The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-12
Ponneroy Bend.

Pomeroy Bend.
Mrs Charles .Jnhling IS very
sick at her home in Hartford City.
Geo. Rice. Eetart. has gone to
California for a years benefit for
his health.
Hoyt Kay, Letart, undergoing
treatment in Cincinnati for i'll
health, has returned.
w j. Lawrence win lick the
postage stamps at Syracuse the
ensuing four years.
Mr.. g. w Gist, of Letart. is
slowly improving from an attack of
paralysis.
w. n. Huptly of the Pomeroy
Telegraph, gets the Postofice at
that place. Shake.
Prof. M. j. Banks, County Su-
perintendent of Schools, opened
his special spring term of school at
Hartford City, Monday. with an
enrolment of 119 students.
The Mason City brick yard em-
ploys 20 laborers. The yard has a
capacity of % brick per minute.
They have two kilns with capaci-
ty of $4,000 and one Of 150, GOO.
and a dry room with about 10000
feet of pipe
Capt. John Baker, prominent
riverman, who recently came to his
home at Letart sick, died there last
Wednesday, He was man of mp
right character and universally be-
loved. He belonged to the I. o.
o. f.
New Haven has man who is
totally blind, Boss Porter, who
works in the mines as a digger of
coal daily, and goes about the
streets of the town unaided, where's
ever he pleases. He often directs
strangers to where this or that per-
son lives and locates them with ac-
curaey.
Geo. O. Wilding,' stands boldly
engraven ON ledge of rocks on
the hills back of New Haven, cut
in 1861, and in good state of preser-
vation. This is our Rev. Geo. @.
Wilding, formerly pastor of the AZ
e. Church, Point Pleasant, and
now residing in the West.
Sherman Sayre now has charge
of the Tyro Mill Exchange at Le-
tart, In place of Smell Devinney
who resigned to accept position
on the steamer Ida Smith.
AN Important Question Raised.
Mr.. j. b. Finley; who was
member of the State SENATE two
years ago, and who secured the
passage of the cigarette tax law,
has read the decision of the
Supreme Court of West Virginia
declaring the license tax for the
sale of cigarettes unconstitutional
and he reaches the conclusion that
the payment of State and munich
pal taxes, or licenses, for the sale
of liquor in original packages
would also be contrary to the
Interstate commerce clause, and
therefore unconstitutional Mr..
Finley says:
saThe section and chapter Of the
Code which imposed license ON
the sale of cigarettes, before it's re-
peal by the last Legislature, also
imposes the license fees on the
sale Of spirituous liquors. VIII
not this definition of what constf-
tutes an original package given
in the decision of the conrt operafe
to nulIify to large extent the
license fees imposed by the State
and municipalities on the sale Of
liquors?
BY am act of Congress, passed
March 3, 1897, distiIlefs may now
bottle their spirits In bond. These
bottles may contain as small
quantity as one-haH pint. Each
bottle must have attached tax
paid stamp and must also show
the distiller's name, the number of
his distillery, his collection dis
trict, his State and the time of
bottling. These requirements will
bring each one of these bottles of
spirits clearly within the courts
definition of an original package.
regardIess of whether they are
shipped separately or IN number.
What then, is to prevent any one
who has paid the special tax re-
Equired by the u. S. Government
of all liquor dealers, from purchas-
ing Of distillers outside of the
State and selling In the Original
package anywhere IN the State
without paying State or munich
pal license fees2 In disposino of
the cigarette law I fear the court
has also disposed very edectua1Iv
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