Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-06-21
MOUNT SIDNEY.
Enterprise and GroWth-BusIness Reach
ing out from Home-Fruit Attracts
Attention, ETC.. Etc.

Enterprise and GroWth-BusIness Reach
ing out from Home-Fruit Attracts
Attention, ETC.. Etc.
June 20.-Mount Sidney, one of Au-
gusta county's thriving villages. loca-
ted on that fine thoroughfare, the
Valley Pike, 10 miles from StauntOn,
is as pretty place as the name it
bears and no prettier than the fine
country around it. One who is whirled
along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
stopping moment at the busy little
station and speeding along through
the rich green valley, sees little of the
hustling town over the hill. He must
drive through the town and stop a
while, as the writer did, to get an idea
of what goes on there, to properly APP
preciate what the enterprising people
are doing for their town and county.
BUSINESS.
Seeing the freight cars on the side
track at the unpretentiOus depot and
hearing the buyers and sellers talking
business, l was led to make inquiries
and was surprised to learn that Mr..
W. H. Johnson, the chief buyer, had
shipped from that point alone, during
the past season, no less than 20 car loads
of hay and straw to M. Kivlighan in
Staunton, from which point it was
sent off to various markets all over the
country. The merchants of the town
are A. J Richie, J. W. Ross, with one
store at the station and another in the
town, and M. G. Wilkinson Il Co.
These merchants do lively business
amounting to about $780, 900 annually.
The manager of the last named firm is
well known in Staunton, MIR. l.. H.
Hulvey, who for three or four years
YVES with one of the live wholesale
dealers of the city, r. L. Stratton. He
is conducting a growing trade in Mt.
Sidney and making business reputa-
ton for himself.
MANUFACTURES.
Flavin & Watson are doing a pros
porous and still growing business in
spouting, timing, roofing, lightning
rods, etc., from their shop here. They
work up a large supply during the
winter for their trade and the latter
part of March start their teams and
road force to put it out and are at it
until Christmas. Last winter they
mede up no less than 5000 feet of
spOuting and soon ran their supply sc
close that in April and May they had
to rush their shop force and get out
5, 400 feet more. The business is 2C
years old and during the last years
they have put up some big jobs in
StauntOn, and recently worked out
an $500 contract on Hebron church,
doing the slate roof, the spouting and
tin work, and are now engaged roofing
the large new house of Jas. L. Patter.
son, on South River, the big barn OF
James Kerr's, at New Hope, and ]. II
Mccormick 3, at Raphine, and other
smaller jobs. The lightning rod bust
ness is another item of the thrifty
industry. The complete galvanized rod
now in use, is manufactured by only
two firms In the United States, one at
Greencastle, Pa, the other at Phila.
delphia. Flavin & Watson buying from
both in turn as they can do best for
their trade, and are putting up the rods
all over this and adjoining counties
There's money in it all and good mon
ey too.
M. F. johnson IS planning mill is a
useful factory in the town. He works
number of hands making doors anC
sash, ratings, etc., and doing genera
repair work, is now doing the work il
his line for VIM. Shumate' new house
and did the fine work on DR.. T. M
Parkin's new residence. He uses the
best North Carolina lumber and il
generally full of work.
Capt. 10. Shumake does good bus
mess in the making of buggies, wagons
and other vehicles.
BUILDING AND IMPROVING.
Every time l pass through Mt. Sid
ney l see some new houses going up
This time it is W. F. Folds who is put
| ting up substantial addition to his
residence in the pretty grove opposite
DR.. VIM. Bells on the pike. VIM
Shumate is finishing off a new resi-
dence. Homer Bright is preparing tt
build another, and Walter Parrish, sol
of Dr.. j. 8. Parrish, still another
While good and useful improvement
| for the town has been undertaken by
the Junior Order of American Me
chanics. This progressive fraternity
has bought an eligible lot and is gath
| ering upon it the material for a 81 ,50t
| building, which, besides furnishing 6
suitable meeting place for the order
will give the people a long needed town
hall. Since | was last in the town {
nota BILE improvement is the handsome
| new $4,000 residence of DIR. T. M. Par
kins, which presents a good appear
| ance as you enter the place from th'
south.
PROFESSIONAL.
The ministers of the town are Rev
G.. w. Riser, Lutheran, recently from
Newbury, s. c., valued sesident, an(
Rev. A. P. Boude, Methodist, who
breaches In the place stately, but
| does not make his residence there.
The physicians are DR.. VIM. Bell, The
veteran of the profession there, who does
an active practice and can have it in
this community as long as he offers
for it. DIR. 7. M. Parkins, known il
the community from boyhood, beer
practicing about years, is doing wei
and keeping busy, and DR.. Frank Fl
Crawford, son of DR.. VIM. NJ. Craw
ford, the we'll known Confederate army
surgeon, whose death so startled the
community some years ago. DR.. Frank
who was born and reared in the town.
has been practitioner for 5 years, has
taken a good stand in the profession
of his choice and numbers among his
patients many of his fathers friends
who knew him when a barefooted
schoolboy. DR.. j. s. Parrish is the
veterinary, not only of the town, but
OF the community for many miles
around He is popular professional
as he saves not only lives, but proper
ty. Mr.. W. Peter johnson, the oldest
stockman, says he can cure ''big jaw
on any steer and always does. 1 must
not omit mention of the STECTATOR s
professional news gatherer in Mt. Sid
ney, Ned DePr1est, who catches al
the news on the fly and promptly pass
es 1t in. Ned has nose" for news
WHEAT FIELDS.
Mt. Sidney is surrounded by wheat
fields, meadows and orchards, all in
the splendor of their living green, and
though the destructive hail storms OF