The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-12-12
EDITORS AT KNOXVILLE
Southern Iowa Editorial Association
Held q Pleasant and Profitable
Meetiso in a Good Town.

MeetisQ in a Good Town.
The Reporter man took a couple
of DAYS off last week and attended
the winter meeting of the Southern
Iowa Editorial Association. at Knox
Vile, OF which he is secretary, and 1T
| was one of the best meetings ever
held by the association, which is
composed of the live wires in news
paperdom in southern Iowa. we
reached Knoxville Thursday morn
| ing at II o'clock, after putting In
most of the night travelling via
Charlton and Abba, and the hrst
| thing which greeted our eyes was
| that famous paper roof depot, OF
which Casey of the Knoxville Ex-
press has written SO much. 1t is
new depot erected the past year, but
| is not nearly so fine as the Leon de-
pot, and the looks of the town has
been spoiled by the paper roof which
the company has put on the build
ing. The citizens Of Knoxville and
the newspaper fraternity Of that city
did themselves proud in the way OF
providing entertainment for their
visitors. The editors were met at
the depot with autos and escorted to
the hotels of which Knoxville has
two good ones. Knoxville is a dandy
little city of $500 people, and is
growing rapidly on account OF the
! big coal fields which are being open
| ed up at that place. The only fault
| we found with Knoxville was her
city water, which is the worst ever,
/ and woul make hog hesitate about
taking a bath in it, but we were as
sured that they were going to have
! d new system installed the coming
year. They have two OF the finest
printing Offices in the state at Knox
Vile, the Express, owned by Casey q
Belvile. and the Journal, owned by
Curtis & ellison, and we'll venture
| .Ie assertion that in no city in Iowa
| can two as clean and neat printing
offices be found. We know they
have us skinned in this respect city
block %
The sessions of the editorial asso-
citation were held in the Olympic
theatre. and We're both interesting
and instructive TO the members OF
the craft. On Thursday afternoon
after the close of the regular session
| the visitors enjoyed a fine picture
show. which showed the making OF
paper from the time the timber was
cut in the northern woods to the
| finished product as it came from the
Fmill. and it was q great siEht@ "A
second film showed the making OF a
great newspaper, showing all the
ma chinery and army of men used in
the production of the London Times.
Thursday evening there was a
banquet rendered the visitors by the
businessmen of Knoxville. There
were just 800 seats in the big hall
where the banquet was served and
every seat was occupied, and quite
number of people were waiting to
secure seats in the hope that some
one could not be present. 1T was
one of the finest banquets we ever
attended, Editor Gibson, Of the
Knoxville Journal, presiding as
toastmaster. and he lis in his element
in this capacity. The toasts were re-
sponded to by a number of the lead
ing editors of the state and few
Of the businessmen of Knoxville.
Friday morning the closing ses-
sion of the association was held,
at which it was decided to hold the
summer meeting of 1913 at keokuk,
special invitation having been ex-
tended by that city to the editors
to come and see the great dam
which will be completed and the
power plant in operation by that
time. Iowa City, Washington.
Charlton, Indianola and Ames were
also after the next convention.
Friday afternoon we visited the
state hospital for inebriates, where
we were entertained at luncheon by
the superintendent, Dr. George
DonahOe, and conducted. over the
big buildings, in which at the pres
ent time are 264 patients for treat
ment for excessive use of liquor and
drugs. There has been great
change in the institution since DR..
Donahoe took charge of it, and 1t is
no longer an experiment, but the
hospital is greatly in need of funds
with which to provide hospital IA
cilities and industries by which the,
small army of men can be kept en-
ployed. Dr.. Donahoe is doing a
great work and we believe he should
either be provided with the neces-
sary funds for the proposed improv-
ments or the hospital closed.
While at Knoxville we met
Charley Allen, the leading lumber
man of Knoxville, who was at one
time a resident of Leon, and is we'll
remembered by many of our readers.
He had a good laugh over his famous
boxing match at Leon when George
Redman knocked him as he said not
only out of the ring, but clear
through the side of the old Leon
gymnasium. He is the same genial
old Charley Allen, one Of Knox
ville's best boosters and he has
warm spot in his big heart for all
newspaper men.