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Dear
Santa: I am six years old and in the first grade. I go to Hylton
School. We want you to come to our school’s Christmas party. If you
visit our house on Christmas Eve, please bring a toy car, some
candy, and an orange for me. Please bring something for the other
children in our school too. Santa, I have been a pretty good boy
this year. Good-bye Santa, Donnie Vitt. St. Paul Journal, December 23, 1943. Dear Santa Claus: I suppose this is a busy time for you. I have been a good girl. I mind my Mother and Daddy. I also study hard. Santa, will you bring me a watch and pocket book? I would also like a tricycle, but maybe that is too much. Please remember my mother, daddy, brothers, and sisters. Your friend, Helen Schoenhofer. St. Paul Journal, December 14, 1939. Monday morning the contractors started pouring the foundation and floors in the classrooms of the new school building. St. Paul Journal, November 20, 1952. The St. Paul Cemetery District was formed at a meeting on October 31. The district includes all of Mission Township, the nine eastern sections of Lincoln Township, and the three sections of Centerville Township lying south of highway 57 and joining Mission Township on the west. The cemeteries included in the district are Hope, Bond, Valley City, and Richland. St. Francis is not included as it is a private cemetery and was not deeded over to the new cemetery district. St. Paul Journal, November 10, 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Joe O’Brien welcomed the Ptasznik family from Europe into their home when they arrived here on the noon train Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ptasznik and four children are staying with the O’Briens until their new home, one mile north of the O’Briens and across from the O’Brien Rock Crusher, is ready for occupancy. They are perhaps the first displaced family to arrive in Neosho County and we are sure they are the first in the St. Paul community. The story about the Ptasznik family, displaced from Poland, is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the generosity of the O’Briens to bring them here is heartwarming. St. Paul Journal, October 27, 1949. Rev. Fr. Christopher started the movement a few days ago to build a new gymnasium near St. Francis School. The estimated cost is $65,000, and it will be financed by St. Francis Parish. The plans for the high school are to add classes in domestic sciences, manual training, and such other features as will bring the school up to the equal of any high school in this section. This can not be done without more rooms. St. Paul Journal, October 23, 1947. Editor's Note: It would take about six years and approximately twice the estimated cost to complete this project in 1953. The Heckathorn Construction Company of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, was the successful bidder on the new school building. The contract was let Thursday by Father Brendan, C. P., and it is expected that work on the structure will start in about two weeks with a construction schedule of about six months. The general construction figures will run between $129,000 and $130,000. In 2007 dollars this would be a bit over $1 million. The new school building referred to here being the existing elementary school and soon-to-be "old" gymnasium. The St. Paul Journal, October 16, 1952. The biggest individual cattle deal in the history of the Joplin stockyards was reported last week when Mike Diskin sold 137 head of steers for $23,706.35. The steers average 989 pounds and brought $17.50 per hundredweight. Diskin was accompanied to the yards by his two sons, Ralph and Mike, Jr. St. Paul Journal, October 10, 1946. When Mr. and Mrs. John Crager started for an automobile trip to California with their son, Leonard and Mrs. Crager of Kansas City, it was with many misgivings that the rest of the family bid them goodbye. The two are both 85 years old and Mrs. Crager has had several sick spells the past winter and early spring. The trip apparently did them more good than a bottle of medicine for Mrs. Crager is already making plans for another trip to California next summer. The story recounts many details of their trip. St. Paul Journal, October 1, 1953. Last Friday, September 12, a group gathered in the auditorium of St. Francis School to open bids on the new school and gymnasium. The design of the new school and gym was created and developed by T. Ewing Shelton, an architect from Fayetteville, Arkansas, and he holds the copyright on it. The design is being used under license in Missouri and Kansas by Missman and Matthews, architects from Springfield, Missouri. There were ten bids on the buildings, but the contract will not be let for several more days due to some details yet to be worked out. St. Paul Journal, September 18, 1952. This Sunday evening a basket dinner will be held at College Hall to honor Father Miles Bero, C. P. Following the dinner, a baseball game will be held at Miles Field, the city baseball electric lighted field that was made possible by the untiring efforts of Father Miles. This is the first reference we recall in the Journal to the naming of the field after Father Miles. St. Paul Journal, September 7, 1950. Editor's Note: If we are fortunate enough to have a baseball field / sports area on the Phelan property in the future, some thought should be given to an appropriate name for the park. The first football practice for the first St. Paul High School football team will be Monday morning, August 30, with another that evening. Practices will be twice each day for the first week. The team's schedule includes eight games, with four home and four away. St. Paul Journal, August 19, 1954. Jim Carter is currently in Saipan with the 2nd Division, known as the toughest Marines on earth. One of his brothers said he was doubly proud of the fact that he had a brother in that outfit. Gilbert is in China and in charge of a B-29 bomber. Glen has entire charge of ships with the LSM engines. St. Paul Journal, August 17, 1944.
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