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And a column headed “Food For Thought’’ said “Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it;” and “Flattery is soft soap and soft soap is 90 percent lye. ”

blanketed the area

with a foot of snow on Christmas Day and violent winds whipped the fluffy white stuff into drifts which closed some roads and made it necessary to use a frontend loader to clear them. Doug Bywaters had just assumed his duties as highway maintenance supervisor and said the job looked much easier when you saw someone else doing it. Work was in progress on the by-pass at Washington.

Rappahannock supervisors approved the disbursement of $2200 for a sewer study for Sperryville which was headed by C. E. Johnson, Jr. Trash collections produced a sour note from the board of which Newbill Miller had just been elected chairman. (Trash is also still one of the greatest problems of the county.) Leggett in Culpeper was advertising percale sheets, regularly $2.79 for a full size fitted one at $2.07 and pillow cases at 2 for $1.07. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Sisk of Georgetown,Guyaha were announcing the birth of a daughter December 22, and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Settle of Flinty Hill had received a phone call from their son Wade, Jf. who was stationed in Germany with the U. S. Army thanking them and others for the Christmas packages senito him.

10 YEARS AGO

JAN. 8, 1970

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