The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-08-31

port, Iowa. tells of the meeting of Ger
man American editors as announced
in Norfolk last Sunday by Editor A..
C, Lutte of Sioux City, who made the
address here before the Norfolk lodge
Sons of Hermann. upon the event of
their flag dedication. Mr.. Lutte stat
ed here that he would go to Davenport
this week. and that the organization
would become national in its charac.
ter.
Davenport, Ia, Aug. 25.-The sixth
annual meeting of the German-Amer-
ican Press Association of Iowa, South
Dakota and Nebraska opened at Dav-
export.
The first session was held in the
meeting room of the Davenport Turn
memeinde, Col. Joseph Eiboeck of
Des Moines, president of the associa-
ton, presiding. The second session
will be from 1:30 p. m. to 2:30 p. m
At p. m. the members will take part
in an excursion on the steamer
Eclipse, going from Davenport to Le-
port via the Iowa and Illinois Interurb-
an railway. In the evening a Ger
man kommers" will be held in the
Turner hall opera house, over which
Dr. A. Sauer will preside. Speeches
will be made by Waldo Becker mayor
of Davenport; Col Eiboeck of Des
Moines: H. =. Wolf of Peoria, H.. and
b. +. Tillinghast, president of the Tri-
City Press club. A program of twen-
ty-siX numbers has been arranged for
this occasion. For the women spe-
cial place in the balcony will be re-
served and the other parts of the op-
era house will be open to the general
public.
Today there was a session from 8
o'clock until noon. The following pa
pers were read: "The German-Amer-
leans of Davenport" Adolph Peterson
of Davenport; How Can a German
Paper in This Country Best Succeed?'
]. II. Johannes of Columbus, Neb.;
The German-American Press in Poll
tics" A. C. Lutte of Sioux City; Ger
man-Amerlcans, Awake and Stand up
for Your Rights" Hans Demuth of
Sioux Falls, S. D.; "The German Jour
nalists in America" Gustav Lyser of
Yanliton, S. D.; "The German-Amer-
ican Trinity: The Press, the Church
and the School," Carl LOhmann of
Burlington, Iowa; THE Taking of and
Collecting for Subscriptions Through
the Postoffices,". Gustav Dietsch of
Postville, Iowa This afternoon there
will be an automobile ride through
Davenport, Rock Island, Moline and
Arsenal island arranged by the Tri
| City Press club, the Davenport Auto
club and the Davenport Commercial
club. There will be a concert and
banquet at the auditorium of the Rock
Island Comemrcisl club in the even
ing, with a speech by G.. w. McCask
rim, mayor of Rock Island, and re
spOnses by members of the press asso
Citations of Illinois and the western
states. At this occasion Miss Lulu
Lutte of Sioux City, the talented so
prano, will sing "The Shadow Dance,
from the opera "Dinorah," by Meyer
beer. Miss Abby A. Lawrence will
give as a piano solo "Rhapsodie Hun
groise No. g" by List. Other solo
lists of Rock Island and Peoria will
take part in the concert.
On Sunday morning the last session
of the association will be held o.
association and their wives will be
guests of honor at the Davenpor
Turngemeinde, which latter organiza
tion will celebrate it's anniversary a
the Schuetzen park at Davenport.
The association was founded by A
c. Lutte of Sioux City, in 1901, ant
held its first meeting in that year a
Iowa City. Fourteen charter member
were present and the German-Ameri
can Press Association of Iowa wa
adopted as a name. In 1902 the sc
ciety met at Des Moines, and Soutl
Dakota and Nebraska were admitte
to membership. In 1908 the meetin
was held in Sioux City and prove
one of the best affairs of the kind eve
arranged here in German circles. Can
+ Meyer Frank Haaren and A. c. LutZ
f had charge of the arrangements. Gee
d. Perkins, eX-Mayor e. w. Caldwell
the members of the city council an
a number of prominent German-Ame
lean citizens were guests of honor &
: the concert and banquet which wa
, given in honor of the members of tn
! press association. The fourth NEE
=, ing was held at Muscatne in 1870
and the fifth meeting took place la
year at Clinton. Col. Eiboeck, one
. the veteran newspaper men of II
% state, was the first president of IL
- association and has held that post ,
:. honor ever since. This year the Ge
. man-American editors of North d
kota, Minnesota, Illinois and Ne
York will be taken into the associ