The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-16

~ 10 pay Tor tile tobacco and cigars
they use, and if they continue on in
the habit, will result disastrously to
them. The money they annually
spend in this way would keep them
in clothes, or, if saved, would in a
few years, enable them to start in
business for themselves. Quit it
boys, now while you can.
An exchange says; "There is a
man in our town who always pays
for his paper in advance. He has
never been sick a day of his life; new
et had any corns or toothache; his po-
tatoes never rot; the weevil never
eat his wheat; frost never kills his
corn or beans; his babies never cry
in the night; and, most wonderful Of
all, his wife never scolds."
The Etna Salt and Coal Company
Of Valley City, this county, has been
organized, with G. E. Harpold, Esq,
President and Business Manager,
and Rankin Wiley, jra as Secretary.
The Presidency of Mr., Harpold in
sures the new Company success. We
were unable to obtain the names Of
the Directors elected.
S
Now is the time 10 have your coal
houses filled. 1t is better to do such
things before the weather and roads
get bad and the price raises about 81
a hundred. Send your order to Capt.
Nutter. He sells excellent coal and
has it delivered anywhere in town,
and furthermore he is prompt. II
he agrees to supply you with coal he
will do it.
This Office is constantly turning
out large quantities of the best and
cheapest job work everexecuted here.
Pamphlets, Dodgers and all kinds Of
Blanks, Letter Heads, Cards, &c
Call and get estimates before order
ing elsewhere.
Urgent business at home compell-
ed the Agency of the New York Cloth,
ing House, to close here last satur.
day night. Mr.. D. S. Van Matre will
receive orders for said House. All
goods furnished at same rates as in
Pomeroy. For further instructions
apply to Mr.. Van Matre. 1-w,
We want to remind tho business
men Of this county that we do as good
printing as can be gotten anywhere,
and at prices as low as any other
regular House in the United States,
Give us a trial, and if we do not
please you, we will make no charge
for the work done.
Now that the election is past, we
can devote more space to local and
general news. We especially aim to
give all the local news, and in the
most acceptable form, and to this end
we desire the assistance Of all our
and others.
Locals are very scarce this week;
we have not a single contribution
fromany ofour friends in the country.
Please send US, friends, all the news
from your respective neighborhoods.
With your assistance we can make
the Register much more interesting.
1t is not lawful to capture patridg.
es by means Of nets or traps of any
kind. Pheasants, wild ducks or wild
geese can be killed at any time be,
tween the LIST of September and the
LIST Of February.
The mouth of a S2.inch Columbiad
trained on a town, won't produce as
much misery, CONSERVATION and un-
happiness as the yawping mouth of
q single town gossip.-State Journal.
Rev. Gill preached a most excel
lent sermon at the old Presbyterian
Church, Sunday night, in which he
gave an historical account of church
music.
A few of those individuals who
contend that the country must re-
turn to the simplicity of our fore
fathers had better lead the way by