Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-17
EXCHANGE NOTES.

Rockingham Register: Mr.. w. d. L
Borum, on in-law of Mr.. Theop. OFT o.
this place, has removed from Texas am
located at Elkt,n, this county, where he
IS interested in the Development OF The
new city.
Harrsonburs Spirit Our peop'e have
known for some time that the Harl isor-
burg Land aud Improvement Co. had
secured a large steel plant, but the nows-
papers did not wish TO say anything
about it until e,eiyihing was fully ar
ranged and the contract had been signed.
We congratulate our people upon secur-
ing 6 is most lmpo ant industry. LIS said
that it will employ 400 hands and cover an
area of fiye acres. If these hands are men
of families 1t will increase on population
by about two thousand, as it is estimated
that for each voter there are five Others.
Broadway Enterprise &. Mrs. s. c..
Williams left on Monday TO visit friends
and relatives in the city of Richmond.
We wish Mrs. W. n pleasant Tip and
safe return home to her family and many
Broadway friends.
A large crowd OF citizens congresated
OF the evening of the inst, and burned
in efIigy, Robert b. Allen, General so
cared), and one John II. TOlman. The
people have become incensod against
them for their course in slandering the
promoters of the great enterprises for
towns good.
We would say boys, do not mind snch
people, they cannot retarl the onward
move Of the car of progress.
stanton Tirdicaior Presbyterian
cLuich building is going on very rapidly
along that portion OF the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad which lies IN Augusta
county. Thinking Spring congregation
has raised the money to build chapel
at Stuart's Draft. The Waynesboro con-
gregation is about building chapel be-
tween Lyndhurst and that town. The
Waynesboro congregation IN year has
built a CHAPEL at Basic City (Which will
be succeedcd by $1,000 church,, and an
other at Doom's.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. had coh-
tract TO deliver twenty trains of sugar in
Chicago Ivy midnight of Tuesday, March
3lst. The penalty, so it is said, was
SO 600 dag for each days delay. When
the collision and burning of local train
in Harveys tunnel took place, all these
trains we're caught East Of it and were
strung along as far as Clifton Forge. They
did not get through the tunnel till Mon
day, March Both. bnt they were given the
right of way from there on to Chicago
aud made the tip successfully.
Shenandoah Tdllty: we learn thai
Geo, A., son of Mr., J. A. CARRIER, on last
Thursday, caught 10 a steel trap, chick
en- hawk, which measured feet and
inches across the wings. Good for Georg'
On last Saturday, Mr.. Bob" Higgs say
an eagle Oh tree, at the creek, neal
Lacey Springs. Va, which he shot. The
eagle weighed pounds, and measured
feet and inches from tip to tip of wings.
This "great American eagle" was brought
here and given 10 DR.. C. C. ITenkel. The
eagle is rather rare in this section.
On last Wednesday night, April |, 1891,
Mrs Mary f. Funkhouser, wife of Geo
Funkhouscr, died very suddenly, at her
home near Pine Church. Va.
She ate hearty supper, and retired
seemingly well, but was taken sick soon
after, and died about 10 o'clock. She
leaves 9 sons AID daughters-all of
whom are married. The bereayed family
surely have the sympathy Of the whole
community. her age was 63 years, 2
months, and days.