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Rappahannock News
Published Thursday Horning 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.
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Here's That Man Again!
With a reporter and a photographer from a Washington (D.C.) - newspaper - in town Tuesday, it looks like we are in for it again! “The First Washington of Them All” is in for a few weeks1 seige of bombarding flash-bulbs and the rapid fire of questions. The Ladies' Election, being just three weeks and five days off, is again making headlines.
The reporter who was in town Tuesday seemed like a nice, young chap. What surprised most folks was the fact that he would drive 68 miles from a spot (where they really have news to try and make up some news from a quiet, mountain village. The election news in Washington (D.C.) at present, so we are led to believe, is really stewing, while down in The First Washington of Them All the election is as mild as cottage cheese, and certainly no more exciting.
The ballots are all printed. Mayor Dorothy C. Davis’s name appears on the ballot with a blank line below (supposedly for a writein vote). Six ladies and one brave man appear for council members, with instructions to vote for six. Two blank lines appear at the bottom of the list of counCilmen (-er, council-ladies) for iwritein votes.
According to the visiting Washington iD.C.) reporter, the campaign issue of the forth-coming June 10 election will be “publicity,” and he did not elaborate upon his statement. He didn't say where he had received his information as to the issue, but he appeared firm in his opinion that a vote for the complete ladies’ government would mean that the people of the town approved of all — the publicity the town had received from being under “petticoat government.” The visiting reporter, likewise, did not explain what he meant by “publicity” nor whether it was juSt plain publicity or “cheap publicity” that would be a point of argument among the Voters. “
There is one thing unique, however, beyond the location of the candidates on the distaff side. There are bets that nowhere else in the world would you find the
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