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30 Years Ago
Thursday, Dec. 7, 1967
The Amissville Ruritan Club is sponsoring the annual home lighting contest this Christmas season. The contest will ^ encompass the area within a three mile • radius of Amissville and judging will be • dbne between Christmas Eve and Jan. 1. ; A first prize of $10 is awarded with $6 for second and $4 the third prize. The Parent-Teacher Association of Washington Elementary School will be ; held Tuesday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. ! Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va. is I scheduled to open the season on | Saturday, Dec. 16. The facility has been ! leased to the Washington, D.C. Ski Club ! by the Skyline Ski Corporation. The area will be open on weekends only. » ; The Madison Livestock Market, Inc. at • Madison Mills reports that its 1967 fall ! feeder calf sales exceeded in dollar volI ume that of the previous year. Records ; show sales totaled $618,662.48 for 4,505 head as compared to a total sales of : $529,012.80 in 1966. I Th© Amissville Homemakers’s Club held ; a buffet and Christmas party Monday • evening instead of the regular December I meeting with 27 attending. Holly and | pine corsages were given everyone and ; were made by Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tferhune. Mrs. S.W. Riley was in charge of decorations which included candles, ! pipe and holly and a small lighted tree. ; Favors were at each place on the table j and were made by Mrs. Terhune, Mrs. ! Gilbert Lawrence and Mrs. Gary Perkins. The Amissville Club was named | the outstanding club of the county at a jreyent achievement night program. ** * •♦'a
25 Years Ago
: 'J'hursday, Dec. 7, 1972
-The Rappahannock County Garden Club
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