August 17, 1908 — Miss McKim, the president of the Luray Seminary, requests us to announce that the date for opening the Seminary has been changed from Sept. 1 to Sept. 15.
Mr. McKendra W. Strickler has bought the W.E. Seal farm west of the Shenandoah River. It is good grazing land, and Mr. Strickler buys it for that purpose.
More than 8,000 persons went to see John Robinson’s [circus] show at Harrisonburg last Friday. At Font Royal Saturday, it is said there were 10,000 under the tent. Page was represented at both places.
Rattlesnake skins 5 feet long are quoted at $4 a piece in Hagerstown. We believe that the mountains girdling this county could furnish enough to supply the market and it would be a happy riddance if it were done.
Last Sunday was the 46th anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Mountain, at which Lt. John Mauck, brother of the late Robert G. Mauck, and Ott Wood, brother of Mr. B.N. Wood, of Rileyville, were killed.
Mr. J.O. Bailey has sold to Mr. C.H. Dickinson for $800 nine acres of land recently bought of Major C.W. Finter.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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