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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
lLETTER rR0W MANfLA J.


By permission We print the fol
lowing interesting letter:
MANILA, P. T.. Feb. %, '0T
Miss OrT1E KINcADE, Huting
ton, W. Vs.-Desr sister: l take
pleasure in answering your kind
letter / received a few days ago
and was glad to get another letter
from what We boys call "God't
country" We are in Damp neal
Manila and are ready to back tc
Samsr as soon as We can get trans
portation; but 1 think it be about
a week before we get a ship. We
will have plenty of time to visit
around while waiting. Most Of
our work is over now. Our com.
pany did very we'll in the comps.
tion meet. There were nine COM
paries of infantry here each one
to represent their own regiment.
We were fourth company in the
meet in general merit. That means
all events that took place here by
the infantry. The contest lasted
one week. We had close order.
extended order, swimming, wall
scaling and training of men. On
Saturday had a large review of
every organization. There were
great crowds here, bling a
Fair, and all had a pleasant time
looking at ths,exsrcises given by
all branches of the service. 1 met
some of my old friends that 1 was
with in Columbus. Ohio There
was a large representation of the
navy here Last week Three thou.
sand troops landed with their guns
and formed a line of battle, and
passed review. They had some
swell machine guns with them
which wsre drawn by a squad of
men. 1t was thrilling sight.
There are four large war ships in
the hsrbor here yet. The battle
ship West Virginia is also here.
They had a mountain battery that
they carried on mules and the cav
airy and artillery men did some
Moe drilling. The navy boys from
the battleship Pennsylvania gave
us q minstrel show. They were a
jolly set of "old scouts" We have
a nice Chaplain tent and he gives
an entertainment every night. He
mad man from the CITY give us a
moving picture show free to every
body, and it was the best / ever
seen. 1t was based upon Christ's
work when on earth, gave the CRU
ciiction and how he went about
upon earth before that time.
This leaves me we'll and hearty
Your brother,
HARRY E. KINoADE
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
SLAB CREEK

Miss Edith Jordan is spending
the week with her sister, Mra. Nor.
gan Long, at Beale.
Miss Ella E. Hereford, who is
teaching the Sizemore sohool,sp
Saturday and Sunday with hel
parents, near Ben Lomond.
Miss Belle Yester and little
BROTHER George, have been the
guest of their brother, Henri, Yes.
ter, the past week.
VIM. Roberts and family have
moved onto the Caldwell farm.
Mrs W Ssdler, who mss been On
the SICK list ia improving.
Morgan Long has N wed his
family into their D ew residence just
back Of Sam WaIltoe's store.
Miss E L. Hereford will CLOSE
her SCHOOL at eizemore Saturday
April Goth, with en- exhibition.
Everyone is cordially invited to BE-
present on this day and assist in
making this an enjoyable day for
all.
Miss Minnie Cremeens was visi.
ting Misses Mae and Velvia Jor.
dan Sunday
The roads in this locality are
very muddy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
wh.n Horny Jam.. SOCK. EnaIl.h.

Setuoe SfSNS SutboIls
There could not be more enter
tanning treat than a dinner at the
James house, the elder Henry
James, when ell the young people
were at home. They were full of
stories of the oldest kind and dis
cussed questions of morals or taste
or literature with a vociferous Wig
or SO great as sometimes to lead the
young men to leave their seats and
gesticulate on the floor. / remem-
Der in some Of these heated discus
sions it was not unusual for the
SONS to invoke humorous curses on
their parent, one of which was that
.'hiS mashed potatoes might always
have Jumps in them. From E. L.
Godkin Letter in Scribner's Maya
zine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Mra. Mar1 DaVnnit Is nnmherad

with the sios
VIM AsbufEg died at Look II.
formerly Of Maple Shade. o., Sat
urday, April ID. I9O7, aged SIS
years. 6 months. He united with
q. B. Church at Pomsroy. in 1901.
His fnnersl services was held at
Look II Sunday at 10 am by
Rev Fierbanghi inferred ibsMt
Pisgah cemetery !.
Two Lonesome Girls
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
FOR SALE AT "A BARGAIN,

Planning Mill and Box Factory, 10
Gated in The thriving, hustling city Of
Charleston, w. Va, well equipped
with up-to-date machinery; mill has
10000 feet surf ce on first floor. ard
1000 feet on seco d floor. Shed room
sufficient to hold 100000 feet lumber,
also good yard room; standard rail
road track running inside mill,
Abundant steam power: all machinery
In first.class working order and can be
seen runni- z. part cash, balance
easy payments, good reasons for SELL
ing. Call On or address,
J. u. GRAHAM,
S07 Summers St., Charleston, W. Var
apr II
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

Whitcomb Riley was looking over
a fence on his farm at field of rye
when neighbor who was driving by
stopped his horse and asked:
"Hello, Mr.. Riley! How's your
rye doing?"
Fine, iine!" renlied the poet.
How much do you expect to
clear to tie acre?"
ooh, about four gallons aan.
swered Mr., Riley soberly.-S Success.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
The sanond Hand.

II was showing my watch to my
nephew, who was about SIX years
DID," says a celebrated writer,
when he pointed to the face of the
Idial and said: 90
Why, there is another little
watchp
q 1T is called the second hand,' 1
said.
'He tossed his head contemptu-
oualy and walked off, saying:
4 wouldn't own secondhand
watch"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
sToCKHoLpERs. MEETTNa.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Modern BntldiDE
g. Loan Association will be held Rt
their Office in the Mutual Realty
COMPANY Building in the town Of
Point Pleasant West Virginia, satur.
for the purpose OF electing q Board
of Directors, and the transaction. of
sucf other business as may properly
come before them, a. go 10
c. g. BOWYER,
april 2w ~ Secretary. :
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

Mrs. Russell Sag6 bias annOunO.
ed her intention to give $40 900.
600 to be used for sthe improve.
ment of social and living oondi
tions in the United States"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

What are you doing for your
town. If you have no confidence
in the growth and improvement Of
the town and county in which you
live how on earth do you expect
other people to move among you
and cause the country to develop
and grow for your benefit
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

a Chicago woman sued for di.
Vorce because her husband told her
she resembied one of her aunts.
After look at the aunt, the court
awarded the divorce.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Notice.

Notice ishereby given that my wife
has left my bed and board, and that
!, the undersigned, will not be re
sponsible for or pay any debts con,
tracted by her. NJ s. LOVE,
apr II At Flat Rock, w. Va
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Death of Two Prominent City Of
ficials.

Hon. D., q. Leonard, Mayor Of
Parkersburg, and Dol. Skies, City
Treasurer OF Huntington, died last
week, the former in a Parkersburg
Hospital and the latter quite sud
denly on the streets of his home
CITY. Mr.. Lsonard had long been
prominent in the law and politics
and Col. Skies in business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

Many farmers in this section
planted corn in the pretty weather
Of March and early April, and it is
said that the ground will have to
be planted secQqd time, mas
much as the wet and cool weather
ofthe past week has rotted the
grains formerly sowed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

A Kansas man has just married
a woman whose name and address
he found in package of Cigar
cites. Is there no end to the dan.
gers that lurk in the pesky little
white rolls.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Or as fnllnHs.


\ H e. = a
Still other systems take every
second letter in the alphabet or ev-
cry third letter, beginning at either
end.
The browning argument against
these systems is that all betray the
fact that they are cost marks. B /
x on a tag can mean nothing but
cost.
What does it matter2 Only this
that the more the customers mind
is diverted from thoughts of what
the article costs the dealer the more
likely he is to be fayorably impress
ed with the article itself.
The solution of the problem lies
in using a cost mark which will ap-
pear to be something else. An ideal
cost mark is the one that has an
easily remembered key, that may be
transmitted by voice, that is SO SIM
pie in form as to minimize chances
of error in writing and reading and
that is not what it seems. The fol-
lowing is such a one: 81 234."
To use it, l doubles the figures
placed after it, 2 adds 80 per cent
to the figures placed after it, 3 de-
ducts third, 4 deducts half. The
cost mark key is always the initial
letter. To illustrate its use:
In marking the cost on an article
costing so cents one may write it in
four ways-130, $40, $50, APO
as the initial l means to double the
following figures, the initial Q
means to add so per cent to the fol-
lowing figures, the initial 8 means
to deduct third from the following
figures, ETC., thus: 100 (213O) is so;
240 (40 plus 80 per cent? is go; $50
go minus third) is go, and APO
(120 minus a half) is 60.
In writing the cost on the goods
under this system the abbreviation
mo" or the sign = is placed be-
fore the cost. Thus the customer is
led to believe that it is the number
of the article instead of the cost
mark. This makes it a great advan-
tage in a conversation between the
clerk and the manager or proprietor
before customer.
For instance, the customer is pro-
testing against the price. The clerk
may think a reduction wise and that
it will be granted by the manager,
or he may desire the managers in
dorsement of the price.
The manager does not have to e1-
anime the tag or ask its price to
learn the cost. He simply asks,
"What number is it?" The letter
or hieroglyphic system would not
permit this simplicity in such a
case.-New York Sun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

Peter Good, a young man who
had shot and killed his sweetheart
Miss Shoop. was hanged at Luray,
Va, last Friday. He had made
full confession of the crime, and
when he was assured that there
was no hope of a reprieve he seem.
ingly took much pleasure in max.
ing his own funeral arrangements.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
West Virginia's New Dog Law.

Under the new law, of West
Virginia, effective next year, dogs
will be taxed as personal property
at their true and actual value and
it is expected that this will bring
into the state treasury considera.
BILE revenue. Under this new Taw
the dogs will be property some.
thing they have never been here
tofore. and the owner of the same,
in case the dog is killed or injured
by any other person, or in any
manner may go into the courts and
recovery damages for the same.
The law also provides that dogs
must be kept closer by their own.
ers than they have been heretofore,
and that CANNES that become 8
nuisance can be- killed by those of.
Tended after a sufficient amount Of
notice has been given the owners
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
MERGERS BorroM

Correspondence, Is. - Z
There wiilspreaohing. TAT sJ6fddh
Baptist church Saturday and Sun
asy E
Mrs. o Walters, of Mapel, is
very ill attbis writing.
Mrs W. s Reecelis yisitipglbsr
parents. Mrs Kerr. st Hickory
Mrs Will Henry. of Henderson.
is visitiug her daughter. Mrs Jap.
Jordan.
Hurbert Cline has purchased q
fine organ
Joseph L. Force is very i'll at
this writing; also Sam Wallace.
If you want yeur bicycle repair
ed call on Fred Force
Bert Neville, of Clipper Mill. o
has moved on Dave CaIdwell'splaoe
/ Joe Cfomley attended the chow
at GslIipolis Thursday night.
GLENWOOD.
Correspondence, April 10.
Farmers are wishing for better
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. John White were
business visitors to Glenwood.
Thursday.
Miss Maude Meadows has re.
turned home from ElWell where
she has been teaching the past six
months. ,rl
%. E. Mccoy bought Wesley
Whites farm and moved his family
Ihs I. Friday.
Mrs. Willard Heason and two
sons were the guests of her moth.
er, Mrs Maye, the first of the week
E q. johnson, enc of the lead.
ing merchants on this route, was q
business visitor to Glenwood, last
week. -
Masters Wesley and Laurence
White were the pleasant guests Of
their cousin, Maudie E. Meadowpl
Thursday. s.,..,,s
l. W Mccoy purchased come
fine cattle from j. White, Friday.
Mrs Wesley White died at her
h. me March %, 1907, in the 18Th
year Of her age She is survived
by her husband, two daughters
and two sons, Mrs Ira Patterson,
Mrs: Eva Weidemeyer. of Cali.
polls, John White, of &lsemooa,
and N. L.. White, of Louisians, to
mourn her loss, but they modrT
not as those who have no hope
She was a devoted wife, loving
mot er and d friend to old and
young. The remains were taken
to Ohio and laid to rest in the ST.
Nicholas cemetery. Cypress.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

For SALE.-Skiff end franklin
Typewriter. Cash or credit. Cheap
if sold at onoe j B TIPPETT.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17

A Point Pleasant woman sat up
till one O'Clock the other night
waiting for her husband to come
home. At last, weary and worn
Outwith her vigil, she went up
stairs to retire, only to find her
husband in bed fast asleep. In.
stead of going down town be bad
stolen up stairs and crawled into
bed, which made his wife SO mad
she didn't speak to him for a weak.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
MUST MARRY Or PAY FINE
Iowa City Council Passes Drastic
Ordinance to Compel Marriage.

Iowa City Council Passes Drastic
Ordinance to Compel Marriage.
The message of Mayor s. j
Bennett to the city council, urg
ing that every male or female o.
manageable age who persists il
remaining si' Ga should 10 pen
allied, Was taken in earnest by tn,
council, and this ordinance wal
passed:
"All able bodied persons betN eer
the Bges of twenty five and forty,
five years, whose mental and pbysi
cal propsnsities are normal and
who are not married, shall be re.
CURED to obtain license and wed
within sixty days or be subject tc
fine of from $40 to 500"
The ordinance passed to itt
third reading amid great applause
Mayor Bennett said recently;
IF there are any who desire to es.
cape the penalty described, 1 will
be at my Office at all hours to per.
form the marriage ceremony free
of charge The day is coming
when every up.to.date city in the
land will pass similar statute
The act is lin the interest of good
morale and a sound public policy
1t was Supposed the Mayors
messsge WIS intended as a Joke
All the officials say the ordinance
will be enforced to the letter.
Death Of: Col. Leonard Causes Re-
greet Rers.
Col. David 81. Leonard, at the
lime of his death mayor Of Park.
ereouFg, was very we'll and most
faVorabIy known in Point Pleas.
ant, especially to the older citizens
His demise is consequently keenly
felt here as loss Col. Leonard
was member of the constitution.
al convention held in 1872 tn.
gsther with Hon. Obey johnson,
representing the Fifth District
He was a democrat and one of the
best known citizens of the state.
His administration of city affairs
in Parkersburg was satisfactory,
notwithstanding that he was re.
gently defeated for reelection, due
to q land slide by which every re-.
publican on the ticket was elected.
Col. Leonard had been i'll for a
long time, suffering with a com.
plication of diseases. However,
he was able to attend to the affairs
of his office until few weeks ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
sEcRE COST MARKS.
Cipher System Ussa BY Msrehanta.
Puzxlina the Customers.

Speaking of old fashioned cost
marks, says writer in the Jewell
ers' Circular, a majority Of the cost
marking systems now in use are i'm
practicable, being either unwieldy
or too easy to solve.
The first systems were based on
the use ofswords containing ten let
tiers, no two alike, each letter rep
resenting a numeral Probably the
most venerable of the words still in
use is:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
W A 8 II I n q T o < 5
I 3 3 8 S 6 f-eg o.;
Anothef, somewhat less eaailY de-

Such marks as these are no secret
if one sets himself to pick them out.
Usually all that is necessary is to
find out what several of the ten let
tiers are and then fix upon the ones
most likely to represent 20 and O..
Such secret cost marks can be fig
ured out in this way in five min
utes sometimes. Other merchants
use the letters in this way:
ABcD.E FGHIJ
/ 2 3I5 $50 80
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-02-27
TO SEPARATE COTTON SEED.

The Times" has received letter
from the department Of agriculture
with reference to sending a cotton
separator to Florence for
few days, to separate a few bushels Of
seed for the different farmers in this
section. The machine is the product
of an agent Of the department and is
designed to separate the inferior ana
light seed from the sound and
healthy ones. Seed separated by the
machine have been tested and they
were found to produce much better
crops, the value Of the crop, over that
from the ordinary seed, being about
SIS per acre. The cost Of separating
seed for an acre is about ten cents,
but at the visit of the agent of the de-
partment all seed will be separated
free of charge. If the farmers show
any desire to have the machine come
here the department will be glad to
send it. All communications should
be sent to H. J. Weber, Bureau of
Plant Industry, Department Of Agri-
cultue, Washington, D. C-Florence
Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-02-27
TARIFF REVISION.

John sharpe Williams Has No Hope
OF Anything 10 That Line From the
Republicans.
Boston, Mass, Feb. 2o.-sYou
right just as well look to bald
headed barber for an effective hair
restore as to look to the Republican
party for any revision of the tariff in
the direction Of free trade relations
with the world These are the words
of John sharpe Williams, the minori-
4y leader in congress, in a letter ad-
aressed 70 Governor Curtis Guiid, Jr-,
of Massachusetts. acknowledging the
receipe eaf a copy OF . petition ad-
dressed TO the president and congress
sn regard to tariff revision.
Representative Williams declares
tina. the doctrine Of a maximum and
minimum tariff is not a new one to
him, but declares that he does not
favor the proposal Of Senator Lodge,
Speaker Cannon and Representatives
Dalzell and McCleary to make the
present tariff the minimum schedules
with maximum rate to serve the
purpose Of retaliation only.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-02-27
A Challenge.

Writ in cold English, the attempt
to lessen the evils of liquor drinking
by State control Of the whiskey traffic
is g. failure because this and preced-
ing legislatures has lacked either the
sense or patriotism to perfect the
State dispensary law, one of the
grandest governmental experiments
ever attempted And all the defects
of the State dispensary law that
damned that institution are grated
bodily into the Carey-Cothran meas
ure and foredoom it to the same fate.
In the framing Of the county dispen-
sary Jaw. 10 warning has been taken
from the esson Of the operation Of
the Sta5e 9 spensary law. The same
causes 1hiea prevented perfecting the
State dfspensary Will prevent perfect
ing the county dispensary law, if any
body should want to retain it and
perfect it. The Record challenges eli
tae- or both of the authors Of the
Carey-Cothran bill to disprove this
position.-Columbia Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-02-27
THE STATES FINANCES ARE HIT
The LEGISLATURE Made Greater Ap-
preparations Than Ever Before and
shirked the Responsibility Of In
creasing the Levy to Provide the
Necessary Funds.

Columbia, Feb. 20.-Comptroller
General Jones declared yesterday that
as near as he can figure it the ap-
preparations this year viii exceed the
income $ls0,444. Had the levy been
fixed at 5 mills the appropriations
would have been s5S,0oo in excess Of
income, and a levy Of IA mills
would have left the State but s7,046
over ali expenses,
Mr.. Jones figures that the appro-
priations aggregate s1,454,229.79 and
his figures are verified by calculations
made OF the State treasurer's Office.
In eight years the appropriations
have increased half million dollars
in round numbers. The income has
1nereasee, but not so largely
Tie taxable property Of the State
is s24s. 500, ,0oo, which at 4 IL mills
viii produce revenue Of s1,122750;
mills it would have been 81
$4,000; at 5 IA mills it would have
been s1soe,si5. This is the ad va
loren tax. The interest taxes amount
to s151 400, estimated. The total IN
come this year is s1,274,15o al a
IL mill levy, while the expenses
last year were 10000 in excess Of
that amount and to last years ex-
penses have been added $4,000.
Last yesr the Hampton monument
was pa5e FOR, the Jamestown exposi-
ton appro priation was made and the
general election expenses were met.
None OF these things are provided for
in the appropriation act this year.
The increase has been general all
along the line Mr.. Jones. only fear
is that he may be held responsible be-
cause he cid not give sufficient sug-
gestion ard advice to the general as
selnbly This he endeayored to dc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-02-27
WHAT DO THEY CURE ?

Dr.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is not
advertised as UCure All but admirably
fulfills a singleness Of purpose, being
superior and most positive remedy for one
class Of diseases only-those easily recog-
nized weaknesses, arrangements, irregu-
larities and painful disorders peculiar to
women. It Is q powerful, yet gently act
ing, invigorating, tonic and strengthening
nervine. For weak, worn-outt over-work-
ed women-no matter what has caused
the break-down,-w It be from too
frequent bearing Of children or from much
worry, care, or over eXertion OF any kind,
sFsvorite Prescription will be found
most efficient In building up the strength,
regulating all the womenly functions,
banishing pain and bringing about reg
ulsr and healthy, vigorous condition OF
the whole female system. Thus It COZ
rects prolapsus, or falling Of womb, retro
version, anteversion and other displace-
ments Of the female pelvic organs, due to
weakness or over exertion, lifting or ia
tiguing over-work. In short, 1t makes
weak women strong and sick women we'll
AS to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery It has very large range OF appl..
cation, yet it is by no means recommended
as ~Cure- ALL It possesses marvellous
alternative, or blood cleansing, properties
and is at the same time most inv1gorat-
Ing tonic, or strength giver. 1t exerts g
specific, cleansing, soothing and healing
effect upon all the lining mucous mem
branes Of the system; hence, its great
curative value in all catarrhal affections,
no matter where located