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25 YEARSAGO RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS From the Dec. 22, 1960 edition
The next feeder pig sale will
be held at Culpeper on January 26.
Jailed Man Goes Completely Berserk - Archie J. Clark, who was being held in Rappahannock County jail, charged with a number of breakings and entering in the area, went berserk in his cell and destroyed and defaced everything he could reach. He tore the cot and stool loose from the wall and broke a number of window panes.
(Reprinted from the “New York World Telegram” - by Richard Starnes) - Rappahannock County, Va., is a place of gently rolling meadows, rugged hills, serenity, sweet country ham and quail that burst from under the feet like feathered missiles. It is also one of the few places in the world that is experiencing a population decrease. There is little truck farming, no industry (except sporadic moonshining), a great deal of cattle raising, and, of course, an abundance of the qualities people do not appreciate until they lose them...The county is a place where a prosperous farmer will drop his chores and spend the morning tramping the fields with you simply because he has a bird dog in training and your host does not...Perhaps the slums of Cairo would provide a greater contrast, but the one I found was startling enough. Having been snowed out of the mountains I
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