Funny things happened at meetings also, she explained. At

Funny things happened at meetings also, she explained.

At one Board of Supervisors meeting they were discussing building a bridge. The bridge would provide access to the home far back in a hollow of a man well-known throughout the county for the high quality of his peach brandy. He was very eager to get the bridge in and promised to provide the lumber and move it onto the site if the highway department would build the bridge.

The chairman wondered aloud “if it wouldn’t be cheaper just to put in a pipeline.”

Another supervisor said he “didn’t understand how you could say that running a pipeline is the same as building a bridge.”

A third commented, “If you understood that, you’d understand a whole lot of things that are going on.”

“Well, you couldn’t print that. No, you couldn’t,” she explained.

All the money they earned went back into the paper. They got a second typesetting machine, an Intertype, like the one that stands in front of the Rappahannock News now. That enabled them to hire Louise Cloud and train her as a linotype operator.

“You had one good suit,” she explained. “It was called your banquet and funeral suit. You wore it to banquets, funerals and church.

“You never expected to go to bed on Wednesday night,” she continued. “The object was to get through in time to come down the road ahead of the sunrise on Thursday morning, so you’d hit Culpeper with the sacks of mail before the mail went out.” She dropped off stacks of papers in , Sperryville, Woodville and Boston on her way, while her brother was going to Flint Hill, Massie’s Comer and Amissville with another load. If they were late and people didn’t get their papers until Friday, they would hear about it.

After the paper had been going for about four and a half years, Bruce Bowie got married. Miss Bowie said she knew the paper and its printing business couldn’t support two families, so she sold her interest to her brother and his wife and returned to Culpeperyto work for the

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