The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-11-06

at Arleei Ounudy evening
Misses May and Jennie Reece.
were visiting the Misses Halfhill.
Sunday.
Mrs. Cynthia Gibson, of Hender-.
son, isvisiting her father. Mr. q. T.
Blain.
John l.. D4bney and wife. and
Joe Dabney and wife. of Hender-
son; are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j.
r. Dabney.
Geo. Beohtle made flying trip
to Yerndale, Friday evening.
Tho quilting at DR. Reeoe's was
an enjoyable affair, and the dinner
was just splendid. They say they
will have to renew the old fashi5h
of the Quilting Bee. ~ Eo1G !
Miss Jennie Reeoe left Monday,
for Rio Grande, Ohio, whore she
will attend school.
Mrs. Wesley johnson was visit
ing Mrs Philip Woods, Thursday.
Prof. f. q. Chapman and w. X
Dabney, were calling on friends
here, Sunday. BRIDGET.
ii Boys Composition on Water.
Water is found everywhere. es,
peoially when it rains, as it did the
other day, when our cellar WAS half
full. Jane had to wear her fathers
rubber boots to get the onions for
dinner. Onions make your eyes,
water and 30 does horse radish,
whel you eat too much There is
a good many kinds of water in the
world-rain. water, soda water, holy
water and brine Water is used
for good many things. Sailors
use it to go to sea on. If there
wasn't any ocean the ship couldn't
float and they would have to stay
ashore. Water is good to fire at
boys with squirt, and to catch
fish in. My father caught big
one the other day, and when he
hauled it up it was an eel! No
body could be saved from drown.
ing if there wasn't any water TO
pull them out of. Water is first
rate to put fires out with. [ love
to go To fires and see the mon work
at the engines. This is all / oAn
think of about except the
flood.
The autopsy on the body of
Czolgosz was made by three emil
nent surgeons and showed that all
the organs of the body we're in a
healthy condition and the brain
normal. Tho doctors state that
from the condition of his brain, lie
was a sane man, and that insanity
could not have caused him totkfli
the President.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
brought tears to the eyes of the
"poor" corporations in that State
by making them pay taxes on a
fair valuation of their property,
which is said will add some eight
million dollars to the States funds,
We may now expect to hear some
thing about anarchy on the bench.
Miss Helen Gould has given
S12. 600 for the nerpetual endoW.
ment of two scholarships at New
York university. They are for
graduates of the Irvington and
TarrYtown high schools
Rudyard Kipling declares that
the British army is 70 bel hauled
back into the old ruts. AndI:this,
too, after the Beers have thr. wn
the British army into the dumps.
The United States consumes L..
22O,OOO,OOO gallons of beer every
twelve months, Point Pleasant
does her share in this regard.
Gen. Miles recommends that the
18th infantry be sent to the Philip
pines to take the place of troops
that have been there three years,u
Great honor to that Kansas
priest who refused to ohristen an
infant whose parents wanted it
named after the assassin of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Admiral Dewey denies the re-
port that he was once a prisoner
during the civil war.
France has gone after the Sultan
in the only manner in which it
seems possible to move that poten-
tate.
Elizebeth Writ counfv ia mar.