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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
8
The W H S Reflector staff notes student excitement for holidays and a class Christmas program. The piece reflects on the true meaning of Christmas, urges thoughtful giving, and cites charity to needy children as essential to the season.
English II students prepare a big Christmas celebration with festive activities and student participation. Teachers announce a joyful program featuring songs, games, and a concluding holiday cheer break.
Nellie Brown notes in 1932 that cheerful generous giving spreads happiness to givers and recipients. True happiness follows those who give with sincere joy, better to give than receive, fostering warm, loving community cheer.
A Masqueraders meeting at Miss Frances Bryant's home on Monday approved staging a Christmas gift play for fellow students. The club earned $8.50 from a Palace Theatre performance. Miss Tapscott and Miss Ray provided fortune telling and character readings. The next meeting is set for January at Miss Louise Echols' home.
A group of six young colored musicians from a Chattanooga orphanage gave a morning assembly program. Led by teacher J. M. Martin, the wandering troubadours entertained high school students with band and song numbers.
A narrator describes a quiet village of five hundred houses under looming snow clouds. Snow begins to fall as a cold night nears while a woman and a small boy sit before a fire in a hut at the south edge of the town.
A widow and her eight year old son Tommie face a cold Christmas until two Boy Scouts Tom and Bill McCarty from the Silver Fox Patrol bring a secret Santa gift. The boys use their own money to purchase the bundle and promise Tommie Santa remembered him. Next morning snow covers the ground and Tommie finds the gifts, calling it a bully good Christmas.
Masqueraders staged a one act play as a Christmas gift to the school during Thursday morning assembly period. The performance was described as very enjoyable and featured several members of the Masqueraders presenting the work.
The program lists the cast for Magic Mistletoe including Mrs. Maloney Mary Cornelia Roberts Miss Helen Anderson Frances Bryant Jimmy Dick Barbee Minnie Oleta Chambers Madge Sears. As context the note states Chile is over 2600 miles long with a maximum breadth under 250 miles.
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