Show HISTORY MADE IN THIS TH IS SMALL TOWN middletown va saw start of Sheri dans ride this Is written in the tiny village of middletown va the town Is so small that it oven even a drug store tn in which to buy a picture postcard but there Is more history to be rend read hero here aud and more tradition in its indent ancient landmarks than many towns of times its size can boast of almost everybody who ever read a school book remembers Sheri dans ride tills this village of middletown was nt at the end of the ride from winchester epter writes grove patterson in the toled i blade the house in which this Is written Is one Iii hundred indred and twenty five ovo years old an id house when v hen general sheridan pulled up at the lie gate the general turned lint looked like a con federate bictory nto into a rout avil an saied saed tile the liy day by coming fron from winchester WInch eiter up at winchester Ilester Is a house houe where general washington wishing ton stopped achil during the between lien ind and there Is a ald ridge e now a plea pleasant bit lt or of farm land where stonewall jackson stood and kept standing until on that day nt at least tile union army had bad a bad time of it once in virginia Virgin la if ho he lias eyes arid ears cars for history one begins it to think nud hear of hubert E lee lee ice sam sald the word in tile hie andish Ingli sli language liin guage Is duty if lie he ila biad left no 0 o other oilier meS message lIge that eliat sage put across to the american poo pie would lle been aith living for good iia ii 1 americans do no longer think of lee as a rebel leader but as a great iaan loyal to a mistaken and a lost cause |