The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-08-23
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our eve on the fakir.

Persons owing this Office are requested
to call and settle.
The apple crop viii be exceedingly
good in. this county
The prospect isfhat we willhave good
weather for the Fair.
There are Tumors of wedding or two
/; in town in few weeks.
Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes
drinlsinore blood than lions.
i a woman's work is never done unless
it is done by some other woman.
The Paskersburg Fair will be held
August 30. 80. 81 and September |.
| About $50 feet of the Golfer dams for
the lock at this place has been placed.
About all of the losses incurred in the
late fires have been adjusted and paid.
A good many people will go from this
county to the Worlds Fair during Sep
TENDER.
The roof of the public school building
looks as if it needed the attention of
painters.
As an advertising medium the REGIS
TER has no superior. Business men will
make note of this.
sixty.seyen indictments have been
returned against the saloon men OF
Canlden-on-Gauley.
The man with hayseed in his hair is
not to be sneezed at this year with hay
selling at $40 per ton.
Public schools open on the second
Monday in September, and continue for
term OF eight months.
'Tis an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good. Our late fires put good
many of our mechanics to work.
Mr.. George w. NJ. Hooff7s new store
room is rapidly approaching completion.
Jas. Neighbors is doing the work.
A wave OF common sense is needed
worse than anything else to relieve the
money scare and restore confidence.
The mines along the Kanawha are not
running more than half time, conse-
quently times arc hard on the miners.
The directory man, the railway guide
man, the picture man and some others
have given us most a weeks rest now.
The Point Pleasant colored base ball
club will play the colored club of Char
lesion next Tuesday, at the Riverside
Park.
There will be a reunion of Union and
Confederate veterans near Stone Coal,
in Lincoln county, next Friday and Sat
urday.
The Misses Hill have purchased lot
from Mr.. Kisar, adjoining the Elks'
building. and will erect brick business
house at once.
The man who doesn't need cash, if
there be such an individual, would
draw well If placed on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair.
a Virginia editor says there is no lack
of anything but money in that section.
That being the case what does he want
with money?
Samuel Bibby, prominent business
man of Charleston, attempted suicide
last week by the morphine route. a
stomach pump saved him.
Mr.. L. j. Tippett's, Point Pleasant,
"high flier,' Bold Hardy, took the purse
in the free for all running race Wednes-
day.-Ravenswood Mountaineer.
Farmers say the grass is so parched
up by reason of the protracted drought
that, unless rain falls soon, they will
have to feed their cattle long feed.
Parents should be careful and keep
their children from playing on the
streets during the Fair, as they are in
danger of being run over and hurt.
West Virginia coal will be used at the
big government building in Cincinnati
for the ensuing year, the contract hav-
ing been awarded to Mcdowell county
company.
By the aid of smoked glass black
spot can be seen very plainly on the
sun. This little speck is held response
BILE by some folks for the present great
drought.
A Baltimore man has obtained pat
ent for caramel holder. Our town can
boast of regiment of them of the pref
test kind, and every one of them will
hold a pound.
Burglars done up the town of Milton
Friday night, and got away with nearly
everything except the railroad track.
This was the first visit in that line in
the history of the town.
A man may sin and the world will
quickly condone and forgive him, but
if woman sins she is cast out and con-
demned until the kindly grave receives
and covers her from sight.
President George w. Thompson of the
o. X. R. has appointed John Brohard as
his private secretary to succeed w. E
Gibson, who skipped from Parkersburg
by the pale light of the moon some days
since.
grown up man who has nothing to
do but lounge about the streets and en-
courage other people to fight about mat
tiers that in no way concerns him and he
knows nothing about, is very poorly
employed.
The woman doesn't live who can play
poker, fold letter straight, pour half a
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