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1 he French and Indian Wars threatened the little settlements with destruction just as they were beginning to prosper. These wars were savage and costly to the English settlers. At the end of the wars the French were driven out, thus freeing our colonists from a French danger that had threatened them for many, many years. Also, they were freed, in due time, from all the British interference in their own affairs making possible a new nation; a victorious struggle for the right of self-government. For the product of powerful forces rooted deep in the colonial came the American Revolution. Inspired leadership put those forces to work for the freedom of the colonists from Great Britain. The power of George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson in declaring the independence of this country and in winning it from the most powerful empire in the world at that time. The great George Washington, distinguished and successful leader of the Revolution army, was a man of high ideals and integrity; our first president of the United States. Truly “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Thomas Jefferson, our third president, and author of the Declaration of Independence with which the history of the United States as a nation began; one of the greatest Americans of all times and a prophet of the American way of freedom. James Monroe, our fifth pres ident, is chiefly remembered for the Monroe Doctrine which is still in force. This policy guards our own peace by keeping wars of conquest on the other side of the ocean. Our government of laws the
and W. E. Hopkins of the cooperative’s-regional office in Winchester, will present a color slide report entitled “Pace Setting in Cooperative Merchandising". Those expected to attend the meeting from the Sperryville area are: Lee Thornton, manager of Rappahannock Farmers Cooperative and local board members: Tom Masaie, Newbill Miller both of Washington; J. M. O’Bannon, Woodville; Herbert Foster, Flint Hill and H. B. Wood, A. Y. Stokes both of Sperryville.
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