Bobby Dowalter News Today

Reflections: Wrapping up the Christmas holiday By Evelyn Long - Contributing Columnist I find it interesting to read how Christmas was celebrated in Cardington in past years — for instance, in 1899 there was a Soldiers Feast which “closed out the year.” Held in the G. A. R. Hall on Christmas Night the writer described those attending as “marching along the streets to the hall but with no guns on their shoulders nor knapsacks on their backs.” Instead they were carrying baskets of food ...