Show Reception and Sooner The reception and supper given by the Salt Lake Herald to the members mem-bers or the association at the Alta club in the evening proved very pleasant and enjoyable The guests were received by the president of The Herald company Mr P C Chambers and the manager Mr B W Young Among those present were the following follow-ing E G Rognon Salt Lake city W B Smith Spanish Fork Herald W L Webb Lehi Banner E A Littlefield Ogden Press S L Paradise Salt Lake John Meteer Richfield Advocate Fred Nelson Tin tic Miner Warren Foster InterMountain Advocate Joel Shoemaker Shoe-maker Manti Messenger M L Snow Brigham Bugler N B Dresser InterMountain Inter-Mountain Advocate John Stable jr Davis County Clipper A B Tomson Box Elder Voice E H Scott Payson Globe A N Rosenbaum Logan Nation Na-tion John V Long Tooele Transcript W S Buchett Salt Lake O H Barber Bar-ber Ogden Press F B Smith Spanish PorTs Herald C C Higgins Mercur Mercury M L Scott American Fork Item B J Stewart Spanish Fork Herald Her-ald P H Lannan Salt Lake Tribune R TV Young Salt Lake Herald E A McDaniel Herald at Ogden James Clove Provo Enquirer W M White Murray American Judge Miner ex Governor Thomas Colonel Nelson of the Salt Lake Tribune Judge Goodwin Salt Lake Tribune C W Penrose Salt Lake Herald E G Ivins Sail Lake Herald Eugene Traughber Salt Lake Tribune John W Hushes Salt Lake Herald Wornun Suffimsw nud Prohibition The first hour was spent in social talk and general handshaking and as an interlude a vote by ballot was taken on the questions whether or no woman suffrage should be a plank in the state constitution and whether 01 no prohibition should be submitted to the people as a separate article of the constitution On the former QuestIon the ballot showed 16 in favor of woman suffrage and 11 against en the latter the vote stood 8 in favor of submitting sub-mitting the matter of prohibition separately and 16 against and 1 for local option a I The Suj > i > os At 930 the supper room was reached and Mr B C Chambers called upon I Major Littlefleld as the oldest journalist j journal-ist in Utah to act as master of ceremonies cere-monies The gallant major in a modest mod-est and appropriate address accepted I I the responsibilities of the position po-sition and filled the bill with honor to himself and the association of which lIe had the honor of being the first president Those Who Talked Judge Goodwin was introduced as the 1 grand old man of Utah and in response i tu the call made a humorous and highly entertaining talk R W Young was called to respond to the toast of General Young and made a few appropriate and happy remarks i marks 3 p H Lannan Desponding to a call I for a speech said a few words suitable j to the occasion R C Chambers as one of the hosts of the evening expressed his pleasure at I meeting the members of the association associa-tion and bid them heartily welcome He thought it was a good thing for members of the profession to get together j to-gether and become better acquainted with each other Such gatherings takeoff take-off the rough edges and makes things run more smoothly E G Rognon speaking for the Utah Press association said the association was on the road to accomplish its mission mis-sion which mainly was to lift journalism journal-ism in Utah to a higher plane than it has hitherto occupied He thanked Manager Young of The Herald for the courtesy shown the association and wished success to the Giant of the Rockies Joel Shoemaker made a few remarks re-marks stating that the association was a fraternal body into which politics did E J not enter C W Penrose expressed his pleasure at being present and at feeling the fraternal influence of the surroundings He was glad that the association had set out to elevate the tone of the press and hoped that although different views were held by the members on many subjects they would still have a brotherly feeling for each other Good brothers sometimes fall out but good brothers make up again He had in his heart nothing but the Kindest feelings for all present and hoped that their eyes would never grow too weary to see the bright light and their heads never too weary to write the truth Warren Foster the only Populist present said he had felt a little lonesome lone-some hut reminded his brothers that Noah had stood alone for 120 years but at the end when the big shower came was the only one who had a boat that would ride the waves The members of the association were welcomed to Salt Lake on behalf of the Salt Lake City Press club by the president John W Hughes and a cordial cor-dial invitation extended them to make the Press club their headquarters i while In the city Remarks were made by E G Irma exGovernor Thomas A E McDanlel O H Barker and others The supper was served in the veil known style of the Altaclub and a very pleasant evening was passed |