Was Not a Very Busy Justice.
F.P. Reiter has just rounded out twenty-five years as a justice of the peace of West Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pa.
Preparing the chronology of his career as chief dispenser of justice in the township, the squire learned that he had issued four warrants and had never sent a case, either civil or criminal, to court in the quarter century.
Death of an Aged Virginian.
George Little Collier, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Wise County, Va., has passed away and been laid to rest in the old burying ground at the head of Powell’s Valley, by the side of his two wives.
Mr. Collier was eighty-seven years old. He reared twenty-two children, and at his death had forty-eight grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.
“Uncle Lite,” as he was familiarly known, moved to Wise County sixty-three years ago, and previous to that he lived in Lee County. Thus he spent his entire life in the State of Virginia. When he settled in his log cabin, at the foot of Powell’s Mountain, bear and deer were plentiful. Norton at that time was a solid growth of laurel and ivy, and he could have purchased “Prince’s Flats,” now Norton, for one dollar per acre.
Old citizens and travelers will recall the log house at the foot of Stone Mountain, and the first in sight after a long journey from Wise Courthouse through the dense thicket over Prince’s flats and across the little, dark, winding, rough, and rocky road through Little Stone Gap.
International Marriages Breed War, She Says.
The ranks of the newly formed Women’s Peace Party were thrown into confusion recently when Lady Briggs, widow of Sir John Henry Briggs, proposed an international law prohibiting international marriages.