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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

From Wednesdays Daily.
Mr.. l.. N. Knight, of Maggie,
was in town yesterday.
Mr.. g. w. Maupin, of Arbuckle,
was a business visitor here yester-
day.
Mr.. Bulsar Luh, of Deer Lick,
was business visitor in town last
night.
Mr.. Robt Young, of Browns
vile, Pa, is here on a visit to his
parents.
General John McCausland of
Grimm's Landing, was in town
yesterday.
Miss Maggie Smith, who has
been visiting Mrs. Pat, Ryan, at
Leon, has returned.
Mrs. DIR. A. r. Barbee and
daughter, Miss Rebecca, were Wis
itors to Pomeroy, yesterday.
Mr.. Joshua Brothers, of Cali
polls, has taken a position with
Mr.. S. b. Mohr, the Jeweler.
Miss Grace Chapman, of CALI
polls, was here yesterday, the guest
of Mr.. d. S. Snyder and family.
Mr.. VIM. Steenbergen, of CALI
polls Ferry, is here on visit to
Mr.. John McCulloch and family.
Hon. G.. p. Gibbons, of Parkers-
burg, was visitor here yesterday,
and made this office pleasant call.
Capt. John Thornburg and Hon.
Rankin Wiley left this morning
on business trip to Huntington.
The two-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Connally, of Leon,
died yesterday, and will be buried
today.
Mr.. @. w. Lee and wife, of
Spring Hill, arrived here yester-
day on visit to relatives and
friends.
Mrs. a. ii. Savage, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. j. w.
Steenbergen, has returned to her
home at Ashland, Ky.
Mrs. Ellen Beale, of Gallipolis
Ferry, who has been here on a
visit to DR.. L. Il. Campbell and
family, will return home today.
Miss Birtie Keister arrived at
Landers, Wyoming, safely and
writes in glowing terms of that
country. Miss Keister Made di-
rect connection without incon-
venience and it was due to the
route over which she was sent, by
Mr.. S. NJ. Cherrington.-Gallipo
lis journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
DR.. L. v. GUTHRIE,
pnMT1sTs.
Did. w. pettr, Dentist,
PHxsrcIAN and SURGEON

DIR. ID. w. Petty, Dentist,
of this city, has now ono of tho best
fitted offices in tho State. Every
apparatus and appliance in office
and Laboratory is now and OF the
latest improved. If you want your
teeth SdUed go see him. If you
have to have an artificial plate, he
can make you the best.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Appearances are very deceptive,
A man with a shabby slouch hat
and a threadbare coat may be an
editor, and tho man with superb
silk tie and faultless attire may
be delinquent subscriber.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

The newspapers of the State are
now discussing good roads, The
Begister is always doing that.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
The Anchor High school.

The Anchor High School.
1t is as agreeable to us, as it
must be encouraging to him, to
note the excellent progress Prof.
Peter Steonbergen is making with
the Anchor High School and the
increase of interest generally man
ifested in it. Since its foundation
on September 10th, the school has
advanced by leaps and bounds, and
now in management and in the
high standard of the course of
studies, it can take rank with many
and olderand more pretentious es-
tablishment. Much of the success
he has met with in the conduct OF
the institution is due to Prof.
Steenbergen's own personal popu-
larity, allied as it is with intellect
ual attainments of a high order
He has those qualities of mind and
manner which attract his pupils
to him and constitute him as much
as their friend as their instructor.
The result of these folicitous re-
lations is pleasantly evidenced in
the interest the pupils take in
their work and their disposition
to make the best use of their
time and opportunities, aud
as consequences the absences
during the session have been re-
markably few, and, in the great
majority of cases, unayoidableI
Those seasons have been arranged
to extend over eight months. OF
course tho school has cry and we
take pleasure in reproducing it as
follows:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Tho druggists have found new
remedy for insomnia. They callit
Observation-Disclosures
ylyrozolyn. 1t may be intended
to cure insomnia, but we have lost
our sleep for three nights in try
ing to pronounce it and nearly
brought on fatal attack of tetanus
into the bargain.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

The battleship Texas has been
lied about almost as extensively as
its distinguished namesake, the
great State of Texas, but like tho
lone star State it is still ohoat and
prepared to do business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
OUNTY, WEST. FIRGINIA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 1896
That Maceo the Cuban patriot

That Maceo, the Cuban patriot
general, is dead, is hardly to be
doubted in view of the constantly
accommodating evidence. He was
enticed within the lines of the
enemy by special invitation of the
commander to confer regarding
terms of peace, and entered the
trap under the white flag only to
be met by summary demand for
his surrender, and when he de-
clined to surrender to treacher-
GUS and inhuman foe he was shot
to death together with every mem
Der of his staff. This is not warfare;
it is murder. The news of this act
of treachery has created sensa-
ton the world over that has only
been equaled by the assassination
of King or President and an up
rising is at hand that will sweep
Spain from Cuban soil in merited
disgrace. All over the Union
movements are being inaugurated
to aid Cuba with men and means;
and were it not for our neutrality
laws volunteer forces and donated
funds sufficient to crush the
naughty spirit of the Dons would
pour into the island as fast as
transportation could be provided.
Nor is this feeling confined to this
country. All Europe is under the
same spell of indignation. Friends
of Cuba in Paris raised $4,000 on
short notice, and like movements
are on foot in other places.
Meceo dead will yet free Cuba.
AS the blood of the martyrs was
the seed of the church, so the blood
of tho patriots assassinated will be
the seed of liberty to that languish-
ing land.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

1t is said that when the returns
are all in and the vote of West
Virginia is analysed it will present
some startling figures. Unhappily
they cannot affect the result now.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
An Important Decision.

The decision of our Supreme
Court this morning in the case
of the Ohio Valley Building and
Loan Association VS.. the County
Court Of Cabell county is quite
an important ono to the several
Building and Loan Associations
doing business in this State.
The case involved the right of
county assessors to list for taxing
purposes the capital stock of these
companies and the court holds
that such capital stock should not
be assessed, but that each individ-
ual holding shares of stock is liza
bic for assessment on the amount
actually paid in or invested by
him as an Observation-Disclosures
Gazette, Thursday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

From Thursdays Daily.
Mrs. f. D. Wolf, of Racine, o..
is here on visit to her son, Mr.
Wolf and family.
Mr.. r. r. Delaney, of Charles
ton, was in town yesterday on his
way to Pittsburg,
Capt. John X. Thompson, OF
Raymond City, was a business yisi-
tor in town yesterday.
Messrs. Owens Roseberry, @. G.
Tippett and JAS. M. Hooff, at
tended the "Fast Mail" show at
Gallipolis last night.
Mr.. @. j. Norton, of Columbus.
and Mr.. j. w. Hubbard, of Char
lesion, two popular travelling men
and both selling groceries, are at
the Phmnix.
Mr.. Grin Eiger is confined to the
house with badly liberated sore
throat. DR.. Mills says he will be
in the house several days.-Galli-
polls Tribune.
Hon. Rankin Wiley leaves to-
day on business trip to Parkers-
burg and Wheeling. His daugh-
ter, Miss Virgie, who is attending
school at Wheeling, will return
with him to spend the holidays.
We clip the following from the
Gallipolis Journal:
Miss Josie Hess, one of the
charming young ladies of Point
Pleasant, spent Tuesday in the
city as the, guest of Miss Emma
Wehrle.
Elmer Gillingham is equipping
one of tho Point Pleasant street
cars with one of the latest modern
improved electric heaters that will
furnish warmth and comfort fol
passengers this winter.
Curtis Hysell is very sick with
heart and stomach trouble. DIR
Il w. Parker is prescribing fol-
Vim.
from Fridays Daily.
Mr.. Chas. Roup, of Glenwood
was in town yesterday.
DIR. Z. l.. Gillian, of Lotart, was
in town yesterday.
Mr.. e. A. Polsey, of Letart, wat
visitor to friends and relatives il
town and at Kanauga, yesterday.
Miss Blanche Adkins leaves TO
day on visit to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Greenloe, at Charleston.
Mr.. r.. Blake, of Pennsylvania
is hore on visit to his cousin
Capt. G. A, Wright and family.
Mr.. Geo. Newton, pleasan
gentleman of Hartford, was busi
ness visitor here yesterday.
Mr.. Deardorff, of Gallipolis
and of the firm of Deardorff, Co.
Dry Goods, was in town yesterday
Mr.. Jas. johnson, city editor o
the Gallipolis Journal, an up t.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
AccidentaIlX Shot.

Jesse Walker, Jr., living at Ba-
den, back of Leon, while out hunt
ing few days ago, in pulling his
gun througha fence, ,accidentaly dis
charged it, the shot taking two
fingers off and SO seriously injur-
ing him in another portion of
his body as to render a painful and
possibly dangerous operation nee
essary. AT this writing he is in a
critical condition.
"Shoes were blacked as early as
the tenth century," says an ex-
change. No doubt; and we have
seen some in Point Pleasant that
look as if they had never been
blacked since.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

We find the following in the Su-
prone Court proceedings of We'd
nesday:
"Baer's Sons Grocery Go. v. Will
fiams from Mason county, re-argu-
ment of case ordered"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

James Toles, coIored, received a
very painful wound while engaged
in cutting wood yesterday up in
Rock Mill hollow. In some man
ner the iron wedge he was using
flew out of the leg in which he had
placed it, and struck him terrible
blow fairly between the eyes, in
hicting an ugly cash in his fore
head and narrowly escaping the
destruction of one or other of his
eyes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Mason county people, interested
in oil matters, should subscribe for
the Wheeling Daily Register. 1t
is a oyclopedia of oil news each
day, having the very best of cor
respondents in all tho oil fields of
this and other States. In addition
to tho oil news it is brim full of the
latest and best news from all over
the country. It's Washington let
ter published each day is feature
worth the price of the paper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

or allowance.
How to calculate interest and
discounts, at any rate, for any time.
How to write a call for public
meeting and report of the same.
How to tell the good points of a
horse and how to tell its age.
How to make common repairs
about the home.
How to know at sight all the
common minerals and rocks of the
neighborhood.
How to recognize at sight the
common trees of the farm and for
est, and to know the uses and COM
parative value of each.
How to measure bin of grain,
and to calculate its market value
in pounds and bushels.
How to gain the love and re-
spect of those with whom we min
gle.
How to know in the fullest
details the business or the profess
sion, the special study of which
we are to follow, that we may with
patience and industry have reas-
enable prospect of success in our
daily labors,
No section of the country affords
ripper opportunities for favorable
returns to capital prudentially in
vested thnn this State. The mineral
wealth of West Virginia affords
possibilities which not even the
most sanguine has dared to esti-
mate. There are three separate
negotiations now in the State for
properties involving $2,5OO,O0O in
mineral lands. And there are 9TH
er projects in view that tend to
bring out in the next few years i'm
mensely the industries and wealth
of the State. Good times will then
follow and West Virginia will be
in the front ranks ofour galaxy of
great States.
"The melancholy days are here,
the saddest of our time; the chilly
blasts begin to blow from far off
northern cline. The wood saw
sings, the coal bin groans, the tree
doth groan with sorrow; the sun
shines bright and warm to-day
might snow like h tomorrow.
We gladly think of times to come
when we can swiftly soar through
mince pie skies and nightmare
drives and stomach aches galore.
Subscribers who are four years
back" should to ouroffice stroll, and
soften times which sorely try the
editorial soul, Trade is fair most
everywhere, if merchants do not
fail, to advertise judiciously the
goods they have for sale. e."-Ex.
Who will take tho initiative in
starting public library in Point
PLEASANT These nights are very
long to those who are not fortunate
enough to be able to buy or borrow
books, and the want of such an in
stitution is sorely felt. Now, where
is the philanthropic citizen look
ing for immortal fame, and the
benedictions of the community,
present and future?
Eating cake in dream is said to
denote a sudden increase in your
property. There are scores of
youngsters who have been eating
cake and Christmas pudding and
mince pies ever since the talk of
coming holidays began. We hope
prosperity will follow.
Christmas trees are already TAX
ing on their foliageen a resplend-
ant crop of glorious flowers can
soon be seen on them in many a
happy home.
Easter will come on the 18th of
April in 1897 and Lent being forty
days preceding Easterwill, there
fore, begin on the 10th of March.
Those Christmas turkeys are get
ting uneasy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

The Coal Ridge coal mines have
shut down, the salt furnace has
blown out, and the Company store
is closed. Tho men were called
together tho other day and offered
% cents per car of 20 bushels for
mining, while all the other opera
tors pay 80 cents. They refused
to accept and the works will re-
main closed There was lack of
confidence somewhere. This is
what they voted for but didn't
know it ot the time. -Pomeroy
Democrat.
The ST. Louis platform declared
in favor of keeping out of the
United States all persons who can
not read and write. The Lodge
Immigration Bill is along the line
of this declaration and it should
become law. In recent years the
great majority of immigrants came
from the most illiterate countries
OF Europe. This fact should has
ten the passage of the measure
referred to.
She was very pretty and several
admiring eyes rested upon her as
she came into the Register office
this morning. She was curious
about the mysteries of newspa-
per office and asked number of
questions that could not be easily
answered off hand. She was par
ticularly anxious to know the diff
ference between printing and pub
fishing, and when it was explained
to her she said: "Oh yes, L see now.
1t is like this, then-you may
print kiss on my cheek, but you
must not publish it," This was
too much for one of our impress
sionable Comps, so he looked the
fair form in his arms, SO that it
would not pi, and went to press.
The lever of Archimedes could
not move us to give the names of
the lady and the typo.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

You can got job printing right
here at homo, cheaper and better
than you can get it anywhere else.
These fellows who drum for your
work, always give you inferior
printing and inferior paper. Coun-
try merchants who are in tho habit
of giving their orders to these
drummers, are requested to send
their work to us, and we guarantee
better work and better paper, or
at least no worse, for less mon
av
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

After the holidays there should
be an increased attendance in our
public schools. Let it be seen that
every boy and girl is in school, in
stead of lettering about by dozens.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

The now wharfboat will soon be
placed in position at the Ohio
wharf, and will be one of the best
and most carefully managed on the
river. Capt, Stone and his esti-
moble family will reside aboard the
boat, and the Captain will give the
business his personal attention,
while the affable Joe French will
be assistant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
A Pie-Eater.

A. j. Wilson, of Hagerstown,
Md, eat two raspberry pies three
feet in circumference in sixty sec
onds.
Five thousand tons of tea com
prised single cargo from China
to New York recently, the largest
that ever entered that port.
The nineteenth century is on it's
last legs. Whatnew wonders will
the twentieth bring forth2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23
An Old PnDcr.

Prof. Peter Steenbergen showed
us manuscript yesterday that is
very old, having been written some
time before 1860 by Mr.. j. w.
Steenbergen's father, Gen. P. II.
Steonbergen, and giving an account
of his fathers life. Good care has
been taken of the manuscript, for
it is we'll preserved and every word
is pLninly legible.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Another quarter gone and Uncle
Sam is paying off the old soldiers,
and when we see their trembling
limbs, bent forms and gray hairs we
think they will not be here to ans
wer many more pay rolls, but will
have gone to answer the roll call of
the great unknown whore battle
and warfare are over and peace will
reign forever more.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Give your preachers donation
party Christmas.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Many young man will spend
his hard earned dollars for a
Christmas present for his bestgirl
and receive in return some trifie
worth few cents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

A newspaper man sooner than
any one else, learns what little
thing it takes to upset lifelong
friendship.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Keep your children off the
streets after dark, or you may re-
gret it some day
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

When woman is first married
she wonders what takes the place
of marriage in heaven, says an OK
change. Yes, but after she has been
married few years she isn't par
ticular what it is.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Here's more 16 to 1. Lars An
derson, of Cincinnati, and Miss
Perkins, of Boston, are to marry
He's worth million; she is worth
sixteen millions.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Rehearsals are now of frequent
occurrence for the approaching
church services and Christmas en-
tertainments, and they run SO
smoothly that their success is al
ready assured.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Rev. bud" Smith, the convert
ed drummer, will begin reyiva.
meeting in the M. E. Church
South, the 10Th of January.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

The children of this town are
becoming an awful lot of beggars,
and their parents should be look
ing after them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Every dollar counts in the set
tlement of our accounts, SO we
would ask those indebted to us to
remit, whatever the amount may
be. 1t will be welcome.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

We are accustomed to adopting
our selves to all kinds of oircum-
stances.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

1t is remarkable what an in
creased interest the average small
boy of Point Pleasant is now TAX
ing in the Sunday School.
He can be expected to develope
that friendly feeling until the
Christmas tree is denuded, then,
his pockets full of candy, he won't
be such good boy again until
another year has rolled around.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Most girls think that married
life is perpetual banquet, with no
dishes to wash What pity so
many of tho dear creatures should
be so rudely deceived in this
respect.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

An exchange says thata machine
has been invented which will make
400 cigarettes minute. Now, we
shall want a generous extension of
cemeteries.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Now that the actress, Virginia
Harmed, has married E. A. Soth-
orn, the actor, she is, of course
Virginia Sothern. Sounds like a
railroad, doesn't it?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Who knows a girl in Point
Pleasant who cares much for a
thing she can't trim up with pink
or blue or yellow ribbon?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Most of the mistletoe sold in
the north goes there from old and
West Virginia, and the holly from
MARYLAND.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

IF the freak election Dots conIIll-
ue to grow as in the last few years
it will not be long till election
fools will be eating dead cats,
chewing horseshoe nails, murder
ing mothers-in-law or walking on
heads through river. 1t seems
as if people are going crazy on the
freak betting. But perhaps they
are with this as with their saliva
tion-never think of the future.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Christmas trees are already tax.
ing on their foliage and a resplend-
ant crop of glorious flowers car
soon be seen on them in many {
happy home.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-23

Easter will come on the 18th of
April in 1897 and Lent being forty
days preceding Easterwill, there
fore. begin on the 10th of March.
Those Christmas turkeys are get
ting uneasy.