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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
3
Reynolds residents share a busy schedule of travel and visits with Macon Thomaston Atlanta and Waycross. Many attend dances and dinners while Mrs E H Dunn and others are noted ill or recovering.
Reynolds and Taylor County friends of Mrs. A G Hicks of Macon and Mrs. P B Trawick of Commerce mourn the death of their brother Marvin Gober at St Joseph's hospital in San Francisco California. He left Georgia young and built his fortune in the West later living in Texas before moving to California where he spent his life in railway service and recently retired from engineer work with the Western Pacific Railway.
The Gordon Carson U D C Chapter will hold its monthly meeting at the Chapter Club House Thursday afternoon December 18 at 2 30 oclock. The program centers on Our Communitys Part in the National Emergency. Women of Crowell Potterville and Panhandle Districts urged to attend. Historian.
Mrs P E McDaniel and Mrs W R Cosey and children spent last Wednesday in Macon. Several residents traveled to Atlanta and Columbus for visits. Miss Janie Neisler arrived from Chicago to stay with her parents. The community notes illnesses and recoveries as Mrs W C Casey is ill but hopes for recovery.
Holy text recounts Caesar Augustus decree and Joseph and Mary journeying to Bethlehem, the manger birth of Jesus, shepherds visiting, angelic praise, and Mary pondering events as Luke records the nativity narrative. The passage includes the shepherds, the savior’s birth in David’s city, and celestial glory.
A wartime urging to purchase Christmas Seals and Defense Bonds and Stamps as a means to fund national defense and fight tuberculosis. The message stresses the role of individuals in strengthening the country and protecting the youth from disease through these purchases.
Five quarries supplied the granite to speed construction on new buildings at the Naval Academy.
A child writes to Santa asking for peace for all nations and for her school. She lists teachers’ requests from dolls to pencils and notes wishes for a piano, fur coat, books, trips, a new editor, and a system to graduate the senior class, reflecting a small-town school community.
A nostalgic meditation on Santa Claus as a universal idea of giving. The piece recalls the North Pole sleigh ride and chimney gifts, praising Christmas as the season of giving, joy, and belief that sustains giving across people, organizations, churches, and nations.
The RK H S diary from December 1941 notes seven cent hot lunches at the school. It describes discussions about British cadets visiting, a student missing a hillie billie and another glad to see a "negro shack." It records Japs buzzing the school, a lunch room project visit by Mr Letters and Mrs Wall, and Miss Cook taking a "French leave" on December 11, 1941.
Summary of the origin of Christmas notes the Western Church favoring December 25 as the date, the Northern Church preferring January 6, and Pope Julius I choosing December 25 in 350 A. D. It links the date to pagan solstice celebrations of the unconquered sun and the annual renewal of light in Rome and Jerusalem.
The letter asks Santa for a bicycle wrist watch jacket and hat and asks him to share with other war displaced children. Dorothy notes good behavior all year and mentions siblings and brothers and sisters.
The text states Carol Barrow earned the required mark for the Honor Roll replacing Carol Brown of seventh grade and notes Hugh Sealy, a senior, achieved Honor Roll with a score of 80.
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