Travel Tuesday: Manassas Gap Railroad Stock

Alexandria Gazette
7 January 1851

MANASSAS GAP RAILROAD COMPANY -- 

The subscribers in the stock of this Company are hereby notified, that an installment of $3 upon each share of said stock, is required to be paid, on the 1st day of January next, and that a further installment of $1 upon each share is required to be paid on the 1st day of each succeeding month, for the next ensuing eleven months.

Payments will be made by the Stockholders residing in Alexandria, into either of the Banks of the town, and in the country, to the following agents, viz:

For the County of Fauquier -- To Messrs Samuel T. Ashby, Robert Beverley, Daniel Morgan, and Alfred Rector.

For the County of Prince William -- To Mr. Thomas B. Gaines.

For the Count of Warren -- to Messrs. Samuel Richardson, William Cook, and William Miller.

By order of the Board;

EDW'D GREEN, Clerk

dec 16--eotJan1&wtDec1'51

Newspaper Tidbit: Horseshoe Pitching (1930)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
2 July 1930

There's lots of horseshoe pitching down in Prince William County, Va., according to Maj. Fred W. Patterson, the county chairman, with headquarters at Manassas.

Haymarket lost a capable tournament manager in Eppa Hunt, through illness, but Maj. Patterson has found a promising successor in J. T. Carter.  Carter is touting Wade Butler, county champion, to repeat.

Catharpin will make its debut this year in metropolitan competition. Interest there is keen.

Among the formidable candidates for Butler's crown already signed up are Horace Foley, Albert Utterback, B. C. Smith, Will Brower, W. M. Jordan, Charles J. Gillis, C. L. Rector, Douglas Hoffman and Rev. Charles F. Phillips.

"The Village Blacksmith" had his anvil beneath a spreading chestnut tree and this gave an idea to Elmer Hopkins, chairman of New Hampshire Avenue and Longfellow preliminary. Elmer's gonna pitch a court beneath a giant tree in back of Matt Doetsch's home.

He promises this to be one of the hottest neighborhood events in the Metropolitan tournament. In the score of more pitchers, who will take part there isn't one that stands out above the other.

Until today the boys were pitching discarded mule boots. Late this afternoon they were to christen a set of regulation octigans.

Regulation horseshoes, by the way, are on sale at all sports goods houses and some hardware stores.

Entries in Washington close July 9. There will be no grace.

Military Monday: Chosen for Service (Drafted)

Manassas Journal
August 31, 1917

CHOSEN FOR SERVICE

The following is a list of persons who claimed no exemption, who have been duly and legally called for the military service of the United States, and who have not been exempted or discharged:

858	Chas. F. Milstead, Occoquan
331	Dan Harris, Bristow
492	Owen J. Thomas, Neabsco
715	Arthur W. Leith, Manassas
349	John Reedy, Bristow
102	Harry R. Buckley, Haym'k't
875	Arthur L. Colbert, Manassas
714	J. W. Willcoxon, Manassas
808	W. M. Johnson, Jr., Manassas
285	Parker Williams, Nokesville
563	William C. Hinton, Quantico
146	Harry W. Polen, Catharpin
843	T. J. Runaldue, Manassas
229	A. L. Lawler, Nokesville
410	Bernard Barnes, Independent Hill
299	E. C. Blackwell, Nokesville
58	Moss Jacobs, Thoroughfare
19	Raymond Duncan, Haym'k't
4	Robert George, Hickory Grove
115	R. D. Rector, Haymarket
832	L. M. Senseney, Manassas
872	John L. Hynson, Manassas
929	Sussex H. Smith, Manassas
91	C. C. Mayhugh, Gainesville
838	Carlyle B. Buck, Manassas
861	Martin O. Smith, Manassas
17	Richard Green, Haymarket
802	B. C. Williams, Manassas
378	David L. Whetzel, Bristow
619	Wm. Lucas, Featherstone
344	Killey Riley, Bristow
202	John W. Ellis, Nokesville*
164	L. J. Hoffman, Catharpin
883	Percy S. Haydon, Manassas
566	Samuel L. Sisson, Quantico
124	Mont. J. Peters, Haymarket
744	Ernest T. Evans, Manassas
---	E. S. Bullock, Wallingfod, Pa.
76 T	hos. H. Phillips, Bristow
945	Frank Green, Did not register until after July 10, and No. 945 was assigned to him by the adjutant general by letter Aug. 16-- the eleventh number drawn in the county

* Enlisted Columbus, O., barracks

Exemption claims filed by Jacob Edward Lee Cooper (280), Nokesville, and John Thomas Norman (838), Independent Hill, on the first call, have been allowed.  The following exemption claims, marked "under consideration" in the last report, have been denied:

933	Ernest E. Smith (col.), Wellington
792	Ashton W. Brooks (col.), Manassas
103	George W. Martin, Haym't
856	Wm. C. Powell, Manassas
168	Maurice L. Payne (col.), Catharpin