The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-01-20
TaE VOTE FoIeNIAl.LY CAST

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The VOTE FORMALLY CAST.
TIle West Virginia Electors Go
T'Iiropgh the Fo1-mahty OF
Giving the states Vote
to 11cE1in1cy.
Special to the Register
CHARLEsroN, w. Va jan. IL
The presidential electors for West
Virginia met at the Capitol today.
They organized by electfpg Col.
Henry Raymond, of cIarkaburg,
president, and James p Fitch, of
Morgantowp, as secretary They
proceeded to cast their votes for
McKinley for President and Gar
rett A Hobart for Vice President.
j. v. Yandeyort, of Parkersburg,
was chosen as messenger to convey
the vote to Washington.
Found 500 In An Old Coat.
Mr. q. g. Tippett, the Tailor, q
few days ago in going through q
suit of old clothes that MIR. j. M J.
I. BeaIe, had left with him TO
clean and press, found an envelope
in one OF the pockets containing
$40. Mr.. Beale had not worn the
clothes for a year or more. The
money was returned to Mr.. Beale,
and he was gratitied the find,
and was just $40 ahead. Go
through your old clothes reader
aud you may find $50 or more too.
WIN Do 1t.
John Peter Roman Bureau Smith
has recently entered upon, his
fourth six years term as clerk ofthe
County Court of Mason county,
making "a years in consecutive ser
vice and making also one term for
each of his other names besides
Smith, SO his people will, in 1900,
have to elect him another term for
that.-Kanawha Gazette.
Fred Carel, editor of the st.
Albans Reporter, to-day presented.
the West Virginia Historical So
ciety with two ten dollar notes on.
the old Bank of Gallipolis when
b. e. Smith was president. The
notes are of the issue of 1910 and
1874, one of them being made
payable to Judge Nash and the
other to Capt. Langley.-Char-
lesion Gazette.
This little run-in-between the
coffee and sugar trusts sounds
very we'll, but it will end in the
inevitable compromise and the
consumers will eventually pay all
the loss incurred by the combines.
a telegram last night from LIE
tart, to Mrs Lon T. RfIchard, stated
that Mrs. Pilchard, mother of Hon
Lon T. Pilchard, was dangerously
i'll, and that his sister, was also very
sick. Mrs. Pilchard went up to
Letart on the early morning train.
Persons who are inclined to un
derestlmate the value of long train
ing at the poker table should take
notice of the way Senator Wolcott
keeps his face straight while talking
about his international monetary
conference.
We wonder if the people of this
nation could exist one whole day
without bank failure, a,Spanish
victory in Cuba or a new portrait
for McKinley's cabinet.
Now that the campaign for the
'.honest dollar" is a thing of the
past, it would seem that the time
has arrived to inaugurate move
ment for the honest dollar.
The. procession of boys follow
ing boy who has a nickle in his
pocket becomes procession of
lawyers when he has grown and
the nickle has become banker.
When David of old said all men
are liars he must have been.
thinking, prophetically, of mod
ern circulation editors and span
ish war correspondents in Cuba.
There are some people who will
go to great extremes simply to be
eccentric. a Pittsburg banker who
bad not stolen anything committed.
suicide.
The Pomeroy National Bank
has paid the bank of Ravenswood
without suit the Roup certificate
of deposit for $500, which was
cashed by the latter bank en- the
Endorsement of DIR. Herrenkohl
Daxo,,eIx,11[,E1 No.re