Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-25

We have received very valuable ant
able article on diphtheria and its treat
ment, before the State Medical Society o
West Virginia, by Dr. Ed. H. Fravel, o
Poca, Putnam county, w. Va.
Mr.. Phil. Knapp, Optician, of Stanton
will again be in Woodstock, Va. on
Tuesday, Oct. 9th, and remain until Fri
day evening, Oct. 9th (Fair week Office
with DIR. d. d. Carter. Examination Of
eyes free.
Full line of boots, shoes, notions and
dry goods just received by Bowman &
Mauck.
Messrs. Van Pelt & Walton are nov in
the Eastern markets selecting a splendid
stock of Fall and Winter clothing. They
know just what the people of this section
want in all branches of the clothing line,
and they will soon have the stock on
their counters.
The celebrated trotting stallion Sam
Purdy, who for some years stood at Har-
rsonburg, and has a number of valuable
colts in the Valley, died of collie Monday at
the Dangerfield stock farm near Culpeper,
Va. He was twenty-five years old and
when younger was valued at many thous-
ands of dollars.
Pierce's steam riding gallery now To-
Gated under good sized tent on the COM
mons, will prove a great source of attrac-
ton for the young people. The horses
twenty-four. are carried
around on a circular track by steam
power, and as they move swiftly around
the large circle have pleasant hand
gal'op motion.
The people residing along Main street,
rs well as the merchants and business
people generally, are praying for rain as
the dust in that part of town is becoming
ntolerable. the passage of vehicle or
even a single horse being sufficient to
raise sitting cloud against which all
doors and windows must be kept tightly
closed.
The machine shops of the n. & w. X.
R. at Shenandoah, Page county, Va,
we're entirely destroyed by fire about 5
o'clock on Sunday morning, together with
4 large amount of valuable machinery,
eight cars loaded with supplies, new en-
CINE, and other property. The loss will
be at least s75, 600 partly covered by in
'urance in Philadelphia companies.
The dry weather is seriously interfer-
ng with seeding. Considerable blowing
remains to be done, and as our farmers
are anxious to get through with as much
If this important work as possible before
The coming Fair raiu is eagerly locke d
md wished for. The dry, hot weather Is,
however, rapidly maturing the corn crop
and so is not an unmixed evil after ALL
S.. C. Kingree, of Columbia Furnace,
seems to be the boss thresherman of his
section. At last accounts he had threshed
over 1900 bushels and still has big lot OF
crops to knock out. He tbreshed 4OO
bushels in one day. besides moving to four
different points, one move being a die
lance of two miles. Billy Clinedinst is
with this machine, and where he is every
thing must keep moving.
We return thanks to Mr.. Chas. G. Eddy,
Vice Pres ident ofN. y w. r. r., for
pamphlet published by that road for
pratuitous distribution, containing valn-
able prize essays upon the industrial
future OF the South, also for an interest
ing article reprinted from the Roanoke
Daily Times of July 2lst. 1891, on the
agricultural resources and advantages of
southside Virginia.
While W. H. Funk aud Wilbur Sire,
young men employed at the Stonewall
Mills, near this place, were playfully
skylarking on Thursday, of last week,
Mr.. Sine accidentally struck Funk in the
ave with a large needle, such as are used
IN sewing up mill sacks. Tie needle
penetrated the eye, and it Is feared that
the unfortunate young man may lose the
sight.
The Lutheran congregations constitut-
ing the Woodstock Charge have shown
that they appreciate the efforts of a
worthy man by voting their Pastor, Rev.
A. A. ]. Bushong, a months vacation, t"
be taken whenever he thinks proper, and
donating him liberal sum to defray bis
expenses during said vacation. "Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity"
Mr.. Isaac C. Haas, the genial and pop
Mar proprietor and publisher of that ex.
cellent paper. the BaltimOrean, paid fly
ing visit of few hours to his father and
other relatives in this place, on Monday.
Mr.. Haas has been at Basic City, Waynes-
boro, and others of the wonderfully pro-
gressive places of old Virginia, and was
much impressed with what he saw in the
great and rapid development of the
boundless resources of the old State.
Owing to the crowded condition of our
columns last week we were unable to
notice the series of lectures given by Mr..
w. f. Hall, of New York, in the Christian
church of this place. Mr.. Hall is a bril-
liant and able man, and bis lectures
woald have been exceedingly interesting
but for the intolerable egotism of the
man that cropped out in such super
abundance as to cover up and spoil every
thing else.
Mr.. D. Fl. Keller, of Capon Iron Works!
Hardy county, w. Va, was so unfortunate
as to lose a portion of the foreinger Of
his right hand on Wednesday of last
week. Mr.. Keller was helping Mr.. Thos
Wilson to make cidar, and the accident
was caused by the breaking of the heavy
beam Of the press, which IN falling caught
and crushed off the finger. On Saturday