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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1950
Page
12
In Ridgely a lean Christmas looms for Bill Robinson and his wife as hospital bills bite. Cub Scouts bring joy with handmade toys and a community tree helps buoy spirits while neighbors step in with care and a heartwarming gift of a doll house and sled for the children.
A collection of child letters to Santa dated December 14 1950 requesting toys such as bicycles cap pistols walkie talkies footballs roller skates train tracks books and other gifts. Names include Kenneth Butler Edna May Wright Ellen Butler Lawrence Horner Bobby Price Randy Price and J B Wayne Cade with brief notes about good behavior and holiday wishes.
A Christmas memorial note remembers Mr and Mrs W C Reed with lines of love and loss. It speaks of missing their presence, enduring faith, and hope that they are together in the afterlife beyond the sunset into the land of eternal rest.
The U S Department of Agriculture asks Maryland farmers to place lime orders soon to keep lime crushers and fertilizer makers operating at capacity and to ease transportation bottlenecks. The program offers ground limestone marl burned or hydrated lime with county PMA approval and same payment rate per pound of oxide as ground limestone.
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