The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-26

The night is now longer than the
day.
Apples are a scarce article in This
market
Keep your buildings and other
property insured.
A great many of our farmers are
busy sowing wheat.
Yagrant COWS continue their noe
turnal Expectations
tits the early and late advertiser
that catches the trade.
John W. Young has added a new
porch to his residence.
The campers are coming 10 town
looking brown as berries.
Horseback riding is now all the
rage with the young ladies.
Even Republican politicians can
not stop the business boom.
One third of the earth is con
troIled by the Anglo Saxon race.
a good season to deepen wells
that are in the habit of going dry.
The trestfes on the K. & NJ. at
this place have all been filed.
The road bed of the X. & M. is
now being put in the very best of
repair.
Geo. Lewis gets the contract for
furnishing coal to our public schools
this year.
Hines Kerwood has raised his
house nearly three feet and other
wise improved it.
]. Friedman & Co. will open a
clothing store at Gallipolis, about
October LIST.
There is no better passenger ser
vice on any road, than is now found
on the K. & NJ.
The present fashionable coat for
men may be joy forever, but for
looks it is horrid.
Carlisle whaley has purchased
the John Hughes property, in the
lower end of town.
If you want to see the cheeks of
a Republican burn, read him the
market reports on wool.
Twenty dollar counterfeit green
backs are now in circulation. Look
closely at your $50 bills.
/, October promises good crop of
weddings and the ministers wear
broad smiles of expectancy.
Here, you gentlemen in authority,
isn't it about time that pump handle
was put back on the Court House
well?
a gossip can do more with the
tongue in one week than the victim
can do with his entire body in a
year.
Married, Sunday, near town, by
Rev. Cornell, Pastor of Trinity
Church, Newton Folden to Miss
Jennie Jones.
The Board of Education has ap-
pointed Miss N. B. Williams assist
ant teacher in the primary depart
ment of our public schools.
The raise in the Ohio river is al
most a thing of the past, aud yet,
none of the palatial passenger steam
ers have put in an appearance.
Handsome shelves and tables are
being put in Jordan Bros. building.
When completed it will be the larg-
est and handsomest store room in
town.
All should have ladders near
their houses, which will be ready
in case of fire. By so doing, many
a fire could be checked before it
got under way.
The nuisance, known as the out
house in the Court House yard,
should receive the attention of the
Court House Commissioners, or be
abated altogether.
1t was James LETTERS, of Hender-
son, and not a Cincinnati diver, who
rescued the young man who tried
to commit suicide by drowning, at
Gallipolis, recently.
Work had to be suspended for a
couple of days on Lock IL, last
week, because of delay in receiving
cement. 1t arrived Monday and
the force is at work again.
A Mason county farmer who
knows something about his business
says that what the sheep husbandry
of this part of the country needs is
protection against dogs more than
protection against the pauper sheep
of the world.
Lock IL ITEMs.-George Patrick,