The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-09-06
Facts and Faneies.

J.R. RAYBURN. sEc,Y.
Facts and Faneies.
Our public schools open next Monday.
Don't throw banana Feelings on the
sidewalks.
The recent rains have been very bene-
fetal to the pastures.
Mines in the vicinity of Fairmont are
paying their men in gold.
Circuit Court is now in session. with
Judge Guthrie presiding.
Now Is the time to plant your fall adj
yertisement in the REGISTER.
The Cherokee strip will be opened for
settlen ptember 16. at noon.
This ,nth with an R in it-but
don't pc M too big a hurry to eat oysters.
About 20 head of horses were sold at
the front door of the court house, Mon
day.
Ground will soon, be broken for a
brick business block to be erected on
9th street.
The man who ties his money up in an
old sock and lays it away is the burg
lars best friend.
County Court met in special session
Monday to consider some road and
bridge business.
A 50 inch vein of coal has been oper
ed on the Miller property by the lock
opd don, CONTRIBUTIONS
The most mistaken and demoralizing
of all human sentiment is womanly
sympathy for male criminal.
Abram Williams, of Williams Grove,
Berkeley county, has five-year-old
steer which weighs 5000 pounds
Mr.. Stortz has cleaned the debris from
his property, recently destroyed by fire,
on the corner of Main and 9th streets.
The yellow fever scare is over in Flor
ida and cholera has secured no foothold
in our country-both causes for rejoicing.
The hard times have driven large
nu nbcr of men into the regular army,
and it is now near its maximum limit OF
$4,000 men.
Fire at Elizabeth, Writ county, Friday
morning, destroyed about $4,000 worth
of property and threatened the destruc-
ton of the town.
Barbour county has ghost that in
habits a grist mill. 1t is singular that
ghosts show such bad taste in the mat
ter of residence.
Every town is more or less afflicted
with contemplate gossips and SANDER
ers who are not fit to blacken the shoes
of those they seek to wound.
An Ohio editor, recently down South,
telegraphed his paper as follows
"Quarantined, thank the Lordl Free
board for an unlimited periodp
The bank of Anderson, at Anderson
Monroe county, has very lately been
made State depository. There are
now twenty-seven of these in this State.
Messrs. Ed. Hudson and Ed. Roberts,
of Mr.. Wick Hayman's stables, cleaned
out party of toughs at the Parkers-
burg Fair, who were annoying their
horses.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
has published a notice that it will dis
miss III employees whose wages are
attached or garnisheed in the hands of
the company.
There are too many persons sitting
around doing nothing and complaining
of hard times. Let every one do what
he can find to do and times will grow
better.
September 25th has been fixed as Odd
Fellows day at the Columbian EXPOSE
ton; and 100000 Odd Fellows are ex-
pected to be in line. We may expect
a great reduction in railroad rates for
the occasion.
Out OF the office the man was thrown,
And down couple of flights of stairs;
He had no business of his own,
And lie wouldn't let others attend to
theirs.
An exchange notes a wide awake
school teacher who offered prize for
the best selection of clippings from the
current newspapers. The scheme was
a good one as it at once set the young
people to reading the papers.
Three men in Taylor county last fall
bought bushel of wheat and each took
one-third. They sowed it, and the har-
vest of one was 13l bushels; of the other
two, q bushels each. This only shows
the different methods of farming.
Marshfield (Wis.) Times: "The
odd Farmer Hopkins Co. delighted
large audience at the Opera
Honse last night. Mr.. Davidson as
the Old Farmer was simply
immense, in fact the entire company
was away above par. If return
date conld be arranged, the house
would not hold the people"
At Hooff's Opera House to-mor-
row night.
The lower Presbyterian church is
being handsomely fixed up on the
inside. The ceiling is being frescoed
and the walls handsomely papered.