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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Journalistic Enterprise !

We are pleased to announce to our
thousands of readers that the two cor
porations of Winchester and Stephens
City are now linked together in the
bonds of matter-o' money by means of
a telephone line just completed by the
enterprising localizers OF the Times
and STAR. The line is erected along
the old reliable turnpike" passing
directly through the ancient city Of
Kernstown (without stopping to take
water), and therefore is not likely to
get "out of order. We give the first
conversation had over the line:
Star Local. Hello Times local !!
Are you asleep?'
Times Local.-"No. What's in the
wind? Caught good item p
s. L.-"Yes. Publish two papers
here this week"
Z. L.-"Good."
s. 1.-The proprietor thinks of
going ahead with his paper as semi
weekly"
T. L.-"Still better. Shake
s. L.-"And when the weather gets
fairly settled will start daily"
r. Lob, git out | thought
there was no gas in Stephens City
And here the colloquy was suddenly
interrupted by the devils in both Off
ces hollering, Copy |"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

JUST So.-When people see man
advertise they know he is business
man, and his advertisement proclaims
that he is not above business, but anx-
ious to do it. Customers are like
sheep, gregarious, and flock where
they see others go. If nobody else
were engaged in the same business, it
would be important to tradesmen and
dealers to advertise in the paper, be-
cause people are tempted to buy what
they read of. But others are engaged
in the same business, and even if they
do not advertise, it becomes the more
important for you to do SO; if they
do advertise, it becomes doubly i'm
portant.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
MlDDLETOWN.

Miss Lizzie Grove, an interesting
young lady of Strasburg, is visiting
the Misses March, of this place.
Stonewall Lodge is steadily increas-
ing in numbers and prosperity. We
learn it is considered one of the best
lodges in the Valley. It's member
ship exceeds seventy.
Our depot has now the appearance
Of one in small city. Agricultural
machinery is being shipped from it by
the carload.
Owing to the heavy pressure of
news, the Clipper Publishing Co. has
decided to issue daily edition here
after, together with Sunday supple
ment.
Mr.. J. G. Keller, former resident
of this place, is again among us His
good-natured smile betokens success
in his business.
The air has been filled for some
nights past with delightful strains of
music rendered by the "colored string
band
Mr.. D. G. Rhodes, a former resident
of our town, is now the manager of
the large new opera house lately built
in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Our kind friend of the STAR has
our thanks for his careful watchful-
ness, but we imagine he is forgetful OF
making us his confdant and boasting
of the beauty and intelligence of the
Stephens City ladies. We can change
his poetical line to I'VE know story
yet untold" and all about Mr.. G.
The ladies Of Stephens City, however,
can rest assured that they have faith
full champion, as we'll as admirer, in
the bachelor editor of the STAR.
The graves in Mt. Carmel Cemetery
were handsomely decorated. The de.
signs were made in many different
shapes. Beautiful notices were per-
ceptible among the flowers, such as
"In God is My Salvation" Peaceful
ly Sleeps" Sweet Rest in Heaven. y
Every mound was marked by some
floral tribute. The ladies who were
especially interested in decorating the
graves ei--slre unknown dead were ::
Miss Kate March, Miss Lucie V.
Rhodes, Miss Mamie Everly, Miss
Levina. Wiley and Miss Bette Pope.
They prepared about one hundred
tastefnlly arranged bouquets, and they,
as we'll as the people Of Middletown,
deserve great credit for the admirable
floral display at the cemetery.
Nom DE PLUME.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

STANDARD OF THE ENGLISH LAM
GUAGE.-Webster's Unabridged Die
tionary is commended the English
World over for its excellence. Wher-
ever you find English speaking people
there you find Webster. England
has produced nothing equal to it, and
in America it is the standard. The
illustrations are marvel for accura-
cy and number, and it is treat just
to be able to look through it. The
new edition has 1928 pages, 5000 en-
CRAVINGS and four pages colored plates.
Its able and comprehensive definitions
are a library in themselves the
saurus of unbounded treasures. Our
Church Paper, New MARKET, Va.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Elgin and Waltham Watches. 2 to
8 OF. cases, key and stem w;nders, P.
S. Bartlett, G. NJ. Wheeler, Broadway
and Planter movements, all warranted
for IL months; Solid God and Plated
Jewelry, Ladies and Gents Rings,
Pins, Chains, &C.; Plain Solid Gold
Finger Rings, any size or weight. In
itials engraved free of charge.
STEELE & Bro.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

The people in Patrick county are in
condition verging on starvation
The supervisors were given authority
to borrow money to buy corn for the
suffering people, but the corn pur-
chased has become exhausted, and
many of the inhabitants are in need
of bread, Appeals are being made
for help.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

WHEN You SEA- man enter a
house or an Office and sit down SLOUGH
ingly with his hat on
A man standing to talk politics and
tell stories to take up the time of those
hired to work;
A man moving around so slow that
an ox-team funeral procession would
easily go by him;
A man always late up, late to his
meals and late to his work;
A man who thinks about everything
else than his work;
A man who spreads his arms far
over a table to support him while he
eats ;
Tell him to subscribe for the STAR
so as to be booked up on the proper
thing.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

President Kimball, of the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad, said at Roam
oke last week that the company ana
the machine works there would give
employment to one thousand men.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Ho I! for Harvest !!

I am this day in receipt of a supply
of Jas. H. Williams celebrated Grain
Cradles (Barnet OFT PATTERN. Also
on hand harvest supplies of every de-
Choice family groceries a
speciality.
June 9, 1882. G. F. MAYERs.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Mrs. Stoner and son left on Tuesday
for Luray Caverns. From there they
will go to Mt. Vernon, after which
they will visit the Indian school at
Carlisle, and then return home.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS

In this department we keep full
line of Shirts, Ties. Searfs, Half Hose,
Underwear, &c.
We are now acting as agents for
one of the largest Tea Houses in the
United States, and are selling a good
Gunpowder Tea for 80 cents pound,
same as sold elsewhere for rs cents
A fine English Breakfast Tea for rs
cents, sold elsewhere at $l25. Best
Young Hyson 75c., sold elsewhere at
$1.25.
Don't fail to call and examine our
stock of goods before purchasing as
we can guarantee you a saving of at
least 20 FER cent.
Sole agents for Mrs. .Heller's Beau
tifer for the Face.
All orders by mail promptly at.
tended to. P. HELLER & co. +.
Opp, Court House, Winch ester, Va,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

NoTIoE.-The Hay Scale Company
will meet at Steele & Dinges' store on
Monday afternoon, 10Th inst, at 8
o'clock, to receive their dividends.
THos. M. MILLER. Pres.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

1t is suggested that the first man
who attempts to lecture on Jesse James
be sent to the Internal regions to gather
new points.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Anything in the Drug and Medi-
cine line advertised in the STAR can
be had of Steele & Bro. 3ltf
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

WHAT Do THE CHILDREN READ
This question is al important one
to parents, if, indeed, it is not so to
the whole community. The early i'm
pressions of childhood are the ones
most deeply imbedded in the mind
and heart. If these impressions are
good, it is likely, we might say it is
sure, to bring good result in after
life, while if bad, consequent yield
of bad fruit. This is emphatically
reading age, and for this reason it is
important that the reading matter fur
nished be of such a character as to
leave its impress for good and. not for
evil. the dime novel, the blood and
murder story, and kindred light liter
allure, have done more to corrupt the
morals and lower the standard of char
acter among the rising generation than
any other one cause, and the remark
able growth of this kind of reading
and its rapid sale show the degeneracy
of the times. Since our people, even
from the quite young to the more ma
ture will read, it is of the highest i'm
portanee that the kind and quality of
their reading be looked into. A bad
book or paper will set on fire whole
neighhorhood with its pernicious inAu-
ence, and the seeds of decentralization
thus sown take deep root and can only
be plu:ked up or destroyed with the
greatest difficulty. Let parents then
look well to the kind of literature
their children read. AS you would
not like to see them choose for their
associates and companions the profane
and vile, neither should you let them
have the vile and profane trash so
much circulated nowadays from
which to fill their minds with evil
thoughts, deceptive and delusive doc
trines, and bad principles, that will
just as surely bring them to ruin and
disgrace as everyday association with
bad men or women. While we are
caring for the outward dress and be-
coming appearance of our children,
let us not forget the cultivation of the
mind and heart, which will be of more
value to them than mere outward show
i'll the after years of life. Let us give
them the best books and magazines
and papers to read, from which they
may fill the storehouse of their minds
with beautiful thoughts, true and en-
nobling principles, and qualify them
to rank in life among the noble and
good. 1t is mistake to make, which
will in time give ns days and years of
sorrow, perhaps, that we do not know,
or even care to know, what our chill
dren read. 1t is as important as to
know what they eat and drink and
wear. N3
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Mrs. DR.. Reese. of st. Michaels,
Md, arrived in our town yesterday,
and will remain short time with her
sister, Mrs. 7. J. Miller.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Mattings, M attings.

A full line of white and checked
Mattings from l23 cents up. All
styles Ladies' Ready Made Under
wear.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
BUSINESS SHORT-STOPS.

STAR only $l.00 per year.
Best Cigars at Steele & Bros.
Diston Saws at Steele & Bros.
Floor Oil Cloth at Steele & Bros.
In addition to our hitherto large
supply, we have Just received car
load of Fine Salt, which is going fast
at low rates. G. F. MAYERs.
Sugar &c., Coffee 12c., at Steele &
Bros.
Sugar Cured Shoulders 12c. f9 H.,
at Steele & Bros.
100000 feet of Prime Pine Lumber
which we can deliver in car lots at
any station, or in small lots at our
yards, at lower rates than offered by
other dealers.
1000 pounds Smoked Bacon, Lab
rador and Potomac Herring, Corn
Meal, Flour, Lard, &c. Window Sash,
Blinds, Doors, &c. Wire Fencing
speciality.
TIMBERLAKE, STICKLEY & GUYER.
Hooper's Female Pills for sale by
Steele & Bro. 36tf
Grove & Bro. have for sale or trade
one JAEGER and one new no-top Buggy.
Black Cashmere at Steele & Bros.
Steele & Bro. keep full supply of
Wagon and Buggy Shafts, Axles, Hubs,
Spokes, Rims, Clips, Bolts, Springs,
&c., &c. stiff
If you want pure Drugs and Medi-
cines, buy them of Steele & Bro. Stiff
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS I

4 pairs Ladies Unbleached Hose, 25c.
4 Children's 25c.
All Linen Damask Towels, pair, 25c.
Nice quality Straw Mating, yard l24
IL cakes of good Soap for Ice.
A handsome Corset for 48 cents,
regular price, &c. Linen and Lawn
Dresses in 8 pieces, $l25, worth SIS.
light Calico 5 cents yard. All col
ors Zephyr Worsted l0c. per ounce.
Clarke's 0. N. 7. Cotton 55c a dozel;
Lace Tides 5 cents apiece; IL yards
Cotton Edge, half inch wide 20 cents:
2 papers pins 5 cents; 5 lunches jet
beads Is cents; "a sheets paper and
"a envelopes for 10 cents; 6 balls of
Knitting Cotton 25 cents; 7 bordered
Handkerchief % cents; IL lead pen
ellis for 10 cents; good unlaundried
Shirt SO cents.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

The Stephens City Hay Scale Com
pany has declared dividend of Sc
per cent.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Business Cards.
J. L. VANDIVER,
Veterinary Surgeon,

Veterinary Surgeon,
Is permanently located in Stephens City,
and will pursue the practice of his profess
sion in the counties of Frederick, Warren,
Clarke and Shenandoah. He can show the
highest testimonials from physicians and
leading citizens in all these counties.
Address, p. o. Box s, Stephens City, Va.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
Dress Goods Department!
COrsets :! COrsets {!

The best Soc. Corset in the market.
White Marseilles Spreads, Hamburg
Embroidery, Lace and Cotton Edgings
and Inserting. Lace Curtains, Lace
Lambrequins, &c.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
HAIR GOODSI HAIR GOODSf

In this line we make speciality,
and have at all times full line of
all the different shades and styles of
Hair Frizzes, Waterwaves, Braid, &c.
Household Linens and Domestics.
Bleached and Unbleaehed Table Lin
ems; TurkeyRed Table Linen, Napkins,
Waiter covers, &C., Bleaehed and
Brown Cottons, Ginghams, Shifting
Cotton, Bed Ticking, Sheeting. Cotton
AIDES, Calicoes, &c.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Adams & McCarty have change
in their advertisement this week.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

If you want pure Drugs and Medi-
cines, buy them of Steele & Bro. Slit
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17
MILLINERY Y.

The largest and best assortment Of
the above goods ever brought to this
city, and as usual we are prepared to
sell them at
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Floor Oil Cloth at Steele & Bro 8.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

millinery DEPARTMENT!

and can now show the best assortment
of French Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons,
Hats, Bonnets, Silks and Satins Of any
house in the Valley. In our
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

Steele & Bro. keep full supply of
Wagon and Buggy Shafts, Axles, Hubs,
Spokes, Rims, Clips, Bolts, Springs,
&c., &c. 3Itf|
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-17

In addition to our hitherto large
supply, we have just received car
load of Fine Salt, which is going fast
at low rates. G. f. MAYERs.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-03-18
Leaving q Man In the Lureh.

II was on a street car coming up
from the Union Depot Yesterday. A
man with a very hoarse voice looked
acrn.. ,he aisle at man with a country
saicheI between his feet. and said;
"Wintry day. isn't lt9''
ueypf called the other. a. he put
nj. hand IN his ear.
+" secm. like winter, doesn't tT'
shouted The man with the hoar.a voice.
"IIeyP heyP'' asked the deaf man.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-03-18

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this husIuoss j. sl.G1Gp p1G
Under lhr license system New York
receive, Annually sbjIl1S,22. rhiln.
drlphia, sl11.GlG.sl. Chicago, s2Ga,
$40 65 linsion s26Lsli, Louisville,
s2il,2u32i, Sin Francisco, $40.
1li20, ~ Louis, sisO.OiigD aud Gin.
cinnuti. siu.3132f
According 10 Herr Richard Andfrt
there are Gljl,OOl Jews In the world
fiyosiNlhs live IN Europe A-ia hn'
lS2,slf The greatest proportion i IN
Roumonin or twice ~ high as In Rus
sla Norway he snys, contains onl,
thirly.i0ur
During 1891, at the Philadelphia
Mint alone. 50,l7i,G ,Gjl new coins were
made, yih; 200 double eagles (s20
3S17 100 eagles (slO)l A,7OS, 500 hal
eagles. $50 ~ pieces; $50 piar,c
eagles; 1860 gold dollars; 2lG3,q1'
silver dollars; 1870 half dollars; ~
971 quarters; 2l075 dimes; 72,37j dy'
cent pieces. 1851, ,b75 three cent pieces
3g,2l'l $40 cents, and 900 "tradc dol
lars " Total value, S7G,D7G, 1854. II
count these pieces. twenty -four person
would have to work nearly nine hour
acry week day in the year, and coun
one piece every second.
There are 100000 dogs in our State
What is fed TO those dogs would max
g0,c0o,O 600 pounds Of pork net. Al 81
cents per pound this would bring 80
iO0.0 This sum would build ., ~
school-housos Mt ~ 600 piece. Netsl
uiiic Bmncr. Yes; but Just imagin
every man waking in the morning
find himself without dog no dog
kick. Allowing one dog 10 one mar
thdie might he 100000 suicides ns Il
result Of lhc Disappearance Of the 300
900 dogs, not to mention the uniyers
despair of families aud the starvation
millions Of ilcas. Once you 20 into 81
tistics, there is no making an end
LOHi riUC TOuTifT-JOHTHaL
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-03-18
WIT AND WISDOM.
"A man born at sea cannot be proud
Of his native land. -r4

"A man born at sea cannot be proud
Of his native land. -r.
Kick your corn through q window
glass and the pane IL gone forever.
In old England they used to hang
woman for merely hooking" dress.
-Moonbeams are The strongest tim
bers used in building castles in the air.
N o. Picdyune.
--"The baby elephant isn't nm res
thetic, but H. front legs arc two and its
hindlc two too. Philadelphia ChroH-
iclc- Hcrdh.
II we were 20 follow the absurd rulo
never 10 speak until we have something
TO say many Of Us might just rs well
have been born dumb.
Milwaukee Is still tickled over the
fact that she is the windiest city In the
United States. She doesn't have 10
keep dish-cloth out ON the line all tho
week to dry it.-Deirod Free Press.
An Ohio journalist fired twenty-six
shots at stuffed alligator lying on q
sand.bank. and then paid boy two
sLill,,,,s a. ,oIl him whether be was
or' as.psoJ Il or @ onlv stone Hind
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haa we're a Young lauy VINO WaIl'ea 70
De married, hlarI'eu w"snh ,1, WIN o
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It's deep mys,ery-the way tho
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-03-18
OOMMrnct ANn lNpIafnY.

swtff 4 Co., llUston bankers, have
suspended The liabilities amonhi 10 be.
tween ia.m00n Anl ii,mDmi.
TITS United states Supreme Court
has decided that The dWltde qualities n
sugar' u 10 he determined ~ their actual
color, and mol by ihe'r .techirine strength
This roVer'es the position taken w tho
Treasury Department
Tuk deelsion NJ the Ohio Supreme
Court declaring invalid the great eonsollda.
lion effected last fall by v,niefbil I, ono oi
The most important ever made. Nearly all
the Ohio railroads are affected by H. Chief
Justice O'key rules that two companies
owning lines of railroad only connected by
other railroads which such companies hold
by lease afe not authorized 10 become con.
solldated Into one corporation, the lines Of
two railroad companies, being In their gen
eral features parallel and competing. can
not be connected for the carriage oi freight
aud passengers over both, certificate made
by the Directors Of consolidated railroad
companies which falls 10 show any place ol
residence Of the Directors Of the company I.
fatally defective.
NoTicE has been given by the Illinois
Midland Railroad Company that II will re-
ceiye no moro freight or passengers from
connecting lines until further notice, on ac'
count Of strike Of employees.
TWELVE hundred persons were pres
cnn NJ the recent bimclalIlc meeting IN Lon.
don, seven countries being represented.
The governor Of the Bank Of England advo.
Gated the free coinage Of silver.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-03-18

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