The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-07
Waynesboro Items.
Reported for the vIRGINIAN.

drouth, as well as enliyening the vegeta
BILE kingdom. All the gardens that we had
noticed in this vicinity presented dry
and in some instances a parched appear
alice before these showers, but now they
have assumed, as it were, a new dress. Con
sidering the procrastination of the plant
ing season, and want of favorable weather
since, tOgetht with other unpropitious oc-
currences, the gardens and corn fields pre-
sent, as a general thing a very encouraging
appearance at present. We have heard
several old persons remark that they could
recollect but one spring that equaled the
spring just closed for fewness of its thun-
der storms, and that was the spring OF
1881. That spring was also m exception
for the lateness OF the falls of snow. We
had no thunde showers that spring until
sometime after the middle of May, and
the last fall of snow was on OF about the
9th of the same month. The first rain
we had this spring accompanied with
thunder and lightning was on Thursday
morning, the 9Th of April, and the last
fall of snow that covered the ground was
on OF about the 10th of the same month.
Persons who can speak knowingly on the
subject and who have given it their at
tentiOn, assert that the seasons in this sec
ton have changed within the last twenty
years beyond anything they have ever seen
in the same number of years, but we have
not heard any OF them advance q reason
for it.
A slaht Auze.-On Friday forenoon, the
LIST inst, the old frame dwelling house be-
longing to Mrs. Hanger of this town, and
used by her us u kitchen was discovered to
be on fire. having, we understood, ignited
from some hot ashes that had been set in
vessel too near the building. The alarm
was given and by tearing some of the
Notwithstanding off the flames were ex-
tinguished and the house saved with a
trihing loss This building is quite IN old
structure and consequently very dry, and
in all probability had the flames gotten a
good Roadway the result would have been
the destruction of not only Mrs Hangers
residence that stands about 40 feet east
but Mr.. Robert Terrell's property located
about the same distance west of this old
house.
Personal Mrs. Bette Chase, of Atlanta,
Georgia, youngest daughter of Mr.. VIM.
Withrow, ir., Of this town, is here on a
visit to her parents, and to her sister, Mrs.
w. M. Caldwell.
Mr.. Geo. O. Robinson, wife and dangh-
ter, of Baltimore city, are registered at
the Bruce House, in this place. Mrs.
Robinson is u sister of Capt. Hugh W..
Henry formerly of this vicinity.
Base Ball.-Nine of Staunton's picked
base ball players visited Little Tammany"
on last Saturday and played match game
with nine of Waynesboro's High School"
club. Your correspondent was not present,
bnt was informed that the nine from your
city scored q to for the High School
nine. AS one of the nine of this place re-
marked in answer to the question which
side beat, 1.-The Staunton boys beat us like
the ID"
Manufactures. We have with no little
interest perused your frequent appeals to
the monied men of your city to invest in
manufacturing as the only substantial way
to build up your city and increase it's i'm
portance and financial standing. Every
sentence you have published in endeavor-
ing to forward such scheme is true. And
whatever is true of your place is doubly
true of Waynesboro, for the reason that
manufacturing could be carried on ut this
point at a much less cost than in Staunton.
AS we have before stated through the col
umns of your paper, there is no point in
the Valley of Virginia with more inviting
facilities than are presented in the vicinity
of our town. With water-power that
could by comparatively insignificant out
lay be made the motor from which princely
fortunes could be realized within easy
communication, by rapid transit, to points
from which the raw material of either
wood OF iron can be supplied with superior
railroad facilities for reaching the markets
of the entire country, north. south, east
and west there is no reason under heaven
why Waynesboro might not be enjoying
the fortune of being one of the foremost
manufacturing towns in Virginia-nay in
the South.
There are many new inventions of great
utility and necessity that in order to intro
duce them into this State the owners find
n 10 oboonor tn n,annfact rra than, wit hin
it's boundaries than have the article trans
ported from a distance at a heavy freight
tariff. We will take for instance the
Kentucky Safety Single Tree" the in
vention l spoke of i'll my article last week
Messrs. Pickett & Brakeman in place of
transporting the ''tree" from their factory
either in st. Louis, Mo-, Kentucky or
Tennessee, are at present making arrange
ments for the manufacture of it in Rich
mond, Va. This ''tree" since it's intro
ductiOn has become q necessity, us much
so as a plOw OF any farm implement, and
had we have had manufacturing establish
ments here the inducements that could
have been held out to this firm from the
cheapness of material, the convenience of
timber and many other advantages, would
to great extent influenced them in favor
of this town and at the same time enabled
them, in all probability, to reduce the retail
price. The advantages of the safety in
driving horse with one of these Safety
Single Trees" will become after while
apparent to all persons who own and
handle horses, and the demand for them
will cause their production to be an estab-
lished business, equal in extent and as re-
munerative in proportion as other patented
articles that enter so largely every day
into farming and household economy, and
an establishment for their manufacture is
not to he despised OF thought little of. 1t
is impossible that the lavishness with
which nature has favored this locality by
the inexhaustible facilities that every
where surround us for promoting and inn
proving the financial condition of our town
and neighborhood should for all time go
unnoticed and unappreciated by those who
have the inclination and means to utilize
them and we feel confident that it is only
matter of time until this borough will re-
ceive an impetus that will resurrect it
from it's present quiet ways into thrifty
go-a-head manufacturing town.
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