The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-10-25

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Wednesday.
The chestnut crop is said to be
unusually large this worms
included.
Blessed is the woman who gets
up and makes the fires these cold
mornings.
You can tell how many live and
energetice business men d town has
by a glance at the town paper.
IT'S sweet to love, but oh, how bitterl
To love girl whose sho.s don't fit her.
The apple butter season is at
hand, and now it's stir, stir, from
early morning till late in the night
Five hundred and seventy. West
Yirginians registered at the West
Virginia State building Chicago day
It is said the oyster crop will be
so large this season that church
festivals can offer two oysters to the
plate.
It is said that Texas is big enough
to hold all the people in the world,
and each would have ample elbow.
room.
There is much diptheria in the
towns surrounding, and parents
cannot be too careful with their
children.
Point Pleasant has sent more peo-
pie to the Worlds Fair, in proper
ton to her population, than any
other town in the State.
We have now the best conducted
schools we ever had in Point Pleas
ant. The discipline is excellent and
that is half the battle.
Correspondence to this paper will
dous favor by sending in the To-
cal happenings of their respective
localities more regularly.
Major A. F. McCown, formerly
of this place, who recently died at
Ashland, KY, had $4,000 life insur-
ance in the Northwestern.
Oyster juice is said to be as great
a clearificr of skins and remover of
freckles as it is cleanser of linen
from fruit and wine stains.
The Republicans of Putnam coun.
ty have organized joint stock com.
pany for the purpose of publishing
a Republican paper at Winfield.
I've learned the way to get the stuff
For which all mankind banker.
It's to watch the race course very close
And bet on Dolly spanker.
Pomeroy Tribune.
Locks Seven and Eight have been
completed and tried and work to
perfection. We now have slack
water navigation from Winfield to
Charleston.
Parkersburg and Ravenswood
have decided to abandon their coun-
ty Fairs. But the Mason county
Fair will continue to show to good
houses, just the same.
The sun never sets on the terri
tory of the United States, for when
it is 6 p. m. on Attoo Islands, Alas
ka, it is 9:36 a. m. of the following
day at Eastport, Maine.
We have received the initial
number of the Central City Courier,
published by Chapman and Son. 1t
is ncwsy, neatly printed and gives
evidence of long life and prosperity.
The more closely dude of mod
ern vintage is examined the more
kindly ono feels towards the $780,
100000 of the worlds Inhabitants
who wear no clothes at all.
On a large tract of valuable tim
Der lands in Randolph county, be-
longing TO the heirs of the late John
S. Hoffman, is a quarry of slate.
Specimens have been secured and
its quality will be assayed.
The first duty of a paper is to its
patrons, and realizing that fact the
REGISTER will always be found con.
tending for what it conceives to be
the best interests of the county in
which it is published.
Mr.. Art Cottrell has purchased
the Jewett saloon from w. d. Mar
shall, and has fixed it up in an en-
ticing style, and being popular
young man, we doubt not he will
do fair business.
A party of dynamiters were out
fishing with dynamite in the river
near Clarksburg, contrary to law,
when one of the shells exploded nn-
expectedly, tearing the hand of
Marshall Ogden entirely off.
The Reform School at Prunty-
town raised this year 73s bushels of
wheat, of which $50 were raised Oh
the land of John II. Kunst and 2S8