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have worn out a half iozen horses and twelve automobiles since I have been practicing medicine," said Dr. J. R. Boldridge of Rixeyville, who just celebrated his sightieth birthday on September 28, 1965. “And I mean wore them out, not traded them in”, he added. Doc was reluctant to talk about himself as he prepared to have dinner Tuesday at Lom-Bar-Dy Tea Room in Amissville, when this newspaper editor dropped by for an interview and picture. With a few questions to urge him on, he continued, "At my birth, my mother was attended by Dr. E. W. Brown; he brought me into this world. When Dr. Brown died, I was the attending physician, signing the certificate, and I conducted the Masonic Rites at his burial.” "I have encountered every condition and situation possible during my 56 years of practice, and many of the incidents you would not believe if I told you of them. One half certainly doesn’t know how the other half lives. “Many times in bygone years it took me all day to get a patient from this area to the hospital in Charlottesville. When you went by horse and buggy to a home, transported the patient to Culpeper by the same conveyance, waited for a train and took him to Charlottesville, went by ambulance (a spring buggy) from the station to the hospital, attended him there, then returned home □y the same means it was well past midnight. “I bought my first automobile, a Model T. Ford in 1915. My present automobile has 120,000 miles on it and the last one rolled up on 172,000 before it gave out.” Unfortunately Doc got a dose bf his own medicine two years ago when he fell at his home and broke his pelvis. He was hospitalized for sixty days, and in that time, says he, “I almost lost my mind.” He nade a remarkable recovery
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