The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-07-07
sCRIBBLER's STAFFORD LETTER
Stafford. Va, July !, 1910.

OldllOTu, va July - ASANs
DIR. r. w. Hill, of Garrisonville, paid
the Court House visit this week. He
has purchased the land formerly owned
by DR.. Stone at that place, and will in
the near future erect upon the old site
a residence, and settle there as one OF
the disciples of Esculapius for the old
county Of Stafford.
MIR. Harry Brown, Of the Austen Run
Mining Company, paid the Court House
visit today.
Messrs. Harvey and Harrison West
are visiting their father, +. West. Mr..
Harrison West is IN feeble health.
Miss Mamie Nj. Dix. of Washington,
will arrive here Saturday as the guest
of her aunt, Mrs. G. A. Bryan.
Miss Louise Berrey. who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Annie Hudson.
at Slate Mills, Rappahannock county,
returns home Saturday.
Mr.. Willie Blake, of the Burg,
with Baker & Wallace, paid us a
visit from a successful tour in Northern
Virginia and Western Maryland and
Virginia.
At this writing il looks as if there
will be but one day of court at the
July term, 1910. lis not term for
the trial of civil cases, and there is
some doubt as to whether the case of
the Commonwealth VS.. Annie Hill will
come to trial, her case being the only
one on docket. Owing to unavoidable
causes the main witness viii be unable
! to attend.
In reading the other day these lines
struck your correspondent as good and
! applicable TO all.
II expect TO 10 through this world
but once. Any good thing, therefore.
that can do, or any Kindness | can
show to any fellow human being, let
me do II now. Let me not defer nor
neglect il, for / shall not pass this way
again.
The Board of Supervisors met last
Monday. H. G.. Chesley. Esq, late
treasurer. settled finally and fully his
dog tax fund, which completes IN full
his settlement Of all demands upon
him, whether due the State or county.
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant; enter, etc. (See BIbie.)
Miss Lucy Morton and Mrs. Maria
Dent have returned from Washington.
ID. c., and are spending the summer
with their mother. Mrs. Nj. ii. Nor
ton, at Brooke.
Mr.. John S. Martin, of the pay de-
partment, navy yard. Washington, ID.
C.. will arrive here this p. m. as the
guest of Clerk Bryan.
Messrs j. X. Bryan. /. a. Hill and
John w. Payne. who were appointed
commissioners TO redistrict Aqua dis
trict into road districts, made their re-
port TO the last board of supervisors,
which was confirmed.
Mr.. Herman Sacks. of New York,
paid the Court House a visit this week
on business.
Mr.. Billy Butzner phOned he would be
at the court this week but, as he did
not come, either he or we have escaped.
A young daughter of Mr.. Jas. Cooper
mas typhoid fever at her fathers home
near Ramoth. She is being attended
by DR.. Hill.
Mrs. Mary A. Armstrong, wife Of
Mr. George Armstrong, was adJudged
a lunatc this week by a board of lun-
acy composed of Drs. Sneed and Hill,
with Justice JnO. W. Payne. She was
committed to the Eastern State Hos
pital at Williamsburg.
The whooping cough still continues in
the land. ''ris like a conhsgration and
will hardly cease until the material
gives out upon which it feeds.
Supt. Jas. Ashby called his county
school board together last Monday to
meet the board of supervisors.
Jno. Barleycorn was again in evidence
this week. Your correspondent was in
formed one party had eight gallons.
all brothers. From appearances it
must have been of of the kind that
neither cheers nor exhilarates. but
turns mems brains to water or mush.
Scribbler.