The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-01
Original and selected.

you going to do about it2
Some of the Point Pleasant girls
are like music box-full of airs.
Don't forget the dates of our fair
August IA, 10, 16 and II.
The corn and pastures are suffer
ing for tho want of rain.
you know an item of news, tell
it to the editor.
There is good deal of sickness
in this place at present.
Boom your town, do something
to build it up.
Bass fishing is said to be excel
lent at Eight Mile Island.
What has become of the water
works?
Some handsome residences are
being erected over in Henderson.
The festival at Rayburn Chapel
Thursday evening, cleared s29.O4.
Sunday it is claimed was the hot
test day of the season-it certainly
was the most oppressive.
Mr.. Mott Barton has the frame
for his boiler works at Henderson,
up, and will enclose it this week.
Business without advertising in
these days is like boat without
oars in the rapids above fall.
Mr.. E. E. Roush, of this county,
has been appointed by Gov. Mac
Corkle, a Notary Public.
Many would believe moro in mis-
sions if it were not for the collec-
tons.
Quite large number of our
cyclists went up to the Cheshire
camp meeting, Sunday.
1t doesn't make lie any whittier
to tell it at funeral or to put it on
a tombstone.
Conceit is hard to defeat. When
its knocksd out of some people there
is nothing left but a soft she'll.
The corn is looking up now and
will soon be ready to shoot. We
hope it will not miss the stalk.
Some people strain at fly speck
at the front door, while cart loads
of filth is lying at the back door.
A special term of the County
Court will be hold in this place,
August End.
The fields are burned by the
drouth till they are brown as in
the Autumn.
Never speak ill of your own town,
it is like smirchlng your own char
acter. Let others do that.
The coming fair will be one of
the best that has ever been held on
the grounds.
Talent. like certain diseases, often
skips a generation. Yet some
young men think they are smart
because their fathers were.
A letter containing dollar does
not make an editor feel near so we'll
as one with five. But its good
medicine for the blues.
The X. & NJ. had twelve coaches
filled with excursionists to tho
Cheshire camp meeting, from along
up the Kanawha.
If the income tax will not pro.
duce over s12,OOO,OoO, Congress
might as well strike it from the
Wilson bill.
The REGISTER is acknowledged
by all parties to be the bes: and
most reliable paper published in
the county.
The oldest inhabitant will please
COLno lOI WdEu uuu uluk0 u SldlS-
ment in regard to the heat and
drouth.
The court house and Jail public
wells, are great source of comfort
TO the thirsty. If it were not for
these wells, the people would suffer
! for water.
TITO Board of Public Works of
this State are now out on its annual
tour of railroad assessment. All
the railroads in the State are to be
assessed.
The cheap excursions given by
the K. & NJ. are growing very pop
ular, and the road is profiting by
their liberality TO the people along
its lines.
In this paper will be found Har-
vey Gibson's advertisement of his
new saloon. While we do not ad-
wise people to drink, yet there are
many who do, and to them we say
when you want ANYTHING in the