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liams, our agricultural extensiop agent and a native son, was actually caught talking to a member of the Wakefield faculty. !

Down at Sperryville, there ijs talk of paying for their sewage system by imposing a dried flower ta^. There are also complaints that, while Washington’s problems were brought on by affluence, Sperrjiville’s have more to do with effluence. ;

In Woodville, Raymond Johnsorj, another native son and a deceptively gentle gentleman, has been conspiring with a retired conservative admiral and others to pull off some sort of sting operation.

I haven’t been down towards Madison lately, so I can’t say wh$t sort of delicious doings are happening in the F.T. Valley. ;

If you publish this, you will no doubt get a pile of angry retorts arid lame excuses. Then, if you publish those, I would have to respond —niy dream is to get two letters in the same issue. Soon charge and countercharge would fly and the rest of the county would have its rightful share of the letters to the editor column. !

Regardless, it is your job to get out and cover these and other stbries. You may, if you’d like, photograph my raspberry patch.

W. MICHAEL MAHONEY

Washington

Editor’s note: The F. T. Valley is Editor Lou Hatter’s home turf. He could tell you what’s doing down that way, but then his neighbors probably won’t offer to share their raspberries with him any more. C’est la vie, Mr. Mahoney.

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