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STATE CONCLAVES SINCE 1894 tive term as president. State printing was the focus of extensive discussion and a "Home Rule Printing Bill" was formulated and passed. It asserted that "County printing should be done by printers whose plants are in the county for which the printing is needed." Mutual problems of newspaper production and circulation were subjects of panelists. Eleventh annual meeting. Monday. January 18, 1904, Kenyon Hotel, Salt Lake City. William Buys, Wasatch Wave, Heber City, elected president. Thirty newspapers were registered and several new members were accepted into the association. A committee to research a hitherto unexplored avenue, uniform advertising rates, was appointed. Delegates voted strong support for attendance at the "Editor's Conference" during the World's Fair scheduled in St. Louis in May and agreed to hold a quarterly meeting while there. Twelfth annual meeting. Monday. January 23, 1905, Kenyon Hotel, Salt Lake City. David P. Felt, Farmington Argus, was elected president for a heretoforje unheard of fifth term. For the first time since completing his term as charter president Edwin A. Littlefield of Ogden was not elected First Vice President. Argumentative delegates devoted a great deal of the meeting to outlining a petition to the State Legislature calling for newspapers of the state to be given preference in the allocation of state printing. Other actions of the state's law-making bodies were discussed and the continuing need for more protective laws regarding libel was addressed. Thirteenth annual meeting. Monday, January 15, 1906, Kenyon Hotel, Salt Lake City. David P. Felt, Davis County Argus, was elected to a sixth term as president. His Farming-ton newspaper had undergone a slight change of name. For the first time, a woman was elected to office in the association when May Anderson of the Children's Friend was named Recording Secretary. Samuel L. Raddon, Park Record and 325 |
