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New Port - Page.Co.Va Jan 26th 1883
Let us encourage him with our prayers our sympathies, and our efforts to support him. Do this, and it will gladden the old mans heart and strengthen him in the evening of his life. The young minister will feel the cold [?] chill with which he was surrounded, and which was [?] the energies of his soul [charged?] by the influence of such kindly [beam?]. His health will return; his energies awake, and he will show to all that he had within him the [?] of a [?]. Your Minister who had to follow [other occupation] for a livelihood will feel quite different and will remark ["]how he is in the estimation of his people, and how congregation is prospering! [?] would you have a good Minister and a [?] congregation? [Go?] [one?] and all hand in hand.
Sunday Morning Jan 26th 1883
The weather is pleasant but cloudy and a mist of rain occasional. Preaching in New Port church [by?] Rv W. A. [?]. The [General?] and [Mitton?] A [?'s] child will [?] [?] today [?] [last?] Sunday evening [?] 60! [?] [?] [?] of The [Chist?].
Page county. This county lies in the northeastern part of the State, lying along the north-ern slope of the Blue Ridge mountains, known as the "Shenandoah Valley." It is abundantly watered by the Shenan-doah river, flowing through the entire length of the county, and this, with its numerous tributaries, furnish abundant water power for factories, etc. Our soils are mostly limestone and sandy, and specially adapted to corn, wheat, etc. Fruits of all kinds are a special industry. We have an abundance of timber of every kind. We have a good market for all kinds of trade, a home market for our produce, lumber, tanbark, etc. We have the Shenandoah Valley railroad running lengthwise of the county, giving access to the road. The county-seat is near the center, giving a good market for every-thing. In the northern part of the coun-ty we have a large iron manufacturing company, giving employment to about one thousand hands. We have very good school-three graded schools, all in fine working order. We have only a few de-nominations of religion here, the principle ones being Southern Baptist, Methodist, Bible Christian, and a few Dunkards. All who contemplate moving should come to Page county. [Kounts?], Va. JOHN P [LOUDERBACK?].
Luray Grain Market. [? ?] Bed......... 00a 1 30 [?] Berry.................. 00a$1 34 [...] ..................... 00a 85 [...] ..................... 40 [...] 65 [?] J. V. JAMISON.
Death of Gideon T. Jones. This gentleman, well and favorably known to the citizens of this county, died of paralysis at the residence of his son, Glenn T. Jones, Washington, D. C. on Saturday, Oct. 15th. Mr. J. was a native of Page, and lived here up to 1869, when he removed to Baltimore. He was a gentleman universally esteemed, having held several important trusts in the coun-ty, among them that of clerk of our Cir-cuit court for a number of years before the war. His death will be sincerely lamented by all who knew him. He was 66 years of age. [?]
Rudolph Baker Great Grand father of John P. Louderback he was a father of Isaac Baker an Uncle to My father Isaac Louderback who left and settled in Ohio in the year 1854 From Rockingham Co, Va and a Bro of Daniel Baker of Dry [River?] of Page Co, Va he was the father of Rudolph Baker and Rudolph was a Bro of My Grand Mother Louderback Her [house?] being Catherine was born in the year 1790. She was at the birth of My father Seventy-one years old, My father at his death was 82 years + 9 month old.
February 8th 1907 This is Friday a fair and pleasant over head snow [for?] 10 inches deep To day is my birth day Seventy one years old, [?] [P?]. Louderback
MOON'S PHASES. First Quarter, the 4th at 12 o'clock 47 min-utes in the morning. Full Moon, the 10th, at 11 o'clock 37 min-utes in the evening. First Quarter, the 18th, at 10 o'clock a min-utes in the evening. Full Moon, the 26th, at 1 o'clock 25 minutes in the morning. Conjecture of the Weather. 1, 2, 3, cold; 4, 5, variable; 6, 7, snow; 8, 9, 10, clear; 11, 12, cloudy; 13, snow; 14, 15, variable; 16, 17, 18; cold, 19, 20, clear; 21, 22, moderate; 23, 24; rain; 25, 26, 27, cold; 28, 29, stormy. Venus ([?]) is evening star until the 11th of July, then the morning star to the end of the year.
The Great Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley is one of the finest sections of the country to be found in the United States. Begin-ing at Hagerstown, Md., the termination of the Cum-berland Valley, it extends through West Virginia and Virginia into Tennessee and North Carolina, running North, East, and Southwest. This country is travers-ed the whole length by the great trunk line of the Shenandoah Valley Rail road; which is furnished with unsurpassed through Pullman Car service and perfect transportation facilities of uniform excellence and common management. It is a direct route from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, to all the cities of the South and Southwest, viz.: Knoxville, Memphis, Little Rock, Atlanta, Montgom-ery, Mobile, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and all points South and Southwest, upon lines of common interest. Along this route, or just accessible thereby, are health resorts and scenic attractions of enduring value. The Shenandoah Valley; its continuous physical beauty, and scenes of historic interest; the great battle ground of Antietam; the wonderful caverns of Luray; the Natural Bridge of Virginia; the noted Virginia Springs; the Warm Springs of North Caro-lina; and the unrivalled scenery of western North Carolina, Asherville and the French Broad River; the charming resorts of East Tennessee; the renown-ed winter tourist points of South Georgia and Florida. With excellent Hotel accommodations along this rout, Luray Inn; Natural Bridge Hotel; Hotel Roanoke; &c., &c., Tickets, and all information can be had at all Pennsylvania Rail Road or other leading Rail-way Ticket Offices North and East. The section through which this road passes, offers great inducements to the capitalist, manufacturer and farm. Timber, Coal and Iron Ore are abundant. Many Iron Furnaces are now in operation, and many new ones are being erected. Lands of the best quality for farming purposes can be had at moderate prices, and the facilities for transportation are so great as to render access to the best of Markets easy. Rev. H. C. Hovery of New Haven, Conn., in a lec-ture delivered at the Academy of Music in Philadel-phia, on the general subject of American Caverns, said, "The Luray Cavern is regarded as the finest stalactilic grotto in the known world, and is on that account visited by thousands." Attempts have been repeatedly made to give a description of this wonderful Cavern, but it is beyond description. The mind of man cannot be brought to imagine the grandeur of this great natural wonder, and to see it, is only to realize its magnitude. The Natural Bridge, of Rockbridge County, Va., is another of nature's wonderful works, the arch spends a small stream called Cedar Creek. From the water to the top of the arch is about 200 feet. The surroundings of the Bridge are wonderfully beautiful, and the glen through which Cedar Creek runs, ranks in wild beauty with Watkins' Glen, New York. Ample and delightful hotel accommodations have made this one of the most attractive Summer Resorts in the country. Few roads in the world of equal length, have upon their lines, two sights so well worth seeing as the Caverns of Luray and the Natural Bridge of Virginia. The great valley of which the Shenandoah is a part, extending as it does from the Northeast to the South-west a thousand miles between two ranges of moun-tains, has now become what nature seemed to design it for: a great highway for the rich agricultural pro-ducts of the South, to reach the cities of the East and for the returning current of manufactured articles from New England to the consumers in the South.-Through Hagerstown there is a continual passage of cars loaded with cotton and wheat and sugar from the plantations: cattle, sheep, horses and poultry from Tennessee, iron ore and pig iron from Virginia, bark and timber and railroad ties from the Shenandoah Valley, and leather from the great tanneries at Luray and Loch Laird. The south bound trains carry machinery for the growing Southern manufacturers, agricultural machinery, railroad equipments, &c. The natural scenery of the Shenandoah Valley is unsurpassed. The rich fields are interspersed with mag-nificient bodies of timber and the northern part of the Valley is dotted with historic mansions.
[Upside down] [January 1918 Tuesday Snowed all day, not cold]
