The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-11-03

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duction of an Indian in battle ar
rays feathers, tomahawk and all.
It was remarkable exhibition and
attracted considerable attention
among those to whom it was point
led out.
BashfuI Willie writes to ask
what he must do when the girl
with the most kissable mouth he
knows says she is afraid of mi
crobes. It all depends; some girls
can be easily convinced that the
microbe theory of kissing is only a
bugaboo, while nothing short of a
solitaire diamond engagement ring
can dissipate the prejudice of 9th
ers. We don't know which class
the girl with the most kissable
mouth belongs to.
IF nobody else at least the small
boy celebrated Halloween with
vigor and vim on Saturday night,
and for some time it seemed as if
the heavens rained corn and beans,
and every hallway, footpath and
other place where the cereals could
lodge, was covered with them. In
other respects the occasion passed
without much notice, unless there
was a little domestic fortune tell
ing on the quiet.
It seems a little strange since
prosperity has returned with mon
ey plentiful and general confidence
restored, that good town property
and farming lands offered at pub
lie sale at our Courts must go beg
ging for bidders or be sacrificed
for want of purchasers.
The wooded hill sides are now
gorgeous with the many colors over
which the poet is wont to rave and
the foreign tourist is wont to MAKE
remark. The variety and brill
lance of the autumn foliage seems
to be in some sort peculiar to the
Great Kanawha Valley.
We fear that there is growing
impression among our young men
that it is more honorable to keep
books or stand behind the counter
and sell goods than it is to pillow;
that there is more honor in reading
law than there is in hammering on
an anvil in "a blacksmith shop.
Wetzel county has new paper
called the Derrick, the editor of
which editorially among other
things says: eve have come
among you to do you good, and
alsoito do us good, and if there is
any half-brained mossbacks who
don't like our gait, they'd better
not swing on it,
If our prohibition friends do
not scurry around and give US a
little rain pretty soon there will be
nothing to mix with the whiskey,
and then there will be trouble
Parkersburg Sentinel.
A Chicago hunter mistook man
for a duck and took aim. We have
heard of women taking a man for
a duck, but man ought to know
the difference.
About as soon as man arises
to the surface of popular approval
his relatives begin to gather mud
to sling at him.
Now that the wild man has been
captured, nutting parties and a day
in the woods will again be a pleas
ant feature of enjoyment among
the young folks.
Miss Mary Capehart nicely en-
tertained number of her friends
with Halloween party Saturday
night.
Marriage license issued Satur-
day. by the County Clerk: Ernest
Henry and Lottie Edwards; George
Ia. Howell and Flora A. Devices.
1t may be that the average wo-
man stump speaker is a help to
the party she talks for. but we have
our doubts.
1t is doubtful whether it is the
proper thing to do to keep our
sidewalks crowded with barrels
and boxes.
a preacher in Kentucky de-
clares there is no hell. Now, what
has he been doing?