Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-10
Entered at the Post Office, Stephens City
Va. as second class matter.

1t does not get dark now until
nearly six o'clock.
How many parents have visited our
schools this winter? Not one.
Now is the time to plant your spring
advertisements.
Business men are cleaning up and
making ready for the spring trade.
The general health of our town con-
tinues very good.
Wheat is going up. In Winchester
it is bringing SLIP.
New garden seeds for 1888 are max
ing their appearance.
This has turned out to be respect
able old winter after all.
Many tenant farmers in this section
will change places in the spring.
See here, friend, read the advertise
ment of Simmons Liver Regulator.
Flattery is called "taffy" because it
makes man feel so awfully stuck up.
In about six weeks the winter will
be over, a fact cheerful to contemplate.
Some tramps refuse to eat chops be-
cause they are 80 suggestive Of the
woodpile.
One gross Finger Rings Just receiv-
ed at Adams & McCarty's. A novelty.
Call and SEE them.
The season of the year is near at
hand when Captain Drake can start
his ferry.
Local Option is in vogue. The Ia
dies now put less liquor in their sauce
for dessert
For choice Dried Peaches, Prunes,
Currents and Raisins, go to Steele &
Brothers.
If rumor is correct, our town will
witness wonderful improvements with
in the next twelve months.
The sweetest flowers ever scattered
in the pathway of an old bachelor are
the two-lips of pretty girl.
Navy Beans and Hominy; also
fresh Pin Head Oatmeal at Steele &
Brothers.
Mr.. J. T. Mcleod killed a beef on
Friday of last week, only eighteen
months old, which weighed 984 lbs.
Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer is the most reliable article in
use for restoring gray hair to its orig
inal color and promoting its growth.
The salutary effect of Simmons
Liver Regulator is proverbial.
G. A. SHANNON has at the Depot
the most complete Hand Feed Gutter
in the market. Cuts any thing from
tissue paper to pine board, and only
Sc co. Call and see it, and also his
Barn Door Rollers.
Adams & McCarty still continue to
offer bargains in Winter Goods.
Farmers and others desiring a gen.
teel, lucrative agency business, by
which SIS to 500 day can be earned,
send address at once, on postal, to H.
G. WILKINSON & Co., 1915 and 1877
Fulton Street, New York. 23m6
Adams & McCarty are just in re-
ceipt of beautiful line of Spring
Prints. Call and see them.
Don't demand more rent than your
conscience will allow. There is such
thing as extortion even in rents, and
if landlord asks his fellowmap to
pay more than he would be willing to
pay himself under the same circum.
stances, he has some idea of what ex-
tortion means.
Best assortment of Notions and Ho-
siery at Adams & McCarty's.
We take it back. We beg pardon
of the school boys whom we accused
of such unbecoming conduct on our
streets on recent Sunday evening.
We have since been informed that
they were 'boys OF larger growth"
in fact, men-sa stature-and we
cheerfully make the correction.
Don't despair, but read the adver-
tisement of Simmons Liver Regulator
A young lady of Winchester says ::
'Those Newtown calves are too soft
and tender to make good veal, and
expresses the hope that they may not
be taken from their mothers till they
can be brought up "by hand"-well
laid on-in fact SO roughly that a lit
tie decency may bepounded into them.