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aeem td get time to stop long enough to think over1 your problem. But I’m interested. Let me know whet the outcome is—but don’t make the explanation very’ lengthy, or I won’t have time to listen.
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Aye, an* it is foriver I be takin’ a ribbin’ from ma friends for bein’ so tight-wad stingy Scotch, but I bow low to an acquaintance I chanced to meet t’other day. ”1 donna wan to subscribe to yer paper,” he says, “but I am interested when bits of; items appear in print concernin’ ma own community. So, wheniver a story is in yer paper about this part o’ the county, I’d like a copy mailed to me, and joust send me a bill.”
Faith, mon! D’ya realize I'd have to peruse a separate list each week, wrop yer a siparate paper, stamp it, and then at the end of the month use ma printed billheads and envelopes to mail yer a bill for 5-cents, affixin’ a threecent stamp?
I told the above story to a visitor at the newspaper office. Doggone his hide, he topped itt I hate bad enough to be beat at story telling, but the insult was heaped with injury, for the man was a damyankee from Maine l
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Skipper Giles says, "For more than 15 years now Charlie Jenkins has been yelling about my bald head. I want it known by all in the county that he’s got no more hair on his head than I’Ve .got on mine!”
Farmer Upholds*
County's Reputation
For Gracious Hospitality
Rappahannock is still struggling to maintain its reputation for gracious hospitality.
Mr. M . . realized last week that he had been having guests at his apple-packing shed. He kpew that he had not been on hand to speak— to .them in a cordial and hospitable manner. This caused him great anxiety. He feared that the county’s reputation for cheery greetings given to visitors would be lost! In fact, he had all kinds of thoughts running through his head.
Mr. M . . made plans whereby this situation could be changed. ,He appointed a reception committee to be" on hand at all hours. He insisted that any guests at his home should be greeted in a. manner befitting the occasion and the hour.
The first night the reception committee had an uneventful monotonous period of waiting, but on the second night they were called upon to step forward and meet Uninvited guests. The visitors arrived rather late at night, and they were in the process of borrowing some crates of apples.
The appointed reception committee stepped forward and made a valianat attempt to uphold the traditions of hospitality k n o w n j throughout the county. They may* have neglected to roll down the velvet cyarpet, but they greeted the visitors in a cordial manner
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