The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-02-10

MORE PROSPERITY.
Ion Half Time are the Employees Of
the o. r. r. The Step Made
Necessary On Account Of
Duh Business.
Parkersburg Sentinel 9Th.
To-day in every department of
1.-THE o. r. r. shops, with one ex-
.Eception, the employees began work.
ing ON half time. The exception
referred to is the truckers force
which is necessary to the running
of the trains and cannot be readily
reduced. In order to make the
new condition as easy ON the men
las possible and to give them an
opportunity to make some use of
their spare t1meif they are able,
1.-THE force has been divided and one
|half will work one week and the
I5other half the next. and SO on al
Iternately. The men were rather
blue over the outlook when the
bulletin announcing the reduction
Twas posted, yesterday They APP
] preciate, however, the evident de-
sire Of the management to do the
livery best it can for them for in
stead of tl1rning off about half Tie
force, which It was felt could be
4 done, without the week-about sys-
tenn was adopted with a view of di-
i viding up with all. The working
alternate weeks also gives the men
II all their idle time together SO that
many of them will be able to swell
I their reduced salaries considerably
by work, independent of the rail
road. The cut.in time was made
necessary by the dull business
with which the road has had to
contend for the past year or more
{ and to the generally depressed
!. business which in turn effects the
railroads. Iteis not known how
Hong this condition of affairs will
Hast, but it is to be hoped that with
!, the opening of spring and the be-
ginning of new administration,
business in all lines will revive
and the road will be enabled not
only to employ all it's mengon full
time but to add to it's force
i There were 25o executions in
/. the United States last year; 1872 ,le-
Ieal and 131 illegal. Louisiana
Iexeouted %, Alabama, 10 and Ten
nessee Ia, without the assistance of
!. the legal authorities, whilesthe
balance of the l31 were distributed
more or less equally over the re-
naming States and territories.
The common people seem to have
!. much more to do with executing
criminals than the courts.
In spite of all the laws which.
have been passed by the United
4 States Government to favor the
4 national banks of the country, they
have been and are failing at. a ter
.Irifc rate. Either there is not
much money in the business any
lmore, or else there are too many
banks for the volume of business.
the latter, under existing ,condi-
lions, being the true reasons
During 1896 there were 2 740 oil
wells completed in southwestern
West Virginia, with singularly
enough, 1896 producers. In this
connection it is worth noting that.
an acre of ground owned by man
at Henderson,, w. Va, wes valued
at only $50 before the oil excite
ment, and now it is estimated to be
worth 100000.
February, though the shortest,
has more red-letter days than any
other month in the yeara They
are Ground Hog Day, the I'd; lin
coins birthday, the 18th; ST. Val
entine's Day, the 18th, and Wash
ington's birthday, the 22d, not to
mention the Chinese New Year,
which also commences this month.
Our enterprising citizen, Mr..
John &. Stortz, has just, closed a
contract with Messrs. Davis g.
Son, for 500 tons of their manu-
featured ice, to be delivered during
the coming 80 days. Mr.. Stortz'
believes in giving to his Patrons
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