Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-16
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ng blasts on Sunday, muffied up to-
he ears in an overcoat, which would
nave warmed Mcmillan in the Arc
lie Circle. And he shivered With
aim there stood what whiskered men
and wrinkled women speak of dispar-
agingly as a s'fiapper" She was
Just rosy-cheeked (don't know the
brand of paint. modern girl, with
scarcely enough clothes on her will
lowy form to make a saddle blanket
for a jaybird. And this female
seemed not to be affected by the
frigidity Just why can girls go
about in the coolest weather, clad in
such raiment, or lack of raiment,
with apparent comfort, when big,
overgrown and healthy-looking men
hang on their frames all they pos
sess but the bed clothes, and yet suf-
fer with cold? Why?
We copy it verbatim: Il want to
take this opportunity of telling you
that the Herald is a very wonderful
paper in it's new form, and is simply
indispensable. In the words of Rip
Van Wrinkle, May it live long and
prosper This opportunity" was
remittance for arrears and pay
ment in advance. Nice, isn't it, to
have your appreeiatiye friends say
so? Contra. We had one-just one
brother who evidently had been
weaned on pickle juice and nurtured
with kraut, to write us a real sassy
letter. Got back for some years in his
subscription and just because he was
asked to pay up he got sour and
peeved. Well, he did pay up partly
stopped the paper, and is now Dor
rowing a Herald from his neighbol
to keep up with the county news. We
like the bouquets and likewise We
can still dodge brickbats.
ITO hell with Florida and its sun
shine-give me Virginia and it!
moonshine." Chalked on the bod.
of a Detroit nuisance, which stood
on the streets of Woodstock the 9th
er day was the expressive sentence
with which this paragraph opens. W.
opine that the owner of the car wa!
more familiar with Virginia moon
shine than he was with Florida sun
shine, and probably the chalked out
break came more from the in
terror combustion incident to quaf
fing moonshine than it did from
Soils rays in the land of flow
ers. And yet there is some rea
basis for the preference. Many ;
visitor to the geographical boot o
the South would have Jared bette
financially by investing in moonshin'
than by contributing his money t,
some of the land sharks who arr
growing wealthy through eontribu
tions of dupes who are buyini
swamps at inflated prizes. OF cours,
there are many sound investment
in Florida, just as there is some fair
ly good moonshine in Virginia.
Out of the North came the bore
lean blasts which make men abhol
the ice man and make goo-goo eye
at the coal dispenser. The cole
weather came unexpectedly and Xix,
the foolish virgins" many were un
prepared. Friday, Saturday anC
Sunday would have been better fit
ted in December weather for at some
places on Sunday there was ice hal
an inch thick. With the cold came
high winds which made travel un
comfortable and almost everybody
went home and stayed there. Orch
ards were badly hit by the higl
winds and thousands of dollars were
lost in Shenandoah County wheI
were blown from the trees and made
unfit for barreling. They will now
go to vinegar plants at 25c hundred
pounds instead of going to market
at $3.50 a barrel.
The Fisheries Bureau of the De-
partment of Agriculture has scien-
tifically demonstrated that an oyster
drinks three pints of water an hour
No doubt about it. The oyster in the
stew recently served the writer in a
nearby town had evidently just TAX
en- on an hours supply before it was
led to slaughter, for the stew served.
We are willing to admit that an oys-
ter stew must necessarily have a
liquid content, but it is neither fair
to the oyster nor justice to the vic
tim to grab an innocent bivalve just
after it has had its quota of drink
and serve a stew which would an
alyze 1893 w. Judging from the
amount of water, the crustaceous
specimen which was playing subma-
rine in the aforementioned stew must
have been out the night before, or
had job of water carrier for his
tribe Oh, we'll, it might have been
that the oyster wasn't fresh, and
though it cost thirty-five cents for
one oyster and three pints of water,
more might have caused ptomaine.
Might as well get ready to face
it. AT the meeting of folks interest
ed in the establishment of a cannery