The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-23

In Fifth Annual State Con
yention Of the Inde-
pendents.
PRESIDENT BARNE S
Gives Echoes Of the National
Convention Smoker
Tonight.

4VlllSlll.
One hundred delegates or more
are in attendance at the fith annual
convention OF the West Virginia fa-
dependant Telephone Association.
which began Thursday afternoon at
1880 O'Clock in the ASSEMBLY room
OF the Waldo hotel: Several prom
inent speakers were on the program,
and the Ibeglnalng session was
marked Ny interest and enthusi-
}asm.
/ Register OF. Delegates.
! The fol.owing names were placed
on the register of the convention
I Just before the opening Of the after
noon session:
A. b. Crawford. Rochester, y. ";
~. c. freeman, Rochester, n. VI;
J. w. ,sNyth, Pittsbarg. pa: w. c.
HeHd!an, Wheeling; R. M. Dalzell,
Wheeling; Claude III. Layman, Fair
mont; Lander Moore, BIacksviIia; :.
L. IL. Long, Mt Morris Pa; HaF-
ny Runner, &organtown; e. T..
Moore, PIT. Marion. PA; 10. c. Bea-
yers, Kingwood; /. 4 DarnaI, Buck
hannon; James knight, Fairmont;
~. u. Graccy, Marietta, o.; George
R, Baraes, Fairriont;t j. Walter
Barnes, tteairmont &c. w. Murphy,
Columbus, o.; w tE. Clark Ames-
vile, o.; H. 81. Henry, Point Pleas
ant; j, w. Beatty. Huntington; j..
e. Fisher, Chicago; III. R. Pope,
Elyria, o.. d. Woodbury.. Columbus,
TO-; 7. ]. Martin, Parkersbmg; How
ard r. Martin, Parkersburg; SAM
uel W. Harper, Wheeling; A. HI
Doudna. Wheeling; D. G. Coplin.
Booshsville; c. Phillip Hill, Pitts
burg; w. K. Barnes, Fairmont; WI
d. .shalar, Pittsburg; ID. H. Baii-i
man, Marietta. o.; James +. Hand
Ian, Wheeling; George e. Rogers,
city; George w. LockalI, Greenwood;
F. n. Pierce, Cincinnati, o.. Howard
Dock, Greenwood, f H. Mcdowell,
Pitts3urg; George FLETCHER, city;
T. 4. Smith, city; f. 4. Downey, |
Warrington; ". u. Hartley,
Boothsville; b. Rittenhouse, city;
Z. L. Robinson, Richwood; o. b. /
Austin, Parkersburg;.
Smoker Tonight.
A smoker will he held in the
Waldo hotel tonight at o'clock.
Afternoon Session.
The convention was called to or
der by the president, j. Walter
Barnes. OF Fairmont, who intro
dueed Mayor Frank r.. Moore of this
city. to the convention.
Mr., Moore made short speech of
welcome, in which he congratulated
the convention upon the selection OF
this city as meeting place. The
president, MIR. Barnes, responded,
The minutes of the preceding con-
vention, held May %, 1909, were
read by the secretary, r.. NJ. Dalzell,
and adopted.
Electrical Firms Represented.
Representatives from a number Of
leading telephone and electrical
supply companies were also in at
tendance, and had on exhibition
specimens OF their apparatus. Among
the companies represented are the
kellogg Switchboard and Supply
Company, of Chicago, ILL.,; Auto
matte Electric Company. of Chicago,
Ill; Doubleday dill Electric Com
pany, of ,Pittsburg, pa; National
Carbon Company, of Cleveland, o.:
stromherger-carlsoa Telephone MANI
ufacturing Company, OF Rochester,
y. Y; Dean Electric Company, OF
Blyria, o.; and the Erner and Hop
kins Company, of Columbus, o.
Mine telephone equipment, signal
equipment, and generator coil tele-t
phone apparatus, and system OF
intercommunicating telephones are
among the interesting apparatus on
display.
Viii Visit Carbon Works.
The delegates will leave the Waldo
Friday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock on
a special car to visit points of In
tareSf In the city oFtnr which Tho
car will go to Grasselli for tour
OF in9pection through the local plant
Of the National Carbon works.
In addition to the program OF the
afternoon, the following is to be car
ried ont tonight and tomorrow:
c, L. Jones, OF Athens, o., read
paper on the subject, The Ohio
Situation in which he discussed
telephone conditions in Ohio and the
nature and effect OF the Yonke bin. !