The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-06-12
WEST VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION
BEGINs ITS FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL MEETING
AUsPIOoUsLY.
HaARrY wELooME Extended
PRESIDENT READS ANNUAL an.
DRESS AND COMMITTEES
ARE APPoINTED-W. p.
81 HUBBARD SPEAKS


In the assembly hall Of the Waldo
Motel Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock, the fourteenth annual con-
Yention Of the West Virginia Bank,
ers Association was called to order
for sessions OF two days by the presi-
dent 9. T. Hiteshew. cashier OF the
Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank Of Parkersburg.
More thanytwo hundred members
of the association were present when
the first session was opened and the
number Of those In attendance will
be increased by the arrival Of more
members during the day.
After the convention was called
into session. the Rev. James +.
Plummer, rector of Christ Episcopal
church, offered prayer and President
Iiteshew introduced Edward Grandi-
son Smith, of Clarksburg, who deliv-
cred an address OF welcome on be-
half of the clarksburg bankers with
= felicity for graciousness that made
an the members feel glad that they
had come to the city. Mr.. Smith
said;
Smiths Address.
"lr. Chairman and visiting mem
bers OF the West Virginia Bankers
Association:
I'm behalf Of cur local members 1t
is my privilege and pleasure to ex-
tend to you the hand of hospitality.
"You will find things much changed
since you were here In 1898.
"our banks have lost to death
James NJ. Lyon, Charles E. Pride.
William Hood, our farmer banker.
DR.. William NJ. Late, director of
fine sense and judgment. g, sprigg
Sands, the popular cashier of the
Traders, and Lee Raymond. whose
home was a symbol. of hospitality.
I'VE have lost the superior coun-
sci and far extending influence of
Governor Lowndes. and we have
most sadly lost Richard 7. Lowndes,
Jr.. one OF our strongest and most
promising young bankers, and you,
too, will especially miss him, as gen.
ial host as ever welcomed guest.
When you were here in the sum-
mer OF 1888, the keys of the city
were turned over to you by its mayor,
Mr.. Matthew 6. tfolmes, who has re-
Gently resigned all temporal 1onors
for honors not temporal in that
beautiful city not made with hands.
when you were here In 1898 Mr..
W. H. Freeman, IN behalf of our
local bankers. expressed to you their
words of welcome. Later, with his
morning newspaper in his hand, he
quietly folded the drapery of his
couch about him and lay down to
pleasant dreams.
"of those who formally greeted
you in 1898, 1. alone, am left TO bid
you welcome.
while we mourn the absence of
those who greeted you then and are
not now here to greet you. still 1t is
natures way. and since their places
must be filed by others. you viii be
pleased to learn they are filled we'll,
and that upon the foundations they
buiIded, their successors are building
greater
Since You were here We have in
corporated ten banks; we have null
tiplied our capital stock by four,
eur deposits by ten and the value OF
our banking homes by a larger num-
ber--all in less than ten years.
May we not be pardoned for the
inspiring hope that the day will
come when Clarksburg's banking
institutions will stand relatively
among like institutions of the coun-
try, on foundation as lofty and as
everlasting as the undying fame of
her immortal soldier son, 'stonewall.
who, by his heroic deeds, has to all
4 the civilized world, made sacred the
very soil Of Clarksburg, the city of
his birth.
8 I'VE are a little mountain city,
bred to the simple ways Of the vir-
\ ginias. No greater pleasure comes
to us than to bear welcome in eve