Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
Keen Your Eve on This.
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS.
Globe Beer has the reputation {;

Is for sale at Geary's, here.
The B. g. o. Railroad have reduced
their Worlds Fair rates from this section
Of the State to S1675 for tho round trip
See advertisement in another C, lumn.
A push meeting will be held at Green
Hill commencing August 10Th and en-
ding August oath. Fuller notice will be
given in the near future.
Globe Brewery, StauntOn Agency,
Has been established recently.
The manager is F. A. Quensen,
Who'll give all orders prompt attention
No bad results from taking HilPs Chiof-
ide OF Gold Tablets, while the cure is PEI
manent. Drunkenness, Tobacco ana
Opium habit positively cured.
The shrill blast of the whistle at the
Woodstock Foundry and Machine Shops
calling the hands once more to their daily
work will be a most welcome sound aittr
these long years of silence.
The base ball club of this place is now
in first class trim, and ave not afraid to
cross bats with any club in the Valley.
The Globe Brewery is always sure
To make a beer that's good and pure.
You can drink it day and hight
1t always gives an appetite.
Do not delay, If you feel weary
To call for it at Mrs. GearS's.
We have received a copy of Virginia
Hand Book. 1t is volume filled with
important information in reference to the
history, climate and mineral wealth Of
the State OF Virginia, and its educational,
a,ricultural and mineral advantages.
The Premium List of the Twenty
fourth exhibition OF the Shenandoah
Valley Agricultural Society which will be
held at Winchester, September 18th, Is,
Ii. and 18th, has been received.
For copy of Premium List, send to Mr..
Z. G. Hollis, Secy.
A base ball club from Edinburg passed
through here on Wednesday on their way
to play the Strasburg club. Eugene
Geary Of this place went With the Edin-
burg boys as pitcher. The game resulted
in victory for the EdlnJurg club by a
score Of % to IA.
The steam threshers are busy IN every
direction, and the putting of the engine
and hum Of the separator can be heard on
a thousand hills, more or less, while the
golden grain pours out in stream that
gladdens the farmers heart but not so
much so as it would if the price should
bounce up twenty-five or fifty cents a
bushel.
We continue sending the HERALD. at
S1OO per year. At that price every head
of family caH afford to have the HERALD
IN bis house. Especial attention is direct
ed to the publication of the county news.
Our corps of correspondents will be
gradually increased until We have one in
every section Of the county. Send in your
names and send the S100 with the name.
Our friend, John Hartman, is always on
hand when most needed, and bis ice cold
lemonade and delicious lce-cream
were greatly relished By the hot and
thirsty crowd who visited the base bal
grounds Oh Monday. Such enterprise
deserves success, and we are glad to know
that John is in the swim.
The Organ Society of the Methodist
Church, South, of this place, will have {
nice lunch and snack table on the Fair
Grounds, during Friday. August the 4th
the last day of the meeting of the Sunda!
schools of the Virginia Synod of tb'
Lutheran church. Everything nice VII
be served in nice style and at the mos
moderate prices.
The Board of Trustees have selected til
teachers, named below, for the WOOdstocl
Graded School.
Miss Mary Gray, of Winchester, Is
Asst.
Mr.. Fl. B. Burner, 2nd Asst
Miss Gennis Robinson, Sd Asst.
Miss Emma Lsntz, 4th Asst.
Principal has not yet been chosen.
The mail from Edinburg to COlumbi
Furnace is now run upon schedule
that gives the people all the inconveI
fence possible. 1t requires two days IL
letter to 20 from Woodstock to Colun
bis Furnace over daily mail route an
the distance is only seven miles. Pet
tioRs have been sent in to the Departmel
asking for relief, but none has yet reaci
ed the suffering patrons of the Star rou
from Edinburg to Columbia Furnace.
The Board of Supervisors met at Il
Court House last Monday. A number
small claims were ordered to be paid.
The Board accepted the iron bridge 7
Gently built over the Shenandoah river
the Iron Bridge Company Of Canto
Ohio.
A levy OF 80 cents ON each one 'bundr
dollars worth of property for county pr
poses, and one of 20 cents, for road pr
poses, was made
TIE toll gates are not well arranged
this part of the Valley. People living
Toms Brook, distance of six miles fro
Woodstock, are required to pay for
cents toll to drive with horse and bag
to Woodstock and return. The sal
parties can drive to Strasburg, over I
same road for the same distance and p
nothing. 1t costs man more to drive
Toms Brook, with his own horse
buggy, than to 90 by railroad. There
nothing fair about that arrangement.