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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
WORLDS DESTRUCTION.

Halley's comet and its coming as
herald of the destruction of the
world was discussed yesterday morn
ing by Rev. C. W. Blodgett at the
Hyde Park Methodist Church.
The coming of Halley's comet, =
he said in part, is suggestive ofthe
destruction of the world by FIRE, as
prophesied in the Bible. While
scientists may tell US there is no dan
ger of an impact of the earth with
any of the heavenly bodies, yet his
tory has proved that stars and rlan-
cts known in the past have utterly
gone out of existence. That this
earth, not the entire universe, will
be destroyed by FIRE some day is in
harmony with all teaching of sci
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
COMETS TAIL PARTED.

Geneva, n. Y, May I4.-Dr.
William P. Brooks, of Smith S OBJ
Seryatory, reports remarkable changes
in Haley, comet during the last
three days. Inc nucleus, the bright
est part of the comets head has
grown larger and brighter while the
coma, surrounding the necleus, has
greatly changed in form and is now
distorted md mach broader on the
side nearest the sun. This, says
Professor Brooks, gives evidence OF
violent tidal action.
The dark streak extending back
from the nucleus through the middle
of the tail has also grown broader,
dividing large part of the tail into
two distinct branches.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
COURT HOUSE BURNS.

Parkersburg. W. Va, May Is
The court houes at Elizabeth, which
was one of the old land marks OF
Writ county, was destroyed by fire
about 4 o'clock this morning. The
old building, which was erected in
1913, had been the scene of a number
of famous criminal trials. Nam old
and valuable records were consumed
in the blaze, which can never be
replaced. The county Jail was in
the basement of the court house, in
which two prisoners were confined
at the time, two boys, who gave the
alarm, and who were frantic through
fear of being burned up. They were
rescued in the nick of time and taken
to the sheriff the residence. The
fire which is believed to have been
the work of an incendiary, started
back of the Judges bench in the
court room.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

President Taft has been President
4S9 days. According to our best in
formation, he has given about s
hours per day of that time to the
duties of his office. The remainder
Of the time has been taken up by
pleasure trips at the expense of the
government, playing golf, auto rid
ing sc. At these figures, IS days
labor he has given to the interest of
his country. He receives 500, 900
per year. 100000 for IS days actual
service-$lSlS. per day or-S hours
per day Saa7.a7 per hour allowing
s hours for days work. When, Oh
When, will the American people
see the wrong doings of the their
officials and correct them.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

THIS is the season of the year
when the Sweet Girl Graduate
fourishes. Now the lily-white arm
of the graduate fair Aourished DER
her golden hair, carving the flower
fragrant air in ribbons of love and
light, as she begins: Down the I'M
trodden pathway of life we can see
the invisible footprints of an unseen
land. We build the ladder on the
sea of life whose rungless rounds we
mount From the lowly earth to the
vaulted skies, as Cowper says in his
Thanatopsis. Beyond the Alps lies
Italy; over the fence is out. 'Ho
pom, no pever,' is the watch cry of
the voiceless spirit whose wings
CLEAN in the shoreless waters of life's
tempetuous sea-
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
LIVING IS CHEAPER.

The cost of living decreases daily.
Almost as rapidly as the sem
sational advance some months ago
in the costs of meats, eggs, -four
and other necessarieS, has been the
recession in price during the past
four weeks. Net reductions in food
products amount to from 90 to 40
per cent. In some cases the re-
duction made by wholesalers have
not brought the corresponding re-
duction by retailers. But on the
whole, the consumer had already be-
gun to feel considerable benefit
from the cheaper necessaries of life.
1t is now clear that n good deal
of the high prices during the winter
was the result of speculation, pure
aud simple. Potatoes and eggs held
by dealers for high prices have been
dumped on the market during the
past month and prices have fallen
sharply. Whether or not it is posi-
bic by legislation to prevent this
kind of speculation in food products
is a question. Undoubtedly the
Spectator or middleman who buys
and handles large quantities of food
has legitimate calling. His ac-
tivities become highly questionable
however, when they create artificial
prices for the daily food of the people.
We are beginning to look to the gov
eminent to regulate about every
thing that can be regulated or con-
trolled, and legislation regulating
and controlling speculation in food
products may be thing of the not
distant future.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
OHIO RAILROAD MERGER.
Columbus, O., May le-Thur,da

Columbus, O., May l6-Thursday
morning Judge Saer in Federal court
here will begin hearing of the suit,
brought by John S. Stanton and
David H. Gould, of New York, min
ority stockholders in the Kanawha &
Michigan Railway Company, against
the Hooking Valley, Kanawha&
Michigan and chesapeake& Ohio
railways to prevent the sale of the
Hooking Valley and the Kanawha&
Michigan to the chesapeake&oh ohio,
as recently proposed.
The hearing is expected to last at
least week, during the course of
which the history of all the recent
Cbesapeake&Ohio- Hooking deal will
be threshed out in detail.
1t is understood that subpenas to
bring books and paper of the various
roads will Be issued. The books of
the Hooking Valley Railway Com
pany, which B. E. westfal in a suit
in common pleas court sought to
obtain, may be produced. They have
been held in New York. Presidents
and other high officials of the rail-
roads have been subpoenaed as wit
nesses.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

WHEN one finds he is out of SYM
pathy with his town, and can only
say good word for it coupled with
an apology, he ought to get out.
Many people fall into sort of I'M
conscious habit of growing. But it's
miserable habit. Such people make
of themselves dead weight, while,
of course, they imagine themselves
particularly independent. The in
dividual has about all he can do to
get along under his own loads, and
he wants help and encouragement
from those going his way, and who
are identified with him in interest.
1t has its interest to care for, and it
needs all the pluck, all the energy,
all the cooperation and helpfulness
ITS citizens can provide and bring to
bear. Every man is a part of his
town. The town embraces the for
tunes, and in some measures at least
takes on the character of the man.
So loyalty to ones town is no more
than loyalty to ones self; and this
loyalty is in the line of all well shap-
ed human nature. Therefore it is
right to say that the man who does
not stand up for his town is in some
way dwarfed. There is something
wrong about him. His fellows will
pass this judgment upon him,
and the chances are that while he
may add to the discomfort ofothers
he will not escape making himself
unhappy.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
A NEW CANCER CURE.

Word comes from Paris that new
cancer cure has been worked and in
numerous cases this application has
been successful. DR.. Boyen one of
the most noted ScientitiS of France,
believes that in electric heat he has
found a means of drying out the dis
ease cells. Once this drying out
process takes place, the cells die and
fall away. Healthy flesh is not in
jured by heat of $40 degrees while
temperature of lSl degrees is the
maximum required to destroy cancer
growth. Many cases of cancer have
been treated and their cure has been
invariably recorded. With the appli-
cation OF the electric heat rs produced
by the apparatus designed by DR..
DOyen the cancer cells are said to
coagulate, taking on the appearance
of cooked white of an egg. The
hardening continues with the APP
plication of heat until the cells break
loose, leaving the healthy flesh I'M
1t remains to be seen whether this
new discovery will prove as effective
as its advocates hope. 1t has the
merit Ofapplying a new idea and the
world will at least await the result
of future experiment with intense
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

of the chief elements ofweakness and
danger in the situation.
If the banks he continued,
may by increasing loans, create
credits, which in turn create purchas-
ing power and sustained demand
for high-prieed goods, thereby still
further advancing prices in the bene-
fits of which all classes share except
those who possess fixed incomes, it
may be asked why this is not good
why not continue to promote the
general ability to spend; why no,
continue giving to each individual an
amount of enjoyment, luxury, and
pleasure unknown before, particular.
ly when all this may be accomplished
by merely increasing loansa The
simple but comprehensive and truth.
full answer is that it cannot be done
because in the long run every act Of
wastefulness and every item of ex.
travagance must be paid for to the
last farthing; every item consumed
must be earned"
Mr.. Talbert also discussed the dan,
ger of the country losing its favorable
trade balance and of adding an ad.
verse trade balance to the other debit
items which run against this country
to the extent of hundreds of millions
of dollars a year. Mr.. Talbert est.
mated these items at total ofs9oo,,
900, 900, including 5000, 900, ooC
spent abroad by American travellers,
$500, 900, 900 paid to foreign shop
owners, and $500, 900, 900 paid il
dividends and interest on American
securities held abroad and in othe.
similar ways.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
ANOTHER VIEW.

Vice President J. T. Talberl of the
National City Bank in an address be-
fore the Texas Bankers Convention
at Ell Paso yesterday said some things
about the extravaganza of the present.
day customs and of the part which
the banks play in the present scheme
of expenditure which greatly inter-
ested the financial district where Mr..
Talbert's speech was printed BY the
news agencies.
Mr.. Talbert said that the mainten-
ance of present high prices depends
very largely upon the expansion of
credit, and that therein lay one of
the chief elements of danger. One
extravaganza, which he discussed un-
der the heading Our National Vice, g"
Mr.. Talbert said:
We are squandering on pleasure
vehicles annually sums of money run
ming into hundreds of millions of
dollars. The initial cost of automo-
biles to American users amounts to
not less than $3.50, 900, 900 year.
The up-keep and other necessary ex-
penditureS, as well as incidentalS,
which would not otherwise be incurr-
ed amount to at least as much more.
This vast sum is equivalent in actual
economic waste each year to more
than the value of property destroyed
in the San Francisco fre-perhaps
twice as much"
In the matter of individual ex-
penditures it is the fashion now to be
extravagant to the point of wasteful-
ness, and the fashion is running riot.
Individual thrift is considered not
merely misery boarding, but is look
ed upon as vice and thing to be
dispiSed. 1t is said that this is not
day of small things, and that
wealth, as wealth goes now, may no
longer be accumulated by the slow
process of savings and economies.
This may be true if we shall measure
wealth only by billions or hundreds
of millions, but, just as surely as
there ever existed virtue in economy,
of contentment and independence in
frugality, they are there to-day, and
just as surely as individual and Ma
tional extravaganza ever led to day
of reckoning they are doing SO today.
Among nations, and among indiyid-
uals, permanent wealth and material
progress are the results, not so much
of rich natural resources as they are
the products of economy and thrift
not alone economy in the arts of pro-
duction, but economy of use
The maintenance of the present
high level of prices. he said, is de-
pendent upon the sustained purchas-
ing power of the individual which in
turn depends very largely, if not
wholly, upon the expansion of credit.
Herein, Mr.. Talbert added, lies one
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
UNCLE JOE SEVENTY-FOUR.

Uncle joe" Cannon celebrated
his seventy-fourth birthday Saturday
by putting in a hard days work at
the capitol. The anniversary was
observed in the house by tribute to
the Speaker from both sides of the
chamber, in which political difEeren-
ces were lost sight of and the insurg-
ents forgotten.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
FEAs BRANCH.
]. W. Young, of Huntington, was
visiting friends here Sunday.

J. W. Young, of Huntington, was
visiting friends here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Reed were
visiting relatives on the creek, Sun
day.
A merry crowd took dinner with
Iva Starkey Sunday. They all went
to the ball game in the afternoon.
Several of the young people from
here attended meeting at Palestine
Thursday night and Saturday night.
Geo. Mccoy sold his horse and
went to Huntington and purchased
another one.
Essie and verna Meadows were
visiting on Big Sixteen Saturday and
SundaO.
The school at Starkey is progress
ing nicely under the management of
Prof. R. E. Davis.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

The way to build up community
IS for every person in it, who can, to
put some money into industries that
give the people employment, ard
push the industries to success.
Industries that last all the
year round are the best; but those
that last part of the year are better
than none. The most valuable
power on earth is human power, and
when it is not employed it is not
only lost but it also consumes part of
what others earn. Work creates
wealth; work sets money in motion :;
works pays debts; work is the vital
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

A ST, LOUIS alderman complains
bitterly that somebody tried to bribe
him with $4,000. Evidently they
are not all as cheap as the Pittsburg
variety.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

power in prosperity, and that city,
that community, and that nation
whose people are idle, are poor, and
poor in proportion to the number
that work and the time they
work. Heavens greatest earthly
blessing to any people is to give
them honest, remuneratiye work.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

OLD Joe Cannon must know he
is slated for the AK, else he would
not be so daring in his attacks upon
insurgents, all and singular.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

PUBLIC sentiment, Joseph W. Folk
believes, is turning not so much to
the Democratic party as to the things
the Democratic party ought to stand
for.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

CONSIDERABLE has been said and
written first and last in disparagement
of our idle rich, but apparently
most of the real trouble is caused by
our busy grating rich.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

PRESIDENT Golf Auto Taft is hav-
ing troubles in business. That boy
Kerby, cut the Crabtree. He could
have told lie but he wouldn't and
now he has no job.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

IF it will make them feel any bet
ter, the standpatters are at liberty
to attribute the insurgents fire of
the middle west to Halley's comet.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
Subscription 81 a Year, in Advance
Wednesday, May IS, 1910.

The only question now is whether
Col. Roosevelt will abolish the
House of Lords, or merely reform it.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

ACCORDING to the present situation
Governor Harmon of Ohio, is the
strongest Democrat to nominate for
President in 1919.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

The grocer's boy was numbering
up the kitchen stairway with his
arms full of packages.
Boy said the mistress of the
house somewhat sharply, are your
feet clean:''
Yes'm" he answered, still climb
ing the stairs. It's only me shoes
that's dirty
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

Hannah District-Mary E. and F.
NJ. Daaer. to lafayette Chapman, 7
acres, $500.
Graham District-wm. J. zerkle,
Guy Moaitt, trustee for T. Edgar
MOfitt, ls5 acres, $1,000.
Lewis Distriet-strautber See and
wife, 100 acres, to VIM. See, Jr.,
$3.50.
Town of Hendeson-John G.
Stortz and wife, to Mamie and P.
o. Forrest, parts of lots 8 and 8 in
Henderson, 500.
Hannah District.-clara Bryan
Ellis and husband, to Chas. Bryan,
Is acress, 500.
cIendenin District-EE Pyles and
wife, to John A. Tabit, 90 acres,
5000 and other considerations.
Lewis District-strauther See and
Others, to Fred Johnson, eS acres,
SSe5.
Cooper District Thos. H. Knopp,
to Mae and Nellie Bennett, acre,
$la5.
Mason city-AIIie NJ. Rowley and
husband, to Morgan Blake, part of
lot No. ), So.
Waggener District-Andrew L.
Sehon and wife, to Frank and J. P.
McMillen, tract Of land in Waggen-
er district, $3.50
Clendenin District-R. J. Hall and
husband, to Geo. Fowler, il acres,
$40.
Cooper District Rebecca A. Car
son and others, to James c. Ed
wards, 100 acres, 500.
CIendenin District-J. L Lanier
and wife, to Mary Flint, e5 acres,
$50.
Cologne District-John W. Dono-
heu and others, to John W. Wheel
er, so acres, 5000.
Clendenin District-Lilly Need
ham and husband, to John L. Steele,
l9! acres, $l25.
Arbuckle District-Monroe Pot-
enbarger and others, to J. W. New
ell, 6 acres, $50.
Lewis District-Lewis A. McCull-
och, to Robt. H. McCulloch, interest
in 100 acres, 5000.
Union District-Abe Sayre and
wife, to Fleet Hill, )! acres, SI65.
Hannah District-Henry Crist to
A. F. Scott, I6 acres, $3.50.
Union District-Clay. GreenIee
and wife, to Willard F. Parsons,
GO 81 acres, $500.
Cooper District-N. B. Cartmill,
guardian to Jacob B. Ward, one-ffth
interest in lSS acress, $3.50.
Cooper District-G. H. Ward, Jr.,
and wife, to J. B. and THEODORE F.
Ward, Is interest in ISIS acres,
$3.50.
Hannah District-Susan Woolford
and husband, to Freeman Woolford
and Others, 60 2-S acres, 81.
Arbuckle District-W. F. Chap
man and wife, to Daniel Thompson
and wife, IS acres, $500.
Union District-Lewis A. Casio
and wife, to Holly Stewart and wife.
10 acres, 500.
Clendenin District-A. c. Wal
tiers and wife, to John P. and Ben
ME A. Gardner, + acres, Sa5.
Cologne District-Fred B. Thorn
as and wife, to Isaac Thomas, so
acres, $500.
Robinson District-Geo. W. Fish
er and wife, to Robt. H. Richard,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

FOR SALE:-One yoke of fine
work cattle, well broke. Call on or
address, E. W. Hoffman, Letart,
West Va, Route ..
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

No doubt the Weather Bureau was
very much surprised to learn about
the April blizzard in the West.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

There will be Festival at the
U. B. Church at North Point Pleas
ant, next Saturday night, May 2Ist,
proceeds to go to the church. All
are cordially invited.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18
RIVER NEvs

If we are correctly infoid it is
not the intention of Superyg In
spectOr Daniel Dargherty tcerfere
with the work of the local Iectors
under him and in his Distri, 1t is
only when there is just ee for
that appeal that the Supervi over
rules any decision that the al in
spectors may have made. Suyising
Inspector DaugheFty, who is able
man, believes, in the rigid force
ment of all the Marine LAVISH We
think in that, he is right There
has been times, though vi the
actions of some local inspectf have
been unnecessary hardshimpon
boat owners.
Capt. Geo. p. Gardner, til well
known boat and barge bull. and
proprietor of the Enterprise locks
at Point Pleasant, was a Gpolis
visitor Sunday. Capt. Gardntwho
is considered one of the most reble
dock men in the Ohio Valley was
born in Gallia county, Ohioaear
Kyger, but went to the Motain
State in early boyhood and hire
sided there ever since. Capt. I'd
ner has many friends here WHARF
always pleased to meet him. His
docks are over run with work. His
son, Capt. Sill and family, reside Re.
The Muskingum river packet;o-
noma has been raised and bront
to the Point Pleasant docks for e.
pairs.-Gallipolis Tribune.
The Inspectors ordered the pacli
Greyhound, SO we are informed,
the Point Pleasant docks for need
repairs to her hull. The boat is
the Kanawha docks and will be
paired and placed in good shape
the Bays, her owners. The Ka
Mac is in the Greyhound's trade.
The new packet Lucinda was to
ed to Cincinnati Saturday night fro
the Kanawha docks where she W
built. Commodore Laidley will ha
the Cincinnati Inspectors inspc
the Lucinda. The Tell City a
Bellevue will be brought to Poi
Pleasant to be rebuilt.
Lee H. Willis, whose home is ne
South Point, the well known ma
on the Tacoma, indicted by the lie
is cour.y, Kentucky grand jury
manslaughter, as result OF the dea
OF a roustabout, was found guilty
Vanceburg, of assault and bate
fined fifty dollars and the costs in
case which he promptly paid and "
discharged.
FEAS BRANCH.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-18

Hannah District-R. Blazer
and wife, to THEODORE Holllf IA
acres, $le4.55.
Hannah District-E. Blazer
and wife, to Martin DAILY, acres,
s4es.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-28
FOR ARCADE
MARKET UNREVGKED
Board Without Authority to
Prevent Concern From
Doing Business.

That they are without authority to
revoke the permit for the establishment
Of market in the Arcade Building at
Fourteenth street and Park road. is
the conclusion reached BY the Commits
sioners following consideration of an
opinion of the Corporation Counsel and
arguments for and against the PROPOSE
ton submitted by residents OF the neigh
borhood.
The establishment Of the market was
the subject Of a recent hearing before
the Commissioners at which the protes-
tants were largely in the majority.
The board bases its decision upon the
opinion Of the Corporation Counsel. which
is to the effect:
That the Commissioners. in the exer-
else Of their official discretion and IN the
public interest have authorized the per-
nit, and II has been issued BY the prop
er officer. II any money has been spent
or obligations incurred by the permit
tee on the faith Of the permit. then, IN
my opinion, the Commissioners are es-
topped 70 revoke II until the public in
terests require that It be revoked.
The prOtestants, Corporation Counsel
Thomas adds, arr not without a remedy
and may apply =" the courts for an in
junction.
The Commissioners have received also
many letter in advocacy Of the market
and a petition signed by $500 citizens
requesting their approval Of the permit
for its establishment