The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-17
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Several car loads of sheep just
shipped by Mr.. Spencer the stock
and poultry dealer, from Graham
Station to Pittsburg.
When Sampson was shaven of
his hair it is said he also lost his
strength. but that's not THE case
with the butter you get on an aver
age at the hotels these days around
the bend:
Wheat that has not been thresh-
ed or put in the dry, and there is
much of it, is being spoiled by the
recent rains.
The crop being short around the
bend our farmers are now enthusi-
asticalIy advocating the free and
unlimited coinage of hay at the ra-
ito of Is to L.
The Board of Education of Coop
or district have let to a Mr.. Canter
the contract for building new
school house near Ell Blaine's
above and back of Letart, and the
seating of it to j. NJ. Polsley, of
Kanauga, representing Piqua, o.,
firm.
Mrs. Owens and Mr.. Roush are
the teachers employed in the Lee
tart schools of high larnin" the
coming year.
The boy who wrote "thou shall not
Steal" Exodus XXX, XVI on tho
umbrella rack in church at Ma
son City, ought to be ashamed of
himself.
Joseph Gibbs, of Cooper district,
Justice of the Peace, has SO far re-
covered from a severe cut received
in the knee during harvest time, as
to be able to be about again.
d. P. Gist contempIates accept
ing lucrative position in the head
operators office of the R. S. & Ct.
R. r. Co.
Some kind of an insect is de-
stroying the locust trees. 1t don't
prevent the roots from sprouting
up again on your hillsides, how
ever.
JOS. Roush, of Letart, has two
very sick children. Their lives are
almost despaired of. Trouble is
fever
To prevent your boy from get
ting too fast hire him out to the
Mason City and Hartford City
hack line.
Miss Mary Banks will be Prin-
cipal of Clifton schools this year.
S. B. Haynes, of Clifton, is in
the saddle again this campaign,
and when Shell gets his fighting
clothes on, other political bosses
must get to the rear.
There is hardly fair crop of
apples, Maiden Blush, principally,
at and near Letart. They are be-
ing shipped north. e. A. Polsley
is ru ming his big steam cider mill
occasionally.
Since the heavy rains farmers
are all busy blowing the stony
streak.
The fishing camps are resuming
business again since the rains, and
some of the finest and largest speci-
mems of the Jimmy tribe are being
hooked out.
There will be several funerals
for the burial of chicken thieves
around the Ohio in very short
time if the providers of the mid
night don't stop their trade. The
people are organizing and arming
themselves to run them down,
Blood hounds are being secured
for the purpose. Some of the
thieves are known and the next
grand jury will hear about them.
Mr.. Hudson has leased the J. j.
Grimm farm at Drinkers landing.
Miss Mcknight, of Middleport,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. w. 3.
Hayman, at Letart, this week.
Good many peaches in and
around back of Letart, but very
few of the budded fruit. An old
fruit grower tells u.s. that to fsuc-
cessf1lly grow this luscious fruit
one must set out his orchard on an
altitude abeve the fog and below
the frost line.
Prof. Coates Normal School at
Syracuse, closed last Friday.
Its no Dan Wetzel canard when
we state that Burt Jones at his
home in Cooper district the other
day killed black snake six feet
long and three inches in diameter.
1t had swallowed FIVE small chick
ems, a door knob and two hen eggs.
DIP. Gist is trying an expert
ment on the Letart Bottoms in