The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-05-20
MORNING SESSION
LARGELY ATTENDED
Many Additional Delegates Arrived
Last Night and This Mornins-Lit.
erary Entertainment and Banquet
This Evening.

The members of the Mississippi
Press Association, or majority of Them
arose early this morning and went
down to Purvis to view the ruins
of the cyclone and to see what work
was going on toward rebuilding the
wrecked city.
They found everything in as good
shape as could be expected. Several
houses had been practically rebuilt
and work was going on in several
parts of the town. Mr.. Hathorn has
charge of the distribution work and
no one is suffering for the necessaries
of life.
The press people met up with Miss
Duck WALL whose printing office was
demolished and she had a narrow es-
cape from death. A neat little sum
had been made up among the press
people to help Miss Wall out of her
difficulties and just before they were
fixing to return and while they were
at the depot, President Hobbs ten
dered her the purse and expressed
the sympathy of the association with
her in the calamity that had befallen
her.
The government is furnishing 25
men and dozen teams to haul away
the debris, so as to keep the place in
healthful condition.
The Morning Session.
The second days session of the con-
vention was called to order at II a. ~
by President B. T. Hobbs, of the
Brookhaven Leader. The Invocation
was offered by Editor L, T. Carlisle,
of the West Point Leader.
Several members arrived last night
and this morning, among them the fol-
lowing: Mrs. H. p. Kells, jackson
White Ribbon; E. A. Fitzgerald and
wife of the vicksburg Herald; ]. F.
Parker, EllisviBle, New South; H. NJ.
Quin, jackson Pythian Journal and
Joe Meyer, Of the Hattiesburg Item.
Secretary Mcclure read letter
from F. L. Bellinger, formerly editor of
the Jackson News and now in the
newspaper business at Ell Paso, Texas,
rendering his resignation as a men,
Der of the Mississippi Press Associa-
ton, Mr., Bellenger, who was forced
to give up his work at Jackson and go
TO Texas on account of an attack of
tuberculosis, wrote that he was i'm
proving in health.
president Hobbs appointed Capt. P.
K. Mayors, R. H. Henry and ]. G. Nc
Guire committee to send messages Of
sympathy to Editor J. E. Norwood, of
the Magnolia Gazette, who is in New
Orleans at the bedside of his wife,
and to Mr.. Bellinger at Ell Paso,
The most interesting event of the
morning session was the able paper
read to the convention by F. F. Phil
lips, of the, Hattiesburg Commercial
tiupi who spoke on the mafYelops
growth of Hattiesburg, its mills and
factories and the fertility and rich
ness of the soil of the surrounding
country. Mr.. Phillips address was
ordered printed in full in the official
proceedings of the association.
e. A. Fitzgerald, of the vfcksburg
Herald. in short address urged the
association to appeal to the people
of the state to raise funds to purchase
silver service for the new battle
ship Mississippi.
Capt. P. X. Mayors. of the Pasca-
goula Democrat-Star. offered the fol-
lowing resolution on the subject.
Resolved, That the Mississippi
Press Association urge the people of
this state to contribute toward rails.
ing fund sufficient to provide sil-
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