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Newspaper

Southern Illinoisan

Location

Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1960

Page

4

Christmas Nightmare Or Bright Fantasies In Grandpa's Home

Grandpa awakens to a magical imagined Christmas dinner where Tiny Tim Pickwick and the Little Match Girl guests mingle with real family members. The fantasy blends Dickensian figures with kin, ending in a plan to light the yule log, set punch, and revive old-fashioned festivities.

Tiny Tim Pickwick de Covertletoe Roger Tagle Santa Wiliam Dean Howells Charles Dickens Washington Irving Henry Simon Screnge Tiny Tim Grandpa Maggieton Mr. Pickwick Ebenezer Scrooge Bracebridge Hall Santa Claus Clem J¢Ant Moore Della Young Frank Swilivan Teagie H. L. Mencken Baltimore Della Jim Young Fred Jim Sil Grandma Aunt Millicett

Inspection of CCHS Addition Planned

A Carbondale Community High School addition faces inspection and probable acceptance at a 7:30 p.m. board session at CCHS Tuesday. Barmac Construction Company and architect Lee Potter Smith are expected attendees. The $922,000 funded expansion adds 10 usable classrooms this year, with six rooms unused. Principal C K Bowen says capacity rises to about 1200, with enrollment expected to reach 1000 within two to three years.

CCHS Carbondale Community High School Barmac Construction Company Chester Lee Potter Smith C. K. Bowen

Kiss and strike: workers end stoppage at English factory

In Niceston England on December 24 AP reports Josie Carter forgives two male workers who kissed her under mistletoe as 60 strikers end the walkout after the factory suspended the men for kissing their attractive coworker near her workstation.

Niceston England Josie Carter Fanah

Mrs Aggie Abney Rites in Marion

Mrs Aggie Abney 86 of Marion died at 6 19am Saturday in Anna State Hospital where she had been a patient since September 1936 She was born January 1 1874 in Williamson County widow of Doug Abney She leaves nieces and nephews A service will be at 2pm Monday at Wilson Funeral Home Marion with burial in Roselawn Hill Cemetery The family will receive friends after 4pm today

Aggie Abney Marion Anna State Hospital Williamson County Doug Abney Abney Josie First Methodist Church Order of First Eastern Star Noel Whites Factory Robert Noskwith Wilson W. A. Rob Gorrison Rosely Hill Cemetery

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