The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-04-07

pot for shipment. They have in
this way paid the railroad $4,000
since last September on freightage
Of coal which went mostly to jack
son @ H. and Spencer. Would
the @. r. r. give them a side
track they would put to work at
once forty to fifty coal minerss civ
ing the heghtage almost wholly to
Che railroad If the @. r. r wants
to avert competition in the coal
business, discourage growing M
dustries and the growth Of the river
towns and incur the enmity of the
people they can do 50 by pursuing
its present course. There is day,
now coming on when the great
Ohio river viii awaken this rail-
road to more liberal method Of
doing business. People have rights
to be respected well as railroads.
and that is a stubborn set Of rail-
road officials who will endeavor to-
suppress all other enterprises to.
enhance the business Of any one:
man OF set of men. There are peo-
pie Of this county, Harris Bros
included, who are still paying a
tax to the building and support of
this railroad, it will be emem-
bered.
Geo. Newton, of Hartford City,
has furnished his Office with the.
chairs and desk used by his grand
father, the late Hon. Ct. w More
dock, when active, manager of
the Hartford Salt Co.
Geo. Stone, wharfmaater at Hart
ford City, has been going around
recently muttering something about
the Ten Commandments. just be-
cause every boat landing there
these stormy days break all his.
spars and leaves his boat on the
shore But George is good ma
tured, handsome and popular.
Col. Joe Robson, Valley City,
has ornamented and beautifed his
premises with combination wood
and iron fence.
Unable to recover their lost tools
by reason of the well caving in at
the Devolt oil well at Letart, the
tower has been turned around and
a well started anew just ten feet
from the other one. In this they
are down now 400 feet and working
two crews of drilTers.
A little fiYe-year-old son of
Abram Roush came near losing
his life Friday a. M, having fallen
over the steep river bank while
playing in front of the house at
Letart. Capt. Ed. Mason, of the
Ada v, standing some distance
away happened to see him fall and
at the peril of losing his own life,
barely saved that of the little fell
low. 1t was sometime before the
child recovered.
Homer Myers, Mason City
lawyer, attended County Court at
Point Pleasant Monday.
Yarian Bros. succeeded in get
ting the boat caught on the rocks
below Pomeroy off last night. 1t
is the barge chartered from Lock
IL. 1t will necessarily have to go
on the docks for repairs.
Sliding Hill above Hartford is
slipping for considerable distance.
Trains were all delayed on the o.
R. R. yesterday.
The propeller Client, is recent
purchase of the Spilman Company,
at New Haven, now lying at that
place, came from the Kentucky
river, and a right sprightly little
goer it is.
Geo. Smith, Esq, of West
Liberty, has the coffee mill used
by the Blennerhassetts In their
mansion in the years agone.
Mr.. Rathbone formerly the tele-
graph operator at Letart has re-
moved to Mason City and taken
charge of the Office there. He is
succeeded at Letert by Mr.. Will
hanson, from Sistersville.
The shores at Antiquity are lined
with RATS of huge saw logs for use
by the Riverside Mill Co., at that