HISTORY-Lee highway builders
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Knife attack

September 22, 1887 — A serious difficulty occurred at Marksville, this county, last Monday evening, between Brad Cliff and Roy Alger. The Courier gathers the following particulars of the unfortunate affair from a gentleman from […]

Luray panoramic
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Gander appointed

September 20, 1962 — James Gander, 40, son of Mrs. Blanche Shaffer Gander and the late Lester H. Gander and a prominent Page County Republican, was named by Judge Hamilton Haas, of the Circuit Court, […]

HISTORY train Luray
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Railroad collisions

September 19, 1889 — Two freight trains on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad came in collision at Buena Vista station, last Thursday, making a bad wreck of two engines and a number of cars, killing instantly […]

Bale of hay
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Gift of hay

September 18, 1986 — Page County Extension Agent Arlis Frymyer noted that 3,500 to 4,000 bales of hay were shipped as a goodwill gesture from New York farmers through the Virginia Drought Emergency Program. Some […]