Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-06-19
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ry about the water supply Woodstock
will have as a result of the recent
election. There is entirely too much
at stake for haphazard acquire
ment of all of the rights and privil-
eyes connected with the undertaking.
1t is no secret, though, that the duly
constituted authorities are busily en-
gagged in the preparatory work for
the pouring into Woodstock of a
great volume of pure mountain wa
ter. No delay at all. Merely the
complying with the necessary legal
requirements and putting the whole
matter on a solid footing.
Had the rain alright, and goodly
downpour at that. Enough to make
plants perk up and garden sass" re-
new its vigor. The Gloomy Gusses
who foresaw a season of starvation
ahead are smiling little now. Ger
tainly more rain won't hurt and in
due season. more will come. In the
meanwhile, just how many good folks
thought to offer prayer of thank
fulness for the rains during the
week? No trouble on earth to growl
and grunt when things don't go our
way, though few of us strain our
Smears and Sawbuck teeth with a
smile when Providence is good to us.
And such is life.
) She just passed the Office window
with face plastered with kalsomine
from her dimpled chin to the roots
of her bobbed locks, and it is doubt
full if the miss was over fifteen. The
chances are that her vanity case is
. worked overtime in recoating her
maiden's blush, and the girlish COM
plexion was buried beneath enough
, rouge and powder to decorate dunn
my And dummy she was and is,
for certainly it is neither an evidence
, of brain nor a contribution to beauty
to douse DEVICES over the face of
| youth. Oh, no; Woodstock is no bet
, ter or no worse than other towns
in camouflaging with cosmetics, but
1t seems a shame that the fresh COM
| plexions of young girls could not be
! spared the paste, powder, rouge and
mud with which sixty smears it's
r face in comical effort to appear
, sixteen.
The Lee Highway, 5000 miles long,
is now completed with the exception
of approximately $50 miles So say
the officials who have been pushing
the transcontinental roadway to COM
pletion. There is a move now on
: to make this long ribbon of road 200
feet wide. Which is some road. No,
: Woodstock is not on the Lee High
way. Neither is Winchester, nor
Harper's Ferry, nor indeed the whole
j northern part of the Shenandoah
Valley. 1t misses the very heart of
!, the Old Dominion and skips the Sec
lions where history was made. The
: tourist, though, will start down
through the Valley at Harper's Fer
!. ry and glimpse the picturesque and
3 scenic heaven which the Lee High
way overlooked in its rambles from
Washington south. Did you know,
though, that but for the parsimony
of some Shenandoah County citizens
the Lee Highway would have follow
f. ed the Valley turnpike? At its incep-
ton it was given little concern until
too late. We will probably know
better the next time.
Woodstock merchants handling
. paint say they have sold more paint
this season than in former years.
4. They also say that their stocks are
ample to supply the needs of the
forward looking citizens, with pride
in the old town, who have it in mind
to give the premises a going over
with oil and lead. Paint up. clean
up" is good twelve months slogan.
Nothing for the investment brings
bigger returns than property dressed
up, and what better way to dress it
up than by using the paint brush
freely? Another matter. That back
yard fence will look a hundred per
cent better with a liberal coating of
white wash. Sanitary, clean looking
and attractive. Try it. Lime is
cheap.
/ Forty-four were killed on a special
immigrant train near Hackettstown.
N. j., Wednesday. Just one of the
many horrors in current news. Out
OF the tragedy comes a story which
might be studied with interest by
Shenandoah County farmers. The
majority of those killed were foreign
ers who had amassed enough means
by farming to return to their home
countries. For some reason farm
ing paid them. even in these days
OF agricultural depression. Probab-
ly the most of them worked and did
not leave the farming operations to
others. Our old friend Lemuel Bor-
den, philosopher and essayist, used
this as his text on his one-time ia