The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-12-10
Editorial Association Met at Abba.

ern Iowa Editorial Association was
held at Abba last Thursday and Fri
Gay and about sixty of the live wire
editors of the southern part of the
state were in attendance, and the
1.-TWO days spent away from home
were most profitable and pleasant
ones. The Abba editors spread them
selves in the way of entertainment
and there was no idle time while we
were in Abba. The session of the
association opened Thursday after
noon at / o'clock in the pleasant
rooms of the Abba Business Mems
Association, and the afternoon was
spent in a discussion of matters of
interest to the craft, but not to the
general public. The editors were en-
tertained at a o'clock dinner at the
Christian church as guests of the AL
bia editors. Then there was couple
of hours of music and short talks by
editors and Abba business men, af-
ter which the editors attended the
King theatre and witnessed THAT
Printer of Udell's,'' and they were
unanimous in pronouncing it splen-
did performance.
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the business 81 The association and at
noon a special interurban car took all
of; the editors to Centerville, over the
Centerville, Abba & Southern Ry.,
where they were taken on an auto
ride over Centerville, visiting the big
Hercules Stump Puller plant, which
spends $4,000 a year in advertising
their machine and give employment
to large number of people, the big
poultry plant of Anderson & Co., the
artificial ice plant and the great
power plant of the Centerville Light
and Traction Co., where two $50
horse power engines and one of 1000
horse power were generating electric
current for Centerville, Abba and
other surrounding towns. Centerville
is one of the coming cities with their
great coal industries, new gypsum
mine, brick plant and other indus
tries. A short time was spent at a
social meeting at the Elk's Club
rooms and then the return trip over
the interurban to Abba was COM
menced, the schedule providing for
the return to- Abba at $50 in time
to connect with all trains out of AL
bia. The plans were alright, but it
failed to work out, as one of the cars
ahead of us jumped the track eight
miles from Centerville and we could
not get around the wreck and had to
wait until an engine and tool car
could be brought from Abba, II
miles, but nobody grumbled, for they
had enjoyed the trip.
One of the features of the Abba
meeting was resolution which plac-
ed the association on record as favor
ing the establishment of school of
journalism at one of the state insti-
tutions where instruction may be Civ
en- particularly for the country news
paper men and a short course along
these lines will probably be held
within the next few months. The
newspapers of Iowa are among the
greatest educators in the state, and
the state should provide means for
providing for their education the
same as it does along other educa-
tional lines.
All in all, the Abba meeting was a
dandy good one and the boys who did
not attend missed good thing.
Arrangements were also made for
the organization of a ladies' auxiliary
to meet hereafter at the same time
and place as the editorial meeting
where the ladies will have separate
program and entertainment. Mrs. A..
L. Anderson, of Abba, was elected
president, Mrs. Geo. w. Needles, Of
Centerville, vice president, Mrs. j..
M. Beck, of Centerville, secretary,
and Mrs. Chal Sturgeon, of Eddyville,
treasurer. Mrs. S. w. Wilson, of Al
bia, was appointed chairman of a
committee to draft bylaws for the
auxiliary.