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SINCE “the” is frowned on in good newspaper style and in books as an initial word for a lead paragraph, this farewell fanfare of The Bicentennial Bugle will avoid that graceless note and begin like this:
Next Sunday evening, December 19, it is earnestly hoped that anyone who would like to band together to sing carols up and down the Georgian (not George III but George Washington) streets of our county seat will gather at 7 p.m. in the parish hall of Trinity Church. It should be fun, this choral closer of ‘76.
As this Bicentennial year gallops swiftly to an end the Bugler beats his bugle a bit wistfully into a LANTHORN, he can’t (and won’t)
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