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as^y r 8 i? ? t t x ? Office OVER t f y y y y y y y it y t y y y y y y t y i t | T. M. ] S Great Christmas Gati In the December American Magazine, George Fitch, the Peoria humorist, writes a funny piece describing Christmas at Iloineburg. Following is an extra showing how people go back to the small town for Christmas: "People come home for Chrtstunn all over the world, but in Homeburg you don't merely come home to your family, you come home to the whole town. A week before the 25tli the clans begin to gather. Usually the college folks come first. Sometimes i we have as many as a dozen, and the whole town is on edge to see them. ; It's next to a circus parade in interest because you never can tell what new sort of clothes the boys are going 10 spring on us. In the grand old days when Delaney Payley and Sam Singer used to blow in for Christmas they ? ? x ! 1880 ===== f f * t X To Our Friends X It is CI continuously for t % I J. F. Mac! > Do; V Drugs, Fui % Ranges, Oi i* and Coffins V f ?: X You are cord tended to yoi square treatr ? I ?=?= I R. C. 1M k THE L CORNER DRUG STOI For the convenience talk with and show y very place you have over the county for it and wish you a very ] EIITGHES, Bi hering at Homeburg. \ o their11" spanking wi er, quiver u walked up from the depot between whpn they double lines of admirers, and their trains, or elothes never failed to strike us with watch' them awe. I remember the year when Sam you New Yo came home with one of those over- worth buildi coats with a sort of hood effect in the uated from back 1 never saw one before or there with h since. He was also wearing a felt we have an e hat as flat as a soup plate that year Molly Straw and a two quart pipe fitted carefully daughter, go into his face, and when old Hill Dor- one last yea gan, the drayman, saw him he threw "That's w up both hands and cried: "By gosh, much more t it ain't possible!" the town ch "Then the children begin coming Atkinson coi back. There is a great difference be- He's doing tween Homeburg and New York re- it takes hin pnr/linp r?liU#lrr?n Tn Mow Vnrlr o eiHLi ? C-. ? *?? n a V-UIIU M'limn UL m? is personal property. Hut in Homo- aftor he arr berg a child belongs to the whole hear about town. A birth notice is a real news home from 1 item in Ilomeburg. I suppose every regular cust baby is personally inspected by at she makes t THIRTY OF I and Customers : iristmas, and we think of Y THIRTY-THREE YE/ key Company The tilers in rniture, Stoves, rgans, Pianos >. lially invited to visit c 11. Your eall will be nent will make you a [cMANUS, - ANCASTER NEWS, DE i : of both buyer and s ou farm lands or t< been wanting for a I thank you for ] happy Christmas an Yours truly roker - ndred citizens. We criti- two yea ire and feeding, suggest 1 remet len they are a little old- knee hi inanlmously with horror mother begin to 'flip' freight Hepubll get scarlet fever, and Kinley i grow up as eagerly as come d rkers watcnea the Wool- their ai ng. When they are grad- and a high school we are all fifteen ouquets and presents and eleven, quity in the whole brood, acquisit n, the washerwoman's brought it more flowers than any- ver to si r. Annie I by Christmas means so in Mir o us. At Christmas time young ildren come home. Will She wai tnes home from Chicago. It, hut ( very well up there, and had to !i two hours to get the j just ha iln street on the first day Kverybr Ives. Kveryone has to afraid f it. Sadie Gastlt comes going t< Des Moines with a baby; man wi oni of hers. Sometimes suppose lit same baby do for June." IACKEI _THR1 - 11111. J SUCCESSFUL OU and wish Y( VRS. Our family Lancaster Drug Dealers in Drugs, Cigars and Articles. T. E. DOSTER, >ur stores, whc appreciated, permanent cut Preside 5BBB5B3BEB5 4 CEMBER 19, 1913. TELEPHONE - eller, I am here always ready to own property. I may have the , long time without looking all /our liberal patronage in the past d prosperous New Year. ? Lane a tp, but usually It's a new one. /^ F fn 1 nber Sadie when she was only \_^/l/\i Kb to a grass hopper and her spanked her for climbing the can flagpole during the Mc- The earth has grown old i campaign. The Kline children den of care, own from Chicago to visit But at Christmas it unt. There were only a boy young. girl of them \\hen they left The heart of the jewel bu years ago. Now there are ? f counting wife, husband, and .... ,* .. ions. Last year Ad Bridge P(i? .1 ? a new wife home from Ben- forth on the air how us. Year before last Miss When the song of th lamlll, who has been teaching sung, ineapolis, brought down a man to show to her family. It is coming, old earth, 1 s going to be exclusive about tonight, lid it work? Not much. She O'er the snowflakes thi show him all around. We SO(j. ppened over there in droves. ? _ - . 1.. . ,, >dy loves Annie and we were ^ho feet of the Chrlstchlh or a little while that she was a white, > be an old maid. The young A?d the voice of the Chr 11 bring her down this year I out to the night They were married last That mankind are the , God. COMPANY EE YEAR BUSINESS. )U joy today. Some of you now consist of: : Company Everybody's ? f / I] ^ .. Furniture, Stove I oilet .. . c all house lurnis 41 Buy now, Pay , Manager. J. S. h ;re the glad hand of we] Our prices will convi stomer. >nt <fc General a^A A.^4 A^4 4^4 A^A ^44^4 A^A A^A A^i ^ y ^ 4 y v % %* ? ?f V f f | f_jL I i it f T f Y - NUMBER 127 X Y f Y Y 2 Y Y Y Y Y 2 Y Y v t y V i ?? \ y ? - y y X Lster, S. C. | t Iv STMAS CAROL vlth its bur- On the soul of the lonely, the wretched and poor, always is The voice of the Chrlstchild shall ! fall, rns lustrous And to every blind wanderer open the door nslc, breaks Of a hope that he dared not dream of before. e angeis is >vnn a sunsninc or welcome ror all. The feet of the humblest may walk t Is coming In the field, 1 Where the feet of the holiest have it cover the-1 trod; Jk , This, this is the marvel to mortals^ 1 fall gentle ' revealed When the silvery trumpets of Christ Istchild tell nias have pealed That mankind are the children of children of God. ?PHILLIPS BROOKS. T T Y i n i ai o :d s ml i ha* e traded with us X I". M T ; Fumitiirp fn 3 - ??> >??? v vv? V V dealers in V ' ss, Ranges, Organs and ihings on easy terms : X later." | IOLLIS, Manager. ? *? T leome will be ex- % nee you, and our ?j> . Manager | J