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Apple harvest time in Rappahannock finds everyone busy. The pickers swarm over the trees like bees. The highway is kept hot with trucks transporting the lucious fruit from orchard to the packing houses and cold storages, where conveyors 9natch it up and roll it along to be graded and packed in fancy cartons or sent to processors for juice and apple sauce. Grimes, Red Delicious and Yorks are now being harvested. Nothing like a Rappahannock apple! Ask anyone who has ever eaten one.
Bob Estes says he started making cider Friday. What a treat for the folks touring Rappahannock!
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Mr. Gene Scearce, in Culpeper, is no longer associated with Western Auto, but is operating Scearce Auto Supply at the same location, where he will handle about the same line of goods—the same old stand for over 17 years. Visit him soon.
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If you folks who get single wraps, (that is a pap£r trapped individually) don’t find them up to par, it’s because “Mr. Charlie” is busy these days overseeing work in the apple orchards; not because he’s too busy riding around in his new chevy. Bear with us, he’ll be back. Susan just can’t understand why "Mr. Charlie” is not here on Thursday mornings to help her “paint.”
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Open House at the new Rappahannock High School was most rewarding. The interest shown by everyone was very gratifying. Our faces should be red, but they are not, because you can’t be two places at once. Besides we had a very
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