Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-13

For cold and cough 1t has no equal. M
A. T. Jesperson Irvine, Warren Co., Pa
writes; II bought bottle of DR.. Bull
Cough Syrup and eau recommend
highly. had very bad cough and
toured me at once"
To all whom 1t may coneern.-.A sprai
OF the wrist or ankles is not an uncom
mon occurrence. 1t is we'll to know tina
a few applications of Salvation Oil vel
rubbed In will Invariably; produce IL
desired result-an entire cure. 25c.
During the year just passed lac mar
rage licenses were issued from the County
Clerks Office, $40 deeds recorded, 20 will,
admitted to probate. 80 administration
settled, 30 criminal cases disposed of with
% removed causes from Justices.
In the Circuit Court there we're lss
actions at common law. 1919 decided and
40 pending. During the year there were
90 chancery causes commenced, 239 de-
cided, and 97S chancery causes still pend
ing. The Circuit Court was in session
twenty-five days.
A very singular and fatal disease has
appeared among the horses in Page coun-
ty. Mr.. John Heston, q prominent farm
or of thai county, lost by death, three
fine horses. on Sunday. One of the horses
was valuable stallion, worth abo ut $3.50.
Various reasons are given for the death of
those horses, many persons firmly believ-
Ing they have been poisoned, while Others
think that it is an epidemic that will
prove fatal to many mere. We learn
that an examination will be made az it is
known that these animals did not die
from natural causes.
Shenandoah county has lost good citl-
zen IN the death OF Mr.. Geo. w. Smoot,
the proprietor of Shoots mill, on Pugh's
Run, short distance north of Woodstock.
He was highly respected and liked
through large circle of friends for his
sterling honesty and uniform kindness.
His death occurred on Friday, Jan. 9th,
1898, and the funeral sers ices were held
on the following Sunday at the Lutheran
church, Fair View, and were conducted
by bis pastor, Rev. A. K. Kline, in the
presence of large congregation. His
age was 65 years, months and days
He was member of the Reformed church.
The weather has been extremely cold
for sometime, but Tuesday night just
took the dilspidated linen off the
shrubbery. The mercury went down as
low as four degrees below zero at some
points in town. but gentleman who re-
sides near the North Mountain, SIX CT
seven miles North of here, informed us
that in his section the thermometer reg
istered as low as 10 below zero about
daybreak on Wednesday morning He
told us we could form good idea OF the
Intense cold from the fact that when bis
neighbOr, Mr.. Saml. Bowden went to
take an early morning nip of the real old
stuff be found 1t solid and was compelled
to bite off what he considered a fair
sized appetizer.
The Oratorio of Ruth, the Moabitess. 40
previously advertised in this paper, came
off on Friday and Saturday nights in
Twins Opera Hall. The performance was
of very high order of merit, and deserved
a much more liberal support than it re-
ceived. The singing was splendid, every
solo being finely rendered and the choruses
we're all that could be desired. The
costumes were attractive and in keeping
with the characters represented. Miss
Ada Pitman carried out the difficult
character of Ruth to the satisfaction of
every one, while Prof. Chas. Fun&houser
as Boaz left no room for criticism. Miss
Cora Pitman. presided at the piano dur
ing the entire performance, aud rendered
the difficult music perfectly.
We regret that want Of space will not
permit US to name all who took part. We
can only say that every ono in the large
company did remarkably well and gave to
the audience two evenings of great en-
jOymsnt. The intensely cold weather
caused many persons to remain at homo
who would otherwise have been present.
The cold was also severe on the per-
formers and mary Of them contracted bad
colds from which considerable suffering
has resulted.