The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-22
THE R E CONVENTION.
Laurel, The Future Great, Does Her
self Proud-Delightful Visit to
Mississippi Sea-COast.

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Mississippi Sea-Coast.
7, The fifty-frst session of the Missis-
sippi State Press Association met in
Laurel last Tuesday and Wednesday
the attendance being very good,
considering the conditions existing
throughout the country today.
Laurel is one of the most progress
sive cities in southeast Mississippi,
and is made up of a goodly percentage
of live, wideawake boosters. The city
is beautifully laid out, and has a large
number of modern business houses,
magnificent public buildings, pretty
residences, monster saw-mills and fac
tories of different kinds. In fact, the
po~stofice, court house, city hall,
hotel, schools and church buildings of
Laurel are of superb architectural de-
signs and structures that would do
credit to a city four times as large.
Col. Mott Ayres and his charming
wife, of the Daily Laurel Leader, aid
ed by quite a number of the big-heart-
ed citizens of the Future Great City"
of that section of Mississippi, were
untiring in their efforts to make the
representatives of the Fourth Estate"
have literally the best times of their
lives, and The Daily Commonwealth
! wishes to assure these gallant hosts
and lovely hostesses that their efforts
were crowned with unparalleled sue
cess, and we want to thank them for
the many courtesies extended us while
in Laurel.
We were royalty %banqueted, given
lovely receptions and automobile
drives around the city-and, in fact,
a wholesouled welcome was in waiting
for us from every direction.
President Walker Wood presided ov-
er the deliberations of the convention
J with the ability and ease of a veteran,
and the two days session was M of
the most business-like and interesting
the writer has attended within the
past thirty years.
The Convention authorized a Gov
erning Board for the Association, to
develop closer cooperation among the
publishers and printers, and the fol-
lowing editors were named as men,
bers of said Board: Walker Wood,
chairman, Times, Winona; j. l.. Gil
lespie, The Commonwealth, Green
wood; v. B. lines, Dispatch, Column
bus; c. N. Harris, Herald, Canton;
Mott Ayres, Leader, Laurel; President
G. P. Clark, Register, Clarksdale;
Secretary W. A. Bean, Times, Amory'
Jackson was selected as the 1918
place Of meeting.
The following officers were elected
for the 1918 term:
Guy P. Clark, Register, Clarksdale,
President.
Mott Ayres, Leader, Laurel, LIST
vice-president.
c. N. Harris, Herald, Canton, End
vice-president.
W. Alfred Bean, Times Amory Sec.
rotary.
A. C. Anderson, Sentinel, Ripley
treasurer.
Rev. Geo. D.. Booth, Laurel, Chap.
lain.
v. B. lines, Dispatch, Columbus
orator.
Wilmer Kennedy, Panolian, Bates
vile, essayist.
T. NJ, Herderman, Clarion Ledger
Jackson, essayist.
Miss Kathleen Smith, Herald, West
Point, poet.
George o. Senter, Commercial, Co:
lumbus, poet.
), Delegates to the National Editoria,
Association were elected as follows
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Gillespie, The Daily
Commonwealth, Greenwood; MI. ane
Mrs. E. W. Smith, Daily Democrat
Greenville; Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Harris
Canton.
The Trip to Gulfport.
Thursday morning the Press Party
left on a special train for Gulfport ir
charge Of Hon. H. E. Blakeslee, Di.
rector General of the Mississippi Cen.
! tennial Exposition to be held in 1919