The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-09-17

lis District, held on Monday last
Present full Board. The following
amounts were allowed and ordered
paid out of the Building Fund: P. G.
Holloway, patching and white wash
ing Academy, sl5; same for patching
and embarrassing colored school
house, Sc; Jas. Jones, cleaning Acad.
envy, $3.50.
Bid for building privy on Acade-
my grounds, awarded Jas. NJ. steph-
enson for $40; he being the lowest
bidder.
VIM. Smith authorized to purchase
suitable school desks forthe Academy
Jasper Rifle, heretofore elected
teacher Of sub.District No. 4, having
declined, the Board selected Charles
Faidley in his room and stead.
Eli Coleman selected to teach the
coiorcd school IN this place.
President authorized to purchase
coal for the Academy.
John Brown elected Janitor for the
Academy, at a salary $40 per month.
| Board adjourned to meet on the
14th day of October, 1879.
THAT tsrArEMENn1n about all
the counties Of the State the receipts
and expenditures Of the counties
have been published in the papers,
as Is required Jyta,cj but in this coun-
ty, it has not been published since
the Board of Supervisors went out of
power. II is made the duty of the
Clerk to make out this list annually,
and have it published, Why has.it
not been done? 1t looks as if the
common herd" have no business to
know to whom and for what purpose
the money of the taxpayers is APP
propriated. In the name of the peo-
pie of Mason county, we demand
that the statement be made out and
published, as the "law directs We
do not want this county put down as
an old fogy county, and that it still
does business after the manner of its
fathers. The Court should see that
this important matter to the people,
is attended TO.
The Salt Valley put into this port
Saturday evening in II disabled con.
Idi'ion. She had run into a reef of
rocks just above Greenupsburg, KY,
and broke some sixty or seventy
timbers. She was taken out on our
Docks on Saturday evening, and
work pushed on her all day Sunday
and Sunday night, and on Monday
morning was let into the water fully
repaired, thus enabling her to make
her advertised excursion trip to Gin.
fcinnati, without the loss of any time
worth noticing This speaks we'll
for the promptnassof Capt. Parsons,
who surperinterds these works.
The Sabbath School Convention
will be held in the Pleasant Flats
Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday
the 24th inst, at Z o'clock p. M. A
committee has been appointed to ar
range for the entertainment of Dele
gates, consisting Of Asa Musgrave,
Joseph B. Windon and George Fow-
Ter. Persons coming by the river
can get off the boat at either Swann's
or Browns landing, they being near
est to the church; those coming by
private conveyance will find well
come at most any house near the
church.
We hear great deal Of complaint
about the condition Of the road from
this place to the Poor Farm. The
road is in splendid condition from
here to Van Matre's, but beyond that
ii is certainly the most miserable in
the whole county. If farmers are to
be taxed, and the Road Overseer does
not attend to his business, it is
surely time for him to be hauled be.
fore the Grand Jury. X.
1t seems to us that the Court House
Commissioners might arrange u bet.
ter and more decent plan of drawing
water from the public well, than they
have now. 1t is filthy in the en-
treme, and we wonder that people
use the water at all.
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