The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-04
Around a Great Bond.
April SHOWERS,

Five things observe with care;
OF whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
Harry Allemong, tho ball tosser,
has good position at Newport
News, and is not expected to be
with the homo team this year.
You may brag about John
Myers and the other players, but
buckwheat is the greatest batter of
them ALL
AS many as thirty-fve young
men bave left these "diggens," the
last thirty days going west. and
the girls complain of poor mail
facilities.
Farmers are busy blowing. Good
many on both sides of the river are
putting in large crops of potatoes.
Jacob Brinker Esq, is one of the
oldest of our followers of the stony
streak, and be expresses the opin-
ion, potatoes will do better, if not
planted for two weeks yet. We.
suppose it depends on the character
of the soil.
Hay is scarce, none hardly to Be
bought, and corn is little
"scarcer." Our millers are mostly
buying from Greenville, Ohio.
Fl. e. Spilman Esq, of the Cam
den Clay Co., at West Columbia,
has been examining and testing
some of the clays here and there
in the county, for manufacturing
purposes and finds some par excel
lent, notably among them, on the
farm of George Roush, back of New
Haven and above, suitable for pot.
terry. The expense getting a right
of way and building track to it,
will doubtless render tardy, it's de-
velopment.
If people don't quit running
around with their lanterns after
night over the back end of Cooper,
Graham and Robinson districts, SO
much, in search of lead and silver
mines, some of them will get
blowed into a grease spot, if they
amt careful. We give this as
tip of warning simply, There are
too many places where gas is es-
Gaping in quantities from the
ground, and if light should come
in contact with one such, this whole
country would be "swiped off the
map of the world" John Weigand
Esq, says he knows one place where
the gas can be heard roaring
through the ground, and offers his
farm to any man who will put a
we'll down four hundred feet. John
is u good man and solid as a church.
Bob Pickens is still digging
around on Mrs. Shirley's farm, but
he hasn't found the hole where the
lead mine was. There seems to be
but ono man who has ever been
there that can now locate it, and
that is old Uncle Sam Rickard.
He has not been there in years but
is certain he can go to it. He is
also certain something was mined
there at that time, that was quite
valuable. He is one of the best
known and honorable of our citi-
zens, and told your reporter this
recently on visit to his home.
All the coal works in operation,
and the prospects are good for
entire years work.
Amateur photography is respon-
sible for good many lifes' mis-
representation as witness the work
of journeymen artists visiting this
section Beware of tho tourist in
this business He is apt to give
you very cheap picture, one the
beauty of which will soon fade
away, for cheap price.
Organized gangs of young boy
thieves have been found to exist in
certail towns around the bend.
They go after old iron with ven
geanoe and have a strong penohant
for chickens. Some of them are
known and sooner or later the
whole of gangs will be run in. Bet
ter that tho officers go after them
now in their youth, than allow a
lot of safe blowers and bank robbers
to grow up among us. Some of
these boys will be carried home in
a box some time, if they don't stop
their petty stealing.