The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-03-27
When Easter Comes.

ed by the suggestion IN your paper
this evening to compose a rhyme
which would give the reasons of the
movable nature of the Eat ter feast. :"
The following clever rhymes are
added. They should be taught in
the primary schools:
Thirty days hath September"
Every person can remember;
| But to know when Faster's come
Puzzles even scholars some.
When March the twenty first is past,
/ Just watch the silvery moon,
And when you see 1t full and round,
Know Easter'll be Here soon.
After the moon has reached its full.
Then Easter will be here
The very Sunday after,
In each and every year.
And II 1t hap on Sunday
The moon should reach its height,
The Sunday following this event
VIII be the Easter bright.
F. ID. Gilfllen & Sons have been
awarded the contract for furnishing
large amount of timber for the
three locks between here and Point
Pleasant. To enable them to furn.
ish the required amount of lumber
they have purchased from the heirs
of John Bowyer, decd, the timber
on five hundred acre tract of land
lying near Oak Ridge, three miles
below Winfield, for the sum of
$4,000. JAS l.. Gilfillen has returned
from near ProctorsviIle, O., where
he purchased a saw mill from A.
Estes, which will be located near
the entry to the old Oak Ridge
mines and kept in operation pretty
much all summer.-Irrepressible.
Why will the people of Mason
county stand, in perfect Indifferent
unconcern, when fortunes in petro
leum are under their feet? Geolo
gists tell us Mason county is at the
intersection of two oil belts, thus: X
The development of oil is making
fast strides through the river tier of
counties-Pleasants, Wood, and
now $1,000 in cash is being laid out
in the next county to us-Jackson
on oil lease rentals. Are we wait
ing for some one else to test our ter
ritory and then when paying wells
are developed beg us to accept the
gain? Let the test well be put
down at a central point on either
Ten Mile, Old Town, or Ice Creek
or on Turkey Run. Try, Try.
The newspaper reports the ad-
vance in the price of wool and think
the coming season will see a very
marked advance in the price of that
staple commodity. Persons who are
posted claim the old crops are pretty
well used up aud that the demand
will be good by the time the next
crop is sheared. One gentleman
from the country says it is a never.
falling sign of an increase in the
price of wool when peddlers go
around buying sheep pelts, as he
says they are now doing. We hope
to see the price advance considera-
bly, this summer.-Oil Review.
a FUTURE PRESIDENT There was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Yield
ing at, Niagara Falls, n. Y, Thurs
day March 81, 1861 son. The
REGISTER extends its congratula-
tions to this eslinable young couple
upon this happy event. May the
son grow up to be a blessing and
honor to its parents, and a useful
and Influential citizen in the coun.
ellis of the nation.
a little girl in saying her prayers
the other night, was told to pray
for her father and mother, who are
both i'll, and for one of the servants
who had lost her husband. She
did as Instructed, and concluded
her petition with these words: "And
now, o God, take good care of
yourself, because if anything should
happen to you we would, all go to
pieces Amen"
School teaching, from the fact
that it presents the only outlet and
prospect for advancement of the
ambitious and enterprising of our
young men aud boys, engages the
attention of quite a number. 1t is
an honorable, useful occupation and
is the stepping stone to further ad-
vancement, especially if profess
sional life is in view.
"Perhaps you would not think so, but
a very large proportion of diseases in
| New York comes from carelessness
about catching cold" says DR.. Cyrus
/ Edison. at is such simple thing and
so common that very few people, unless
it is case OF pnumonia, pay any atten-
ton to cold. There are a great many
cases of catarrh and consumption which
have their orgain in this neglect of the
simplest precautiOn OF every day life.
! The most sensible advice is, when you
| have one, get rid of il as soon as possible