The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-10-10
ROYAL HOST TO EDITORS.


Coon Rapids Enterprise: Editors
who failed to attend the meet'hg ~
Denison last week Of the upper Des
Moines and Southwestern Iowa Edl,
torial associations, missed the tlne oI
their life. The meeting was con.
tinual round Of interest. A numDer
of papers were read and also ta!Ks
made that were informing, touching
vital matters connected with newspa'
nering. New friendships were formed
among the editors and old friendships
strengthened. The handshakes were
hearty.
Denison knows how to entertain.
There is nothing half.hearted about
her people. They go in for q good
time and to see that their guests miss
nothing that can add to their enjoy
ment, They are so democratic In sptr'
ST that YOU can't see any difference be'
tween the banker and the near mil
a(and Denison has q number
|Of the latter) and the people Gt the
wAtks 81 life. 6ne mas 2
booster clifb Of $50 mem bers and this
il, the reason why Denison goes after
and gets everything she
goes after which is everything an
aspiring town can see In sight or i'm
AGNES she would like to have. She
has three banks withfa combined de-
posit of more than three millions; she
has three department stores which
cover thousands OF feet OF floor space
and carry everything one can get IN
the big city stores, besides q NUM-
Der Of stores which carry exclusive
lines. She has a large cold storage
plant and bottling works: a $4,000
post office building which is furnished
with every convenience, even to as
sembly rooms for the city and rural
carriers, shower baths etc, a $4,000
hotel, the Hotel Denisoa, a most up.
to.date hostelry and as clean as
new pin; a pretty and we'll appointed
opera house, which will seat 1000 or
more. and many beautiful: homes.
Deni.t... has several miles of paved
stress and will add to these next
year. Her newspaper plants have
splendid Office equipment, and her
are not only strong edi.
torialy. but specialize on av.ry te,.
ture Of news gathering. and set each
week an enormous amount of matter,
and carry the heaviest line 1T adverti*-
ing If any papers in the state publish
ed in a town the size of DeIisOn. 1t
appear; from this that :'e business
men of Denison feel that their appro-
priation for advertising, though large,
brings in large returns. At any rate
their brmk accounts must be large and
growing, or they would not feel that
they could pay their heavy advertis-
ing bills. Full pages and double pages
is a common weekly affair In the d D5n-
ison newspapers, requiring editions Of
all home print Of from twelve, to six-
teen pages. -s
One can't go to Denison and mingle
with her people even for but a day or
two without catching the spirit Of
push, sociability and enterprise.
Mills County Tribune: The editor
Of the Tribune had the pleasure of
mingling two days last week with
some OF the pencil pushers of Iowa at
Denison. They were two days OF gen.
uine enjoyment. for one of the best
clubs in the state had the
matter of entertainment in hand.
The meetings were held in the COM
room of the Commercial
Deuison has a commercial club OF $50
members and they have made, their
influence felt in every avenue of bus
mess and life in their city. They
have demonstrated that an organiza.
ton of that kind can be force in
putting town on the map. As indie
ative of their work. a town Of 1000
has now a $4,000 hotel and SO man.
aged as to be remunerative and whose
fame as hotel Is known all over
northern and western Iowa. They
have built an opera house that city
Of ten times the population OF Deni-
son might we'll feel proud of. A num-
ber of factories have been established
and are doing well. A $4,000 post
office adorns the corner of two promi-
nent streets conveniently reached.
Sure they have paving, and it is all
cement for, as two citizens told us,
hey would not want brick paving as
! gift and would be tempted to en-
Join the putting of it down,
/, At the close of the afternoon session
AUTOS awaited the editors to take them
IN an hours trip over the city. When