The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-11-15
Original and Otherwise.

now in order.
Thanksgiving this year comes on.
the last day of this month.
Traffic on the K. & NJ. Railroad
seems to be on the increase.
For good job printing at low
prices, send your orders to this Office.
They say this is a good year for
turkeys, Thanksgiving will settle
that question.
Men are naturally tempted by the
devil, but an idle man positively
tempts the devil.
Well directed effort, backed by
energy is certain ofsuccess in any
trade or profession.
If the world has jOlted you pretty
hard, don't whine about it but pull
yourself together and take fresh
start.
Verify the morals of the country
are improving when the big slug
gers can find no place in which to
fight
DIR. J.. 81. Dunlap has been com
missioned postmaster at Leon, this
county. We extend congratulations
to the Doctor.
The sherifFs sale of the Globe
saloon was adjourned until next
Saturday, at IL o'clock a. m at re-
quest of creditors.
Wild geese, the never-failing signs
of cold weather to come, were on
theirariealjourney southwark Fri
day and Saturday.
1t is an old belief that the numb
er of snowfalls in a season will be as
many as the number of the days in
the month when the first snow falls.
The advice TO avoid even the ap-
pearance of evil is excellent, but i'm
possible, because there are so many
people who see evil in everybody
and everything
There are more young men in
Point Pleasant who have no occu-
patton, unless loafng be called such,
than any other town of the same
size in the State.
The curbing is being set for a
pavement along Fifth street, from
Main to Wand. The property own,
ers put down the brick. 1t is o
good Improvement
Wait till the times improve before
you can expect much activity in in
dustrial ways which We may reason
ably expect with an Improvement
in trade conditions.
This.is a good time to make up
your list of reading matter for the
winter. Call and subscribe for the
REGISTER and we can save you its
price on your other papers and Pc
riodicals.
Soon will come the beginning of
the extended season of bad roads,
not that it is necessary to have bad
roads, but that they get bad from
the simple inanition of those who
travel over them.
The man who will break a gum
drop in two pieces to make the ex-
act weight when selling candy to a
little girl is mean enough to sell
cross-eyed needles to a blind wo-
man. This man don't advertise.
The coal miners of the Kan:wha
Valley demand an increase of one
half cent per busheI for mining,
and have given notice to the opera
tors that unless the demand is
granted a general strike will be or
dered next Monday.
The weather baving knocked out
the snake liar the deer hunter liar
has taken his place. From now till
some other season opens we shall
daily read of the most heroic ex-
PLOTS with West Virginia deer that
were ever chronicIed.
Isn't it rather strange that SO
many families who move away
from here, come back again and set
tie DOWN. We could name large
number of cases. We think this
proves that there is something about
Point Pleasant worth loving and
coming back for.
The electric light company is a
worthy object of commendation.
The rule of having a fixed time to
start up evenings has been aband-
-oned, and now when it begins to
grow gloomy early the light comes
ON early, which is quite the proper
way it should be done.