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40 YEARS AGO
July 26,1962
Geraldine Baldwin reigned as queen of the Sperryyille Firemen’s carnival last week. StevieAylor was in second place in the contest.; __ ;
Amissville' Methodist Church has made plans for a new Educational Building which will contain sjx large classrooms and a full basement that can be used as two more classrooms and a fellowship hall.
During the storm Monday evening, a large oak tree at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanish Riley in Amissville was struck by lighting. The bolt cut the top from the tree, split the trunk and barked it all the way down. It then jumped to the top of Mrs. Riley’s car, denting it and knocking off paint before it ran into the ground beneath it. The gate post in the Riley’s yard was smoked up and damaged slightly^
The Ladies Auxiliary for the Amissville Volunteer Fire Department have entered 13 parades this season and have won first place •> in all of them.
The United Sates Air Force Headquarters Command Band will lead the Flint Hill firemen’s parade on Aug. 2.
Mrs. Downing Wood was advertising hail hit peaches for sale af the orchard for 75 cents a bushel, you pick and $1.00, we pick. No worms and the orchards were in Washington.
25 YEARS AGO
July 28, 1977
For the first time in almost half a century, Mary Botts Quaintance will not be greeting Rappahannock students when school opens in the fall. After 48 years in the county school system, she retired as principal of the elementary school on July 1.
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