The uplift [serial] . rate Christs birthday the way itshould be celebrated. COTTAGE NO. 1 By Donald Hamrick December 22 was one of the mostenjoyable days of the year for theboys of Cottage No. 1. Lots of the boyshad visitors that day and got packageswhich were put under the of the boys wanted to open themright then, but in order to have a bet-ter Christmas all of us waitedtill Christmas morning to open thepresents. After supper that night wehad a band of boys from Concord toentertain us with some fine WesternMusic. After the boys from Concord leftwe went back to the cottage and hadou
The uplift [serial] . rate Christs birthday the way itshould be celebrated. COTTAGE NO. 1 By Donald Hamrick December 22 was one of the mostenjoyable days of the year for theboys of Cottage No. 1. Lots of the boyshad visitors that day and got packageswhich were put under the of the boys wanted to open themright then, but in order to have a bet-ter Christmas all of us waitedtill Christmas morning to open thepresents. After supper that night wehad a band of boys from Concord toentertain us with some fine WesternMusic. After the boys from Concord leftwe went back to the cottage and hadour Christmas party given to us byMr. and Mrs. Hinson. We had manynice things to eat and drink. We hadoyster stew, hamburgers, lettuce, slaw,cottage cheese, crackers, cookies, can-dy and all the pepsis we coud mother of one of the boys furnish-ed popcorn. There was so many thingsand so much that the boys could noteat all of it. During the holidays (which also be-gan on the 22) all the boys had a lot THE UPLIFT. The ushers during the play — Grandpa Hangs The Holly. Reading leftto right Harry Mintz, Herschal Summers, Jimmy Lockey, Alvin Brown, andCharles Walker. of fun because of the many things thestaff arranged for us to do. We hd •=>movie each afternoon and the boys gota lot of entertainment from thesemovies. We also had the volley balltournament during the holidays. Thesewere a lot of fun because everyone wasa good close game. The last game wasplayed on the 29th, the last day of theholidays. It was a good game betweenCottage No. 1 and Cottage No. 4 play-ing for the championship with CottageNo. 1 winning the championship withthe score of 21 to 18. We had a lot offun doing a lot of things, but the mostfun of all was getting up Christmas morning and opening the certainly was a lot of packagesto be opened in our cottage, and allthe boys got nice presents. We had somany games to be played after thepresents had been opened that theboys had no trouble k
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