Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-13

to go to Steele & Dinges' store and
look through their stock of extra nice
goods before making any purchases
elsewhere.
The butchers are complaining about
the high price they have to pay farm
mers for beef. People who have been
buying from the butchers have made
the same complaint.
We are gratjfed to see so many of
our citizens engaged in cleaning up
their premises, and it is to be hoped
the work will continue until the town
is thoroughly renovated.
If you wish to see some fine farms,
choice stock, valuable farms, etc., you
must visit the old reliable farmers of
Frederick county, who will also show
you how to farm for profit
The ladies, we are glad to see, are
identifying and adjoining their yards
with rare flowers. There is nothing
more beautiful and sweet than flowers
unless it is the ladies themselves.
We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Ma
ria Campbell, living near Middletown,
mother of our esteemed fellow-towns-
man, James R. Campbell, has been Sc
verely indisposed for week or two
past.
Everybody is busy--too much en-
gagged in their own affairs to go round
poking their nose into other people S
business, and as a consequence Eye To-
ca" finds it difficult matter to pick
up interesting items.
The a1ulteration of condition pow
ders has got to such pitch that one
can now buy pound pack of dust and
ashes for 25 cents. There is only one
kind now known that are strictly pure
and those are She'1dan's Cavalry PoaO-
ders.
Mrs. Jane Grove, one of our Oldest
residents, is lying very i'll at the house
of her son, Mr.. James A. Grove. The
old lady, who is upwards of ninety
years of age, has been very feeble
for some time. Her husband, who
died about ten years since, served his
country faithfully in the war of 1912.
In store and for sale, 100 kegs
Wheeling Nails, assorted sizes, at low
est rates. G. F. MAYERS.
Those of our citizens wishing pa
per from the county seat, should by
al means take the Winchester Times,
one of the ablest edited papers in the
State. If you are not Democrat,
don't take it, as wholesome truths
might not sit we'll on your stomach
We are not selfish lat all at all" Ma
jor, and so long as home news crowds
politics from our columns, we want
sound doctrine inculcated among the
rising generation in Virginia. There
fore we say, take the Times-and the
STEPHENS CITY STAR.
The fishing party which "set sail
on Friday last captured what they
went in quest of. They didn't go for
fish; all they wanted was to expert
ence the luxury of camping out.
They found the ground very moist and
mellow and had to resort to the soft
side of plank to ward off rheuma-
tism, having neglected to take pre-
ventlve with them One ights camp
ing out was sufficient even for the
dime-novel reading boys who helped
to make up the party, and they all re.
turned next day, tired, hungry, and
what seems to us inexplicable, ..om
planned of being both wet and dry al
the same time.
Our Middletown correspondent asks
if Stephens City beats that town in
lamp We answer, No. We pur-
chased a lantern last week, thinking
it might somehow inure to our benefit
We went to might meetin." Wher
the congregation was dismissed, We
stood at the door of the church and
politely rendered the luminary-witt
somebody to carry ito one whom we
fondly hoped might prove to be "oul
girl" She took the lantern, but the
arm-well, further deponent saith
not" We are now forced to the con
clusion that the old bachelor wa,
cheated when he bought that lantern
and hereafter, when he goes to churcl
he will "hide his light under bushel.
DID You KNOW IT?--You car
strengthen the digestive organs. pre-