The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
who have been here ona visit to
DIR. A. r.. Barbee and family, have
returned homo.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Mr.. A, j. Smart, of Racine, Ohio
was in our city yesterday.
Mr.. j. " Stockton, of Hern, was
in town yesterday.
Mr. Joseph II. French, of Charles
ton is in tho city.
John Belan, evorybody's friend
was a visitor in town yesterday
Mr. Henry Vance, of Columbus
o., is homo on visit.
John Weld and SOD, of Roane
county, were prominent visitors in
town yesterday.
Messrs N. p. Baker and w. w.
Brown, of Charleston, were here
yesterday.
Captain and Mrs. John Thorn
burg, from up tho Kanawha, were
hero yesterday.
MIR. Fritz Frick, the barber in
Stoinbach's shop, returned from a
visit to his parents at MiddIeport,
Jas. Brown, tho well known
farmer of MERGERS Bottom, was in
town on business yesterday.
Hon Chas e. Hogg is confined.
to his homo by bad attack of non'
raIgia.
Mr.. Perry Richey; of Lebanon,
Ind is visiting Squire Jasper Lo
master and family, near town.
Mrs. Allie Stevenson Shattuck,
of WeIlston, Ohio, is the guest of
Miss Ella Gardner, OF Pleasant
Flats.
Masters Mack, Howard and Trix
Couch, of Five milo, are here on a
visit to their aunt, Mrs. J, b. Tip
pett.
1t will comfort the young man
who presses the daintily gloved
hand in tho dance to know that he
may possess tho glove lator. Old
evening gloves have been turned TO
account in tho way which is the
most dotted on by mon who roll
their own cigarettes or use a pipe.
This fad for tobacco pouches made
from tho long ends of evening
gloves bids fair to Guido all previous
records of souvenirs. The bottom
OF tho glove is drawn in tightly
and held, together with ribbon
bow, tassol or plainly stitched.
The top is slit several times for a
ribbon to DO run in and out twice,
to allow it to DO drawn together
like an old fashioned purse. Deco
rations in embroidery or hand
painting, according to taste or no.
ton.
There is rough land on almost all
our farms, where it would pay bet
tor to plant nuts, both for tho tim
bor and tho nuts than anything
else. a largo farm with these trees
SGT on the roadside, perhaps thirty
foot from tho center of tho road and
twonty feet apart, would soil enough
nuts annually to pay the taxes and
leave surplus for each picker suf
ficiont to pay for tho picking. Just
why tho farmers should neglect to
properly caro- for such trees and
suffer loss thereby is strange.
Farmers in tho back counties of
West Virginia arc being swindled
as follows a travelling salesman
sells a farmer a bill of groceries
very cheap, to DO shipped from
some city, and agrees to take pay
in eggs at 30 cents per dozen; they
exchange notes; the groceries mover
come, but tho farmers note turns up
in bank and has to be paid.
"Unclo Ned" Groen, the oldest
citizen in this section of country,
died at his homo on Grass Lick last
week. Ho was the father of
Mcssrs. John Smith and S. f. Green,
and stop father of Cashier Post.
Ho was in tho noighborhood of a
hundred years old.-Jackson Hor-
aid.
Tho Gar Lodge had an. opon
session yesterday afternoon, at least
we suppose they had, as we saw the
Keeper of tho Rowlocks and Seins
saIlying forth, soon followed by tho
Receiver of tho Fishing Tackle and
Master of tho Bait. Fifty-three
gars woro tho fruits of tho last scs.
sion.
Tho proper thing for our business
mon and all others, would DO to