The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-08-09
Pencil and scissors.
Ihe last lnonth of Summer.


The town must secure fire engine.
Our uierchants as a class are not COM
planning Of the hard times.
The best way to improve the farm is
to improve the public roads.
Home made watermelons and cante-
loupes are coming into market
There will be soldiers reunion at
Proctoryille on August %, "a and %.
The school bell will soon again be
heard calling the little wanderers in.
Mrs. Capt Williamson is fixing up
her property recently injured by FIRE.
Palkersburg's city limits are to be ex-
tended and its population will be Il. OOc.
TIE West Virginia State Farmers
Alliance meets in Charlestown to-mor-
row.
The hole in the crossing at Main and
Sixth streets should be attended to at
once.
The political donkey who travels in
lions skin can always be told by his
bray.
The young ladies are proposing to
raise money to purchase steam fire
engine.
There appears to be an alfred lot of
objection to the financial cloud having
silver lining.
You can't tell how really small some
men are until you place them beside a
really big man.
The Chicago hog says to the pork
spectators: cts my day to grunt and
yours to squeal."
The wharf is getting into more dilap-
idnted condition every day. Now is the
time to repair it.
There aresome politicians who could
elect themselves to Office ii the people
would only let them.
The Parkersburg State Journal has
entered upon its eleventh year. 1t is a
splendid newspaper.
If the banks expect the public to have
confidence in them, they must have con-
tidence in the public.
For the second time in twenty seven
years there was no rise in the river
during the month of June.
The King of Siam wears a gold hat
weighing twenty-seven pounds. He
ought to be annexed to Wall street.
A fiddler wants $4,000 damages for
the loss of finger; probably the re-
licved neighbors would make it up by
subscription.
This section of country has been fav-
ored with several heavy showers of rain
within the past week, for which the
farmers are thankful.
A man travelling over one of the saw
mill roads in the back pant of the county
says the road was SO crookded that. he
met himself coming back.
Paris Wade. colored, was arrested for
taking money and watch from John I.
Hogg, and was admitted to bail in the
sum of $500 to answer Indictment.
Every time man picks up newspa-
per he reads of some kind of new food
for young babies. What has become of
the old fashioned home made kind?
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll trutbfully
says, the only way to restore good times
is to spend money literally. Your sub
scription to this paper is possibly due.
Don't carry money around in your
pocket when it belongs to some one else.
By keeping money moving times can be
made easier by far than they. are at the
present time.
The bug editor of the Hagerstown
News says green walnuts placed in the
pantry, cupboards, closets, etc, will
keep out ants, cockroaches and other
pests that annoy the housewife.
The breach of promise suit of Miss
Nellie HARDWOOD, OF jackson county,
against Mr. X. II. Douglus, of the same
county, for $4,000, for seduction and
breach of promise, has been eompro-
missed for $1,000.
The establishment of solid road beds
in the county would not only add to the
comfort and pleasure of the people, but
as matter of economy would be worth
many times its cost in its effect on the
value of property.
The country must be we'll filed with
sw:ndlers Judging by the numerous ac-
counts we see of them in our exchanges.
There are all kinds of them and our
farmers should keep an eye on SUSPECT
GUS looking individuals.
Let no man be discouraged because he
is prosecuted on account of his being
prominent. No one filings rocks at
dead cat-nobody passes resolutions
against graveyard. 1t is the man who
has force and power who is envied and
maligned by little souls.
While at other places large numbers
of workmen are out of employment,
there is no reasonable excuse for any
one who is inclined to work to be idle
in Point Pleasant. Notwithstanding
the hard times, this town has never
experienced a greater building era in
its history.
We are under obligations to Mas
ter Albert Jamison, son of DIR. c. W.
Jamison, for a peck OF delicious eat
ing apples.
The Mason CITY HandIa Eactorx-