The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-04-20

Tn all towns where wspaper
is Published. every man aeuld adj
vertise in it, il nothing 10 re than
a card stating his name and the
business he is engaged in. It
nearly always pays the advertiser,
and besides It lets the people at a
distance know that the town in
which you reside Is a prosperous
community Of business men and
that the people may settle in it
with a chance TO make a living
Never pull In your sign in home
paper while you expect to do
business Peter Cooper
A new Harness Store will be
opened up In the DR. Guthrie's8
store room formerly occupied by
Ellison Bros, as hardware store.
and will be under the management
Of Mr. VIM. r Tippett Mr.. j
B. Tippett will leave for Cincinnati
today to buy the stock, and also a
lot of buggies to be kept in CON
nection Herewith. The store viii
be opened and ready for business
by the coming Saturday. Farmers
would do we'll to await the open
ing of this new harness store.
The young men learning to ride
bicycles on our streets remind us
of the farmers breaking acolt to
carry men on its back. The colt
will sometimes toss them over its
head or to one side or the other of
the road. When the bicycle losses
them they can only exclain, in the
slang interrogation, Where am I
at?"
@. b. Hanson & Co.. announce1
that "house cleaning time is at
hand, " and in this announcement
they call special attention to their
stock of lace curtains and window
shades. Call and see them when
you visit Gallipolis.
We are happy to chronicle the
fact that Adolph Work, a Point
Pleasant boy, and astudent of Drs.
Barbee & Barbee, successfully
passed the medical examination
before the State Board Of Health,
at Weston, and is now authorized
to practice medicine in this State.
The smallpox has been pretty
well stamped out along the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, through
the energetic and effective
measures of quarantine, put in
force by DIR. Barbee, of this place.,
and Secretary of the State Board of
Health.
At Parkersburg j. B. and w. R.
jenkins, of the Hotel Ormand, have
been sued for $1,000 damages for
false arrest. by Jack Bradley, who
was recently acquitted on charge
preferred by them, of attempting
to pass worthless check and jump
board bill.
The Great Adam Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers Americas Greatest
Shows consolidated include the
leading hippodrome of the world,
representing an extraordinary and
electrifying programme of the races
of ancient and modern times. At
Gallipolis, April 18th.
Candidates are beginning to
show up in different parts of the
county. One who is pretty certain
to be nominated for the Legislature
is Mr.. Chas. Harris, of Leon.
An exchange says there is vii
lage in West Virginia whore the
people are SO religious that they
will not make cider on Saturday
''for fear it will work on Sunday"
That the street reporter must
have more ears than the average
man and better eyes for even the
girls in the parlors with the win
dows closed tight cannot shut out
his prying pen.
Men will not be SO much in
clined to go on liquor bonds when
they know the Supreme Court
has decided that they are RESPONSE
BILE for fines, &C., assessed on the
owner of the saloon.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Second
Hospital for the Insane, will be