The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-09-27
aririnaI and OtherMlse.

tie squat recently.
The rain last Monday was "healing,
searching and cooling"
Quite number OF buildings are going
mp in different parts of the town.
| Business is beginning to look up in
this place and money isgetting easier.
1t sounds rather hard to read in the
i hardware market reports that cutlery
is dull.
The Ohio River Railroad is said to be
one OF the best paying railroads in the
country.
Joseph Biser, of Knobley, Mineral
county, has three months old calf with
two tails.
Real estate is changing hands pretty
rapidly in town, and good prices are
being paid.
Henderson has just organized a branch
of the Baltimore National Building
Association.
We again ask our subscribers to call
and ray what they owe this office; we
need the money.
Many an ardent sportsman is now
cramping his neck looking for squirrels
in tall hickories.
Some men try to carry the world on
their backs while somebody else is carry
ing their families.
VIM. Arthur has purchased houfe
and lot on First street, from G. sehon,
paying $500 for it.
A good cinder walk is being built
along the lower part.of Sixth street, to
the X. & NJ. depot.
The post office at Ravenswood was
entered by burglars Wednesday night
and robbed of S35 in cash.
There ought to be pump in the Jail
well, and we ask the County Commits
sioneSs to see that it is done.
The 25th inst. was pay day at Lock
IL. and the amount disbursed was $3S,-
600 for the month of August.
Any old maid can get her personal
consolation by looking at some other
woman's drunken husband.
1t is just,as well to beware of the pro.
fessional pedestrian. He nearly always
has some scheme on foot.
The watering place girl says that when
the squeeze" is over in Wall street she
hopes it will come her way.
We are more tired of this idiotic
astrology about Baby Esther than We
were of the nursery gossip about Baby
Ruth.
West Virginia stands third in the
awards exhibit in forestry at the
Worlds Fair, Michigan coming out
ahead.
The Street Car Company, of Wheel
ing has cut wages So on the month, and
the drivers are quitting. Trouble is
feared.
However it may be with the other
lines of trade, the burglar is actively
engaged opening various business estab-
lishmcnts.
Sistersville undertook to have an
Injun prize fight and down went the
old tannery. Some things are blessings
in disguise.
The new town of Perry, in the Chero-
kee Strip, already has population of
1000, bank, three daily and five big
weekly newspapers.
The farmers a,e now sowing wheat
but as that grain is distressingly cheap
the acreage planted this season will not
be as large as usual.
The Odd Fellows laid the corner stone
of their new temple at Spring Hill,
Kanawha county, last Saturday. A
grand time was had.
"Chollie has developed a great
amount of muscle lately" 'How do
you know" Il saw him hold his straw
hat without any help"
Tuesday last at Raymond City, a
spark from the engine set fire to % bales
of hay on fiat car, and freight and
passenger car was burned.
Apple picking, what there is of it, is in
progress, but the demand for empty bar
rels is not extravagantiy large, nor is the
quality of the fruit remarkable.
The author of 'Af,er the Ball." Chas.
K. Harris, has an income of over 900
day from his famous song. Over $780,
600 copies of the song have been sold.
The property of the West Virginia
Flint Bottle Company in Central City
was sold on Saturday under trust deed
to Major George McKendree for $500.
The U. S. Deputy Marshals continue
to harvest crop of moonshiners. The
illicit distillers and retailers do not
seem to be affected by drought or hard
times.
The prisoners in the Wayne Jail made
an attempt to get out last week. One
IRON bar was found sawed in two and a
saw improvised from a knife, was found
hidden in the Jail.
An Arizona Bank cashier nailed to the
door the legend: "This bank has not
busted, it owes the people $4,000; the
people owe ii $4,000; it is the people
who are busted; when they pay, we'll
pay"
Lulu Smith, youngest daughter of ex-
Congressman, Charles Brookes Smith,
died at her home in Parkersburg, last