The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-05-30
Pencil and scissors.
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rlage IS "cry-cyeie.
The Odd Fellows of this city are get
ting in shape to build fine temple.
People should be careful where they
empty garbaeeafrom their premises
About all the public schools in this
county are closed for the year.
Numerous Improvements are going
ON about town.
Use lime plentifully about your prem
ises.
Mrs. E. Smith has painted her resi-
derce up handsomely.
Farmers who held their wheat over
are rushing it into market.
The dealers in agricultural imple-
ments have entered their busy season.
Hog pens are still pertaining the town.
Look alter them Mr.. Health Officer.
Clare Dashner ig kept busy repairing
bicycles.
The lower Presbyterian church festi-
val, was success financially.
Attend the church social at Mr.. Chas.
Filson's Thursday night.
Every Indication goes to show. that
the fruit season will be exceptionally
good this year.
The Commencement exercises at the
State University will be held this year
on June 14th.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, the noted Con-
federate General, was in Charleston last
week for day or so.
The church festival at Sand Hill
Saturday night was grand success,
clearing about $50.
The man who is too poor to take a
newspaper can usually be depended on
to have two or three dogs.
Does your neigLbor take the REGIS
TER? If not, induce him to become a
subscriber.
1t is predicted that there will be more
grasshoppers this year than ever known
in the history of the State.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has invented a
dress which has no buttons, hooks or
eyes, strings or any other fastenings.
The present warm and moonlight
evenings are rather hard on the hinges
of many of the front gates about town.
"What does the big Infanta think
OF Washington, forsooth?
And of that little white house pink
The small infant-a Ruth?"
When you are through reading the
REGISTER h md it to your neighbor and
ask him to subscribe.
1t is said that cherries will be scarce
this year. Other fruits promises to be
Mcdowell county voted to issue sixty
thousand dollars in bonds for the pur-
pose of erecting new court house and
Jail.
A sign in front of a restaurant in Ohio
reads: "Meals open at all hours of the
day or night3y the week or month ex-
cept Sundays"
1t is said the jailer of Cabell county
feeds his prisoners with ice cream OH
Sundays No wonder they need new
court house and Jail.
The REGISTER would be pleased to see
the early closing movement inaugurated-
among our business men. Give your
clerks few hours rest.
The clickety click OF the lawn mower
and the warning signal of the wheel
men greet the ear pleasantly these sum
mer-like evenings.
Among the new diseases are listed
typewriters' backache. telephone ear
ache, gum chewers' lockjaw and cigar
cite smokers insanity.
Fayette county is now greatly agitated
over the location of the county seat.
Montgomery and Kanawha Falls are
each making strong fight for it.
1t may console the fellow who hasn't
yet got his share to know that German
geograpker says 1,7O0,OOO,OO9 square
miles of the earth are still ownerless.
1t won't DO either the boy or the po-
tatoes any good to try to make him hoe
them while brass band is coming down
street.
There is not town on the Ohio river
with as many natural advantages as
Point Pleasant, and there is not a more
beautiful or pleasanter residence town.
A Freeport, Pa, man is catching all
the mice he can and he vows that lie
will turn the whole herd loose if the
women of that town appear on the side
walks in hoopskirts.
Across the fields where breezes free,
The blossoms blow apart.
There is a heart that beats for me
My watermelon heartl
When complaining at other peoples
shortcomings. it would be well to stop a
moment and examine ourselves. We
might be able then to look at the mat
ter from different standpoint.
The warm days the first of the week
tempted the small boys to go in swim.
ming, but the water is rather cool YET
for comfort, and some of them are suf
fering for their fool hardness.
The blooming tulip poplar is beauti
flying our hills, and large numbers of the
beautiful semi-bloom is brought to the
city daily, by boys and maidens on ar.
tistic mountaineering bent.