The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-06-21
KENTUCKY EDITORS
CONFER AT BIG MIDSUMMER
GATHERING AT OLYMPIA
SPRINGS.
E. D. Shinnick New President-Other
Officers Eiected-Comhine Bust
ness With Pleasure.

Olympia Springs, ky.-Ihe mem
bers of the Kentucky Press AssOcia-
ton held their annual midsummer
meeting here last week. Business was
combined with pleasure, and most
enjoyable session was held Thirty
papers were represented.
The neWly-elected officers are:
President-EdWard D. Shinnick,
Shelbyville Record.
Vice President-John S. Lawrence.
Cadiz Record.
Secretary-John C. Alcock, Jeffer-
sontown Jeffersonian.
Chairman Executive Committee.
R. Lemon, Mayfeld Messenger.
The new members of the executive
committee are:
]. S. Stears, Nicholasville; ]. B.
Gaines, Bowling Green; Robert j..
Mcbride, jr., Louisville, and John j.
Barry, New Haven.
Gen. HaIdeman Thanked.
The following resolution of thanks
was given the retiring president, Gen.
w. B. Haldeman, by the executive
committee of the association:
1--WE, the members of the executive
committee of the Kentucky Press AS
ISOLATION for the past year, desire tc
extend to our worthy retiring presi-
dent, Gen. w. B. Haldeman, our most
sincere thanks for the many courte.
sizes shown us during our several meet.
ings this year in Louisville"
Charles E. Mccormick.
The resolutions adopted upon the
mick, who for many years was pub.
Usher of the Bullitt Pioneer and q
member of the Kentucky Press asso
citation, follows:
Whereas, Since the last summer
meeting of this association it has
pleased an all-wise Providence to cal,
from his earthly sphere of usefulness
Charles Ellsworth Mccormick, fol-
many years publisher and editor OF
the Bullitt Pioneer and an honored
ton, therefore
BE it Resolved by the Kentucky
Press association, That in the death
of Mr. Mccormick, which occurred al
his home in Bullitt last August, this
association has lost an honored, re
spected and useful member, whose
demise We sincerely regret and whose
absence we deeply deplore.
"To his family and friends the sym
pathy Of this association is extended
and as a mark of respect to his mem
DRY these resolutions are ordered to
be spread upon the minutes of this
meeting and a copy thereof forwarded
to his surviving wife and family al
their home at Shepherdsville, KY"
At the quarterly meeting of the
Eighth District Publishers league the
following officers were elected: Mi
chael O'Sullivan, Shelbyville, presi
dent; Jesse Anderson, LawSenceburg
vice president, and d. NJ. Sutton, Har
risburg, secretary and treasurer.
Gen. HaIdeman's Remarks.
Gen. w. B. Haldeman, who was or
| the program for an address as presi
dent, said that he did not believe in
taking up the members time by 6
| long speech. Instead, he made a short
talk, in which he discussed various
points of newspaper work. He sought
to impress upon the minds of the
members that in his belief a paper
could attain better results through
saying kind word than by knock
| ing"
Olympia Springs in Favor.
Through Col. Loving w. Gaines, OF
Trenton, the management of Olympia
Springs invited the association tt
come back next year or whenever they
feel like it. Col. Gaines said that il
was necessary to invoke the aid Of
rhetoric or call upon the muses. to sins
! the praises of beautiful Olympiar
! Springs" He said that he was sure
that he voiced the sentiment of every
/ member when he said that he wa!
! glad that they had come and happy
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