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ommonwealth’s A t torney George H. Davis was consulting with a client in his office at the courthouse Thursday light when her husband, Edwin Belt of Washington. Va. burst into the office wielding a gun and threatened both his wife and Mr. Davis. T. Carlyle Lea, Jr., an occupant in the next off ice heardthe commotion and called Sheriff C. K. Estes and Deputy Ernest Lillard. Belt was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and was lodged in the county jail. He was released on $2,500 bond Sunday. A preliminary hearing has been set for Friday at 2 p.m. Since the county’s prosecuting attorney is the complaining witness and Judge Lea was also a witness, Page County officials have been requested to act. Irwin Hackley, formerly of Amissville, now Commonwealth’8 Attorney of Page County will prosecute the case and Judge Mark
Temperatures Fall;
So Does Frost
Gardeners set a rapid pace early this week as they gathered late vegetables and flowers and covered other plants in preparation for the heavy frost which blanketed the county yesterday and Tuesday mornings. Temperatures dipped to 27 Tuesday and 28 Wednesday, according to the official weather “lady”, Miss Ruby Jenkins, at Washington.
Precipitation for Septembei to date is 1.23 inches, anc total for the year to date it 9.71. Monthly precipitation based on an 14 year average is 3.01 which shows how drj this section has been all year, In an average year by the enc of September there would have been approximately 27.09 inches.
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