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The county seat of Rappahannock — the first Washington — is a-whirl over the coming town election, Tuesday, June 13.
(It has been suggested to Jock Brown that he sell ringside seats to help with the county deficit.)
It all started something like this: no one filed, nor qualified, so the ballots were printed blank— a blank line for mayor and six ’ blank lines for the councilmen.
Someone suggested an allwoman ticket. They got the six council-ladies all lined up, but had some trouble finding a lady to agree to be mayor.
"Snippy” Miller says the women have been running the town always, anyway, so they might as well do it legally.
When no lady mayor was located, someone suggested leaving His Honor, Mayor William F. Moffett, Jr., in this position and placing the six council-ladies with him. “Oh, No!” commented another kind-hearted citizen, “What has Billy done to deserve that?”
Well, come what may! Rappahannock elections have been decidedly on the warm side in previous days and we lived through it. This “battle of the sexes,” come Tuesday, cant be any worse than some elections in the past.
Back in 1928 — in case you cant remember—it got to the point where families hardly spoke. They tell the story that in the famous Smith—Hoover fracas, one of the Jimmy Settle youngsters pinned a Hoover button on pa's back. Since he didn’t know which one of the kids was guilty, he just paddled the^whole crowd of ’em!
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