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The first answer to the question last week was phoned in by Miss iargaret Walters of Amissville— )livef Cromwell was the one credited with the saying: “Trust in [>d, and keep your powder dry”. Your qusction for the week: *Who was the fiirst commander of |he Rappahannock Cavalry in the ,ivil War?” The first answer will fet a year’s subscription to the Rappahannock News.
Well, it looks like the bubble as burst for the local fire com•any. A couple of weeks ago the embers here were all in high ipirits over the prospects of the ^citizens of the Flint Hill community
coming into the company, and
||the purchase of the truck, to be placed in that locality. But, like a bombshell a resolution was made k jand railroaded through at the last j regular meeting to keep the truck ||n Washington, So, now Washington
has the obligation of purchasing the truck, and not enough in •l ihe treasury to equip it. And Flint ' pill has organized their own comity- ity| • • • • ' The county was alive with fire trucks Monday. Sperryville fighting a fire in Old Hollow; Washington was called to a fire near Scrabble, Also, responding to that fire was a truck,JJrom Culpeper, and the Sperryville boys coming in after they had extinguished theirs. About that time a fire was reported at Highway Garage, near Washington and the Culpeper and Sperryville companies, along with ||Amissville and Front Royal kept |that one under control. About this ?time a fire was reported in the
;|Flint Hill area, so Amissville and
ont Royal headed that way and
this ftreunder Yontrol.
Please, please when you have my trash or weeds to burn make lure you have enough help available to keep it under control, and ake Sure no wind is blowing.
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