West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-05-31
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The Pencil Pushcrs In Annual Con.
ycntiOn.

Paikersburg TO attend the Eleventh
Annual Session Of the State Edi.
torial Association. There were
about one hundred in attendance.
nearly all the members of the craft
being attended by lady.
The first meeting was held Tues
day evening in the Opera House.
and was a feast of oratory and
music. The main orators of the
evening were Col. b. b. Herbert, of
Chicago, and Governor Atkinson.
An interesting address was delivered
by Hon. A. b. White, an ex-
President OF both the State and
National Editorial Association.
Mr.. White announced that he
would not make formal address.
but referred to the fact that this
was the thirty-first annual meeting
OF the organized newspaper men of
this State. He sketched the or
ganization of the West Virginia
Press Association from 1860 to
1850, in which latter year it was
merged into the West Virginia Edi-
torial Association. The list of
Presidents given by him were as
follows
W. VA. PRESS ASSOCIATION.
J. N. Wisner, Martinsburg, 1900
1870.
w. P. Cooper, (deceased), 1870
1871.
G. H. HOdgson, (deceased), 1871
1872.
Alfred Glass, Wellsburg, rS7a-rS7s.
VIM. Harper, Romney, (deceased),
IS73-IS74.
J. St. John Clarkson, (deceased),
IS74-rS7s.
o. G. Scofeld, (deceased), 1875
1873.
G. w. Atkinson, rS7S-rS7o.
p. w. Morris, Give years., 1870.
1884.
a. B. White, 1SS4-ISSs.
John II. Holt, rSS5-rSS7.
A. b. Clark, rSS7-ISSo,
M. S. Holt, IS8o-rSoo.
W. VA. Editorial ASSOCIATION.
R. +. Homer, rSoo-r8o3.
Stuart +. Reed, 1893 1896.
J. Slidell Brown, 1890 1899.
+. II. Flynn, rSoo-Iooo.
He was followed by Mr.. Herbert,
editor of the National Journalist,
and the founder and father of the
National Association. His address
was an able and scholarly one and
was listened to with marked at
tention and published next day in
the Parkersburg prpers. His sub
ject was the "Unity of the Press"
He was followed by Governor
Atkinson, who was at his best and
delivered the most.eloquent speech
we have ever heard him make. 1t
was punctured with frequent and
hearty applause and we would like
to publish it in full if we had room
and will give an extract in our next
issue anyhow. His subject was
"West Virginia's Present and
Prospective Possibilities and the
Work of the Press in the Develop
ment of the State"
He was followed by Hon. Owen
S. Mckinney, Of Fairmont, editor
of the Index and Speaker of the
House of Delegates, who spoke on
newspaper legislation and legal
printing.
The exercises were interspersed
with excellent orchestra music and
the session closed to meet next
morning in the Auditorium of the
City Building.
At the Wednesdays session con
siderable business was transacted
and about a dozen new members
were enrolled, among them the
name of II. S. Whetsell, of the
Journal, Kingwood. The Presidents
annual address was a good paper.
containing some excellent sugges
tions.
Rev. J. O. Thompson, of Keyser,
late editor of the Echo, delivered
an address as the orator Of the As
ISOLATION this year, and it was one
Of the best we ever had the pleasure
Of listening to. 1t was frequently
and heartily applauded by the
audience, and we wish il could be
repubiished.
a poem written specially for the
occasion by Frank Preston Smart
Of the Parkersburg News, was read
by Hon. a. p. White. It was en-.
titled "The Man Who Ran the Tele.
gram in '0A" and 10 was so good
that we want to publish it. Another
splendid poem was written for the
occasion by Col Wat Warren. of
the Chenille Pathfinder.
Tho TTf.t,vt.u asa. $500