The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-10-11
Original and otherwise.

practice at Lock IL.
The potato crop is said to be much
better than was expected.
! Yesterday was the anniversary of
the battle of Point Pleasant.
There will be a wedding in the
Flats. Particulars next week.
Corn cutting is the great indus
try with our farmers at present.
A newspaper will soon be started
in Central City by Mr.. Chapman.
Work ON the Spencer Mossman
block is progressing nicely this fine
weather.
The attendance of the public
schools has increased gradually since
school opened.
The cpileptic asylum at Gallipolis
will be opened for patients abopt
November LIST.
There are seventy Sunday schools
in Barbour county, with an enroll
ment of 3,s15.
Correspondents to thispaper would
do us favor by sending US in the
news regularly.
The next three weeks will likely
hold about all the good weather we
ara 70 have in 1909
Scan the label on your paper pa
per and see if you are not in arrears
on your subscription.
Point Pleasant offers some of the
best openings for business of any
town in West Virginia.
fyou have any local items please
hand them into this Office. They
will be gladly-received.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett, of Tanner,
GiImer county, gave birth TO her
10Th boy few days ago.
Don't forget that little amount
due on your subscription. We have
been very patient with you.
Fortune Settles has gone to the
penitentiary from Huntington for a
term of two years, for felony.
The 'possum hunters horn is now
heard in the land and the bark of
the hound dog resounds among our
hills.
There are four million feet of
merchantable lumber in the yards
at Camden on Gauley, but no mark
ct for it.
There has been rain sufficient to
start the grass, but not the steam
boats. They are faring worse than
grasshoppers.
The Pocahontas Times says there
are SO many squirrels in parts of
that county as to impede travel on
the public roads.
A valuable vein of marble has
been found in Harrison county, on
the line OF the West Virginia and
Pittsburg railroad.
The clerk of the Circuit Court of
Gilmer county, c. B. Conrad, is SO
years old, and has held his prese'
Office for nearly fifty years.
West Virginia will be given the
FIRST award on her exhibits in the
Mines and Mining and Forestry.
buildings, at the Worlds Fair.
This will be the last month of the
Worlds Fair and those who wish
to see the great fair will be COM
PEELED TO get hustle on them.
A valuable mare belonging to Mr..
John Steenbergen, of Mercef's Bot
tom, was killed by an Ohio River
engine last Wednesday morning.
There has been large number
of cattle, sheep and hogs shipped
from this county during the past
week.
1t is claimed that over 100000
sheep are annually killed by dogs,
the value of the mutton and wool
thus destroyed being estimated at
s3,OOO,OOO.
The NJ. E. Church, of Ravens
wood, which has formerly been part
of a circuit has recently been made
a station and will hereafter hold
services as such.
There are good many idle young
men in Point Pleasant, and work
for the asking right under their
noses. Crimp is not far off. Better
get move on you, boys.
1t is computed that if man was
as strong in muscle in proportion as
a flea, he could shoulder a sixty ton
locomotive and carry it from New
York to San Francisco without rest.
Daniel Shawen, who murdered
Absalom Iser, near Romney, June