The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-02-27
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-awfully simple and simply awful.
Stick to your underwear yet
awhile, you might get chill.
There is talk of another wharf
boat being put in at this place.
Quite crowd of our people at
tended the Fireman's Ball, at Cali,
polls, last night.
Satan is sure pay-"The wages
of sin is death" without any ifs or
ands
The Sunday mail recently put on
the trains, is a great convenience to
our people.
Girls who want to get married
should never admit that they have
cold feet.
Its poor policy to drink liquor
to keep your brother from getting
it. Better pour it on the ground.
A man can run in debt but when
it comes to getting out he's got to
crawl.
We have had big feeze and now
we want big thaw. 1t is difficult
to estimate which will be the most
damaging.
We understand the multiplication
table and the kitchen table but the
railroad time table is not yet plain
enough for us.
Mr., Asa Musgrave, of the Pleas
ant Flats, lost valuable steer one
day last week from some disease
peculiar to cattle.
Mr.. a. c. Van Glider, the Drug
gest, has out the prettiest .adver-
tisement in the way of a calendar
we have seen this season. They
are beauties, sure.
j. w. Ish was allowed the full
amount of his insurance on build
ing and stock, amounting to ST. 200.
He was in the Tippett & Hutchin-
son Agency.
A new poker playing law has
passed the Legislature which makes
it an offense to win or loose more
than $500 at one sitting The law
used to be $1,000
Will Musgrave has taken the
agency for the sale of Pages woven
wire fence in this State. He will
also appoint agencies in the several
counties cf the State.
The County Court is contempla-
ting putting a furnace heater in the
Court House building, to take the
place of The present mode of heat
ing.
Some day God will tell on why
he has tried you, and let you look
back upon your life story, and see
the golden thread of his fatherIy
love and care shining over and
around it all.
A Point Pleasant girl has pro
ject on foot 1t must be a very
small one. Had it been a Galli-
polls girl the project would have
more room to assume proportions
more lengthy.
The idea that a man must learn
the how and why and wherefore of
farming between the pillow handles,
and nowhere else, has been expIod-
ed these many years, because of its
narrowness of view.
D1ED.-At her home near Letart.
this county, Wednesday morning,
February 20, 1895, Miss Aribella
Rice, daugh ter of Jas. L Rice, ESQ
of consu nption, aged 81 years. She
was buried Thursday at the Ball
graveyard Obituary next week.
On Saturday Mr. G. G. Miller
celebrated the 84th anniversary of
his birth, at his beautiful country
home near town. Many ofthe men,
bers of his family and a few personal
friends were present upon the &C.
casion. Mr.. Miller is one of the
most active men of his age in the
county. The REGISTER hopes for
many returns of his birthday.
a telegram to relatives in Mason
Saturday morning announced that
Thomas Collins, former resident
of that city, was killed at Coalburg,
W. Wa. He was superintendent of
a mine there, and it is supposed he
was killed about the works. De-
ceased was a son of Richard Collins.
President of the Hope Salt Com
pany.
a Des Moines woman who has been
troubled with frequent colds, concluded
to try an old remedy in a new way, and
accordingly took a tablespoonful -four
times the usual dose of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy just before going to bed
The next morning she found that her
cold had almost antiralT- disoppaorad