The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-07-24


NJ G Tyler, Chief Engineer Of
Land Surveys of the international
Co. of Lower California and Mexico
and his wife are visiting the family
of Mr. ii. E. spilman, at Camden
Mines.
Judge Ice. of Barbour county.
this State, was a visitor to our town
Saturday He was on his way to
Charleston.
Messrs. Hamilton Howell and b.
H. Bolen, of Salem, Ohio, were in
our county this week for the pur-
pose of looking up timber lands
We hope they will conclude to be-
come citizens of our county. They
are excellent business men and ge-
NAL gentlemen.
Thos. Denton left Saturday to
spend few days at Lancaster, o.
We were glad to meet our old
friend, G. W. Maupin, Esq, of Ar
buckle, in town Saturday.
Col. Geo. w Thompson. W. J.
Robinson, G. i: Williams. Thomas
Fleming and Mr.. Mock, all officials
of the Ohio River Railroad, were in
town Saturday.
Messrs. Will Stribling and Griff
Smith. were down from Charleston
Sunday, visiting their parents.
Mrs DIR. Thaw, daughter and son,
of Elizabeth, are the guests of DIR.
D. W. Petty, this city.
Mrs. Kate yanSicl<ler, of Marshal,
Mo-, is visiting her sister, Mrs. DIR.
Petty, at Letart.
Misses Bertha and Leona Hess, of
Syracuse, Ohio, are visiting the fam
lily of G. F. Hess, Esq, this city.
Mr.. J. S. o'Roark has been on the
sick list.
MIR. Sam 10th, of Cincinnati, is
here on visit to his sisters, Mrs.
Joseph and Marcus Friedman.
RIVER NEws.-Both the Kanawha
and Ohio commenced raising Satur-
day morning, and there is much de-
struction of timber and farm pro-
duets along their tributaries.
The steamer l.. H. Sargent is hav-
ing a new wheel put on.
The tow boat Jas. Gould, Capt.
Henry Wolf, left this port Friday
with nine empties for Pittsburgh
Bobby, little son of Capt. Jas.
Darst, Henderson, is very ill with
fever.
Jas. B. Anon, Mate on steamer
Onward, has gone on visit to his
home at Rochester, Pa.
Capt. VIM. Markham passed here
day or two ago with the steamer
Raymond Horner, on the way from
New Orleans to Pittsburgh. Capt.
Bill has host of warm friends in
this place
Capt. j. Burnside, of the John
Dana, has invented and patented a
ventiIator for steamqoats, which it
is claimed by river men is far ahead
of anything of the kind now in use
on steamboats,. We hope he may
relizc a big fortune from his inven-
ton.
The Ciaribell is arranging to go
on the Docks at this place.
The Mt. Clare, Capt. Ed. Duval,
left Saturday with tow of barges
of coal from Marmet Mines, for Gin
cinnati.
Capt. Geo. Stone, of the steamer
Jim Montgomery, was in town Sun
day, visiting his mother.
The Annie L., Capt. Jim Davis,
left Morgan City, La, last Friday,
homeward bound, with tow of
empties.
c. w Maupin is selling all sum
mer goods at cost. Now is your
time to buy white goods. The
heavier summer goods has also had
big cut in prices. Call at once if
you want bargains.
1t is shame that people can not
go to church on Mud Run, without
doing things they ought not to do.
A case in point, last Sunday at Mud
Run church, some one put pins up
through the seat of the preachers
chair, expecting him to set down in
it, but instead of the preacher, a
lady sat down in the chair, and
dumped up a good deal quicker than
she sat down" and the preacher
escaped the torture intended for
him. The parties ought to be ar
rested and made to answer for their
fun.
You must not think because
Maupin has big store on both
sides of the Kanawha, and because it
is in the country, that his prices are
higher than they are in town, for