The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-20
.BLUEF|ELD MAY
GET { TONEWALL
JACKSONSCHOOL
Reports Of Subscription Com
mlttees Are to Be Heard
This Week.

BLu t2FlEl1D, Dec. 19.-On Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday OF this
week MONDAY hanquetsi will be held
at the Martz hotei, where the reports
Of the committees engaged in raising
q guarantee fund to the end of get
ting the Stonewall Jackson College
for Bluetield will be heard ana dis
cussed. r ~
These banquets will serve assimi-
lar purpose as. infs the: case. Of .the
chamber of commences Campaign for
a reorganized membership, and il tie
same lively rivalry is waged be-
tween the committees as developed
between the teams which We'd to see
who could get the greatest number OF
members for the chamber Of COM
meree 1t Will be hardly short OF DIS
appointment should colossal sub
scription not to be raised, for 'sbig
game" will besgone after in the cam
paign and huge Jumps OF money are
expected to come rolling in. mere-
ing In a fund at the close Of the cam
paign that will express in no suncer-
tain way the eagerness OF Bluefield
to get this school.
Financial Needs
The committees In charge OF the
work of raising these funds are con-
winged not only that Blletield needs
the school but that Bluetield offers to
the school material Dement'S. The
school, although first class in equip
ment and curriculum, has. snnered by
virtue OF financial needs because OF
being in SO active q competition with
the many excellent institutions IN
that part of the Virginia. Should 1t
be removed to Blueneld 1t lis pointed
out that 1t would he Ine only scnool
between Huntington and Roanoke.
with a field to draw It's patronage
from that teens with: prosperous
population of several hundred thous-
and.
The great Pocohontas coal field re-
gton in this state and the Clinch val
ley coal field, encfrcled by the richest
agricultural section OF Virginia, would
give the school patronage which,
It can readily. be seen, would make
It self sustaining from the start. And
this coupled with. the rapid growth
OF Bluefeld, with an electric system
projected to WEIGH and Princeton,
would make the school available to
territory, almost unmatched in
wealth and density of population,
now wholly unserved by first class
school. For this reason the commit
tees feel that they are really offering
to the trustees the opportunity Of a
life time to widen the scope OF the
service of the school, and, are as
strongly convinced that the trustees
will take these facts into considera-
tion.
Another offer worth while, in the
opinion OF the committees, is the free.
electric light service which has been
offered, the tender #of architectural
plans and specifications for schoot
buildings free of charge, and a free
site for THE school, and this in ad-
ditton TO the money subscription now
being raised. The free will of the
public with regard 10 the srbscrip-
ton campaign is shown by the offers
of three ten acre sites for the school,
two of these being in, South Bluefield
and one in North Bluetield, and be-
fore the committees have hardly got
started $1,000 is said TO have been
subscribed in clean cash "a
Fund Supplemented
1t is pointed out that should the
school be relocated in Bluefield the
campaign fund being raised by Blue
field would be supplemented by sup
port which the Abingdon and Mont
gomery .presbyteries would be called
upon for, it being the object of the
trustees to enlarge and equip the
school when it is rebuilt for a wider
work.
1t is declared that the school would
come to Blueield debt free; that in
surance covers the schools obliga-
tons and, in fact, 1t is said that the
school when It realizes upon certain
real estate 1t owns and notes held BY
friends o: the institution would have
an asset OF between $4,000 and SEQ