The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-06-11
The Twenty-Ninth Year Of the
Regisfer.

S paper was 4ouiiucu Dy us pres
ent owner and proprietor, in 1862,
when the great civil war was rag
ing the hottest.
The REGISTER has seen many ups
and downs and passed through a
number of panics, battles, floods,
storms and fires, in the years gone by,
but through them all, under our
guidance, watchful care, and strict
attention to business, it still lives to
chronicle the news of the day.
The REGISTER was doubtful en-
terprise when $s started it, for a
number o. papers had been started,
in this ldaee, previously to its birth,
Continued for a year or two, and
then suspended publication for want
of support and patronage. But we
started out to make the REGISTER a
success, and believe we have done
SO, until it is now classed among the
leading county papers of the State.
AT first the REGISTER was printed
on ram-shackle of hand press,
of undoubted antiquity, and the
same press was used for all kinds
and sorts of job work, from the full
sheet poster down to the one line
visiting card, while the types, which
had seen their best days years be-
fore, were of antedeluvian style, and
the variety limited to an exceeding
ly small number of fonts. Now,
the REGISTER boasts of a No. l
Campbell power press of latest pat
tern, two of as fine power job press
es as money can purchase, new and
elegant newspaper, book, display
and job type, in great variety and
of the latest design, while we are
abreast of the times in paper cut
tiers, mailing machines, and all the
paraphernalia that goes to make up
a first, class newspaper, book and
job office.
During the many years the REG
lister has been published, not less
than a dozen papers were started in
opposition to it, but all of them
have passed away, except the Ga=-
cite, of this place, and the Messenger
of Mason City, both of which are of
recent birth, built upon the ruins of
the older printing offices.
When in 1862 the first issue of
the REGISTER appeared, Point Pleas
ant was then in Virginia, and con-
tanned a population of about three
hundred people, with but few bust
ness houses, and no manufacturing
interests, and only one or two fine
residences, the others being small
frame buildings, while here and
there the early settlers log cabin
could be seen. The town had dirt
streets and no pavements worthy of
the name.
The REGISTER has lived to see all
this changed, and the Point Pleas
ant of to-day is busy, active, grow
ing, thriving town of at least
three thousand inhabitants, with
many fine business houses and hand
some residences, fine churches and
splendid schools, (and large and
commodious school house now in
course of construction at cost of
s2O,OOO0 with good manufacturing
interests, good macadam and brick
streets, and pavements in every
part of the town; two railroads and
two as fine railroad bridges as are
to be found in the country, span
ming our rivers; with three boat
yards and three sets of dry docks;
the locking and daming of the Great
Kanawha, by the Government and
the big coal harbor at the mouth of
the Kanawha, where lows are made
up and millions of bushels of the
: best coal in the world, is taken to
the lower markets, annually.
The REGISTER feels pride in the
advancement our town has made,
and while it has not been as rapid
as some towns, yet it has been a
steady and substantial growth, with
no mushroom booms about it.
The REGISTER takes some credit
to itself for the many advances the
town has made, for it has advocated
every legitimate Improvement that
would rebound to the good of the
town; it has encouraged every en-
terprise that was contemplated and
consummated that would assist in
building up the town, by contribu-
ting of its means, and talking and
writing for it.
The REGISTER hopes to continue
under its present ownership and
management until the town has
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