KEEPING MEMORIES ALIVE

A photo of the old Millersville store and a newspaper clipping about Dona Fellows are just a sampling of the many items Fellows has collected.

War ration books are included in Fellows' collection.

If you'd like to see a picture of one of the Millersville store fires, newspaper clippings about the rocking polio bed purchased in 1952 for St. Francis Hospital's polio wing, postcards showing the city of Jackson in the 1900s, church bulletins and memorabilia from 200 years of American Methodism celebration, war ration books, pictures and clippings from a host of other events, Dona Fellows of Millersville can probably help you.

Fellows began keeping a diary in 1959 but soon found that wasn't going to be enough to house the material she had been accumulating. From the diary she progressed to scrap books and her latest, number 25, is just as interesting as the first.

In addition to the scrap books, there are many albums just containing photos.

"When I retired from the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service Office, I took each picture out of the album and wrote on the back the names of the people, the time and the place of the picture," said Flowers. "I have so many of my mother's old photos with people that I have no idea who they are and I didn't want that to happen to my pictures."

Fellows most prized scrap book is the one that celebrates 200 years of American Methodism. "I kept an account of all the activities that went on throughout the entire year celebration," said Fellows. She is still active in the church and plays the organ every Sunday.

Fellows has allowed the Signal to borrow some of her photos. Be sure to look for them in future editions.