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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
Hog Lifters

The other day we heard two men
talking about hcgs One of them
said; There is NO telling how
much a man could lift with one
hand. Yesterday 1 sold a hog
that weighed $50 pounds, and i
could lift him from one pen into.
another easily with enc hand. i
commenced to do that VIZ en- he was
little pig. lifting him every day
from one pen intotb other by the
rar with one baud" Said the
other: / do not doubt it, for /
have done The same thing, and l
will tell you another thing 1 did
| built two pens close together and
put a pig in one of them. 1 fixed
up that pen for bedroom and
fed him to crawl through comfort
ably, and every time he was fed he
had to go through that hole. Well,
yesterday ] sold that pig, and he
weighed just 400 pounds. He
seemed TO get through the hole on
the last day as easily as he did on
the first" Liar No. 1 hung HE
head . minute and then said: II
dent believe a DANCED word of
that!"-Bolton (Texee) Demo-
orat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
OLD TOWN.


J Q Hussel's new dwelling house
will soon be ready to OCCUPY.
] s Knopp returned home Sat.
urday from visit to the st. Louis
fair.
Charley Fowler moved last week
to dwelling on Mrs Jamison's
farm. he has rented part of the
farm
George Musgrave. who teaches
at the VanMatre school house, has
large attendance of pupils, and
he is giving great satisfaction.
Ed Rifle steps lightly and wears
broad smile. Why? Cause a
bouncing baby boy took mp Lis
abode at their home last week
Butohering is the order of the
day, and we country people have a
Joyous time feasting on fresh pork
Misses Zoe Rifle, Mary Mus
grave and Linnie Rifle were the
guests of Miss Eliza Yeager last
Sunday
The prospect for a wheat crop
next year is surely not very fiatter-
ing at this date. Much of the
wheat that was Gown this fall has
not come mp yet.
r B Knopp and n Sanders
made a trip to Letart. last Sunday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
AMBROSIA.

There will be preaching Satur
day night at Brighton. by Rev. O.
j. Baker. All are cordially invited
Mrs Georgia Bright was the
guest of her brother Will Greeniee
at Charleston last week.
Mrs Cora Adkins and children,
from near Hamlin. are visiting Der
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs B Spur
lock.
Miss Lizzie jackson. of Greer,
was the guest of Mis- Nellie Fore
man last week.
Miss Marie Spnrlock WIS shop
ping in yonr city Wedre.dsy.
Miss Daisy Wbittinetop. of
Hickory Chapel. wac vsiting at
this place last week
Master Elzie Gillespie. is we are
glad to announce. improving
Boys. get your belle ready for
there are rumors of several we'd
dings soon.
Allen Spurl- ok is visiting his
brother. Writ Spurlock. of Ashton,
al this writing
Mrs Bertha Greenlee and child
rem, of Columbus, are The guests of
her parents. Mr. and Mrs Harvey
Burns.
Little Mics Ella Adkins was
quite sick last week.
Mr. John Crooks and Miss Kate
Rice were quietly married SuId day
evening. Novs27. at the brides
home. by Rev Baker. We wish
al happiness vouo5saf.d to morts,l
on this earth, and hope their path
through life may ever be strewn
with roses. A COUNTRY GIRL
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
Death of Mrs. Anna Laidley.

Mrs Anna Mary Laidley, widow
OF the late James w. LaidIey, died
at her home on Laidley street Sun.
day morning at the sge of eighty
three years. For several years she
has been an invalid The funeral
services will be conducted at the
st. Johns Episcopal Church
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock.
Mrs. LaidIey was Miss Anna
Mary Beuhring before her mar
riage and was born June 1, 1921,
at Cabell Court House, Virginia,
now Barboursville. West Virgins.
She was educated in Pittsburg and
married james NJ LsidIey in 1910.
Shortley after their marriage they
moved to this city where she resid-
ed the remainder of her life.
The deceased is survived by the
following children: Captain F.
A. Lsidley of Oovirg'on, KY;
Miss Fannie Laidley, Miss Nina
Laidley. Mrs HaIlie Bsines. James
J. Laidley and George s. Laidley.
all of this city; NJ M. Lsidley of
Madison. lad and Mrs. juliet
Eskew of Huntington. She also
leaves sister. Mrs. Lowell of Gov
ington. Ky.
The deceased was lifelong conn.,
of the st. Johns church
and was devoted to the interest of
her children. Her death is re-
GREETED as that of another of the
older residents of Charleston
Charleston Mail.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The truly noble man is he who
can most successfully eliminate
self from his nature. True nobili-
ty consists not in a pompous dis
play of wealth. long line of an
cestry whom the world delights to
honor. nor yet in gilded crowns.
steel embIszoned armor or costly
apparel of purple and fine linen
but rather in earnestness and
steadfastness of purpose. in the
conscientious and faithful per-
formanoe of each daily duty, no
matter how trivial; and in an un-
ohangeabIe add abiding belief in
the brotherhood of man under the
fatherhood of God. The world
admires true merit and desises hol-
low glitter. and every time that it
neglects to act in accordance with
this. it's real duty. it is traitor to
itself and the best good of society.
Every young man entering upon
life's duties desires to win success,
and in ambitions broad arena,
mount the golden ladder that leads
to fame and fortune. To win suc-
cess in life one must be something
and appear to be something. Go
forth upon the plains and kindle
the fire upon the rude hearthstone
and fill the air with the incense of
home; climb the mountains rug.
ged side and crown it's frowning
sierility with the perfumes and
grsces of the valley; mount to it's
snowy peak and mellow its per-
petual winter into unending sum-
mer with the warmth of civiliza.
ton and of christianity; study the
varied msgnificence of nature in
the gem studded skies, the hill, the
dell and the cavern, and whatever
you learn of creation and the Crea-
tor emblszon before the world
tune your heart throbs to accord
with the song of the meadow
streamlet, the trilling notes of the
mountain brook, with the soft
signing of the zephyr and the
melody of the lark, that your pres
ence in the world may be like q
soft sunbeam streaming from the
great heart of God and laden with
the richness of his benignity and
glory. Then, when you shall have
become ripe with years and gone
to sleep among the violets and
roses of the quiet churohyard,
although no marble monument may
mark the spot and heartlessness
{ rbid a tear to drop upon your
tomb. the angels of God will giId
upon your humble headstone in
letters of burning love: Sacred
TO the memory of noble mani =
Cabell County Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The news that there are 80 many
immigrants in New York harbor
that they all cannot be landed at
the Euis island station and many
must be held under guard on ship.
board is indicative of the fact that
this country is more than ever the
Mecca of the poor and oppressed
Of foreign lands. It should also
serve to call the attention of our
lawmakers to the necessity of max
ing such amendments to our i'm
migration laws as may prove eff
fectiye in preventing the coming
hither of such persons as may prove
undesirable citizens. Some at.
tention might also we'll be paid to
the question of distributing new.
oomers in the South and West,
and of diyerting them from the
large cities as much as possible
Pittsburg Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

It's inumated by a friend of
Governor-elsct Hanley. of Indi
ana, that when he takes his office
he will honor the requisition for
the return to Kentucky of William
s. Taylor. indicted for the Goebel
murder. Taylor is in the life in.
surance business in Indianapolis,
and Governor Durbin has all along
refused to surrender him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
J MARY NJ. STUART.

The Hotel Central, the pride of
Central City and the most beauti-
fol and best constructed frame
building in the Ohio Valley. was
completely destroyed by flames
whioh. originated in the garnet Sat
urdsy afternoon.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

There are good many reasons why
Congress should promptly make
overtures of reciprocity with Cana
da. Our relations should be much
more intimate than they are. 1t
is probably not generally known
that only two other nations in the
world buy as much of MS as Canada
doee, while among purchasers of
our manufactured goods she stands
the very first.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

No, my pessimistio friend. the
Republican majority in the next
House will not be the largest the
party ever had The Republican
majority will be lie over all, but
it was 1873 over all in 1894. and the
Democratic party did not immedi.
ately and forthwith turn up it's toes
to the daisies. In fact. some think
thatit still lives.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Mason-Thos E Beahrs and
Others to w E Ruttencuttsr, lots
80 and %, 800
Christians CANNES to Hugh
Kent. lot SO. $25
q. Q. Turner and wife to Adam
Young, one half of lot l6. $50.
Ellen Linihan to Hugh and
Georeiana Kent, lots q and 90,
500.
Anna and a O Roseberry to B F
Biggs, lot IS, slo2
Clendenin-John Yonschriltz to
J Calvin Rose.exohange of IS acres
for so acres in Gallia county.
Henry Fry and wife to VIM NJ
and Ella Fry, river landing 81 and
other considerations.
Waggener-Mary Roush to Thos
Holt, two lots, $500.
Point PIeasant-Point Pleasant
Development Company to b. Keib,
lot, $500.
Graham-Wm A Blessing and
wife to Albert and Mary E. German
81 80 acres, $3.50.
Hannan-M A Blazer and hus,
band to Mary F. Mayse, LOT $500
Arbuckle4J B MoKibben to
Ellen K McKibben. 81 acres. $3.50
Henry Simms and Alice ChiIders
to OF Simms, undivided interest
in the estate of Sarah h Simms,
ST. 200.
Cologne-John Mcoullooh and
wife to g Q Baker and wife, sc
acres, SO
John NiohoII and wife to Robi
See. 30 acres, $2S7 so
w II Sommer and wife to T D
burst, 40 so acres, $500
oooper-Laurs B Coleman and
husband to John a McDermitt,
go scres, $500.
Burnell SpurIcck and wife to
Clinton and Lucena Higgins. &C
acres, $500
Charles DsvauIt to G W Ki.ffsr
2 acres. $I4 so.
Isaac N sayre to Jss 81 sayre
80 acres. $40
Union-Lewis Wood and wife
to Ella Smith. 20 acres. Sl25
Presiden, Koosevelt's Thar ks
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Gsvsrnor-eleot Douglas. of Mass
achD,etts. will step into another
man's shoes on New Year Day.
BE says the Republicans of Masss-
obusetts are on their uppers, since
their weltins.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The managers of the st. Louis
Fair have just paid the last in
stallment of the $4,000. 900 borrow.
ed from the government. and Presl.
dent Francis says when the fair
CLOSES they will have money enough
TO meet every obligation. Well
dnnel
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Senator Lodge vehemently de-
clared a month ago that any talk
of reciprocity with Canada was 'an
insult to the administration at
Washington" But since Demo-
cratic shoemaker was elected gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Lodge
roars you as gently as a sucking
dove and has actually announced
that Congress may possibly con-
STEER the subject. His term will
expire March 3. 1905.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
IN MEMORY OF BESSIE GROVER


Iney nave all gatheSed back to their
home again;
But not as they went away,
with smiling faces and laughing eyes
ana nearts SO Joyous and gay;
But they returned with tear dimed
eyes
And from their hearts all joy has fled
For their home circle now is broken
ana the darling OF the household lies
dead
Lies, with smiling face and silent form
In the flowers bedecked parlor. so
still,
Where once nirth and laughter
sounded
lnae made the pulses thrill
6u. up yonuer. with a glorifed form
ana iace' rs-oiantis bright
sne Is singing the wonderous new
,,,,,. song
"i'n ner oavionrs own before the
Throne Oh ngne.
WHEN 49,, s.;, -, -.
tom h. 500 " an' l'Ar'eu
rrh.v snor - 20 ,r.,,.
- 49, 80 y .'apps lneesile 81
when tbsv won,a -, assa,.,,,. -,
With her in their earthly home;
But y those reunions were not to be
This side OF the pearly gate
For our Gaviour came and took f,ar
home
And they were left behind to wait,
To when our Father when calling His
roll-call
Shall come to their names and then
He shall call them away to their
heavenly home
- 1--WE WIN bessie asain
And they gather around the flower
covered casket
In which she lies in dreamless sleep
With not a trace of pain remaining
on her face,
No lookof death, only slumber SO
tranquil and deep
But the lovely face smiles a Welcome
W ohOh,
And on her lips her familiar smile
Seems to say, as they bend over her,
weeping,
uo'a oy ior olly a htele "nie
But those tears. which thew shed. are
not for her. z
Who is among the bIest ON eternity,
But for themselves: because she has
gone from their home
And her face they cannot see
No, not for her now AN inhabitant OF
Goes house
In the beautiful CITY of God:
For what has she now to do with tears
AMID happiness and giorIes unfoidE
Put away her school books. precious
mementoes of her.
She will study them never more;
For what need has Gods scholar
For the books of earthly lore:
For she has gone up higher
She has been promoted to Gods
school in heaven
And knowledge and wisdom such
As no finite mind can teach or under.
stand
VIII be taught to her and to her be
given.
And her n.rants amid tba,r ana,,st
Knows that n ;s.tha,r Es+tar,e 49, .s
thst at,,, = = than. ' NA'e
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The cable announces from
Manila that General Corbin took a
m 'onlight ride in his auto ale ng
the Lunets, and that the names of
soldiers killed by Sanar ineur.
gents will be forwarded by mail.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Several magazines have asked
extension Commissioner Ware to
write poem giving his views of
office. holding in Washington. but
coupling the request with the con-
dition that it shall contain no
words that cannot properly be put
in print.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The best help is not to beer the
troubles of others for them, but 10
inspire them with courage and en-
orgy to bear their burdens for them
selves and meet the difficulties of
life bravely.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The action of Congress in lend.
ing $5.5O0.0O0 to the Louisiana
Purchase Fair in st. Louis has
been justified after all. A good
many regarded it as foolish gener-
osity and lump sum of money
lost. st. Louis has now paid the
last installment of the government
loan. Its pledge in redeemed, to
its great credit. The attendance
at the fair is falling off. but it has
much more than paid as an enter.
prize and will even return some
thing to its promoters. The danger
is that this solvency will encourage
Congress to back up another en-
terprise of the sort and this has
really gone far enough.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

In Pocahontas county, three of
the successful candidates were
elected by majority OF I3 each
Uuiucky number-for the other
fellows.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

In his interesting speech at
Carnegie Music hall on Wednes-
day evening before the Pittsburg
chapter of the American Institute
of Bank Clerks, Robert Ii. Arm
strong, assistant secretary of the
United States treasury, made q
strong appeal for improved water
transportation facilities for Pitts
burg. Mr.. Armstrong pointed out
the great benefits which would re-
suit to the city's trade by the i'm
prUvement of the Ohio river and
the operation of the Panama canal.
The mere work of constructing the
latter, he showed, had already
brought considerable business to
this community Mr. Armstrong
said that experts in transportation
tell US that steel barge can be so
constructed that it can be loaded
t Pittsburg. and with possibly an
addition to it's cargo on the Mic
sissippi. can profitably be towed
through the placid waters of the
canal and the Western Pacific. -
Mr.. Armstrong might also have
added that such barge could pro-
fitably be towed through the waters
of a ship canal to the lakes, and
over the waters of the latter to the
distant Northwest, and that the
mere work of construction of suoh
= canal would pour millions of
dollars into this community. to say
nothing of the great results which
would follow from tie operation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Somebody has playfully remark
ed that there is nothing SO false as
facts except figures. Economists
have long commended that as com.
pared with Europeans the people
of this country sre neither frugal
nor saving but are spendthrifts.
Now comes the Buresu Of Statis-
tics in Washington estimating that
there are 1906, 44S 'depositors in
the banks of the United States.
with an average of S4ls for each.
In England the average for each
deposition is $S7-only one-fourth
as much. In the United States
the total bank deposits amounted
to $S7 per head of the population.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

President Koosevelt's Thai ks
giving turkey. presented TO him by
Horace V.sA, of Westerly, r. 1
was fiue one. the bird weighing
about As pounds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
Trustees Sale


By yiT tn I, Of certain deed Of trust exeeu-
70 81, the undersigned trustee bearing date the
10Th 10Th dsyosf Feern ~, 1908, AID recorded in
Clerks office OF the county court OF Mason
county, West Virginia, TO secure the pay
even date herewith the rein fully descTibed,.
each In the sum Of Two Hundred and Six
and payable in one, two and three years
after dale respectively, with interts. from
payment ofthe nrst OF the said notes. Accord
Ing 70 It's tenor and effect, and having been
requested by John MeCuIloch, the owner and
holder OF said notes, VIII on the
24th day of December, 1904,
At O'Clock p. m of that day. at the front
at public aution, 70 tine highest bidder, the
following described real estate:
al. All OF me ioilowing piece or parcel OF land
ginia, and bounded and described IN said
trust deed as follows. to-wif:
beginning at an ash tree corner in line of
Hiram Sayres, and also corner 70 lands Of
Larry MeLatn- thence with McLafnss line
for corner TO lands Of iaWsen 0 a 4 sISsea
thence with his Ike n Il. 90 W les poles 20
White, White oak CORNER % John wernef tract,
thence with his line and Hiram Sayre,s line,
containing lo3 acres and 8 poles by acfusi
survey IL being the same land conveyed 10
- - s1aStt " y " 11auplns Dy deed bearing
date 90 the 18th day OF November, -. and
recorded In deed book 81. page s. &c
TERMS OF SALEs-Casf as 70 suffieIerit
70 pay the costs and expenses OF thIs sale
and the payment of the nrst OF the notes
herein Described and the residue upon a
Two Hundred Forty-two and 6z-lOO dollars
upon credit oftwo years from the I0fh day
~ feDruarys 1875, and the balance upon a
,redit OF three years from the 10th day OF
February, 1893, the purchaser to give MS
notes for the said deferred payments bear
interest nom date OF sale and the legai title
Q said land win be retained as further Sc
,urity. 70 H BIsA(s(s
nov ~ 1Wks- Trustee.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

MIR. Cornwell asserts as a fact,
the proof of which he c4n easily
produce if called for, that just prior
to the election on the 9Th, a promi,
nent Standard Oil official came
into this State from Pitts
burg, held a meeting of oil men at
Petersburg and from which
meeting orders were issued to the
Standards employees to support
Dawson and the Republican ticket.
The oil magnates. Mr.. Cornwell
says. had come to the conclusion
that the new tax laws, so far as the
Standard Oil Co., is concerned, are
satisfactory to them
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30
Large War Expenditures.

More than two fifths or nearly
ne.half Of, the money now raised
by national taxation goes for pur.
poses of war, for our army and ma
Wy. this, too, in spite of the fact
that We are at peace with all ma
tions of the world. The. resources
of the nation are being Slapped by
unwarranted ana unnecessary prep.
arations for war.
The Office of the Ritohie Gazette,
at Ritohie O. a.. was badly dam
aged by FIRE last week. We have
not learned the extent of the dam
age. but it is doubtless several
hundred, as FIRE in a printing Office
usually wroughts havoc.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

The Democrats of Massachu-
sets are getting aggressive and
what might be called pulled up
over the result of the election in
that State. and no one will dispute
their right to exult considerably
over the election of a man with
the record and caliber of W. L
Douglas. The Bay State Demo
Gratis are talking enthusiastically
of douglas for President in 1908. -
and they point to the face that he
won his fight mainly on the reci-
prooity question and on his atti-
tude toward labor. With the
strength he showed on those two
important questions there is NO
reason why Douglas of Massachu
sets ought not figure prominently
in the next Democratic national
convention Indianapolis Senti-
mel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Miss Margaret Cooper. daughter
of Mr.. Samuel Cooper. of Clifton.
this county, and Dir. Will @ How
ell. of Marietta. were united in
marriage last week. Rev. Metheny
officiating They will make their
home at East Liverpool.
Christmas is the next big event
on the calender.
Mr. Ira Rodgers and Miss Min
ME Young. both of this county,
were married on Thanksgiving day
at the residence of Mr.. E. w.
Craig. Rev. Bird officiating.
Secretary Shaw says 500 a
month is enough for a young mar
ried man to start married life on if
he is good for anything, and ifhe
isn't he never should have any
more.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

Christmas is the next big event
on the calendar.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

What is the object of the Presi-
dents projected campaign through
the SOUTH Does he yearn after
the enthusiastic appreciation of
GeorgiaP Does he long to bind
Texas to his triumphant chariot
wheelsf Does he banker after
Yszoo bouquetsP Or does he
merely want to find ont what col.
ored people will make the most
satisfactory postmastersP We as
sure his strenuousity that there is
a great deal of respectful curiosity
along these lines about this time.