Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-06-03

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westward. nov. mare than ever before.
That Is to say. Miasoagizra for IL
stance, haoS more about, and take
msFe Interest Ia Colorado ard Cal
fornis, than NORTH Carolina or Deh-
ware The East eIingz 10 TrzGinoa,
Historical Interests, ard Ia TOO nany
eases-Family. she is in q way en-
csited, and extremely ignorant q thl
real condition Of The West; as ons
modern writer has expressed II, fnses
more happily, I hopej; The We,
knows all that the East knows, in a.
dition 10 what she has learned her
sesE" And EtdH there is d charm
about the East that cannot be des-
eribed, but must be felt and lived "a
before il can be underStood and ap.
precizted
This town, Waynesbor0. Augusta
Co1nty. Virginia, II hope we are not
keeping any q yoa up is situated m
the far-fzEed valley Of Virginia
zbsst three miles west Of the Bic
Ridge Mountzias. whieh Is the mast
eastern chain Of the Appalachian sy
tem Tnis valley Il called BY It's IT.
hzbitanacwhsehsr d~szeTvedly Or
e1nneitsd Iczznos undertake 10 ssy-
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i 70 BE an entirely different country
fran that in which I Erew Up. The
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this valley a. far As nstaraI hearty
Is eoaee1ed, bzt a. to fertility. q
NORTH Missosri farmer would Prob
ally consider the soil rather poar.
This consists mostly Of red hsm, box
ing something ike Missouri clay, b1t
very mach reddsr. The presence Of
mary rocks in the upnnozt layer Of the
sod may have much to do with the
degree Of it's fertility. Northward,
through the eastern edge of this val
ley and forming the eastern boundary
Of this town. howg the aSouth Fork.
q, more exactly the South Fork Of
tbs Shenandoah, By which name this
valley Is also often called. There are
no Greeks" iA Virginia. Every stream
that cannot be dignifed By the name
Of river is called a @run," and even
this distinction cannot always be ap-
piled ABuIi Run the river near
which the Battle Of Manassas was
fought, Is larger than the South FORK.
and both Of these streams would m
Missouri be called creeks. The ghen-
aFsdoah, with its two tributaries, NORTH
and South ForkS forms a veritable
meander from its sources 10 the Po-
tomac, such "a the d~eyiations Of it,
course. And stiE the rivers in this
valley have a much greater fan than
those in Missouri, and nearly every
riyer-t0wn makes uze Of water owe
for some purpose.
The town itself must have been
founded during the Revolutionary
War, az it takes its name from Cen
eral Anthony Wayne. And indeed,
some Of the buildings, both houses and
stores, look as If they might have
been standing since that time. In the
older section Of the town,buiIt I'D IN
the river bottom, the houses are most
ly al Of brick, built in the old Col
onial style with small front porches
and right on the streets. This Gems
70 be the case in the older sections Of
al cities in the East. However most
Of the houses Of this kind have in lsIte
years, been replaced by more modern
structures, and in the higher part Of
the town, which il Of more recent de-
Vsloament may be found examples Of
Colonial architecture, especially the
atyie with broad porches and high
columns, which are unsurpassed any
where.
The main streets of the town, have,
p The past year, been paved With a