
newspaper men are invited to partake of
the hospitality of the Hoosier, State
The Press Committee of the General
Federation Of Women's Clubs has issued
invitations for reception in honor of the
Worlds Press Parliament at the German
Pavilion on Art Hill at o'clock Saturday
afternoon.
All newspaper men and women at the
Worlds Fair are invited by the Texas
Woman's Press Association to attend a
reception at the Texas building from 10
until o'clock Friday afternoon.
TWENTY-FIVE Texas women will he in the
receiving line. No formal invitations will
be sent out
The Connecticut Commission will re-
ceive Connecticut and New York newspa-
per men and women at o'clock to-mor-
row evening at the Connecticut building.
Walter Williams. commissioner to the
foreign press, received the following tele-
gram from the German Newspaper Pub
lishers' .nsr Association Yesterday afternoon:
Association. assembled in Dresden to cele-
brate the decennial jubilee. send to the
worlds Press Parliament their best coll
cess"
Louisiana women attending the Worlds
Fair will be received at the Louisiana
building at O'clock tomorrow afternoon
by the Board of Lady Managers.
The first formal reception to be given
by the New York State Commission will
take place in the New York building at S
o'clock Friday evening. At that time the
fifty visiting newspaper men from New
York and small number OF invited
friends will be received by Commissioner
James H Callahan OF Schenectady and
John c. Woodbury. of Rochester.
The fragrance OF the Cape Jessamine,
the State flower Of Texas. will fill the
Texas building Friday. and each guest at
the reception given by the Texas woman's
Press Association will receive a flower.