f 'v*. ' ; * >/ ' Thursday, Dec. 17, 1925 ■i LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS ear Santa Clans: - v I am a little girl 0 years old. I gs) school every day. and I like my aehor. I want you to bring me a ill ami carriage and a blanket to I up the baby doll in, and all kinds good things to eat. Your little friend. MARY HELfcN BRYANT. 57 Valley St., Concord. X. C. nr Santa Claus: I am a little boy 5 years old. I nt you to bring me a wagon, and cap pistol, and fruits of all kinds, id dear Santa Claris, remember dad and -mother. Yeur little fr’end, ' FRANK BRYANT.. 57 N. Valley St., Concord, N. C. ar Santa Clans: kt am a little girl 2 years-' old. I fnt you to bring me a kiddie car. d baby doll, and fruits of all kinds: Your little friends. EDITH LOUISE BRYANT. 37 X. Valley Street. 'ar Santa Claus: I am a little boy 10 years old. I to school every day and like my idler just fine. I won’t you to bring ? a pair of skates, and a cap pistol id also lots of good fruit to eat. Your friend. TED BRYANT, 57 Valley St„ Concord, N. C. 00 Bell Ave., Concord, N. C. Ify Dear Santa: It is almost time foj you to come, io please bring me a cowboy suit, a pi n and a knife. Wishing you a merry Christman, Your little friend. HORACE GARDNER. P. S.—Please bring me a ring. •118 N. Church St., Route, 2, Concord, N. C. Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl three years old. I want you to bring me a doll and doll •arriage, a pretty little ring and a I 101 l dresser, also some candy and nuts |n my stocking. Love. ROANNA UMBERGER. Dec. I t. 1025, i Concord, N. C. Dear Santa : 1 I am a little girl !) years old. lam Icing to school and having a good Bme. I Want .jou to bring me a dolL parriage, a tea set. n doll bed anil lots of cnwdy Wnd-'mitS. - ■TTfTTIIr'oT father and mother. I * Your very trillv, NELLIE DALLIS. Concord. N. C.. Route 5. December 14, 1025. Dear Santa: fIHHHIr Wtr »-/yl Mb Mm \ Jfw j? wTjflntl i ' SKk 1 // Gold Stripe, Sheer Silk At> Ravel Stop , ; * »00 K Nebel, full fashioned (hi nr* j Silk Hose «P 1 .DO H m Q-C Full Fashioned Silk (hi p« I 1 Priced «P1»aO \ ' Pure Thread Silk d>| j r 1 Jfl 'mm ar** n OS e T ' One table of Silk Hose 93c I One Table of Silk £SO 1 /ffIMS H Hose tjt OOC [J J|ff % Regular and Out Sizes ■ ; There's No Place For Valpes Like EFIRD’S I 'J There are seven children in the family. Tlieir .names- are Dewitt, Daisy, Arl : e. Martha, Mae, Chester 8.. Claud and Melvin. Dewitt wants a shot gun. Daisy wants a (101 l bed and a tea set. Ariie wants a doll bed mid a little stove. Martha wants a doll carriage and piano. Chester B. wants a little car and a train. Claud wants a little wagon and a horn. Mel vin wants.a little ping rattler and be sure to bring lots of candy and nuts of ail kinds. Be surw anti' think of father and mother. Yours very truly, DAISY GREEN. Concord. N. C.. Dec. 17. 1f)25. Dear Santa : We nre little girls 2 and 4 years old. We want you to bring u* c.-p-h a baby doll, a bed ami nuts and fruits oflall kinds. Please remember father and mother. Your little girls, HAZEL and McEACHERN. 'Concord, N. C„ Dec. 17, 1025. Dear Santa: I am a little boy 8 years old. Am in the third grade at school. Miss Adele Pemberton is my teacher. I like her fne. I want you to bring me a pair of gloves, a wagon and train, nuts and fruit” of all-kinds. Your pal. • DAVID MeEACHERN. 70 Vance St., Concord. N. C. December Dear Snnta Clads: I am a little boy 7 years old. I want you to bring me a scooter, a train and some firecrackers trhd all kind of nuts and fruits. Please don’t forget my little sister and brother. Please fill their stockings full, and leave them each a toy. Your little friend. HUGH BUNN. Denr Santa Claus: Bring me a new doll and a row. and’ some candy and some nuts and fruits. l>o not forget mother and father. We have a little baby. Bring her a little rjtttler. ELIZABETH BARNIIARDT. Dear Santa Claus: Bring me a little doll, a pnir of skates and a skate key. nuts and candy hnd fruits. Your little friend. CATHARINE EARNHARDT. i Dear Santa Claus: I want a little doll, and a little duck and some candy and nuts and fruits. Your little friend. AGNES BARNHARDT. i Dear Santa Claus: l< lam « little girl three yenip old. I I would like for you to bring me a tel i - '£pTiohe.'T)nb.v dbTI. carriage, kiddie "Far. horn, candy, nuts and lots of fruit. I want you to bring my sister a ko dak, an eversharp pencil and lots of candy, nuts and fruit. Yuor little friend, VARGARET LOUISE BRUMLEY, 123 South Spring Street. 1 311 N. Kerr St., Concord, N- C. December 15, 1!»25. Dear Santa Claus:’ I am a little boy eight years old. I go to school. Ain in the third grade. Please bring me an automobile. -Your; little friend, DWIGHT EURY. Concord. N. C„ Dec. 17. 1925. Dear Santa Claus: ' 1 am u little girl 4 1 want you to bring me a baby doll and a tricycle and candy and nuts and fruits. Don’t forget father nisi moth er and grandma. Your friend.* MARGARET FRANCES BARX IIAItDr. Concord, X. C.. Der. 17. 1925. Dear Santa Claus': 1 am a little girl 9 years old. 1 go to school. lam in the third grade. I want you to bring be a baby doil and a packetbsoh and candy and nuts and fruits. Don’t forget father and moth er and grandma. From your friend. „ LOUISE BARNHARDT. KaniiapoFw, N. C., Dec. It!, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 5 years old. .1 want you to bring me a bab.v doll wrapped in a blanket, a doll swing, t#ddy bear, trunk and a tea set. please bring some .candy, rtuts and fruit. - Your little curly headed girl. JACQUELINE THORNTON. Mt. Pleasant, N. C. Dear Claus: I am a little girl 9 years old. Am hi the fifth grade. Please bring me a mama doll with big blue eyes. Ami fill stockings with huts and candy. Please don’t forget the little boys on the "hill”. Your little friend. • GENEVA HAH}.' 408 West Ave.. Kannapolis. N. C: December 14, 1925. Dear Santa: I am a sweet little girl. I am only two years old. Please bring me a (101 l that has on slippers, that can say “mama.” and go to sleep. Please fill my stocking full of, candy and nuts. Your little friend. WYNENA HONEYCUTT. j 408 West Ave., Kannapolis, X. C. December 14. 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I nin a little boy five years old. I have been a good little boy. Please bring me a wago’n and an automobile, airplane and apples, oranges, candy 1 and nuts. , Your little friend, RAY HONEYCUTT. — e — * Concord, N. C., Dec. 15, 1925. Dear Santa: » I am 8 years old. Am in the first grade. Please bring me a ball bat, and a watch, and some fruit. • Your friend. JAMIE ERVI£. , rircamis. N’ cr, De«. Lt-TUgS... . Dear Old Santa : lam a little boy five years old. I ' want you to bring me lots of toys. I want a gun that will shoot rabbits and birds. I want a born just like the one you blow on Christmas night. Santa Claus, I have n little brother THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE named Dewey. He is three years old. He wants a gun like mine and a wagon that he can ride in. Then please fill our stockings with good candy, ami fruits. Please eome, San-! ty. We go to bed early on Christmas! night. Your little boy. COLUMBUS HOUGH. Cabarrus, X. C„ Dcs 14. 1925. Dear St. Nick: I am a litfle girl seven years old. I go to school every day and am in the! second grade. I like my teacher and all my classmates. Now. St. Nick, I I want you to bring me a pretty doll, j one with curly-hair and can say "ma ma.” And please bring lots of candy, apples and oranges. / * j Yopr little girl. EI.ZEXA HOUGH. I . Concord/N. Brown Mill. R. 0. j December 15. 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am seveen years old. and am going to school every day. I opi In tile first grade. 1 love my teacher. Her 'came is Miss Helen Widenhouse. I want you to bring me for Christ rims a train on a track, a ball, a B. B. gun. some shot, firecrackers, seme fruits, candy and nuts. Your friend. MURIEL BEAMON. Kannapolis, X. €.. Dec. It!. 1925. I am a little boy five years old. I want you to bring me a wagon, a ! gun and a ring. Be sure and .don't | forget to bring Earl and Grady | Brown something. Your little friend. HARRY FLOWE BARNHARDT, Jlt. Dear Santa Claus: I am a boy 7 years old, and I want you to bring me a scooter to ride to school upon. Bring me a pair of leg gins and a little car. Also a steam sfioveht I want some nuts, candy and fruit. Thanks. < BILLY MORRISON. Kannapolis, N. C., Dec. 16, 1925. Denr Sauta Claus: 1 am a little boy 7 years old. lam in the second grade. I want you to please eome to see me and bring me a scooter, a big ball, fruit and. some nuts.- Don't forget my mother and my sister. Your little friend, - J. W. Cooke. Cabarrus, N. C., Dec. 15, -1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl almost three years old. Please bring me a doll and car riage. some candy, apples, oranges, nuts and chewing gum. And anything you think would be nice for a little girl like me. Your little friend, FRANCES McEACHERN. Cabarrus. X. C.. Dec. 15, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl seven years old. I go to school. Am in the second grade. Plwwe bring me a doll and .carriage, : aiuh'a nice big tea set, some (candy, apples, oranges, raisins, fruits and nuts of all kinds. Your little friend, MARJORIE McEACHERN. Mt. Pleasant, N. C., D,ec. 16, 1925. Dear Santa Clans: This is my first letter to you. I am a little boy 8 years old. I want you to bring me a train and a tool box full of tools, and apples, nuts of all kinds and candy. f Your little friend, PAUL HAHN, JR. Oakboro, N. C„ R. 2, Dec. 16, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 8 years old. I go to school at Eudy and am in the third grade. 1 like my teacher fine. I want you to bring me an air rifle and train, some candy, nuts and fruits. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. WALTER SMITH. Your little friend. P. S.—Don’t forget my little broth er, Clarence. Bring him toys too. Mt. Pleasant, N. C., Dec. 15, 1925.' Ddar Santa Claus: I have been trying to be a good lit tle boy this year. I want you ,to bring me a steam shovel and. Dear old Santa, please bring me a pair of I gloves, and a tool bok with lots of | tools in it, and some candy, nuts and | lots of. fruit. Your little friend, ROBERT MOOSE. 65 S. Church Street. Dear Santa: Please bring me a scooter, an elec tric tarain and lots of fruit. CHAS. GOODMAN, JR. Mt. Pleasant, Dec. 16, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a- little girl five years old. Please bring me a tea sot and and jmioin, a chair and table and doll, lots of nuts, candy, apples and oranges. VIRGINIA TROUTMAN. Mt. Pleasnnt, Dec. 17, 1925. - Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 3 years old. Please bring me u kiddie car and a ,dog, a broom, and great big doll that can say “mama,” lots of candy, nuts, apples and oranges. Your friend, ELVIRABELL TROUTMAN. Harrisburg, N. C., R. 1, Dec. 16. Dear Sauta Claus: I am 'a little girl twelve years old. I go .to school- Am in the sixth glade. I want you to bring me some candles and sewing basket and also bring me some apples, oranges, candy and nuts. ' Your 'little friend, LOUISE MOTLEY. a— Mt.< Pleasant, Dec. 15, 1025. Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl twelve years old. Am In the sixth grade. My teacher's name is Miss Nora \ 'Klutts. I like her fine. Santa, plense bring me a doll carriage, a drawing book, a story book and a box of stationery. You need not bring me a doll for I. Jiave one. Bring me lots of fruits, candy and nuts. Please remember papa and world’s ▼ /ITF (NATIONWIDE reliable ZT II LI INSTITUTION- I rr^JlwreimeyvQ DEPABTMEN'T STOKES ERK " 50-54 SOUTH UNION STREET, CONCORD, N. C. /jilff ideal cuadpraeHccxl tKry4y TtoUdoy "bax'yeTsf X 1 f ad it you Have teen worrying about the paucity of ideas in your l / ivil4lxlymUvij 1 mind for Christmas gifts, your worries are ended when you vishi | | this Store, for we have literally scores of timely suggestions foij V r XT JT presents to men, women, and children 1 jjfjf A Large Selection of 11 1 Thoughtful Gifts! rajUplL There are gifts which people will use and enjoy tEorougUyT _ You can economize, too, by making your selections hare and ypui; _ presents are bound to ke all-pleasing. •" . . ... mama. Don’t forget anyone, lour Jittle girl, TEXA FISHER. Harrisburg, R. 1, Dec. 16, 1925. Dear Santa Claus : I am a little boy six years old. Pie ise bring me a baby doll and a lit-1 tie wagon. I want all that Sauta Claus has got, and a supply of candy, apples, oranges, all kinds of nuts. Your little friend. ZEB MOTLEY. Harrisburg R. 1. Deo. 17, 1925. llmtr.Sauta Claus: I am a little girl ten years old. Please Snnta, bring me n bab.v doll and a carriage for it, and also bring some candy, apples, oranges, raisins and all kinds of nuts. Your little friend, NORA MOTLEY. Mt. Pleasant. Dec. 15, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl eight years old. I am in the third grade. Please bring me twin beds for my dolls, a toy vic trola, a book, and 4 skudder car. Do no! forget to bring Patsy, Yvonne and Nortnan something nice. Ybur litfle friend. DAPHNE ROSE BUNN. Mt. Pleasant, Dec. 15. 1925. Dear Old Santa : I am a little boy eight years old. I go to school every day. Am in the second grade. My teacher’s name is Miss Bessie Heilig. I like her fine. Please bring me a coaster wagon, a horn nnd a rubber ball, and lots of oranges, apples, raisins ami candy of all kinds and nuts. Your little boy. JOHNNIE FISHEB. P. S. —Don’t forget papa and mama. Mt. Pleasant, Dec. 16, 1925. ] Dear Santa Claus: i lam a little girl five years old. I : have a little brother three years old. Will you please bring me a doll car riage, and a big doll. Beeckic wants a steam shovel and anything that you care to bring. Please go see all the little girls and boys.and don’t forget the real old folks. Your little (friends, RUTH AND BEECKIE MUSE. Kannapolis, R. 1, Dec. 15, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 5 yeqrs old. I* want you to bring me a doll carriage nnd doll bed and trunk, and candy, apples, oranges, raisins nnd all kinds of nuts, and -n little telephone. Your little friend, MARY ELIZABETH WALKER. Concord, N. C„ Dec. 16, 1925. Denr Santa: I am a little boy three years old. I want you to bring me an automobile, drum, horn, train, and an airplane, and fruits, enudies and nuts of all kinds. Your little friend, C. C. LITTLE, JR. P. S.—Don’t forget little sister, daddy, mother and Letha. Dec. 16, 1926. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy seven years old. I want you to please bring me a cow boy suit, a race track, an electric train, auto dump truck, some grapes and tangerines, Your little friend, ROBERT M. COOK, JR. Concord, N. C., Dec. 15, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: , I am a little boy fivg years old. I want you to bring me a stopper gun and a coaster wagon and nuts, fruits and candy of all kinds. Your little friend, JAMES CALDWELL. 30 N. Kerr Street. Concord Route No. 7. Dear Santa Claus : Please remember two little girls and ] a little boy. Our father is dead and 1 my grandmother is sick in bed, and ] mama lias to tend to her. So please i bring ns what you think we five need. 1 Trusting to you for what we get we | are 11, 7 and 4 years old. HELEN, ELDORA and CURTIS | I ALEXANDER. I Concord, N. C., Dec. 15, 1025. ! Dear Santa Claus: , i I nm a little girl five years old. I ] want you to bring a baby doll and trunk and little bed and tea set. Please ■don’t forget my little brother. Bring \ him some toys too, nuts and fruit and < candies of all kinds. Your friend, i HELEN SLOOP. ' OS Kerr Street. 08 S. Spring St.. Concord. N. yC. | December 15, 1025. i My dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 18 years old, and i am in the second grade, and like my 1 teacher fine. Please bring me a pair of gloves and a pair of blue bed rom i slippers. You need not bring any baby 1 doll as I have four. You can bring , me some candy, apples, oranges, nuts, grapes, and most anything else you \ see fit to bring me. I hope you will think of mother and daddy too. I hope you will have a good Christmas, Santa Claus. Your little friend, ELLEN MAE MOOSE. P. S. —I wish you good luck until 1 next Christmas. 08 S. Spring St., Coftcord, N. C. December 15, 1925. My Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy just 0 years old. I go to school every day and like my teacher fine and I warn you to bring me a pair of long pants and a pair of gloves, and some toys and some candy, apples, grapes, oranges, and • all kinds of nuts. I hope you will ■ think of all the little children this 1 Christmas. So I wish you a happy i Christmas. This is from your little ‘ fripnd, ■* JAMES ANDREW MOOSE. W. Franklin St., Mt. Pleasant. Dear Santa Claus: We are little girls five years old. We want you to please bring us each a doll, and fill our stockings full of nuts and candy. Please don’t forget ‘ “Hallick” and “Shullie,” We are . your little friends, i ZULA LOWDER and FAY MOOSE. 187 N. Kerr St., Concord, N. C. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a tea set, doll baby, a carriage, and heaps of nuts and can dies. I have a little brother, one year old. Don’t forget him. Santa bring him a ball and some blocks and a horn, and rocking horse. That’s all. Please don’t forget mother and daddy. HELEN PLOTT. Rockwell, Route 1, Dec. 18, 1925. Dear Santa Claus: Nothing pleases me better than to write you a letter telling you what to bring sister and me for Christmas. My name is Faye. lam six years old, and go to school every day. I like my teacher fine. I want a large doll', a box of colors, and lots of fruits of all kinds. Sister's name is Inez. She is four years old. She wants a doll, a finger ring, and lots of candy. Santa, please remember the things we want. Your little friends, FAYE and ,INRZ KLUTTZ. Going Up. • Conductor: “I just got a set of bal loon tireq.” Mrs. Conductor: "Why, George, I didn’t think you had a balloon.” OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOQOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGOOOOOOQ | Come in and look over our line of ij § Christmas Rolls for Your Player Piano QRS and Vocalstyle X Cathedral Memories Medley of Christmas Hymns 11 j Silent Night, Holy Nig;ht X It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | Snowflakes X Jingle, Bells X Christmas Jingles | X Fireside Songs X Santa Claus Time i X Star of the East * ! ! 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