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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16
Mr. aso. N. PnIIin. q D bbE.

Miss Jessie Stevens, of Middle
port. is visiting Miss Maude Shift
let.
4 DR.. C.B. Waggener. Of AFbuck,
lie. was in town Monday.
Miss Nay Lynch is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. w. o. Jewett in Hunting
ton.
/ Mr.. Bert Shifiet was in Middle
port Monday night,
Mics Lyde Waggener is quit.
sick at Mr. Ed Z Neale's at Der
Lomond.
Miss Reba Beale left yestelday
morning on visit to relatives neal
| Gallipolis Ferry.
Mr.. Walter Withers. of Ben Lo.
mond. was in town Monday
Little Miss Anora Kenny is visi.
ting relatives in Charleston.
Mr.. @. j Eokard. of Five Mile,
was in town Monday
Mrs. William Canady and child.
rem. of Gallipolis. have been visit,
ing relatiyes>in Henderson.
Miss Ella Howard has returned
from visit to relatives at HamiI-
ton and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. John R. Couch and son Trix.
from up Kanawha were in town
Monday.
Miss Gertrude Rankin. of Au-
gusta, KY, arrived here Saturday
on visit to her aunt. Mrs. r. P
Liter and family.
Miss Nellie Greenwood, of
Springfield, Ohio, is here the guest
of Miss Gertrude Burdett.
Mr.. William Duncan was up
FROM Huntington Sunday to visit
his family.
Mr.. j. R. Shanklin, of Charles
ton, was business visitor in our
city Monday.
Mr. R M Allen, of Cleveland, o
was here Monday night and Tues.
day.
Mr. Lew Starkey. of K an was
in town yesterday visiting friends
and attending the Institute.
Miss Anna Pailey who has been
visiting Mr. j F Burdett and family
near town. returned to her home
in Pittsburg yesterday.
Mr.. M Wilmington, near town,
was in town Monday. while here
he subscribed for the Weekly
Register
Mrs. @. K Blaokwood and little
son Neale, left Ben Lomond, Mon
day to join her husband at Look
No. Is just above Parkersbnrg.
Mr.. R. P. Liter left yesterday
for Weston, Ohio. where he will
start Beaver Boy in the 2:25 pace
and Dainty Dolly in the 2:25 troll.
Mr Robert Norton, wife and lit.
tie daughter were visiting his IN.
ole. Mr.. A. F. Lasley in Gallipolis
last Sunday.
Misses Fannie and Rhoda Ar
buckle of Putnam county. are here
attending the Teachers Institute
and are guests of Hon, P. @. East
han aud family near town.
Mr. Clarence Stout a prominent
young business man of Clarksburg
arrived Sunday on visit to his
wife who has been visiting her
parents. Captain j @ Porter and
wife, at Ben Lomond. They will
spend to day here with friends and
leave this evening for their home
at Clarksburg.
Mrs. S. Z. Miller and Miss
Maude Summers had a delightful
time at M. and Mrs Veught's on
Kanawha the other day. Mrs.
Miller's husband is a son of the
late Henderson Miller, travelling
man of the International Harvest
ing Co, with headquarters here.
Mr. and Mrs VAught are relatives
of Mr.. and Mrs. Miller.-Gallipo.
| lis Tribune.
Mr. K. T. MoKinstry. one of the
prosperous merchants of Point
Pleasant w. Va, made DIR. and
Mrs. j. b. VIM a very pleasant
visit last Saturday and Sunday
Travelling here in his fine Automo
bile. and after arriving gave many
of our citizens young and old a
pleasure ride. which was enjoyed
by all of them Rio Grand Cor.
respondence Gallipolis Tribune
August 10
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Gallipolis Excursions via 4. EN-.

For the GalIia County Fair. Ex-
oursion tickets will be sold Aug.
I6, II & Is, at rate of one fare for
the round trip from Athens, Gaul-
ey Bridge and intermediate station
limit returning Aug. 10
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16
browns Her Daughter

Mrs. Chester Winstanley, of New
Albany, Ind, while temporarily in
sane last Thursday. drowned her
eight year old daughter Ruth, hold
ing her under the water in bath
tub. Selling pistol she shot and
dangerously wounded her husband
and then swallowed a quantity of
csrbolic acid, dying an hour later.
Winstaniey may recover.
Our hustling little neighbor the
village of Heights. is becoming
quite shipping point. With it's
numerous industries, Touring mills,
planning mills, iron mills, furniture
factories, stores, etc, it will readily
be seen that great future is smil
ing in her face. Her oitizens are
progressive, genial and happy, and
are ever ready to extend the glad
hand to worthy seekers of homes
among them.
Edward Grow. who married Miss
Carrie Kayser, daughter Of Mrs.
Rose Kayser. of this city, was
thrown from box car upon which
he was riding last week, distance
of about Is feet away. His com-
paniun jerome @ Baker. who was
also thrown from car received in.
ternal injuries, but Grow only re-
ceived sprained ankle and bruises
about the body. The accident hap.
pened in the yards of the Pan Han
die at Columbus.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16

Big Races every day at
Gallipolis Fair, August II
and L..
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The fourth quarterly meeting for
the Point Pleasant circuit will be
held at Beech Hill next Saturday
and Sunday. The services will be
as follows. viz: Quarterly Confer
enoe Saturday at 3 p. m, preach-
ing at 8 p. m. Preaching Sunday
at IL a IN. and 2 p m, with dinner
on the ground. The Presiding Ell
der will preach at 8 p. m in Point
Pie SAINT. All cordially invited.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16

Who hath spice enough, may
eason his msat as he pleasetll
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16
Sweeping
Reductions
In Cotton Wash
Suits, Skirts and
Waists.

This is house cleaning time
and all Summer Stufs must
go out.
LOOK AT THESE PRICES
Shirtwaist Suits were $3.50
to 400, now 81.
Separate Skirts in Blue,
Gray and Black and White,
were $500, now 6ects.
Linen Skirts were So, 3.75,
now 90.
White Waists were soc now
39c; white waists soc now soc;
white waists 81 now 6oc; I.25
now 8oc; white waists, $50
now CSC; white waists, 100 now
I.19.
One lot of Silk Waists in
Black and Colors, were
81 so and 500, now $500
These are last years
waists.
Many small lots of goods
to be closed out at very
low prices.
MILLINERY.
All Summer Millinery
to close out at ridiculously
low prices
We are showing an ad
vance line of new fall hats
The DeQTdOTIf ( POOTe Go
GaIIipoIis, Ohio.
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The ST. Thomas Episcopal
Church. of New York. the finest
Church in Americas was destroyed
by fre = few days ago. It cost a
quarter of a million.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16

LIE easy 10 win 9 nmils from &
woman e she has pretty testh.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16

In.the atiairs Of men lhs tide Of
may be united By Z diyuTos judge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-08-16

Many small lots of goods
to be closed out at very
low prices.
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Elder Bishop.
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MILLINERY.

All Summer. Millinery
to close out at ridiculously
low prices.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
WrIttsa fer Ths Alanssurds News
By EDWIN WALTERS sss'siIst a.d cIVH Engineer

Talk is cheap Everybody ready give advice and few
are willing take it, Opinions differ Conditions peculiar
man may have good farmer orchard other
country and time partial failure here We all have much
to learn Even those who have spent generaOnin New
Mexico learn in the of methods that best
adapted to conditions But there subject which
all can agree Aamogodo is to and attain the impOr
ance that all hope for it must have factorest
featuring must be developed What they Our in
oure and Investigations must be directed to the to this
question: 1t will take time to fully this question There
are hints Indications of many possibilities in the manufactur
ing line It would that Aamogodo is well located for
woodpup factory The pine and especially the white
spruce admirably adapted to pulp With pupa mill is
possibility If the water here adapted and suitable clay for
filler can be had be why could
have paper MILL But that it pulp mill is easily
sible.
There are beds of shae within few miles of town
that will good paving and building bricks brick plant is
needed.
believe the materials easily accessible. Our
marble certainly very fine. For durability and strength it is
nexceed should be developed The markets from San Fran
cisco to New Orleans supplied with Aamogordo marble
fibre mill would certainly pay The palms bear
grass would afford the materials wooen mill possib
ity Dye-works would certainly succeed Mesquite roots
most or quite equal to logwood After the coorng
tracted the still valuable for fuel salt refinery should
be The of thousands Of Of impure rock salt
west and southwest of town should be utilized To do this would
short railroad With the development of the salt would
follow that Of the Soda white other materials found
in the plains tributary to town. The development of the
teras white plains could be made to lead to large
chemical plants for the production OF zinc Chloride different kinds
potassium and sodium salts ulphuric acid blue vitrio
peras etc. etc.
canning factory and winery will be necessity for the
horticultural agricultural of the country tributary h
Aamogordo are be developed in the future
We feel disappointed at the results Of the sanatarum dec
son all remain Nothing has been taker
from every good citizen do his part Study the possibl
ties and help beautiful town to avail itself OF everything
their reach and forget disappointment
There possibilities other than those above mentioned
Let all try to discover and publish them.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20

Watertown, ON bis way to his
home, there came the sounds Of
cannonading at Sackett's harbor,
where a British warship was bonn
harding the Qualifications. In
less than a month he was back
in the ranks, serving with his
father, James Cronk, and his
brothers, John and Caspar, at
Sackett's harbor. There he ser
we'd forty days as a private, as
sisting in the construction of
barracks. In November, 1914,
he was honorable discharged from
the service.
Hiram Oronk began to grow
weak from old age about eigh-
teen years ago, at which time he
went to live with his daughter,
Mrs. Sarah A. Rawley, on a 100
acre farm at Dunnbrook, in
Oneida county.
| Mrs. Rawley, after several
years Of hard work, got the gov
ernment to give her father a pen.
sion of IS a month. This wai
later raised to $12, and finally tC
$25 a month.
The state legislature q yea
land a half ago voted him a pen
sion Of $72a month. This none!
made it possible for him to hay'
proper care. Until two year
Iago he was up and about and sa
on the veranda d good deal. HI
lchewed tobacco con ntinually an,
drank gallon Of wine every tw
weeks.
Twoyearsagohe became weak
er and remained in bed almos
constantly until the end. Las
winter, it IS recalled, the cen
tenarian began to develop q nev
set Of teeth and a new growth I
,hair. He celebrated his la
! birthday on April 20. sitting
-1an armchair and shaking tl
j hands Of many visitors.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
ANY OLD THIRG FOR GHICAGO

What will We Hear Nsxt9 Are All Re
ports True Of ths stEiks On Both
sides7
Chicago, ILL.,, May 14.-The
police were advised at 8 o'clock
this morning that men in the
guise of detectives visited the
home of a union man. H. ]. Har-
rison, in Blackhawk street, COM
PEELED him to dress, forced him
to enter a cab and then disap-
peared with him. His family
firmly believes he has paid the
penalty with his life for defying
the union and working toprOvide
for his family.
Still another development in
the labor war that is raging in
Chicago is that in all probability
Federal troops will be called be-
fore the week is ended and that
the city will be in a state of siege.
The Team Owners Association,
controlling 1000 drivers, have
served an ultimatum on the
Teamsters' Union that it will
force deliveries to the struck"
houses tomorrow and align itself
with the Employers Association
unless the strike is called off /.
The Teamsters' Union answer is
that it will tie up the entire
business of the city if necessary
to win the battle.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
CHICAGO STRIKE DEVILMENT
Something Doing in Chicago and Some
thing More May be Expected at ANY
mi,

tnmg more may 10 hAPOOsO0 "' Any
Time.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 14.-March-
ing with draped banners and
muffled drums, more than 1000
union men followed the remains
Of strike victim George S. Pierce
from his late home to the Union
Station here today. The body
was taken over the Pennsylvania
Railroad to Louisville, KY, for
burial.
No funeral services we're held
here, but the escorting Of the
body to the station was made the
occasion Of a labor demonstration
in which not only the teamsters,
union, but organized labor gem
orally, participated. The pas
sage Of the cortege was without
incident. The men marched sol
emnly, four abreast, each wear
ing upon his coat lapel white
button with the inscription in
black: I'VE mourn the loss Of
a murdered brother"
Even the spectacle of three
coal wagons manned by nonunion
negroes near the Union Station
elected no more than mutteringl
as The column filed by. The on,
lly break in the serious mien ot
the men occurred when a patrO-
wagon, called in anticipation O.
trouble by two policemen il
charge Of the coal wagons, gal
loped onto the scene. Thecheer
and handclappings, mingled witt
shouts of derision, broke on
along the line for a block. Blu
there was no work for the police
Pierce was an employe Q
Rothschild & Co. as driver on
: delivery wagon. He was shot b,
} Special Deputy Sheriff F. I. Wal
} dorf. He is the only union ma
who has lost his life during th
strike and is regarded by othe
! union men as a martyr to tn
= cause. Pierce is said to have as
9 saulted nonunion driver in tn
$ presence Of Waldorf. WaldoI
tlwas exonerated By q Coroner
g Jury.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
WAYS OF SOME WOMEN.
How They Vainly Seek at Post
Office to Keep Gases on Sus-
pected Husbands Letters

Newspaper Offices and = well re-
gulated postOiiiee are much alike In
one respect, IS TO the seal Of secFesy or
confidential relations imposed or pre-
vaIlIng at each, said Postmaster Haw-
kins to News man.
mo we'll trained reporter or editor
ever tells the name OF writer Of an
article written in or outside Of q news
paper office, nor gives the source Of
published news, even II to refuse means
to bear blame and invite licking.
''As to revealing any information about
who receives mail at pOstOfice, or in
regard TO mail delivered, regulations
strictly forbid. No exception is made
as to family mail. Wife and husband
may each prevent delivery OF each
others mail to the matrimonial partner.
"NeIther wife or husband can receive
registered letter for the other or re-
ceipt q money order without written
order, properly witnessed II the sigma
ture OF the party addressed is unknown.
A postmaster is not allowed to waive
this rule In any case.
~ have never known OF a man seek
ing to secure the private letters of a
wife In way that indicated suspicion.
But several times tricks have been re-
sorted to here by wives who wished to
see hubby's letters. One woman learn
ed that there was a registered letter in
the Office for her husband. She called
and declared that she attended to all Of
his business; that he was out Of town;
that he could scarcely write his name;
that he was in town engaged in deal
and she could not get an order from
him without delay. The statements
followed each other in rapid succession.
"As neither assertion secured viola
tion of the postal rules, she went out
with whirl, declaring, that's all d
rot
s'Within ten minutes she returned
with properly signed order, and after
verifying the husbands signature de-
livered the letter.
IA shade Of disappointment passed
over the woman's face when she looked
at the address on the envelope. As sh'
passed out OF the Office clerk heart
the recipient say TO companion. IL
all right. It's from his sister, / wa
bound to get IL because l believed it wa
i from his former wife,
i "Another woman, with y0unge
| husband, while visiting in an eastern
state wrote to the postmaster here tha
he should forward to her all letters ad
dressed to her husband who was still Il
5 AlamogordO she stated that he was to
: busy to answer any letters and she coul
n attend to his correspondence. She di
not succeed.
"There is scarcely day that an IN
quiry does not come by mail TO post
master, or verbally at the window ash
I ing II q named person receives mail here
: or to what town he has gone. Ofte
4 the inquirer is . mother, and pitif'
: story is recited and anxiety show
J Frequently the question comes from
y collector, or merchant But neither
Q long lost daughter, an erring son, or d
e faulting debtor in danger Of discover
/ through postoflice. information Is he
4 to be utpostofIice knowledge. liza stan
comes with an inquiry this is return'
: to the writer, with quotation fro
n the regulation. Otherwise the lett
goes unnoticed.n
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
{. P.-I. /. sYsTEJu sold

The E. P. 8 N. E System has been sold
Theohacial announcement Of the sale was made
by Prest. Chas. B. Eddy in Ell Paso yesterday
Mr.. Eddy's announcement is as follows:
Il have ofacially announced today the sale
OF all the New Mexico Railway and Coal Com
pany properties to Phelps Dodge and Company
|of New York and while we may AL regret any
change Of ownership yet II it had to be there is
certainly no one 90 acceptable as these pur-
|chasers. Allofour people must remember that
they are essential developers and builders d
All kinds Of properties and industries in any
country they are interested il and feel il ny
heart that the people Of AlamOgordo are TO b
most sincerely congratulated il the change
We ere All coming up tomorrow.
sOHAs B EDDY.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20

further spread OF the strike would
certainly make it necessary for
him to call for troops; and the
arrival of President Gompers of
the American Federation of Lab
or, who reached the city this
evening.
Although not possessed of ex-
ecutive power in the settlement
of the strike, President Gompers
declared that he had every hope
that its end was not far distant.
''It was my intention to come
to Chicago anyway, at the end of
this week." said Mr.. GOmpers,
''but after holding q conversa-
tion over the telephone with Mr..
Shea yesterday, / decided to an
ticipate my visit somewhat and
come at once. l certainly shall
do all in my power to end the
strike, and / have great hopes of
success.
The employers association and
the express companies increased
their score of deliveries still fur
ther today. More than 1900
wagons were in use and business
for the most part was transmit
ted without hindrance of any
kind. There were a few cases Of
small rioting which were dispers-
ed by a few policemen, who used
their clubs in vigorous fashion,
Merchants and department stores
are confident that they will bt
able to extend their operations
still further tomorrow and have
at least 1900 wagons in full ser
vices.
Three hundred and fifty mel
were brought into the city tOda!
to take the place of the strikers
and as many more are expected
tomorrow.
| At the hearing before Maste
in Chancery Sherman, wher'
evidence is being taken relativ'
to the federal injunctiOns issue'
against strikers, F. K. Buckmin
ster, superintendent Of a privat
} detective agency, cited fully tw
dozen instances where assault
had been committed ON nonunio
men and the federal injunctio
violated. He gave names an
localities and asserted that q ms
: jority Of the rioters were weaI
ing buttons of the Teamstei
} union. Attorneys for the defer
! dants made vigorous objection I
the admission of this testimony
but the master allowed it to G
? in.
Claude V. Boiler, manager
: the tailoring division of Mon
$ gomery Ward and company, tol
: lat length of the troubles leadir
! up to the strike of the GARNER
! Workers, which was q prelude
I the sympathetic walkout Of Il
n teamsters. The strike was cal
! ed, he said, because Ward al
8 company insisted upon sendiI
b part Of their work to 'opt
t shops. =
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
sKETCH OF HIS LIFE.

Born at Frankfort, Herkimer
county. N. X. April 20. 1900,
Hiram CrOnk became a member
Of Capt. Edward Fuller's COM
pany Of the l57th infantry when
only . little more than "A years
Ofage by voluntary enlistment.
His term u service was short,
however, scarcely five weeks,
and nearly all of twas spent IN
camp near Lake Ontario. He
had hardly 'smelled POWDER up
to that time. On the dag fol-
lowing his discharge, however,
while he was staying over at
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
DEAD 1T los YEARS
Last Of 1912 War Veterans, Hiram
OrOnk, Has Joined His Old Comrades
on the Other Side.

UEVukI 0ae vViuoU 4Als VA0 SVAh1eNNs
on the Other Side.
New York, May 18.-Hiram
Cronk, the last survivor Of the
war of 1872, died to-day at his
home near Dunn Brook, N. r.,
at the remarkable age of 1O5.
Besides bearing the distinction
of being the last of a host Of
100000 soldiers of the war Of
1872 to pass to the great beyond,
Hiram Cronk had the addedpres-
tige Of being among few men liy-
ing whose funeral honors we're
arranged in advance Of his death
by the city Of. New York or any
other municipality. The board
of aldermen of this city, By un-
animous vote, some time ago ar
ranged for the funeral in this
city of the warsurvivor and PLAN
ned an elaborate programme.
State officials at Albany took CO.
incident action, with the result
that an imposing funeral will be
held in this city, where the body
of the old soldier will lie in state.
If the relatives agree to details,
the body viii lie in state in the
city hall for twenty-four hours,
and DR.. Morgan Dix Of Trinity
church will ofIiciate at the funer-
al services. The burial will be
at Mount Victory, in Cypress
hills cemetery, where sixty vet
Grams Of the war Of 1879 already
lie.
The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1905-05-20
GOMPERS ON THE SCENE

Anxious That PeaOe will Come Soon and.
Pledges Himsslf 70 Work for That
End.
Chicago, May is. Although no
facts have yet transpired To full
II warrant the prediction, it is
asserted both BY members Of the
Employers association and by
the conservative elements in the
ranks Of the teamsters that the
present strike will be called off
|by the end Of Che week.
Chief among the causes which
led TO the prediction Of i settle
ment are the firm stand takeRby
both Mayor dunno. whenin con.
ference with President shea and
|ofIicers Of the local Teamster'l
|union, he assured them that any
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-06
Does This Interest Your

Cleaning. pressing and repairing
Beai & Schmitt, Illinois theater build
ing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-06
Personal POINTS.

Miss Cora McKown left today for
Lake Forest university to resume her
studies.
Miss Ida Weinburger, of Chicago, is
a guest at the home of Miss Blanche
MOsenfelde-.
Charles Rippin. St Louis CONNER
cial agent of the Seaboard air line rail
way, is in Rock Island today.
]. F. Darby. of Muskogee. l. T, form
erly principal of the high school. is
calling on friends in Rock Island.
Thomas Arnold. of Wichita. Kans.
formerly with the Rock Island Sash &
Door Works, is in the city for brief
visit.
Dr. S. B. Hall departs tonight for
St. Joseph, Mo, to attend the annual
of the railway surgeons of the
Rock Island road. which will be in ses
sion tomorrow and Thursday.