The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-06-06
Around a Great bend.


biggest strawberries in the bottom
s of the box.
A strange wild man. with hair
five feet long, arms five feet long,
and boots on, has been for some
days, slashing around Mission
Ridge, back of West Columbia and
near the Poor Farm. His lodging
is in the caves among the rocks
When overtaken by hunger, he
visits the farm houses, frightens the
wits out of the women and orders
them to prepare meal for him
He found Mr.. Edwards at home
near Mission Ridge, when he called
the other day for dinner. Not sat
isfied with lunch he persisted in
sitting at the table with the family,
saying he was good enough to sit
at the table with'President McKin-
ley, etc. Mr.. e. thought not and
hot words ensued, then blows. We
don't know who got the best of it,
but there was plenty of long hair,
nails, and old boots strewn about
Edwards' yard next day, and the
wild man was gone. He is thought
to be an escaped lunatic from some
where
Decoration Day appropriately
observed everywhere around the
bend. The Memorial services g..
A, II. held at Oak Grove, back of
Letart, drew large crowd, who
picniced the day out last Sunday.
Reys. Alkens and Fife addressed
the people, With others.
Our store maple sugar is now
known as the oleomargarine of the
woods.
Sheep killing dogs are abroad in
this section of the county. As
bury Roush, back of New Haven
and Letart, lost almost his entire
lot of thirteen last week. Two of
the dogs we're recognized and have
been killed. The sheep and lambs
were mangled terribly, feet and
limbs chewed and broken. Only
one regular sheep killing dog
among them, as shown by throats
cut and it has escaped SO far. The
farmers are all prepared and on the
lookout now for dogs, and hence
every dog seen away from home
now is in danger For their own
benefit, dogs had better, hereafter,
stay at home.
Politics are all serene around the
bond at present. But serenity is
no sign of security. We have al
ways noticed that streami is never
SO smooth, equable and silvery as
at the instant before cataract.
Good many of the boys will make
politics an excuse for evening up
old scores this fall.
Young Mr.. Dougherty, of Flat
Rock, tells us there are more rattle
snakes out his way and near Excel
sior school house than ever known
before, the biggest and most noisy,
that they can be heard and smelt
all along the public road at night.
b. j. Rollins moves this week
with his family to his farm recent
ly bought in North Dakota.
Point Pleasant, colored school
marms are after the Mason City,
public schools, colored.
Potato crop will be short this
year for reason it has been too hot
weather for them. The nights
have been too cool for corn that
was carly planted, and to that ex-
tent it will be short this year.
Wheat is no account in many
places. Perhaps the best in the
county is on Graham Bottoms.
There will be one third crop of
peaches and not quite SO much of
apples Cherries will amount to
about half crop this year, in this
section.
Capt. Harry Hart has moved in
to his residence at Mason City
He has an admirable location on
the slopes back of town, and hap
Ply home.
Our birds. In addition to the
actual good that birds do in the
destruction of noxtous insects,
many of them are engaged for at
lenst one half of tho year in hunt
ing out and devourin.g the seeds of
various weeds and other, to us. use
less plants. Such is the mission
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