The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-06-21
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Trip to Louisa Notes and Personals.
Correspondence Of Tho Free Lanoe)
Orange County, Va. June l6

Correspondence Of Tho Free Lance
Orange County. Va. June Is
What q delightful time some hnndled
and fifty friends had at the celebration
of Mr.. and Mrs l. M. Bakers china
wedding. Good eating good music and
good dancing filed all with long to be
remembered pleasures Many and va
ried mementoes Of this 20th anniversary
were brought by loving friends.
Mr.. Nat Frazer has gone to bis Rich
mond home
Dr. Voolfolk bought Of Mr.. NJ. 5.
johnson last week a portion OF his fine
farm Our popular doctor has now one
Of the finest farms in this section Of the
country.
Charlie Voolfolk will spend a portion
of this summer with friends and rela.
tives In Orange. His popular wife Is
now visiting at the Courthouse.
Our popular cousin. Ernest Boxer OF
Washington. is expected at Mr. Jno
Frazer's this eve
Wheat harvest is 10 full blast. The
crop is quite good in quantity and
quality.
The hay crop is failure throughout
this section, and much Of the corn IS
backward.
Prize list Of the Orange Horse Show
is out. Liberal prizes are offered in
unique style. DR.. f. b Perry, the ef-
foient secretary, deserves credit for his
good work aud taste.
We attended Louisa court Along the
route we passed animated fossils urged
onward By anxious traders on this ia
nous horse market. The recent rise In
horse flesh has brought 3 steeds up to
Sc. 80, with corresponding advances for
higher grades Drops along the route
are average. except grass which is very
poor Among the familiar faces we
met were Rev. Richard Bagby, the good
shepherd Of our Macedonia flock lie
was as pleasant with Jersey Wakefield
cabbage under his arm, as he Is on the
rostrum; Rev Preston Cutler, faithful
ly nursing his aged mother, yet not for
getful Of a charming Spotsylvania girl !;
Editor James Bibb, Of the spicy L'nisa
News; Ohas. McGehee, full of smiles
inside and out; Capt. Frank Winston
the Law giver Of the town Root.
Biscoe, Of your city, full Of the Buckeye
Binder, and many other stirring enter
prising men, who are shaping the dis
tenies of our great republic.
On our way back, at Monrovia we
met Flanagan, the cattle king, gather
ing in carload Of hue lambs from the
fertile fields about this commercial GEN.
ter. This chivalrous Louisa boy is pop
ular everywhere. and is full Of vim and
money.
Rain, rain, rain, fields inundated
streams out Of their channels, while the
golden harvest is ripe for the cycle.
Gay Frazer is the champion egg.fnd-
er She has Just located q nest with
lO2 eggs, all sound and new. Her keen
eye had detected a combine Of 8 brown
leghorns, and she soon discovered the
focus Of their concerted action.
Mr.. Jno. Ellis lost a fine two-year-old
mule last week. John ought to have
had Polk Miller to show him how to
give a mule, oalomel
We hear of approaching weddings,
but fear to call names, as we might miss
the mark.
Mrs Virginia Grasty is quite sick.
May loving hands and hearts soon bring
her to restoration.
DR.. Voolfolk has been quite sick the
past week. We are pleased to note his
improvement. Everybody gets restless
when our popular Dr. gets sick
s.