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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams
*Mary Virginia Ives McRae: “A stove, a Betsy Wetsy doll with five
pretty dresses, a tea set, and a frying pan.”
*Eddie Norris: “A bicycle and a pearl handle pistol. Remember, I am
your little friend.”
*Pat Weeks Arnold: “A scooter, a doll bed, and a doll carriage.
Please bring my baby sister Carol a new cry baby doll.”
*Bobby Kinard: “A football for the boys and a dodge ball for the girls.
We need them to play games at recess at school.”
*Jo Pearl Ives Cason: "A dolly, a tea set, and lots of pretty things.
Remember, Santa, I am your little girl.”
*Roscoe Mansfield: “Skates, a football, and an electric train. Santa, I
love you very much.”
*Verdie Buie Frampton: “An iron, an ironing board, a wash tub, a doll,
and a baton to twirl.”
While Santa was shopping for these kids, the kids’ parents may have
been shopping for themselves. They could have bought a Simmons
Beauty Rest mattress at Cox Furniture for $39.50, a new Coleman oil
heater at People’s Hardware for $29.95, or a new Dodge car from
Sanders-Allison for $825.
REMEMBERING ‘DR. C’
Lots of people here remember the late Dr. Joseph Crescimbini who
was Asst. Supt. under Supt. Frank Phillips. Affectionately known to
students as Dr. C., he was later at teacher at LCJHS and his students
there produced an award-winning yearbook.
Dr. C’s son, John, was recently elected to the Jacksonville City
Council. Some remember John from the days he visited Lake City to
see his dad.
John, a conservative like his dad, ran on a pledge of “a full frontal
assault on wasteful spending at City Hall.”
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