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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12

Aunt Dinah came home from a
meeting in Paradise with one of her
eyes badly swollen.
''what is de matter wild dat eye,
Dinah2" asked Uncle Nicodemus.
"weu, sab, dar waz great big
niger oman shouted tonight, named
Chloe, an she come down de aisle Nv
de church slingin' her arms powerful
keerless an struck me right in de
eye an knocked me senseless. She
nebber stopped to ak my 'pOIogies,
but jis' KEEP on shoutin'-she doan
ike me nOhow. Use gwine to shout
myself mex Sunday night, and T'se
gwine ter put razzer in my bosom,
an I'se gwine to shout in de direction
Nv dat niger"
Let US all remember as we pass
through this vale of tears that if we
don't AXE care of ourselves, nobody
else in this world will take care Of
-,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
INJUNCTION
CHARLESTON FlGaI. HAS NOW GOTTEN
INTO THE COURTS.

Charleston, W. Va, Jan. 6.-The
wet" faction in the Charleston city
council were prevented last nigh,
from passing the liquor ordinance by
the granting of an injunction by
Judge S. C. Burdett, of the Circuit
Court, restraining common council
and each individual member from
recognizing C. L. Topping as men,
Der, and Mr.. Topping from serving
as councilman until the question Of
his right to John W. Cooks seat has
been legally settled.
By the same injunction the COM
mon council is prohibited from pass
ing liquor license ordinance and
the county court from granting IL
-censes until the Cook-Topping mat
ter has been settled.
To add to the excitement Council
man Fred Paul Grosscup presented a
petition signed by one resident of
councilman, W. W. Wertz's ward,
declaring Wertz not to be resident
of said ward and asked that the seat
be declared vacant. Wertz has been
one of the dry" leaders, and, the
move is to oust him and elect one in
favor of licenses, the wet" forces
having enough votes with Wertz pre-
vented from voting, to accomplish
this. Action on Wertz's removal was
set for January lesh. Councilmen
Stephenson and Roche had a wordy
combat over the latter's actions and
assertions in reference to the inves-
tigation of the latter's change from
dry to wet'' side of the cOntro-
versy, but friends prevented any
thing serious happening.
]. W. Cook, who claims he was
ousted as a member of council by
bogus telegram purporting to be his
resignation, arrived just before coun-
Gil voted to recess until next We'd
nesday night. The dry forces de-
sired he be permitted to enighten
council on matters involving his seat,
but this was rejected by vote to re-
cess carrying. Undaunted in their
efforts to hear Cooks story a meet
ing was held in the council chamber
and Cook was invited to speak. He
declared the telegram to be forgery
and that he would be able to prove
it.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
STATE'SPOPULATION
NUMBER OF RESIDENTS IS THE CAUSE
OF SPECULATION.

The probable population of West
Virginia is the cause of considerable
speculation in this state and the re-
suit of the canvass of the coming cen
sus is veay naturally awaited with
some interest here. 1t is believed,
however, that the figures will approxi-
mate l,I44,ooO.
Such an estimate is based upon
the rate of increase of population in
the Great Mountain state in previous
years. The population of West vir-
ginia in the year 1880 was 6ls,4
and in 1900 was s5S, 800, and in
crease of 14o,S4S. In 1909, the
estimated population was l,I4l,47S
or an increase of lSa, ,67S, over the
census of nine years before. Thus if
figures in comparison can be counted
as being able to produce anything
like the correct dope, the population
of this state will be even more than
l,l44, 900.
West Virginia probably has advanc-
ed more in the last year than she did
in any year previous. This can be
proven by a review of statistics of
manufacturers. Many lines of trade
have deen partially held up but bust
ness having improved wonderfully in
AL sections of the state, the popula-
ton in various manufacturing and
mining communities has likewise in
creased. In the coal fields alone
thousands of additional miners have
removed to West Virginia from Ohio
and other states.
The negro population of the state
in 1909 was more than $1,000, an in
crease of more than Is, 900 over the
figures of the census of nine years
earlier. Thus it is expected that
there will be approximately 60, 900.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
SgNES BULLET mo HER HEART.
New cumberland. W. Ya.-Aftel

New Cumberland, W. va.-After
dressing her three children for school,
cleaning her house and then attiring
herself in her best clothes, Mrs. Fred
Attell. aged IS, wife of a wealthy
Frankford Springs farmer, locked the
door of her home and then going in
to the kitchen committed suicide by
shooting herself through the heart
with a sS-calibre revolver. DespOn-
deney over i'll health is assigned as
the cause.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
LINCOLN COUNTY hog NOT IN IT.

MccAusLAND, Mason Co., Jan. 10.
Editor of Point Pleasant Register;
Your Lincoln County hog is no,
large enough to be No. l. Alex
Mecausland raised, fed and killed
one this year that weighed, RS
pounds, another that weighed 4o6,
and six Is months old that averaged
sl6 each. Truly Yours,
JNo. McCAUSLAND.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
FOUND DEAD.

Walter Mayes, aged sixteen, son Of
E. H. Mayes and wife, of Arbuckle
district, was found dead. The young
mans death was a tragic and sad
one. That morning he went out to
the barn to milk the COWS. Not re-
turning as soon as expected, search
was made for him, and he was found
dead in the barn yard.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
MARRIED.

Mr.. Byron SOmerville, of Pleasant
Flats, and Miss Ada Clendenin, also
of Pleasant Flats, were married at
Clifton, Wednesday, January 5th,
1910, Rev. VIII H. Gilmore oficiat-
ing, The Register with their host
of friends extend their best wishes.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12

A kind old gentleman, seeing a
very small boy carrying a lot ofnews-
papers under his arm, was moved to
pity. Don't all those papers make
you tired my bOy?" Nope" the
mite cheerfully replied. 81 can,
read"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
MURDER OVER
FORTY CENTS.

Charleston, W. Va, Jau. "A
report received here today from Page,
Fayette comfy, states that during
quarrel over forty cents alleged to
be due on board bill, George G.
Raines, of Jackson county, used alb
usive language to Mrs. Minnie Shaw
key, keeper of boarding house.
Mrs. Shawkey procured a revolver
and shot Raines, killing hia almost
instantly. The woman was arrested
and held under bond of $4,000.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
SPENT HOUR IN
CHILLY WATERS
THREE YOUNG MEN HAD AWFUL R-
PERENE NEAR GENWOOD.

SSAAAAtS 49, $1,000
who were walking from skifF to-
ward the bank on the north side OF
the Ohio river at Glenwood were
plunged into the stream and were
compelled to battle for almost an
hour with the ice and current before
they succeeded in reaching safety.
Their position was made more peril
Gus by the approach of heavy ice
gorge which had broken loose and
was passing Glenwood while they
we're struggling for their lives.
The men were Clyde Blake, the
well-known journalist, who is visi-
ting his parents at Crown City, and
his friends, Edward and Stanley
Kennedy, aged twenty-one and eigh-
teen years, respectively. Mr.. Blake
had been in Huntington and sought
to cross the river in order to reach
home. The regular ferryman refus-
ed to undertake the trip, as the
heavy ice gorge could plainly be
seen only mile or so above. The
two Kennedy boys, however, deter
mined to assist their friend and
brought skifF from the Ohio to the
Virginia shore for this purpose.
Blake took his seat and the oarsmen
rowed for dear life for the Ohio side,
realizing that it would be dangerous
to be caught in advance ofthe heavy
ice cakes floating one on top of the
other toward them.
A skiff harbor had been made in
the shore ice but it was deemed safer
to attempt to cross the ice itself than
t. attempt to reach the harbor in ad-
vance of the ice. Consequently the
sSiff was drawn toward the shore and
the passengers began making their
way across the ice. They had only
taken few steps. however, when
the ice gave way beneath them,
plunging them into such deep water
that they were compelled to swim.
They turned and began fighting their
way to the sziff, but each time they
reached the edge of the ice and at
tempted to crawl to safety the ice
broke. They struggled on for some
distance, all becoming numb with
cold. Presently Edward Kennedy
reached 4 l4-inch plank, and with
this assistance was able to get his
brother to the boat. Then the two
bent their efforts to the rescue ofthe
almost unconscious Blake, who was
at the time barely able to keep him
self aAoat.
He was able to cling to the board
which was extended TO him. and
while he held himself thus the Ken
nedy boys broke the ice between him
and the skif and rowed to this side.
Blake revived somewhat when taken
into the boat and took hand in the
struggle for life which followed.
Despite the fact that the first great
cakes of the ice foe were passing
them the three men rowed and push
ed the boat to the harbor mouth and
thence to safety. 1t was intensely
cold and their clothing froze as they
worked.
Almost exhausted when they
reached the shore, they went at once
to physician, who was forced to
work for several hours before restor-
ing them to anything ike normal
condition. This morning they had
all recovered themselves and were
seemingly little the worse for their
experience.
Mr.. Blake is the man who was Sc
verely injured few wears ago while
stopping runaway horse.-Hunt-
ington Advertiser, Jan. 5th.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12
CHARLES HARRIS DEAD.

Mr.. Chas. Harris, Chairman ofthe
Democratic County Executive Com
mittee, died suddenly at Buffalo,
last Thursday, from apOplexy. His
remains were taken to Leon and
buried last Sunday, a large crowd Of
friends attending the funeral.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12

Teacher-Jimmie, correct this SEN
tence: Our teacher am in sight
Jimmie-'our teacher am sight.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-12

The store that has the goods at
the right prices. FilsOn Bros.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
WANT |NTERCLUB
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Suggests Broadening Scope oil
Stewart Cup Contests to
Stimulate Interest.

A movement is under way to induce
the Oahu Country Club, the Honolulu
Golf Club and the Haleiwa Golf Club
to run off a series of interclub golf
matches. With Austin White out of the
reckoning now, it was said yesterday,
everybody will stand chance He
should have been put back of scratch
when he competed against local players,
it was declared, because he was too
strong for any of them, and when it
was known that he was going to play
1t was hard to get anyone else to enter
for a competition.
The country club manages to work
up enough interest now and then to get
tournament started, but the rivalry
between clubs would be more keen than
between the individual members of one
club, it is argued. and everybody would
take hand. This would make the
honor of winning greater than where
the matches are confined to a few who
are playing together ali the time.
Some of the golfers say that many of
the country club members have become
so attached to their own links that they
do not care to play anywhere else, and
several of them have gotten so accus-
toned to playing on their own greens
that they can not make any kind of a
showing elsewhere, and they can not
expect TO be counted as good PLAYERS
if they can not make the scores on any
other links but their own.
r. \. Jordan has been trying to oct
the heads of the three clubs together
for the purpose of working the thing
up, but so far either one or the other
has been away somewhere and he has
not been able to arrange a conference.
It was suggested yesterday that the
Oahu Country Club folks broaden the
scope of the Stewart cup tournaments
and let members of the three clubs have
chance to get their names on the
trophy. When Mr.. Stewart visited Ho.
nolulu, it was said. he was entertained
out at Haleiwa and being a hotel man
of San Francisco, it would be more TO
his advantage to have the trophy at.
tract as many as posi- BILE. Mr.. Jordan
suggested. aside from the Stewart
trophy idea. that the Honolulu Golf
Club and the Oahu Country Club play
couple of matches and that team
of five of the best players be picked
from each tournament. not allowing
those chosen first t. compete in the
second. and making the prizes return
tickets to Haleiwa. so that the ten
could go out there for a match
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
MODEL WANTED.

Eli LII developed person to pose for life
|; thls once, S-43
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
HORSE WANTED.

'ooD carriage horse; sound and FREQ
from wee; reply giving full partieu.
lars to "Horse.D This 81 60,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
Classified Advertisements
LESSONS.

The HAU TREE-on the beach At
Walklkl-first-class apartments and
board 2199 Kalia road, end of Lew.
erS road.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
DR.. HAND TO RETURN
ON THE WiLHEL NINA

DIR. f. #. Hand. physical director of
the Y. NJ. c. A., who has been on the
mainland for the past few weeks enjoy
ing a vacation and purchasing the
equipment for the physical department
Of the new Y NJ c A. building. will
returp hv the next Wilhelmina, arriving
here September 6.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
SITUATION WANTED.

Watch NAN, luna or nurse: Ameri,
can Apply R. A. NJ. tffs office S745
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18

The subioine1 item appeared in
French newspaper: "There was found
IN the river this morninq the body Of
a soldier cnt to pieces and sewcd IN in
? sack. The circumstances seem to IRE
clude any suspicion of suicide.''
1000 splendid books. soc Brown &
Lyon Co. Until we move only.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
MARRIED

ARNOIT- WALTz-Thonas \. Arno+t
and Miss Mora I. Waltz. Safnrdsv
evening, August -, by Rev, Job1
Osborne. nm
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18

ap'tal. Pa -
PAID II 'al Bid ASK
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
GOOD HOME CARE

J Eo; sehool children; private family
halhnkI; fine healthy location. Far
terms, address Mrs. win c. KING
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
HALSTEAD & co.
Stock Brokers
e21 FORT STREET.
HONOLULU STOCK EXCHANGE

Honolulu. Wednesday, August Il, 1910.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18

81 think II spend my vacation oo
the lynx. = said the first flea. sgr. ~,
fond of golf. "The giraffe for n,;no =,
declared the second flea. ~ need ~
highest altitude ] can find. ',-Wasb; 1'l9
ton Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18
LOST.

PASS BOOK 1898, Blsnop : Return
ings: 2. n. Motaz, frus'ee' s7S
to bank.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-18

*23.125 on 800 paid. fRedeema BILE
at 103 at maturity. 1920 shares treas.
stock. 900 shares treas. stock. it4SI,
seller 10.
Session Sales.
6 Hilo Com, IL; 20 Haw. C. & s. Co..
41125: 5 Hon. B. & NJ Co., 2175; 80
Olaa, 6.625; Olaa, CTS; Is Hon. p
& NJ. Co, 21.S75; 10 Oahu Sug. Co, 81;
Waialua, 1880; IS Waialua, 100; 60
Eva. 1915.
Between Boards.
325 Olaa, 6.6c5; 80 Oahu Sug. Co.,
31.125; % Pahang Rub. pd., Is.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05
H|LLMAN TRIES
TO GET BACK
HIS BOOKS

G. d. Hillman, the millionaire
real estate speculator of Seattle,
indicted by the federal grand jury
on % counts for fraud and Illegal
use of the mails, with Attorney
Fred Burch appeared in federal
court before Judge Donworth late
yesterday afternoon.
Formal plea was not entered
and the cases will come up Octo-
Der IA, when Hillman will form
ally enter plea of not guilty.
His attorney yesterday made a
strenuous attempt to get back
Hillman's books which the district
attorney is keeping for evidence.
The court, however, refused to or
der the government attorney to
turn them over.
Hfllman is out under $50, 900
bail, his bondsmen being David II.
Moss, vice president of the First
National bank of Seattle, and w.
ID. Hofius. president of the Hofius
Steel company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05
Things Humming AT
Valley Fair Today

The Puyallup fair with the big
squash and the rural mash" and
the bib-tailed horse races and the
other attractions that go to make
first class fair is now doing
business.
The gates were opened to the
public today with everything in
place. Yesterday the finishing
touches were put on the exhibits
and today things begin to hum.
This is kids" day. All school
children get in free. They were
all over the grounds swarmine
like ants around a sugar bowl,
munohing peanuts and chewing
the saccharine ice cream candy.
1t was also pioneer day and the
old timers were -on hand, telling
each other how it happened 40
years ago and recounting how Jim
Blodgett killed a bear where the
drug store now stands and what
a time there was when Sally Ann
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05
TELL WHY N0N-PART|sAN
JUDGES SHOULD WIN

SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 5.-The
following statement in part was
given out today at the headquar-
tiers of the Non-Partisan Judiciary
league by Rufus r. Wilson, chair
man OF its campaign committee.
In presenting the names of five
men as candidates for the supreme
court the Non-Partisan Judiciary
league is upholding a principle
the principle of the direct prim-
airy law. The sole purpose of the
league in calling a convention and
nominating candidates for the SUI
preme bench was to restore these
nominations to the people. The
league has no other aim nor has
II any other reason Tor existence.
Once this Is accomplished II
VIII automatically disband. In no
other way, save by the election of
hVe men nominated by the Nom
Partisan judiciary league, can the
people of the state recover the
right that was wrested from them
by the legislature of 1903.
The legislature which meets in
1911 may or may not repeal the
amended act of 1909. That re-
mains to be seen; but II the can
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05
five men for the supreme bench
ScOff Mt People..

five men for the supreme bench.
Scoff at People.-
The next move Is recent history,
the notorious Tacoma convention
where drunken delegates, in their
bar-room revels, cheered the in
terests and scoffed at the people.
The convention was cut and dried.
There was no semblance of popu-
lar representation, The Non
Partisan Judiciary league was
born after the Tacoma convention.
1t was brought into being to de-
feat the purpose of that conven-
ton and to accomplish this it asks
the support of every voter in the
state, no matter what political
faith he may profess.
The direct primary law must be
protected at any cost. Without
II the voter is powerless.
The supreme court must be re-
gained at any hazard. Otherwise
citizenship is an empty word.
These are plain, unadorned
facts, presented to your reason
and not to your passion. In the
cause of common safety the Nom
Partisan Judiciary league asks
your support to the end that there
may be equal justice for all within
the state of Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05
MRS. RINEHART
0UELLS JOKES
POKED AT SEX
Her Latest Story Proves That
Women Possess Logic After
All and Fine Sense of
HumOr.
CRITICS UNITE IN PRAISE

Mary Roberts Rinehart is living
REPUTATION of two stock jokes of the
funny papers and the comic supple
ments.
has been superciliously declaring
that women reached conclusions by
Intuition, hysteria and nerve and not
by any logical process. Along comes
Mrs Rinehart and, in THE Window
deliberately dove-tailed detective
story. perfectly articulated, flaw
lessly logical without a single loose
end. It's lucky everybody knows
she's the<wife of doctor. Other
wise. men would be saying that her
work must be done by a lawyer hus-
band.
If ever woman had the unusual
gift" says the masculine critic of
the Chicago Record Herald. "of
turning out good mystery stories,
inevitable as mathematical state
ment, absorbing as a picture puzzle,
well and directly told from start to
finish, that women is Mary Roberts
Wb;ta r.. The The, Wind window at the
the eyes of countless readers"
And then Mere Man has been
soothing his alleged superiority for
ages with the claim that women
laugh, to be sure. but not in the
right place--only for physical relief.
Especially are they lacking in the
power of creating humor. A fem
mime Mark Twain! A Marcia Two
Times! 1t is to laugh! says Mighty
Man.
And then Mr.. Man happens to pick
up When a Man Marries' or 1.-THE
window at the White Cat" His re-
luctant lips break into q smile be-
fore he has turned the first page:
before the second is read he is
chuckling audibly; outlaws follow;
the buttons are bursting off his
vest before he's through. And he's
forced, willy-nilly to give the palm
of fun to Mrs. Rinehart and ac-
knowledge her the most entertain
ing writer in America today.
Spontaneous, irresistible, humor."
says the San Francisco Call. "is
Mrs. Rinehart's distinctive contribu-
ton to the mystery story. Hither-
to 1t has been supposed that the tale
or mystery must be grim in order
to grip, but Mrs. Rinehart proves
that fun and thrills may be eombin-
ed in the most successful and charm
Ing fashion. In THE Window at the
White Cat" a double portion of hui
NOR is provided
Oh, yes, the critics are with her.
And so is the public. They say that
II all the copies sold of 1.-THE Win
dow at the White Cat Were put end
to end, the pile would be higher
than Mt. Mckinley.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-10-05

got married in the old meetin'
house.
And it was also women's day.
The women were there with ora
tory to demand the ballot and
they expect every man at the COM
ing election to vote for the con-
stitutional amendment to give
them a chance to have their say
In the elections.
To stimulate consideration OF
home problems the fair manage
ment had several prizes hung up.
President Paulhamus offered $40
to the woman who would write
the best paper on how to get rid
of flies in the house. There was
another $40 for the woman who
would give the best paper on how
to treat the hired girl.
Altogether today is big day at
the fair. But it is just a starter.
Tomorrow will be bigger and
Friday will be Tacoma day and
that will be a hummer.