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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
NOTHING Bun rRusTs.

There's steel trust, an iron'trust
And "A trust in lager beer;
And there's many another trust
To burden the waning year.
There's milk trust, a pie trust
And IA trust in sparkling wine;
There's pillow trust, n reaper trust
And a trust in binder Irvine.
There's anice cream trust, a cak g trust
And trust in crackers and bread,
And to scan the catalogue of trusts,
Is enough to turn ones head.
There's a paper trust, a type trust
And trust on sewing thread,
And they follow you to the graveyard
With n coffin trust when you're lead.
There's n nail trust, an oil trust
And trust in biscuit, too;
And the nations now SO full of trusts
That the air with trusts is blue.
There's n glass trust, tobacco trust,
A trust on pottery as well,
And if it isn't too hot for them
They'll get up trust in-well.
There's a butter trust, sugar trust
Each one with the power to skin
And nobody knows how many more,
Till the trusts have all come in.
There's nm envelope trust. and. othe,
trusts
That will land us underithe SEQ, \
And all that is left for the poor man.
Is to work and trust in God.
w II RRICIJr
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

This is the opportuno time to
build up the road from Now Haven
to Mason City, before the bad
weather sets in, fix the road bed SO
that it will maintain itself. Will
the surveyors do it? Sliding Hill
is within the corporate limits of
Hartford, and the worst strip of
it all.
1t is said there are parties around
the bend interested in the sale of
a patent, known as the Star Flour
Chest, but we have not met up
with any of them recently.
The goose-bUne promises an
open winter, likowiso the corn
husk. We are glad we are to have
it thus, our overcoat is light.
Our salt operators all either went
into the combine or contacted TO
sell the product of their furnaces
to it.
The price of coal has gone up
but the miner has not yet been no.
titled of any increase in his pay.
The Government engineers re-
Gently at Letart Falls estimate a
fall in the Ohio river of five feet
from the Falls to tho head of Lit
tie Letart Island. SNAPPER.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
Around the Bend.


Railroad, as we'll as other men
have their amusing incidents, etc.
in life. For instance, Jas. Pugh
was conductor on freight engine
No. so, on the O. r. r, when q
flue bursted on the engine at Pleas.
ant Wow, recently. He sent the
following telegram to Superintend.
ent Hamilton, in the office at
Parkersburg. He said:
Engine No. SO,
Busted her hue,
AT Pleasant View.
What shall l do?
James Pugh."
Mr.. Pugh has just been promo
ted to conductor in charge of pass
enger train, and the boys all at
tribute his luck to his poeticaI gen
ius.
This reminds us of what happen
ed last Spring when the School for
the Deaf and Blind at Romney
dismissed for the summer. Those
students attending from this end
of the State were in special car
coming home over the B. & o.,
when telegram was handed an
operator at one of the way stations,
addressed to the o. r. r. at Park
ersburg, asking that special car
for mutes be had in readiness for
them going South on that road
The operator sending the message
neglected to GROSS the ct" SO it read
mules, you see. When the mutes
arrived at Parkersburg to be trans
ferred, the O. r. r. had freight
car out in readiness to receive the
mules. Imagine the ohagrin of the
officials when the mistake was dis.
covered. Then what must the
mutes have thought.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

And now even some prominent
Mason county Republicans are
speaking out against the "Robber
Tariff" They have found out
that High Tariff" is the "Father
of Trusts"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Yes, the Republicans are very
much afraid CP) that Goebel will
be candidate for the U. S. SEN
ate against Blackburn. What a
shame it would, they think.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
DECEMBER 6, 1899.

Uncle Sam had better first get
Aguinaldo and then decide what
to do with him afterwards.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

American farmers own COWS to
the value of 1896 239, 1892, sum
equal to more than one-half of the
capital of the National banks in
the United States.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

England has notified the other
countries of the world that state
af war exists in South Africa. 1t
was known elsewhere than in Eng
land a couple of months ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Speaking of the o. r. r. con-
ductors, the people all around the
bend hail with delight the return
of Capt. Woofter, to his train, after
complete recovery from the effects
of severe ankle sprain. Heis re-
garded as one of the most careful
and therefore popular conductors
over on the line.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The amount of turkeys raised
over in Meigs county, Ohio, and
brought over to Mason City and
shipped to Pittsburg, is enormous
The farmers over there find it more
profitable to raise poultry and grow
small fruits, than raise wheat at 65
cents per bushel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

They say that if q stranger ap-
pears on the street at Spilman in
a pair of high top muddy boots, it
is sufficient to start all the people
talking about enhancing real es
tate, and if he manages to have a
suspicion of petroleum or natural
gas about him, the excitement be-
comes intense.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The official returns from Ohio
show that Nash, who stood for the
administration and imperialism, is
in minority of 1851 of the total
vote.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

at the meeting of the National
Democratic Committee recently
held in Chicago, it was fully under
stood that the next Democratic
platform would be anti-expansion,
antitrust and free coinage at the
ratio of 16 to 1.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The War Department seems to
have learned little or nothing re-
garding the transportation of troops
from the sad and costly experience
of the Spanish war. The worthless
troop-ship Manuenz furnishes an
other costly object lesson and vivid
illustration of War Department in
competency. Is Root to go the
way of Alger?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The New York journal says:
"The wise nations of the world
are building great navies. Gener-
alton after generation they con-
tinue to drill new battalions for the
final tremendous war. They study
guns and projeotiles and the resist
ing power of armor. They expert
ment with ambulance and field hos
pitfalls and the general care of
wounded men. But not a nation,
from the Dardanelles to Hongkong,
seems to know the first principles
of the science of feeding an army
according to the climate in which
il is campaigning"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Monday, December 3rd, we will
offer a big line of cheap hats, good
styles. Mrs. l.. j. Williamson.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

It is said that the Havemeyers
and Arbuckles have settled their
war over sugar and coffee and will
combine their interests. The poor
public will be squeezed again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

My son has been troubled for
years with chronic diarrhoea.
Sometime ago l persuaded him to
take some of Ohamberlain's Colo,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
After using two bottles of the 25-
cent size he was cured. / give this
testimonial, hoping some one sim
ilarly eff1icted may read it and be
benefited. -THoMAs @. BOWER,
Glencoe, Ohio. For sale by g. w.
M. Hooff, Druggist
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Literary societies are being or
ganized already, this early, at near.
ly all the district" school houses
Such organizations should be en-
couraged. There is good one at
Morgans, back of Letart, in which
several M. G's. are taking an active
part, also at Tomlinson's Run,
above that town.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The real patriot thinks and acts.
The professional patriot seldom
stops talking long enough for
eli thor
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

An editor prints his paper to
give his patrons the news of the
day and for the money there is in
it. He is presumed to know of
what he writes, and he generally
does. When he writes as he does
in the Leader Courier, Osceola
Mills, Pa, without fee or hope of
reward, that "Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy acts magically, and we
have found none better in our
household IF you have cough,
try it," it may be accepted as an
honest expression, worthy of ere.
dence. For sale by G.. w. M.
Hooff, Druggist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
T.. e. CAMPBELI.
Physician and Surgeon,

blenders his services to the citizens
j of Point Pleasant and vicinity
ONCE at Hooh's Drug Store. Hours
. A. NJ, to 12 NJ, 2P. NJ, to bP. M.
and q p, NJ, to9P. NJ. nov st5
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
Not a NATIONAL HoIidnY.

Thanksgiving Day isn't a national
holiday. 1t is legal holiday only
in those States that make it so by
act of Legislature. Legally there is
no such thing as national holiday,
and Congress has repeatedly re-
fused to pass an act purporting to
make such a holiday. Christmas
and the Fourth of July are the only
days in the year that are legal holi.
days in all the States.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06
Republican Claims.


If a man or community pros
pers the Republican party claims
the credit for it. They will claim
that it could never have been but
for the Republican party. To hear
them talk and to believe their ar
guments one would have to believe
that there never was any prosper
ity anywhere except under Repub-
lican rule.
Some people listen to their con-
slant laying claims till they actual
ly believe everything they lay
claim to; but there are, fortunately,
others who think for themselves;
persons who can look back over
four years and can remember of
people living and making living
when the Republican party was
not in control.
West Virginia has all along been
about as prosperous as any State
in the Union, yet in the face of
this fact, Republicans set up the
claim to having made West Virgin
ia what it is during the party's few
short years of control.
But it is not West Virginia
alone that they lay the false claim
to. It is everywhere You can
hear them blowing prosperity,
prosperity, prosperity! We did it,
we did it! on every street corner.
Some of them who haven't one
nickle to rub against another, or a
patch to cover the hole in their
breeches, will stand on the corners
and argue, argue, about the great
prosperity of the country and how
the Republicans have brought it
about.
This country is prospecting and
always has been ever since the
days of the Revolution and even
before that. It will continue to
prosper SO long as we have free
people under free government,
and it will not be because either
party is in power.
Our senior Senator from West
Virginia, Mr.. Elkins, is suggested
as good man to put up for Vice
President on the Republican ticket
next year. It is said that person
ally and politically he would be &C.
ceptable to President Mckinley as
a running mate. The Senator him
self says he is very we'll satisfied
with his present place.
Itmay be prosperity, but it looks
like hard times, when people have
to pay higher prices for articles OF
everyday use without getting any
increase in their incomes.
The triumphant marches which
the British promised would be
made to Kimberley, Ladysmith and
Mafeking have not yet justified
any pyrotechnios in England.
It is said that the Havemeyers
and Arbuckles have settled their
war over sugar and coffee and will
combine their interests. The poor
public will be squeezed again.
And now even some prominent
Mason county Republicans are
speaking out against the "Robbel
Tariff" They have found out
that High Tariff" is the "Fathel
of Trusts"
1t has just been discovered that
the government is having it's flags
made in New York sweat shops by
the poverty stricken foreigners who
are paid less than so cents day
for twelve hours work.
The real patriot thinks and acts
The professional patriot seldom
stops talking long enough for
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The relations of France and Eng
land are SO strained that break is
threatened at any moment. AL
ready the French and British Am
bassadors have respectively left
London and Paris, although di-
plomatio relations are still main
tanned.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Try our "Cresco" Corsets, the
only corset that cannot break at the
waist line.
Mrs. L. j. Williamson.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The triumphant marches which
the British promised would be
made to Kimberley, Ladysmith and
Mafeking have not yet justified
any pYrotechnios in England
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

The senseless chatter regarding
the Dewey home is properly noted
in the following from the New
York World:
"There is no installing the mean
ing of the letters and interviews
which have been printed in protest
against any censure or criticism of
Admiral Dewey. They show that
the Admiral is still the popular he
70. In the eyes and hearts of the
people Dewey is just as good as he
ever was-and great deal better
than anyone else in sight"
Washington is puzzled over what
to do with Aguinaldo after he is
caught. Better catch him first
then decide.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Itmay be prosperity, but it looks
like hard times, when people have
to pay higher prices for articles of
ry-day use without getting any
increase in their incomes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

It would seen from the latest
appearances that the Administra-
ton and it's supporters in Senate
and House are about to abandon
the hypooritioal policy and preten-
sions relating to the war in the
Philippines and admit what the
Democrats of the country have
been contending all along, that the
struggle against the Filipnos is a
war of conquest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Stones crushed to earth will rise
again. See our streets.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

What is the matter with Gov
Atkinson, that the Ring Republi-
can papers are continually saying
some mean thing about him. Even
our own Republican Gazette, never
has a good word to say for the Gov
ernor. What does all this mean ?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Marriage license issued Monday,
December 9TH: Other l.. Ball and
Maggie M. Jordan.
Our hose for boys can't be beat
Mrs. l.. j. WILLIAMSON.
12-1 2 wks. d. q w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

If you are a farmer you will find
that on October ID, 1898, you could
buy 100 pounds of nails with %
bushels of wheat. To-day, or just
one year later, it requires 81 bush
els of wheat. Last year you could
buy 100 pounds of wire fencing for
8 bushels of wheat. To-day you
must bring 6 bushels to get your
100 pounds of wire fencing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

When they come to take the
next census they are very likely .tc
miss Peter j. Bob. Sayre over in
jackson. The old follow found {
package and threw it into the fire
to see whether it was powder OIL
sand. 1t wasn't sand.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

Though every line of the obnox-
ious federal election law were re-
pealed in obedience to public de-
mand several years ago by Demo
cratic Congress, our Republican
friends are loath to give up the
clutch they held by that law on the
rights of the people when those
rights ran counter to their plans
and desires.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

I. .! G. soMERvILLE.

i hereby certify that the above named
Special Commissioner has given bond with
GOOD security before me in the penalty OF
5000 ns required by the order OF sale
nov. 10 4-w. II. r.. MITCHELL, Clerk
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-12-06

It is remarked all about the bend
that the teachers are making strong.
or endeavors 10 give greater benefite
to the children, this than in recent
years. There is much need for i'm.
provement in our schools, and all
Boards of Education and Trustees
should lend a liberal encourage
ment.
The courier., 1899-08-19

The sudden death in London Of ono of
the delegates to the international coun.
Gil of women, Mrs. Ellen @. johnson of
Boston, was Q great shock not only TO
that delegated body. but to her friends
abroad and her compatriots at home.
Her death at The homo Of the Bishop of
Rochester occurred shortly after she had
read her paper before the council on
"Penal Reformat0rles for Women"
which had been received with that pro-
found attention which Is the most compli
mentary OF all. Mrs. johnson was about
seventy five years young and eminently
fitted to discuss this subject. For H.
teen years she had been the superintend.
ent OF the Massach usstts reformstory
for women and was the only woman
warden in the world. The following
little sketch OF her lie by Lucy Elliot
keeler reads like fiction and shows what
one good woman endowed with strong
will. charitable heart, and a willing.
ness to do for others can accomplish in
the uplifting of the unfortunate aud in
imparting that courage which enables
them to make another start:
For seven yesrs Mrs. johnson and
other influential Boston women went an.
nually before the Massachusetts, legisls-
ture. praying that the women convicts
might be separated from the men. and
more efectual efforts be made toward
their moral salvation. In 1877 this w.s
granted. Arter five years the Governor
sent this message to Mrs. johnson:
You :hsve got your prison. Three
superintendent have failed utterly.
The courier., 1899-08-19

this cannot be said OF all mems clubs,
many Of which have no higher object
than eating. drinking, and card playing.
1t may be that when the women's clubs
have become older they may gradually
deteriorate. and follow the examples Of
mems clubs, but at present there is no
more useful factor In any community
than the women's club, you can count
upon it's hearty cooperation in all efforts
to raise the standard OF morals and in.
telligcnce."
The courier., 1899-08-19

What will be the effect IL represen.
tation in the G. f. w. G. be restricted
to state federationy"
Ny opinion would be that the effect
would be good II the mode OF represen.
tation be properly adjusted. II, az
heretofore. the representation be entire.
ly from the large clubs, II would sure.
ly effect the strength Of the state ieder.
alton. because small clubs throughout
the state would tire Of paying dues to
the state federation and not have an op-
portunity to send anyone from their own
locality. l. seems to me IL delegates
were chosen. say one to represent Ger.
tain number OF clubs in 80 many dis.
tricts, allowing proper number OF dele.
gates to the proper number OF clubs or
club women representing that district
or districts. In fact some way which
would give the women OF the state n
fair and practical representation. We
want delegatej from the north. south,
east, and west OF our state. OF course
everyone that attended the biennial at
Denver last year was fully convinced
that the number must be cut down in
some way. and the proper way to do it is
through our state federation; and / also
realized what benefit 1t was to come In
contact with that body OF women which
constitute the G. F. w G. Now one
trip sufiices to open ones eyes TO the
enormity Of the club movement the real
earnestness Of the movement and the
force which 1t can bring to bear upon
any question which Gomez under its
notice. and realizing this. 1t impre4ses
one with the Importance Of being indi.
responsible. That to be part
Of that grand aggregation Of women We
must bring our work. our ideas, our
club up higher, aiming more at our
motto "Unity IN Diversity"
(Mrs.) Josephine Frawley,
Stromsburg. Nebr.
The courier., 1899-08-19

These clubs we're first organized to &C.
cure fuller social life and enlarged op-
portunities for study. They are vari.
ousIy engaged in the study OF literature
and the arts, the founding Of libraries.
promotion OF sociability. temperance
work. charitable work. sociology, care of
working women and girls, improving the
environments Of the poor, household
economics, city improvement, civics and
science.
The courier., 1899-08-19
Gibbs.
LOUISA L RICKETTS,.

Treasurer, Mrs. Phillip N. Moore, st.
Louis, Mo.
Auditor-Mrs. G. p. Barnes, Louis
vile. Ky.
State Chairman-Mrs. Louisa L. Rick.
etts, Lincoln, Nebr.
Officers of the State Federation of
Women's clubs;
President-Mrs. 8. @. Langworthy,
Seward.
Vice President-Mrs. Anna L. Apper.
son, Tecumseh.
Recording Secretary-Mrs.F. H. Sack.
cit, Weeping Water.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs d. G.
McKillip, Seward.
Treasursr-Mrs. H. F.. Doane, Crete,
Librarian-Mrs. G. M. Lambertson,
Lincoln.
Mrs. A. B. Fuller. Auditor, Ashland.
The courier., 1899-08-19

AZ time has gone on and knowledge
and opportunity has brosdened, women
are showing the practical side Of their
nature by endeavoring to apply this
knowledge aud experience to the practi.
cal affairs Of life. They have already done
much to raise civic standards, to i'm
prove sanitary conditions, to remedy
abuses, and to improve Industrial con.
ditions az they pertain to women and
children.