The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-08-22
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cider is made from apples this year.
Smallpox has "petered out" and
all afflicted have been released.
Hartford City will have wig
wan for public speakers.
b. Morrison, Esq, of Syracuse,
is one of the fish wardens recently
appointed in Meigs county.
Prof. Seth Thomas, of Mason
City, is travelling in kentucky for
an Indiana seed house.
There was big picnic. attended
by hundreds of people at Oak
Grove, last Sunday.
The building of the street car
line from Middleport has greatly
widened and improved the public
road in many places
The people of Plain View, near
John FISHERS, will have school
celebration, picnic and speeches on
Saturday, 18th,
Graham and Robinson districts
are the poorest supplied with up
to.date school apparatus of any
school districts in the county,
Otis Sayre, merchant at Letart,
Ohio, has moved his family to Sis
tersville, and taken charge of the
buying department. of McCoy's big
stores.
1t is notable that Sunday is get
ting to be observed more as holi.
day than as holy day. Too many
picnics and excursion put off for
Sunday.
Many farmers who have expert
mented this year with both cold
storage and buried potatoes for
seed, are decidedly outspoken
in favor of the former.
Prof. N. A. Hall will conduct a
class in vocal music at Old Town
church, near Boards school house.
He is we'll read in mnsic, is good
vocalist and will have large class.
Elijah Davis, son of Michael
Davis, the Merchant at Apple
Grove, Ohio, and Wildwood, w,
Va, and Miss Maud Miller, of the
latter place, were married last SUI
day evening.
Aunt Betsey Ellis, of Racine, o
mother of w. A. Ellis, known as
the King of merchants, was ninety
seven years old last Sunday, the
18th, and is apparent good health
for one of her years. She is one
of the best women the world has
ever known.
Waldo Grimm has returned to
his home at New Haven, after a
visit to Fairmont coal section of
the State, and says all the people,
and there are great many from
this county up there, are we'll and
doing we'll, with steady employ
ment at good wages. He himself
will move there in three weeks
to work in the mines.
One way the Pittsburg coal oper-
ators or others could compete sue
cessfully with the Kanawhu
people, if they knew it, From
above Letart all the
way to Point Pleasant, is an extern
sive coal field, of the best quality,
and known as the Pittsburg coal
The field has hardly been tapped
ns yet. There is good water all the
way to the Great Kanawha river,
tho year round and coal could be
mined and harbored in low water,
all along between these points, as
it is now dropped down the Kama
wha and harbored at and near Point
Pleasant. This coal can be reach
ed readily at from 6Oto $50 feet; is
right on the line of the Ohio River
and is as accessible to
as the Kanawha coal, This
coal can be bought very reasona-
bly,. The vein runs from 4 to 10
and Ia feet in thickness. The har-
Dor, already good, could be greatly
with little busting and
in places. SNAPPER.
Accident to MIR. Ed. johnson,
Mate on the NIorcdocI1.
Mr.. Ed. johnson, mate on tho
Geo. w. Moredock, while standing
ON the head of his boat, which was