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“The drought had been severe that summer. Crops were brown, and a hot wind blew id from ther southwest nearly every day. My uncle was whacking away at a few weeds in the fence row, and a car ground to a halt nearby.
“ ‘Man/ said the driver, obviously from the city, ‘doesn’t it ever rain around here?’
“ ‘Sure it does/ said my uncle seriously, ‘just last month they had a nice rain about 15 miles north of here, but 1 was too busy and couldn’t go/ *
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The extremely dry summer’s end has been hard enough on pastures-—which* means it will be hard on the livestock farmer for the winter—but the roughest taking for everyone while rae dry* ness was -with us were all these bad colds and alergies. Hay fever victims have sneezed their heads off, and lots of others have suffered from the dry air. •
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One of the great hazards of the dry season was called to attention by a neighbor. The men working on the farm had noticed a number of fires started along the' roadside, ' Supposedly, somer one dropped a lighted cigarette, and with the weeds and grass as ' dry as they are, it was like dropping a lighted match in kerosene. The men who found the small fires lost no time in putting them OUt. ^ T"
V « * • • A letter arrived the other day, addressed to Rappahannock News, from two soldiers in Korea. The _ letter %ran thus : “We are Just a couple of GI’s in Korea who don’t get much mail. We would appreciate it very much if you would print our names in - your paper.
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