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ve anlit at rgins” lion of given rea ontesday i week *, whoJiramrrivedrhavei, and ?usta, siting r, ander, of days, Sfcire-were3. 0.itivesright, 3. O. fountler, at Ml. Clinton. The funeral and interment to take place on Thursday at 2 p. m.Mrs. J. W. Minnicti, of this place, has of late acquired great skill in the art of carving and engraving on wood. We have just been shown a natural stock laurel cane cut from a thicket by her own hand at Sparkling Springs, upon which has been cut most ingeniously in initial letters the whole of the 23d Psalm. Since it has been varnished and mounted she has had some handsome offers made for this cane. We were also shown another cane upon which she is now at work, which, when completed, will bear the following highly interesting historical inscription: “This cane is loaded with lead melted from minnie-bullets gathered by Daniel Penny packer in the year 1900 from the battlefield of Manassas, Va., July 21st, 1861, and presented to the wife of J. W. Minnich, a member of Co. H, 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, 3d Brigade, Johnston’s Division/ C.S. A., who was a participant in the battle.” —_His Eighteemli Bride.. Parkersburg, W. Va., May 19.— George Washington Anderson, 68 years of age, whose seventeenth wife sent him
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Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, May 24, 1901
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