The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-07
CLARKSBURG ALWAYS
UP WITH MODERN TREND
Country Club, Y. M. c. A., and Town
Citadel Are Results of Organ
lied Effort.

Last fall the question of organizing a
riously taken up. resulting in the or
ganization and incorporation of the
Clarksburg Country Club. Since that
time there has been acquired a property
of some fifty acres, located within three
miles of Clarksburg, admirably adapted
for the purpose. The membership of the
club now comprises about $50 of Clarks-
burgs representative citizens and this
season will see an up-to-date country
club in existence, with a comfortable
club house erected upon its grounds, to-
gether with a golf course, tennis courts,
and boating and bathing facilities. for
the pleasure of members, their families,
and their guests.
The people of Clarksburg, in recent
campaign for that purpose, subscribed
nearly $4,000 to erect a citadel building
for the use of the Salvation Army. A
committee is now at work optioning
sites, from which a selection will be
made at an early date, and the location
of the Salvation Army headquarters in
its own home and to much greater ad-
vantage will soon be an assured fact.
Another campaign has recently been
put over by Clarksburg people in the or
ganization of Young Mems Christian
Association, and In taking subscriptions
for membership nearly 5000 were Sc
cured. 1t is expected. to see something
tangible in the way of a building for
Y. NJ. c. A. purposes within the year.
There have been several new factories
located in the district within the past
year, one of which is a bottle plant,
which is destined to become the largest
of its kind in the world. A new concern
manufacturing sanitary plumbing ware
has also been located. taking the place
of an old plant turning out cheaper pot
terry ware. There are now under nego-
tiation many good prospects for the loca-
next few months will see two additional
glass plants and another sanitary pottery
concern located IN Clarksburg.
The West Virginia Fair Association
with headquarters at -Clarksburg, has
held forty-four annual exhibitions, a rec
ord not equaled elsewhere in the State.
Eight years ago it was reorganized as
the West Virginia Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society, and will hold its sew
enth annual fair beginning September
next. 1t has well equipped grounds
and its annual displays and good pre-
miums are events in the county.
The fraternal and benevolent societies
are we'll represented in Clarksburg The
Elks have the finest building belonging
to that order in the State. The Odd
Fellows and knights of Pythias also
have buildings of their own. Labor is
we'll organized. and all the leading trades
have their unions and societies.
That Clarksburg is right on the map
and will show up in the census of 1870
with a larger percentage of gain-l07 per
cent-than was shown In the I9OO-l0
decade. there is no doubt 1t is already
good town. and with its opportunities
better known it will soon pass to lead
ership among the cities of West Yir-
ginia- 1t is only one point behind now
The men at the head of affairs in
Clarksburg are fully alive to conditions.
and viii leave nothing undonc which
tends to the welfare, stability, and
prosperity of the city and its wonderful
tributary region. 1t has overgrown a
county size The present decade will
put 1t State size, and when West vir-
ginia is named by the outside world
Clarksburg will naturally come to mind
rs the foremost community.