Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

IlllNOIS \l \\ SI'U'I It Dlltlt IOK1 AND I llSTORYChapter IIIThe Intense Age; Women; Other ProblemsThe twentieth annu.il meeting of the Association was held on the 18th, 19th, and20th of February, 1885, at Jacksonville. The Reverend Doctor E. A. Tanner, Presidentof Illinois College, delivered the customary address of welcome. The President, M. \\ .Mathews, of the Urbana Herald, delivered his address on the public debt.At this convention the following papers were read: "Fourteen Years a CountryJournalist," by T. O. Johnston, of the Oregon Reporter; "The Moral Power of theSecular Press," by C. M. Eames, of the Jacksonville Journal; "The Country Newspaper,"by J. B. Matlack, of the Chester Tribune; "What Advertisements Should Be Excluded,"by Charles O. Bradshaw, of the Kirkwood Leader; the annual address on "The Newspaperin Politics," by R. M. Woods, of the Joliet Republic and Sun; "The Local Page,"by W. H. Hinrichsen, of the Jacksonville Courier; "The Art of Advertising," by J. K.LeBaron, of the Elgin Every Saturday; "Foreign Advertising and Advertising Agents,"written by Thomas Rees, of the Springfield Register, and read by E. B. Fletcher, of theMorris Herald; "Patents and Plates," by George M. Tatham, of the Greenville Advocate;" 'Hell' in a Print Shop," by G. W. Cyrus, of the Camp Point Journal; and a secondpaper on the subject by C. E. Crandall, of the Chicago West End Advocate; "1 ver)Day Experience in Country Journalism," by E. D. Conley, of the Wilmington Advocate.The following officers were unanimously elected: President, M. W. Mathews,Urbana Herald; Vice Presidents, W. M. Kennedy, Dixon Sun; J. B. Matlack, ChesterTribune; W. W. Lowis, Lena Star; Secretary, C. L. Clapp, Carrollton Patriot; Treasurer,George M. Tatham, Greenville Advocate; Executive Committee, C. B. Bostwick,Mattoon Gazette; Charles Holt, Kankakee Gazette, and J.W. Clinton, Polo Press.The Association voted approval of the action of the President and Secretary inwriting to the Minnesota Editors and Publishers Association that it would be impracticablefor the Illinois Press Association to be represented at the New Orleans meetingfor organizing a National Association of Journalism.The proposed law reducing the postage on second-class mail matter was discussed,the sentiment of those who spoke being unanimously against the change.Mr. Owen Scott of the Bloomington Bulletin offered the following resolution whichwas adopted: In view of the difficulties attendant upon travel at this season of the year,Resolved, That the Executive Committee be requested not to call the annual meetingbetween January 1 and March 1, 18 86, and in lieu thereof call a special three days'business session to be held during the month of May, 1886. It was also resolved that theAssociation oppose the efforts being made to effect a further reduction of postage uponnewspapers.During the intermissions between sessions citizens of Jacksonville courteously conductedits members in small parties to the Central Hospital for the Insane, Illinois\ tion » ., projected .1. [his yen Members of the Illinois Press Vssoc ijtion were active