The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-20

/ Binkley. Barlow Record; Mrs. Lillian
K. Moore, Mariana Times; Joe L
Earman, West Palm Beach Post; Nor
| ton M. Milford, Fort Myers; Claude E
Jones, DeSoto county; George Hosmer
Manatee River Journal; ]. C. Massey
Richmond Paper Co., r. A. Coult, Sec
rotary Of the Florida Development AS
ISOLATION; HI. r. Davis, Pensacola Jour
nal: Miss Nina Hawkins, Tampa. All
were unanimously elected.
1t was the unanimous decision that
| a testimonial handsomely engrossed be
given by the Florida State Press As
ISOLATION to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. B. Her
vey, who have lent their every effort to
the success OF the meeting of 1890.
This testimonial will be given Mr.. and
Mrs. Hervey at an early date by the
chairman of the committee in charge.
Gilbert Leach of Leesburg. 1t also
voted unanimously that Mr.. and Mrs.
Hervey would in the future be honorary
members of the Florida Press Assoc
citation.
Launching Of Hastings.
The rain which fell heavily in the
morning hours, stopped just long
enough to allow the launching of the
Hastings, which took the water
promptly at o'clock. The Hastings
is the ninth vessel launched by the
Pensacola Shipbuilding Company, and
mot one of these launchings has been
postponed on account Of rain, fair
weather having always favored the
company with the exception of yester-
day. when the clouds rather added to-,
than detracted from the launching.
Mrs. T. e. Fitzgerald, wife of the
former president of the press asso-
citation. charming in a summary gown
of white organdie, with American
beauty roses, acted as sponsor, break
ing bottle Of champagne. decorated
in the national colors. as she chris
tened the great ship Hastings, named
for the famous potato-growing Sec
ton of Florida. by reason of its splen-
did bond buying record during the
world war.
Mrs. Fitzgerald's maids were Miss
Ruby Edna Pierce. West Palm Beach;
Miss Barbara Hillyear, st. Augustine;
Miss Marion Keeling. Mariana; Miss
Gail Binkley, Barlow; Miss Edith Eide
burn, Mt. Dora Miss Margarita Mayes,
Pensacola; Miss Celia Robinson and
Miss Grace Coley, Pensacola Journal;
Miss Carrie Moreno and Miss Frances
Salmons, Pensacola News. Her at
tendants were: Mrs. G. v. S. Wilson.
Sarasota; Mrs. E. L. Moore. Mariana;
Mrs. A. p. Jordan, Palm Beach; Mrs.
d. r. Read, Milton; Mrs. Bob Holley.
SANFORD; Mrs. Harrys Broom, st. Au-
justine; Mrs. Codrington. Sanford;
Mrs. Gibbs. New Orleans: Mrs. III. c.
Holderman, Cocoa, Fla.
In the afternoon. as a close to
three day session which has been filled
with good things. the members of the
association were taken for an automo-
bile ride about the city and surround
ing country.
A feature of the convention. which
added much to its interest was the
presentation of prizes for the best es-
saws about the Montverde industrial
school, the first of which $4,000 went to
Colonel A. p. Jordan. of Punta Gorda;
the second, $500, to G. Q. Codring-
ton, of DeI4and. ex-president of the
Florida Press Associations; the third,
$1,000 to Frank Stoneman, of the Miami
Herald; and the fourth, $500. to Miss
Ruby Pierce, of THE Life and News,
Palm Beach. All checks were returned
as gifts to the school.
The members left on the evening
train Saturday, for their homes in va
rious parts of the state.