Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-06-27
the HarnEssuae PRESS MEET.

Like moSt ot the otner papers, the
Herald has been delayed by first one
pressure of matter and then Another
upon our space. 10 presen ting a full
er writeup of the Hattiesburg Press
Meet. We said something about il
10 brief way the same week in
which we attended but it merits a
more extended mention.
Going up on the train from McLain
we met our fellow ne wspaper man,
Mr.. L. g. Sellers aud daughter OF
The Lucedale Times. When we
came to New Augusta our good
friend Eugene Terry of The New
Augusta News came aboard. Then
We also had as a fellow passenger,
Presiding elder w. B Jones, who
had he'd quarterly conference at
McLain with the pastor, Rev j G..
Ellis. the latter of whom by the way
pastored the Leakesville Methodist
Church about 1896 or 81 and built
the parsonage during his pastorate
floating the lumber down the Chick
ssawhay from the Cbicora mills
Ellis chatted us some while waiting
for the train at McLain, asking about
old pensioners in Leakes vile. and
how the political rinds were blowing
on governor S race 1T ceiera. Bro
Jones was feeling good over the
cheering news on that the second day
of the drive, that his district had
went over the top in the Centenary
Missionary Drive.
After getting room assignment at
the Hotel Hattiesburg we repaired to
the convention Hall, which was the
RED CIRCLE AUDITORIUM, built for the
soldiers benefit during the stirring
war DAYS of Camp Shelby. We found
the editors already busy at work in
their business session. And soon
the mingling with cd friends began.
Those handshakes of fellow-servitors
of the public in the newspaper way,
which cheer one another along their
hard journey.
A splendid luncheon was given the
editors in the basement of the audi
forum which is well fitted up with
a cool and inviting dining room in
its rear. Here the rotarians hold
forth every Tuesday and the soldier
boys had iull swing during the palm
y days OF army life at Shelby. The
host of the convention, Mr. Howard
S. Williams OF the Fattiesburg Daily
American, who by the way was I'M
firing in bis efforts all through the
convention for its entertainment and
he had it all to fit in well. acting as
POSTMASTER introduced Sc eral
speakers to the audience both from
the Hattlesburg celebrities and from
the rapks OF the newspaper folks.
They talked while most of as ate the
inviting dishes layishy spread be-
fore Us.
Following an afternoon business
Session we were loaded into autorno
biles furnished by the hospitable
Hattiesburp people and given spin
through and around the outskirts OF
their city winding up at the Normal
College grounds. The editor and
wife and the latters sister, Miss Au-
drey Westerield, were the car-guests
of our good friend Victor Seaman
and he also loaded in our Associa-
tional Secretary, Claude Cunning
ham, who runs paper in the same
town from which Seaman originally
halls, that is Newton, and where
now resides his estimable father,
Tom Seaman. At the
NORMAL COLLEGE
we were whisked on past the build
ings to what they called Pine Park,
believe it was, where on the sunny
slope OF a gentle hill were laid seats
facing the rustic aud expansive ros-
trum on which was staged their
great pageant 'Neka Kamon," an
Indian term meaning the new spirit.
This was an outdoor play planned as
part OF the school commencement
exercises and dealt with early Amer
lean history, in fact through pretty
well all the periods down to and
through the present war times and
was well planned and executed for