The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17
Original and Seleeten.

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pal Chruch-yard Wednesday night.
The Shriners meet in Wheeling
July 18th.
The court house looks pretty in
its new coat of paint.
The delightful rains all over the
county have put a broad smile on
the faces of our farmer friends.
Owing to the abundance of
apples, they are now selling in this
market at ten cents per bushel.
The undertakers of the State have
organized at last. Well good bye
dear people.
When will we have water works,
is a question that is asked every
hour in the day?
There will be no scarcity of water
at the Fair grounds this year.
Capt. Jos. Helm has one of the
finest gardens in town.
Some very handsome new accord
cons, of fine tone, just received, at
Van elders.
The saddest sight in the whole
universe of Coda human ruin,
caused from drink.
Mr.. Jas. somerville, shipped 80
head of lambs to New Jersey, Satur-
day.
fall prayers were answered there
would be mighty little work done
in some localities.
The entry books of the Fair will
be opened the week preceding the
Fair, at the Secretarys Office, in the
Court House.
Grant county will hold an cleo
ton August 9th to vote upon the
question of relocating the county
seat.
We hope that it will not be many
years before the water works ques-
ton will take on substantial shape.
Miss Mollie Jones has the thanks
of this Office for lot of nice
peaches.
The Program of the Baptist Sun
day School convention, is published
in this paper today.
The people who took in the ex-
cursion to Cincinnati, are returning.
The most of them will be home by
tonight.
Gamblers willnot be allowed to
play their vocation this year, so the
Mayor says.
Farmers are now so busy with
their work, that very few of them
come to town.
The oil development in this
State has made some men rich hon
estly, and some have become rich
by trickery and fraud.
Men and women are now living,
who, when small, were sent to the
neighbors to borrow shovel of live
Goals. Matches were unknown.
Mrs. Gus Wright will accept the
thanks of the Office for big basket
of nice ripe apples sent to the Office
this morning.
Leasing of lands for oil goes
bravely on in this county. There
is oil somewhere and the leasing is
done on the principle that it may
be anywhere.
The Fair management is doing all
in their power, to make the coming
Fair August 9th, 9TH, 8th and 9th,
both attractive and a success.
1t is a little late in the season to
talk about brick yard. But it is
not too late to talk the matter over,
to be ready to start yard next
Spring.
If a company would organize and
build good wagon bridge across
the Kanawha, we believe they
would find 1t a paying investment.
DR.. A. R. Barbee has made some
repairs on the inside of his office,
and is now repairing the porch and
steps in front.
The blackberry crop is almost a
total failure, and the good house
wife who gets a gallon or two toput
up may consider herself quite lucky.
The Homer B Capt. Varian, was
the first boat to pass through the
locks at this place. She went
through yesterday evening about
o'clock.
In our weekly issue of July "a,
will appear the report of the receipts
and expenditures of this county,
for the past fiscal year.
A st. Paul lady who for several
rao,.e hoe boo,, :: .L.Il..