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Holidays for the Clerk’s office are three a year: 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The Clerk’s office must be open all other days, and when the Clerk gets a chance to go fishing, he must first arrange that an assistant be on hand to keep the office open. His iwork (like, the housewife’s dirty dishes) is there waiting for him when he gets back-.
Assistants in the Clerk’s office during Mr. Settle’s terms of office have been five. Miss Frankie R. Keyser was the first deputy clerk, who was followed by Mrs. Dessie Jones Robinson, daughter of a Methodist minister in the county. Mrs. Elizabeth H. DeBergh was deputy clerk from December 1926 to March 1934, and she was followed by Mr. Settle’s sister, Mrs. Julia S. Eastham, who worked in the office from March 1934 to April 1935. The present deputy, Miss Ruth Stevens, has been on the job since April 10, 1935—and she couldn’t remember (when she began work, but had to look it up on the records.
James M. Settle is a native of the county, son of the late George W. Settle and Mrs. Settle of “Locust Grove,” Flint Hill. Folowing graduation from Flint Hill high school, he attended the College of William and Mary and Strayers Business College, Washington, D. C He enlisted in the army May 2, 1917, serving with the 116th Infantry, 29th Division, with 13 months’ service in France. Following his discharge from the army in May, 1919, he was associated in business with his brother in West Virginia for three years before beginning his career in the Clerk’s office in Rappahannock.
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