Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-05-16
Berryville has a Future

Inc COURIER desires 10 direct at
tention of the citizens of Berryville
to the above heading in the hope that
new life will be infused in our good
old town. In view of the recent COM
pletion of her gravity water system
from the top of the Blue Ridge Noun
tain and her many advantages of To-
cation, why should she not develop a
future of growth and prosperity COM
mensurate with her surroundings?
The town is beautiful for situation:
well and nicely paved streets and
shaded sidewalks; polite accommo-
dating business men; nice homes:
churches of all denominations with
able Divines; a good graded school
and private male and female college:
a refined, intelligent, cultured people
and surrounded by an agricultural
section for fertility of soil not excel
led in Virginia or elsewhere. Do our
people realize what a grand, inviting,
charming section of country ours is?
If so, we should not be so selfish as
to wish to continue to enjoy it alone
with our descendants from one gen
GRAFTON to another, but let the outside
world come in and enjoy with us the
good things of this favored land and
help us keep in touch with the spirit
of improvement and progress now
dominant in other sections. Why
not emulate our neighboring city of
Winchester which is just now making
such successful strides for prosperity?
Her council recently voted a sum suf-
fcient to publish booklet for circu-
lation, advertising her advantages and
and similar move would be in the
right direction here. 1t should be
our first effort to encourage manu-
featuring enterprises, and to that end
we have the large substantial fire.
proof buildings erected in boom times
ready for such an enterprise aud
which We are sure can be bought at
mere nominal figure compared with
construction prices.
In few weeks Berryville will be
within eight miles of the proposed
terminus Of the Washington and Ohio
Railroad at Snickersville, which ex
tension we are told is in the interest
of large number of Washington city
people seeking TO erect homes on the /
Mountain or as summer boarders at
Blue Ridge Hotel which is in full |
view of our charming locality. Can /.
not an effort be made to divert many
OF these proposed purchasers and Sum
mer boarders on to Berryville where
they will have the advantage of the
same pure mountain air and water.
and IN addition will have the refined /.
social surroundings Of our town and |
community, church privileges, and I
the finest turnpikes for driving pur- /
poses, with the Shenandoah river for /
fishing, boating and bathing. Posi- /
bly, if the COURIER make the sugges-
ton some enterprising citizen will at /
once start an autimobile line from |
Berryville to Snickersville, which
would be practically an extension of
the railroad, and in that event we
feel sure every housekeeper in town
desiring bOarders would be supplied. |
and demand created in a short time |
for the erection here of large mod |
ern Hotel. Taking into considera-
ton the fact that Snickersville or /
Smokers Gap is the nearest and most |
accessible point for Washington city
people to get to the Mountains there
is no reason why this should not be
80, and with proper effort why Berry
Vile should not have hundreds of
these city people here to bring cheer,
adding to the social gaities of our
young people, and benefiting the COM
generally. Let us wake up
to our opportunities, for "Berryville
has future" if her citizens will it
to be so.
Nlrglnlans are greatly blessed in