Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-06-30

Kline have just purchased self wheat
binders.
Another circus will soon make its
appearance to grab the hard earned
harvest wages of the laborer.
Mayors cigar factory gives employ
ment to sixteen persons, with a pros
pect that the number will soon be
largely augmented.
See the advertisement of T. w. Nc
Artor in another column. Persons
desiring to purchase pretty, desira-
BILE property should apply at once.
The young lady who when at home
is too warm to exert herself to use her
fan, will now dance for three hours at
a hop, and then declare it to be "iust
splendid
An Educational Journal will be
published at Mi1dletown, under the
auspices of some of the gentlemen
composing the faculty of Shenandoah
Normal College.
Our well known timber has contract
ed to roof the large and extensive
woollen mills of Timberlake & Mas
lin. near Middletown, which will soon
be in running order.
Wanted.-A practical Book gent
to assume the management of the sub
scription department in publishing
house. Address, stating experience,
P. 0. Box 224l, Philadelphia, Pa.46m3
Those of our citizens who feel an
interest in the all-important subject
of Education should not fail to hear
Prof. Hoenshel on the evening of the
18th of July. Sc notice.
Mr.. Gardner, who is experimenting
the manufacture of boxes in Mayors
cigar factory, has right to be proud
of the neat and substantial work turn
ed out by the force under him.
The M. E. Church of this place is
undergoing a thorough cleansing and
receiving necessary re-painting, &c.,
under the supervision of that skillful
mechanic, A. H. Young.
The readers of the STAR are re-
4uested to call and examine specimen
copy of the CONTINENTAL MAGAZINE,
a new candidate for public favor, pub
ished by A. G. Meyer & Co., Balti-
more. 1t is an excellent publication,
made up of choice literature, poetry,
and the useful arts. No
'amily should be without it. We will
furnish the Magazine and STAR to ali
old and new, for 49,
Now is your opportunity.
Steele q Bro. are fast pushing work
on the Foundation for an extension Of
their store building. When the addi-
ton is completed they will have one
of the prettiest and best arranged
mercantile establishments in the valley
A day or two since Mr.. James Cad
walader shot two squirrels at one shot,
and this without seeing them. He
says they must have been there, ly-
ing around loose" and thinks he does
pretty well shooting at rsndom-and,
we will add, squirrels nests.
A company of Philadelphians, it is
said, has purchased farm in Accomac
county, where they propose to raise
geese on an extensive scale for the
purpose Of supplying the market with
Gathers and down. The company pro-
poses to commence operations with
2 1000 geese, and gradually increase the
number to 10000.
MEssRs. STEELE & Bro:
| have used your King Phosphate
or several years, and like it very
much. Last fall | used 100 pounds
o the acre, and I have the best field
If wheat between Winchester and Ce-
lar Creek. | think your King Phos-
nhate is the best ever used for wheat
md grass. | will want several tons
his fall. Yours truly,
JOHN R. EVANS,
Near Winchester
The above is one among hundreds
If letters constantly being received
~ Steele & Brother.
Beef seems likely to suffer still
urther decline before the close of the
ear. Over two hundred thousand
attic have already this year been
lriven northward from Texas, and as
many more are yet to come. Sooner
II later most of these cattle must find
heir way eastward, and what is then
o keep up beef to its present figures
) not easily seen.
The ladies of the Lutheran church
re very active in making preparations
or their festival, which comes off i'm
nediately after harvest. All the del
,acles of the season will be provided
D abundance, and the affair will no