The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-05-02
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All sorts or Items.
Huntington people will build a new
opera house.
Tramps may look cheap. but they are
never found in a job lot
The business man lives by his push,
the politician by his pull.
There Is no one but what IS able to
take the REeIsTER at 81 per year.
The price of cattle will likely be unu-
sually high this summer.
The berry,crop promises to5be aDupd-
ant this season.
The growing wheat is looking splen-
didly and is improving right along
Send us the news. That is what is
required to make good paper.
Improvements are going on, but very
slowly on account of the rainy weather.
Gallipolis looks nice now in its new
electricslight suit.
1t is not easy to keep the two metals
on parity by discarding one OF them.
"Dig your bait and bend your hook
Don't be botherin' Grover;
You'll go fislIin' in the brook
When the winters over"
Dr. Hoyt, will assume charge OF the
Hospital for the Insane at Spencer May
18th.
Our job printing department can exc
cute your orders for job work on short
notice.
More people would travel the road to
success if it did not require SO much
climbing.
The Sandy New Era was printed on
blue MANILA paper last week. 1t was
the only kind they had.
Clean up your premises. Take every
precaution against contagious and cpl
demic diseases.
Clifford Bryan, aged II, died from
smoking cigarettes at Springfield, Ohio,
last Thursday.
Eleven hundred fish of different vari-
cites have recently been placed in the
Gauley river.
Subscribe for the REGISTER. Don't
borrow it. Don't be nuisance to your
neighbor who pays for it.
Tie recent rains have made the grass
fairly jump, and the vagrant COW now
wears a butter-making smile.
If you want good appointment
And you really wouldn't loose it,
just notify the President
Your certain to refuse it!
The day has faded and gone by when
the people thought it their duty to keep
one man in a fat office all of his life.
The price of butter keeps up pretty
high for this season. 1t is % cents a
pound. Eggs are 12I cents dozen.
Lightning has struck few of the
postoffice aspirants in this county. In
short time the list will be completed.
If the law were strictly enforced
against throwing trash and filth into
the streets. our town would present a
much more decent appearance.
"They talk O. the 'oaken bucket
So cool in hot, dry spell;
But give me the watermelon
That's been six hours in the well"
A question that has not as yet been
satisfactorily solved is being asked by
the city and country papers, "Why
don't men go to church,"
Tie town of Ronceverte has imposed
tax of 81 600 on liquor dealers, hut not
withstanding the high tax, four licenses
have been granted.
Those who imagine themselves the
sole custodians of the American flag
would be the first to take to their heels
il a real assault were made on the flag.
april welded Winter
silly match, of counsel
Caught a freezing cold, and now
She's suing for divorce!
Let TIE bad pavements about town be
repaired or new ones take their place.
If property owners refuse to do this, the
council should. compel the work to be
done.
Don't take for a burglar every man
you see dart ont the back doc dressed
in old clothes and wearing handker.
chief over his face and swinging a club.
1t is only the prominent citizen break
ing for the back yard to beat carpets.
A Kentucky paper warns the mem
bers of the State Legislature against
allowing the chaplain to pray for them.
1t says it. would be better for them not
to have the Lords attention directed to
them.
When the devils" to pay
And no cash on the way,
1t isn't subject for laughter;
But the editor knows,
While the salary grows,
He can settle up with him hereafter.
The courtroom has been thoroughly
cleaned up, and the floor carpeted in
handsome style. The building was in
an exceedingly filthy condition, but
Jaile. Boggess has been equal to the
task, and now it is as "clean as new