Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-06-08
BIRTHDAY OF |
WEST VIRGINIA.
WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF
TRADE is PLANNING
CELEBRATIONS.
TO IMPRESS CHILDREN

in Every County of the State
All Organizations Becoming
Interested.
parkersburg, W. Va, May 29.-Be-
rEe West Virginia will be fifty-three
ears old on the Goth Of June, plans
re been set In motion by the West
Niroinia Board OF Trade for fifty-three
more, local celebrations In nifty
.-e, or more, places in the State.
The cooperation of all commercial
mutations, farmers and farmers
mutations, teachers, both rural and
-. bankers and all professional men,
churches and the children, 1t Is
expectation that in each OF the
ty-dve counties of the State there
J be one or more rallies, or COM
unity picnics, or birthday dinners, or
nal speaking occasions between
e. and night on June goth.
n sending out notices about this
te-wide birthday party, the West
rginia Board of Trade has stated
l..at if it is possible on June goth to
interest nearly a million and half
? en-. women and children to believe
more in the State, to work more for
i, and always praise the State, when
away from 1t, this will react upon the
prosperity OF the State, and thus the
whole birthday celebration benefit
everybody in West Virginia.
West Virginia Eatables.
Letters have been sent out TO each
hotel in West Virginia asking the chef
OF the hotel to outline for June goth
a bill Of fare made up solely of things
crown or canned or manufactured in
...e State Of West Virginia. The pur-
nsse OF this is to make Statewide
.ymonstration In one day, at public
eri private and community dinners or
p'cnics, that, with very few exceptions,
. ere can be found variety of food
enough in the State to make satis-
factory bill OF fare for the most fas-
tiiious.
Dr. John Lee Coulter, Dean Of the
College OF Agriculture Of the West
V-ginia University, at Morgantown,
ii this week, 81 think the plan for
sIch a celebration is a grand one and
ole which should enlist the interest
and support Of every person residing
in The State. There is nothing that Is
more important In the life OF man
.iau his birthday anniversary. 1t Is q
G-e when he stops to review his 40
.aMplishments and to mark out his
.~ogram for the year that is ahead.
- should plan for that year several
es as much as he may expect to
,omplish, and in doing so, he will
ave something to work up to.
The States Birthday.
80 it is with the State The pro-
ed celebration on the Fifty-thi' |
-,hday, to take place in every COW .
the State, will afford not only |
,p1rtunity for reviewing the gIr :.
tory OF West Virginia, but 2
ING many OF us to plan for -gc' .
.'~eS for the State in improve =.
.ure, more thorough ear = ..
a.p lines OF industry, more F".re ),
ore cooperation among ourselves.
Particularly | like the idea 0! [ ,
.rMor Membership in the state @aa. |
Trade. If thousands of children
9.~e to feel that the State and its re-
o@rces are their hope for success, We
AL be stirring in the young people
lie understanding that people accom-
ui.,h most when they pull together
with others"
Junior Membership.
The reference of DR.. Coulter to
Junior Memberships announces the
fact that the West Virginia Board OF
Trade has decided that, in order to
mark the minds Of the children with
the memory Of the States birthday,
they will accept children into Junior
membership in the State Board Of
Trade for the year 1861 Each child
applying to H. H. Archer, Secretary OF
The State Board Of Trade, Parkersburg,
" Va, and sending an enrolment
fee of ten cents QOc), will receive
a certificate OF membership and but
ton specially designed for June goth.
Hearty Endorse ents.
The Parkersburg Ministerial Alli'
arce has passed a resolution urging
all ministers OF the State to MENTION
as part Of the religious services OF
June 18th, the call that West Virginia
utters to its children, young and old,
10 serve, to love, and to honor the
State.
The Bankers Association, at its an
null convention in Wheeling, passed
a resolution last week calling upon the
bankers and the business forces of the
State to cooperate in making this
celebration Of real value in every COM
munity throughout the State.
" p. Shawkey, of Charleston, State
Superintendent OF Free Schools, has
scr; letters to all County Superintend-
erts. asking them to interest them
selves in reaching the teachers and
the children with knowledge Of the
GO obration and what it means to them
a. ! to the State.
In every community where any per-
So. or group OF persons. undertakes
in any way to commemorate June goth,
,hey are asked to inform II. II. Archer,
Secretary OF the Board OF Trade OF
what their plans are, so that ideas
i,ay be scattered from one community
/. mother by the State Board II Trade
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