The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-05-19
ANNOUNCEMENT.


This Issue of the VALLEY VIRGINIAN
closes the formal connection of the pres
emit Editor with the paper in that ca
pacity He will continue to contribute
to the editorial columns of the journal
with which he has been so long asso-
cisted but the editorial managem. MT
will be under Mr. G. F. Moore, citizen
of Clifton Forge, and a gentleman well
qualified in moral and mental qualities
to discharge the duties of the position.
His local identity with the interests OF
Clifton Forge will enable him to more
fully make the paper reflection of local
sentiment and medium for local in
formation. while his liberal education
high personal character and conscier
tious sense of duty will make their i'm
press upon the patrons of the paper
and the public generally. We can safely
commend him to the confidence and sup
port of the friends of the VIRGINIAN,
and hope that it will be the pleasure of
all of them to aid him in building up
prosperous and influential paper.
We shall take the liberty of suggest
ing to the people of Clifton Forge and
Allegheny county that they do not seem
to fully appreciate the influence of a
we'll conducted paper, published in their
principal town. Those immediately in
terested in its success have not mani>
tested that concern in its fortunes which
the prosperity of the town and section
where it is published would seem to de-
mand. II they will mend their ways in
this respect; give Mr.. Moore active
earnest, and constant support and as
sistance in his efforts to build upon solid
and lasting foundation, a paper worthy
of public recognition and a credit to
the community, there will be no diff
Guilty in accomplishing an object SO
much to the advantage of every citizen
and every interest of the county and
locality No more important factor in
the growth and prosperity of town
tive and we'll conducted newspaper, and
apeople who do not recognize and appre
ciate this fact are Indifferent to the wei
fare of the community where they reside
and neglectful of the interests of each
one of the constituent body. If they
will do their duty by Mr.. Moore and the
VIRaINIAN, he and it will do their duty
by them, and by mutual effort give to
Clifton Forge a journal worthy OF the
support of every citizen of the county
and adjacent country.
As heretofore intimated, it has been
the desire and purpose of the present
Editor, for year Or more past, to be re-
lieved, lat least for while, of the exactions
of the duties of Editor After service
in that capacity, running through more
consecutive years and contemporaneous
with more important and stirring events
than have been experienced by any other
journalist now living in Virginia, we
have felt the need OF some rest, and now
propose to take it. This does not mean
however, that We propose to relInquish
all journalistic duties and work. This
we could not well do 1t would bring
on mental decay and dry rot. but it means
that we wish to get from under the whip
and spur" and the necessity which has
compelled us to work when physical
conditions protested. We expect to
take hand in newspaper work us long
as we live, and have the mental vigor to
do 30. 1t is second nature with us, and
we would feel like fish out of water
Wefe we not pefH1CGeu 10 DISCUSS puDllc
questions and interests as the spiri.
moved us and the interests of Virginia
might suggest.
We will not, therefore, lose the inter
est we naturally feel in the VALLEY
VIRGINIAN, nor he unconcerned as to
its present and future prosperity; but
will do what we can, consistent with the
purpose above declared, to promote its
success and advance the interests of Cliff
ton Forge and of this rich and develops
ing section.