The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-09-25
THE EDITORS ADJOURN.
THE OLD OFFICERS REELECTED
FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.
viii Meet at SistersvilIe Next Year
The Citizens OF Clarksburg Made
Their STAY Pleasant,


Their Stay Pleasant.
CLARKsBURG, Sept. 19.-For two
days the editors of West Virginia had
complete possession of Clarksburg
1t is no stretch of the truth to say
that never before in the history of
the editorial Association has a
meeting been so largely attended,
and never before has it been so
royalty entertained. Clarksburg
people have We'd with each
other in the effort to make the
stay of the "moulders of public
opinion" as pleasant as possible.
That they have succeeded is the
enthusiastic testimony of all the
city's guests tonight. The pros
porous and enterprising town has
never appeared to better advantage,
and the hospitality for which the
people are proverbial has been fully
demonstrated.
1t was a happy thought of Presi-
dent S. F. Reed to time the meeting
to the occasion of the opening of
the new Traders hotel, which has
just been completed at a cost of
more than a hundred thousand
dollas, but it was a still happier
thought in the enterprising citizens
who compose the Traders Com
pany to signalize the inauguration
of the building by keeping open
house during the TWO days visit of
the editors and rendering them the
perfect freedom of the establish
ment, for it has sent them home
with good and lasting impressions
of Clarksburg and the splendid
monument the company has built
for itself.
a word as to the monument. 1t
is handsome modern structure of
buff brick, three stories high, occu-
pies. a half square and contains,
besides ole OF the best appointed
hotels in the country. a beautiful
banking room, which is occupied by
the Traders Bank and a perfect
gem of an up-to-date opera house.
The stage appointments are per
feet and the scenes and frescoing
are the work of the best artists of
New York and st. Louis. The
hotel where the editors have been
entertained "has no superior in the
State" as one of the brethren ex-
pressed it to day. The table and
service is superb, every meal being
a banquet in itself. The Traders
company evidently set itself to
show its appreciation of the fact
that the editor is a proverbially
hungry individual.
The second days session of the
editorial meeting began with 1O5 of
the enrolled members present, and
the business lasted all day. Not
much of it was of general public
interest, however, relating princi
pally to matters that only the pro-
fession is interested in.
a deserved tribute was paid to
President Stuart F. Reed, of Clarks
burg, Secretary Harry Snyder, of
Shepherdstown, and Treasurer w.
II. Morgan, of Morgantown, by their
unanimous election for another
year Mr. Reed is an enthusiastic
worker in the cause, and has built
up the association to its present pro
pOrtions.from an average yearly at.
tendance of less than one half the
number at this meeting. E. Kit
son, of Sistersville, was elected
Vice President, and Sistersville
chosen as the next place of meeting.
The date of the excursion to the
Atlanta Exposition, when the West
Virginia editors will be the guests
OF the Southern Railway Company,
will be fixed later and duly an
nounced by President Reed, who
has the arrangements about com
pIeted,
Gov. MacCorkle addressed the
editors Wednesday night, on "The
future of West Virginia
The usual vote ofthanks was ten
dered the citizens of Clarksburg,
the Traders company, the railroads,
the musicians, the amateur opera
company here, the Jr. o. L. a. NJ.
for the use of their hall, and TO all
who contributed to the entertain
ment of the editors.
The parties arrested for having
entered the old furniture factory
building, and charged with taking
of machinery, were taken before
Justice Phelps, and the hearing of
the case at their instance continued
until next Tuesday morning at 10