The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-06-21
Interesting Reading.


Pineapples sell in Key West at 80 cts.
per dozen.
Snap beans, of home-raising, are in
the market.
Congress will meet in extra session in
September.
The weather has been oppressively
warm since Sunday.
The pump in the Court House well is
great convenience.
Butter and eggs are getting to be a
scarce article in this market.
Join the procession of likewise men
who advertise in the REGISTER.
Mad dogs in Berkeley county is caus-
great excitement among the people.
Raspbcrries are beginning to come to
market, and sell at 10 cents quart.
Business is looking up in town, and
along the valley.
The Department has ordered the post
Office 10 be removed into the Elk build
ing.
Our fair neighbor of the Gazette is
getting to be quite an expert on the
bicycle.
There is a prospect, and good one,
of the X. & NJ. shops being moved here
in short time.
The "waterwillum" is on the move.
1t carries both consolation and collie
within its rind-
The County Commissioners were in
session Monday and Tuesday to consider
the delinquent list.
The town loafers are getting so lazy
that it is almost impossible to have a
quorum at the club.
The dogs are being muzzled. II you
don't muzzle your dog he will be killed.
So says the council.
When the rich man feels like making
an open confession to some ono he never
hunts up the assessor.
The Monroe Waterman records the
death OF horse 35 years old, the prop
erty of VIM. T. Johnson.
Nathan Collins, of Girardstown, is in
possession of gourd which has been in
continuous use since 1910.
1.-THE editors want the income tax,
Whose merits they have rehearsed;
But some Ofthe boys who make the noise
Want to tackle the income first"
What has become of our correspond
ents? We would like to have letter
from every district in the county.
Mr. Chris. Selbe has opened a jewelry
and repair shop in the building opposite
this Office. We hope he will do well.
The council has ordered all awnings
to be raised to feet in the clear, and
now many OF the merchants are kicking.
When the Gauley extension of the X.
& NJ. is completed, Point Pleasant will
be made the main Division OF the road.
The "Girl who plays the flute,'
To bless the world was born;
But give us still the girl with skill
To blow the dinner horn.
Point Pleasant, remarked a stranger,
Saturday, is showing more evidences of
substantial improvements than any town
he knew of.
The regular levy term of the County
Court, is Monday. July I'd, We trust
the Commissioners will find way to
reduce taxes.
The first raspberries OF the season
were brought in by r. l.. Hutchinson,
of Henderson, Saturday, and sold at 10
cents quart.
People who read items in this paper
should not be SO ''touchy." Everything
that is said about public matters is not
personal to them.
Mr.. Stortz has nicely papered the
room occupied by Selbe's saloon. 1t is
now as handsome a room as there is to
be found in town.
The West virl mia State Building at
the Worlds Fair was dedicated yester-
day. 1t was the 3Oth anniversary OF
the State of West Virginia.
The blackberry joke is again in place,
And the critics it doth provoke;
But-liear the editor saying grace,
If you think it's blackberry joke!
We cont blame the farmers for not
selling their wool, as buyers, we learn,
will only offer 20 cents per pound
Twenty cents for wool! 1t is too low.
Boards OF Education are informed that
they are required by law to publish a
statement oftheir disbursements for the
year, in some newspaper in the county.
An Ohio minister says that "the Devil
gets ninety nine out of every hundred
men who die worth S5OOOO." What
next will be Matched up to frigLten US
wealthy editors?
1t is not necessary to grow excited
over the reports of threatened cholera
invasion, but there is nothing to be lost
By keeping the streets, alleys, backyards
and sewers clean.
"Thirty days hath September
That's what most of us remember;
But you'll find this maxim sound:
Plain DRINKS thirty whole year round!
If you hear of wedding this week,
don't believe it, as the contracting par
ties told us, confidentially, that it would
not occur SO soon as this week, but did
not tell us the exact date.
Whenever we find unnecessary ex-
travagance in our officials we will COM