The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1906-07-26
ANNUAL MEETING
STATE PRESS
North Dakota Press Association
Met at Valley City Last Friday

Met at Valley City Last Friday
OFFICERS We're Elected for Ensuing Year
Excursionists Left the Following Day for
Visit to Yellowstone Park
Enroute to Yellowstone Park, July
81. We had splendid time at Valley
City. An auto ride, street car ride,
a good business meeting and banquet
was the program of the day. Of the
cities where the Press Association has
so far met, no place has entertained the
editors and their wives as has the queen
city of the rolling Sheyenne. Valley
City is beautifully located in natural
growth Of timber on the river. In
horseshoe bend are located the fine
buildings of one of our very best educa-
tional institutions, the State Normal
School. The enrolment of the school
the term just closed was 444. This is
an increase of 13O per cent in the past
four years and in the graduates an in
crease of 400 per cent. The state has
between $l25, 900 and $3.50, 1000 invested
in the buildings and grounds. Two fine
large dormitories for young ladies are
on the grounds, and the Episcopal
church has just established home at
cost Of $1,000 where the young people
may obtain rooms and be under Chris
tian influences. A new wing was added
to the main school building the past
year at an expense of $4,000
The newspaper men of the city, Mr..
Ployhar of the Alliance, and Messrs.
Nye and Packard of The Evening
Times-Record, did their very best to
make the stay of the newspaper men
and their wives pleasant. The auto and
street car rides showed up many beauti-
full residences, and the layout of the
city park among the trees of twelve
acres. The Times man and wife were
pleasantly entertained at the home of
Editor and Mrs. F. H. Ployhar while in
Valley City.
The meeting of the association in the
Armory in the afternoon brought out
some of the best discussions of any
meeting the writer has so far attended.
Editor Stutsman of Mandan had very
able paper in condemnation of the
Streeter libel law, and that Infamous
document came in for its usual share of
lambasting. The association reiterated
its resolution of the previous year ask
ing for the immediate repeal of the
penalty clause.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year were:
President-F. A. Wilson of the Bath
gate PinktPaper.
First Vice President-C. E. Boyden
of the Lisbon Free Press.
Second Vice Presidential. o. Hall of
of the Mohall News.
Secretary-W. c. Taylor of the La
Moure Chronicle.
Treasurer = Alvin Schmidt of the
Hillsboro Banner.
Member of Executive Committee
S. A. Nye of the Valley City Times
Record.
On the morning of Saturday a party
of forty-seven left in special Pullman
cars for the Yellowstone Park, to be
away about ten days. The roster of
the excursion party:
E. A. Hull, representing Wilton News.
w. H. Stutsman and wife, represent
ing the Mandan Republican.
Wellington Irysh, representing the
Wheatland Eagle.
Grant S. Hager and wife, represent
ing St. Thomas Times.
M. B. De la Bere and wife, repre-
senting Sheldon Progress.
S. A. Nye and wife, representing
Evening Valley City Times-Record.
Alex. R. Wright and wife, represent
ing The Oakes Times.
H. R. Lyon and wife, representing
Bowbells Bulletin.
R. L. Price and wife, representing
Harvey Herald.
M. o. Hall and wife, representing
Mohall News.
Misses Lucille and Emma Arnold, rep
resenting Larimore Pioneer.
w. A. Wells and wife, representing
Litchville Bulletin.
F. A. Wardwell and wife, represent
ing Pembina Pioneer Express.
Carl Nelson, representing Towner
County Democrat.
c. E. Boyden, representing Lisbon
Free Press.
A. J. Drake and wife, representing
Westhope Standard.
c. G. Boise, representing Sherbrooke
Tribune.
Frank Prochaska, representing Park
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