Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-22
IHURSDA Y, JULY 20, 1882.

10y 1870 - So 49,
day.
What Middletown needs-A good
tailor.
The peach crop will soon be ready
for market.
The evenings and mornings are cool
and pleasant.
The women are now troubled with
the jam-lams.
The Gossipper's Joy is running full
force of hands.
The next legal holiday will be
Thanksgiving Day.
Strother j. Edmonson, Esq, is now
chief of police of Middletown.
Nothing is better than old papers to
place under carpets.
Next month will inaugurate the
camp meeting season.
The gay and festive cucumber now
meets with ready sale.
The Clipper, in consequence of the
pressure of news, issues daily sup
plement.
Many of the STARS admirers in
Middletown thought the last number
excellent.
And now the harvest apple lieth in
wait for its victim, which is generally
the small boy.
The birds afford delightful music for
those who wake up about four o'clock
in the morning.
Mr.. Hampton Saum and family
have moved into Mr.. Atwell Parker's
new house in this place.
Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice the
eye, link US with nature and innocence
and are something to love.
"Well, l should give silvery rip
ple,' is what they say now. In other
days it was called laughter.
The masons have stopped work on
the church ia consequence of having
exhausted the supply Of brick.
Those enterprising millers, W. & J..
Hotel, of Meadow Mills, are busy re-
pairing the race of their upper mill.
Those large hats worn by the girls
during the winter can now be taken to
the woods and utilized as hammocks.
The shrill whistle of Mr.. r. A. Og-
den's threshing machine engine indi-
Gates that the season for threshing is
at hand.
We shall hereafter occasionally give
notes concerning Meadow Mills, pic
turesque little place two miles from
Middletown.
This is an apple bearing year, and
it is predicted that the crop will exceed
that of 1880, which was the largest crop
for twenty years.
Bar and bolt your door even if you
have no money or valuables. Tramps
do not always know the condition Of
the pantry or cellar
Vennor says that when we look back
upon this summer we will call it cool
one. We would that we were looking
back upon it, instead of at it.
Young man, if thy neighbours daugh-
ter is rich love her, and by SO doing
thou cans't prepare for thyself home
and thy family an inheritance.
A young lady of this place says she
picked two pecks of dewberries one
morning before o'clock. Can any of
the Stephens City girls beat it?
Don't keep your money in the house.
if you have any, but take it to the
bank where the facilities for its safety
are better than at home. We keep ours
in two banks.
Flies are said to disappear from a
room containing the following COM
pound Half teaspoonful of powder
ed black pepper. one of brown and one
of cream, thoroughly mixed.
Southern correspondence indicates
a good corn crop in the Southern
States, and the probability that they
will want comparatively little corn
from the North after the coming crop
is available.
More diversity on the farm. Is it
not cheaper to grow than to buy, as a
rule? Depend as little as possible on
the market to supply the table on the
farm, and be careful to always have
it we'll supplied.
The Council have adopted the plan
of taxing citizens instead of compell-
ing them to work the streets. We
learn the tax will be small on each
person, but will be suffiient in amount
to employ hands to keep the streets in
good order.
The bachelor editors suggestion to
the young folks of Stephens City in
regard to joining Stonewall Lodge is
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