St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1949-12-30

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without a moments breathing
space.
Twelve solemn strokes the clock
Just tolled
Well, Happy New Year, human
race!
PAST
The past is something long gone
so why talk about It this week
when so much is happening right
now. Let's forget the past and
think of now. Anyway, just for
this week.
PRESENT
Quite a bit has happened in the
past week. Shall we start7. The
Mistletoe dance at Halle was
really great. The place was
crowded and everyone had a good
time. The decorations were
winged" as the younger crowd
would put 1t. Elmer Morris was
delighting in telling people that a
piece Of Christmas tree was mis-
tletoe. II didn't work The Cab
alleros annual Christmas dance
was ION the BALI as usual. There
was quite crowd of people,
don't know where all the boys
sprang from. The girls were lost in
the midst Of them. Pat Moore
looked awfully cute and old" in
an aqua dress.
Among the crowd were: Bev.
Ballenger, Toya oden, Matte
Shaw. Mary Kate Breedlove,
Kathryn Chivers, lone Roach,
Tilly Haskins, Ron and Don o.
Neal, Stan Williams, Nelson Nc
Coy, Craig Williams, vii Grissam,
Orie Parks and coolies of others.
=. Like to welcome Barb Fields,
Brewer Clark, Mary Reed and
Herschel Carrot back to the
Sanity City. We've really missed
you. Met Mamie Buffers fiance
the other day. He's rather nice
looking. Lucky girl---Christmas
Eve everybody spread out. SO
many things were happening that
I couldn't keep track of my ac-
quaintances, Pete Vassar, Elmer
Morris, Sony Morris, and Lucy
Morris were In good spirits along
about 3 a. m. Stanley Stone, Ken
McKenny, and Ronnie Stone were
in such good spirits they had to
go to sleep. That was about 2:30
a. m. The party at Pat Fosters
broke up about 3 a. m. Matte
Shaw and Del Crushon were
among the crowd there. Pat
Brown and Bev. Kirk were among
those at Joyce Vassar's admiring
her many Christmas gifts. That
was about 2 a. m. OF course quite
few of us went to church be-
fore we set out for a round of
merriment. A few OF those at st.
Peter Claver were; Pat Cart
wright (Anen) Jean Cannon
(Allen) Jackie Morris, Pat Moore,
Jean Durand, Charles lack. Joe
Ray, Stan Williams, Ben, Gloria
Williams, Paul Ray, Leola Graham
(Crawford), Betty Jean, Clarence
Mckinney, Eva Stewart, and La
Doris Foster. . Christmas night
Catherine Corum had a few kids
at her home. The gathering con-
sisted of the S.O.S.A., North Min
neapolis, South Minneapolis, and a
few other st. Paulites. They tell
me Connee Brown and Yvonne
Crushshon had such high heels on
that they had to change shoes. La
Doris Foster was looking as sweet
as ever in a taffeta dress. Erlyne
Neal and Jean Howell got so tired
they went to sleep. VIII Grissam
was dared to drink bottle of coke
in one long swallow. He did II.
This is off the record, but have
you ever met anyone that seemed
to be just perfect, almost an an
gel? Well. there Is such a person
in St Paul. Who? LaDoris Foster.
She never talks about anybody UNI
less she says something nice. II
she doesn't like you, well, you'n
know 1t. She's pretty and uncon-
ceited. She's the best person in
the world to have as a friend.
Quite n few kids were Mt
Towards Steak House Christ