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A Fourth of Juhj Santa Claus By Eleanor E. King '<#* ****. WsaUrn Nawtpapcr Union.) T WAS the great day of the Fourth of July, and Tommy, like all the other seven chil dren of the busy Alilster family was out bright and early. Tommy had a great friend in the lady next door. So, Tommy had learned, and, by the way, kept it a secret from the rest of the roop, (jat when his stomach growled too 9<ll7> If he were to go t j next door ,n»oat always could get a piece of beat bread and Jam, and perhaps ftn <in errand or two for her to ease jji conscience. tTommy, bright and early, had foqhd his way over to Mrs. Asklns’, as'be called her. She was busy get ting ready to go to a picnic. ^ “You see, Tommy,” she explained In answer to his questions, “this man WTtyo’ is coming with his cnr to take us opt tt> his house where we are to have our Picnic, is an old chum of Mr. Mas king. . As they loaded the things Into the Cjj Tojnroy trooped along and was in troduced to Sir. Miller. While they , . . there Tommy spied a balloon [fb coming down the street. As the of the horn grew nearer, Tom '* eyep enlarged. £,‘^ren’t those whoppers, though,’’ Tom my sighed. “Gee!" ‘i;'"Wouldn’t you like one, Tommy?” gitggasted Mr. Miller, digging into his ppekft. “Now, I’ll tell you, Tommy, if, ydd, know my name next year when I C0m« after these folks on the Fourth, fll.'buy you another balloon. ‘ tt was almost Christmas now, and Tbipmy was onee more In the Haskins Bjtc^ien, watching preparations for an other feast, but of a different sort. The most wonderful pies, cakes and fiftdllngs were being evolved. Sud denly. Tommy burst forth: “Say, Mrs. 'Asklns, do you remem beg what that man said?” ‘‘No. Tommy; what are you think ing aboutr -‘Do you suppose he will come back? Xgm know he bought me a balloon, n9 said If I remembered his name he •jjpifd buy me another when he came Of course he will," said Mrs. Has \**Oh, I am so glad. My mother she jtfst says I am silly when I ask her ijitf gays, T am too busy to be bothered with that, ltun along, now!' And you ghoW," Tommy hastened to add, “I bkreh't forgotten his name either. It's Mr. Miller.” ^kt'. night Mr. Miller dropped In n>r a minute at the Hasklnl’. Before S departure Mrs. HaskiSs had a merit of conversation with him He said, “All right,” leaving with' the merriest kind of a twinkle la hla eyes. Christmas Eve came. Daddy and Mother Allister were doing their best to'keep from looking sorrowful. They ‘X;. knew only too well that they could : linger beftn to give the children the nninber of things each wanted. The children had all gone to bed. Just Daddy and Mother Alllster were In the parlor fixing up a little, scraggly tree j whan a knock, evifr so gentle on the' front door, attracted their attention. , “I-am sorry to bother you at this hour, but I wanted to wait until I was sore Tommy Would be in bed. Per haps you would feel better to know my name—Miller," he said, shaking hnnds with Mr. Alllster after deposit ing his load on the table. "I’ve a tree outside here," and he hurried out to get It The next morning was never equaled In all the annals of the Alllster fam ily. Such excitement, such happiness. Tommy, after his recovery from sur prise and rapture over his toys, ran to his happy mother as she was try ing to get breakfast. Tugging at her gklrts, he said, "You see, mother, that men t met on Fourth of July was Santa Claus, and his name Is Mr. |flUer.” ■ The Christmas Message Christmas represents a great historic •vent and spiritual truth—the most important of all events, the most pre cious of all truths—no less than the coming of Ood to earth, In human na ture, In the person of a child, to save us from our sins.. That makes the wonder and the glory and the bless ing, In the birth of Jesus. He came to express thfe divine love, and by tUa sacrificial death, to make that Idea. effective unto the salvation of all who should believe on him. The email on Calvary marks the tragedy 1* the life of the child bom at Beth ink em. It also makes Its glory — IhfUSbyterlan Banner. When a man starts singing his own praises it’s pretty sure to be a polo.—Lake County, (lnd ) Times. Our Accomplishments What Have They Been? 3 HAVE always found, even In youth, quite us much Interest la looking buck as In looking far ward. It Is good to plan for the fu ture, but there Is quite as much to be gained from reviewing th#past and In seeing how far we have come, how much we have accomplished, in what ways we have developed. I was talking to Foreman about the year that Is so nearly at an end. He was disggtlsfled with Ills progress and uncertain its to whether or not the time and money he had expended had been worth while. He had learned little. It seemed; for nil he could see, he wasn’t different than when he had left the little country town nine inontlie ngo. But I could see that he was a little more self-possessed, a little surer of himself, a little less crude in his manners. He was learning to think, learning to meet people, and developing a little wider range of In terest than when he left home. As you come to the end of the year and look back, how far have you come? It Is an easy question to ask, but possibly not so easy to answer. When we were little children at home, mother used to tench us after we had said our prayers at night to go over In our minds for a minute or two the events of the day and try to determine whether it had been a good day for us or a bad one. Often we dropped ofT to sleep before we had gone far, but It was a good experi ence, this looking our accomplish ments In the face and trying honestly to estimate them. It Is something like this that I should like to put before you as this year Is closing. What has the year meant to you? New friends? New powers? New Ideals? Have you done something worth while? Are you better, stronger, more able to fight the battles of the world than you were a year ago? Are you wiser with a wis dom that is clean, healthy and uplift ing? If so, the year Is ending happily for you.—Thomas A. Clark, Dean of Men, University of Illinois. (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) Light in the Steeple on Christmas Morning jp*AU above the sleeping city, like a low and leading star, like a *** watchful and kindly eye, like a beacon of assuring hope, a promise of Christmas morning, beamed the light in the old church steeple. It shone down through one of the church windows and smiled upvn the pictured shepherds who found a morn ing at midnight; and upon the stately wise men who knew the joy of mak ing gladness out of gifts. Its rays lighted up a garret, where two very hopeful youngsters were sleeping upon a very small bed, after making sure that the light was there. In the street below a passer looked up, saw it and smiled; another paused under the glow and spell of It and dropped a coin into the poor box at the church door. The Salvation Array lass came out from the church porch and thumped her tambourine merrily be cause some genial influence had filled her basket so full, almost dancing down the street ns the bells saw by the gleaming light that it was time to ring. And go with cheering glory and with chime Came In another happy Christmas time. While the old steeple, still pointing upward, remained as a witness to things high and splendid.—Christo pher G. Hazard. (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) A REAL SANTA CLAUS INCE we must have our Christmas trees the chief problem Is liow tliey are to be obtained. The cutting, ship ping and selling of Christmas trees has developed into an estab lished business, extending over the entire country. One large shipper of New England has been in the business forty years and in that time has sold many thousand carloads of trees. Some of these have been shipped as far south ns Texas and as far west as Chicago. This pioneer in the industry is now eighty two years of age, but he is still active, and curiously enough he is a real Santa Claus in appear ance.—Frank Herbert Sweet. S (<©. 1924. Western Newspaper Union ) M Perhaps Little Stars Knew About Christmas fjm* HE stars shone brightly over \J\j head. Below, the snow was cov erlng up the hard ground, which did not seem to understand Christmas. It was much too hard for that. It was better that Old King Snow should come along and cover it up, giving the people a white Christmas. The stars shone down upon it little farm house. It was not a palace. It was not even a beautiful hnwse. But the stars shone very brightly. I'erlmps they knew, bright little jtars that they were, that in that house, as in many another house which la neither a palace nor a beautiful res idence, there was great happiness and glorious celebrating of the beautiful Christmasthle.—Mary Graham Bonner. (V, 1124, W«at*ra Union.) A good road costs thirty thousand a mile, not counting subsequent funer al expenses.—Schenectady Gazette. Cherokee County Watches Electric Movement Here Cherokee Agricultural Agent Points Out Advantages Of Farm Power. Praises Cleveland. BY C. S. 8TRIBLING Cherokee Agricultural Agent In Gaffney Ledger. We are watching with a great deal of interest the movement now on foot to light the farms of our neighboring county of Cleveland, North Carolina, with electricity. Be low we quote from an article appear ing in last Tuesday’s issue of “The Cleveland Star,” and we hope the readers of this paper will consider very seriously the information con tained in this clipping, for we see no reason why Cherokee County farm ers can’t follow this example. To our way of thinking, one of the most for ward steps our farmers could take would be to bring electrical power to their farms to light the homes, to draw their water, to turn their im proved machinery and to do other things around the farm and for the good wife to churn and use other con veniences about the home. This may at first glance seem an Utopian dream but the thing is actually going to happen this winter in the above nam ed adjoining county, and we honestly see no reason why it shouldn’t work ! in Cherokee. Particularly should this idea have the very serious consider ation of the people in the Midway section of the county. Already power lines have been run almost to the doors of a score or more of good farmers in that section. Within a few days the line which runs from Gaff ney, by way of the Ed Phillip’s farm to the now county home, will be com plete and the power will be on. If1 we understand the proposition cor rectly, any farmer in this section can bring this power to his farm by pay ing the power company thirty dollars for making the connection and then pay the actual cost of, running the line from the nearest connection to his farm. We, have also been inform ed that the minimum rate charge per month is only seventy-two cents. It seems to us that this is a great op portunity for furmers out that way to greatly add to the conveniences nnd comfort of their homes at a very, smull cost. And then, we see no reason why the farmers in other communi ties couldn’t put their heads together and bring power out into their com munities. For instance, why can’t the farmers along the road which runs nut by Providence church to the Grassy Pond section, follow the ex r.mple of the North Carolina county nnd run power out to their homes, or the farmers along the Chesnee high way, or in the Corinth section, or Draytonville, or Beaverdam and oth er communities. This may be a dream, but we believe it will work and we would like to help these farmers get together on the proposition, and by their cooperation do a thing which we believe will add so much comfort and cheer to their homes, that it will help them to keep the boys and girls at i home. We are going to have more to say a'ong this line later, and we would like to hear from any who are interested. Mrs. C. P. Wellman Is Dead—Long Illness (Special to The Star.) On the fourth day of December 1924 the Death Angel visited the home of C. P. Wellman and took from our midst our loving one Mrs. C. P. Wpll man. All that skilled physicians and loving hands could do was done to re store her to health, but it was not God’s will for her to live longer. It is % p-'josEY OPEN-FORMULA FERTILIZERS 3_ p—I GuAHANTtf* ABALVSlB 0-3-s fob tobacco „ At IB_ B.BO/b AMMON!*: FIS"--75 bloob--.- t ao^Z. CYAHAMlP- - SO%( '• POTASH 07 Sol0hats--•«- S.0a/o J-J-5 FOB, TOBACCO Sand Drown hos ruined many Tobacco cropss. ir has , turned high hopes Into des ■ pondency. Phis formula hos sufficient magnesium to os \sure you against sand drown f,rouble. Ask your County Agent Also mode In 83-3 or 8-3-4-. On sole by the leading mer 'hants, a/most everywhere. If there Is no dealer near you, write us. MANUCACTUREO BV N.B. JOSEY GUANO E WILMINGTON,*. C. <ad but God knew best and took her ■o her eternal rest. We miss hpr loving smiling face, but she has gone to a finppy place. She leaves to mourn her, leath her husband and aged mother.] ;\vo sons and three daughters, and several grandchildren. She professed faith in Christ at an early age and joined the Baptist church at Pleasant! Irovc, later coming to New Bethel and from there to Normans Grove, where the lived a loyal and consecrated mem ier until Christ called her to her re sard. She proved her love for her Sa vior by her faithful work and willing ness to help advance His kingdom. She was cheerful and never mourned luring her sickness and suffering, but waited patiently for the Lord to take ler, very often speaking of a better nlnce she was going to where sickness, sorrow, pain and death can never •ome, although she is gone the home s sad and lonely. But the Savior will leal the broken hearts and fill the meant place with His love. Singing at Mt. Olivet. There will be a singing at Mt. Olivet Baptist church near New House Sun day afternoon beginning at 2 o’clock There will be a supply of song books >f different kinds on hand Several good lingers from different parts of the country are expecting to be there. The public is invited to attend. It's a funny system that provides publicity for taxpayers and none for ta\ dodgers.—Associated Editors (Chicago.) RUSH STROUP Attorney at Law Royster Building Phone 514. DR. DAVID M MORRISON Optometrist Eyes examined, glasses fit ted, lenses duplicated same day as received. Office in New Fanning Build ing—Telephone 585 Again HUDSON-ESSEX Reduce Prices “World’s G/eatest Buy” Everyone Says it—Sales Prove it Largest production of 6-cylinder closed cars in the world makes possible these price reductions. Hudson-Essex alone have the resources to produce these values. Hudson-Essex build the Coach to provide a good-looking, well built, all-year closed car, with finest chassis quality, at a moderate price. Chassis value is the basis of this great value. It must alwaj's be the uppermost factor in the service, satisfaction and economy of any car. All motordom knows Hudson and Essex chiefly as unrivalled chassis values. Their smooth, vibrationless motors give perform ance, distinction and enduring service that are famous every where. Their economy includes the most important of all savings —■long life, freedom from repair need, low maintenance and exceptionally high resale value. A ride will convince you that the “World’s Greatest Buy” is exclusive to Hudson and Essex. ESSEX Six COACH $895 HUDSON Super-Six COACH *1345 Hudson Super-Six Sedans Reduced *355 5-Passenger *1795 7-Passenger *1895 Freight and Tam Extra HOEY MOTOR CO. FURNITURE That Mast Re Sold Positively we must close out our stock by January 1st and every piece of Furni ture must go at cost or below cost. This building must be vacated and there is not room at our Paragon Store to carry any larger stock .for there we have every available inch of floor space filled. FURNITURE BARGAINS Are here for wise Christmas shoppers. Never before has a furniture sale been conducted here in the heart of the best buying season of the year but THE ARCADE SALE is on and the furni ture must be sold. It is moving fast. Wise buyers are taking advantage of it. $2,000 a day is our goal from now until January 1st. LOOK AT THESE CHRISTMAS ITEMS Yes, you can purchase Christmas gifts in furniture at bargain prices too, as long as they last. - Let us suggest: Candle Sticks Buffet Sets End Tables Mirrors Pictures Table Runners Odd Chairs Sets Of Dishes Smoking Stands Floor Lamps Breakfast Room Sets Living Room Sets A Few Toys Left Everything goes in this Sale. Nothing reserved. We need the room. Be a wise buyer—Make it Furniture for Christmas. Arcade Furniture Co. Shelby, N. C.
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