Omaha daily bee., 1914-06-19
Nebraska
SCRIBES ARE CAMPING OUT
Many Are in Attendance Upon State
Press Convention.
PROGRAM WILL OPEN TODAY
Governor and Mrs. MorcheRd 20
Keep open House Tuesday After
nOon-warminE Up for
BalI Game.
CFroma staff Correspondent


LINCOLN June S.-(SpeciaL) Editors
with large families, editors with small
families and editors with no partners at
all began arriving in Lincoln this morn
ing for a weeks outing at Epworth Lake
park, where the forty-second annual ses-
sion of the Nebraska Press association
is to be held beginning today and lasting
until Wednesday evening of next week.
The grounds are high and dry and an
ideal spot for camping. Tents have been
put up and are rapidly being filled, Most
Of the day was spent in getting ready
for housekeeping by those who have their
families along and in an inspection of
the grounds in order to locate old friends.
Tomorrow the real work of the associ-
alton will begin when President Charles
Pool Of Tecumseh calls the meetinS to
order at 10 o'clock and Governor More
head bids the editors welcome. The gov
ernor will tell about the big bass he
caught last week up in the sand hills
and defy any editor to beat it if he can.
Mayor Frank Zehrung of Lincoln will
also tell the editors how glad Lincoln
people are to greet them again and Presi-
dent Pool and Vice President Fl. A.
Brainerd will respond.
Fireworks start Today.
Other parts of the program will he a
round table discussion in charge of A.
J.. Davis of the Greeley Independent and
in the afternoon II Doc Bixby gets back
from his junketing trip he will deliver
the annual poem. Jim Tanner of the
South Omaha Democrat who is some
poet himself will endeavor to respond
with one of his poetic effusions and some
mere of the boys will pull off oratorical
stunts.
A little later in the afternoon the first
of the ball games will be played or
rather worked. The two teams will
be made up Of republicans on one side
and democrats on the other. Just why
the bull moose herd should have been
left off in the this sport is not given
out, but Frank Harrison is pulling off
the sport stunt and if anybody don't IKE
1t ak to Frank
The first round for the editorial tennis
championship will be played right after
the ball game and in the evening IN IRE
will be a camp fire, which later may be
turned into a smudge to keep off the
tiskeeters, should they be roaming about
in search of editorial blood
Association Notes.
A number of typewriters at headquar-
ters tent have been provided for the
editors, who may desire to write copy
and edit their papers at long distance.
feature of the sessions will be the
publication of a daily paper on the
grounds and a job press, so that publica-
ton of the paper can be had very easily.
Monday afternoon the editors viii be
the guest of Hugh l., Jones, president of
the Lincoln base ball club and will be
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witness q game between Lincoln and the
Wichita club.
Mrs. II. Gordon Cross of ST. Edward
will entertain the association at numer-
out times during the session with solos,
bothinstrumental and vocal. 1t is eX-
pected that Mr.. and Mrs. Cross will be
here the full week
bers of the profession, who has been
counting on having a good time camping
out with the boys, has sent word that he
cannot come, his health is such that
his physician feels that he ought not to
take the chance of taking cold.
Monday evening there will be a recep-
ton at the Commercial club rooms. This
is in conflict with the Omaha meeting of
the republicans of the state to which
many OF the editors desire to attend, and
it is possible that an effort may be made
to change the time to some other night.
Governor and Mrs. Morehead will hold
open house to the editors and their fam
lilies between 4 and o'clock Tuesday aft
ernoon. This will will occur while the
visitors are geing taken about the city
in automobiles and the stop will be made
long enough to enable each one TO pay
their respects to the governor and his
lady.
The State Railway commission has
granted the request of the traction COM
pany to run its cars direct to the park
and run a stub from the junction at
the park entrance to tn asylum, in order
that the edieors may not have to trans
Ter. A twenty-minute service will be
given IL necessary, although as none but
members of the association will be ad-
mitted, except on Sundty, IL is not thought
that It will be necessary to run them
that often.
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