Hunt Co., TX - Lemmie R. Jones, Sr., 1922 CHS Graduate Writes;
Praises Courier; Mentions Joys & Heartaches of Yesteryear, 1954
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Lemmie R. Jones, Sr., 1922 CHS Graduate Writes; Praises Courier;
Mentions Joys and Heartaches of Yesteryear, 1954

                    Mrs. Opal Hammond, Publisher

                        The Celeste Courier
                          Celeste, Texas

Dear Editor:

    The first copy of "The Celeste Courier" arrived today and I want to
express my appreciation for the good looks of the printing and especially for
the news in it.  Your advertising has such fine appeal and it makes me want to
drive up from Tyler to trade with my Celeste friends.  The Celeste people
ought surely to help you continue such a fine advertising medium for Celeste
and trade territory.  I believe they will.

    While in Celeste recently, I visiting the fine school of which I was a
1922 graduate.  I am deeply interested in this 1922 class because we had joys
and heartaches (we thought) along the way and we learned to love each other
like brothers and sisters.

    The 1922 class members were Lister Armstrong, Leon Armstrong, Herman
Hudson, Lewis Holland, Neeley Pinkston, Roach Arnold, Odis Medlin, Janie
Comer, Ethel Fields, Lyndon Lewis, Jestena Pierce, Eunice Thompson, Frances
England, Gladys Medlin, and Lemmie Jones.

    I suppose the girls have changed their names and the boys have grown gray,
or bald-headed, or fat, but I would be so interested in hearing from them.  I
do not  know if they are all still living.  Some of them I know where they
are, but it would be so wonderful to hear from all of them again and I will
appreciate it should you find space in your good paper to print, at least a
portion of this letter, and in that way maybe hear about all of them from some
source.

    Our motto in our class of 1922 was "Climbing Higher Still."  I feel that
this wonderful class is still climbing higher and some day, if not on earth,
then surely in Heaven, we will have another class meeting and all be together.

Cordially yours,

Lemmie R. Jones, Sr., Pastor

Dean Baptist Church

222 N. Border

Tyler, Texas
((March 29, 1954, The Celeste Courier)