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

The much needed rain came and
will greatly help corn, potatoes and
grass.
Wheat is all in shock and will not
be moro than one half crop.
The Quarterly meeting at Moor's
Chapel Saturday and Sunday, was
we'll attended.
The ice cream supper at J Jeff Hun.
ter's passed off nicely and every.
body enjoyed themselves.
Our kind and good friend, John
Porter, knowing and realizing that
the pressure of the times makes mon
ey hard to get, he has put the price
of coal at , cents per bushel. /
hope the people will get a good sup
ply, as the coal crop ran short last
spring.
There will be no end to water.
melons until the frost ends them.
Oar merchant is doing a fine
business. l saw his genial Q 1unten-
ance at the ice cream supper, and he
seemed all smiles, and our old es,
teemed friend Judd was there and
he looked like preacher at log
rolling. [ imagine he wanted to
ask the people to pray for him.
Our old friend, Major Hanly, is
relieving the people by buying
everything in the stock line. was
there last Saturday and he bought
about $4,000 worth of stock.
Miss Annie starkey, who has been
visiting Huntington friends, is at
home again.
Hiss Stella Hunter has gone to
Huntington to attend the Institute.
She contemplates teaching in
Cabell county.
Several of our people attended
the camp meeting at Mason City.
L hope the Register may live long
and handle the peoples cause with
out fear or favor.
IL PLURIBUs TTNIrM.
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They Kept Their Word.

The Elks of this city are once
more supremely happy, for they
have covered themselves with glory
and won the admiration of all the
music loving people for miles
around. Last night was the date
of their anniversary concert and
Hooff's new Opera House presented
pretty scene, containing a very
large audience made up of our best
and most talented people. The
program consisted of vocal and
instrumental solos, DUETS and recita-
tions and was just such a musical
treat as the Elks had promised.
They said in their advertising that
they nerer disappointed and they
certainly kept their word.
Miss Healy was the first on the
program and sang "Pattison's"
waltz song. She has very sweet,
highly cultivated soprano voice and
has many times delighted our peo-
pie with her singing, but never ap-
peared to better advantage than on
this occasion.
Miss Bernice Rogers tho pianist,
was one of the most pleasing and
graceful performers that has ever
been our good fortune to listen to,
and her playing was simply mar
velous.
Miss Matte Brooks Smith, is
daughter OF ex-Congressman Smith,
and well known by most of our
people. As an elocutionist Miss
Smith has few equals. She is
graduate of two different schools,
and is the proud possessor of a gold
medal from each, awarded her for
her superior talent. Her selections
were entertaining in the extreme.
Miss Mary Gertrude Dulin, the
talented violinist, held the audience
spell-bound by her wonderful per-
forming. She has beer under the
training of the celebrated Campiniri,
and her playing was so soft and
sweet that the audience was almost
moved to tears by some parts, SO
fine was her execution.
They were all heartily encored
and gracefully responded to the
many appeals of one of the most
aristocratic assemblies the town has
ever known.
The sweet toned piano used for
the occasion, was the "Mehlin
Piano" of New York, and was fur
nished by Miss Roma Gilman,
dealer, Gallipolis, Ohio.
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cFrom Thursdays Daily,
The Teachers.


Through the courtesy of Secre,
tary John L. Whitten, we are en-
abled to lay before our readers the
names of the teachers selected at
last nights meeting of the Board of
Education. In Mr.. Whitten, the
people viii find a pleasant and
agreeable Secretary, to do business
with, for he is a high-toned, honor
able and conscientious gentleman.
The teachers are as follows:
Prof. NJ. Bowers, Pomeroy, Ohio,
Principal.
&c. Wingt, Assistant Principal.
Misses. Ada Gilmore, Mamie L.
Gibbs, Lizzie Hogg, Mary Work,
Ella J. Gibbons and Virginia Behan,
assistant teachers.
The salary of the Principal was
fixed at $50 per month; the Assis-
tant Principal s55; the other teach
ers at $3.50, except Miss Behan, for
Primary A, whieh is fixed at $50.
Robt. Kigar was made custodian
of the building.
The selection of teachers are
among the best that could be found
in the county, and we give the
Board credit for the excellent selec-
tions they have made. We know
nothing of the Principal. but hope
he will prove satisfactory to the
school.
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LEON.
Tuesday.

Miss Laura Rowley left today for
Russell, Ky, where she will visit
her brother, Frank Rowley.
Robt. McDermit, of Buffalo, was
calling on friends here Sunday.
Mr.. Johnson, X. & M. Agent at
Buffalo, was the guest of his cousin,
a S. Fortune, Sunday.
J. P, Dunn, of Arbuckle, was in
town today.
Lon Gill was in town today call
ing on Mr.. Nye and family.
Miss Ada Baker, of Charleston,
is the guest of her uncle, ]. B. Car
uen and family, this week.
The wheat crop of this county is
now put down at half crop.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

In this age of progress and intel,
lectual expansion, we are happy to
know that in reference to female
education a more correct public
sentiment obtains than formerly.
AS result of such sentiments. lib
eral provision is made, and increas-
ed facilities afforded, for the culture
of woman's intellect. The daught-
ers of our land-immeasurably
favored above those of days gone
by-can now approach the fount of
learning and drink of its pleasant
waters; and though man would ex-
clude her from the high places of
earth, declaring her capabilities are
too feeble to grasp those subjects he
considers peculiarly his own, when
ever she has obtained a place. she
has filled it well; and even where
nominally forbidden, her influence
is irresistible and her power irwin.
cible.-Wes Democrat.
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From Thursdays Daily.

A young daughter of VIM. Bird
of Old Town, is quite ill.
Mr.. Chas Miller, with Col. D,
Sealy, Charleston, is in town.
Capt. Hiram Douglass, of Ripley
Landing, is in the city.
Elmer L. Stone, Esq, of Jackson,
was in town, yesterday.
Mrs. Pope Lawson is quito ill at
her home in this place.
Rev. W. E. Craig returned last
night from trip to Raymond City.
Mr.. II. Brown, of Buffalo, was a
visitor to the city yesterday.
M. S. a. Alexander, from up the
Kanawha, was in town, last night.
Miss Clara Day, of Arbucklo, is
here on visit to her aunt, Mrs. ].
B. Tippett.
c. w. White, Esq, and wife, OF
Dolby, were visiting relatives in
Pleasant Flats, this week.
Geo. Muhn, of Parkersburg, was
the guest of Homer II. Shaw, yes
terdap.
Mrs. Chas. McCullocb, of Five
mile, is visiting friends in this
place.
Miss Margaret Neale, of Ben Lo-
mond, is visiting her uncle, DIR. w.
P. Neal, and family.
Col. Sam Fl. Reynolds left yester-
day for South Milwaukee, on busi.
ness for Lock IL.
r. 7. Saul, Esq, of Mason, was a
caller yesterday, and renewed his
subscription to the weekly.
Mrs. Rankin Hill, Jr., from up the
Kanawha, was in the city, yester-
day.
Rev. c. W. Cook has been station.
ed at Woodstock, Va, for this con-
ference year.
We are sorry to learn of the seri-
GUS illness of Mrs a. ]. Shirley, of
Sassafras.
W. R. White, of Gallipolis, was
in the city yesterday, a witness in
an important suit at law.
A young child of Harvey Fore
mans, of Sassafras, is dangerously
ill.
Chas. B. Smith, Jr., city editor
Parkersburg State Journal, was a
visitor to our city last night.
DR.. Oscar Kent, was in town
yesterday, the guest of John l..
Written, Esq, and family.
DIR. a. R. Girard and wife, o.
Pleasant Flats, accompanied by
Miss Ella Gardner, attended tn,
Elk's- Concert last night.
Misses Margaret Neale and Ger
trude Howard, who have been th,
guests of Miss Susie Waggeaer, il
the Flats, have returned home.
Ed. L. Neale, Esq, of Bel
Lomond, was in the city yesterday
bringing up about four hundred
sheep and lambs which he viii
ship to New York next Saturday.
Miss Francis Moore Maupin, il
in the city, the guest of Mrs. G
w. NJ. Hoof. She came down from
Arbuckle yesterday on her wheel
she is one of the most expert wheel.
women in the county.
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DR.. L. v. GUTHRIE,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
DENTISTS.
D. u. W. Petty, Dentist,

pr.D. W. Petty, Dentist,
of this city, has now one of the best
fitted offices in the State. Every
apparatus and appliance in office
and Laboratory is new and of the
latest improved. Ifyou want your
teeth SaUed go see him. If you
have to have an artificial plate, he
can make you the best.
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At Hand.

Grafton Journal of Commerce.
Short is the time when the natur-
al resources of our State will attract
the attention of outside capitalists
Already is the spirit of development
predominant and the prospects for
many new enterprises are becoming
encouraging. At no distant day
will abound in the State remarka-
bic progress in the manufacture and
refinement of her almost innumera
BILE mineral and agricultural prod
ucts. We see no reason why imme-
diate undertakings along this line
should not prosper. The country
districts are becoming rapidly ac
cessible by railroads building and
others contemplated. Tne facilities
for the running of machinery are
within the immediate vicinities of
boundless raw material, both in the
sense of steam producing and water
powers. Many skilled laborers and
mechanics can be readily secured
and the intelligence of the average
West Yirginian is readily and capa
bly, susceptible to and fruitful of
lofty and efficient requirements of
all knowledge essential to best and
expeditions management of factor
les, mines, shops, etc With all these
and other advantages there remains
but one inducement to be made and
that is a cordial and soliciting spirit
of our people to be unreservedly ex
tended to those who have the means
and resolution to take the lead.
The Introduction of outside capital
does not mean by any means that
the profits to be gained will be ta-
ken from the State, but on the 9th
er hand it does mean that our own
people will be made largely recip-
lent ofthe profits. 1t means dollars
in our pockets where now we have
only cents. 1t means the develop
ment of what we could not other
wise hope to utilize in this genera
ton. 1t would create a nobler and
loftier people, and would produce
an unparalleled advancement in ed
ucation, culture and science
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17
NEW HAVEN. W V

Editor Register: In yesterdays S
issue of your paper you spoke of the
apples falling off. They are not
doing SO up here. If half of
them did there would be enough
left for the trees to bear up.
The proprietors of the Fair told
us this morning that their opening
proved such a success that Mrs.
Poffenbarger was compelled to leave
this morning for Columbus to buy
more goods, and will have to
enlarge their room.
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lFrom fridays Daily

Rev. E. D. Hanna, of Clifton, was
in the city yesterday.
Z. T. Krieger, of Peel, was in
town yesterday.
Capt W. c. Greenlee, of Leon,
was in town yesterday.
c. W. Grant, of Winfield, is in
the city.
Charley Roup and John t. Grobe,
of GlenwoOd, were in the city, yes
terday.
P. J. Rowan, of New York, is
here on visit to his brother, John
J. Rowan.
Mrs. Bettinger, of Mason City, is
here on a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
John C. Stortz.
H. c. Wilson, B. c. Wilson and
G. E. Collins, of Buffalo, were in
town yesterday,
T. c. Fowler, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
is visiting his father, below Kama
wha.
Hon. E. M. Gilkeson, of Parkors-
burg, was registered at the Phenix,
yesterday.
Charley Van Matre is visiting his
grand parents, o. IL. p. Van Matre
and wife, in Pleasant Flats.
a. Horton Roseberry, who has
been in Cincinnati on business, for
the Mason County Fair, has return
ed.
Miss Mary Gardner, of Pleasant
Flats, has returned home, after a
six weeks visit with Logan and
Granville, Ohio, friends.
Mrs. Frank Ellis who has been in
Charleston, attending the bedside of
her sick brother, Frank Lalley, re-
turned last night, for a few days.
Andrew Sehon, of Hartford City,
will return home today, after a
short visit to his uncle, Hon. c..
sehoD and family.
Mrs. a. R. Barbee, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Harper,
at Raymond City, returned home
yesterday.
DIR. Barbee returned yesterday
from Charleston, where he has been
attending meeting of the State
Board of Health.
Col. Sam. Ferguson, of Ceredo,
Deputy Collector of U. S. Internal
Revenue, was in town yesterday,
and will be in town again to-day,
and will visit the cigar and tobacco
factory at Wyoma.
Frank Blasius, of Logan, Ohio,
and Frank Lind, of Columbus, Ohio,
who are on their way to Washing
ton, making the trip on their
bicycles, stopped here yesterday for
awhile, and where the guests of Col.
Jake Schivley, Jr.
F. NJ. Whaley has been appointed
Operator at the Ohio River Rail-
road depot in this city, in place of
J. c. Winget, resigned. We con-
gratulate our friend upon his ap-
pointment to this responsible posi-
ton, and the Company is also to be
congratulated upon obtaining the
services of SO good a man.
VIM. Yaught, of Point Pleasant,
was in the city today on business.
He says the managers of the Point
Pleasant Fair are going to make it
the best ever held in their county.
The speed list is better, there will
be more premiums, and everything
indicates unlimited success.-Galli-
polls Journal.
The Court House floor on the
side next to the Clerks Office should
be fixed soon, in order to protect
the building. 1t is decaying and
during winter, a red hot stove may
go through it and destroy the build.
ing by fire.
AT the Quarterly Conference OF
the NJ. E. Church, South, which wa;
held at Beech Hill, on Saturday
July 9Th, licence was granted tc
Homer II. Shaw to exhort in said
church.
John Hogg has on exhibition at
Mayor Beller's Office a sack filler on
which he has applied for patent.
1t is neat, looks pretty, and prom
ises to be a useful article for the
farm
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17
DON'T Kill the Birds.

,
They do much good in the world,
more than one would think for a
moment Last winter was a hard
one for them, and many died from
the effects of winters cold blasts, SO
that now there is a scarcity of birds
both in cdAntry and in town. We
know that some people prate around
about how the birds pick the wheat
from the farmland fields and pro
ducts from the garden. But did il
never occur to them that these
winged beauties pick up so many
little bugs and worms that are
destructive to their fields and gar
dens. Some wish the English spar
rows were all dead. These are
almost exclusively town bird, that
love to be about where the most
people are. They are little mis-,
chiefs simply, nothing more. But
did'st you ever hear the cheerful
chirping of the sparrow in early
morn, Just at peep of day, 'tis sweet
to listen to. But go to the country,
hear the Wood chuck, chuckle, the
cooling of the Dove, the screaming
of the at-bird, hear the Meadow
lark, see the Blue Bird, the Cocktail
ed Wren, Yellow Bird, the Robin,
and listen 10 the piping of the Bobo-
link in the open field, the hummin G
the. Humming bird, "sweeter sweet"
of the Red bird, the Thrush, the Top
knot, Blue Jay and last but not least,
the song of the Whippoorwill, as he
goes to his evening prayers. These
and many other birds of domesticity.
And who would kill these2
We have laws to protect the quail,
etc, and the old turkey buzzard,
why not pass law to protect the
others, and above them all let not
the American Eagle, the proud bird
of the mountain, be overlooked or
forgotten.
Mr.. H. E. Spilman was circula-
ting among Old Town land owners
last Saturday for the purpose of
securing oil leases. He has been
successful in leasing quite territory
and it is to be hoped that he will
introduce the digging machinery
soon and that the struggling farm
ers of our county may receive a
good lift of lubricant. Oil and pro-
tected sheep will make the county
one of the richest and happiest in
the State.
Some one has figured up that if
all the fingers and ears torn off, legs
and arms amputated, and dead
bodies caused by fireworks and
shooting on the Fourth, could be
gathered together, it would make a
mound OF hill, forty feet high and
400 feet around the base. That
would be a ghastly monument tc
our patriotism.-GalIipolis Tribune
We don't know who will be
elected principal of our city schools
but it is our opinion that John
Whitten, who holds the official posi-.
tion of Secretary, has decided the
board shall elect Prof. Bowers
of Pomeroy, and Prof. Wingeth
We will know better tomorrow
after the board meets.
We failed to mention the fact that
Rev. S. f. McClung preached an in
terest sermon in the Southern Meth
odist Church, on last Sunday eve
ming.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

John Hogg has on exhibition at
Mayor Beller's Office a sack filler on
which he has applied for a patent.
1t is neat, looks pretty, and prom
ises to be a useful article for the
farm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17
Brutality TO Women

Wife beating is on the road to
murder. Crimes of violence against
women are shamefully common.
The wife beater is having altogeth-
er too easy a time of it. He even
holds his head up in respectable So
ciety and sometimes in the church
es. It would help to check more
fatal crimes against both men and
women if he was more severely
dealt with. The impetunity with
which he keeps up his violence
against the helpless victim of his
home is an encouragement to great
er crimes. The unwillingness of
society to recognize the extent of
this kind of depravity is in part it's
shield. In fact, as enlightened as
the age is, it very much needs to
have its eyes opened to the develop
ments of crime before it reaches the
outbreaking horror. The subject
might be a good theme for our min
listers to preach on.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

At the Quarterly Conference of
the NJ. E. Church, South, which was
held at Beech Hill, on Saturday,
July 9Th, licence was granted to
Homer II. Shaw to exhort in said
church.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

The first lesson that foreigners
should learn on coming to America
is that this is land oflaw as well as
liberty. Too many are prevented
from ever becoming good citizens
by failure to recognize this fact.
Liberty becomes synonymous with
license and those who might have
been valuable acquisitions to the
community become hoodlums and
anarchists whose confinement in
jail is the only safeguard society
has against their violence.-Kana-
wha Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

The Court House floor on the
side next to the Clerks Office should
be fixed soon, in order to protect
the building. 1t is decaying and
during winter, a red hot stove may
go through it and destroy the build.
ing by fire.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-07-17

Mrs. Will Wall and little daught-
er, of st. Louis, Mo, are visiting
relatives here.
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VIM. Vaught, of Point Pleasant,
was in the city today on business.
He says the managers of the Point
Pleasant Fair are going to make it
the best ever held in their county.
The speed list is better, there will
be more premiums, and everything
indicates unlimited success.-Galli-
polls Journal.
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We failed to mention the fact that
Rev. S. F. McClung preached an in
terest sermon in the Southern Meth
odist Church, on last Sunday eve
ming.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-28

first commenced to take transfers in February.
took about or 10 for Washington birthday.
| sold George Riley transfers in March for
April. may nave given him 500 or 900 and
II he says gave him 1900 or 400 for May he
knows better than | do. l gave him about
1000 for June and about 80 for July. He never
paid me the whole sum down for them, but
sometimes would give me so cents, sometimes
81, off and on. l never gave him one month
straight through-there were always three or
four days lacking.
have no transfers at my house just now.
never sold any transfers to any one but Riley.
There are two big packages of July transfers
now at Valleau & divers, and the fifty gave
to Riley extracted from the packages never
used any transfers TO ride home with.
The investigation will be continued, as it
is quite probable that other boys are en-
gagged in the scheme. Many newsboys beg
transfers of the passengers at the transfer
functions, and these are sold with news
papers. The arrest of Steele and Kane will
have the effect of stopping part of this
traffic in transfers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-28

handing officer; Lieutenant-Commander X.
r. Ingersoll, executive officer; Lieutenant w.
NJ. Wood, navigator; lieutenants-F. E. Saw
yer, P. J. Werlich, j. A. Hoogewerff; ensigns-
II. A. Field, ". r. Shoemaker; Medical Inspec-
tor G. F. Winslow, Past Assistant Surgeon F.
A Haslet, Assistant Surgeon NJ. s. Guest, Fleet
Paymaster w. J. Thomson, Fleet Engineer Da-
vid Smith, Past Assistant Engineer w. n Little
Assistant Engineers, F. Fl. Conant, l.. NJ. Null
ton; Captain of Marines, II. C. Cochrane:
Second Lieutenant OF Marines, A. s. McLemore
Chaplain, W. E. Edmonson; Gunner, H. A.
Eilers; Boatswain, T. Sheehan; Carpenter, F.
S. Sheppard: Pay Clerk, F. P. Thomson.
The crew numbers 263 sailors and forty
marines. AS the crew are mostly all short
timers, the cruiser will have to enlist sew
'eral hundred men at the Navy Yard to
supply the places OF those soon to be dis
charged.
The vessel will probably 60 to Mare
Island to-day, as orders are expected from
Washington to that effect. Several of the
officers on board suggested that the Fourth
Of July celebration committee secure the
attendance of the Philadelphia here that
her fine battalion may take part in the
parade.