The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-05-11
LOVELY LAFAYETTE.
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sociation-was gracefully carried

association-was gracefully carried
out. At the reception the visitors
were welcomed in few charming re-
marks addressed to them by the
spokesWoman for the ladies of Lafa-
yette, Miss Edith Dupre of the institute
| faculty, to which Miss Ella Bentley
responded in the name of the ladies OF
the press. A number OF musical fea-
lures were rendered during the course
of the afternoon, and refreshments
were passed among the ladies by the
girl students of the institute. While
the ladies were enjoying this reception,
a stag smoker was in progress at the
rooms of the Century Club, rendered
by the members of that organization
to the men of the press party.
The two evening sessions of the as
sociation on Tuesday and Wednesday
were honeycombed with songs and
instrumental selections by the talent
of the town, among which might be
mentioned choruses by the Institute
Glee Club, song solo by F. v. Mou-
ton, piano solo by Miss Eva Mouton,
violin solo by Florent Sontag, and
several delightful selections by the
Glidden Quartette. Wednesday fore
noon, preceding the first session of
the day, the press people were shown
through the institute and allowed to
see the students at work, and this was
perhaps one of the most interesting
features that marked the meeting at
Lafayette. The editors were taken to
the gymnasium, where pretty, graceful
lassies in their blue blouses and
knickers went through marches and
calisthenic exercises with a surpris-
ing ease and precision of movement.
The rooms where budding artists of
promise were engaged in painting and
drawing were also visited, as well as
the various other departments of the
institute, including the department. of
manual labor, where the youthful
Drawn and muscle of the land were
variously occupied In exhibiting their
prowess and ingenious training in
blacksmithing, wood turning, fur
niture making and kindred mechanical
pursuits.
The carriage drive which was sehed-
uled 80 take place Immediately after
the Wednesday afternoon session
had to be abandoned on account of
the weather, and thereby the press
folk missed seeing many OF the
beautiful features of the town which a
drive through its confines would have
afforded.
The Wednesday evening session,
which closed at little past 10 CLOCK,
was followed by brilliant banquet at
the Gordon Hotel rendered by the
people of Lafayette, and this was the
eliminating social event of the con-
vention. The cover adornment of the
menu cards was a handsome lftho-
graph of a printing press, and as the
fashioned, they made charming souve-
mir worthy of honorable mention was
paper, captioned "The Louisiana
of the compiler, ''as only poor
printer in a poor town, handicapped
by the lack Of everything save short
\ ,fp Of old
hand pressa could get it up. These
were distributed among the visiting
editors and the many take-offs on
country journalism and iack-leg typog-
raphy provoked much amusement.
Owing to the unfavorable weather it
was decided to abandon the five-day
camp on the Gulf coast which had been
arranged for those members of the
association who cared to participate,
and large party of the delegates left
at lao Thursday afternoon over the
Southern Paci6c's branch road for
Opelousas to attend the opening ses-
sion OF the second health conference,
at which they were the guests of the
state board ofhealth and the hospitable
people OF Opelousas.
Thus ended three days of delightful
enjoyment; three days of pleasure that
not even the exeerable weather could
mar for one feeting moment; three
days OF meeting and greeting old
friends and of meeting and making
new ones; of being elevated and re-
freshed in mind and body-then home
again over the Southern Pacific route
through rich and prosperous agricul-
tural sections of our lovely Louisiana,
with only beautiful memories of the
people of Lafayette and of the thriving
town itself, which could be SO cheerful
and attractive even against such heavy
odds as excessive rain and mud.
In view OF the splendid hospitality
accorded the Louisiana Press Associ-
alton at Its twenty eighth annual ses-
sion, to Baton Rouge, which has been
selected as the next place of meeting,
no better precedent could be offered,
and it is with q sincere apprecia alton
OF the manifold courtesies rendered
the press people by lovely LAFAYETTE
that We are moved to say TO our capt.
tai city: ''Go thou and do likewiseF'
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