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I he article includes a photo of Skippv Giles’ Cash Store. “The good old boys from the surrounding farms still drive their gun-racked pickups and hound dogs into town on Saturdays to hang out on the porch of the Washington Cash Mart, the village’s all-purpose general store, where you can buy anything from a pair of gum boots to a sirloin steak,” the reporter says. "At the same time, the area’s modern squires, male and female, often dress up, mount their hunters, and go hurtling over fences in pursuit of foxes, which, to the relief of many, they rarely catch or kill,” he adds.
Another photograph, identified as John Walker Jenkins’ auction house, is actually the home of Pat and Camille Foster.
The Times reporter admires the courthouse complex, describing the buildings as “three charming, cabin-sized brick structures on either side of the jewelbox courthouse and all of them adjacent to the jail which looks more like a comfortable old manor house than a place of incarceration.”
He also notes that “first Washingtonians take perverse pleasure in reminding you that these same buildings, at their inception, sent the county government down the same primrose path of deficit financing as the second Washington when the county had to borrow $100 to pay for the bell in the courthouse steeple.”
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