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Show HISTORY MADE IN THIS SMALL TOWN Middleiown, Va., Saw Start of "Sheridan's Ride." This is written in the tiny village of Middletown, Va. The town is so small that It hasn't even a drug store In which to buy a picture postcard But there is more history to be read here and more tradition In Its ancient landmarks than many towns of 100 ! times its size can boast of. Almost 1 everybody who ever read a school ! book remembers "Sheridan's ride" I This village of Middletown was at the end of the ride from Winchester i writes Grove Patterson In the Toled. Blade. The house In which this Is written Is one hundred arid twenfv-five year old an old house when General Sher-ulan Sher-ulan pulled up at the gate. The general gen-eral turned what looked like a Confederate Con-federate victory into a rout, and Chester-. Up-at Winchester Is a house where general Washington stopped awhile during the Revolution. Between heri! and there is a ridge-now , ' . b.t of farm land-where sLew" Jackson stood, and kent standing un-til, un-til, on that day at least. tne Cnlon army had a had time of It Once In Virginia. If he has eyes and ears for , begins to think and hear cf Robert E Lee Lee said: "The subHmest word in thl English language is duty." If ?! had left no other message, that mes sage-put across to the American pot Pie-would have been worth Uving for. Good Americans no longer think of Lee as a "rebel" louder, but a, a I u-len 'yal t0a k ". |