Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-08-26
81 TURDAY Il UG. &c, 1882.


The berries are about gone.
Bas- Re Union Wednesday, Sept 6.
Thanksgiving will be the next legal
holiday.
The new wheat is said to make ex
cellent -four
A cold contracted in the summer is
hard to get rid of,
There is very little rest for the
farmer at present.
1t is almost impossible to keep up
with Undertake, Stickley & Guyer's
weekly improvements.
The colored boys, with their string
band, are much mrlimented for
their midnight serenades.
Mr.. David Dinges has been adding
much to the improvement Of his pretty
dwelling near Middletown.
Our brass band awoke from tt cir
summer nap the other day, and favor
Gu us Will SOIlc IuC llluSlC.
We understand that Timberlake,
Stickley & Guyer are to receive sixty
tons of "Sydnors Formula this week.
One of Middletowns interesting
Youngsters returned from the picnic at
Harper's Ferry bearing the name of
Give Dinners"
Professor Richard Dick Wells, "de
pure cream man, may be found near
Mr.. j. O. Klines store with full
stock of ice cream every night.
We learn that deacons L. and w,
of Lebanon church. recently had a
controversy as to who owned the "coat
of many colors,' Joseph or Jacob.
The Sunday Schools in this place
have received an invitation to the pic
mic to be held under the auspices of
the NJ. E. S. S. of Winchester, on the
30th inst.
A Yankee has invented new car
pet shaker, and for the benefit of man
kind he refuses to patent it. His
plan is to hang the dusty carpet over
clothes line and then back mule
up against it.
The London Times, in forecast of
the English harvest, says that wheat
will not nearly amount to an average
crop-that is, it will be no better than
for the last five years. Barley prom
Uses rather less than an average yield.
Oats are very good.
Wheat and potatoes, the most nee.
essary products for the masses, have
fallen in price, and promise to get
within reach of the most INDECENT
families in the community. Printers
are beginning to see glimmering
light to bridge over the coming winter.
Two of .Middletown's " Innocents
Abroad, taking a private residence
for hotel at Harper's Ferry the other
day, walked into the dining room
without ceremony, and called for din
ner. Imagine their feelings when ap-
prised Of the fact that they had en-
tered "the wrong pew.
The idea that person must have
all he makes to get rich has ruined
more persons than it ever made res
pectable and useful members of soci-
ETY.. No more pitiable objects can be
found in any community than the men
that hoard up all they make and live
only for self.
Mr.. B. F. Porter, rich banker in
Utica, New York, says II have used
Browns Iron Bitters the past year,
much to the chagrin of our family
physician, for neither myself, wife nor
little girls have since suffered from a
single days illness. 1t is making us
all robust and strong
The grdmbler is an intolerable nui-
sance, and stands in the way of all pro-
gress and reform He was never
known to do anything himself, and his
jealousy is aroused to see his neighbor
doing something. If you do not wish
to do anything yourself, stand to one
side and keep quiet while others act
who are able and willing.
na~ Re Union Wednesday, Sept. 6.
The harvest which has lately been
gathered is everywhere reported to be
the best produced IN this country
within the last decade. Wheat has
turned out an abundant crop, and the
quality could not be finer. There is
no damage from rust or mildew The
grass crop was also above the usual
average 1t is to be hoped that corn
will also turn out we'll Altogether
the whole country has abundant cause
to be thankful that the labors of the
farmers have been SO richly blessed.
DoCToRs DISAGREE AS a reporter