Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-21
Middletown Department.
SATURDAY, OCT. 81. 1882.
What has become of "Our Myrtle?

What has become of "Our Myrtle?"
Better examine your stovepipe and
see if the joints fit
Hog cholera yet prevails in the vi
cinity of Middletown.
Laborers and mechanics have had
plenty of work this season.
The WAYS of some men are past find
ing out ditto Of some women.
Amos Loudwig has been appointed
sexton of the new M. E. church.
Girls, like opportunities, are all the
more to you after being embraced.
Somebody has discovered that cats
are nowhere mentioned in the Bible.
The barn floors of the land are sag
ging with grand thanksgiving crop.
| The crop of acorns is large, which
is said to be sign of a severe winter.
! John Edmonson is repairing his
house by Notwithstanding and roofing.
For an old and valuable remedy see
advertisement Of Simmons Liver Reg
ulator.
A fire in the sitting room and an ex-
| ira blanket at night are now very COM
Portable.
P. s. Wright is having his residence
improved by Notwithstanding his
building.
The lovers of buckwheat cakes will
rejoice to learn that the crop is sue
cess this year.
You can now present your straw hat
to the poor, and think you are doing
an act Of charity.
"She has been young lady for a
long time, is a mild way of saying
she is an old maid.
Our harness maker and barber have
vanished from our city to more profit
able fields of labor.
1t is always the persons who do no
read the newspapers who get fleece
:. and victimized by sharpers.
q William Everly, one of our carriag
II makers, is building an addition an
II otherwise improving his shop.
II The small boy is now safely anchor
II ed in school, and jogging along con
ii tentedly in the paths of study.
II Keep the leaves out Of your gut
ters and spouting on the house roo
now, or you will have trouble afte
awhile.
Mr.. Sperry Catlett, an old resider
of this neighborhood, died at the re-
III idenco of his son in Middletown O
Il Tuesday evening last.
III Middletown is overrun with beaut
Il full, fascinating, amiable and charmir
II young ladies, whose charms of min
and person have set our young me
II wild.
III If anybody ever longs to be a mi
9| lionaire it is a youth who treats b
I'll girl to ice cream and then finds that
Ell has mistaken button in his pock
for dime.
Girls, what do you think of fello
who is ashamed to step up to his 81
at the church door, but waits un
darkness hides from the public ga
before he offers his arm?
IL We noticed at the store of Har
MI & Leary specimen of iron ore fire
\ Belle Grove farm. 1t is said to be
good quality, and will compare fave
ably with any in Virginia.
:. 1. P. DuKEHART, Supt. B. & 0.
MI R. Co. s hotels, Conductor on the
Al g. 0. R. R. for % years, and previou
ly druggist), writes "Cumberlan
Md, Dec. II, 1881: I have used +
4. one bottle of Peruma between ,mys'
rs and son. He had diphtheretic SO
nit throat, and is now we'll. As for m
self, it has entirely relieved the du
. ness in my head, which has been
!. long standing, the result of chror
r. malaria. I never took anything
my life that gave me such great sat
faction. My wife is now taking
itv ALSO" Ask your druggist for the II
fes. of Life" and how to cure them
rem, book.