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When she started, she had no telephone and her work was done on foot.
“I was still in high school and at home,” she said, adding she “would just walk up and down the street” visiting friends and collecting information as she went.
Her hand-written column arrives each Tuesday morning for typesetting.
“I really enjoy this,” she said.
“These people are almost part of the family,” she said, adding each birth, death, graduation, marriage or visit she writes about is close to her heart.
“I’ve seen many come and I’ve lost some, too,” she said.
Another long-time correspondent is June Clark of Woodville.
Born and raised in Woodville, she has been writing the weekly social column for more than 15 years.
“I started when Sarah Latham was editor,” she said.
A widow living with her granddaughter, Mrs. Clark takes several hours on Sunday evening to call friends in Woodville.
She is familiar with most of the names and faces but “there are a lot of new ones I am not familiar with,” she said.
But, like other social columns, her weekly news is anticipated by readers.
Mrs. Clark said one native woman, now living in Richmond, awaits the paper each week to turn first to the Woodville news.
Unrelated to the above mentioned though another long-time correspondent is Ruth Clark of Washington.
Mrs. Clark presently has served two years as correspondent for the Washington area but this is her second time around.
“I also was correspondent when Sarah Latham was” editor, she said.
Mrs. Latham was editor of the newspaper in the early 1970s.
A wife and mother of two daugh
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