Sign Of Our Times — A Christmas Poem

Attendance at the Sugar Hill Church on Sunday was good for the morning services, then the annual Christmas dinner. Following that, the afternoon, was the usual enjoyable time of string music and singing. The visitors were welcomed, to add to the enjoyment, with a good start to the Christmas season.

The following was written years before the present practice of giving such expensive gifts for Christmas, and during the time following the era of when a welcome gift was a bag of candy with an apple and orange:

Sign of our Times

Once again, as every year, we bring you news of Christmas cheer.

Shining ornaments, wrapping bright, Snow, icicles, lit-up night Trees with cotton, balls and lights.

People looking at beautiful sights.

Sleds and sleighs, skates and boats,

Cheers and parades, bands and floats.

Guns and holsters, trucks and cars,

Tractors, and spaceships from Mars.

Dolls and dishes, set for tea,

Things to make a little girl happy.

Little angels, sleepy heads Don’t have to be told to go to bed.

Happy little girls and boys

Filling Christmas with cheer and joy.

Christmas baking, mysterious smells,

Cookies shaped like stars and bells.

Salads, dressing, turkey, hams,

Nuts and fruits and candied yams.

Baking, shopping, decorating,

Wrapping gifts, anticipating.

Crowded streets, stores and shops.

Walking, driving, starts and stops.

Exchanging gifts, sure to get

Something that’s sure not to fit.

Working, rushing, worrying, ills

Change the diet to headache pills.

Incidentally, Christmas

Morn

Marks the day that CHRIST WAS BORN.

— M. M. Roy

My best wishes to all for a blessed Christmas to all.

Happy birthday to: Betty Baker, Ken Morphis, Russell Laycox, Duck Perguson, Judy Pinkerton, Jason Abshier, J.C, Albright, Mitchell Huffaker.

Happy anniversary to Bud and Paula Cox.

Happy years, all!