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It’s SLACK time in Rappahannock in more ways than one. (I donned mine again to battle the weather while picking up ads).
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Speaking of ads—they are very, very slack. Shopkeeper* want to know “who is going to go any wheie in weather like this unless they absolutely have to?’’
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It’s also a slack time for news. Everyone holed up after the snow storm Thursday and just didn’t get out to make any news.
• • • • ■ A special communique to Mrs. Wade Massie in Florida: You just don’t know what you’ie missing! Sledding is wonderful; snowball battles furious; there is nothing like this crisp zero weather for putting a healthy, nosey glow in your cheeks and stumbling around in eight or nine inches of snow is great exercise to say nothing of the poise you acquire trying to keep your balance on slippery ice. Aren’t you glad you left the day before it snowed?
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Last Wednesday Clarence Dearing came into the News Office and brought us a strawberry he had picked in his garden that afternoon. It was a large one, about half ripe. He said he was cleaning off the garden when he spied it
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