The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-05-08
Original and Selected.

ABOUT oUOO feet OF purified gas.
Push boats are now operating on
the Big Guyan river.
There will be an abundance of
wild blackberries and raspberries.
A good time to go fishing; nearly
everybody has gone.
The cut worms are destroying
the corn, 50 we are told.
Ifsome people thought more and
talked less there would be more
real happiness in their lives.
A number of oil men represent
great big stakes of money, are now
in the county.
1t is said that Col. j. J. Peterson
is about to start a daily morning
Republican paper, at Huntington.
The small boy will soon be freed
from school, and will then proceed
to assert his liberty.
The bark of the dogwood tree an
nounces that spring is here, while
the catnip stalks through the land.
Factories all over the country
are advancing wages. Nobody is
ruined by the Wilson bill.
It's lucky fisherman who finds
i
that his lines have fallen in pleasant
places.
The baseball season has opened,
and the crank is consequently
happy.
The saddest words of tongue or
pen, are "I'm sorry L can't repay
that ten"
House cleaning and painting is
now engaging the attention of city
residents.
The West Virginia State Educa-
tional Association will meet in
Shepherdstown the first week in
July.
Thousands of fruit trees have
been delivered and planted in this
county this Spring Mason is COM
ing to the front as fruit county.
A circus is advertised to be here
next Saturday. The boys should
now save their pennies, to be able
to buy an admission ticket.
To dream of a milestone round
your neck, is sign of what you
may expect if you get an extrava-
gent wife
When a bride has been married
about three months she begins to
send home for the old clothes she
refused to take with her.
Oil appears to have reached a
price at which it will remain per-
manently. The price now is two
dollars per barrel.
1t will soon be time for straw
berry festivals, and the Young men
may as we'll begin to save up their
dimes.
Business is quito good with us at
this time and the outlook for the fn-
ture is encouraging. 1t almost
seems like old times.
An easy way to commit suicide is
to leave off your heavy under
clothes under the impression that
summer is here.
Married, Sunday morning at 9
o'clock by Rev. w. H. Shaw, at the
home of the bride, Mr.. John Bracy
to Miss Anna Mcdaniel.
This is a great year for dofaulters.
1t must be said for them that they
are doing good deal to keep money
in circulation.
"You can buy "TriIby sausages"
and "Trilby steaks" at the butchers,
and "Trilby pie" at the bakers, but
for "Trilby hams" you must look to
the theatrical stage.
o. /. Rice, Mendoza, Ill, writes:
'Have used your Japanese Pile Cure
and found tia sure and and permanent
cure"
Commencement Day for our High
School is approaching. The 10th OF
this month, at Hootf's new Opera
House, is the date and place fixed
upon.
In these times when small pox is
in SO many towns along the railroads
and rivers, the people should see to
it that all the members of their fam
lies are vaccinated, and that moth
ing but pure virus is used.
Point Pleasant is agitating the
question of erecting a statue in hon
or of Gen. Lewis and other heroes
who fell in the battle with Corn
stalk and his savage band.-Elkins
News.