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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
NoTICE.

PoIsI PLcAsAST, w. Va, Dec. Ia, 1895.
THE annual meeting OF the StockholISders.
VIRGINIA at point Pleasant, Will be held In
their banking house IN Point Pleasa,tht, Tues,
OF ID a. IN. and y. m, for the election OF n
hoard or five Directors, and the transactlon
of such other business as may Rroperly come
before them &C. BOWYER, Cashier.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Tho American people want peace,
but not at the prico-dishonor.
England's bulldoziug policy has
been cropping out too plainly OF
late, and it has gotten a sudden
backset.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
NOTICE.
The Leon Mill Company,

Is the place to buy your Building Mate
rial II you want to save money you
can on short notice. Get your flooring,
ceiling, Drop Siding, Beveled Weather
boarding, castings, and all kinds OF frame
stuff. Rough and dressed Pickets, 10.
Gust posts, etc. You can save money IL
you gee ns before you buy, sure.
LEON MILL CO.,
aprilIC Leon, w. Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Tho curtain will be rung down
on tho Atlanta Exposition by tho
Same bolls that will ring out the old
year and ring in tho now. It is
we'll that it should be SO, that tho
South should close the year 1895
with an unparalleled record of prog
ross and achievement, and open a
now book of facts, clean cut and in \.
dependent of tho past.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Col. Black burn is positive that he
will be re elected to tho U. S.
Senate from kentucky. Ho will
got the Democratic nomination, and
will get ono populist vote, which
will elect him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

In the Declaration of Indopond-
ence England will find another
American doctrine that was not
recognized by the code of inter-
national law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

highlands effort TO countoract
American sentiment has had the OPP
posite effect
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
Creditors Notice.

7OWe cTcNWOTa OI 5sIsIII u, -WIWtUUI5I Ut-
ceu&d.
In pursunuce oil II decree of the Circuit
Court OF 6fhe County oL-Inson. lo491lff 4
cause oiercIn pending, to subject the feakeS-
tate OI/Ithe said Susan l.. Williams, to the
payttt1cnt OF her debts, you are required to
prS$Scnt your claims against the estate OF the
sif1d Susan E.williaIns, for nd udIcatlon to
John r.. HeleT, Commissioned. AT his ofIice
In the snld county, on or before the 3lst day
of January. 1903.
Witness: Robert f.. Mitchell. Clerk of said
Cont, this the nth day of December, 1888.
dec lS-Gw. IL. Il. NiITCHELL,,C Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

We wish all our friends and
enemies happy and prosperous
Now Year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
Creditors Notice. Il
70 the Creditors of Henry weave

-DGCBUStU.
In pursuance of a decree of 4 he Circuit
cause therein pending. to subject the real
sent your claims against the estate. OF the
said said HenTy weaTe5 sdJu I'D AZ Once &c
in the said County, on Or before the 3oth day
&ITS Ess: Robeyf f. MithelI, CLERK OF
said Court, this litSh day of December. 1899
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Tho Monroe doctrine is an in.
tegral part on our national faith in
tho supremacy of our form of gov
eminent on this continent, and such
ii must remain.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Senator Elkins and wife, ex
Senator Henry G. Davis, wife and
daughter, Miss Grace, have all join.
cd the Davis Memorial Presbyterian
Church 1T Elkins, recently built by
the Davisos and Mr.. Elkins. The
church belongs to tho Lexington
Prosbytory, Synod of Va, SO thai
all the parties named belong to the
Southern church. Mr.. Elkins with
drow bis membership from the
Christian Baptists to join tho Pros
byterians.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Since OK President Harrison has
denominatod the present Republican
Congress "sot of fools" it is quite
palpablo that he is trying to throt
tle tho influence of tho members OF
that body who may, because OF
past favors, champion tho cause OF
Speaker Rcod.-Kanawha Gazette
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Tho man who laughs when he
hoars that walking the floor at
night-with-tho. baby joke, is the ono
who hasn't baby.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

III CnnnCcTy.
To NIL the above named parties III Enlu
cause, YOU and each of you. VIII take notice
that tile above entitled cause was retcrTcdtO
me, tho undersigned Commissioned In CHM
Gerry of tho Circuit Court OF Mnson county
West Virginia., made and entered IN said
cnuse on tic 18th day of December, $500, Tor
the Purposc oftalting, stating md reporting
an account In said cause Showing, =,
lst. Mhnt renl estate the snld susan IL.
Williams died seized and possessed of.
2nd. What liens, ifnuS, exist thcrconI 10
whom payable, their amounts md prIoritles.
Bird. 10 ascertain Tho debts. II any, ngninHt
the estate or said susan T.. Williams, decchs-
cd, their amounts and TO whom duo and pay
able
decree, nave fixed upon the 3lBt day OF
JnnunTy, 1906, at 10 O'Clock n. m, ms tn" I me
to commence said accounts, and mt tho law
Office OF John u. BcIler, in Point Pleasant
Mason County, West Virginia, as tho place
for taking said nccount
The proceedings under snid decree VIII be
adjourned rom lime to time until the snme
are fully completed.
You and euch of you nrc hereby notified
to appear at said time and place II You so
elect to do. 80 49,,
Given under my hand this 18th OF DGcem-
Der, 1895. JOHN u, l5lSlJbEit
CominissIoncr In Chancery. Of the Circuit
Court of Mason county, West Virginia.
JAS. ID. MESAGEH, Sol.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Allen G. Thurman held nearly
all tho offices tho people of Ohio
could give distinguished citizen,
including twelve years in tho u. S.
Senate, yet he died poor man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Tho people of this country care
not for the opinions or interest of
tho stock exchange people whom the
honor of the nation is at stake.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

The ignorance of the foreign
press, as to the spirit of tho Monroe
doctrine is appalling.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
In Chanccry

sandy Williams, l.. ". Guthrie, L.. T: PHI
chnTd, Trustee, Point Pleasant building &
Isoan Association, and IL. Wiley, Jr., Trust
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

LaxOl is tho best medicine fol
children. Doctors recommend itin
place of Castor Oil.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
onnissioner's Notice.

md MS such administrator OF the personal
estate OF Susan Il. Williams, deceased
DlnintiiI,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Mr.. Marcus Friedman says he
saw red fox in his yard the other
night.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01

Below ChRmbersburg Saturday
evening thero was naval battle
not down on tho Cleveland John
Bull program. A family boat
floating down tho river was attack
cd and fred on by trio of West
Virginians with no other apparent
purpose than to create row. Elf
teon or moro shots wcro firod, re-
sulting in favor of tho commander
of tho river craft Gallipolis Jour
nal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-01-01
DEATHS WORK.
John II. Van Buren, Passes Away will
CirrhOsis OF the LIVER.

John IL. Van Buren, Passes Away with
Cirrhosis OF the LIVER.
Kanawha Gazette, Both.
A telegram was received from
Baltimore announcing the death OF
John FL. Van Buren,, which occurred
at half past nino o'clock yesterday
morning at tho hospital where he
was taken n few days since with
hopes that he might receive some
relief from tho disease, cirrhosis OF
the liver His romans will arrive
on No. today, but no arrange,
ments have yet boon made for tho
funeral. Mr.. Van Buren, served in
the Confederate army during tho
late war, and was an active nom
ber of the OK Confederate Camp in
this city. uo has always taken an
active part in politics and was
noted for his warm devotion to his
party and his friends. He filled
several positions by appointment
and was WILDLY and favorably
known throughout tho State. He
leaves n wife, daughter OF Capt
A. p. Sennott, and several children
to mourn his death. Whilo his
death was not unexpected, yet his
many friends will regret to hear OF it.
L.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
HUMOROUS.

-Jones-"Good morning, Benson.
How do you find business?" Benson
by judicious advertising."-H Harlem
Life.
The Head Waiter-"I wonder how
the Spaniards located the Bermudas? %
The Cook-''Perhaps they smelt the
onions Dispatch.
"A Serious Defect.-''Dicl, how do
you think you will like the horseless
carriage?" 1T won't do at all; the
flies will all worry the people who ride y
Chicago Record.
A Discrepancy. She -" Young
Baggy, believe, takes his fences well ?"
He-"Yaas, splendidly; but it's pity
his hawse doesn't take 'em at the same
time. ''-Sydney Bulletin.
Papa, said Willie, Jimmie Temp
kins scratched my face ali up What
had you done to him - Nothing
Then why didn't you hit him?' 81
did; and, papa, 1 got my lick in before
he scratched me."-Harper's Bazaar.
My Husbands First Wife. When
the lecturer inquired, dramatically:
"Can anyone in this room tell me of a
perfect man2' there was Il dead silence.
HAS anyone" he continued, heard of a
perfect woman?" Then patient-look-
ing little woman in black dress rose
up and answered.: There was one.
I've often heard of her, but she is dead
now. She was my husbands first wife"
-Scottish-American.
She glided into the office and quiet
1y approached the editors desk: Il
have written poem," she began.
WELT" exclaimed the editor with a
look and tone intended to annihilate;
hut 1,f,<, Hox- y
ten apoem on My Fathers Barn. and
"Oh,'' interrupted the editor, with an
extraordinary suavity, you don't know
how I am relieved. A poem written on
your fathers barn, Ell? I was afraid
it was written on paper and that you
wanted me TO publish it. If I should
ever happen to drive past your fathers
barn I'll stop and read the poem. Pub
lie Opinion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
An Important Factor in the Progress of
smaller cities and Towns.

An Important Factor in the Progress of
Smaller Cities and Towns.
The importance of supporting the
local newspaper is not felt as keenly
as it should be by the jewellers in the
smaller cities and towns. The newspa-
per is in reality important factor
in local prosperity as the church. Its
influence is brought to bear for the
benefit of its locality in many ways
that the church does not compass.
The intelligence and relative posi-
ton of one town as compared with
others is to be accurately gagged by
the quality of its newspapers and the
amount of confidence they inspire.
The newspapers of a town usually
present good evidence of the moral
standard which governs it; for that
newspaper which gives its constituent
cy what that constituency demands is
of the only kind which has stability.
a town which can show a well-sup-
ported newspaper, means a town whose
inhabitants are quick-witted people of
keen, active interest in what concerns
them and their neighbors, while one in
which newspaper drags out YEARLY
generally argues itself the abode of
people with sluggish Iivers or torpid
temperaments, to whom the world
presents little interest beyond the
limited range of experience immediate
ly bounded by their own senses.
The excuse which is sometimes of
fered that the local paper is not of
sufficient interest to warrant the eN-
penditure of the small price of its sub
scription, should avail these short
sighted moles nothing. Such people
should be told to patronize the home
industry and foster it's growth into a
more pretentious affair by their en-
enlargement Newspaper men are not
slow to respond TO encouragement; in
80 cases out of 100 their hearts are in
their work and they need but the sign
of disposition towards it to call forth
their best efforts.
The newspapers status in a town
is an index to most of those qualities
by which one judges of its desirability
as a place of residence and its COM
mercial prosperity.
1t is the positive duty OF every man
to help make his town known. increase
its prestige and add to its Rputation of
being live, wide-awale place, by sub
scribing to the local newspaper
Newspaper Maker
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
PLAGUE OF OFFIcEHoLDERs.
France Is Suffering from an Excess of tho
Tax Eaters.

Frances chamber has met anew.
Speaking from an arithmetical stand
point, the reforms look harmonious.
They will consist in doing away with
1S7, 900 900 francs of fiscal duties re-
ceived by indirect revenue, and replac-
ing that exact sum with an increased
taxation on the incomes derived from
property; also in tax on bank values,
domestic and foreign, besides the tax
which seemed to have been given up on
exterior sings of luXury-house rent,
servants and horses.
The tax on servants and horses means
thousands of "Jeamses" without en-
plcyment and an increase of bicycles,
instead of carriages. So the fiscal prob
lem is not to be solved with these re-
forms.
At the present hour the French pay
more taxes than any other nation in
Europe. While the Frenchman on an
average pays liz francs for taxes. the
German pays 60 francs, the italian 60
francs, the Austrian 54 francs, the
Englishman 81 francs. The trouble is
that in France budgets never have been
modified The reformers have never
made what might be called reforms, for
real reforms would mean economies in
the administration The evil of
ssfunctionarisns' that oyerburdens the
public treasury and monopolizes the
best part of the activities of the nation
is little known abroad In one of the de-
partments of administration you may
count so chiefs for SIS employees; in an
other Is superiors for % ''understrap-
pers," and in a third SO bigwigs presid-
ing over AZ scribes. Thus you may see
that, if he would suppress some of these
officers, the secretary of finances would
not need to torture his mind further to
invent The means of economy.-N- Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
SHORT SPEECHES HISTORIC.
Verbose Orators Seldom Achieve the FaEae
for Which They Strive.

Verbose Orators Seldom Achieve the Fame
for Which They Strive.
It is a curious fact that many of the
great speeches which gave Immortality
to orators who made them were deliv-
cred in comparatively small rooms and
o small audiences. When Webster
made his great argument in the Dart
mouth college case, aside from the bar,
the officials in charge of the room, there
were not so persons present, and yet
many believe that he spoke to listening
senator's and other high officials.
When we read Patrick Henry's won
tlerful display of eloquence, we see in
our minds eye a spacious room and an
immense crowd of people listening to
his burning words with GREATNESS at
tention. But, in truth, many of these
speeches which quickened or changed
the march of events were delivered in
n small room and to few hearers, never
more than $50. could it have been
here, in this oaken chapel of so pews,"
wrote Hosmer, the gifted author OF
''Sprondro," that Patrick Henry de-
livered the greatest and best-known of
all his speeches? Was it here that
he uttered those words of doom so I'M
expected, and then so unwelcome:
we must fght?' Even here. But the
words We're spoken in tone and man
ner worthy the men to whom they were
addressed, and who We're SO impressed
with them that for several moments
they seemed almost awe-stricllen. 1t
was only when the voice of Richard
Henry Lee, that other matchless Vir-
ginia orator, who rose to second the
words of Henry, rang through the room,
that they were called back to them
selves"
Stewards speech in defense of Will
liam Freeman was undoubtedly the
greatest and most brilliant effort of
his professional life. 1t did more for
him, perhaps, than the conduct of any
case has given any other in the state
of New York in perpetuating his name.
And yet the audience that listened to
him was less than 100 in number. A
friend expressed some surprise that an
argument of so much power, learning
and eloquence should have attracted so
few listeners. my dear SIR said
Seward, my audience was in no sense
limited. The civilized world was my
audience. Posterity will hear it, and
generations unborn will praise or CEN
sure it, from the different standpoints
in which they will view it. I did not
make it a part of the madding
crowds ignoble strife"
Horace Greeley, who stands peerless
in history among the great journalists
of the world, as do Webster, Choate,
Chatham and Burke among the great
orators, said: Stewards speech in de-
Tense of William Freeman is one of the
masterpieces in the history of oratory.
reason, logic and humanity -"-Amer
Jean Lawyer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A church built of sods from tlls
prairie is one of the attractions OF Smith
county, Kan
The young Prince Arthur of Con-
naught has taken kindly to his duties
as scholar at Elton, and boils his own
kettle and makes his own tea, just as
though he was a commoner.
DIR. Herbert B. Adams, head of the
department of history and political sci
ence in Johns Hopkins university, has
gone to Europe to investigate the sub
ject of popular education for the United
States bureau of education
DR. Newman Halls S0th birthday
was observed in London by the pre-
sentation to him of his own portrait
and an illuminated address signed by
his English and American friends. He
still breaches four times a week.
The first spelling book printed in
this country was entitled THE Ameri-
can Spelling Book by Noah Webster.
1t was issued in 1888, and for consider
ably more than half century was the
standard work used in all American
schools.
I'm some dioceses of the Episcopal
church women are eligible for cleo
ton as vestrymen, and the rector of a
Church of England parish has recently
appointed a woman as rector's warden.
The appointment has aroused no OPP
position whatever.
1t is said that the first Sunday
school in this country was by the Dunk
ards, in Pennsylvania, in 174O. This
claim, however, is disputed, and the
sertion is made that Sunday instruc-
ton to children was given by the Puri-
tans in New England long before this
date.
The ladies of one of the Manchester
IN. H.) churches have set an example.
Cutting away from custom, they have
resolved" against church suppers and
agreed to tax themselves to raise money
needed, and will no longer seek it
through the laborious methods OF
church entertainments.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
CONTESTS IN cASK ROLLING.
Queer Amusement of Coopers Which 90
CURED Recently in France.

Queer Amusement of Coopers Which 90
Cured Recently in France.
One of the most unique contests that
ever took place in France or anywhere
else occurred in the town of Nogent-on-
the-Marne, near Paris, the other day.
There are a great many cooper shops
in this place, and the employees organ
lied series of international casS roll
ing races" Coopers and other men and
women engaged in the manufacture or
handling of casks were eligible as COM
petitOrs.
The ''race course" was along a fine,
level bit of road bordering the River
Marine, the same place, by the way,
where took place almost a year ago
the series of ''wooden-legged races
which were so amusing that they made
the town famous all over France.
The cask rolling contests consisted in
rolling the casks on edge, precisely in
the same way that the competitors
were accustomed to roll them in the
course of their daily work. Anyone
who has ever tried to roll barrel in
this way even for few yards will APP
preciate the difficulty of the task and
the skill required in long race. Each
competitor had to wear the solid black
apron of his craft.
In the first race the casks were man
aged with both hands, in the second by
one hand alone, and in the third two
casks We're employed, one with each
hand. There were a large number of
entries for the first race, where both
hands could be used, but in the Sec
ond and third, where more skill was
required, the number of competitors
was few. The contestants showed,
however, wonderful deXterity, and the
finishes were so close that the spec
tators who lined both sides of the
course completely lost their heads in
their enthusiasm.
The proceedings concluded with a
"concours d'intonation," or competi-
ton of trade cries. Each of the differ
ent branches of the cooper's trade
prides itself on it's distinctive cry as
much as students of different universal
ties glory in the peculiar hideousness
Of their college yell. Prizes were Of
fered for those in each class who gave
their cries most harmoflious1y. The
tournament is said to be the first of it's
kind ever held. One French newspaper
says with pride: Behold sport that,
we have not borrowed from the Eng
lish.'-N. Y. Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
Each Mari a sixteen Cents.

1.-THE other evening at the place at
which I eat,' said Assistant Secretary
of State Tim Slower, while we were
eating supper one of the incandescent
electric lights went out. Examination
showed that the wire in it was broken.
There said the lady of the house,
TIL have to get a new globe
That means % CENTS said.
:" Sixteen cents corrected a young
lady stenographer for downtown firm
who sat at the table,
That's strange / remarked We
get them by the barrel at the state
house and have to pay % cents for
Them
That's just the way the state gets
cheated persisted the young woman.
We only pay 10 cents for them at our
office. They can't fool us, for the price
is pasted on the glass TO-
''She had seen the candle-Power
mark.-Topeka State Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
Hair Under FfnRernaiIs.

The barber was talking. ''Ingrowine
hairs in the face are often painful
he remarked, but they amt in it with
ingrowing hairs under the finger nails
and he will tell you the same thing
How do they get there? Oh, that's sim
pie enough In cutting a mans hair,
short hair very often flies off the
shears and lodges under the finger nail
We don't notice it at the time, and it
gradually works it's way in until it is
completely out of sight. Then the
trouble begins Sometimes it takes
root and grows out, but more often it
just stays there and testers. Does the
razor hurt? There you are, sir. Next!''
Philadelphia Record.