The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1907-05-29
MEETING OF THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS
ASSOCIATION.

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| last week in attendance upon the
| Mississippi Press Association at
jackson, and enjoying q trip to
/ liulfport and other points on the
Mississippi coast with members
Eof the Association after the regu-
lar session had adjourned.
The jackson meeting was one
Iof the best in every respect that
1.-THE Association has ever held.
Nowhere have the members of the
Mississippi press ever been more
|cordlally welcomed or Hospitality
Ientertained than by the warm.
hearted people Of the Capital City.
In times past jackson has borne
the name far and wide of being
Iinhosplta b ] @, nom progressive,
selfish and hopelessly stunted.
This cannot be said of the jack
son of today. The fine new blood
that has flowed into It's civic and
commercial life from every quar-
ter for the last dozen years and
mingled with the best of the old
regime, has given fresh impulse
and new spirit to the jackson
of today. Evidences of rowth
and enterprise and reaching out
after better and greater things,
are every where apparent to even
1.-THE most casual observer. In
the last half dozen years the
population of the city has in
creased from seven to over thirty
one thousand souls, and by 1910
expected to reach $4,000.
On the opening day of the con-
vention the welcome of the whole
city was eIoquently voiced by
Hon. Hillary M. Quin and fitting
ly responded to by President L.
1T. Carlisle, of the West Point
Leader. Following this, during
recesses of the convention the
members of the press were given
a trolley ride over the city and
its principal suburbs; we're ,de-
lightfully entertained by the
Chaminade Club at the Century
Theater and by the faculty and
pupils of the Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb, where a splen-
did luncheon was spread; wit
messed complimentary disnlax
of Jackson's paid fire depart
ment, and on the last night of
their stay were rendered a mag
nificent banquet at the Edwards
by the jackson Board of Trade
as the representatives of the whole
city. At this banquet, among the
distinguished Jacksonians who
responded to toasts and united in
honoring the visiting editors we're
Chief Justice A. FL. Whitfield.
Ex-Gov. A. H. Longino, Hon.
Luther Manship, Mississippi's
next Lieutenant Governor, and
Hon. r. H. Henry, the able ed
ltor of the Daily Clarion-Ledger.
The speech of the latter, respond
ling to the toast, "The Press .
was one of the most notable Of
the occasion.
While every citizen of jackson
seemed to do all that could be ex-
pected, the visitors were espec-
Tally indebted to EDITORS r. II.
Henry, of the Clarion Ledger,
and Frank L. Bellenger, of the
jackson Evening News, and their
wives, and to Governor and Mrs.
Vardaman for unfailing cour-
tesies and attention throughout
the convention; also to Hon. Fl.
| E. Blakeslee. State Commissioner
of Agriculture and Commerce and
leditor Of the Mississippi Advo-
cate. Gov. Vardaman, who for
many years was one of the ablest
editors of the State, is still an
honorary member Of the Associa-
tion and has attended all Of its
annual meetings since his election
as Governor.
We will have to postpone mem
tion Of the principal features of
the Gulfport excursion until a
future Issue.
Al no time during the AZ years
of it's existence has the personnel
lof the Mississippi Press Associa-
tion reached a higher average OF
lexceIlence than now, and never
before have the papers represent
. ed in it been SO prosperous on
well-eguipped. That the editor
{ of The Leader should have been
chosen the president of such d
! body at such a time is esteemed
lby him as one of the highest oi
lhonors, and all the more appreciate
Led because it came absolutely
Iunsought and unsolicited; an hon.
or, too. still further enhanced BY
the fact that he is to have as bis