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Thursday, December 26, 1940
THIS IS
OUR WISH
FOR YOU
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
We sincerely hope that the
New Year will be filled with
peace and contentment for all.
It'* a genuine pleasure to re
mind ourselves s. * the happy re
lationships we have enjoyed the
past year and to promise you
that every effort will be made
during the coming twelve
months to serve you as effi
ciently «s has always been our
custom.
ELKIN PLUMBING AND
HEATING COMPANY
Jones Holcomb, Prop.
Elkin, N. C.
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ance of JOHN "DEERE
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Burning the L,ow Cost Fuels, John Deere Tractors
Made a Clean Sweep of the Matches
HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
Rubber-Tired Events
$ ■
Place Make of Tractor Fuel Cost Fuel Cost
w . T i_ t\ „„„ , Contestant Per Gallon Per Acre
First John Deere "H" John Patterson 8.2 c 9.36 c
Second John Deere "H" • Lyle Mason 7.5 c 9.55 c
Third John Deere "A" Laurence Kohns 8.2 c 10.7 c
Fourth John Deere "H" Laurence Gummow 8.2 c 10.8 c
Fifth John Deere "H" Gernis Boothby L 8.2 c 12. c
The sixth entry, burning gasoline, had a fuel cost of 20.7 cents
per acre . . . 121 per cent, higher than No. 1 ... 71 per cent,
higher than No. 5 John Deere. One tractor, burning gasoline, '
had a fuel cost of 24.3 cents per acre. In the steef wheel events,
John Deere placed first and second with a fuel cost of 12c and *
13c respectively.
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He Married One
Bill: "Have you seen one of
those instruments which can tell
when a man is lying?"
Hank; "Seen one? I married
one!"
"ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of the estate of Mollie V. 1
Rinr late of Surry County, this
is to notify all persons holding
claims against said estate to pre
sent them to the undersigned
within one year from date of this
notice or same will be pleaded in
bar of th6ir recovery. All per
sons owing said estate will make
immediate settlement with the
administratrix. This the 4th day
of December, 1940.
ETTA R. PAUL,
Administratrix of Mollie V. Ring,
deceased.
W. M. ALLEN,
HOKE P. HENDERSON,
Attorneys. v 1-9
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The Fireplace Glowed With Logs,
BRICE HARPER stepped from
her train happily. A whole
month, with Christmas only ten days
away. That meant nearly three
weeks for after-Christmas jollifica
tion, skating, visiting round with
old friends and just squatted before
the big fireplace reading and talk
ing. Wouldn't Aunt Margaret and
Uncle Jake be pleased and sur
prised, for she had not written.
After three steady, grinding, monot
onous years in the department store,
it would be heavenly.
She flashed a look down the plat
form. Yes, there was wooden
legged Sam, the expressman.
Things hadn't changed a bit in three
years.
"Hoo-hoo!" she challenged.
The old expressman looked up,
stared, then stumped forward.
"Blest if 'tain't Brice Harper!"
he cried. "Back among your old
friends ag'in. Fine! Come to stay,
or a-visitin'?"
House Is Deserted.
"Just visiting, Uncle Sam —two
whole weeks, though. Out to Aunt
Margaret Holmes. After three
years! I'd never have believed I
could stay away that long. But 500
miles —too far for a poor girl to af
ford paying fare for a few days'
vacation. Now it's a month, though,
because I haven't taken a vacation
in so long. Can you take me and
my trunk right out? I'll ride with
you, and—"
"Ain't ye heered—had no letter
ner nothin'?" asked the old man,
whose face had been growing trou
bled.
"No-no. Anything the matter?"
"No, except they ain't there.
Your Aunt Marg'ret said Christmas
was so lonesome here she couldn't
spend another like the last So two,
three days ago she an' your Unele
Jack went into the next county to
spend Christmas with a cousin who
has a passlo o' children. I was by
there yes-day, an' the house did look
dismal all shot up."
"Isn't there any one to look after
them?"
"One o' the Dill boys was asked
to, I b'lieve. He—"
A shrill hail came from a store
front across from the station.
"S-say, Brice," wheedled the old
expressman, "would ye mind wait-|
in' three, four seconds? That mad'
shouter was Storekeeper Tomson.
Been, 'spectin' a box o' Christmas
stuff more'n a week, an' 'twas jest
throwed off this train. S'pose I take
the box 'cross to him, then come an'
carry you an' the trunk out to any
o' your girl friends? They'll all be
glad to have ye visit 'em.".
But Brice had been thinking rap
idly.
Invites Girl Friends.
"Take the box over to the stor/,,
Uncle Sam," she said, "and I'll run
across to the post office while you're
gone. I want to write some postals.
And no, I won't embarrass
my girl friends. You may carry me
right out to the farmhouse. I'know
where Aunt Margaret hides the
keys, and I'm perfectly sure she and
Uncle Jack would want me to go
right there and use everything as
my own. I'll take care of the poul
try," enthusiastically, "and I'll
roast one of the turkeys for Christ
mas and cook everything that goes
with it, pies and cakes and all.
Won't it be fun!"
"You can invite a lot of your girl
friends to eat with you," grinned the
expressman, entering into the spirit.
"Afterward," agreed Brice.
"They'll all want to eat at home on
Christmas. Then we'll have a round
German Priest, Schoolma;
"OILENT NIGHT," the favorite
Christmas carol, was written
by a German country priest and his
friend, the schoolmaster of a neigh
boring village, for a Christmas now
a century gone. After its first use
in 1&18, in a little Austrian town, it
gradually made friends until it
came to be known in all Germany
and, in translation, i$ many other
countries, observes * writer in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The author of the verses of "Stille
of nice times. But for the real
Christmas I'm going to depend on
their postals. There are lots of nice
girls in the department store who
haven't any home and who will have
to depend on the cheap boarding
houses they live at. I'll write a
postal to Aunt Margaret and to five
or six girls I know will be glad to
spend a week or ten days with me.
And say, Uncle Sam, I'll look round
and then make out a list of gro
ceries and other things I want you
to bring out, and—any place where
I can buy a Christmas tree?"
"Ain't none better than grow right
down on your uncle's place."
"All right. I'll get the Dill boy
to help, an' we'll rig up a nice
one.
"Need any Christmas present
stuff?" chuckled old Sam. "Mebbe
ye'd like to see Tomson pry the
cover off that box."
" 'Deed I would," promptly. "I'll
be right over from the post office."
The girls condemned to a pros
pective boarding-house Christmas
accepted Brice's invitation relieved
ly. On the third day Old Sam
brought the hilarious five out in his
ancient express wagon.
Then the girls piled in like a whole
jolly Christmas in itself, and the old
farmhouse seemed like to burst it
self. The Christmas tree was cut
and drawn honfe with all the appro
priate songs and carols and huzzas
they could think of, and trimmed
as never a Christmas tree had been
trimmed before. Dressed in all sorts
of costumes, the happy girls sang
hymns hour after hour, quitting
only when they were too tired to
continue.
And then, right in the midst of it
the hearty voice of Uncle Jack
roared through the door, mellowed
by the softer, happy laugh of Aunt
Margaret.
"I'm going to have that dinky
post office over there indicted," guf
fawed Uncle Jack. "Kept that post
al four days before the R. F. D.
deivered it. Fifteen minutes after
that we were on our way. Of course,
we had to come. Five girls
to help wake the old house up!
Whoopee! Why didn't you write so
we needn't have left the lonesome
place?" _
Need More Food.
"Why didn't you write so I'd have
known what to expect?" retorted
Brice.
"Lucky none of us did," laughed
Aunt Margaret, "for then we might
not have these five extra nice girls.
Come, I must get into the kitchen."
"But we've cooked and cooked,
and cooked, till—"
"Not enough," declared Aunt Mar
garet firmly, "no matter how much
you've done. There are all your old
friends that must be invited to
come—though they'll come,anyhow.
And we must invite a lot of extra
young people in evenings to help
keep things going. Then—my land!
There's a wagon-load outside. Cous
in Mary didn't want us to leave, so
we brought 'em all along. Jack's
going into town this evening to buy
what he can find. If any of your
girls want to go along he'd like
your S>mpany."
"But, Aunt Margaret, We've got
a tree ram-jammed full," protested
Brice.
"Not enough," firmly. "We can
pack on the floor under the tree.
Now I'm going into the kitchen.
Can't you see, girls," her firm voice
dropping pathetically, "being Christ
mas, I've just got to' cook some
thing."
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
ister, Wrote 'Silent Night'
Nachtl Heilige Nachtl' was Joseph
Mohr, born in Salzburg, Austria, in
1792. He was ordained a priest in
1815, and when he wfote the song
was assistant at Laufen, on the Sal
za, near Salzburg. Later he held
pastorates in various other places,
and died in 1848.
The schoolmaster of Arnsdorf,
near Laufeu, who wrote the music
of this and also of a number at
lesser known hymns, was Franz
Gruber, born in Hochburg in 1787.
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