The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-08-11
aoop FoRTUNE.

The town Of Mason City is to
become an educational center The
long-looked-for event is reality.
The Board of Trustees of Union
College at its meeting at Penns-
boro, on the 4th inst. resolved to
remove the institution from Buch-
harmon, in UpHhur county. to Ma
son City
HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION.
The institution has already done
fifteen years successful work and
It's influence has beenmarked upon
the educational work of West Vir-
ginia. So thorough has been that
work, that under the law of the
State and ruling of State Board of
Examiners, graduates are given
State certificates without any
further examination than the work
required for graduation.
The school was incorporated in
1882 fifteen years ago as the
West Virginia Normal and CLASH
cal Academy, and the same was
then located at Buckhannon, where
st has ever since remained. It's
founders were men prominent in.
the West Virginia Conference of
the United Brethren Church, and
laymen and others who were assoc
ciated with them. From that time
to the present there has been a
good annual enrolment, and nearly
or quite hundred graduates have
gone out from the institution, to
the name of which in many of the
useful and profitable occupations,
they are adding honor. Among
these have been men and women
representing all denominations and
they have aroused an increased in
terest among the people in the
cause of education.
HOW THE SCHOOL BEcEoAdE UNION
COLLEGE.
The Methodist Protestant Church
with large membership and an
influential Conference in West
Virginia, had no educational insti-
tuition in the State, and because of
the kindly feeling existing be-
tween the two churches. co-opera-
ton in educational matters was
suggested, and to secure this a half
interest In the Normal and CLASH
cal Academy was offered to these
people. This offer was accepted in
in 1895, when carefully prepared
plans of union were presented to the
Conferences of the two churches,
and after earnest consideration,
were adopted by both, after which
the name was changed to Union
College.
THE REMOVAL TO MASON CITY.
Educational institutions, like
other business enterprises, if prop
erly managed, seek the most favor
able location, and this question is
one which the Board Of Trustees
has discussed carefully for the past
year, and this has resulted in the
removal of the College to Mason
City. This action has resulted from
several considerations Among
these were the matters of cheap
living and facilities for reaching
and attending school. These
Mason City was found to possess
in an eminent degree, the town
being situated on the left bank of
the Ohio river. opposite the town
of Pomeroy, Ohio, steam ferry
boat plying between the two towns.
1t is located on the line of the
Ohio River Railroad, and the
Kanawha & Michigan Railroad ON
the other side of the river, so that
there are twelve passenger trains
daily in sight or hearing of the
town. These roads with their CON
nections and steam navigation on
the Ohio river and its tributaries,
render Mason City one of the most
easily accessible towns in the Ohio
valley.
There are eight daily mails ar
irving and departing. There are
two express offices, that of Adams
in the town and that of the United
States via Pomeroy on the oppo-
site side of the river. The West
ern Union Telegraph Company
has an office in the town and there
is local and long distance telephone
service.
Mason City estimated in the midst
of great agricultural region on
both sides of the river and this
reduces the cost of living to the
minimum. Twenty thousand peo-