The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-04-18
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locality.
The Worlds Fair office at Parkers-
burg will be discontinued next week. :
Pat Egan now knows just "wbere he's
at" He is 'outside the breast works"
The other fellows who go to see ones
best girl are either "chumps'' or Gays"
The Ohio River railroads new coacheg
will be put in service in about a week.
President Cleyeland's troubles appear
to worry the other fellow much more
than they do him.
Editor Morris has found the stingiest
man in West Virginia. When he weeps
he saves the tears to secure the salt.
Jerry Murphy, leading citizen of
Guyandotte, blew out his brains after a
protracteL spree.
Our fellow-townsman, T. l. Bell, Esq,
is likely to be appointed Consul to his
old home, at Leith. Scotland.
The good hearted people should I'M
loose their purse-strings to the Clifton
fire sufferers.
Trox Rankston has discovered farm
which is so poor that a man can't raise
an umbrella on it.
The editors may joke as they please
about the crinoline, but they cannot de-
ny that it covers the ground"
a commercial exchange announces
that bathing snits will be higher this
year." Good Lord, deliver usl
Tie public wharf in several places is
in bad condition. The projecting stones
make it very difficult to haul over.
1t is about time the debris was remov-
ed from the street in the burned dis
trict.
1t seems curious for us to know that
tobacco was sold by the yard in Maine
in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven.
The day ofthe ice-cream girl has come.
with the procession should retire to the
rear.
In the good time that's comm
There will be tax on dogs
hltllOut
And farm that raises hogs.
There is just one striking difference
between the optimist and the pessimist.
One has got what he wants and the 9TH
er got left.
a railroad never finds out how cheap
it can carry passengers, and still make a
profit on them, until it has an opposi-
ton line.
Yes, brethren, tits but too true; ap-
pointments and disappointments neces-
sarily go together; there are not enough
offices to go around.
Twelve thousand barrels of Kentucky
whisky were burned the other day, and
now, what will the teetling children in
that state do?
The West Virginia Editorial Associa-
ton meets at Martinsburg, May 10TH
A trip to Chicago has been arranged for
over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The peach, cherry and apple trees in
our county are in full bloom, and every
thing points to a bountiful fruit crop
this season.
Talk about iluttering seraph's wings,
Around the towering spires;
They're not ''in it, with the wires,
Which to you an Office brings.
Nothing has as yet been done toward
cleaning up the streets and putting our
town in good sanitary condition; keep
the cholera away, if possible.
Our city dads will not have much mo-
ney to expend on the streets this year,
but what they have should be put in
permanent improvements.
An occasional advertisement is like an
occasional dinner. Both bring derange-
ment. Continuous regularity in both is
the rule of successful men.
Jailor Borgess. is giving the court
house thorough cleaning, and it need
ed it badly too. He believes in keeping
things nice around him.
Chief headman Max
Well wieIds that axe;
More'n a hundred day
Now fall by the way.
The New York woman who shot and
killed the man that circulated stories de-
rogatory of her character is made of the
right sort of stuff. May her imitators
increase.
Tippett & Hutchinson have moved
their insurance Office into the building
occupied by Tippett's furniture store
The building associations will also meet
there.
Ladies in great, many towns have or
ganized anti-crlnoline clubs. Let Point
Pleasant ladies follow the example and
give poor man an opportunity to stay
on the earth.
A citizen said yesterday: Probably
after some of the school children are
drowned, the county court will put a
pump in its public well. 1t should be
looked after at once.
Democratic fourth-class postmasters
are rapidly displacing Republicans in
Mason county, and throughout the 4th
district. Congressman Capehart is hav-
ing Republicans weeded out.
A southern editor says he has been