davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
EXCURSION Party.

Col. Thos. Munford gave an en-
ioyable excursion party on the
beautiful little steamer Carrie V,
last night, going from here to
Pomeroy and return. AT Pomeroy
the party was invited to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Epple, where
they partook of a most elegant
supper and which was enjoyed by
the party. On board the steamer
they had bountifpl supply of
fruits and lunches, but had no use
for them after the bountiful supper
given them by Mr.. and Mrs Epple.
The party spent a very pleasant
evening at Pomeroy and on the
waters of the beautiful Ohio, re-
turning home at a late hour.
Those who composed the party
were Col. and Mrs. Munford and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. David Price
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A.
Stortz and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ar
hurs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The business men and the news
papers of Charleston are crying out
over the duIlness md dull business
of that city Two years ago. many
business aud professional men
turned their backs upon the Demz
ocratic party. which had pulled
them through many financial and
business depression ordeal, and
united with the Republicans In
denonncing the Chicago platform,
and entered into a conspiracy with
gold bugs to defeat that gallant
champion of the peoples rights,
Hon. William Jennings Bryan.
They were opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of is to L. They wanted an
A01sest dollar-not a 80 cent dollar.
They voted for the gold standard.
and it is now fastened upon them.
and will remain until the voters of
the country come to the rescue of
the people. Many of these Char
lesion business men would now be
glad to have a dollar not quite SO
sound. they would not object
now to so cent dollar They
have been duped and they see it.
as acknowledge by the wall they
now set up in their city papers.
Had they loyal to their party,
elected Bryan and free silver
congress. they would not be in the
deplorable state they are now be-
wailing. because we would have
had free coinage and bondholders
would have been paid according
to contract, in cotn-both gold and
silver. What is true of Charles
ton, is true of every city in the
United States, not enough money
in circulation to do business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

A farmer said to us on the train
coming down from Par1ersburg,
yesterday, after looking out upon
the vast acres of growing corn, that
West Virginia had outdone itself
in what promised to be the most
abundant corn crop ever known in
the history of the State, and that
farmers would have more corn
than they could take care of, and
this was particularly true of Mason
county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
Hard ON the Congregation.

A country minister away up in
the State of Connecticut, took
permanent leave of his congrega-
ton in the following pathetic man.
ner, says an exchange:
brothers and sister, I come to
say good bye. 1 don't think God
loves this church very much, be-
cause none of you ever die. Idon't
think you love each other, because
Inever marry any of you. 1 don't
think you love me, because you
have not paid my salary; your do
nations are mouldy fruit and wormy
apples, and by their fruits ye shall
know them.
Brothers, L am going away from
you to better place. I have been
called to be chaplain of a pen1ten-
tiary. Where 1 go ye cannot come,
but 1 go to prepare place for you
and may the Lord have mercy on
your souls. Good bye.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
10 RrnIlen-

trnm Wednesday, Daily
John Price, of the bridge force
on the Ohio River Railroad. by the
fall of a trestle near Hogsett s store
in Clendenin District this county,
about 8 O'Clock yesterday morning
had both bones of his left leg bad
ily crushed. He was brought here
by some of the men in the employ
of the road conducted by Capt
Jas. Dunbar, and turned over 10
surgeons Drs. Barbee g Barbee.
and was taken to his boarding
house, Mrs. SuIlivan's, whore the
crushed bones were reduced by the
Doctors and Mr.. Price made com
Portable and whore every possible
care will be given him.
Mr.. j. Harvey Monroe, of this
city, who wasin the wrecked tres
tie, and sustained serious injuries,
having ribs broken and leg Sc
verely bruised and splintered, was
also taken to his parents in this
city where proper surgical treat
ment was given him by Drs. Bar
bee & Barbee. We are glad to
note at this writing that both men
are doing we'll. and we hope may.
quite entirely recover their former
physical strength and activity.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

George Rice. a Roane county
morse thief with notorious career,
has been discovered by Detective
Mehen, of Parkersburg, in jail at
Spencer. He has served one term
of FIVE years in the pen, and will
now doubtless get another salty
dose for more recent Roane and
Mason county thieving of his own
particular variety.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The year of greatest growth in
boys is the seventeenth, in girls
the fourteenth. While girls reach
full height in their fifteenth year,
they acquire full weight at the age
of twenty. Boys are strcaser than
girls from birth to the eleventh
year, then girls become superior
physically to the seventeenth
year, when the tables are again
turned, and remain so From No
vember to April children grow
very little and gain no weight;
from April to July they gain in
height but lose in weight, and
from July to November they in
crease greatly in weight, but not
in height.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

DIR. j. j. Haptonstall. member
of the State Board of Health, re-
ports to DR.. Barbee. Secretary,
that there are ten cases of small
pox at Red Star, Fayette county,
but quarantined and we'll guarded.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
Dead.

The two-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph a. Fisher, OF
Pleasant Flats, died Tuesday,
August 18th, 1898, of cholera in
fantum, and was buried Wednes-
day in the Rickard cemetery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

There are more hay stacks along
the Ohio river and Kanawha river
bottoms, dotting the meadows here
and there, than has been seen for
many years, and the most of it is
in good condition. The farmers
are surely blessed with good crops
this year, and they should be de-
voutly thankful.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

1t costs the Royal Baking Pow
der Company something like $780,
600 annually for advertising. Some
one once suggested to the company
that it discontinue advertising one
year, the baking powder was SO
well known and advertised, and
place that amount, $4,000 in the
profits. The answer was that it
would undoubtedly cost the COM
pany three times that amount to
get the product in It's original
channels again. This is a pretty
good pointer to those business
men who imagine they are making
a great saving when they discon-
tinue a 81 or a So month adver-
tisement u few months in dull
seasons. It never pays to tear out
a dam because the water is low.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The Democratic party allover
the State is to be put in complete
and thorough organization. With
good work we can elect majority
of the Legislature and redeem
every Congressional District in the
State.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

President Geo. A. Burt of the
Ohio River Railroad kindly fur
nished free Transportation to Mrs.
Trippett and children. Mr.. Trip
pett's brothers, and three escorts
from the Masonic Lodge at this
place last week, to Parkersburg
and return. This was kind act
in Mr.. Burt and will long be re-
membered by all concerned
Ravenswood News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The losses to farmers and team
sters from bad roads in Mason
county cannot be computed, but
still the men who should clamor
the loudest for good, hard, Nc
Adamized roads, are the ones who
do the most kicking" when a
proposition to put the roads in
good repair is made.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
INC County Fair.

No family for miles around
misses the County Fair. The
men go to look at the new inven-
lions in farm machinery, to con
slider the good points of blooded
stock and to talk politics. The
girls go to lend beauty and fresh
ness to a scene that would be dull
without them. The young men
go to see the girls, and the boys
go to eat peanuts and fly red bal
looms. There is amusement, en-
tertainment and instruction for
every member of the family, and
why should not the annual event
be an important one in any com
munity.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Advertisements do not sell goods.
They create the demand for them
that sells them
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

In many instances right has fail
ed to prevail for season, but will
ultimately come to the surface.
This applies to the Republican
abuses and Encouragement of
affairs in Mason county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The bicycle nuisance is becom-
ing very prominent in Point Pleas
ant. Some stranger inquired the
other day if we have airy police
force.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The human heart is six inches
in length, four inches in diameter
and beats on an average of seventy
times minute, 1920 times an
hour, 1oO,8o0 times day, and &c.
10000 times in the course of q
year, SO that the heart of an ordin-
cry man 80 years of age has beaten
3,ooo,oOo,OOO times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The good man is useful man.
He is not all ornament. He has
his work to do. his place in society
to fill, his influence to exert. He
is truthful; others share in his
goodness. He scatters blessings
5 all along his pathway. He is no
cumberer of the ground. There is
neither a human or a divine de-
mand for his removal as useless.
He is spared year after year on ac-
count of his productiveness. By
his prayers, his instructions, his
councils. his example, his spirit
and his deeds. he improves and
benefits all who come within his
reach.-Detroit Free Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Among the interesting articles
announced for early publication
in Harper's Bazaar may be men
toned Leading Feminine Educa-
tors" by Carolyn Halsted, an
illustrated paper giving portraits
and sketches of the Deans and
Presidents of the foremost Wo-
mems Colleges in the United
States; "Courtship and Marriage, .
by Mrs. John Sherwood: a short
story by Marion Harland; and
Everyday Talks with Mothers, .
by Margaret E. Sangster. The
usual letters and departments are
continued, including "Club Wo-
Women and Club Work." by Mar
garet Hamilton WEIGH.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The present is the second sue
cessive failure of the apple crop.
Between here and Parkersburg, the
the orchards do not look as if they
would produce a hundred barrels,
taken the whole of the orchards to-
gether.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
a Poetic BRAY.

Drink, and the gang drinks with
you; swear off and you go it alone;
for the bar room bum who drinks
your rum, has quenchless thirst
of his own. Feast, and your
friends are many; fast, and they
cut you dead; they'll not get mad
if you treat them bad, SO long as
their stomachs are fed. Steal, if
you can get a million, for then
you can furnish bail; it's the great
big thief that gets out on leave,
while the little one goes to Jail.
Advertise and the dollar comes to
you, quit and they fail to come in;
for what care the men who have
dollars to spend for the man who
don't care to see him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
oAsToREA-
Rsa,.+bs n The Kind You Have Always Bought
sis5 ! Isla1zzzz@

The Republican Ringsters, who
have been fettening off of
their stealings from the County
Treasury for these many years, are
trying hard to figure away the
hundred thousand dollar debt,
saddled upon the county by mis-
managed and Ring-dominated
County Court. The people. how
ever, do not figure as does the
Ring. They know the debt exists,
and are inquiring into the cause
Of it. They will have good deal
to say about this matter in No
vember, by defeating the Ring
candidate, Mr.. Thorn, for County
Commissioner. and electing Mr.
Chas. e. McCulloch.
Will the Taxpayers of Mason
county vote to perpetuate in power
party that has, in a period of
twelve years, fastened a debt OF
100000 upon the county, with no
improvements to show for this vast
debt? A vote for Thorn for Coun-
ty Commissioners, is to perpetuate
this misrule. A vote for Mr.. Chas
E. McCulloch is a vote to reform
this evil. Elect him and the
thieving of the Republican gang is
at an end.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

s. Brief Sketch Of the Brilliant
Young Man

s. Brief Sketch Of the Brilliant
Young Man.
John I. McGraw. Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Second
district. is a native West Virgin
ian. about 40 years of age and was
born at Grafton, where he resides.
A graduate of Yale College, law
yer in full practice and connected
with the raiiroad, coal and lumber
developments of West Virginia
Under Clevelandis first administra-
ton he was the collector of inter
nal revenue for the district of West
Virginia comprising the whole
state, and during the same admins
istration was the United States
disbursing agent for the state of
West Virginia, and as such dis
tributed the public moneys appros
priated for the building and re-
pairing of the government build
ings of the state. He was dele
gate at large for the state of West
Virginia to the Democratic Nation
al Convention which met at Chica-
go, and vigorously supported Bry-
an. He is the member of the DEM
ocratic national committee for the
state Of West Virginia. He is ex-
ceedingly popular with all Glasses
of people in his district. and al
ready many Republicans are con-
ced1ng his election to Congress.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

It is always a source of keen en-
joyment to us to see a group of the
meanest men in town get into an
argument.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Advertise persistently, just as
you eat every day. Advertise once,
and someone sees the adj. in that
issue, looks for it in the following
one, doesn't find it. and the value
of the one nd. is lost.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Bsars thu n The Kind You Have Always Bsypht
sisa & Iall6zzzzzz9

When brought to taw. the Re
publican Ring boodlers, try to
dodge the debt they have entailed
upon this county, now amounting
to a hundred thousand dollars
All the figuring they can do will
not explain away the debt to the
satisfaction of the people.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The report of the Democratic
County Convention, as published
in the Gazette of Tuesday, is I'M
true in many particulars.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The Gazette must be stuck on
its editorials when it reproduces
them for two or three successive
issues,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

George Craven. cutting timber
on the West Virginia Central. fell
on an axe. splitting open the feshy
part of his leg. To stop the flow
of blood until he could be taken
to surgeon, man with him
sewed up the wound, using a pen
knife for a needle and Irvine
string for thread.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

AS long as a man makes out to
have at least one Sunday suit of
clothes he is not utterly worthless.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

This promises to be one of the
hottest days of the season.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
Sweepings.
: is DEATHS feast.

Tits strange, indeed, that poor
men, laboring men and mechanics,
will continue to vote with the Re
publican party and assist in sus-
tanning financial policy that is
bringing ruin to them and their
families. There will be no relief
until the people rise up in their
might and vote only for men who
are in favor of the free coinage of
both gold and silver.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Ravenswood will know better
next time. While a mail train
was lying at the depot there the
other day, brakeman on the train
had some trouble with a porter
and struck him, giving grounds
for complaint of assault and bat
terry. The brakeman was arrested
and fined S., which was raised to
$40 on request of General Mana
ger Burt. thus giving grounds for
suit of damages against the city
of Ravenswood for delaying mail
train, which was Immediately in
stituted for sum amounting to
several thousand dollars.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
Shake Into Your Shoes.

Alien s EOOU-bdSe, n DOWQer IOl Tile
feet. 1t cures painful, swoolen,
takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Aliens Foot
Ease makes tight or new shoes feel
easy. 1t is a certain cure for sweat
ing, callous and hot, tired, aching
druggists and shoe stores. BY mail
for CSC in stamps. Trial package
FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmsted,
Leroy, N. Y.
Mr.. Chas. E. McCulloch being
an honest, upright business man,
and lifelong Republican, who
has left his party on account of
its corruptions, comes in now for
a big share of personal abuse from
the Republican Ringsters. who
write for the State Gazette. They
do not want man on the County
Court whom they cannot control.
IF there is anything that has be-
come unpopular among honest
people and honest voters, it is
bossism and gang rule in politics.
The Republican party has dis
cipline equal to the regular army,
but gang rule has been carried to
such an extent in the party that
the honest voters are in rebellion
Honesty is sure to prevail in the
end even among Republicans, and
boss rule relegated to the rear.
There were eight common sail.
ors with Hobson on the Merrimac
who shared every peril with him
and whilst honors are being heap.
ed upon Hobson, the names of the
equally brave volunteers who went
with him are never mentioned.
The report of the Democratic
County Convention, as published
in the Gazette of Tuesday, is I'm.
true in many particulars.
In China to salute any one by
taking off ones hat is deliberate
insult.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Mr.. Geo. P. Wright, of Poca,
Putnam county, age II years. and
who has been sufferer for some
time from heart trouble is in town
with his son Brady Wright, under
treatment by Drs Barbee & Bar
bee, with but little hope of perma-
nent recovery. Mr.. Wright has
been a pilot on the Kanawha and
Ohio for 81 years, and was con-
sidered one of the most reliable
pilots on the rivers, but for the
last year has been disabled from
duty.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24
S w. sWISHER.

EHgEAseIA ssSss s.s = q sE. sss. E.a
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Business is not as brisk in town
as it should be.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

In China to salute any one by
taking off ones hat is deliberate
insult.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Any man, nowadays who says to
the barber. ga little hair oil please
says it in low voice so nobody will
hear him,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

People should try and keep their
subscriptions to this paper paid up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Professor Alsnel says that be-
tween the ticks of a watch ray
of light could move around the
globe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Madison, Ind. as we'll as Chill
cothe, o. now has lady conductors
on the street cars. BY and by, it
will come around to the point
when women will do all the work,
as they did in the early history of
the world.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

The vocabulary of any ordinary
intelligent, educated person in
cludes only about four thousand
words.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Truth may be blamed, but it
shall never be shamed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

- 80
cured by
him. He
publishesa
Valuable
work on
this dis
ease, which
he sends
wv / t n q
1arra hot
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

With the Garcias and Gomezes
from Cuba, the Puerto Ricoan
gushing Alcaldas, the Malay dele
gates from the Philippines, the
picturesque Esquimo from Alaska,
and our own Africans from the
South, the national conventions of
two political parties in 1900 viii
be interesting Kanawha
Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

G. E. Smith, the clever young
fireman on the Ohio River Rail-
road, is happy to-day, as is papa
now His wife this morning pre-
sented him with a daughter
Huntington Advertiser, Aug. 10.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-24

Tho list of postofices in the
United States now includes Hob
son, CVa.), Sigsbee. (Ark.), Dew
ey, IN. O.. Sampson, (Fla.), and
Manila, (KY.l