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.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Three Oklahoma journalists, two of the, from El Reno and the other from McAlester, have combined their efforts to make their newspaper at Waxahachie the best in Texas Press Association judging in its category."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sanford, Vernon T. - Secretary Manager of the Texas Press Association."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vernon T. Sanford, secretary-manager of the Oklahoma Press association for 13 years, has resigned effective December 1 to take a similar post with the Texas Press association."

People posing in front of Shary house on the occassion of a watermelon feast for the Texas Press Association.