The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-05-15
NOW Appointments

DR.. d. FL. Taylor, Wheeling,
Ohio county.
DR.. ID. P. Morgan, CIarksburg,
Harrison county.
DIR. II. f. Lanhen, Newburg,
Preston county.
DIR. s. N. Myers, NIartinsburg,
Berkeley county.
DIR. j. e. Robins, Claremont,
Fayette county.
DR.. A, G., Stauntop, Charleston,
Kanawha county.
DR.. a. N. Frame, Parkorsburg,
Wood county.
DR.. VIM. Warner, Glenville, Gill
mer county.
Dr. A. r. Barbee, Point Pleas
ant, Mason county.
STATE BOARD OF EMBALMERs.
Terms: Four years from May
oath. There are four hold-overs
on the Board
New members: First Congress-
ional district, Conc to appoint).
Second Congressional district:
w. FL. Wilen, A1urtinsburg. (To
succeed himself)
Third Congressional district:
John Barlow, Charleston. (To
succeed himself)
Nelson M. Hooker, Buokhannon,
(New appointmentO
Fourth Congressional districts:
Geo. d. Gilfllan, Purkersburg.
(To succeed himself)
j. b. Tippett, Point Pleasant
Mason county. (To succeed him
self)
Arch NJ. Rice, Sistersville. (New
appointment
Fifth Congressional. (No vacan-
oies to fill
Governor White also appointed
DIR. w. A. Williams, of Hunting
ton on the State Board of Dental
Examiners, to succeed j. w. De-
wore, of Huntington, whose term
expires June %, 1901, and who
was appointed at large. The term
is for four years.
The annual meeting of the
Board will belheld in Charleston
the secondlTuesday,in June; also
examination for license June lltb,
18th, and 18th.
Wagon Loads of Silver Dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1O.-Wagon
loads of silver dollars, close packed,
without decentralization received in
circulation, guarded by armed ser
wants of the government and the
carrying express company, are now
being swiftly wheeled each day
from the old mint to the new
There are six million Of these
dollars" said mint official yes
terday. "Do you know what that
means?" Then he and the report
or sat down together to mako few
computations. They found that
the amount Weighed 429,G97
pounds, or nearly 215 tons. 1t
would take nine freight cars to car
ry it. AS an express wagon is
usually loaded it would lave to
mako about $50 trips in the NOV
ing. If man is worth just about
his weight in silver it needs some
thing like $500 of him to buy the
pile. If laid edge to edge there
are enough of them to reach 142
miles and fraction over. Piled
up as ono pile it would make
column moro than y miles high.
a soldier writing home TO New
York paper from the Philippines
has this to say about our now pos
sessions:
The Filipinos are bunch of
trouble gathered together on the
western horizon of civilization.
They are bounded on tho north by
rocks and destruction, on the east
by typho, ms, on the south by can
uibals and earthquakes, on tho west
by hoodos and smuggIers. The
soil is extraordinarily fertile, pro-
ducing crops of instruction and
trickery. The climate is pleasant
and healthful for scorpions, cent?.
Pedes, snakes and alligators. The
principal exports are rice, hemp,
sick soldiers and war bulletins.
The principal imports are Ameri
can soldiers, arms, ammunition,
beor and tobacco.
An Oklahoma country postmas-
Ter sent the following notice to the
postal department: "Sur wish TO
notify you that on next Wednes-
daV this office will he shot as I am