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Mrs. A B. Rowell was * Sunday- visitor of Miss Eda Finks.
John L. Major of Front Royal was a caller Thursday of Mr. and Mrs. James Yates.
Miss Eda Finks spent Tuesday in Front Royal on business.
Leap Year Again.
It’s Leap Year again_and you can blame the Scots for declaring it open season on bachelors.
They probably saw the custom of letting a woman pop the question as a way to put money in the treasury and take spinsters off the welfare rolls.
According to the research of World Book Encyclopedia, Scotland is said to have decreed in 1288 that ladies “of, bothe highe and lowe estait” shall have the privilege of proposing during leap years.
If a man refused the offer, he was fined as much as one pound_ unless he could show that another woman had a prior clam on his afA
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