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Rappahannock News
Published Thursday Morning at
Washington, Rappahannock
County, Virginia
Dial Washington 2851
LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
Publisher.
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Impossible?—No.
Let’s see if some definite statements can be made as to why and what-for Rappahannock wants the telephone business arranged so that everyone can call tollfree to any other person within the boundary limits of the county
If some definite statements are made, then there can be a starting place for discussion and planning.
The need for such telephone service is explained in one way: Rappahannock is a small county, handicapped with geographical separations which the 'citizens realize and they are searching for the quickest and most effective way to surmount them.
There is not now, and never has been, complaint of the telephones. You might say that it is flattering to the telephone to say that the people recognize the power held in the communication system. In the search for a medium to join the county together to strengthen it, the first turn was to the telephone, for 'By it man can talk to his neighbor and can remain in contact with him despite any geographical boundary or weather condition. Those ’Ore items of import in a rural community such a- Rappahannock county.
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