Southern hospitality is 'real and tangible'
      TO THE EDITOR: Your warm welcome all over town last week to Ex-President Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, was something to behold. As the recipient of your hospitality I will never forget it.
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'Bored' local kids raise money for Relay for Life
      TO THE EDITOR: I want to let the people of Wilkes County know that we have great young people in our community! I am the Team Captain for the Relay for Life team at Washington- Wilkes Elementary School. I had a group of young ladies deliver an envelope filled with money to me this morning at school.
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