| Show PRESS UTAH ASSOCIATION Linotype in operation for the first time The report of the committee on permanent organization was approved and adopted officially creating the association Caleb West Governor of Utah Territory was the banquet speaker Second annual meeting Tuesday January 22 1895 Kenyon Hotel Salt Lake City Rognon Payson Globe elected president Joel Shomaker Manti Messenger was the principal speaker discussing the need for legislation on the printing of legal notices and advertisements great deal of attention was focussed on planning the August 27th-28th Utah Press Day to which journalists from many Western states were to be invited Delegates also gave considerable time to the revision of libel laws of the Territory and the need for newspapers to makeunited front and work together in matters pertaining to the good of the Territory The conventioneers adjourned to The Sanitarium popular bathing resort and after the evening banquet visited the Salt Lake Opera House Third annual meeting Tuesday January 29 1896 Kenyon Hotel Salt Lake City Rognon Payson Globe was re-elected president Since Utah had becomestate on January 4th the proposal to change its name to Utah State Press Association was endorsed by the associationconvention delegates Most of the meeting was devoted to glowing fore casts of Utahfuture greatness and the vital role to be played by newspapers Unanimous backing was givenbill pending in the State Senate changing the libel laws Thomson Brigham City Voice and Joel Shomaker Manti Messenger spearheadeddiscussion of the need forpermanent State Historical Society and Shomaker occupied the newly-created position of Historian Fourth annual meeting Wednesday January 20 1897 Knutsford Hotel Salt Lake City David Felt Juvenile In 322 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
