at the News office and shop is Mr.

at the News office and shop is Mr. Willie Compton, who brings the mail twice daily and wa&hes the work in progress

Mr. Compton, a retired printer, began his career as printer's devil in 18-78 in Rappahannock, working ‘on the Blue Ridge Echo, published by the late Judge W. W. Moffett, 'Father of Mrs. J. Frank Jones, and Commonwealth Attorney H. u. Moffett, grandfather of W. F. Moffett, Jr. Mr. Willie set type on *the Congressional Record in 1886, and in 1887 located in New Jersey •where he worked for various newspapers until his retirement in 1830. He wears his 50-year printer’s button and is a consolation to other printers when they make mistakes. He readily admits, that though he had. many years' experience, there is much he does not know about printing.

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(Continued from page 3) twenty yearsthereafter, was Baldwin Bradford Baggarly, son of David Clark Baggarly and Catherine Russell Bradford, both of Fauquier county.

Mr. Baggarly for several years attended the Halowell Institute in Alexandria, where he graduated in surveying, which he pursued for only a short time, having thereafter engaged in the wholesale feed business in Warrenton, under the partnership of Baggarly and Sedwick, until the war between the states.

He joined the Black Horse Cavalry, of Fauquier and was a soldier in the Confederate States Cavalry from the first Battle of Manassas until the close of the war.

Having returned to his home in Fauquier and later to Warrenton, and later still to Washington. Mr. Baggarly, on June 11, 1867 married Emma Jane Moore, daughter of George Moore and Ann Singleton of “‘Springdale” Fauquier county. There were^ four children, two girls, who died’in infancy and two boys, Dr. Carroll Moore Baggarly, who died a young man while practicing surgery in Richmond, and F. Clyde Baggarly, the youngest son and child, now resides with his wife in the old homestead “Avon Hall” in Washington.

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