The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-05-02

The intolerable hog. pen is again
getting in its work in this town, and
the city Board of Health should
take prompt action. 1t is otpleas-
ant for one to haze to suffer from
the strench arising from these hog
pens. Its impossible to keep them
SO clean that they will not emit
their offensive odors, particularly
after rain, or just before a storm.
Last summer the town was stink
hole from one end 10 the other, and
along the road leading to the X. &
M. depot, you had to hold your
nose while passing along the road.
Is it going to be the same this year2
We hope not. Prompt action may
save an epidemic of fevers. Where
are the people TO look for relieffrom
this nuisance except from the town
authorities? If hogs are 10 be al
lowed to be kept in town, let them
run at large. 1t would not be half
as bad as it is now with filthy hog
pens on nearly every premises in
town.
Capt. VIM. Montgomery of Fay
cite county is going to enlist a
brigade of the unemployed, and
he is expected to be in Washington
to join Coxey's army of Common.
veal on May 10th. Mr.. Montgom-
cry says that he can muster five
thousand men before the list of May.
He says that his office is to be
opened for the enrolment of the
names of all soldiers who wish to
join his brigade. No rowdies will
De admitted aud all who enlist
must be sober aud obedient to the
orders of the officers in command.
The officers will designate the line
of march on or before the Bird of
May.
THREE MILE.-Farmers are busy
planting corn in this vicinity.
Misses Eva and Ada Kincade,
Maggie Rice and Mr.. G. A. Kincade
spent Sunday with Miss Sadie
Schools.
Miss LISA Helms is visiting her
sister, Mrs. F. d. Johnson, at Point
Pleasant.
John Childs and wife, of Bright
on, and ]. T.. Barnett and family
spent Sunday with Capt. Jas. Bar
nett.
W. P. Lewis and j. W. Kearns, of
Point Pleasant, were visiting in
this vicinity recently. EUGENE.
The man that took his pail and
went out into the middle of field
and sat down TO wait till COW
would back up to be MIXED, got
left. The other fellow who went
out after the COW got the milk.
It's just the same with the man
in business who sits down in the
middle of a stock of goods to wait
for customer to come around and
buy. He gets scooped by the
other fellow who goes out after
customers with a catchy advertise
ment.
1t has been discovered that Eng
lish sparrows can do the work of
carrier pigeons. In one case tried
down South, sparrow was carried
$50 miles away from its home and
then released, and the bird made
the return journey in a little over
an hour and half, so the story
goes. The yarn is pretty tough
one, but it always works this way
when spring opens and the fish be-
gin to bite.
At a meeting of the Hook and
Ladder Company, held at the
Mayors Office Monday night, the
following officers were elected: ].
B. Tippett, President; George NJ.
Simpson. Vice President; W. G.
Whaley, Secretary; VIM. Chambers,
Treasurer, and G. F. Hess, Captain.
The usual standing committees
were selected.
We took a carriage ride round
through the Flats Sunday, and we
were surprised to notice how well
the crops looked, and how clean and
tidy the farms and farm houses
looked. Every farm we passed
showed evidences of thrift; and we
could not held but think that this