Milford chronicle., 1961-12-29
1924 Bound Brook
Alexandria, Virginia
December 26, 1861

Alexandria, Virginia
December 26, 1861
Dear FRIENDS:
You can almost depend on it.
Once during this time of the year
my column arrives late. I thought
| had the letter IN the mail in
plenty of tinl., but obviously |
didn't.
Every one IN this family seem
ed happy about Christmas and
their gifts. How about you? Hayes
almost worried US to death, for
about thirty days prior to Christ
mas. He was most concerned
about his Heath kit arriving in
time for Santa to place it under
the tree. Each December 25th for
many years he has requested
something electrical to put to-
gether 10 utilize at his amateur
radio station. This year he want
ed an amplifer to boost his pow
er. Earlier this year we had or
dered something from the plant in
Michigan and It was out of stock
and this was enough fuel to add
to his anxiety about his toy for
Christmas I was unfair and told
him one of his big gifts had not
arrived and hoped it would in
time. He offered to write, phone
or wire to help 1hings along. The
| children and | both enjoyed teas
| ing him. The Heath kit was safe
| Iy tucked away IN a closet before
Thanksgiving and secretly, I'm
sure he knew it.
LesIles new table and chairs
for her tea parties seemed to make
a real big hit Lynne now can
have her own beauty parlor in
her bedroom with her hair dryer
and hood DGwn's big gift was
supposed to be {, radio for her
room bur according to the crowd
! outside | believe il was her pogo
stick
My good hubby presented me
with three new dresses and what
female wouldn't be pleased with
that gift I received quite sur
| prise among MY gifts. If you'll
remember earlier this fall | wrote
| to you and remarked about a soap
dish at the SeafOru antique show
| that | liked so much and kicked
myself for not getting after
| came home to Alexandria. Well,
| that exact dish was among my
| gifts from Mother Dickerson. Mrs.
| George Reed called my sister-in
! law and told her she had the dish
! in case some one might want to
| give ii 10 me at Christmas. | was
so pleased and so surprised.
We were invited to the Leslie
March party at Mordington in Mil
| ford the 23rd and we hated not to
be able to attend We were in
Milford just over night, the 22nd,
and with the promise of freezing
rain or snow we felt we must re
! turn home to Alexandria where
'Santa's gifts had been deposited" ,"
Sorry 10 miss seeing everyone.
Christmas Eve, as busy as
things where here, we vert to a
party in Springfield. Virginia.
| Friends of ours from Forbes AFB,
Topeka, are now stationed here
and they invited several of their
Forbes friends over. We left Mo-
ther d. and the children to clean
up the turkey dinner dishes and
Grove to the Stewarts in a snow
storm. You couldn't quite call it
d storm since we only had about
one inch on the ground, but what
we had ] enjoyed.
Christmas night we had our
neighbors in for egg nog. Tonight
we're invited to the Fred Shirleys
for dinner; tomorrow night there
is a party at our civilian neigh
boris home and on my thirty-sixth
birthday, the 30th, Hayes boss at
the Pentagon and his wife are
having an "at home" party. SO
you see it's been busy time
here. Think we'll all enjoy sett-
| ling down to routine once again.
Happy New Year to you all.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson