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40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23, 1962
Charles B. Palmer of Washington was recently appointed to fill the rural mail carrier vacancy in the Washington post office. The vacancy occurred when Mr. Lester Yates retired last year and since that time has been filled by a substitute.
Mr. Palmer has been the Vo-Ag teacher at Rappahannock High School for several years.
The award banquet for parents and 4-H members enrolled in the Sears Sow Project in Rappahannock and Warren Counties was held last Friday night at the Hy-Wy Restaurant in Front Royal.
Those from this county attending were Mr. and Mrs. John H. Powers and son, Clarence Jenkins, Mrs. Carson Lillard and Tommy, Mrs. Roland Welch and Bill, Mrs. Barbara Gentry, Volunteer 4-H Leader and Mr. W.H. Lyne, County Agent. Placing in the 1961-62 competition were: Tommy Lillard,first; Cecil Pullen, second; Clarence Jenkins, third; Bill Welch, fourth find David Smoot, fifth.
Pvt. Donald B. Gore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gore of Sperryville, recently joined Headquarters of the XXI US Army Corps to complete the third and last phase of a six-month period of active-duty for training.
A 1958 graduate of Rappahannock, he was employed as a highway construction inspector by the Virginia Department of Highways at Warrenton prior to entering the Army
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 25, 1977
C.N. Aldrich of Rock Mills has volunf
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