Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-03
PRESS ASSOCIATION AT new ALBANY.

morning in time for breakfast and
found the town beautifully draped
and decorated with welcoming ban
ners and flags in the national colors
of red, white and blue. in honor of
the Mississippi Press Association,
which was scheduled to convene in
that enterprising city of North Miss
issippi that day. For the first time
covering a membership in that asso-
citation of quilldrivers for a decade,
and which by the way has been both
pleasant and profitable in the true
sense of the word. we found we had
actually arrived among the very first.
In fact the urbane proprietor of the
splendid hotel which was to entrrtain
us, Hotel Rainey, evidently miStook
US by our early arrival for some of
the Big Bugs of the convention,
judging from his extra hospitable
attentions. Mobiles is the man to
whom we refer and he is surely a
charming hotel-keeper, and he has
for hostelry one that would grace
city many times larger than New
Albany. The structure cost upward
of $50, 5000 and money was not spar
ed at all in it's building to render it
thoroughly up to- date, we'll equip
ped building of that class,
By the time the dinner hour had
rolled round other trains arriving
had brought such lunches of the
pencil pushers as to form group of
some half a hundred. After the
eating job had been disposed of and
that required time and taste for the
fare was rich and abundant. the
convention assembled at the Court
House and was called to order by
President BirdsalI of the Yaz1o Sen
tinel. But not until handshakes and
renewal OF old acquaintances had been
gone through with by the brethren
from divers parts of the state. Sweet
indeed IS the fellowship exhibited
between these wieiders of the pen
from year to year as they meet in
their fraternal gatherings.
That Union County Court Hou, Sc
is beaute. 1t was but recently
erected at cost of $4,000 and its
plan shows the good taste of til"
people who had it built, There Can
be but few if any in the state thai
are up toit, size considered
About one of the b;st hIakS o
advice that we ever read or hearC
handed out to editors, and they re
ceive scads of such constantly. wa,
embodied in the welcome address
delivered by Hon. g. Lee Crum, cit,
attorney, and the sentiments of it 81
nearly fit into line with the DO icie,
on which the conducting of this p
per have been cast that we are 20
ing to make ar effort to secure i
and present to our readers - saw
that at least one other man ms YER!
nearly identica: the same ida.S {
the high standard of journalism ila
we have. and he is not IA edito
either.
The response to the WELDON, al
dress was made by Geo. Hurst {
the Oxford Press who surprised ID
association with his sparkling an
laughter provoking witsallieS. arg,
ly at the expense of his college as
sociate Crum, they having passe
through the University class hall
abeut the same time. Hurst ha
that gift of satire that never fails I
convulse his hearers with laugh ei
He would make quite a hit us
Chautauquan Humorous Lecturer i
he saw fit to try the fortunes O
ILyceum work.
: The citizens of New Albany com
lplfmented the Press Association wit
personal attendance in larger Dun
bers than we ever saw at any of ON
conventions. Every city that W
have met at since this editor joined
the association has literally provide
the material things due for our Ell
tertainment, but twas rather an in
novation and somewhat fatterins /,
the editors to see the floor and gai
leries filled with the townSfolk on
to. hear and observe the elaboration,
of the quill drivers.
Several strong and impressive pa
pers other than the virle adore IS o.
the president were read, and some
interesting and profitable discussions
had. The convention was unusnalIv
free from the tumuItiouS content ions
and chickering's due to the windjam-
mers running over and popping of
with hot air. May it ever be thusiy.
This writer attributes much to the
earnest prayer to that effect by the
Baptist Pastor Wesson, who render
ed the opening invocation, for the
line floor decorum of the session.
Our stay in New Albany was rem
dered homelike by being thrown in
to contact with the brothers and
father of Nat Owen who were quite
cordial in their manner. Also Tin.
attentions of S. Joe Owen, State
Senator from Union County and Ed
itOr Of the Gazette 0f that fitv .vbn-,