HAVE YOU RENEWED YOUR tUBtCRIPTIONf WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Life Insnrance Society Fraternity Protection Service BRtTTON M. MOORE v Sylva Representative Sylva, N. C. Take Advantage Of This SP]ECIAL OFFER $19.75 INSTALLATION CHARGE FREE! From now until December 24th, we are offering Free installation for either the standard or apart ment size Gas Range, saving you $19.75, and with the standard size range we will also include one 100 lb. cylinder of gas absolutely FREE! This offer is for a limited time only ... A BEAUTIFUL GAS RANGE MAKES A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT , . . . Buy Now and Save! MOODY RULANE GAS SERVICE Phone 519-J Waynesville Church Street Gift Ideas For Christmas We list here only a few of the many gift items to be found in our store . . . lovely and practical gifts for every member of the family. Electric razor. Quick, easy to use. 'An electric washing machine tgift that will last (or years. .Electric Percolator ^ - y Electric Iron Electric Waffle Irons Electric Mixer SKLVA COAL Aid LUMBER CO. Phone 71 Sylva, N. C. ( Someone At Christmas By CARLE FREEMAN rlE little gift shop was crowded when Nancy entered it, but al most immediately she noticed Larry Bryant. She sensed the usual disturbance/At ^sight of him, and recalling the trend of her thoughts for the past several minutes] brought a flush of warmth to her cheeks. She'd been thinking, some what resentfully, as she went a long the busy streets of the little town, how unfair it was that Christmas had come before she could get acquainted with some one in Davenshire?Larry Bryant, for instance, departmental head at the electric plant where she worked. Christmas wasn't Christ mas unless it could be shared with someone. And now Larry was standing at the dish counter deciding about a pair of ^ttie green rabbit salt and pepper shakers. It didn't matter particularly that he'd buy the shakers?aside from the signifi cance of such an act?but she'd had her own heart set on them more or less fo- a week. Larry had been in the shop every afternoon 'hat she'd been there, but this was his first time at the dish counter. The little shakers were as good as gone. The other day when she'd look ed at them, the sales girl had s'aid. "Better buy them.' These are the last ones, and they, are a bargain at eight dollars. They came all the way from Sweden." "I know?" Nncy had said, but -he had thought they'd be an ex travagance and look out of place on the little table in her corner kitchenette at Lil Ranson's old rooming house. Then there'd be no jne to admire them?only herself. "They might be gone the next time you come," the girl had said when Nancy left the counter. But they'd been there the next time Nancy went back to the little gift shop. Every afternoon for a week they'd been there, as if awaiting for her to make up her mind to buy them. Nancy held her breath as she watched Larry from a distance. For now sbe knew that if he didn't take the shakers, she'd buy them ' herself. But even as Nancy watched, she saw him hand the shakers to a clerk. She tried to push her disap pointment aside and select an in expensive little gift for one of her co-workers at the plant. Tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and the em ployees and officials of the plant had drawn names as part of a gift-giving program they'd planned to have about the huge, gayly dec orated tree in the arched entrance. Nancy dreaded the occasion, more so now than before. She re gretted the day she'd left her home own to take a better job at Daven shire. Why hadn't she waited until after Christmas to make the change! When the time came the next Fontana Registrations Reported By T. V. A. FONTANA DAM ? Registration of visitors to Fontana Dam total ed 490,122 ior the first nine months of 1948, the Tennessee Valley Au thority has reported. States having the highest reg istration included: North Carolina, 147,073; Tennessee, 138,817; Geor gia, 27,071; Florida, 18,256; South Carolina. 21,465; Alabama, 15, 445. Also Ohio, 15,169; Illinois, 13, 087; Kentucky, 13,050; Virginia, 10.872; Michigan, 9,033; New York, 9,901; Indiana, 7,020. Forty-four foreign countries had registrations totaling 616. An electric roaster is a useful supplement to the kitchen range rather than a substitute for it. That's the opinion of home equip ment specialists for the 0. S. De partment of Agriculture. day for the program, Nancy took the gift that was handfed to her1 and slipped from the crowd. She wouldn't be missed, she thought bitterly, as she hurried from the building. Snow fell softly about her in a gentle burst from the dark sky, and the ring o{ VQices from the plant followed her in a kind of haunting, sad beauty. Inside her apartment she look ed down at the gayly wrapped package in her hands through a blur of tears. It was the only Christmas gift she'd received, and it had been given only because someone had drawn her name. She unwrapped the package, and suddenly the blur cleared to reveal the little green rabbit salt and pepper shakers with the long, saucy ears?one up and one limp ing down provocatively. Her heart thrummed in her throat. Larry had drawn her name. But the cost of the gifts they were to exchange was not to go over twenty-five cents! Lil Ransom called up the stairs. "You're wanted o;i the phone, and 'tis a man." Nancy placed the little shakers carefully on the table and turned to the door. The hum of "Silent] Night" came from Lil Ransom's' radio up the sweep of stairs, and Nancy found herself singing the words softly as she dashed down them, for she knew even before' she heard his voice whcrwas wait i ing for her on the telephone. Merriment, laughter, the shrill sound of children's voices, Christmas Carols ?we could name a hundred joys of the ? Yuletide Season ? May they All be ? yoursl w ^ W ' J ^ I Sylva Tire Co. Main Street Phone 58 Sylva, N. C. May your Yuletide be gay% Your family near,~ May your table be laden with food. May all our good wishes extended today For happiness, health and good cheer Bring you and your friends and those^ou hold dear ?a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Furniture Company SYLVA, N. C.