The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-29

a little sherry improves water
melon.
watermelons are plentiful and.
cheap.
Business is beginning to look up
in this place.
Why don't the farmers make
more butter?
A well is being put down at Lone
Oak Cemetery.
Republican county convention
here next Saturday.
Many a man looks for work just
out of idle curiosity.
a sure sign of dry times is the
wink of the soda fountain.
The town council should give the
old cemetery their attention.
There seems to be an epidemic of
fever in the upper extension.
Actresses are called stars proba-
bly, because they look best at night.
If you want a good hair cut and
a clean shave. go to VIM. steinbach.
Possibly the reason secrets are
never kept is because time will tell.
If all the world loves lover,
where docs her little brother come
in2
The smart woman usually makes
her point until she tries to sharpen
a pencil.
The steamer Mt. Clair is off the
Cole & Heatherington docks with a
new hull.
When child is found on the
doorstep there is an heir of mys-
terry about.
The weather man says it isn't
worth while investing in any moro
straw hats.
Revenue receipts from whiskey
during August are estimated at
s2O,OOO,OOO.
The average man will discuss
base ball and tariff reform with
equal volubility.
Nearly all the wells and cisterns
in this town are dry.
/
Everybody is trying to convince
everybody else how little he knows
about the tariff question.
The man who stays out late at night
usually has little difficulty in get
ting head in the morning.
While man with past may
interest the average girl, she usual
fly prefers the man with present.
We suppose our water-works has
played out for while. The parties
who bad the franchise allowed it to
lapse.
The pleasure boat Neptune, be-
longing to the Marmets, went on
Cole and Heatherington's docks
Monday.
Many an impecunious youth leaves
his trunk as well as his heart be-
hind when he returns from his sum-
mer vacation.
VIM. steinbach and his assistants
are the slickest BARRIERS in the State,
and for stylish hair cut or neat,
clean shave go and see them.
Two of West virginia's represen-
tatiyes in the Fifty fourth Congress
have already been named. The
other two will be named to day.
Congressman Capehart has APP
pointed Robbie, son of Hon. E. w.
Brown, of Ravenswood, a cadet to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The children of the Episcopal
church will give an ice cream festi-
val in their church yard, on Friday
night. Everybody cordially in
vited.
There have been a gang of thieves
roaming through Robinson district,
for some time preying upon the
farmers. Keep a sharp look out
for them.
Capt. A. J. Trice, one of the old
est residents of Huntington, died at
the Insane Asylum at Weston, Mon
day, where he was taken short
time ago.
1t is estimated that the proposed
Lake Erie and Ohio River ship
canal will cost s25, 900, 900, and will
have capacity of 15,6oO,OOO tons
per year.
If some men who grow too fat
for their clothes would only worry
little about the unpaid bill for
those same clothes they would fit
them better.
If everybody would attend strict
ly to their own business and not
meddIe with the affairs of others,