Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-08-03
HARRISVILLE NEWS.

Messrs. Fur and Teller are swiftly
completing the carpenter work of Dir. j.
L. Feller's house.
The strikes, 1t seems, are not all ended
yet as wo learn there were several down
the Brook stream quite recently. Boys,
there Is nothing like kind feelings toward
each other.
We notice very frequently on Sunday
evenings, young man from neighbor-
ing village driving with two horse rig,
having with him one Of our young ladies.
In the near future, suppose, We will find
that there will be wedding indeed.
We learn that the festival held by the
ladies of Harrisville, last Friday and
Saturday nights, for the benefit of the
HarrisvIlle Band, were tolerably well at
tended. We hope they were successful in
. financial point of view. The:nusc was
certainly fine and we'll rendered. In those
calm beautiful nights the sweet strains
were heard and enjoyed by our people for
miles around. Come fellow citizens. let
us patronize our band.
This section has been favored with
good season up this time. From the 9th
to the 18th OF July we were without
rain, causing, corn and garden truck to
show signs of suffering; but on the 18th
we had big rain, and another on the
21st, and on the 22nd and 23rd we had
all day rains, soaking the ground so that
people could plough their stubble and
even sod fields. We have plenty of wheat,
and the prospect tor corn is very good in
deed. Potatoes are not yielding well,
owing, we suppose, in part, to the de-
structive work Of the potato bugs.
A good many persons, mostly young
folks were completely fooled on last
Wednesday evening week ago. BY
some means report became circulated
that there would be ! wedding in the
Reformed church at Huntsville, and we
all know if any thing will draw people
such occasions will, consequently people
gathered in from all directions, and waited
and watched, but no compile came to be
married, no one came to open the church,
so they were all sadly disappointed, and
hsd to return to their homes without
witnessing the expected wedding knot
safely tied tor life. Ladies and gentle
men, be on your guard, for when you
think not, the marriage will take place.
We cannot refrain from referring to our
trip TO Pen-M Mar. On Thursday, July l9th'
we, together with some fifty or sixty
ladies and gentlemen boarded the excur-
sion train at Toms Brook, leaving there
at s 10 a. m. We saw, from Middletown
t. Chsrlestown, fine fields Of corn and
wheat; but through Maryland, along our
route, 1t was very dry and corn was short
and suffering. while the wheat fields
showed that there was fine and heavy
crop. There Is no fruit Of any consequece
in that section; but We noticed thousands
OF acres in peach trees in thrifty COZ
ditiOn, bat totally destitute of peaches
this year. We arrived at Pen-Mar about
IL O'clock, q. m, and found 1t a grand
summer resort high up the western slope
Of the Blue Ridge. There are beautiful
grounds-nnS buildings, and plenty Of
water. A large and beautiful spring of
the purest cold water rushing right out Of
the mountain, and 80 grandly arranged,
is one of the greatest attractions there.
There are also magnificent views. One
can cit down and Hook over the entire
Cumberlond Valley. Altogether our trip
was pleasant, interesting, and instructive,
80 much so, that we are strongly inclined
to 90 again.
The question is frequently asked, Glow
will people pay their taxesp Phosphate
notes too will soon be due. With wheat
at 4s cts. per bushel, really only about As
cts. as il costs most of US cts. per bushel
to haul it to market, it does look a little
squally. And yet we now and then hear
some persons argue that the farmers is
about as prosperous raising wheat at so
cts. bushel, as he was when it was worth
a dollar per bushel We even noticed in
some papers. some men putting into print
the very same assertion, all saying that
we can buy more pounds Of nails, sugar.
rice, &C., and more yards Of calico, cotton,
&C., for dollar now than We could when
wheat brought 8 dollar per bushel. New
Hand don't believe such doctrine. and 1t
will not take great deal of argument to
show the fallacy Of the same. 1t costs
lust about as much to raise bushel OF
wheat at so cts. as 1t did when 1t sold for
q dollar phosphate 10 nearly as high,
taxes on land are higher, and wages for
farm hands have been reduced but little.
Any one taking the time and trouble to
look up the prices Of sugar, nails, cotton,
&c, when wheat brought Que dollar per
busbel, and to compare them with the
present prices OF said articles, will fnd
the difference small in contrast With the
price Of q bushel of wheat then and now.
Instead OF so cts. bushsl wheat, We all
want 81. 90 q bushel wheat, and so it
should be. Well, il there lie no other way
10 pay our taxes, l suppose We will have
to mortgage our laud,or part off to the
Building and Loan Association, but If
any Of rs do so, we should remember that
the only way We can make that course
pay. is to carry at least, as many more
shares As We draw money on, then, at the
time Of meeting, the Association will owe
, us.
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