The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-07-15
GAS MEN ITO HOLD
THEIR CONVENTION
This Time Oil Men Will
Meet With
Them.

This Is, the big week of the year
gas men for the fourth annual con-
vention of the Wete Virginia Gas
Producers Association will be held
u Wheeling Wednesday and Thurs
lay and as oil men throughout the
Itate have been urged to participate
NTH gas men In gathering In which
both classes are vitality interested 1t
S believed that the attendance Will
spTpass that at the Huntington? con-
yention last year the Parkersburs
convention the year before that and
ibe first gathering Of 1916 at Char
.eston.
The program that has been ar
tanged for the Wheeling convention
has many interesting features. Pos
sibly The most important is the re-
turn Of the exhibit department in
wIlch the prouucts of concerns sup
ply ing oil and gas men equipment.
which was omitted last year at Hunt
lngton owing to the congested con-
iition Of the railroads. There is al
10 more than passing interest in the
announcement that the annual dinner
will again be feature of this years
convention as that was omitted last
year in order to aid in food conserva
lion.
The convention will be held in the
Market Auditorium in Wheeling ant
Vt is announced that every available
space has been engaged for the exhibit
while the mammoth hall provides
Splendid place for the gathering of
what is unquestionably the greatest
commercial organization in West Vlr-
ginia having $500 members and with
attendance in the past ranging from
500 to 1000.
Col. Fred Paul Grosscup of Charles
ton is president of the West Virginia
Gas Producers association. w II.
South, OF Morgantown is the vice pres
ident of the organization. Edwin
Robinson, of Fairmont is secretary of
there has been little gossip heard re-
garding the men likely to be nominat-
ed for office in the association the
next year.
ri. G. White, of Morgantowu. &C.
knowledged to be the best authority
on oil and gas matters in eWst Yir-
ginia, will be one of the speakers. His
addresses are always welcomed as
pne fthe big eevents of the gather
ings. n. G. Cooper, of Clarksburg,
chief engineer of the Hope Natural
Gas company, technical man who
Is blessed with ability to always make
T himself interesting. will be another
speaker at this years convention. He
was heard at the first convention at
charleston and there has since been
] an insistent demand made upon him
to make another address at the an
nual conventions. G. W. r. Nyles,
chairman of the West Virginia Public
Service commission, which regulates
the rate-making in the state, will be
a third speaker. Hon. oJseph Holt
Gaines may be another West Virgin
ian on the program. H. S. Quay, gen
eral manager of the Manufacturers
Heat and Light company, of Pitts
burgh, and S. S. Wyer. gas engineer
and expert on all matters pertaining
to gas. comes form Columbus, Ohio,
TO address the convention.
There are thirty of the fitty-fiye
counties of West Virginia which arc
interested in gas production = Ohio.
Marshall, Brooke, Hancock, Wetzel,
Marion, Monongalia, Tyler, Harrison,
P1easants. Doddridge, Richie, Taylor,
Lewis. Gilmer. Calhoun, Writ, Wood,
jackson, Roane, Clay, Kanawha. Ma.
SON, Putnam, Cabell, Lincoln, Logan.
Wayne and Boone Harrison county
IS expected to send the largest. repre-.
gentation of the thirty with Wood a
possible econd. Special coaches and
Pullmans will bring representatives
from Southern West Virginia.
Edwin Robinson, of Fairmont, the
secretary of the association, left this
morning for Wheeling and will be
there all week completing the arrange
ments for the convention.