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Sa ferences are forgotten and friendships are
J®) bound together in a closer relationship, when
$8 worries are left behind and the future looks
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js Pine Furniture , Elkin, N. C.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
OFFERS TO BUY
HIS OWN PANTS
South Boston Man Will Pay
$lO for Stolen Trousers,
or Will Sell the Coat
WITHIN 10-MILE RADIUS
South Boston, Va., Dec. 19
This strange want-ad appeared
In a local paper this week, Insert
ed by E. J. Wyatt, Jr., promi
nent local citizen:
"If the person who came into
my home on or about December
10 and removed from the rack
one pair of trousers, which had
not been worn, in that they had
just been received from the tail
or, will return those trousers to
me, I will pay a reward of $lO, or,
if the trousers fit the person who
removed them, I will be very glad
to sell the coat to him for the
sum of $lO, and he will have a
suit of clothes that match, that
are well worth the sum specified.
I shall be very glad to co-operate
to this extent, Viz: will deliver
the coat anywhere within a ra
dius of ten miles. This offer is
only good until December 24 at
6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. I
am very anxious to get this mat
ter adjusted, as I do not wish the
Christmas season ,to catch me
with any unfinished business.
With the season's greetings, I am,
"Most cordially yours."
Patronize Tribune advertisers.
They appreciate your business.
Mattie Mae Powell
NOTARY PUBLIC
Building & Loan Office
Main Street
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(A CHRISTMAS STORY)
By Roter Whttltr
drab room over
£/ looked a snow-covered
eoof. Not the clean, cheery
now like they had back home
on the farm but a murky gray
covering on which rested soot
of a thousand city chimneys.
"So this is Christmas," she
moaned, leaving her chair to pace
the fibor. "Oh! What I'd give to
he back home tomorrow!"
But then, Edith had two Christ
mas presents to which she could
look forward. Today, Christmas
eve, the mailman MUST bring her
annual package from home. And
tomorrow there would be Christmas
dinner with Ken— dear Ken who was
working so hard these days that he
could hardly
Eitßi take time off to
think about
I Christmas.
1 Edith beard
j I the bell ring
j downstairs and
I she skipped to
her door, open
ing it softly and
! waiting tensely
I , while the old
' landlady, an
swered.
Yes, it was the mailman! And
,then came the shrill cry: "Miss
Harris! Some mail for youl"
Edith .practically leaped down
stairs, for there would be her pack
age from home. Then her heart
sank, for the landlady handed her
only two letters, a greeting card
from her friend Margie and (of all
things at Christmas!) a bill from
the department store.
Edith climbed sorrowfully back to
her room and wept Something was
wrong, for Mother and Dad never
forgot her at Christmas. She cried
spasmodically the rest of the day,
while downstairs she heard the
other roomers shouting Christmas
greetings as they arrived and de
parted.
But finally Edith consoled herself,
for she could still look' forward to
Christmas dinner with Ken tomor
row!
He was due at two o'clock that
day, and after church Edith hurried
home to get ready. At 1:30 she
was seated resUessly awaiting the
doorbell.
She was still waiting at 2:30, for
Ken did not arrive. And Edith was
getting hungry.
Three o'clock passed, and Edith
frowned.
"What could have happened to
him?' 'she asked herself.
At four o'clock she cried. It was
too much! First her family had for
gotten, and now Ken had chosen
Christmas day to tell her in this
painful fashion that he didn't care!
At 6 p. m. misery began mingling
with the pangs of hunger. Edith put
on her coat and started to the corner
restaurant. But she never got past
the door. There she ran into a
breathless Ken.
"Edith, dear!" he cried. "Sorry
to be so late, but I knew you'd un
derstand when you got my note."
"But—" Edith was confused, "I
didn't receive any note, Ken."
"What? But I sent a special de
livery message when the boss asked
me to finish that
close the door,"
she barked from JP¥ | J jjpj }
the hall. Then—
"lncidentally, Miss Harris, I for
got to give you these things. They
arrived this afternoon."
She handed Edith the missing spe
cial delivery letter—and a huge
package from home! Edith tore into
the Christmas box and found a note
from Mother. They'd had a bliz
zard; couldn't get to town; she
hoped Edith would get the package
Christmas day.
A few minutes later a happy Edith
sat across the table from her Ken
in the littie restaurant around the
corner.
"And now, dear," he began very
carefully. "How about your Christ
nas present for me?"
"But I gave you the fountain pen,
Ken," she protested.
"Yes, silly one, and I appreciated
it. But if you want to make me
still happier, listen to this. The boss
came in tonight and said I'd done
such a fine job on that research
project that he was raising my sal
ary. Know what that means?"
"Not the faintest idea," Edith lied.
For, after all, you can't take the
words out of a man's mouth when
he's about to propose!
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Badger Feaat
One of the strangest surviving
Christmas customs is the badger
feast held at Ilchester, Somerset It
was started by poachers in Norman
times, says the Montreal Herald,
'and has continued without, a break.
The lads of the village catch a
badger, kill and dress it some time
before the feast On Christmas eve
it is strung on a spit over a huge
fire at the inn and cooked slowly.
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