The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-02-15
HERE AND THERE.
Around The Bend.

Mason City has four coal bank
and Hartford two.
There are no homeless peopl
around the bend but some are hom
less than others.
We intended to write poem OF
beautiful sun but couldn't thinl
of any thing to write.
Pomeroy, East End, has what il
called a Literary Society" but M
body knows why they call it that
w. e. Hayman is looking Gl
plans for enlarging his store at lie
tart.
The college building to be .built
at Ravenswood, in the spring, it i
said will be of brick.
Work on the water works al
Pomeroy stopped on account oi
this measly weather.
L. d. Ridenour, Mt. Alto, has
taken to the study of law, and will
attend the w. Va. University Law
Department.
Geo. O. Slaughter has sold out
his Cigar factory and grocery at
Ripley Landing, to School House
parties, who removed it to that
place.
Geo. Newton, of Hartford, keeps
a cannon setting in his yard at
home, presumably to shoot snow
birds.
A citizens bank would be a pay
ing institution at Mason City, and
some moneyed men are giving the
matter earnest thought.
The wind has been blowing such
gale up streap the last week,
that when fellows hat blows off
he has to telegraph three stations
above to get it back.
Three head of cattle belonging
to Jnckson Roush, above New Ha-
ven, Killed by trains, have been
assessed at $50 in value, which the
0. r. r. is expected to pay.
O, w. Clayton, local preacher
of Newark, Writ county, is in Jail
at Parkersburg awaiting trial for
sending obscene letters through
the mails.
One of our most elegantly ap-
pointed hotels is the johnson
House, at Hartford City. Neat,
sweet, comfortable beds, good hot
meals and good old Virginia hos
pitaIity arc the pleasing features.
This is not good season for
lambing. Out of about 26 q. w.
Gist' lost eight, Juokson Roush
had better luck and lost but one, a
twin, in thirteen. They both have
Southdown.
Col j. B. II. b. Smith is not the
only man in Mason county who
can be elected on the Democratic
ticket, as has been said. Mr.. Rifle
beat Andy Sayre in Waggener dis
trict six votes. About 80 Repub-
Iicans voted for Rifle for school
board.
About the neatest, cleanest of
towns, is Ravenswood. Unlike the
town at the junction of the Ohio
and Great Kanawha rivers, its
streets and crossings are always
clean, SO that lady can step out
any time without getting drabbled
in mud and filth. But for lack of
industries, moss is gathering over
the beautiful village.
Uncle Davie Gosse', as he is
known, is the oldest in point of
office, of any of our Justices of the
Peace, and resides back of New
Haven The Bible is his greatest
Law book and he adheres to it al
though he has made and still makes
a study of our Statutory and Com
mon laws. His opinions are like
the character of the man he is, solid
asa church and rarely appealed
from.
DIR. Titus, at Letart, Ohio, has
quite practice in this county
He has become SO popular as g
man of physics among the people
that in the neighborhood of Flat
Rock, the citizens have proposed
giving him an acre of land and g
house and home if he will come
and live among them. He may &c
cept it.
Peter Somerville says all the far
mers in his borough thought they
had mammouth crop of corn til
it came to "shuckin'" and it wal