title: [The Arch]  "Welcome Ye Editors"
date: 1908
language: English
description: This picture of the arch, erected to welcome the members of the
 Texas Press Association (who held a meeting in the nearby Chautauqua
 auditorium--visible in the background), was taken from East Hubbard Street,
 looking North on Mesquite Street.  The Texas Press Association held its
 meeting on May 21-23,
 1908.                                                                                            
     A note with the photograph states "The group of people were attending the Odd Fellows Convention and/or Press Convention."  The note also states that "Bill Cameron (Who was an editor of the Mineral Wells Newspaper.  He was about 21 at this time) has an Odd Fellows Apron [sic] on.  Aprons, however, are not in evidence in the picture.  The men are shown  assembled under the standard of a lodge (on the right-hand side, whose legend is barely legible), and they are wearing variously-decorated tippets (except, of course, for the man in the center, who is wearing a sash, and the men at the ends, three of whom wear sashes; and the others, who are wearing uniforms, bandoleers and plumed fore-and-aft hats).  The organization has been tentatively identified as the Eagles, whose lodge was said to be organized in Mineral Wells in 1906.
subject: Social Life and Customs - Clubs and Organizations
subject: Architecture - Landmarks
subject: Architecture - Civil Works
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression,
 1877-1939
coverage: 1908/1909
rights: Public
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_0121N
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20468/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth20468