The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-12-10
PUBLISHERS MEET
Winter COnClaYe of Great North
e:n Editorial Association
WADENA Is THE PLACE
Editors on Branch Line Read Pap
ers, Elect Officers and Enjoy
The Towns Hospitality

The winter meeting of the Great
Northern Editorial Association was
held at Wadena Friday evening, Dec
4. The newspapers represented were
Bemidji Pioneer, c. j. Prior; Walk
er Pilot, F. A. Dare; Sebeka Re-
view, M. E. Sherwood; Wadena Pho
neer-Journal, C. c.. Eastman, Alvah
Swindelhurst; Verndale Sun, H. M.
Henderson; Bertha Headlight, I. j.
Ccurtright; Todd County News, w.
f. Hutchinson; Todd County Argus,
A. w. Sheets; Long Prairie Leader,
r. A. Lee; Sauk Centre Herald, A.
M. Welles. Letters of regret were
read from publishers at Park Rapids
and Akeley.
The association was organized last
summer and was the result OF a con-
certed effort to secure improved
train service on the Cass Lake branch
Of the Great Northern railroad. This,
however, Is only one of the objects
o. the organization. The association
will do all in it's power to boom
the part of the state in which its
members are located.
The membership was at first con-
fined to proprietors of newspapers
published on, the Cass Lake line,
from Sauk Centre to Bemidji. At
the Wadena meeting it was voted to
taEe<in all publishers in the counties
of Todd, Wadena, Hubbrad, Cass, Bel
trami, and Clearwater. This is ex-
clusively Great Northern territory,
though there are a few papers with
in these confines on the Northern Pa
cific and the Minnesota & Interna-
tional. Those will all be admitted,
Sauk Centre, though in Stearns coun-
tv comes ir on account of being at
: the terminus of the branch line.
One of the main objects of the
association is to get acquainted and
] with this end in view, the publishers
will have an outing each summer
somewhere in the northern part of
the associations territory. The sum-
mer meeting is to be held at this
outing, which will be in June. The
winter meetings will be held either
at Long Prairie or Sauk Centre. The
meeting next December will probably
come here. The summer outing of
1909 will be held ut Bemidji, Mr..
Pryor, of the Bemidji Pioneer pre-
senting an invitation from the city,
county and Commercial Club of that
thriving city. Mr.. Pryor will look
after the details.
The meeting of the association was
held at the Merchants Hotel. r. A.
Lee, of Long Prairie, president, pre-
siding. Several papers of interest
tn the craft, were read and business
transacted. The association went on
record as favoring the proposition OF
the legislature appropriating 100000
to advertise Minnesota
The following officers were elect
ed for one year: presd ent, R. A.
Lee, Long Prairie; vice president, c.
j. Pryor, Bemidji; secretary, ]. j.
Courtright, Bertha; treasurer, M. E.
sherwood, Sebcka. An executive COM
mittee was chosen as follows: A
M. Welles, Sauk Centre; F. A. Dare,
Walker; H. M. Henderson, Verndale.
c. c. Eastman, publisher of the
Wadena Pioneer Journal and his
able assistant, Alvah Swindelhurst.
did themselves proud in the matter
of showing courtesies to the visiting
publishers. The Pioneer-Journal Of
flee, model country newspaper. plant,
was. the chief rallying point. After
the boys had talked shop with
Eastman and Swindelhurst. the lat
ter showed them through the Wadena
cracker factory. This manufacturing
plant does large business and is a
/ fine thing for Wadena. The trip
through was entertaining and instruc-
tive.
J In the evening. after the business
meeting, the visiting publishers were
royalty entertained at the rooms of
the Commercial Club by Mr.. Eastman
and the business men Of the town.
The club rooms are commodious.
handsomely furnished and would do
credit. to a much larger town than
Wadena Light refreshments were
served and then followed an informal
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