The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-09-13
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4ncHe 10 u tetl sugar 1auilue III lnAS
place.
The health Of our village is exception
ally good.
No sympathy is felt for the man who
is a fool twice.
The hog pen makes the town smell
like a garbage cart.
Gold was discovered in the Ural
Mountains of Russia in 1745.
Some men pray without thinking and
some think without praying.
When gossip beats the drum of the
ear the tongue tells the tune.
Don't forget the k. & NJ. excursion to
Kanawha Falls next Sunday.
As to riding bicycle, the men appear
more bent on it than the girls.
Mason county is furnishing her quote
of visitors to the Worlds Fair.
A splendid rain visited this section of
the country Monday afternoon.
Seeing is not always believing. For
instance, we see liars frequently.
Tho mas Ferguson, of Peasants county,
raised seventy pound watermelon.
While one woman is quiet the other
ninety-nine are asking her why she is.
The public schools opened Monday
with an enrolment of nearly 800 pupils.
huntington is classed as .rhe Storm
Center of West Virginia Wickedness. y
The amount granted to pensioners
at Huntington aggregates about $4,000.
Roane county now has double the
number of churches she had six years
ago.
Ice cream and soda water will soon
be but cool memories OF this hot sum
mer.
The public well. near the Virginia
House, should be thoroughly cleaned at
once.
The Grand Lodge of the Junior Amer
lean Mechanics is in session at Buck
hannah.
EndeavOr to keep your life in the sun
shine-the shadows will catch it soon
enough.
See that no day passes in which you
do not make yourselfa somewhat better
creature.
Heavy rains in the New river country
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday are
reported.
Never be dude, if you can avoid it
better take Rough on Dudes that is, a
grain of sense.
Coal boatmen are expecting a coal
boat stage in the Kanawha. The river
is now rising.
He who grasps time by the forelock
generally finds he has laid his hand on
the key to success.
The Ohio River Railroad has met with
great success in their contests during
this term of court.
Business confidence is being restored,
but don't look for it all at once for it
was not lost that way.
Lizzie G. Seaman, has been appointed
Postmaster at Hartford, this county,
vice TIL s. E. Jones, removed.
The low point of distrust in business
has been reached and the progress is
now slowly but surely upward.
The reason that an undertaken Is rare
ly a melancholy man is because he can
always bury himself in the business.
"Does your Congressman draw well
in Washington"
Eyes, on pay day"
The summer travellers are coming
home, for the frost will soon be on the
pumpkin and the fodder in the shock.
There isn't but one colored congress
man in the House this session and his
name is Murray, from South Carolina.
These are the nights when the man
who is covered with glory has over him
all that is necessary to keep him warm.
A Morgan county man swears he pull
ed up stalk of corn in his field and
found three fully developed ears at the
roots.
]. Friedman & Co. purchased the
stock of o. F. Williams & Co., Monday,
at trustees sale. 1t brought upward of
$4,000.
a Pennsylvania lad died the other day
because he was unable to keep awake. In
these times a person must be wide
awake to live.
Strong Boy "exhibited" in e:ls at the
NIeigs county fair. There were 5000 to
10000 people on the ground the last day
and not fight.
Hon. ]. s. Spencer and DIR. E. j. Moss
man have commenced the erection OF a
block of brick buildings On 9th street,
opposite the court house.
On last Thursday evening some six
couple of young folks happened in on
Miss Becca Barbee, at her home on Main
street, and were handsomely entertained.
As the diseased financial condition of
the country was brought about by slow
degrees, so must the recovery be in the
same line 1t will not be rapid but it
will be healthy.
Some Congressman in Washington
Are coming into note,
And back to their constituents,
Who'll teach 'em how to vote.
grant, says one, that there are men
and women who sing poetry and live