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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
.DGnOCIQtiC Moss Convention.

A Mass Convention of the Demo
Gratis of Mason County is hereby called
TO meet at the Court House in Point
Pleasant on Thursday, the 21st day of
May, 1908, Mt j p. m, for the purpose
of selecting delegates to the State
Convention which meets at Charles
ton on July 10Th; the State Delegate
Convention which meets at Wheeling
on May 2sth; the 9Th Congressional
District Convention which meets at
Point Pleasant on May Goth; the 5th
District Congressional Convention
hereafter to be called, and 4th District
Senatorial Convention hereafter to be
called.
Also to select Democratic County
Executive Committee.
BY order of the Democratic County
Committee. @. G. LEWIS, Secy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
WATERLOO,

James T Knapp, agent for The
Magnetic Comb Co., of Pekin, ILL.,,
was business visitor to Leon Fri
day.
The six-months old child of Mr.
and Mrs David Hughes, who are at
his sister, Mrs Tally Flowers, died
Friday morning, May 10Th, of
whooping cough. Funeral Satur.
day at Walkers Chapel. near Bee.
Mrs Minnie Farmer is contem.
plating few days visit to Charles.
ton coon.
Mrs Alex Boles and Miss Dean
Diokens, of Arbuokle. Visited Mis-
Emeline Greenlee Sunday.
d f Hill, of Arbuokle, is having
some lumber sawed with which be
is going to build store house.
Mumps, measles and whooping
o1ugh are reported in this vicinity
Sunday School, with Mrs Anne
Maupip. Supt. has been organized
at Kings ohuroh, near Arbuokle
& b Greenlee and son Carl, OF
Charleston, are here visiting rela.
tives for few days.
Bird Stone. George Smith, Vim
Jividen, of Leon, Judge j w Eng.
glish, John Beller andE y Wing.
err, of Point Pleasant, were visitors
to Waterloo, Monday.
Sunday school is progressing
nicely at Arbuokle church with L
A Cossin, Supt.
Mr. and Mrs w OHill and little
son Earl, spent Saturday and Sun
day with his brother Alfred Hill ,oi
Ten.mile.
Mr. and Mrs A L @ Durham anc
children, of Leon, spent Sunday
with relatives on Mud Lick.
q w Knapp was in Leon Satur
day.
Lloyd Hill is visiting his father
D f Hill, of Arbuokle, after spend
ing several months in Pittsburg.
j e HansonI of Point Pleasant
has been spending the last few
days with his wife here. III
Burwell Mckinney, who hal
been ill since he returned from
Pittsburg few weeks ago is get
ting better.
The many friends of Mrs San
Smith regret to learn that she Don
tinues quite ill. Cleopatra.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
a Very Narrow Escape.

Mrs. John L. Mason, residing at
All Fourth street. together with
her two year old grsndsop, had a
narrow escape from being killed at
her home this morning, when both
fell from the second story verands
to the pavement, a distance of 10
feet or more. She was holding her
grandson, who was standing on the
railing of the veranda and was
leaning egainst the railing which
gave way under the pressure. While
falling Mrs. Mason olung to the
child, which was probably respon-
sible for the child escaping injury,
as she protected him to quite an
extent. People in the neighbor-
hood were attracted to the scene of
the accident and it was found that
she was unconscious. She was oar
ried into the house and medical
aid was hurriedly summoned. Up
on examination it was found that
there were no bones broken, but
that che was badly bruised all over
the body and had Sustained cash
on the left side of the ohm. The
physioians were unable to deter
mine whether or not she had sus-
tanned internal injuries. and will
probably have to await develop
ments Those WHO arrived on the
soene soon after the accident hap
pened were surprised that the child
WAS uot injured, but he did not
chow any 81 sns of having received
scratch. "-Parkersburg Sentinel
May IL.
Mr., and Mrs, Mason were at one
time residents of this city, Mr..
Mason being engaged in the print
ing business
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
HowRs eRrAT LONDON SHOWS
Traits of Circus People Little known
TO the General Public

nCirous women seldom marry
other than oirous men. They are
most devoted wives aud mothers,
who take life seriously and soberly.
Many of them are devout church
women and real christians
"Their home life in winter is
pleasant and agreeable. Some of
them, but not many, work in the
theatres in the winter time 1t is
most curious fact that very few
of them oare to live in large cities.
but make their homes on farms or
in small towns. There they pass
the time away in the usual social
functions and household affairs,
many of them preparing their
wardrobe for the coming season on
the road. Few of them ever be
come dependent upon their fami-
lies or the public authorities
They, of all women in the world,
most truly appreciate and enjoy
the comforts and blessings of a
home after being compelled to be
away for elk months in strange
towns and among strangers every
day. and in the narrow confines of
sleeping berth on oirous oar
every night.
1t is a hard life. but by no
means an unhappy one. The rig
orous labor and good food and
abundant sleep bring health and
attendant good spirits and pleasant
disposition. Charity in its truest
sense abides among them. The
slightest call for aid from them al.
ways. elioits ready and hearty re.
sponge. The women with chow
like this are surrounded by their
male relatives and mon, each one
of whom considers himself the pro-
teotor of their welfare and their
honor. Circus women are credit
to their calling and an honor to
their SEX"
Don't forget the date of Howe's
Great London Shows exhibiting
here is Thursday, May 28th.
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Mr.. Rennett's strehgth.

In another column, the ReRister
today presents an editorial DOM.
ment from the Wheeling Intelli-
genoer, the leading republican
newspaper of the state, upon the
character and worth of Hon. Louis
Bennett, candidate for the demo.
cratic nomination for governor.
Coming as it does from paper
that finds little to commend in
either individual democrats or dem
ooratio principles, the admission of
Mr.. Benefits strength is all the
more significant of the realization
by the republicans of the fact that
Mr.. Bennett will poll far more
than his party strength in West
Virginia, and that, if he is nomina.
ted, he will, in all probability, be
the next governor of West Virginia.
Mr.. Bennett is clean man, he
is an able man, he is man whose
record is without blot. he is a
man upon whose personal or pc.
litioal character no attack oan hon.
estly be made. AS a candidate he
would be many thousands of votes
stronger than his party.
Contrast the admitted qualifioa-
tions of Mr., Bennett with the lack
of suoh qualifications in the lead.
ing republican candidate for gov.
ernor, Charles w. Swisher. Any
fair. minded republican will admit
that Mr. Swisher's private oharao.
ter is not above reproaoh, that his
official record is not, one to which
he oan point with an extraordinary
degree of pride, that he has an 40
tive and ardent friend in the greedy
corporate interests that, as a can.
didate, he will not poll. by a great
deal, the normal vote of his party.
Yet this is the manner of man
whom the republican party in the
state of West Virginia. entering
upon its degenerate days, will nom.
mate for the highest office within
the gift of the people of the state
The Register will venture the
prediction that the Wheeling In.
telligencer will not claim Mr.
Swisher's character. record or fit.
ness for the office of governor
equal to those possessed by Mr.
Bennett
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Tucker for Bennett.

At the Democratic County Con-
vention in Tucker county last Wed.
nesday the delegates to the district
delegate convention Sand the state
convention were instructed to oast
a solid vote of the county for Bry-
an and Bennett, candidates foI
president and governor.
Randolph's solid delegation will
probably be instructed for Bennett
and Bryan.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
Point Pleasant Public Schools,
May 21-2e, 1908.

Thursday, May 81. 900 A. M,
Field School Grounds.
Friday, May %. 900 A. M, Claes
DaY-High School Room.
Friday, May %, 9:15P M Grade
Program-Hooffs Opera House.
Sunday, May "a, HOO A. M
Annual Sermon, Rev. Carl Barth,
Presbyterian Church.
Tuesday, May 26, $3.50 P. NJ,
Commencement Exercises HooffH
Opera House. Address by Wilson
M. Foulk. Superintendent of Pub
lilo Schools of Huntington.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Mr.. Benefits Gubernatorial Can.
didacy.


Wheeling Intelligencer, (repubiican)
Hon. Louis Bennett is forging
rapidly to the front in the demo.
CRATIC gubernatorial race, and at
present looks like an easy winner.
Mr.. Bennett is a man of wealth,
ability and high standing. In
many respects he typi6es the best
ideas and traditions of the old line
Jeffersonian Democracy. The ap-
pearanoe of suoh a man as the oan-
didate of the wild West Virginia
Democracy will mean battle royal
for control of the state. 1t will
mean that an able and vigorous
onmpaigner will lead the Demoo.
raoy and that no votes will be lost
either from lack of effort or on ao.
count of the personal record of the
candidate.
In the governors chair MIR
Bennett would make an able, and
the Intelligenoer believes, a thor
oughly upright and competent Of
fioial.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

commencement Exercises, Lewis
burg Seminary and Conservatory
of Music.
Thursday, May 21st. 8 O'Clock
p. m-Graduating Piano Recital
Friday, May %, 8 O'Clock, p. m
AIumnRe Reception and Banquet
Saturday. May %, 10 O'Clock, a
m-Alumnae Meeting.
Sunday, May ID, IL O'Clock, q
m Baocalaureate Sermon preached
before Graduating GLASS by Rev
w o Campbell, d d, of Virginia
Monday. May %. a to 6 O'Clock
p. m. and 8 to IL O'Clock, p, m
Art Reception.
Tuesday, May 26, IL O'Clock, a
m-Class Day Exercises.
Tuesday, May 26. 8 O'Clock, p.
m--Address before Carnegie and
Eumonean Literary Societies, by
ex-Gov, A j Montague of Virginia
Wednesday, May 81, IL O'Clock,
p. m-Graduating Exercises.
Wednesday, May 81, 8 O'Clock,
p. m--Final Concert.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
COME TO THE CONVENTION.

Democrats should bear in mind
the big county mass convention to
be held in Point Pleasant. Thurs.
day, May 2lst. AT this convention
delegates will be appointed to all
of the State and district oonven.
tions. Read the Gall in this paper.
BE sure and come. Remember the
date and make your arrangements
to be present regardless of anything
Have your clothes oleanded and
pressed, it makes them look like
new and makes them last twice as
long. 90 Tippett, Tailor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
From PauperIem to Rlohe,

Bernard Kotch. Sc years old, and
partly blind. left the almshouse at
Viola, N. ", where he has been four
years. with fortune of $4,000. Tho
legacy was left him by friend in
Philadelphia, and lawyers searched
for him for some time before they
found him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

mother, Mrs John Eokard last week
Will See and wife, and Strawd
See were visiting j M Jones and
family one evening last week.
Mrs Lizzie Clendenin, Mrs Vel
ma Rawson and two children spent
one evening last week the guest of
Frank Rawson and family. Trixy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
RACE FOR THE NOMINATION
INTERESTING.

iNILNLOIllluo
Results Up To Date, 20 Counties
Having Named Delegates Give
Louis Bennett, of Weston, A
Strong Lead For The Guber-
natoral Nomination, With Sen
ator Littlepage Second-Seven
counties Have Instructed For
Bennett And Six Others Will
Cast Their Solid Vote For Him.
In the race for the demooretio
Rubernatorial nomination things
are now beginning to take some.
thing like tangible form, twenty OF
the fifty-fve counties in the state
having held their delegate oonven-
tions. A summing up of the re-
suits in these counties chow that
Hon. Louis Bennett who has been
conducting a dignified campaign
for two months or 30. is far in the
lead.
OF the twenty counties which
have named delegates to the state
convention, seven have sent dele.
cations instructed to vote solidly
for Bennett. These counties are
Lewis, Doddridge. Hancock, Gal
houn. Wayne, Marshall and Tuck.
er. In Wood county Bennett got
instructed delegates from eight OF
ten districts and the delegates from
the reminipg two. while not in.
struoted, favor the candidacy OF
the Weston man.
Five other counties. Hardy. Min.
eTal, MinRo. Braxton and Brooke
have selected delegations which,
while uninstruoted will vote solidly
for the Lewis county man. In adj
dition Mr.. Bennett is assured of
support of part of the delegations
from Monroe, Hampshire. Jeffer-
con and PleasRnts counties.
Three other oountieS, Wyoming,
Fayette and Mercer have selected
delegations favorable to the oandi.
daoy of someone other than Mr..
Bennett, Fsyette and Wyoming
are for Littlegage, though not in
struoted, while Mercer instructed
it's delegates to vote solidly for Da.
vid e. johnson. 1t is provided.
however, that on second ohoioe the
Mercer delegation shall vote for
Mr.. Bennett.
With suoh formidable majority
of the delegates already instTuoted
together with the almost assured
support of great number of the
counties yet to choose delegates,
Mr.. Benefits friends feel ooni-
dent that his nomination will be
easily accomplished His oam-
paign has been remarkable for the
enthusiasm with which it has been
received since it's inoipienoy. Nc
man who ever aspired to office in
West Virginia has found his oan-
didaoy 30 strongly Improved on all
sides.
The demooratio workereI through
out the state recognized in Mr. Ben
nett and man under whose leader
ship the party could unite and for
this cause took up his standard
quickly. His freedom from faction.
al taints, together with his strong
personality, has proven peculiarly
pleasant to the democrats and his
high character is 80 strongly oon-
trasted with the republicans who
seek to oppose him that even the
republican press does not assail
him.
The other demooyatio candidates
being men loyal to both party and
state, are conducting their Dam
paigns with dignity and each OF
them has announced that the Don.
test in the party BhRll CLOSE for his
part at the convention, after which,
despite results, he will be found
lined up for the state and national
tickets.
Tucker for Bennett.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Shoot FIah win Arrowa.

Many of the natives of the islands
of the South Seas are experts at
shooting fish with bow and arrow.
The art is difflcult one. for the re.
Election of the water has to be allowed
for.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
EoR AasnssoR.

hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the office of Assessor OF
Mason county and respectfully solicit
the support of my friends in the Dem
ocratic County Convention.
w. MASON LONG.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Advice from the PoII.IeIan.

My boy" said politician to his
son, lean a little toward everything
and commit yourself to nothing. Be
as round as bottle and Just dark
enough that nobody can see what's
in you"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
seIf.Love AnaIyzed.

Self-love never reigns so absolutely
as in the passion of love; we are al
ways ready to sacrifice the peace o:
those we adore. rather than lose th"
least part of our own.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
British government stores OH.

The BritIsh government Is building
number of immense oil tanks at
various ports around the British isles
for the use of her warships now us.
ing oil for fuel. The tanks will be
surrounded by mounds to protect them
against gun fire from the sea.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Holy WeIIo Of IroIand

Everywhere in Ireland are the holy
wells. People as they pray by them
make little piles of stones that will
be counted at the last day and the
prayers reckoned up. or SO it is be.
lieved.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Learn by observatIon.

Watch those about you, and you
will see more of the temper and un-
needed purpose and real moral posi-.
ton of men than you would imagine
Wendell Phillips.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

Hold Stone Throwing Contests.
In parts of Switzerland stone-throw.
ing contests are held. handsome prizes
being given to those who throw a fair
sized rock farthest-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Doddridge 10 for nennett,

West Union. W. Va. May 49,
An enthusiastio Democratic mass
meeting was held here yesterday.
when w. j. Bryan for President,
Louis Bennett for Governor. and
A. j. Blair for attorney general,
were unanimously endorsed.
Delegates to the various conven.
tions we're elected snd instructed
to vote for the endorsed candid.
ates. The meeting was represent
alive, enthusiastic, and attend ed
by hundreds. Speeches were made
by Hon Louis Bennett, A. j.
Blair and Messrs. MoConahey and
Roberts. who are candidates for
the national convention at Denver.
Mr. James Rifle, of Hartford,
was here Saturday. Mr.. Rifle is
quite prominently spoken of as a
candidate for the nomination for
County Commissioners on the Dem.
ooratio ticket. He would be a
strong candidate and we believe
could be elected. He has a host
of friends and is fully qualified in
every respect to fill the office.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

Ladies skirts and suits cleaned
and pressed in first GLASS order;
prices low. 90 Tippett, tailor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

Put in your order now for that
two. piece suit. it is going to get
hot soon. 1 have some nice ones at
1922 so up. Come aud see me be-
fore buying. 90 Tippett. Outer
and Filter
Red A Store for Lawn SWings,
Hammooks. Rope, SO. =
You will save money by trading
with Mrs L j. Williamson.
Neuralgylene Tablets at Van
elders Drug Store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20
Seeking the EIusIve.

IL is the dim haze of mystery that
adds enchantment to pursuit. -
Rivarol.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-05-20

We don't Garry shoddy Hate
Every hat trimmed in our work.
room by experienced trimmers.
Mrs. l.. j. Williamson
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30
Short-Weight Sherman.

Chicago Journal: The Sweet Smiler
of Utica is accused of conspiracy to
,defraud the territory of New Mexico
out of 10000 acres of land. This land
belonged to the people, and had James
Schoolcraft's plan not been upset by
officers of the law its conversion to
Sherman and his friends would have
been at the expense of every American
citizen.
But even this offense is small com
pared with the action which earned
the Utica congressman the title of
"Short-Weight Sherman"
1t was proposed in congress to make
the pure food law provide for full
measure of cans and bottles, as well
as for the quality of contents. Who
do you think opposed it? Nobody but
Sunny jim OF course, just as Stan
dard Oil contributions have no effect
upon the action of republican admins
traitors the fact that Mr.. Sherman
owned a cannery had nothing what
ever to do with his attitude on thi.
matter. But there are the facts.
When the workingman's wife pay:
for pint can of molasses or a pin
can of tomatoes, if she finds the pin
short half a glass she can thank Mr.
Sherman. 1t is the Shermans that hell
their friends, the corporations, t
amass millions in this sort of fashion
out of the pennies of the poor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30
Taft as Colonial Governor.

His sympathies are altogether with
the great and powerful, and. in his es-
timation, the rights of property are
paramount TO the rights of man. He is
a natural born autocrat, and with
hungry mob of place hunters back of
him, would set about creating a strong
centralized government which would
be the stepping stone to the abroga-
ton of the most cherished rights of
the American people.
I'm our estimation, his government
of the Philippine islands proves this
beyond all dispute, since it was one
continuous assault upon the rights of
the people through arrogant control of
the judiciary, abolishing trial by jury,
appealing from verdiets of not guilty
increasing punishments on appeal. de-
nying American citizens the right to
keep arms, and the enactment of Sc
we're libel and sedition laws.
Let his record of despotism in these
islands be warning to the American
people to trust Taft in no position
where he can demolish the structure
u tHeN government.
This is not the heated condemnation
Of political campaign, but the calm
utterance of the Inter Island News
more than d year and half ago con-
corning the man who now seeks to be
president of the United States.
For such utterances as these news.
papers in the Philippines were put un.
der strict censorship and offending edi.
tors were deported Every precaution
was taken to prevent news from Ma
Mia reaching this country in any
form that might act against Taft OF
react upon Roosevelt.
Yet the fulsome glory that beat upon
the throne of the Philippines and the
glad laudation from the throne al
washington seem to have been out oil
tune with the feelings of the people
who lived next door to the palace oil
Governor General Taft. Americans il
America were led to believe things
different from what Americans in tht
Philippines had learned by the evi
dence of their own senses. But nov
the truth is out.
If the voters of this country ar,
blind enough to choose a presiden
who is combination of aristocrat ant
autocrat, then they must not complain
if they suffer corresponding results.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-30
BE Fair, Mr.. President.

Now that the republican candidate
for vice president is in the limelight in
a discreditable way, will Mr.. Roose-
welt issue an official message denounc-
ing him as unworthy of any position
in our public life," or will he accept
Mr.. Sherman's apology and say mo
further investigation of these facts is
reQuired?"
There is as much evidence of Sher-
mans guilt as there was of Haskell's
alleged dealings with Standard Oil
Come, Mr.. President, be fair! Hit
Sherman over the head with the big
stick. He deserves it, on general prin
ciples.
One uncertain life should never be
placed between a man with his record
even from the most favorable stand
point, and the presidency of the Unit
ed States.