The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-06-06
Oririnal ana Selected.
Wheat haryest vii soon BE- here

cure coal for fuel purposes
There will be a superabundance
of blackberries.
The payements of the town are
being repaired.
Matrimonial matters seem to be
rather dull in Point Pleasant.
It looks like everybody had taken
to drinking; even the times is tight.
Preparations are making big for
doings here on the Fourth of July.
Let our friends send us in a big
lot of new subscribers.
The Ohio River passenger trains
pass at this point now.
The K. & NJ. Railway employees
are being enrolled into the Union.
We are now prepared TO do job
work cheaper than it has ever been
dore in this place.
Times are hard and money scarce,
but still the town might spare lit
tie to clean up the streets.
Patronize your home merchants
and mechanics. This is one way TO
build up your town.
The strikers are still holding out,
and are likely to do so until opera
tors accedc to theirdemands.
The States should have some
legislation favorable to the laboring
men, especially the coal miners.
Senator Faulkner is out in a let
ter explaining why he favors a
tariff on coal.
A man has a right to change his
mind. but he should mind his
change, too.
Give a girl rope enough and she
will hang herself after tangling a
young man or two.
Truth is mighty and must prevail,
but there are cases in which it has
a tremendous russell to prevail.
The cut-worms have been very
destructive to the growing corn,
and much re-planting has been done
Gen. Fry's army of Commonweal,
passed here Friday evening, on
barges towed by steamer.
Men who are now serving out
Jail sentences will have to work
upon the public roads.
Our tax and election laws should
be SO changed, that men would not
be permitted to vote until they have
paid their personal tax.
Everything is quiet at the Cam
den and New Haven mines, and a
few miners are working at each
place.
Gov. MacCorkle has designated
Martinsburg as the place for hold
ing the annual eneampment of the
West Virginia National Guard.
The Society of the Army of West
Virginia will hold its annual re.
union at Ironton, Aug. 20, 80 and
31st next.
We acknowledge the receipt of a
copy of the West Virginia School
Laws from the State Suporintond-
ent Virgil a. Lewis.
Manager spilman has given no
tice for the striking miners to va
cate his houses, as he will not re-
employ them.
A new time card is in effect on
the Ohio River Railroad. The mail
train now arrives here from Wheel
ing at 1:05, standard time.
Mr.. J. S. Spencer has moved into
the upstairs of his new building, and
Mr.. Geo. Pofenbarger, now occu-
pies the Office vacated by Mr.. spen-
GER.
A little girl in this place recently
said that whenever she had nothing
to say she just kept her mouth shut.
Where she leads others might well
follow.
Some one should start bicycle
stable in Point Pleasant. Here is
a chance for some enterprising
young man. Run it on the livery
plan.
The foolish man foldeth his hands
and says: "There is no trade, why
should L advertiser But the wise
man is not SO. He whoopeth up in
the newspaper, and verify he draw
eth customers from affair off.
Many neighboring towns are pass
ing ordinances restricting the speed
at which bicycles may be ridden on
the streets. The speed of horses is
regulated by an ordinance, and
bicycle riding should be also.
Decoration Dov vos oniatIy and