The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-05-17
suddenl Death.


account of the sudden death of Mr..
Chas. Jett, brother-in-la law of Mr..
j. w. Bryan, of this city;
SIN the midst of life, we are in
DEATH" was illustrated Monday
morning, May 9Th, 1899. Charles
Jett, living in Addison township,
near Kanauga, drove to town to
transact some business and coming
down Second street, near the Ohio
River Railroad ticket office he was
seized with an attack of heart trou-
bic and fell to one side of the bug
gy. Walter Mccormick, who was
at the ticket Office, noticed him in
this position with the lines hang
ing over tho dash board. He had
an intuition that something was
wrong and went to the rig and stop.
ped the horse. He found Mr.. Jett
unconscious and apparently life
less, and in this condition he car
ried him into the ticket Office and
Drs. johnson and Crowley called.
He was beyond medical skill, and
only gasped once or twice after be-
ing taken into the office, and life
was extinct. The Doctors worked
with him in the hope that there
might yet exist faint spark of
life, but their labors we're of no
avail. The deceased was aged 60
years, and leaves widow. He was
married to Miss Mary Bryan, sis
ter of Mr.. John Bryan, of Kanau-
ga, and Mr.. j. W. Bryan, of Point
Pleasant, several years ago. He
had been subject TO heart trouble,
but was as we'll as common whom
he started to town. His death was
shook to all who knew him"
Never stand in the entrance way
to bank; the drafts that come
through banks are very apt to give
one chills up the back.
At the Presbyterian Church last
Sabbath the Pastor announced the
names of eleven members who had
been received since the LIST of
March. All on the profession OF
their faith except one. Within
the last five years there have been
1T accessions to this church.
Elizabeth has a 100 barrel oil
we'll and like oil such towns is
stacking up airs. We expect TO
pile up the very Same kind of airs
some day in tho near future.
WIN. Camp, we'll known citizen
of Lewis county, aged IS years,
has been sent to tho asylum for the
insane.
A lot Of shade trees are being
SGT out in front of the Ravenswood
House, and park for Ravenswood
is one of the possibilities of the
near future.
OF course many people know
that the average congressman's
speeches were bad but few of us
had suspected that they were un-
fit for mailing.
The State Board of Health will
meet at Charleston July 18th for
the purpose of examining appli-
cants for the practice Of medicine,
and the transaction of any other
business that may properly como
before the Board.
Mr.. Lee Arlington, of Gallipo-
lis Ferry, is now at Chillicothe, o.,
soliciting orders for the "Star
Flour Chest" of which he has the
right.
Charley Bright is now running
a saw-mill at Gallipolis, and keep
ing his eye on tho Republican
nomination for Sheriff of Mason
County.
1t is tho common remark as we'll
as surprise to strangers that SO
few mon in this town attend re-
ligious services on Sundays.
a GallipOlis Death.
1t is with deep regret that we
announce the death of Mrs. Mary
[. Hutsinpiller, at her home in Gal
lipolis, Saturday, May 9th, $780,
She was n most excellent lady, and
had a number of acquaintance in
this place, who will regret to read
of her death.
C Wy D el