The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-06-30

line above the wheat crop IS almost
perfect this year and harvest is on.
Potatoes promise well, corn is be-
hind, cut worms having been bad
in places
Hartford City has ball team,
so has A[inersviIle. They were to
have played at the former place
Saturday, but it rained and the
game was declared off
Middleport is to have a new
rolling mill. This time it WILDE
an enterprise of home capitalists
and will be built on the site of the
old mill.
There viii be apples and plums
in abundance at Letart and the
country around
The Wheeling Registers an-
nouncement the other day that Vim.
Allen had been recommended for
the appointment of post master at
Hartford City, created quite a
furry in political circles at that
place. Robt. Rea, an old soldier
was an applicant, and had been
endorsed by the Republican Com
mittee at Point Pleasant. Protests
were Immediately sent to the de-
partment and Congressman Miller,
at Washington, and now the ap-
pointment is hung up and the
struggle becomes more heated
than ever. Congressman Miller
writes that he did not know Mr..
Rea was an applicant.
1t is the hope of everybody that
Capt. Horton will be retained on
the U. S. Golden Rod. He likes
the position and the people like
him.
The Gospel Ark is lying at
Middleport.
The o. R. r. is making fill
where the trestle crosses below
Spilman. The company contem-
plates making fill at Broad Run,
above New Haven, but has not yet
determined whether it would not
be best to bridge. The trestle is
long one and high. 1t would re-
quire more that 127.O 900 yards of
dirt and nine months to complete
it. The dirt for Spilman is taken
from Graham Station on the lot
bought Of P. Dover, by the depot.
Alonzo Dunn is missing from
his home in Hartford City. It is
reported he became demented and
is at large somewhere in that
neighborhood ia the woods, where
some people claim to have seen
him running like a wild man.
Searching parties have been sent
out but no definite trace of him
can be found. The most plausible
story is, however, that he has gone
away in search of job of work,
not being satisfied at home on ac-
count of domestic affairs.
Mrs. j. w. Dumble assumes con-
troll of the Middleport Republican
Herald. We bespeak for her great
success in the journalistic world.
The paper will be improved. made
brighter and more crisp than ever.
The heavy rains have broken up
all fishing camps along the shores.
Mr.. Blazer, of Ravenswood, is
the new telegraph operator at
Letart
oswold Juhling is building an
elegant store room on his property
in Valley City, and will open up
an immense stock of dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes, jim few
days.
The New Haven School Board
is in a tangle these hot days over
whom they shall employ principal.
Several teacher applicants.
The fact that the towns along
the rivers can't or do not entirely
suppress the stripping nude
and going in swimming of
boys, and men, and women as well,
is growing to be an intoIerable an
noyance to steamboatmen and en-
barrassment to passengers on boats.
The officers may be industrious,
but they should be more so in their
efforts to suppress this vulnerable
habit. If the newspapers have to
take it upon themselves to do this,
they will publish the names of a
few of these people and see what
effect that would have.
When Sampson was shorn of
his hair, he also lost his strength.
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