Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-24
Middletown Department.
, NOM DE PLUME, EDITOR.

The time has now arrived for MAX
ing hot
Our new harness maker seems to be
doing good business.
Frederick county can now boast of
six lodges of Good Templars.
Rev. A. A. P. Neel preached two
able sermons in this place on Sabbath
last.
Jacob F. Larrick is making a pave
ment and otherwise improving his res
idence.
In Mr.. P. S. Wright's greenhouse
flowers of every imaginable descrip-
ton are in bloom.
A letter from Myrtle" will appear
in our next. She has something to
say to Miss V. M. B.
We heard from Archer the other
day. He is not dead, nor married,
but is preparing roll of MSS. for the
STAR.
Madam Rumor says Middletown
will certainly lose one of its fair bellies
if the visits of scertain Stephens City
gent continue
Mr.. G. W. Peery is preparing to
build dwelling house On Main street
near his store 1t will be great i'm
provement to the town.
An interesting debate took place at
Kline's School House the other night.
Several rising young orators from Ste
phens City and Middletown took part.
The Tribune of the People says the
Stephens City Star is "the best, the
cleanest and liveliest paper published
in the Valley outside of Winchester
and Staunton. The cleanest -
Well, 1--WE should smile" Come, boy,
hand us our spec(Ds.
Parents and patrons of schools,
please try an experiment. Visit your
schools at least once month, and
thereby encourage the teacher and
pupils by your presence and counsel
and show that you are in sympathy
with them and appreciate their labor
There are few old fogies, and some
young ones, who consider they are the
levers Of the world who become ex-
ceedingly wroth over what appears in
the items of the county papers. They
are principally anxious borrowers of
the paper to see if their noble names
appear in print. Their influence
amounts to but little, so let EN- kick.
The B. & O. red book, "How Twas
Done, is one of the best and most re-
liable compilations of election statis-
tics we have yet seen. In its ITO
pages few lines here and there, show
that it is an advertising medium for
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but
the low prioe-asking for it by pos
tai cards such that every person
who takes an interest in politics should
have one.
Lumber is now being manufactured
from straw, the standard size being
thirtytwo inches in width, twelve feet
in length, and thickness the same as
the av erages of sarfaced boards. One
ton of any kind of straw will yield
1000 feet of boards that may be han
died as ordinary ones. This lumber
can be produced and sold in compe-
tition with wide walnut at about one
half the price of the latter.
A torpid liver, a stomach out of or
der, digestive apparatus weak, and
the brain in consequence of these dis
orders, over sensitive to exertion or to
any unusual circumstance, and the
formula for "crank" is complete.
Ayers Pills will rouse up the liver,
regulate the functions of the stomach
and bowels, the tired brain will be re-
lieved, and the head resume its wonted
Ieyel
The Ohio Legislature is considering
the adulteration of foods and medci.
mes. 1t is informed by a Cincinnati
chemist that liver and kidney COM
plants, so common and so destruc-
tive to human life, are largely due to
the use Of sulphuric acid in the man
ufacture of sugar and syrup. He also
declares that quinine pills are extern
sively adulterated, and that many
other medicines are not to be depend
ed upon.
We have before US copy of Green
Hints on Fruit Culture and catalogue
of plants, vines and trees. 1t contains
a beautiful colored plate and over
thirty illustrations of fruits, etc., in
Guiding full-page view of a New
York fruit farm of l34 acres, showing
how one may be laid out 1t describ-
es the valuable new fruits, and tells
how to plant and cultivate them. 1t
is sent free on application to GREENS
NURSERIES, box 562, ROCHESTER,, N.
Y, together with sample copy of pa
per devoted to fruit culture
AT LAsT.-At last the old hotel"
ia occunied Tt has been without in