Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-16
SATURDAY, SEPT. l6, 1882.

be over.
The price of provisions is coming
down little.
Repair your pavements before bad
weather sets in.
DR.. Larrick has built a new and
commodious stable.
The country never appeared more
attractive than at present.
A fellow looking for an easy job Of
work should never fall in love.
Idleness is worse than hard work to
those who are unaccustomed to it.
School days will soon be around
Hunt up your books, boys and girls.
Please make yourself less ada
cent, is polite invitation to get out.
What the nobby youth lacks in
brains he makes up in rings. and
chains.
On Saturday next there will be a
Sunday school picnic at the Walnut
Springs.
The cool evenings are appearing,
and persons should protect themselves
accordingly.
The belief seems to be general among
business men that the trade this fall
will be unusually good.
The evenings are growing too cool
and damp to sit long on the door steps.
Danger Of counting chills.
The new Infantry company is pro-
crossing finely. It will meet in this
place about the 23d instant.
There will be weeks meeting in
the new M. E. Church, commencing
about the third Sunday in October.
There will be picnic at Mt. Tho
mas to-day Saturday.. The Middle
town Band, we learn, expects to be
present.
This is the harvest season for the
blacksmiths and wagonmakers, their
shops being full of machines and i'm
plements needing repairs.
Wrestling matches are becoming
quite fashionable of late. 1t would
seem so at least from the appearance
of our streets at different times lately.
Two young gentlemen of our town
met with quite singular adventure
the other night. 1t seems that some
Of our young farmers are getting a
new supply Of "sacks-"
It's a splendid act of politeness to
lift your hat to a young lady as you
pass her on the sidewalk, and at the
same time blow cloud of foul tobacco
smoke in her face.
A law just passed in Denmark pro-
vides that all drunken persons shall
be taken home in carriages at the ex-
penss of the landlord who sold them
the last glass Now, that's what we
call civilization.
Such is life. In two short months
many political ambition will be
squelched many a sweet potato pie
will be hungrily devoured, and many
q little boys coat sleeve will have
been utilized as handkerchief. And
80 the world moves on.
The western newspaper liar is just
now busily engaged telling of the Won
derfnl feats wrought by the late Grin
nell cyclone. One more audacious
than the rest tells of piano cover,
owned in Grinnell, that was found in
town sixty miles away. We trem-
BILE for that man when he comes to
die.
The United States is not alone. by
any means. ia good crops. The gen.
eral average of the world is excellent.
AS people, our country alone has
enough to eat. The average food con-
sumption of our nation is considerably
above that OF any other country, and
starvation is almost unknown in Anne
RIGA.
The recent heavy rains caused the
town run to overflow and food the
meadows near the depot At one
time, when it was about forty yards
wide, twenty-five dollars were offered
to any one who would cross on horse
back, or one hundred dollars to any
person who would swim it, but no one
accepted the offers.
Young lovers promenading our
streets is still "all the rage" and on
pretty moonlight nights the happy
couples may he seen in sweet converse
in these fascinating resorts. As our
town is supplied with goodly num-
Der of the young of both sexes they
make lively appearance on these re-
sorts, and are the means of creating
much favorable comment by those who
are but quiet observers of these love-
smitten couples.
Joe Howard has this happy thought
in one of his letters to the 1mes:--
Al l.