Sugar Grove
By Paula Mitchell
Comments made in the year 1957 might be quite interesting to the reader.
- If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
- If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it.
- If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous. (April 3).
- Did you see where some baseball player had signed a contract for $75,000 a year contract just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the president.
- I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.
- Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $5,000 will only buy a used one.
- No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.
- There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.
- Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress.
- Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?
- I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.
- When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.
- I’m just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
- It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
- Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more. Those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.
My, how things have changed.
Life’s little instructions to make the life better for a person include the following:
- Let someone into one’s name.
- Hold the door for the person behind one.
- Return one’s shopping cart.
- Tip a person’s server.
- Pick up a piece of trash/
The community has had stark raving freezes that have wrenched coats off racks to wear for comfort. Even though around 2” of rain fell this week, it has not made a budge in the river’s level. Still, it brought balm to the soul. Morning temperatures of 21-25 degrees have been brisk.
This week’s quotes are as follows:
“It’s only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.” — Rosalynn Carter
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.” — Booker T. Washington
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all our hands.” — Maria Shriver
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum
Sitting by the fireplace is a definite to hear the “Talk of the Grove.”
Evan Arrington and his oldest child of Morgantown visited with Donna and Bill Arrington for five days.
Rick Adkins and Shannon Shockey “tied the knot” Nov. 19. Congratulations to the couple of wedded bliss!
California visitors of the Tom and Brandon Mitchell families were Barry, Jacqueline, Kirra, and Jack Ziehl, and Kennan Harper. During the Thanksgiving holidays, Rich and Alexis Ziehl of Maryland joined them.
Phil Downs motored to Romney to the home of Susie Rufner where family gathered for a Thanksgiving dinner.
The South Fork Rescue Squad held its annual smorgasbord dinner for several hundred folks. The food was delicious, and everyone left fuller than they came.
Judy Costello spent several days with her mother, Evelyn Varner. Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed in the home with Judy and Richard and Joyce Marshall.
Recent visitors of Rosalee Grogg were Junior and Marleta Wimer, Terri Grogg, Claude Castleberry, Leana Leap, Clint Davis and Addie, Hendrix Bogan, Madison Grogg, Asher Mauzy, and Tyler Grogg. Rosalee enjoyed her Thanksgiving with family.
Calvary’s spaghetti dinner last Tuesday was very well attended. Proceeds went towards a good cause.
Charles and Susan Kiser of Harrisonburg, Virginia, hosted a family Thanksgiving dinner at which Brenda Fisher and Robby, Linnea, Michael and Logan Fisher attended.
Willard and Judy Rader and C.J. Eckard were Thanksgiving Day visitors in the home of Benny and Linda Custer and enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving meal. Recent visitors in the home of Willard and Judy were Ed Rader and Jim Reichard.
Helen and Rhonda Nash enjoyed a Thanksgiving holiday visit from Todd and Cathy Nash of Rhoadesville, Virginia, and Cathy’s brother, Allen Browning of Heflin, Alabama.
Clickety-clacks for the chin waggers are as follows:
- Japan’s Okinawa Island has more than 400 people living above the age of 100 and is known as the healthiest place on earth.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 by Bedouin nomads at the caves of Qumran in Jordan.
- In the wild, chickens navigate using the sun.
- The first country to be named after a woman was St. Lucia.
- St. Maarten is a private island and has the steepest zipline in the world.
December birthdays include the following: Naomi Wilfong (97), Emma Puffenbarger and Kipton Owens, first; Josh Hedrick, second; Charlotte Thompson and Kathy Smith, fifth; Willard May and Rose Miller, sixth; Liz Bodkin, eighth; Daniel Propst, Gary Harrison and Gary Sheffer, ninth; Dennis Knicely and Bonnie Shanholtz, 10th; Kelsey Jamison, 11th; Kathy Nelson, 13th; and Seth Bowers, 14th.
Concerns for this week are many. They are as follows: Bob Adamson, Charles Anderson, Roger and Joan Ashley, Mercedes Aumann, Judy Austin, Lynn Beatty, “Bo” Boggs, Jane Conrad, Boyd Kimble, Kim Kline, Marie Cole, Jeff Craig, Norma Propst Cunningham, Christian Dasher, Bethany Eye, Isaac Eye, Marie Eye, Mary Eye, Neal Eye, Donna Fleisher, Loralee Gordon, Lola Graham, Jordan Greathouse, Marlene Harman, Marvin Hartman, Steve and Armanda Heavner, Grace Hedrick, Jackie Hill, Edsel and May Ann Hogan, Virgil Homan, Jr., Adelbert Hoover, Myrtle Hoover, Debbie and Enos Horst, Mike Jamison, Alice Johnson, Richard Judy, Ruthlene Judy, Marsha Keller, Danny Kimble, Dennis Kincaid, Kim Kline, Tracie Knight, Melissa Lambert, Robert Lambert, Rex Landis, Angela Lung, Linda Malcolm, Betty Mallow, Roger and Skip Mallow, Yvonne Marsh, Willard May, Neil McLaughlin, Rose Miller, Bruce Minor, Barbara Moats, Melvin Moats, Shelby Morrison, Aaron Nelson, Ruth Nelson, Don Nilsen, Cheryl Paine, Barbara Parker, Sutton Parrack, Shirley Pratt, Alda Propst, John O. Propst, Kathy Propst, Linda Propst, Harley Propst, Sheldon Propst, Mary Puffenbarger, Nicole Reel, Charles Rexrode, Jason Rexrode, Jimmy Rexrode, Pam Rexrode, Donna Ruddle, Annie Simmons, Phyllis Simmons, Erin Simmons, Eva Simmons, Kent Simmons, Robbie Sites, Connie Sulser, Rosa Tichenor, the family of Marilyn Kay-Uhl, Sandra Vandevander, Evelyn Varner, Amy Vaus, Sheldon Waggy, Judy Williams, Ann Wimer, Junior Wimer and Margaret Wimer.
