100 Years Ago – January 2, 1919
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75 Years Ago – December 24, 1943
FRONT PAGE: Gov. Paul B. Johnson, who recently suffered a second severe heart attack Monday night and has been bed-ridden since the first attack on November 3th, is still in “very critical condition” according to doctors.
DEATHS: At an early hour on Sunday, Mr. R. W. Suttle of the Rocky Hill community passed away. Bob, as he was known, was in poor health for the past few years but was seriously ill only a few hours before his death. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ray Jackson Suttle, one son, Joe, in service, and a daughter in high school, as well as three sisters and three brothers. Burial was in Rocky Hill cemetery.
BIRTHS: Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Carr are to be congratulated on the birth of a fine son, born Dec. 9th, and named William Foster (High Point).
LETTERS TO SANTA: Dear Santa: I am a little girl 6 years old and go to Ford School. Please bring me a doll, tea set, fruit, nuts, and candy. Remember my teacher, Mrs. Higgason, daddy, mother, and three grandpas. Your little friend, Yvonne Miller. - I am a little boy 6 years old, going to school in the first grade. I want firecrackers, a box of candy, fruit, Doctor’s Kit, and a Tom Sawyer book. Be especially good to all the Army boys. Your little friend, Thomas Earl Shinn.
I am a little six-year-old girl, Santa. I am going to school at Noxapater. Please bring me some nuts, fruit, and candy and a little blackboard. Your little friend, Bettie Tindel - I am a little boy. I am 6 years old. I am in school at Noxapater. Please bring me fruit, nuts, candy and a football. Your little friend, Willie McAdory
We are two little boys going to Calhoun School. Please bring a knife, a wagon, nuts, fruit, candies, and fireworks. Curtis and J. D. Jowers - I am a little girl 8 years old. I have been a good girl. I will help Uncle Sam and not ask for much. I want a little stove, tea set, little purse, nuts, candy, and fruit. Your little girl, Dora Mae Smith
Please bring me a police set, pair of gloves, apples, oranges, candy and nuts. Your friend, Quinton Mayo, Louisville - I am a little boy four-years-old. I have been very good. I want a little ax to help Daddy cut wood, riding horse, gloves, gun, airplane, fruits, and candy. Please visit all the Army boys. Your little boy, Dalton Carrington.
I am a boy 11 years old. I want a typewriter, ball, marbles, nuts, fruits, candy, and a football. Your friend, Stancle Nowell. - I am 8 years old. I want a ring, story book, color book, colors and pencils, and table. I have three brothers in the Army, Billy, Bud and Pete. Your friend, Mary Ann Fulcher.
