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■ 'i.- PAGE rOXJRTEEN THE ECHO Dftcember, Our Christmas Tree You were planted Just for us, An evergreen whose greenness Is a symbol Of our trusi From the nursery you came Just a tree. But as you took root In our soil, . And your boughs thickened and] shaped In a spiral point of beauty, We began to watch you grow. We saw the winter’s snow Hang a mantle of white Upon your boughs. We saw the rains of Spring Fall in crystal drops Upon your tender limbs. We saw the summer’s sun Beat down upon you In merciless heat. And still you grew, Fed by the rain and sun. Nourished by our love and care. You grew greener in our sight. But now that it is Christmas You grow greener In our hearts And cast a spell of magic Around us: A festive joyous air Of family celebrations And good friends everywhere, Of carolers richly singing, “Peace on earth, good will to| men.” Of gleeful, merry children That talk of Santa Claus, And dream of reindeer on the| roof, And stockings hung all in a row I To hold the gifts from Santa’s! pack. Yes, you are our Christmas tree: You are the symbol of everything That is good here at Ecusta. The symbol of fellowship Of one people, with one fixed idea—unity, Unchanging, unbroken, and ever lasting. —Kathleen Teague. ''mi&S JONES IN OUR FUTURE CORRESPONDENCE LET'S BE CAREFUL NOT TO LOSE \\V TEMPER, s- Just For Fun | igg . fresh and new, you BBTl Machine Room New* By JOHN GOOLSBY Well, fellows, to start ^ I let me express my sincere all of you everywhere for a » ry Christmas and a most ous New Year. Last Christmas kept hearing that this would w wonderful Christmas if 1 were over and our boys all » j Well, most of them are ® „ the rest out of danger, so now can really have a wonderful C-or I mas. . This month, due to the I deadline, we do not have ^ births, deaths or marriages. " due to the large amount of _ we had in November, nobooy complain. g This story was told to me j friend of Bill Cagle’s. Bill pa for two rabbit dogs. This is second year he has had thos® j, and he tells me he is^ very pleased with his keen judgio buying them. Up to date they jumped one rabbit, which Be ^ at five times and finally leg. Then the rabbit took r j in a hollow log. After an hou ^ a half he finally split the 108 got the poor crippled ^ Some dogs—some hunter! “Your troubles are here.” over, Says FOND MEMORY The constant drunk was in the hospital, following an auto acci dent. For two days he had been unconscious, hovering between life and death. One day the nurse ran excitedly into the doctor’s of fice. ' “Oh, Doctor,” she said, “I think Number 201 is regaining conscious ness at last! He just tried to blow the foam off his medicine.” SHE DOESN’T ANY MORE How fat she is— She used to wasn’t. The reason is— She daily doesn’t. WORLDLY GOODS FEW Soldier Suitor: “With all myj worldly goods I thee endow.” Father (sitting in a nearby room I listening to the proposal): “There go his barracks bag and fountain] pen.” MISSING STEP Of the sad surprises There’s nothing to compare With treading in the darkness On a step that isn’t there. CHOOSY ABOUT MALES She was pretty and ambitious and had studied the matrimonial problem to a nicety. “Yes, I suppose I shall marry eventually,” she said, “but the only kind of masculine nuisance that will suit me must be tall and dark with classical features. He must be brave, yet gentle. He must be strong—a lion among men, but a knight among women.” That evening a bow-legged, lath framed, chinless youth, wearing flannel bags and smoking a cig arette that smelt worst than a burning boot, rattled on the back door and the girl knocked four tumblers and a cutglass dish off the sideboard in her haste to let him in. BUY VICTORY BONDS! HELP FIGHT T. B. QUICK TRAVEL “Can you tell me the quickest way to Main street, my boy?” asked the driver of the ramshackle old car. The boy looked the car over carefully. “Sure,” he replied, “take a street car.” MOVIE SCHEDULE For January Dec. 27 — TILLIE THE TOILER.—Kay Harris, Wil liam Tracy, Marjorie Ren- olds. Jan. 3 -- HAf CHECK HONEY—^Leon Enroll, Grace MacDonald. Jan. 10—COAST GUARD —Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy. Jan. 17—BOMBARDIER— Pat O’Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirlciy. Jan. 24 — O U T WEST WITH THE PEPPERS.— Edith Fellows and the Little Peppers. Jan. 31 — GOVERNMENT GIRL — Olivia Dellaviland, Sonny Tufts, Anne Shirley. USELESS TO GO HOME Funeral Parlor Attendant (to elderly mourner): “And how old 1 are you?” Mourner: “Ninety-eight.” Attendant: “Well it will hardly I pay you to go home.” LEARNING FAST “How are you getting along at home while your wife’s away?” “Fine. I’ve reached the height of efficiency. I can put on my socks from either end.” EVEN SCORE Joan Davis: “I could tell you the I score before the game starts.” Jack Haley: “Nobody can tell j the score before the game starts.” Davis; “Well, I can. Nothing to I nothing.” A MYSTERY “I insured my voice,” explained the famous singer, “for two hun- I dred thousand dollars!” “And what,” asked the rival, [ “have you done with the money?” Heard from Grover Suttles-^ the fish he catches on the jp in the state of Washingt^ big you could use our rainbo for bait. He looks forward »il '(St 55 day for letters from • all ju Let’s shoot him a line, what ^ say, gang? By the by, hes ((y big salmon country. j Tom Evans was in to__see^^^^ j,, V 1) BOSS GOT SDCK Employer: “What type of illness caused you to leave your last job?" Applicant; “My boss: got sick of s other day. Trying awfully get out of the service, “e f* pjf- to have a cook’s rating—^" haps accounts for all those ships tied up for junk. Tom, perhaps congress jii- something for you in the ture. ij c»' Oh, yes, our bowling team j ^ game out of first place, ao , lieve when the next Echo comes out, in first P jj pfi will be. Spencer Macfle ” [ about be in his stride tn ■ j ' out, fellows! I write factSi tion. l>i? me.’ TOPIC NEEDED A woman wrote to a daily paper from a very lonely rural spot as follows: “My sister and I aren’t ex actly lonely out here. We have got each other to speak to, but we need another woman to talk about.” BEAUTY PRELUDE Are the hot wires ready? came a sonorous voice. Yes, master, they are red hot, was the submissive reply. Is the oil boiling? Yes, master, it is fuming. Is she tied securely? Yes, master, it is impossible for her to move. Is the shroud over her? Yes, master. All right, then give her the $3.00 permanent. !? >0 A BAFFLED PROF. While waiting for a train, three professors became so engrossed in the solution of a mathematical problem that they failed to notice the arrival of the train. Sighting it just as it was pulling out of the sta tion, they all sprinted for it and two of them caught it. The third professor was standing despond ently on the platform, when an optimistic bystander comforted, d ^ 7' Carl Bryson went to f®® two hogs the other taot it- he found 21 little baby v stead of two. More hacon \f|^ Ista, folks. t-ve \ 3 Next month I hope to story straightened out 0 jjjpK Heaton and Everett yo» * S have something good those two fellows. Well, news is scarce,k is close—perhaps over tn (V we can pick up some rea So long. , “Don’t feel so badly, three of you made it an , a bad average.” -e “But those two men c" r to see me off,” explaine , fessor sadly. ^ WILLING TO GO ^ ^ A very small boy uP lead a big Saint Bern road. .„ff t® V “Where are you that dog, my little man- a passerby. “I-I’m going to see nr wants to go first,” w'® less reply. 'So your husband big guns of * “Yes, he’s l^en. « , times.” nil?
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