A Good Letter from
Rock Hill
Editor, Wilson Times:
This is to tender compliments of the season to your
management and clientele and to assure you that Rock Hill school is still on
the map and partaking yuletide festivities.
On last week we were honored by a visit from superintendent
of public welfare, S.E. Leonard, Mrs. Boyette, county demonstrator, and the
Cullom music instructor, who made a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Mention was recently made in the Times of a box party and
“beauty show” at this temple of knowledge in which $126 was footed up as the
gross receipts, current money with the merchant.
On Christmas evening the lamps again shown over fair women
and brave men, and the occasion was a Christmas tree. While the leaves of the
tree were not for the healing of the nations, its fruits gladdened the hearts
of many a child and radiant damsel. At 8 p.m., Santa Claus, patron saint of
happy childhood, appeared, and his wife was with him. He was heralded by a
blaze of trumpets and a Christmas song, and truly there was a sound of revelry
by night. The audience was lively and exuberant; but good humor prevailed.
Misses Daisy Simpson, Ina Glover and Zelma Lamm were decorating contingent, and
the tree was resplendent. All these ladies seemed blessed with Christmas
presents, especially Miss Zelma Lamm.
Your ancient scribe and pilgrim, with doubt and fears,
warbled in a weak tremulous falsetto voice,” “Is my name written there?”, and
managed to score on the home stretch. Being a native of martial Kentucky, you
will excuse him for talking horse in vernacular of the race course.
Also, being from Cleveland county, where he has been a
citizen since 1882, you will please excuse him for wanting everything political
on earth and it fenced in. But not belonging to royal family of that region, he
hung his harp on a weeping willow and caught the tall forest. But he found the
land of the long-leaf pine, golden-leaf tobacco, pretty girls, and peace and
plenty.
--M.L. White
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