Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-22
Business Sh0ved Behind,
Stare Editors Enter Upon
Merry R0und Pleasures
BY WARD GREENE
(StaR Correspondent Of The Journal.)

CARROLLTON, Ca, July Ill
With all business showed behind
them, with the election of officers and
the naming of next years convention
city, the editors attending the thirty
fourth annual convention of the
Georgia Press association this after
noon turned their thoughts exclusive
ly to pleasure.
The regular order of business was
suspended Wednesday, morning and
the association voted unanimously
to accept the invitation to meet in
Washington, Wilkes county, in 1921
The invitation was extended by Will
Bruner, editor of the News-Report-
er, and Bush Breeland, teacher of
agriculture in the Washington high
school, and secretary of the Wash
ington-W Wilkes Board of Trade.
To repeat, plenty of pleasure
awaits the editors. 1t began at noon
with a basket luncheon at City park
served by Carrollton's fairest, than
whom there are few fairer. I was
continued with a fish fry this after
noon at Bowdon, site of historic old
Bowdon college, where Uncle Jim
Williams, of Greensboro, managed to
show as much prowess' among the
fish as he has among the chickens,
both fried and frilled.
The editors will return to Carroll
ton to spend the night. but bright
and early Thursday morning they
will ST. V~t NJ NJ
tertainment awaiting them. Their
first stop will be Villa RIGA, next
Douglasville, where the populace of
both cities is said to be ready to
turn over everything to them except
the kitchen stove. Thursday night
they will be treated to Rome hos
pitality. Then, if any of them are
still surviving, they will depart Fri
day morning for sightseeing trip
sthrough Chickamauga park.
Were it not for the milk and
honey in the promised lands ahead of
them, the convention would adopt q
motion to spend the rest of the
members days right here in Carroll
ton, for they have found here such
split OIL hlnullIl6SS ana I1OSplIdIlCy
as no other town in the country, I'M
less it be another Georgia town, can
boast.
This reached it's height yesterday
When many well-meaning members
who had come with the best inten-
tions in the world of attending
strictly to business, succumbed to
subtle influences. Thus, when the
name Of Otis A. Brumby, of Marietta,
was reached on the program yester-
day afternoon, there was no re-
|. Spouse.
And again when Johnny Jones be-
gan to talk on the subject Of head
lines and makeup, he was prone at
times to mingle in his oratory sun
dry flowery references to cheeks and
eyes, which proved that the style of
makeup in vogue in Carrollton has
not been without it's effect on the
editor of the LAGRANGE Reporter.
Johnny's presence at the convention
was all the more welcome in that it
was feared for time he could not
be here. No press meeting would be
complete without Johnny Jones. And
when a telegram arrived from La
Grange yesterday morning, announc-
ing MS illness, tnere was general
woe. Hardly had the wire been
placed in the hands of President
Kelly Simmons, however, when John
ny appeared at the door.
I just couldn't stay away" he
declared: There are three doctors on
my trail, but I don't care"
Several members made interesting
speeches. Johnny was one among
them at yesterdays business ses-
sions. The others included Sam
Hyman, Of the Sandersville Prog
ress; Milton L. Fleetwood, of the
Gainesville Tribune-News; w. H.
Blinn, of the Dublin CONFERENCE.-The;
]. F. Shannon, of the Commerce
News; Jack Mccartney. of the Rome
Tribune-Herald; Miss Emily Wood
ward, of the Vienna News; Dudley
Glass, of the Atlanta Georgian;
George H. Carswell. of the Irwinton
Bulletin; John L. Herring of the
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