Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.

Page 2 · column 1 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved

The clipping this text was read from
The clipping this text was read from

Rappahannock News

Published Thursday Morning at

Washington, Rappahannock

County, Virginia

Dial Washington 2851

LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE

Publisher

Entered as second-class mail, matter at the post office at Washington, Virginia.

Subscription:__ $2:00 a year

An Apology

Ignorance is bad; carelessness is worse.

Rappahannock News is now feasting on crow. Mr. Lyne, we apologize, humbly, publicly, profoundly.

Last week an item appeared in these columns stating that a field fire occurred and ‘‘no damage resulted.”

Mr. Lyne, please sir, after all your crusading on the evils of burning fields, we knew better. Carelessness, inexcusable, it was that said ‘‘no damage resulted” from burning over a field. “No damage,’» indeed! It will take five years, no telling how many pounds of fertilizer, and

67.0%