Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-22
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differences of opinion relative to the
bond issue will be healed and Wood
stock people will pull together for
all things and anything which OBJ
tains for the moral or material well
fare of the town. Even the animos-
ity bred at Waterloo was eventually
dissipated by a feeling of amity and
brotherly love, and certainly we can
not afford to nurse rancor because
of waterworks. Cleanliness being
akin to goodness, water is a means
of grace. and now that we are prom
ised plentitude of water, we should
acquire a suficiency of grace to Gre
ate an era of good fellowship.
The construction of a concrete
pavement in front of the handsome
home of Frank B. Riddleberger, in
the Magruder addition on North
Main Street. is another link in the
towns modern street system. With
the other pavements contemplated or
being laid in that sections of the
town, the East side of Main will
eventually have graded concrete
walk from the Academy hill to the
northern limits of the corporation.
And so the good work goes on and
day by day in every way we are
getting more metropolitan.
The death of Charles P. Wight
man, citizen of Edinburg, is a per-
sonal loss to Woodstock. No other
man was probably better known at
the County Seat and certainly none
had more admirers and few as many
friends. In heart and mind he pos
sessed those qualities which made
him an outstanding figure in the life
of the county and Shenandoah Coun-
ty shares with Edinburg, the town
he loved so well, the irreparable loss
and member of the County School
Board, he was identified to a large
extent with Woodstock, and at no
place was his christian character and
unselfish life more appreciated.
One of the greatest improvements
on Court Street since the Indians
stopped camping at travels Spring
is the remodelled Herald Office build
ing. The three-story front has been
succeed and the painters are busy
dressing up the entire building Look
at it on your way to the post office
or depot and note just what can be
done to add to the appearance of a
town. Then go home and look over
your own property. Maybe you can
mix little paint, energy, brains and
expenditure together and improve
the looks of your own place Folks
judge town, largely. by its appear
ance, and let's get together ON the
proposition to have our town rank
Al in such judgment. The paint
clerks in our stores are not too busy
to wait on you. No trouble to get
a painter to do the work. Come on
now, let's make Woodstock the town
of all towns.
Prominent among the visitors in
Woodstock during the past week
were Mrs. Jas. A. Spencer, of Farm
vile, Va, and Misses Edith Samuels
and Susan Marshall of Front Royal.
The first-named ladies are sisters
and granddaughters of Judge Green
B. Samuels, who prior to the Civil
War was one of Virginia's most en-
inent jurists and a member of the
State Court of Appeals in ante-bel-
lum days. During their visit to
i Woodstock, through the courtesy of
Mr.. Hunter B. Chapman, they WIS.,
tied the old Samuels' home, the stone
residence now owned by Mr.. Chap
man on Muhlenburg Street. The
house was bought from the Samuels'
estate by j. P. Nelson, Woodstock
first depot agent, and after m "
years sold to Mr.. Chapman. Miss
Marshall is great niece of the first
Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, whose father, Tho
mas Marshall, was the first clerk of
I Shanandoah rar,4,
For the first time since the organ
lzatoin of the United Confederate
Veterans. Woodstock had no repre-
sentation at a Veterans Reunion.
True, M. F. Schmucker of Toms
Brook, and a member of the Wood
stock Camp, attended the Reunion
just over at Dallas, Texas, but here
tofore the town has always had a
few of the fighters under the Stars
and Bars present This is certainly
pathetic reminder of the rapid dis
appearance of the thin grey line"
and an impressive lesson on the fleet
ness of time. OF the hosts of Lee.
jackson, Forrest and Stuart, only
few thousand were in Dallas, and the
average age of the old "Confeds" at
tending was rs. A resolution was
introduced to make the Dallas Re-
union, the last. There were a few
Sons of Veterans from this section
in attendance.