Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Directory and HistoryCollege, Whipple Academy, Illinois Conservatory of Music, the Athenaeum, IllinoisFemale College, the Institutions for the Education of the Blind and of the Deaf andDumb.At Illinois College C. B. Bostwick of the Mattoon Gazette addressed the studentson "Journalism as a Profession," and the Secretary of the Association spoke briefly on"College Journalism." At Jacksonville Business College the Honorable M. B. Castle ofthe Sandwich Argus, J. K. LeBaron of the Elgin Every Saturday, and Mrs. Clara L.Peters of the Watseka Times, addressed the members of the institution.A brief In Memoriam sketch of the late Spencer Ellsworth of the Lacon HomeJournal, was read by George Burt, Jr. of the Henry Republican.1886The twenty-first annual meeting of the Illinois Press Association was held inCentralia on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of February, 1886. The members met in Sadler'sOpera House on Tuesday evening for the first meeting. Vice President W. M. Kennedyof the Dixon Sun presided over this session as President M. W. Mathews of the UrbanaHerald was detained at his home by illness. The members were welcomed by the HonorableM. B. Sadler, mayor of Centralia, and by a musical selection by Water's SilverCornet Band. Vice President Kennedy responded in behalf of the Association.C. B. Bostwick of the Mattoon Gazette, being called upon, gave a brief statementof the character and objects of the Illinois Press Association. E. A. Sniveley of theCarlinville Enquirer, having just returned from a visit to the New Orleans Exposition,gave an account of the Illinois exhibit there.The Secretary read the following letters from Miss Mary Allen West, editor of theUnion Signal, and President of the newly founded Illinois Woman's Press Association,and from Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert of the Chicago Inter Ocean:Gentlemen: There has lately" been organized in Chicago, the Illinois Woman'sPress Association. Its object as set forth in its constitution, is "to provide a meansof communication between women writers and to secure all the benefits resultingfrom organized effort.Its work is still in the future, but we mean to make it tell in the cause ofpure, strong journalism. As an Association, we are young; but time will correctthat fault, for we intend to live and to grow. Being young, we need and shallprize your brotherly co-operation and sympathy. Your work and ours is one. Itwill be better accomplished if we pursue parallel lines than if we work at crosspurposes. Whenever there is good work to be dealt for the right as against thewrong, count us on your side.At our initial meeting, the Association elected Mrs. Harbert and myself to beits representatives to you that at the beginning of our work we may come intocommunication with you, and by consulting together, secure unity of action in ourrespective Associations.Mrs. Harbert will tell you, better than I can write it, something of what wehope to accomplish through organized effort, and of the lines of work in whichwe especially desire your co-operation. Leaving that part of our mission to her,I close by expressing personally my regret at being prevented from joining withher in presenting it and my earnest wish that your meeting may be a very successfulone, and that the coming year may witness better work done by both Associationsthan it is possible for either, alone, to accomplish.•The III,no, s NS„m,,n-, \' re ,s Association was organized in 1881.Fraternally,Mary Allen West (pres.)66