Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-01-18
SHENANDOAH HERALD 100
YEARS OLD.

A Review by Memo, of the VIM
chester Star.
We have received a late copy
of the Shenandoah (Woodstock)
HERALD, and in it was enclosed
a replica Of the first copy of the
HERALD, which was printed in
that town on December "a, 1917.
So that paper has passed its CEN
tennial under the same name,
but under different managers.
The HERALD of 100 years ago is
a tiny sheet of four pages. and
like the Winchester papers OF
the olden time. has almost no To-
cal news in it. 1t was a weekly
at So so year in advance. The
first page is filled with news
from Congress and the Legisla-
ture, and the most of that is
several weeks old. In Wash
ington, Mr.. Mccoy, of Virginia,
presented petition for a dona-
ton of public land for the bene-
fit of an honest couple in his
district, who represent that they
have been united in wedlock's
happy bonds for seven and twen-
ty years, in which they have
added to our population twenty
children, nineteen of whom are
living, and whom they have
maintained by their manual la
Dor" The petition was referred
to the committee on public lands.
We think the mother of twenty
children deserved a few acres ;
don't you ? One bill provides
that our regular army should
consist of 5000 men in times Of
peace.
In Richmond the revisal of the
Virginia code was under discus
sion, and one member of the
House said OH the floor I'VE
have seen one talking session ;
we now hope to see an acting
one"
On the second page there is all
account of the war with the Sem
mole Indians, and news of the
fighting in Mexico, and that the
schooner Cuba was only 19 days
in coming from Havana to Bal
more.
On December s, there were
Paris papers Of October II, which
proved that Louis XVIII, was
running things satisfactorily i'll
France, and that Bonaparte (then
a prisoner on St. Helena had
slight touch of liver complaint.
That didn't worry us bit. In
our youthful days we shed a lot
of tears over the hapless fate of
Napoleon on St. Helena, but we
reserve our tears now for the mil
lions of better men whom he
sacrificed to his Satanic ambi-
ton, just as the kaiser is doing
at the present time.
But there is on the second page
a paragraph which may in some
sort explain the frightful winter
that this has been so far. A
French scientist had advanced
the theory that every 100 or 10l
years there would be a season
corresponding to that of the cen
tury before, and in October Of
1917 the cold weather had al
ready set in, and it was predicted
that the following winter would
be unusually severe. This para
graph gives the luuary theory of
it. When we were young we
naye heard old people talk about
the year without a summer
phenomenal year, as this one
has surely been.
A DEARTH OF LOCAL NEWS.
This old Woodstock paper of
century ago presages a rigorous
winter for 1918, aud 1918 has sol
far carried out the theories of
that time. The editorial in tlli~
paper of so long ago is in the
'orm Of salutatory, and begins
.hus After considerable de
Iay. we are at length enabled toI
present the first number of tire
Woodstock HERALD to its Ia
.rons." The name of the pc perl
vas changed to the Shenandoah
HERALD in 1923.
The only local news in thi
,aper of a century ago is one !
marriage, that of Mr.. Reuben
filler and Miss Atlantic Ocean /;
Walton. Our wonder is that a (.
irl with such a name lived to be
Id enough to marry. Her par
MS ought to have been arrested
nder the law Of crueity to ani- =