The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-05-16
Pencil and Scissors.

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Piedmont will construct $4,000 water
works.
Fairmont will build 100000 court
house.
There are now l2s boys at the State
/ Reform School.
I75 buildings were erected in Hunt
ington last year.
| Everything now indicates that spring
has come to stay.
Barboursville college closes its fourth
! quarter on June 9TH.
The mayor of Huntington has ordered
the gamblers to leave.
Counterfeit Columbian souvenir coins
are now on the market.
Guyandotte is advertising tor sealed
bids for new school house.
Mrs. Ella Stewart has assumed the
editorship ofthe Richie ReveilIe.
Favor the editor with the price of your
paper and the Lord will favor you.
The farmers are all busy and business
in town has suffered by their absence.
The robbing of country postofIices is
becoming epidemic in Ohio and Indiana.
Mrs. Williamson's store room is being
remodeled, and an new front Will be
put in.
When you come to town drop in to
see us and give us the news of your
locality.
Mr.. Gilbert Rayburn is building a
residence on his lot in the Upper Ex-
tension.
The new industries in Central City
will furnish employment for six hundred
laborers.
West Virginia stands first in the pro-
duction OF soft coal, and fourth in the
coal output.
The grand jury at Parkersburg re-
turned 1877 indictments, % of which are
for felonies.
Keep your eye on the back alleys. If
the bacterian army enters our camp it
will be at those points.
A lump of coal ten feet square went
over the Norfolk & Western few days
ago bound for Chicago.
Never get angry if your name does
not appear in the paper, perhaps you
owe your subscription.
1t is a notable fact that nine out of ten
people who are swindled by sharpers do
not take their county paper.
The next annual session of the West
Virginia Educational Association will
be held in Huntington July 81.
1t is said young man in town who.
after seeing his best girl, tells his ma all
the particulars. Look out. girls.
A punctual paying of your subscrip-
ton will bring peace of mind, Joy of
heart, and hope of eternal felicity.
In spite of the Presidents order,
many mugwumps and anti-snappers are
still hanging around Washington.
Fast horses are all right, but fast
driving can hardly be classed as all
right. Moderate the pace, please.
Chicago now comes as near to having
the earth and the fullness thereof as any
city ever did or probably ever will.
''She's going to the ball Tonight
heard herself declare it;
For. though she nothing has to wear,
That's just the place to wear it."
The Gallipolis papers announce the
death of Mr.. Leopold Frank, an old and
prominent stock dealer of that city.
AS soon as the arrangements for cele-
brating Memorial Day are completed
the Fourth of July should receive con-
sideration.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad earn
ed during April 1857, 7l3,63, which is an
increase of 11S,Ol7.39 over the same
month in 1892.
The great worlds fair was closed to
the public last Sunday shutting out
thousands of laborers and their families.
Out upon such bigoted religion.
AT what age is woman the pref
tiest?" asks an exchange. That depends
entirely upon what you think of her.
If you love her she is always pretty.
1t has been decided to hold delegate
convention at Kanawha Falls on June
10th to decide upon the best location
for the county seat of Fayette county.
When the Chicago restaurant keepers
charge % cents for small piece of pie
they tread square ON the soft corn of
American independence and patriotism.
The richest woman in the world is to
visit the worlds fair-she is Sonora
Isadora Consinso, of Chilli. Here's a
chance for some of our Point Pleasant
bachelors.
"Oh my, what fall
In the street called Wall,
When those men of gall,
Saw they weren't lin it at all.
Let the farmers look out for a chap
going about with patent plough-share.
He does business on the note plan and
makes a fat catch wherever he is dealt
with.
An exchange says that the new style
OF spring hat, with artificial shrubbery
and vegetables, makes woman look
like a mud turtle sliding down a willow
shaded bank.
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