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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
Protecting the Farmer.

The International Harvester
Company-the agricultural ma
ohinery trust-has just made CON-
tract with the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company for 25 600 tons of
pig iron, the price being about
$13 ton at Birmingham. That
will make a good many harvesters
and other farm machines which
will cost the farmers of the United
States at least 20 per cent more
than it should through tariff pro-
teotion of the trust. Paragraph
AGO of the tariff law provides that:
"Plows. teeth and disk harrowe.
harvesters. respers. agricultural
drills, and planters. mowers, horse
rskes. ouItivators. threshing ma
chimes and cotton gins, twenty per
oentum ad valorem."
This trust is said to be selling
it's products cheaper abroad than
here aud our farmers have to pay
high prices for the benefit of the
trust and the foreigners
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
The Fifty Cent Dollar.

The newspaper trust is having
much to say these days about the
fifty cent dollar" Because. the
county Dsmoorloy reaffirmed the
platforms of the national Dsmocra-
tic conventions, it declared for q
FIFTY cent dollar" says the trust.
The Democratic party has no
apology to make for it's financial
declarations. The wisdom of the
views of Mr. Bryan on the currency
question would have been full,
demonstrated. but new gold dis
coveries which largely increased
the worlds production aud aug.
mented the worlds supply of the
yellow metal settled the money
question for many years. 1t is no
longer an issue.
But we have the fifty cent dollar,
and the Republican party is respon-
sible for it. Money is only good for
what it will buy. The American
dollar today has shrunk in its pur.
chasing power. as compared with it's
purchasing power in 1896. when
MIR. Bryan was first candidate for
the presidency, until it is worth lit
tie more than half lite former value.
The price of living has gone up
while wages have stood stiIl.-
Wheeling Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
How Far the Free Ad Acts.

An Indian Territory editor says:
1T is more fun to see msn read a
puff on himself in a newspaper
than to see a fat citizen clip on a
banana peel. The narrow minded
man reads it over seven or eight
times and then goes around and
oegs all the copies be can. The
kind-hearted one goes around to
the cfioe and pays what he owes
The successful business man,
who advertises regularly and makes
money by it, Immediately starts out
to find the editor, and then the two
walk silently down the street and
the business man takes sugar in
his'n and they both eat a Glove or
two and life is sweeter, and peace
settles down on their lives for a
moment. Suoh is the experience
of a mustard seed that falls on diff.
fssent ground"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
for the round trip

Let every msn. woman and child
in Mason county come to Point
Pleasant Monday, Sept Bird, Labor
Day, and have q good time. A
spleuded program has been ar
ranged and their will be amuse-
ments far everyone. and you will
be made Welcome by the commit
tee Be sure and come and enjoy
yourself,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
Executors Notice.

Notice Is hereby given to all debtors
to Samuel Roush, deceased, that ali
notes, accounts, &C., due his estate,
that q settlement of the same Is re-
quired to be made with the executors
on or before October LIST, 1903. Settle
ment can be made with either Of the
executors, DIR. L F. Roush, at Pom
eroy, Ohio. or A. J. Brinker, at Ora !.
ham Station, West Virginia.
DR.. L. F. ROUSH.
A. J. BRINKER,
Executors of the estate of
Samuel Roush, deceased.
aug 2z-4W
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Take few shares in the new lq
series of the Point Pleasant Build.
ing and Loan Association. which
starts Monday. Sept 8
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
Air Ship at West virginia State
Fair Wheeling.

At the SAFE Fair in Wheeling.
Sept 10'h to 18th. in addition to
exposition of live stock, hortioul.
raj, agricultural, machinery. fine
racing. 60. there has been provid-
ed program of free special features
fairly OVERLOOKING with novelties
snd sensational attractions. includ-
ing the great Knabenshue Air
Ship. which " th the f,mous in.
vent y himself at the helm of his
big chip will demonstrate the aome
of kill and daring in aerial naviea
ii, n by eagle like flights over the
Exposition grounds and tue CITY
This will be the banner year OF the
Wheeling Fair. and every one
should attend Excursion Rates
on all Railroads.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Take a day off and rest; have a
good time onoe a year, and let
that time be Labor Day, next Mon
day in Point Pleasant. where the
labor unions and citizens are 90.
ing to give a big fres celebration.
Come and join the big crowd. See
program published in another COL
umn.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Ii you want to see your friend
come to Point Pleasant on Labor
Day celebration. Everybody in
the country will be here that day.
A big time for every one. Good
programme. The whole day will
be one grand big show day for all
Como and bring your whole fam
lily.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

Teaehers' examinations for 1905 viii
be held at Henderson, on the fol-
lowing named dates:
September 18th and 18th.
Very respectfully,
G. A GREEN.
apr 25tf County Superintendent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Echols' Concentrated Iron and
Alum Water at Van Gilder's. Call
and get \ circular If interested.
Seems to be good thing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Buy or build you home at the
came monthly payment as you are
now paying for house rent, and in
the course of q few years your pay
ment will stop and you will own
the house. You can do this by
taking out few shares of stock in
the new series. which will be the
nineteenth in the Point Pleasant
Building and Loan Association
which starts Monday night. Sept.
Bird. Office on 9Th street at Tip
petit & Hutchinson's Insurance Of.
foe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Miss Katie Roush called in about %
of her young friends to an apple cut.
ting Saturday evening. After the ap-
Piles were cut. ice cream and cake was
served and everybody reported an
enjoyable time.
Misses Maude Duffy and May Fish
er, of Point Pleasant, is visiting in
this vicinity this week. SKIDoo
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

"ANTED-by Chicago Wholesale and
" mail order house, assistant manager
Joining territnry EalarY $40 and -expensea
paid weekly; expense money advanced.
Work pleasant; position permanent No
Investment or experience required. Spare
time valuable. Write at once for full par
ticularB and enclose self addressed envelope
Chicago, Ill. Aug 2otf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Point Pleasant Labor Unions to-
gether with all of her other citizens
have joined together and are going
to give the visitors and friends
from the country a grand treat on
Labor Day. Sept. 8. next Monday
in the way of entertainments See
the program in todays paper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Poets are borp-and so are prose
writers for that matter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29
GR.EAT
RIVER EEe NEWS.

{ Capt. W. D. Curry was in town
Monday
Capt. B. T. Fisher. of Middleport,
was in town Thursday.
The packet Courier is laid up in
the Kanewhs here and is being
dismantled.
The dock companies of this
place. which are the best along the
river, are qnite busy.
The work of putting a new hull
under the John Maokey by the
the Kanawha d ,ck Co is rapidly
nearing completion.
The pool bost Delta. of Pitts
burg. belonging to the combine,
lie here to be taken out on the En-
terprise. Marine Docks for repairs
Pilot James M Hooff' who has
been on the Winifrede for several
weeks. returned home Monday,
the boat having laid up at Charles
ton
The Greene Line boats under
the management of Cspt. Gordeu
Greene. are doing big passenger
business this season Each boat
has over a 100 passengers ever,
trip.
The Enterprise Docks have tn.
contract for the building of the
new boat for Capt Gorden Greene
which is to be two feet longer than
the Stanley and will be built tc
take the Courier's trade The
dock company is getting their mp
per docks in shape for the work.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Listen to the advice of others
and then follow your ewn.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

The Point Pleasant Building
and Loan Association will on Mon.
day. Sept. Srd. 1905. open a new
series of stock This is the Oldest
and most prosperous building as
ISOLATION in the country. It is
managed by safe, conservative
business men. Keep the date in
mind and attend and take stock.
.J.P.R. B. Smith. Pres /. @. @. Bow
yer Seoy T Stribling, Treas, j.
B Tippett. g P Gardner, j. W.
Heslop. and A l.. B ,ggess, Direc-
tors, j E Beller attorney.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Mr.. Ed Lswhead, of RaYens
wood, is here and has taken a posi-.
ton in the Merchants National
Bank Mr. Lawhead takes MIR.
W. w. Riley's place. Mr.. Riley
takes Mr.. 81 L Robey's place.
Mr. Robey having resigned to take
,he position as Secretary and
Treasurer Of the Point Pleasant
Trust o. Mr. Lawhead was for
merly in the Bank of Ravens.
wood.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-08-29

Rev. Bunbridge. a baptist minister, OF
Marietta, preached in Pleasant Flats church
Sunday morning and evening.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
NDcTEWH,Ey 81 OcZ
ZHI1cf. EHEHz,EE.

brought it here. And many a for
eign-born "hit" has been done to
death in New York before its origi-
nator placed it there. As, witness
this from the New York Telegraph:
"Owen Hall, author of The Girl
From Kay's,' having read that Mr.
Frohman would produce in New
York early in August a new musical
play called, The Rich Mr.. Hoggen-
heimer,' with Sam Bernard in the
name part, writes as follows to the
Referee:
May 1 call your attention and
the public's and Mr.. Frohman's to
the fact that the rich Mr.. Hoggen-
heimer was the principal character
in The Girl From Kay's,' and that
the success of the piece was mainly
due to that part? The Rich Mr.. Hog
genheimer' was played in The Girl
From Kay's throughout an extended
tour in the United States by Sam
Bernard, with whom l had several
previous conversations on the sub
ject. am told that legal proceed
ings for an injunction against Mr..
Frohman and the author of the pro-
jected play are not likely to avail
me much in the United States, and
besides, America is too far off to go
for law. But l can assure Mr.. Froh-
man that he will not present Sam
Bernard in The Rich Mr.. Hoggen-
heimer' in this cosntry. I shall be
grateful to any American newspapers
that will make a note of this letter,
which is intended as protest"
And there you are.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26

woman, Wilfred Rogers for leading
man, Bessie Bacon for ingenue and
Bert Wesner for character parts
These are good people. and, with
proper vehicles, they should make
the Colonial popular, for the house
has location and every other material
essential to success in its favor. 1t
is both cozy and safe "The Man
From Mexico" Willie Golfers great
success, will be the opening play.
By conhning the performances to
comedy, the Colonial should quickly
find the distinction in the dramatic
world that the Tivoli possessed in
the operate field. There is abun-
dance of old and new comedies to
be had, and no man in the profess
sion is better qualified than Frank
Bacon to estimate comedy values and
direct comedy productions. Besides,
all the other channels of theatrical
offering will soon be filled.
If it is to be a purely comedy play
house, why not substitute Comedy
for Colonial" in its title? Colonial"
is expressive of nothing save its style
of architecture
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26

the Greek Theater of the University
of California by moonlight on the
evening of September 1, the setting
chosen is that of the musical accom-
paniment of Mendelssohn. Apart
from the Schumann music written for
Goethe's Faust" the Mendelssohn
music for the Shakespearean comedy
represents probably the highest excel
lence of this type of composition. In
the theaters of Europe the comedy is
practically always given in its en-
tirety, and the music does not con-
sist merely in advertisement, as there
is an overture and four entr' actes.
There is,> in addition, great deal of
music accompanying the action of the
dialogue and many, if not nearly all,
of the various scenes are given
direct musical setting and the spoken
parts are sung by choir and solo
voices. The music is to be rendered
by the entire university orchestra,
with the choir parts sung by a pro-
fessional choir of eighteen male
voices, and the solo parts, which are
not high, and the mezzo soprano, will
be carried by competent soloists.
Mendelssohn, possibly, of all COM
posers, was qualified to write music
that should harmonize with the deli
cate action of this fairy play. The
overture and other portions have for
years constituted favorite numbers on
symphony programmes all over the
world, and the overture was played
in one of the university concerts last
year With the excellencies and de-
lights of the comedy itself, every one
is familiar These are enhanced many
fold by the beauties of the accom-
paniment and its performance cannot
fail to be treat, not only to the
dramatic, but also to the cultivated
musical sense
The dramatic performance will be
in the hands of Mrs. Constance Craw-
ley, the chief character, Oberon, being
assumed by Mrs. Crawley herself.
The play is being carefully rehearsed,
and the stage of the Greek Theater
is to be adapted to the exigencies of
this play solely through the arrange
ment of plants. The theater will be
lighted with torches and electricity
and if the sky be not clouded there
will be moonlight during the entire
performance. The play will open at
s o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Coincidence Not Needed.

-Condole not with the managers, for
10 them such disclosures OF changed
public taste are frequent, and they
are ever ready to trim their sails to
catch the prevailing breeze Time
was, and not so very long ago, either,
when fhe idea of booking Mary Nor
man for vaudeville would have been
considered the very insanity of man
agement. Those were the days when
coarse speech resounded and assault
and battery drew money, when blunt
obscenity jostled the insidious double
entendre in struggle to win plaudits
Ones memory does not have to go back
very far to a time when a variety
&how was synonymous with all that
was low and vulgar The transition
to responsibility was not easily accom-
plished, but once started there was no
retrogression. Under its imported
title of vaudeville" the variety show
gradually became purified in tone Vul-
garism vanished and in its stead came
the lnockabout team, the serio-comic,
the innumerable d;alecticians, the
jugglers, acrobats and gymnasts, for
eign and domestic, and, after making
vaudeville the most profitable of the
atrical investments, they, too, began to
lose vogue Musical and dramatic
sketches, almost invariably farcical,
crept in and attained a foothold that
increased until as many as three OF
their ilk have been on single Or
pheum programme. And now they
are evidently being shelved in favor
OF individual entertainers who give
something better in art than has yet
been presented outside of regular
home Of drama. The Normans are un-
questionably to the forefront.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Another Refined Artist.

All this warrants prediction that
Margaret Wycherly, who comes to the
Orpheum today, will win primal place
among the newcomers. The fact that
she really first came to her own in this
city will not depreciate her in public
favor, of course, nor will it serve to
bring more credit to her than her
work deserves. We are notori-
ously generous to stagefolk whose
talents we were first to recognize, but
.f they fail to fulfill their earlier
promise we have habit of snubbing
them. Just try to count on the fingers
of both hands the number of actors
whom we have rapturously taken to
our collective bosom and coddled until
their failure to continue delivering
the goods provoked us to cold-shoul-
der them.
Miss Wycherly was acting with the
Alcazar stock quite while before she
convinced us that she was worthy of a
better position, and since then she has
steadily gone forward. Her matinee
performances of the Yeats plays at the
Alcazar were so successful that she
launched them III New York and
scored a great hit. She has entered
vaudeville because the regular dra-
matte houses have no opening for one
act plays, and then, too, the pecuniary
returns are so large that, like several
other celebrated '1egits," she finds
them a great aid to cultivation of her
art. For obvious reasons she will not
do any of the Yeats pieces at the Or
pheum, but will make her appeal more
general by appearing in six char
acters-a young society matron, a
stolid middle-aged servant, child
of II, noisy chorus girl, woman
of 80 and a French chauffeur. In the
first named role she begins and ends
The play and the finale is said to be a
burst of emotional acting that never
fails to bring plaudits from all parts
of the house.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
GoIdficId in McIodran1a.

From a New York newspaper
learn that Goldfeld, Nevada, is to
be given even wider fame as the
place selected for the scenes of a
melodrama than it can acquire as the
arena of a championship prizehght,
because the people of the East are
eager to learn something of the
social conditions existing in the great
mining camp, which the play will
faithfully depict, although the author
has never been there"
1t is no new thing for melodramat-
lists to take advantage quickly of
events or places occupying wide
spread public attention, but why they
do not widen their field, so to put it,
is inexplicable. If they find it profit
able to portray social conditions
which they have never studied, why
should they not similarly illuminate
some of the political and financial
conditions that are Opaque to the
masses of the people? How educa-
tive it would be if we could go to
the theater and there find solution
of such puzzling questions as the
tariff, or currency reform, or the
future of the Philippines, or the fate
of the refugee relief fund.
Hasten the day when not only the
general public, but our statesmen and
politicians, can CLEAN from the foot
lights lucid information furnished by
playwrights who "have never been
there.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26

nothing recently of The comic opera
book which our own Congressman,
Julius Kahn, was alleged to have con-
structed. The last we did hear of
it was that Julian Edwards had the
music in preparation and that the
production would be made some
where. by some manager some time
this fall. Success to the enterprise,
whatever stage it may be e-at-or on
While Our representative in Con-
gress was probably the first politician
to write for the theater, the theater
has contributed many OF. its people
to politics Indeed, Mr.. Kahn him
self was an actor for ten years, and,
according to his autobiography in the
Congressional Directory, supported
in this city such stars as Edwin
Booth, Joe Jefferson, w. J. Florence
and Clara Morris. He was 70 years
of age when he abandoned the sock
and buskin and settled down to the
study of law, and four years later
he was admitted to the bar. He is
serving his second term in Congress
and probably will be elected for a
third
So there is no reason TO doubt that
his opera will meet the stage re-
quirements, at least, for his work in
the theater equipped him with the
knowledge of technique that is al
most as essential as literary ability
to successful playwriting. 1t is
said that the opera is satire on GER
tain American social conditions.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
No Cause for Surprise.

After all is considered, no one
should be astonished at this. The
wonder is that the public has been so
tardy in giving refinement its due, for
since vaudeville became cleansed its
patrons have largely consisted of peo-
pie who appreciate good dramatic
work. and there always is room for
something new in such work, while
the human relics of the variety show
davs are either unable or un-
willing to innovate While it is true
that vaudeville audiences are more
mixed in a social sense than any other
congregations of theater-goers, and
that the bill must contain appeals to
all the classes, it now seems to be
equally important that they be enter
tanned beyond mere amusement. The
act that appeals to the brain and heart
instead of the eye is the winning act
today.
Without entering the troubled dis
eussion as to whether the theatrical
manager should mold or follow the
public taste and caprice, it is gratify-
ing to note that the latest change in
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
NLLE. ZH.EREcE
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~oREREUw -

the character of Americas most popu-
lar class of amusement is due almost
wholly to mutation in the public de-
mand rather than to an effort of the
managers to lead their patrons into
new fields. 1t is the folk in front who
are elevating the vaudeville stage. If
they did not prefer Mary Norman's
clean-cut artistry to the claptrap fur
nished by some of her contemporaries,
tom to the top of the bill. The
shrewd directors of vaudeville will
not be slow to note this preference
nor dilatory in responding to it.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Under the Jolly Roger.

There is unintentional comedy in
the charges and counter-charges of
buccaneering that are flying between
the clashing teams of Dutch dialect
comedians. The very essence of
their stagework is piracy, for almost
everything they do is initiative of
Weber and Fields. Rice and Cady,
however, have the excuse of appear
ing in Weber-Field pieces and play
ing Weber-Field roles, with Weber
Field permission, while their rivals
are utilizing Weber-Field methods
and makeup in productions that
never entered New York.
Piracy is fragrant in musical COM
edy, burlesque and vaudeville, despite
the copyright laws and the protests
of authors. The man who writes a
"hit" is simply at the mercy of any
unscrupulous performer who fancies
his work or any part of it. He has
no means of protection, unless he
keeps detective at the heels of
every person he suspects of harbor-
ing intent to steal, and then he would
have no assurance that injunction
would follow detection. Many a
New York success has become stale
in San Francisco ere its creator
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Colonial Theafer Plans.

Frank Bacon has returned frmo
New York with perfected plans for
the opening of the Colonial Tlfeater
next month. He informs me that one
of the most influential agencies is
under contract to give him first
chance at most of last seasons COM
edy successes, and that he has en-
gagged Izetta Jewell for leading