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Effective immediately, the Rappahannock News is accepting news and advertising copy no later than 12 o’clock noon on Tuesdays.
The Rappahannock Humane Society has been certified as a corporation by the state, and will be holding an organizational meeting on Monday, January 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse.
The meeting will be for the election of officers, and the organization of the group. Anyone interested in being an officer or in nominating someone for an office should call Vince Hannon at 937-4051. The society will be electiong a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.
Anyone with ideas on committees which should be formed should call Hannon.
William M. Loftis, Jr. (Bill), Assistant Superinterident of Shenandoah National Park will retire from Federal Service effective January 3, 1985. Loftis has been responsible for the general supervision of the Park’s four operating divisions of maintenance, administration, interpretation, and resource management and visitor protection since 1973.
“Bill has been a great source of counsel and assistance in managing this Park, and it is hard for us to imagine the place without him,” said Superintendent Robert Jacobsen. “He has established a standard of credibility with the Park’s employees and his associates that will not be easily duplicated in a successor. ”
First Washington’s Museum, in Washington, the only museum in Rappahannock County, is the subject of an article in the January issue of Country, the mid-Atlantic regional monthly magazine.
Ruby Jenkins, who owns a private collection of historical artifacts of Rappahannock, named the museum “First Washington’s” because the town was the first town in the U.S. to be named after George Washington.
The name is doubly appropriate because Washington himself laid opt the streets of the town in 1749 while working as a surveyor for Culpeper County.
“This is a very personal museum. I’ve been collecting what other people threw away all my life,” Jenkins told Country. “I wanted local people, especially young people, to know about their historical heritage.”
The museum is a rennovated toem that Jenkins’ father bought in 1920. It includes an Eighteenth-NHteteeftth-Century kitchen, an early Nineteenth-Century school room, and a “Historic” room which contains memorabelia from the area from the time of the Manahoac Indians to the present.
For more information, contact Country Magazine, P.O. Box 246,
• Humane Society Meeting
• Loftis Retires
• Local Museum Featured
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