Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-07-27


Attention Is called to the advertisement
of the Shena ndoah Female Institute.
This school worthily enjoys high repr-
tation in tLis community. Persons
wishing to give their daughters good
education would do well to consult the
Principal.
He who runs cannot fail to notice the
very great increase in the mum Der of
carriages. buggies, road carts, buck
boards and other pleasure vehicles of
every description during the past ten or
fifteen years in this county. Thousands
of dollars have been invested in this way.
Now come the bicycles, which can be
seen in great numbers on the Valley pike,
and with growing frequency on the coun-
try roads. The many people interested
aud the large sum of money invested in
these different modes of transportation
should prove an important factor in the
fight for better roads that will soon be on
in Virginia aud the rest of the States.
There will be public meeting in the
interest of the Bible Cause, held in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, south,
Woodstock, Va, on Thursday, Aug. 2nd,
1894, at 3 P NJ, to be participated in by
all denominations. The claims of the
Bible Cause will be presented by Rev. W.
A. Campbell, D. D., General Agent of the
Virginia Bible Society. There will be
several other short addresses after which
collection will be taken. If the meet
ing shall so determine, an Auxiliary So
elety or Bible Committee will be or
ganIzed. Pastors will please give notice
from their pulpts.
As this is the season when typhoid
fever is most liable to get in its deadly
work no precaution should be neglected
in guarding against it.
Nothing will propagate or spread the
disease with the same certainty and
rapidity as impure drinking water, and
for this reason our town authorities
should have every public and, if necessary,
every private we'll in the town carefully
examined. We learn that the well on
South Muhlenberg Street, in which a
new iron pipe and pump was recently
placed, was found to contain number Of
dead toads. This may prove to be the
case with Others. a polluted well may
scatter death around it's neighborhoOd
with. far more certainty than an ex-
ploding shetland for that reason not an
honr should be lost in making a careful
inspection of every source of water
supply in the town. Human life is far
too precious to be trihed with.
The tomato weighing machine at
the depot IN this place, was broken open
by thieves on Sunday night and a small
amount of money stolen. Woodstock is
afflicted with the meanest, lowest lot of
thieves that ever cursed the earth.
Nothing is too little for them, and they
will steal the sour slop FROM blind hog
or a two cent tin cup from public well.
They are as expert as they are mean,
and can steal the mOlsssss ont of GIN
gercake or the sugar from your coffee
while you are stirring it. 1t is a pity
they can't be caught, tied uD to whip
ping post and have the dirty hide cut
from their backs.
No pains or expense shonld be spared
to catch these utterly debased creatures,
and when caught let them be driven
from the community with the full un-
derstandlng that their return will be a
very serious matter with them.
The "Kid' base ball club, of this place
left on Friday morning last with num-
ber # we'll filed baskets for Fishers
Hill. After enjoying their pic mic to
their hearts, content they proceeded TO
hiring the day to a fitting and pleasant
coacIusion by going on 20 StrAburg the
same afternoon and giving the Strasburg
Climb eenteel dressing down, notwith.
stapding the fact that that club had a
erst.c1ass catcher from Alexandra. The
score stood % to IL in favor of the Wood
stock Gkids.v We learn that many OF
the strasburg people acted " orse than a
faw Of the woodstock parties did when
the strasburg club played here, and gayed
the "lSidsy rudely and meanly. We are
sorry that such conduct should happen
II il the earnest hope of every selfrespect-
ing person in this community that it will
never be permitted again upon the
grounds at this place. The "kids" have
certainly shown themselves to be e1-
cellent ball players and although they
have always been compelled to buck
against much larger and older players
than themselves they have invariably
been able to give a good account Of Their
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