The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-01-09
OririnaI ana Selected.

County Court now ID session
The Legislature .convenes to day.
Now look ont for booming rivers.
Business is reviying in this place.
Lent begins Feb. %; Easter April
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Turn over a new leaf now and.
keep it clean.
Drop that bad habit, aud don't
take it up again.
The GalIipoIis steam Laundry
was destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The rivers are rising rapidly, bgt
still so do not fear flood.
Tie snow has gone off with a big
rain.
Enos yarian has opened a neat
grocery in the Gable block.
1t viii soon be time for our town
election.
The ice is about z inches thick,
and ice dealers are gathering il.
Read all the advertisements in
this paper
The young folks had fine time
on the ice while it lasted.
Are we ever going to have water
works?
We are now deep in the work of
brief printing.
A noble heart, like the sun,
showeth its greatest countenance in.
its lowest estate.
The college boys who have been
spending the holidays at home,
have all gone back.
Large numbers of railroad ties
got away from their owners, on the
rise in the rivers.
J. Friedman & Co, have n new
cad in this paper, and are selling
goods regardless of cost.
The machinery of the Standard
Folding Bed Company, of this
place, is being removed to Charles
ton.
Tramps set fire to the timbers
under the bank, near the round
house, placed there for the protec-
ton of the bank, and burned it
about all out.
The Elks of this city went down
to Huntington, Tuesday and institu-
ted a lodge of Elks in that city.
The boys were banqueted, and al
together had a nice time.
THE RIVERS. The rains and sud
den thaw has caused the Great
Kanawha and Ohio rivers to rise
very rapidly, and already the back
water is beginning to creep up back
of town.
Besides the snow which vanished
rapidly, the rain has fallen in tor
rents at head waters, and allthe
streams above here are putting out
bank full.
From present appearances, and
the latest kilograms from Pittsburg,
our people need not be surprised if
the rivers were out of their banks
at this place, by Thursday or Fri
day.
The rises in the rivers and creeks
came SO suddenly that timber men
were not prepared and they will
lose heavily in ties and saw-logs,
especially in all tributaries putting
into the Big Kanawha.
The Point Pleasant Lodge of B.
P. o. Elks went to Huntington last
Tuesday, New Years day, and with
the cooperation of Hon. &. B. Glib
bons, OF Parkersburg, installed a
lodge of Elks at that place. The
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Eiks is growing more than any
other secret organization in the
country, and in point OF exclusive
ness it is first among all. There
were twenty five of Huntington's
representative business men wholhad
the mysterious degrees of Elkdom
conferred upon them, and %
more have signed the charter mem
bership roll. After the installation
the visiting Elks from Parkersburg,
Charleston, Bluefeld and Point
Pleasant were invited to accompany
the newly invested brothers to the
Florentine Hotel, where an elegant
banquet was rendered them. Hon.
G. B. Gibbons was chosen toast
master and entertained all present
with his rare eloquence and humor
The boys say they were entertain
ed royalty, and they are all very
] grateful to HuntipptOn for extend