Milford chronicle., 1921-09-30
NEWSPAPER WRITERS
ROYALTY ENTERTAINED
GOVERNOR RITCHIE, MAYOR WRIGHT
SON AND BISHOP DAVENPORT VEL
COME EDITORS TO EASTON.
TRIPDOWN tired AVONRIVER
VISITORS PARTICIPATED In AN OYSTER
ROAST-VIEW MANY HISTORICAL
PLACES AROUND EASTON.

= With Governor Ritchie, of Maryland,
and Mayor WrightsOn, of Easton, and
Bishop Davenport of the diocese of
Easton among the guests of honor,
nearly 100 members and friends OF
the Maryland Press Association and
the Delaware Press Association which
organizations held a joint meeting at
Easton, Md, participated in a banquet
given in honor of the two Press AssO-
Citations by the EastOn Publishing
Company in the Hotel Norris Monday
night.
It perhaps was the biggest get-to-
gether meeting of Delaware and Mary
landnewspaper men in the history of
the two States. S. E. Shananhan,
President of the Del-Mar-Yia Press
Association and editor and manager of
the Easton Star Democrat, which is
owned by the Easton Publishing Com
pany, had the big function in charge.
1t was staged and carried out delight
fully.
The program was as follows: Toast
master, T. Hughlett Henry, Of Easton;
invocation, Bishop Davenport of the
Diocese of Easton; address of well
come. Mayor Wrightston, of Easton;
choral singing of Maryland, My
Maryland"; short addresses. by Bishop
Davenport; John E. Raine, president
of the Maryland Press Association
and editor of the TowsOn New Era;
George Carter, vice-president of the
Del-Mar-Via Press Association and
editor of the Wilmington Evening
Journal; Joseph Finan, editor OF the
Cumberland Evening Times; Everett
C. Johnson, editor of the Newark
Post; William F. Metten, secretary of
the el-Mar-Via Press Association and
business manager of Wilmington Ev-
cry Evening; John G. KOOns, of Wash
ington, formerly first assistant post
master general; Walter H. Savory, of
New York, sales manager for the Mer-
genthaler Linotype Company; David
Snellenburg, of Wilmington, head of
the Glazed Kid Week celebration;
Governor Albert C. Ritchie, of Mary
land, and S. E. Shannahan.
Governor Ritchie outlined briefly
his reform plans for the government
of Maryland.
Governor Denney, of Delaware, had
been invited to participate. He sent a
letter of regret which was read.
The menu included Maryland bis
cult, roast Talbot duck and Talbot
country cured ham.
A resolution was adopted thanking
the Easton Publishing Company, the
Easton Rotary Club and all others
who had participated in the entertain
ment of the newspaper men.
The orchestral music was furnish
ed by Miss Margaret Clark, pianist;
Louis Carroll, violinist, and AvOri
Pool, cOrnetist. William Spence led
the choral singing of "My Maryland"
Dinner favors included vari-cOlored
and fantastic paper caps, horns, rat
ties, confetti and serpentine tape.
In the banquet hall the only flag
that was displayed was "Old Glory"
After the banquet, the entire party
went to the music hall, where they
were the guests of the Easton Pho
toplay Company and EastOn Plummer,
it's manager, at a special showing of
"The House That Jazz Built"
Part of the itinerary of the day was
a visit to the 16,O00-tree apple orchard
of the Mulberry Hill Orchard Com
pany, of which DR.. A. S. Cover is pres
ident, and w. E. WithgOot is secretary
and treasurer. While nearly all other
orchards in Talbot county are bare of
fruit, eighteen carloads of fine apples
are being shipped from Mulberry Hill.
Another interesting visit was to the
big plant of the Easton Furniture
Manufacturing Company, where the
visitors were shown through by J. w.
HOShOur the manager
A trip then was taken to old friends
meeting house near EastOn where Will
son M. Tyler, editor of the Easton Ga
zette, and quaker, recited the history
of the frame structure which was
built in 1862 or sixteen years before
Old Swedes was built in Wilmington.
Part of the afternoon was spent at
''Wye House." ancestral home of the
Lloyds of the Wye River. 1t was there
that Fred Douglas spent many of his
slave days. The old family burial
ground of the Lloyds at the rear of
the mansion excited much interest.
Tuesday morning there was short |
joint meeting of the two Press AS
sociations.
The closing features were an auto I
mobile trip to Bellevue. A trip on the /
fred Avon River on the State Steam
er Governor McLane and an oyster
roast at Bellevue.
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