Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-20
The Stephens City Star.
HERE AND HEREABOUT.

Paints for himself gorgeous nose.
STAR only $l.00 per year.
The Fourth of July comes on Tues
day.
Front gates are now on the swing
again.
Wrinkles disfgure a woman less
than ill nature.
Locals B cents line for each and
erery insertion.
Mr.. Fred Kerns lost valuable colt
on Wednesday last.
Job work done neatly, promptly aud
cheaply at this office.
Our farmer friends should keep an
eye open for sharpers.
The weather won't give the bonnet
and straw hat a chance.
Some men treat and retreat for
want of moral courage to retreat.
Carpenters, painters and mechanics
Of all trades are thronged with work.
Speculation in cattle deprives thous-
ands of people of meat at their meals.
Our mechanics are all driven with
work, and will be kept busy through
the summer.
The large and increasing circulation
of the STAR renders it valuable pa
per to advertisers.
Spring is the jumping off place of
winter, but the old fellow this year
don't care to jump.
It is proposed to have an old-fash-
Toned celebration at Winchester the
coming 4th of July.
The authoress of communication
entitled 1.-THE Right Kind of Wife, 4"
forgot to send her name
We made flying visit to Winches-
ter on Monday last, and found that
ancient burg very lively.
The large number of subscribers we
are receiving every week assures us
that the STAR is appreciated.
Girls having the dollars of their
daddies" are wearing the queer look
ing hats of their grandmothers.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by
moonlight, when one sees half with
the eye and half with the fancy.
Boys, do not forget that the man
who is master of a trade is independ-
ent and avove the vicisitudes of for
tune.
II general repair of the highways
is not made during the summer, the
majority will be almost impossible in
the fall.
Our merchants ought to pay for
butter according to quality. The
present plan offers premium on the
wrong side.
Hysteria, nervous excitability, vast
ing of the muscles, impurity of the
blood, quickly relieved by using
Browns Iron Bitters.
Hens are very good in their way,
but owners should not forget that this
is garden season, and their neighbors
have some interests at stake.
The seventeen year locusts will not
appear in Frederick county until 1885.
Mayer Steele got this news by tele-
phone, and it is therefore reliable.
Up the Valley the farmers are driv-
ing their cattle to the mountain ranges
earlier than usual this spring on ac-
count of the scarcity of forage at home.
The prevailing fault of many peo-
pie is to point out the shortcomings of
other persons magnified to suit them
selves, but their own evil doings are
never thought of.
Does this paper belong to you, or
did you borrow it from your neighbor?
We merely ask for information. Tho
matter don interest us at ALL but it
may be of concern to the neightor.
An exchange says there is nothing
more beautiful in garden than a bed
of tulips. Right, brother. We have
noticed in the gardens of Stephens
City that the two-lips are very prett +.
We are treated to merry serenade
each morning by the gay birds that
congregate in the gardens near our
office. Their lively songs do much
toward relieving the business burdens
of the day.
There is no remedy in the world so
valuable to use in the case of sudden
accident or illness as Johnsoa's Ano-
dgme Imminent. 1t can be used inter-
nally and externally, and its power is
truly marvellous.
A few days since the large stables
belonging to Hon. VIM. Mines, at the
Shenandoah Iron Works in Page coun-
ty were destroyed by fire. Thirty-fve
head of mules were burned, together