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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14
Attention Farmers!
nchs-erno


Your farm products are wanted. In
our Meat Market Department we need
Cattle, Sheep, Lambs and Calves.
Can also use a limited quantity of
Corn Just at present.
In the CASH GROCERY there is a
constant demand for EGGS and
CHICKENS, while am also using as
demand requires, Butter, Corn, sc.
In return we are offering GRO
CERES at lowest possible prices.
Milk Crooks, jugs, Jars, Churns,
&C., at from 1 to 2 cents per gallon
less than hereto fore sold. Vessels of
gallon or more sold at 4 gallons for
90 cents.
We are Agents for Point Pleasant
and vicinity, for Bradley's World
Famous Fertilizers, for which we will
accept Cattle, Sheep, Lambs, Calves,
Chickens and other farm products, in
payment. When in need of Fertil-
izers let us hear from you The end
we have in view is to furnish a mark
ct for any farm product you may
have. 1t win take time to work up to
this point but with your assistance we
hope to be able to buy anything the
farmer may wish to sell.
The Cash Grocery,
Opposite Phoenix Hotel
III. III. DAVIS, Prop.
nov. 30 1-y.
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crediforss Notfee


no the creditors Of Virginia =. Newman,
deceaEeds
In pursuance of q decree or the Circuit
Court OF Mason County, made In a case
therein peudtngs 70 Gu bJeet the real estate Of
said v iEginfa e. Newman to the payment OF
her debts you are required 10 present yonf.
claims against the estate OF said Virginia =.
Commissioner, nj his ONCE In said County,
on or before the 20 2. day Of ] nlys 1897
Court, this 18th day OF J ufie. 1877
iuneI6-6W r. Z. MITCHELL Clerk
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

me county AMN1O -r1e
I'd. Register A plan to fund
the Indebtedness Of Mason county,
by an issue of bonds. is being dis
cussed and is reported to be under
consideration by our County Court.
The merits of this proposition ] do
notnow wish to discuss, but I do de-
sire to call the attention Of the
public to the fact that under the
law We have. can have no legal
debtedness, until the voters of
the county shall have been con
suited at an election, when every
Citizen may have voice in the
matter For years our county
court has proceeded in violation of
the law, and in utter disregard of
its provisions, to allow orders large
~ in excess of the limit fixed by
law, and every order so issued in
excess of the legal limit is believed
to be Illegal, and the tax payers of
this county are not bound for its
redemption. The recent investi-
cation of the financial condition of
the county discloses the fact that
the court has issued orders In ex-
cess of the levies, amounting to
nearly eighty thousand dollars,
without counting the accumulated
interest, which will amount to
many thousands more. This is the
debt it is proposed to fund into
interest bearing bonds and the
anxiety to fund it is undoubtedly
caused by the desire to have these
floating orders out of the way that
the road may be clear for more ex-
Icessive issues and other raids on
the county treasury.
At another time I propose tocall
attention to some of the now fla
grant violations of the law by the
County Court, and to some of the
methods of plumber by which the
taxpayers has been and is now be-
ing despoiled.
In Kanawha county today, inn
peachment proceedings are pend
ing against member of its County
Court for doing Tin part) the very
things that have been done in our
own county and are being done to-
day by our County Court. In 9TH
er counties of our State this cor
ruption on the part of county
officials has grown to height lit
tie dreamed of.
In an argument before the Leg
islative Commission at Charleston
last April, a prominent lawyer of
Fayette county asserted that his
county was divided into three dis
tricts by the three members of the
County Court, that each man was
supreme in his district as to the is
sue of liquor licences, and that no
man could obtain license in any
district unless he could satisfy the
member of the court owning that
district, and unless he would agree
to buy his liquors from certain
firm designated by said member of
the court. To this, and worse, we
will come, if we sit idly by and per-
nit our court to violate the plain
letter of the law.
The courts will protect the tax
payers if asked to do SO, and unless
relief is had through some source,
the policy pursued by our Com
missioners in the last few years
will make desert of this county,
and farm property in it will not
pay the taxes levied on it.
j. CAPEHART.
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Farms For Sale.

have number Of farms. both
buckle and Union Districts for sale
Some Of them are well timbered and
all well Watered, located IN good neigh
borhoods and close to schools and
churches. These farms Will be sold on
easy terms and IN quantities to suit
purchaser. For further information
call on OF address
O. W 7IAUPIN,
apr7H Arbuckle P. o.. w. Va
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Special Corresp July -.
The fair held by the Ladies Aid
Society, July 3D. was a grand sue
cess. The proceeds melted $40.
Benefit for the new church
Mr. johnson, Of Point
Pleasant, made business trip to
this place Saturday
Quite a number of teachers from
here are attending the Institute at
Point Pleasant
Misses Delilah and Hattie Fow-
Ter visited friends at Letart last
week.
We are sorry to announce that
Miss Jessie Someryille is on the
sick list
Miss Tenia Dodson, who is en-
pIoyed at West Columbia. spent
Saturday and Sunday with her par
ents at Cherry Hill.
The people of this place are pre-
pairing todedicate the q. b. Church
here Sunday, July 18th Every
one is invited to come Basket
dinner in the grove.
Success to the Register is the
wish of DAISY.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

Every amendment offered to the
tariff bill intended to curb the
rapacity of the trusts, was voted
down by the solid Republican vote
Of the Senate. The trusts own the
Republican party
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The school book boards are now
meeting in the various counties in
the State, and the CHM Publish
ing Co. and the American Book
Co. well supplied with men and
money, are having a halcyon and
hilarious time, capturing monopoly
contracts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

Whatever atrocities the Repub-
licans viii be guilty of for three
years to come. Grover Cleveland,
John Ct. Carlisle, John NJ. Palmer
and the men calling themselves
Democrats, who followed them last
year should be held mainly respon-
sibIe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

It's not remarkable. in view OF
present conditions. that McKin-
lev, picture is SO generally turned
towards the wall.
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no PHYSICIANS.
Advertisements for Bids for Poor
Practice.

Practice
HIHE County Court deeminR It to be
u to the best interest of the county
to let out the practice of Medicine
and Surgery upon the paupers OF this
county to the lowest and best bidder.
notice is hereby given that bids for
the same for the county, or for ozse
or more districts, win be received on
or before the
9th day of July, 1897,
at 10 o'clock, noon, at the Office OF
the Clerk of the County Court. All
bids must be in writing sealed and
to be opened In the presence OF the
Court, stating the District or Dis
tricts, bid for, and the amount for
which the bidders win treat the pau
pers thereof with Medical and Sur0i-
cal aid, and to furnish to them at
necessary medicines for one year
from July 6th, 1897 Bids from Rob-
Jnson District to include the 1nfirna-
airy practice. The successful bidder
for Robinson District and Infirffisf.y
viii be required to visit the 1nfirmary-
once IN each week Bond with good
security win be required OF each
bids
Teste: JP. r b. SMITH,
june 15th-3w Clerk.
WEST N1RlfINIAs
"a T 7. Special Session OF the County Court
Court ss House thereof. on Friday, June It'll,
80, 80 LOT me tlsnsactlon OF FISCAL and Fro-
ltate gttst1es5 Pursuant TO nctice-
r -. Isesgls and c. e AIcCuilocI J. re.stifor.s
OF John lIcCulloel, deceaseil
sara 3 Y : right. n =. Lewis, Kate j.. Nc
CuilQch, Mary Z. Moore. r. WILEY r7IrflII1-
l55trasqr OF Mary G. A1cCnilochf deceased
" - 49, = = peneers Guardian or O.
=. A1cCuiloc15 and J. II. lIcCtullocfi and
= Ohm Frederick 1lcCuIioch, Charles Rus
sen Aleluilocn and O. y. lIcCuilocfi.
y pop petition to resi- On Is1scf1torehfD
y p . day The said T.. s. Lewis and q z,
cA1ttitocns Executors or John 1fcf.uIlocTl-
asss''seq. nlled their petition Infhe
etltt county Court against the above
named defendants praYfnf ~, II. rell<..-l.l1
from All f.irlher duty responslbiIity or Iid.-
pllttsz - efien EXECUTOR. And Il a1penrfnrr
rom SAID pet ton that Sarah v. BRIGHT one
q the Above. named defendants, IS "a nom
resi- dent of this State IT, here frl. rlrfrelI
ttlSt sue ana the said defendants do appear
netOf- his Court on the 18th day OF j NV 49,
TO answer said petition. and Ffofe IL ~.
tolrt the reasons II any they have. why
tt.s salu uetltlon should not be granted.
y st J. p X b. SMITH. CLERK
II r HOWARD. Attorney JuneiG-i.t
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

We fear that General Prosperity
is hopelessly lost Even the he
publican papers can't find him.
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sufficient to secure an appoint emit
on this Board, must have his rake
off, the people may be d
YERI1ks.
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sTATEMENT

or the Teachers, Fund of Mason County,
Hannah District, West virginia, for the
school year beginning July ], 1896, and end
ing June so, 1897:
sUB-pIsTRIcTs
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

If this country should need the
gold returned which is now being
shipped abroad, the gold syndicate
win sell it back to us in payment
of bonds. The single gold stand
ard affords a steady profit to the
gold mongers.
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samnel Foglesong.

samuel Foglesong,
The Crescent Coal and salt Co, a Corporation
TIespass on the Case in Assumpsit:s dam
ages $500.
THE object of the Eesuit Is Tor the re-
\ covery of $212.20, and the costs Of this
suit, and attach and sell the property OF the
defendant 10 pay the same And It appear
ing from afidayft Med that the defendant IS
q corr oratfon and no person can be found IN
the County OF Mason, pom " HON process
can be legally served Il IS ordered that = DO
appear here Within one month after this l1rst
publication hereof, and do what Is airy
to protect its interests.
Testes r. Z. 1IITcEIIsI5Is, cllrlz.
" I'VE
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

Promises Of prosperity pay no
debts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

In considering the political out
look in Ohio, the enthusiastic
Democrats must not forget that the
Republican national campaign
fund of 1896 was not all spent, that
Senator Hanna is chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
and that Senator Hanna is can
didate for reelection.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

Nothing can make people 60
blind quicker than filing their
ewes with gold dust.
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Order of Publfcatfon.

State OF West Virginia, Mason County, 81
At rules held In the Clerks ONCE OF the
Circuit Court thereof, ON Monday, the 5th
day OF July, 1887, the following order was
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

How do our farmer friends like 8
cents pound for butter, 6 cents
a dozen for eggs, Is cents a bushel
for potatoes, 20 cents for corn and
so cents for wheat? Is this the
kind of prosperity that was prom
ised last fallP
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The railroad men Will be asked
to. cooperate with the striking
miners, by refusing to haul coal un-
I'll the strike is settled.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The strike seems to be extend
ing to West Virginia. The Fair
mont miners have gone out, and it
Is feared the Kanawha and New
River miners win also 60 out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14
HARDV ARE


Cannotbe beat in the State.
We also carry a full line
of Tinware, Glass Ware,
Queensware, Flows, Doors
and Sash by the car load.
Lime and Cement, Stoves,
in fact as complete a
line of Hardware as you
will find in any city in the
State double the size of
Point Pleasant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The proposition of Mckinley
that the more a person is taxed the
easier it is to pay it, and that an
increased tariff and decreased
wages bring prosperity. is true. SO
far as the protected manufacturers
and the trusts are concerned. But
how about the working menP
Where do they come IMP
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The Presidents sudden change
Of front on the monetary commits
sion recalls the hypocricy Of the
last campaign
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

In whatever words Mr. Mckinley
may clothe his currency message,
it viii mean but one thing more
bonds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

So long as we are shut in behind
a Chinese wall of protection which
not only keeps foreign goods out,
but shackles our own import trade
by keeping our own products in,
high wages are paid until over
production and the clogged home
market compel the shutting down
of the mills. Then there are no
wages at all.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The owners of Industries to be
protected under the new tariff bill
have already been raising the prices
of their products. but they have
not said word yet of lifting the
wages of their employees, and they
are not likely to, either.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

No such infamy was ever before
placed upon this State in the way
of legislation, as is the law provid-
ing for county school book boards.
1t gives the school book publishers
an opportunity to rob the people.
Farmers were promised % cents
a pound for their wool last fall.
They are getting f6 cents. which
is one-half cent more than they got
a year ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

a contemporary asks: If pro-
lection proves failure and sound
money fake, what viii the Re-
publicans do in 1900? The answer
seems plain enough to us; it is
vote for Bryan, of course.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

It is more than likely now that
the miners strike will be settled by
arbitration. The miners seem to
be willing to submit their griey-
ance to arbitration, but the opera
tors are holding back.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

Senator Lodge and his Republi-
can colleagues would exclude Eu-
ropeans and Canadians from this
country if they can not read and
write. Now these same men are
engaged in Juggling into citizen
ship some $1,000 people who are
not half century out of canni-
balism.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The Ohio River Railroad under
its present management seems to
be doing a fair business. The re-
port for the month of May shows,
the gross earnings to be for 1897,
SIS, 311.89, as against $50, 899.78,
in 1896; operating expenses 1897,
$40, 925.S6: in 1896, So, 1862. 81; net
1895, s29,o16.13; 1896, $2O.627.62.
This shows very economical man
agement of affairs, over that of
1896.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The attitude of the Mckinley
administration towards trusts is
not frightening the Standard Oil
Company any, as its stock is now
quoted at $40, the highest ever
reached.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

The contract was given out last
week for new addition to the State
Penitentiary at Moundsville, to
cost $4,000. The addition was
made necessary because of the
large increase of convicts.
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
Mother Goose.

The most' popular children's book
ever written was "Mother Goose's
Melodies" Mrs. Goose, or "Mother
Goose" as she was Familiarity called,
was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet,
a Boston printer. early in the last Gen.
tury. When his first child was born,
his mother-in-law devoted all her at
tention to the baby, and, it is said,
greatly annoyed Fleet by her persistent
and not particularly musical chanting
of the old English ditties she had heard
in her childhood. The idea occurred to
Fleet of writing down these songs and
publishing them in book form. The
Oldest extant copy bears the date of
1719. The price marked on the title
page was "two coppers. This account
of the origin of "Mother Goose" is dis
credited by some critics, who declare
that in 1897 Perrault published "Contes
de ma Mere l'Oye," or "Stories OF
Mother Goose" The name "Mother
Goose" was familiar in French folk
lore, being used by writer's Of this lit.
erature over century before the time
of Perrault.
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
Books Which Como High,

A writer in a critical review says
that one-half of the book buying public
does not know what the other half
buys. All the books that are published
are by no means to be found in the
bookstores. The most beautiful and
costly books never find their way into
the shops at all, are not sent out for re-
view and are known to very limited
number Of people. Immense sums are
yearly spent on the making of such
books. which bring from 500 to 81, 600
each. These expensive volumes are not
sold in the ordinary way, but entirely
by subscription, and the business OF
selling them in the United States is in
the hands of about half dozen men.
who neither sell nor attempt to sell
anything else. Their season, is short,
but the profits are large, and they live
at the most expensive hotels and drive
about luxuriously In broughams with a
man servant in attendance to carry the
books.
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
A View of the Sultan.

Here is first view Of the sultan as
Mrs. Max Mule: sees him. She de-
scribes it in her Letters From Constan-
tinoplc:"
"The green enameled and richly
gilded barouche comes in sight, drawn
by two glorious black horses covered
with golden harness, driven by a man
in bright blue and gold livery, and on
each side the grooms in blue and gold
and every man in sight, naval. mill.
tary, civil, master or servant, in the
all pervading but all becoming fez.
lin the carriage sits a small yet
stately man, in a simple cloth military
overcoat, with no order or decoration of
any sort, only his curved sword and a
fez like the rest. His large hooked nose
proclaims his Armenian mother. His
piercing eyes are raised to our window
>as he passes, but his face is still and
immovable, and he salutes no one,
though his whole person has swaying
motion, so faint that it may only be
caused by the swaying movement Of the
carriage. Opposite his imperial majesty
sits Osman Ghazi, the hero of Plevna,
almost his only intimate friend, whom
he trusts implicitly"
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
electromagnetic Voice.

Professor W. E. Ayrton of London
stated recently that There is no doubt
the day will come, maybe when you
and are forgotten. when copper wires.
gutta percha coverings and iron sheath
ings will be relegated to tho museum of
antiquities Then, when a person wants
to telegraph to a friend, he knows not
where, he will call in an electro-mag-
netic voice, which will be heard loud
by him who has the electromagnetic
ear, but will be silent to every one else.
He will call, Where are your and the
reply will come loud to the man with
the electromagnetic ear, i am at the
bottom of the coal mine, or crossing
the Andes, or in the middle Of the
Pacific Or, perhaps, no voice will
come at all, and he may then expect
the friend is dead. Think what that
will mean. Think of the calling which
goes on from room to room, then think
Of that calling when it extends from
pole to pole-a calling quite audible to
him who wants to hear, absolutely
silent to him who does not''
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
She Was Prepared.

A certain minister always felt it to
be his duty to give each young couple a
little serious advice before he per-
formed the marriage ceremony, and for
this purpose he usually took them aside,
one at time, and talked very soberly
to each of them regarding the great i'm
portance of the step they were to take
and the new responsibilities they were
to assume. One day he talked in his
most earnest manner for several min
utes to a young woman who had come
to be married to q bright looking young
man.
"And now," he said in closing, II
hope you will fully realize the extreme
Importance Of the step you are taking
and that you are prepared for it,
"Prepared!" she said innocently.
"Well, if I amt prepared don't know
who is. I've got 4 common quilts and
q nice ones and brand new feather
beds, 10 sheets and 10 pairs Of pillow
slips, 4 all linen tablecloths, a dozen
spoons and good six quart teakettle.
If amt prepared, no girl in this coun-
try ever was. "-Dundee Times.
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
Japanese Self Sacrifice,

On board the Matsushima one man,
who had been shot in the abdomen and
whose intestines were protruding from
the gaping wounds, refused to be car
ried to the surgeons ward, because, he
said, he did not want to take any of the
fighters from their work in order to
carry him below. Another, after hav-
ing had his body burned out of all
recognition in attempting to extinguish
a fire, stood by helping all he could till
the flames were put out, when he died.
A third (mortally wounded) man. whose
every gasp brought forth a gush of
blood, would not close his eyes until he
had told comrade where the key Of an
important locker was and what the
locker contained. A chief gunner, whose
under jaw had been shot away and who
could, of course, not utter a word.
signed to subordinate with nod to
take his place and fell dead after he
had placed the handle of the gun lever
in his subordinate's hand.-'' Heroic
Japan.
Willmar tribune., 1897-08-31
Tho Tame Fox.

Southey's story is of a tame fox at
Bridgwater, which had been brought
up from q cub to run in the wheel as q
turnspit. One day, however, his vaga-
bond instincts proved too much for him,
and he determined to take holiday.
The fleshpots Of bis Egypt were as dust
and ashes to his palate compared with
the chickens Of bis own selection. Un-
fortunately he chose the hunting season
for his excursion. and soon came in con-
tact with his hereditary prosecutors.
He evidently determined to give them
good run, for he took them twice
through stream called the Parrot,
after a grand circumbendibus, which
involved chase of nearly 80 miles, He
made his way back with hounds in full
cry, and re-entering the kitchen re-
sumed operations in the wheel with as
much unconcern as though he had never
left it. The fat cook, with whom be
was great favorite. succeeded in beat.
ing the hounds of until the arrival of
the huntsman, who humanely assisted
in saving life which, If sagacity and
ingenuity be virtues. we'll deserved to
be spared. New Illustrated Magazine.