The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-06-22
July Fourth.

ue L outtu OF July ceieDrarlou |
here promises to be success Our
local ball team will GROSS bats with |
the Richmond. Va, club, and an
exciting and interesting game is |
looked for. Excursion rates have
been secured on. railroads and
steamboats,. and the street parade
together with the ball game and |
other amusements. i'll make the
fourth gala day. All are most
cordially invited.
Secretary Shaw's.promise of
$14. 100000 surplus has gone elim-
mering, and in it's place we have
for June 80 deficit of $50 900, OOOl
The government receipts continue
TO shrink, while the ordinary ex. |
penses of the citizen continue to
expand. Since Theodore Roose- |
velt became acting executive he
has succeeded in spending q
thousand million dollars more
than was spent during the admins
tration of the last Democrats
president.
AT the Lake Mohonk conference
Commissioners MacFsrland, yirtu-
ally governor of the District of
Columbia informed his audience
that the chief hope of peace in the
world was based on the re. election
of President Roosevelt. This is a
great hit. mcfarland is over.
working his brain. And also, his
gratitude in devotion to his master
who appointed him to office,
The administration has set the
clerks in two departments at work
to twist figures and torture statis-
tics SO as to demonstrate that the
wages of the average working man
have increased faster than the
average cost ofoIothing, provisions
and rent, and the salaries of these
clerks will not come ont of the
Republican campaign fund either.
The vice president of the Han
over National Bank of New York
said at a banquet last week "Presi.
dent Roosevelt has pledged him
self to the bankers of the country
to carry out whatever policy they
determine on as best" It seems
quite impossible that Mr.. Roose-
welt has said any such thing. Ifae
has. he is not fit to be President.
A young man in Wayne county
had trouble with his best girl and
they did not speak, (which is
nothing strange) but the other
day when he met her in the shady
garden walk they had SO often trod
in bonds of love. he concluded
onoe more to hug her; he did, it
made her mad, she went before the
grand jury-indicted him and the
judge fined him s25 and 80 DAYS
in jail. Comes high.
Grant Hall was elected county
clerk of Kanawha county to fill the
Office made vacant by the death of
E. w. Staunton, his bittercst DO.
litical foe. This action of the
county court is of the utmost con-
sequence, for it means the down
fall of the Hog Combine in Kama
wha county.
A book agent was yesterday
found unconscious in a Chicago
hotel room which was filled with
escaping gas. In belt about his
waist was found $l3, 600 in money,
but the surprising thing about the
incident is that the man was over
come by SO impalpable a thing as
gas. alis pssa
A loud voice is crying from the
Democratic wilderness. imploring
Senator German to become the
manager of the Democratic icam-
paign. He is certainly one of the
shrewdest political managers in
the country of either party.
1t is reported and is perhaps
true that Dick Yates is almost
sorry that he looked horns with
Billy Mason in that Illinois mix
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