Turkey Day Edition

"²⁸ Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:28-29

Prayer list this week includes the family of Charles Bowden.

Birthdays this week include: Jim Thompson - Nov. 25, Kenny Thompson - Nov. 27,, Evelyn Norris - Nov. 29,  Jason McClellan, Beth McLain, Francis Parker, and Keith Grice - Nov. 30.

Happy anniversary to Tony and Martha Atkins - Nov. 23.

We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and enjoys the colder weather.  It's finally here.

The Christmas open house tour has two homes signed up so far, but needs more. Contact Melody Spears if you're interested.  The proceeds of the tour go to replace bulbs in the Christmas lights. If you want to make a straight donation, send your donations to NECC at PO Box 23, New Edinburg, Ar. 71660 and please designate it for Christmas lights. 

The White Mustang Band will be performing for a fund raiser for Paul and Doris Jankowski at the New Edinburg Community Center on December 6, 2013 from 8:00 pm till 11:00 pm. Admission is $6.00. No Alcohol Allowed. Paul is in Baptist Hospital now. He suffered a stroke a few days ago, after having 4 surgeries recently.  Come out and enjoy the great music of the White Mustang Band.

A couple of excerpts from the school scrapbook of Mary Langford... first a news article she cut out and saved: 

"Agri Students Set Out 6,000 Cuttings: Have New Site . The New Edinburg F. F. A. chapter members have recently plowed their nursery and set out 6,000 cuttings. They have also selected another site for their nursery this years. The nursery occupies about an acre. They have several varieties of cuttings, including grapes. Approximately 1,000 shrubs were left from last year's nursery. The boys plan to sell the shrubs and use them in landscaping the campus. Last week the F. F. A. members put in all their agriculture time setting out shrubs around the school

building. Members of the Future Home Makers chapter are bringing in shrubs to be set out. A trailer will be used to haul shrubs to the school which are too large to bring on the school buses. The boys are instructed in how to dig up and care for the shrubs. The appearance of the school campus is expected to be improved greatly due to the efforts being put forth in planting shrubs. The F. F. A members have recently completed a furniture project in which people of the community brought in their old furniture and the students remodeled it. The F. H. M. members assisted with the upholstering."

Second, and most touching, is her dedication page in the book: "I was presented with this beautiful book on the day October 12, 1939, as a gift from Mr. Smith, an invitation salesman. He gave it to the class and we drew numbers for it, and imagine me as the lucky girl! I never dreamed of being the owner of such a beautiful book!

Hereby, I make a resolution to fill it out during the Senior year and to keep it always to remember with pleasure my last year in “good old New Edinburg High School,” which, I hope will be a happy one."

If you have items of interest for this column, feel free to get them to me before Monday.    Go Eagles.