• Columbia Book Club member Mrs. David Heskamp had given an impressive summary review of Thomas B. Costain's "The Black Rose" on December 1. The Club met at the home of Mrs. Horace Cundiff and members were served delicious refreshments during the social hour.


• Lt. Asa M Shelton, former Dean at Lindsey Wilson Junior College had been given terminal leave from the military in late November after three years of service, including 19 months in England, France and Germany. (After a brief stay in Columbia, Mr. Shelton & family removed to Louisville, but they returned to Columbia within a year or so when he resumed the position of Dean at Lindsey Wilson.)


• A Nazi Buzz Bomb, of the kind "used with such destructive power against England..." would be on display in Somerset on Sunday, December 9. The Somerset Army Recruiting Station was in charge of the show.


• The Columbia Methodist Church was participating in a nationwide Visitation Evangelism Crusade; the (Sunday School) Promotion League was to hold its quarterly meeting on Sunday, December 9 at the New Hope Church at Ella; and the Columbia Baptist Church had given $1,146.79 to the Building Fund of the Kentucky Baptist Children's Home, Glendale, and the Louisville Baptist Orphans' Home, Louisville.


• Mason Judd, local contractor recently released from the armed forces, had started work the previous week on new brick residence on Greensburg Street for Mr. & Mrs. J.R. Kerbow. The announcement stated it would be "one of Columbia's better homes when completed."


• Mr. & Mrs. Bayard Antle, after several years residence in Louisville, had returned to Columbia and Mr. Antle had accepted a teaching position at Knifley.


• A Victory Loan Bond Rally was to be held on Friday, December 7, at 2 o'clock p..m at the Court House. Businesses were asked to close from 2:00 to 3:30 that day during the rally and bond auction. Several prizes were being offered, and Bond Rally chairman Garnett Young was quoted as saying, "A solid investment in Victory Bonds is the best way to safeguard the peace that has cost us so much in men and money."

• Opening day (December 3) tobacco prices, at a statewide average of $48.13 per hundred weight, was believed to be the highest ever paid.


• Mr. & Mrs. Horace Cundiff had recently sold their farm, better known as the Trabue Place, to Mr. & Mrs. Z.W. Cundiff. "This is one of the old plantation homes built by William Trabue in the year 1833."


• Mr. & Mrs. Frank Starks announced the recent arrival of son, Charles Starks Flowers. "Mrs. Starks and son will return tomorrow to the home of her parents, Dr. & Mrs. W.J. Flowers, of this city.


• Mrs. I.J. Willan had sold two lots to David Heskamp. One fronted on Campbellsville Street and the other, which had a barn, was just off Campbellsville Street.


• Three Green Countians had been baptized in the Columbia Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon.


• Fourteen year old George Bault, of Coburg, had been operated on for appendicitis the previous Friday.


• Bruce Akin had recently accepted a position with Columbia Motors, the local Chevrolet dealer.


• The Chamber of Commerce was to meet Thursday, December 6, at the New Adair Hotel; American Legion Post No. 96 was to hold a meeting at the same time at City Hall; and also meeting at that time was the Mary Martha Class of the Methodist Church, at the home of Mrs. E. Emerick & Mrs. Neal Nobles.


• Among the obituaries and death notices: W.L. Cravens, 44, "well-known insurance man of Russell Springs," November 29 in Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Lou Wolford Atkins, 80, widow of G.E. Atkins, November 29, in Louisville; & Lillie Redeford, 66, of Sparksville, November 28, at Glasgow Community Hospital.


• Mrs. S.F. Coffey had hosted a meeting of the Columbia Woman's Club on November 27 at her Burkesville Street home. Among other social and business activities, the members voted "to make and fill a number of Christmas stockings for Nichols, Bowman Field and Marine Hospitals in Louisville." (All three of these hospitals served mostly veterans.)


• The Woman's Club was sponsoring a Victory Collection of canned food for Overseas Relief. "[T]he generosity of American hearts will surely fill the larders of these devastated countries..."


• And last, but certainly not least, was a report that about 90 people had attended the first annual Columbia Chamber of Commerce banquet on Thursday night, November 29, held at the Columbia Christian Church. After the meal ("a delicious turkey dinner"), Columbia's own Azro Hadley, then serving as the Revenue Commissioner of Kentucky, introduced the evening's speaker, J. Stephen Watkins, chairman of the State Highway Commission, who told the crowd of anxious listeners about the "gigantic post-war program outlined for Kentucky."
  Over the next four years, 54 million dollars had been earmarked for Kentucky's highways, including several of local interest; to wit: "black topping of Highway 206 to Liberty, completion of the Wolf Creek Dam road; resurfacing of the Burkesville, Greensburg and Campbellsville Highways and replacing many narrow, hazardous bridges in this section."