The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-10-18
MoRE ABOUT IN.

This Time 1t lis the %. R. RI,
Which Has Bought the q.
II. I&V.
A special from Portsmouth, o..
says that local officials of the Gin
cinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia
Railroad. say that negotiations are
we'll advanced for the sale of that
road to the Pennsylvania, to be
used in connection with the Ohio
River Railroad as a low grade line
from Cincinnati to Pittsburg. The
o, p. q ", is already built beyond
Portsmouth to Sciotoville and a
stretch of 20 miles would connect
it with the Ohio River Road at
Kenova. Very extensive improve
ments have been made on the line
this summer between Portsmouth
and Cincinnati, grades cut down,
HEAVIER iron put on and new bridges
built. The line is now far above
the requirements of more local
business, so far as physical condi-
ton is concerned.
Rehect1ons of a Bachelor.
When you tell woman you are
sure of thing, she can hardly ever
help asking if you're sure you're
sure.
The last reason in the average
mans mind when he asks woman
to marry him is because he really
wants her to.
When some girls sit under big
red lamp shade, they look most as
nice as speckled peaches do under
piece of pink mosquito netting,
You never think about kiss
from the way girl fixes her mouth
when she puts on her high collar.
If it weren't for love there
wouldn't be such a thing as poetry,
and if it weren't for poetry there
wouldn't be such a thing as love.
AT one of the camps along the
Greenbrier river, a man appeared
hunting work the other day, and
he had no difficulty in finding it.
He was bare footed and after the
first days work his feet we're bleed
ing. He appeared at tho commits
sary and wanted to buy n pair of
shoes. There was only 81 to his
credit, but owing to the necessities
of his case the clerk let him have q
pair of shoes. The poor man i'm
mediately sold them for 75cents to
get into crap game.
There is gang going around
over the country working the "short
change" game on unsuspecting
merchants. Two of them travel
together and one of their methods
is, for one of them to go into a
store, purchase one dollars worth
of goods and give the clerk twen-
ty-dollar bill. The clerk counts
him out his change, but in the
meantime the other one has enter
ed the store. He gives the clerk
fve-dolIar bill and tells him to give
him the twenty and take MS change
out of tho five. This is done. The
customers leave. Result: When the
merchant counts his money he is
nineteen dollars short. This is one
of the many different methods used,
and it is we'll enough for the mer-
chants to be very careful when
making change,--Clarksburg News.
The new Court House now
building at Parkersburg, will be
one of the finest, if not the finest
in the State. Horner should be
proud now. He has fought many
years in his Sentinel for new
court house. "All things come to
him who waits"
If a picture were painted of
South Parkersburg's improve.
ments within the last year it would
contain as it's subjects the large
number of really fine residences,
we'll laid walks, streets and avenues,
all named, houses numbered, free
mail delivery, new road and last,
but not least, strenuous attempt
to secure graded schools for the
benefit of the younger generation.
The Republican party has no
regard for the judgment and con-
science of the American people;