The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-07-15
THE PRESS MEETING.

ilege to attend session IN the pro-
gressive city of Greenville, and we
again urge every newspaper man in
South Carolina to attend these meet
ings. 1t will do you good to touch
elbows with your fellow-workers,
and you will understand the fellows
a great deal better. Here it is that
we all meet as one big family, and
we forget all save the pleasure OF
each other. Speaking from personal
experience, the Press Association has
given to the writer some very strong
friends-men whom we love for
their many good traits. Had it not
been for our attending the meetings
we might never have known them at
all, much less intimately.
The people of Greenville were in
deed gracious and hospitable, and
their preparations for the entertain
ment of the press party were ele-
CANT and elaborate. However, rain
interfered with some of the outdoor
program, but even this did not keep
those whole-souled mountaineers
from making us all have a mighty
good time.
Red-headed Rut McGhee, editor of
the Piedmont, and Geo. w. Brunson,
Jr., editor of the Greenville News,
(who by the way is an Orangeburg
boy and is well-known and has many
friends in Bamberg) were indefati-
gable in their efforts to entertain
their brothers in misery" as Rut
called his co-laborers, and if there
was anything lacking in their re-
ception, we failed to find out what it
was.
Greenville is growing city. We
were astonished in fact at the
strides it has made in the last few
years. Only a few years ago we at
tended a session of the grand lodge
knights of Pythias in that city, and
a ride over the town then and last
week was revelation to US in the
number of new residences, business
houses, etc., which have gone up
since then. In fact, what was the
suburbs then has been built up al
most solidly with magnificent homes.
1t is impossible in this short article
to speak of Greenville's many mag
nificent cotton factories as well as
other enterprises, but the town is
still growing and that rapidly.
Heretofore we have been opposed
to meeting in large town, as the
experience had been that a small
gathering of newspaper men did not
attract much attention and the body
was not appreciated. But the Press
Association has grown, and the
Greenville meeting was no doubt the
most largely attended of any in the
history of the Association. And the
press crowd was not the tail to any,
body's kite. We were the whole
thing-at least in the estimation of
the people of Greenville, and our
only regret is that the meeting did
not last all the week. And here we
want to make suggestion: That
the Association convene on, say
Wednesday night and adjourn Fri
day night, so that we all can get
home by Saturday night and have a
day of rest before beginning the
daily grind.
We started out to say much more,
but our foreman is sick, and with
our many free jobs to look after,
this will have to suffice for this time.
We may have something more to say
next week.
1t was mighty good sign to see
some newspaper men at the Press
Association who have not been at
tending the meetings heretofore.
May they keep on coming.
Here's hoping that we may all
meet at Glenn Springs with no va
cancies in our ranks.
Great things are expected of the
new president, August Kohn, and we
all feel sure he will make good"