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Show THE NEWSPAPEB WRITERS l aying the Foundation for ;,n I liter-Mountain Press Club. Local ncwspapcrdoni held a meeting in the rooms of the Metropolitan hotel yesterday yester-day afternoon and laid the corner stone, for a press club for the Inter-mountain region. James B. liloor of the Tribune, was called to the chair and J. K. Leleher of the Ktrato to the secretary's desk after Which Ed. Ivins of the Herald presented the object of the meeting. meet-ing. In the discussion of eligibility it was do. cided to, Open the roll to all those who are now engaged in newspaper work, those who hove temporarily abandoned the search for fame, for that of revenue, those w ho voluntarily w ithdrew but whose hearts yet thrill in the presence of the old love, professional men who are engaged In literary pursuits and that particular class who take up, unconsciously, uncon-sciously, the work where the writer end-. In fact the object of the club In Zion. Is to achieve 1 11 it t which has been achieved in other cities and to this cud Joseph 11. Lippman was uppointed chairman of a "committee of toe whole" on membership, tho roll lo be opened in the chambers of the law library and at which place hh staff will report. The following committees ou organization or-ganization and rooms were Appointed: On Crmntititfifjn itW Bm-Lmm Rlchsrd Wells and Mr. Biota of 'the Ueroid, C. 0. Cllno of the Tribune, (ieojge N. lift of Tiif. Tim as, J. E. Hansen ot the .v ", and Joseph II. Lippman, unattached. On nernn Joe' Jenkins of Tim Times, .1. R. Letcher of the ffmW, Will Nelson of the Tribune, and E. E. Brown of the iVctn, The committees will hold a meeting in the rooms of the law library on Thursday afternoon after-noon next, al 4:80 o'clock, at which time tbe uill prepare their reports from the I meeting on Sunday at II p in. at the Metro I politan. |