The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-31
?, ]. CLERKS PASS RESULOI|UN,
ELECT OFFICERS AND BANQUET
employees SPEND DAY IN
WORK AND PLEASURE.
Secretary l. P. Knoke Named National
Observation-Disclosures and Music
Mt Dinner.


convention Of the West Virginia Stato
Branch United National Association ut
Post Dfiic" Clerks. held yesterday IN
The federal building. Officers for the gu
suing year were elected and Charleston
nu,ned AZ the next meeting I'lacc.
The officers elected: l'r"sidcnt. j. NJ
Derrick. Charleston: rr$t vic" president.
X. {. owen. Fairmunl: second vice pres
ident, w. II. Chapman. kcyScr: seCre-
tary. l. L. lNnok". Wh"cling; treasurer.
John a. Snyder. Clarksburg: inancs
committee. Margaret y. Kelly of Sis
tcrSvillc. chairman: Cora Dean and Rose
HHnHhan. members: delegate 10 tho ma
Ij"nal convention IN Fort Worth. Texas,
l.. j.. Knuke of this city.
Pass Patriotic Resolution.
\ resolution was passed at lh' meet
iug ElrdEimg the association 10 the col
UrS during IN" pcnding crisis. The SEES
sion WAS prr>lG"d over 10y Charles +.
Schultz". president ~ the Wheeling
branch. q. j. Terry offered prayer.
Mayor II. H. Kirk delivered the address,
80 welcome. in behalf OF the city. while
Postmaster w. ". Irwin extended greet
!uSS tn The visiting Delegates in behalf
al tn" post Uffir" employees. PRESIDENT
elect j. NJ. Derrick OF Charleston. rH-
Si"nded in ia" HhS"nra IF President
John Il. Rice Of Huntington. business
matters We're then taken UP until noon.
Tn" early part Of the afternoon was
spent In touring Wheeling district In
autos furnished By til" local members
and their friends. TN" convention .I,.-
sumrd at m'rlu'k. adjuururd at 5. fol-
lowed with Al rlahnrui- banquet in the
Hotel Windsor at \ o'clock.
The Banquet.
Nearly n hundred dclrEatcs. Invited
guests and Wheeling and branch post
office employees attended the banquet
given by til" local branch oi the urEaui-
Zati"n Tn" menu was delicious and the
patriotic music furnished Icy Liump's
iull orchestra was inspiring. uraiOry
Flowed FOR three hours An aqua toaS,
was drunk IT, TN" comma der-in-rh IL {
q; the United States army. Woodrow
Wilson ana !" America at the request
at III" ;"aStmaSter charles f.. Schull2".
Following an address by Congress-
maH NJ. NJ. Nicely of Fairmont nearly
ever federal employee present stood Up
rlgnifying that he would purchase :,
Liberty bond To aid the government In
the war Ia he wagpd.
Guy solicitor j. Harold Brennan rep
resented Mayor kirk by proxy" Mr..
kirk sen, his regrets that h" would he
unable To the present. : trlrphon" mes
from United States Senator Howard
Sutherland sending his greetings to the
organization and telling the members
;ha' III" WAS at their service"
Judge Frank W. NcShI!I drlivrrd an
ahi" and INSPIRING patriotic addrSS lie
advised nj! p"St"tficr department ON
p'"frS Ia give their aid and as much
iltHECiAl support as noSSihi. IL the Red
''rnSS society and III" Y. NJ =. \ work
among the American soldiers Post
master Irwin followed. stating tina! 4
n"vcn!"n; was af"oi To nrpHnizc a Red
cross branch in the local office
'r"sldent."l""t Derrick nf Charleston.
f"rmcrly Of :hiS city. c1;andrd thanks
"t The association and the welcome 70
Charleston
.IGdc" James ". Ewing. who was net
luc postmaster Of the Wheeling post-
ONE" Tor I've months n few years ago
%u"k" on "Th" Postal Service in tho
Public Eye" Postmaster Irwin naId q
glowing tribute Ia his employees. %nying
: hat the Snn'l service being given nj
ihf oilt"o--aS indicated hy Lnttcrs rr-
rr'H"d from time 10 l!mr--was no, d'Ic
alone I" the postmaster. but 10 tho co
operation at tho men aud tho cN.cutjyo
DEPARTMENT If tho Wh""lnC Office.
John !. Grogan Of tho Wheeling Of
hcc interestingly told ur IN" aim and
purpose Of the clerks association. sav-
Ing ihat il was not affiliated in any vay
shape OR manner with any polit lrnl,
civil service mr. labor organization. Cen
"rel Manager Charles VI. kc,chnm Of the
Wheeling Commercial association. who
was n r'sid"n; of Washington for soy
"ral Years while occupying a federal po-
si;t"n. interestingly iold Of IN" nrngni-
tGdn Of tn" workings nC n" post office
department. He closed by telling nr IN"
relationship between the business men
and tho p0Stoffice.
Among ;h0S" at tho banquet were:
Anvil \. Ash, Fairni"ut way: John +.
Shn Yer. Harry L. Stewart. Farmnnl
~. j. Tnry: t.. .. Gr"rnIcr. Charl"ston
T.. r. uoney. Charleston: Sam Shawvcr
Huntington: F. l.. GonlShy. Huntington:
e. II. Murrin. Vim. II, Bone, Aug. H.,