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claimed Frank Carter. And immediately he turned the $2 in for two more tickets.
By closing time, Paul Baldwin had sold about 1,000 tickets. Business was normal, he said, with no more people through the store than come on any other Tuesday. But regular customers were picking up lottery tickets with their newspaper, cigarettes or cup of coffee.
“We had a couple of $50 winners and a lot of $10, $5 and $2 winners,” he reported.
“It’s fantastic! Everybody’s buying tickets,” said Rose Jenkins from Hillsdale Grocery. “It’s surprising. It really is.”
Mrs. Jenkins herself bought more than a couple. “I’ve won some and I’ve lost some but I’ve lost a lot more than I’ve won — so far.” Most of Hillsdale’s lucky lottery players were $2 winners but Mrs. Jenkins held out hope that the grocery on Route 211 between Ben Venue and Massie’s Comer would have a jackpot taker of its own.
Of the nearly 1,000 tickets sold at Hillsdale, a lot went to “guys going down country this morning, and they’re not back yet,” Mrs. Jenkins noted. “And one lady who got $20 worth is waiting until tomorrow to scratch the numbers because tomorrow is her birthday.”
About 10 percent of the 197 tickets sold at Ben Venue Market on Tuesday were winners, either of $2, $5 or $10, according to clerk Liz Eastham. And Settle’s Grocery in Flint Hill has produced one $10 winner and a lot of $2s and $5s from the 324 chances sold there.
“We haven’t had any big winners yet. The only thing I’ve given away is $2 and $5,” said Randolph Clater at Sperryville’s Comer Store. “We’ve sold roughly 500 tickets, but I don’t know whether that’s a good day or not. I’ve got nothing to compare it to.”
How did it start?
For those who’ve missed the recent barrage of lottery stories in the press and on television, here’s how Virginia came to offer the statesponsored gambling that sent Mrs. Brochette home from Mayhugh’s with an extra $5,000.
In a 1987 referendum, the voters approved the Commonwealth’s becoming the 27th state to operate a lottery.
Match 3, which began Sept. 20, is expected to run eight weeks or until the nearly 5,000 licensed ticket sellers sell out of the 100 million tickets that were printed. In this instant winner game, players scratch off a latex coating revealing the dollar amounts hidden underneath. A match of three and it’s a winner.
Prizes range from $2 to $5,000 with winning tickets worth up to $10
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