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THE ANNUAL ] , ROMANCE i By Mary Graham Bonner ! i n.-,- ((C), 1922, Western Newspaper Union.) "D OSALIND was engaged to be married. She was to be married the day after Christmas. She couldn't very well be married before then as her fiance was so especially, unusually busy at Christmas time, and it wouid have been cruel, too, not to have waited. F*r Bill, her beloved, took the part of a Santa Plaus every Christmas for one df the big city stores. He was an ideal Santa Claus. He wasn't too tall, lie wgs not top short; he was rather inclined to A stockinets of build, and extra clothes made him look an ideal round S4?ta. He had a ruddy face and snapping blue eyes?and dressed in a Santa Clausf costume he was perfect. P"' How the children did adore hlra! a-J 1 1. ~ ? 1 1 Tl.nr- M*N I Q_ AllU now no luicu uirui i xwj pered their secrets to him and their eyes danced with rnre happiness when he waved a good-bye to them and called them: "Sweethearts," and "My dears," and "Children dears, * and other affectionate terms. Rosalind had- been thrilled when she had heard him lirst, in his deep beautiful voice uttering such beautiful words! For Rosalind had mot him first when he had been a Santa Claus and she had been an ex:ra sales girl taken on lor the Christmas rush. It had been her first meeting with him. But she had "been kept at the store after the Christmas rush was over, and Bill hat} worked for the store for seven years now. Every December he was Santa Claus. The other eleven months he spent In selling kitchen utensils in the basement. They hnd fallen in love with each other, though, at this; time when he had b^en Santa Claus. And many a time when he had said: "Good-by dearie," to a child, he had been thinking of the pretty girl who was at that very moraent selling dolls and giving her smiles, her beautiful smiles to a mother or to children. And now a second Christmas was coming around, and once more BUI | The C | CLO' 1 ty/f'szzpzM jlj ^ : n * - I was Santa Claus, and as soon as he was through being Santa Claus they | would he married. "I've always had lots of romance In my nature," t*ie said to him one evening. "I've always thought It would he awful to he like some folks?some I know and some I've heard talk. One lady who came to the store with a friend was telling how she and her I husband got along perfectly. They I each had other friends, and sometimes ! they met and embarrassed others when they told that they were married. For one time the husband had been having dinner witli a friend, and the friend had been looking flirtatiously at his wife who was also in the restaurant. "The friend had been much embarrassed when he discovered he had been Took the Part of Santa Claus. flirting with the husband's wife. And she was telliug this as a good Joke. "I wouldn't want that kind where ! one goes one way and the other the ! other way. And I wouldn't want to be known as a wife because I was | quarreling with my husband. I "You know how you hear folks say 'Well, you could tell they were married, all right.' I dou't want that ! kind." "And you won't have it, little girl," Bill said. "I'm for your kind of ro| mance every time. I'm for the kind ol ! a married life where folks won't think ! we're married?we'll be so happy! 1 had a friend once like that. Why, a cop p-iiipfi him down because he was mak ir.g love to his wife mill wouldn't be lieve they were married 'cause she called him 'darling.' They found it "ity Phc VER, - - - ^ "and r BIG STOCKS READ' OUR STOCKS ARE REA to happy Gift Selection. I of Christ.mas goods we are we have exceeded our owi spect. Our stocks arc com] pleasing-?-Qualities are fi bound to 1)0 sincere. Prici permit and encourage liber A TIP OR TWO TC KODAKS, $3.50 to $15.00 FOUNTAIN PENS. $2.50 to $10. TOILET SETS, $1.50 to $10.00 PERFUME SETS, $1.50 to $10.00 CANDY, $1.00 to $6.00 Box Pkg. UUl/lHi iiJNiJ oxjili xrL It will be a pleasure for ui and we will be pleased to r< buy them early a nd hold t ery. We will be ready to d< any time you say, and we w parcel post. Come and see lections now. TH THE REX^LL STORE ! awkward, but tliey haO the right i Idea." And as Rosalind listened to her Santa Claus, as she counted the di ys , before the wedding, she said to her* J self: "It will be an annual romance to see Bill as Santa Claus, for it was as Santa Claus that I, too, fell in love with him as well as the children, and every year our happy, merry memories [ will be revived for us. We believe In i romance and romance believes in us, for it, too, is going to play its part." And someone who knew them both | said: i "It wouldn't be a bad idea if every ' man could be as he was during his courtship days for a whole month of every year!" GETTING RICH QUICK MiiiinnairAa Are Made Overnight in California. With moat of its "movie scandals" properly draped in crepe through the insistence of Will Hays, chief of the "fillums," southern California's metropolis is entering on a new era of romance with trimmings'never dreamed of in the days of '49, relates a Hos Angeles, Cal., dispatch. U has a new crop of millionaires as the result of the real estate orgy j of speculation, reviving of the motion picture game, which once again is getting out of the doldrums, but? more especially jus the result of the oil craze. The-city certainly again is in its stride as the boom town of all times, I wifh its overnight millionaires, its picturesque company attracted by the i possibilities of easy morey and is ( setting a i>ace for the bizarre and uni usual in all that enters into what is I accepted as romance when embalmed between the covers of a. book and which outjfazzes all previous records of fact and fancy. When a new oil well roared in Saturday with an 8,100 barrel per day ' production of high gravity oil, that . sells at $2.90 a barrel at the well, the ; two brothers who owned it could not ; be located. A wise courier hours after[ ward found them lodged ir a room i at a downtown hotel. They were very tired, but a half hour's work brought them round to a point where they > could listen. Then the courier told the news. The oluer brother asked for a irmacy | s. C. 1 \Jrfl' ? d* i 9 c?'i s? 4 fl A. - 5 ? 0 '? y < . Gifts' j|' nore Gifts I 1 FOR SELECTION. | DY to show you the way ? t is an especially fine line SI showing this year. Truly 'sa 1 expectations in this re- j* iletc?Selections are most 3| no and Appreciation is >s are partieulai'ly low to al giving. ? ) GIFT BUYERS: ff WATCHES, $10.00 to $40.00 PENCILS. 50 Cts. to $5.00 WATCH CHAINS. $1.00 to $7.00 PIPES, 50 Cts. $3.50 ALAP.M CLOCKS, $2.00 to $3.75 8* EM RIGHT AWAY s to help you in selection y sserve gifts if you wish to hem for Christmas deliv- M sliver them anywhere and Sa i ill pack for express or for J? | these goods and make se- | [E i armacy | CLOVER, S. 0. if I ? pencil. Rough figures?very wobbly figures they were?made it upwards of twe.ity thousand dollars a day. "Hot oil," exclaimed the beneficiary, "at $20 a bottle for the real old stuff, that's i thousand bottles a day." He rose a id clasped hands with his brother across the table. "Let's sLyt," he said. Reports of fleeting glimpses of the brothers all that are available today. But luck is not for all. Take the case of Togo, the super-poodle. The story came out when Mrs. Martha | h MOST PRACTICAL, & FRIENDS AT CHRI fi FRIVOLOUS BUYI] ? OUR HOLIDAY SA] ?f BUT ANOTHER AE fi WORTH-WHILE Gl a SURES QUALITY, $. AND LET US SHOW Luggage?A Suit Caf gJl Trunk or a Steal Men's Hats?New St correct lieadwea ?5 men and boys. 1 Bath Robes?For me: M Bed Rbom Slippersfine assortment f H Blankets and Bed Sp 3$ Towels?Your w .M led with some of 1 M Hosiery In Wool, C Jg men, ladies and ways acceptable gtf lect?a splendid 5? Men's Ties?Xo man 3| our Tie counter i wE that is pleasing, ? sonably priced. foimd hereabouts S AXD JO BE SURE, M . TO YOU AXU I Shoes J W& 'If- ; zmim | Jl || TO OUR NUMEROUl I WE'D HAVE YOI & II THAT WE K YOU HAVE I WE'VE TRIED Ti Vs p UNEXCELLEI p SATISFIED i WE WISH FOR AND FOR A1 |j TRIBUTED h IIAPPY NE\ | PERHAPS IT IS S TO REMINE JK STAND IN I I OF HEAL A 1 WE ARE ALSO GOJ .& That while w S1, to know that the Fanners ( I CLOVER 1 J. F. PURSLEY, Pre; 1 i Cox applied for a divorce and for custody of Togo. She said she had been working her head off to maintain a comfortable home, a nice auto and other necessary comforts while Papa Cox was known as the best dancer in Hollywood. Mrs. Cox said she didn't care for herself, it was Togo she worried about, and when the judge took her appeal under advisement she had the open sympathy of the spectators. Not so hard was the romance of Mrs. Hazel R. Devane, of Beach simas: Qiscrimtnai , THRIFTY PEOPLE IN TI STMAS THAT HAVE REA. tfG OF OTHER YEARS HA [iES OF GIFT GOODS HAV! DED TO OUR RECORD OF FTS?NOT NECESSARILY PLUS STYLE AND FITN! J YOU SOMETHING IN TH. >e, Hard Bag, Standard Size ner Trunk. yles in Knox's and Setson's r. Also Sure-Fit Caps for iTorv ulftflsiuff stvles. . -- x 0 ?^ n, just arrived. -Always a splendid gift. A or men, women and children. reads, Linen and Fancy Bath ife or mother would be tickthese. Priced just right. iotton, Silk, and Lisle?For children?A gift that is aland one that is easy to seline to be found here. ever has too many. Come to md you'll find an assortment in good taste and very reaEasily the best display to be ' ' > WE EXTEND THE C0MPI ' YOURS FOR A MERR Y CI r. m . s' ^ *T^* JCfT** JCfW* I ? JST A S FARMER FRIENDS AT I [I ALL KNOW YPPRECIATE DEEPLY TI GIVEN US 9 GIVE YOU SERVICE ) FOR THAT PATRONA WE HAVE DONE JUST 1 EACH OF YOU Li'L OP TI IE FOLKS OF CLC TO OUR SUCCESS DURIiN V YEAR. NOT NECESSARY -rr/A -r-r rn* r a m mttt^ /\T^71\TTV ' YUU THAT TMJi. BETTER POSITION THAN XI) HULLS, COAL AND IC [NG TO SAY isliing for all of You a Mem we are Merry and Happy Bee )f this section. COTTON OIL . sident and General Manager wood drive. She is the mother of i George Edward, six years old. She i divorced her husband some time ago. t Recently she met a former admirer 1 on the streets. He fell in love vith 1 little George. Today she has word s that her son has been made the 1 beneficiary in the will of the former i admirer, who died suddenly, and the ] mother is to administer his estate so long- as sne does not remarry ner i i divorced husb:nd. i< The estate only totals some three , million dollard. To show that Los 11 kiggest: ing Qift IESE LATER YEARS BUY L VALUE BECAUSE OF TH S PASSED. THAT IS WH1 E BEEN STEADILY GROW] 1 READINESS TO SERVE T1 EXPENSIVE BUT OF A G ESS FOR GIVER AND REC n WrtT T ATtTTlT/M ? AAT\ T T1TT Ei XUAjJLIUWAHU LrUUU JLili^r. Gloves?Men's Dress Kid Automobile Gloves for Handkerchiefs?No lady c too many Handkerchie beauitful line of these gifts. Both cotton an< Clothing?Don't forget ou the men and boys. Sj right in style, Blue Ri be sure they are pricec Shoes?No gift is ever mor< ble than Shoes. Any 1 ter or daughter, or you ed to be given a pair of Shoes. There's Blue and Comfort in every \ fit any foot. May we i Other Things?We might Rain Coat, Belts, Um ers, or perhaps a nice I JJHSNSFS SUB SBAS^X HRISTMAS AND HAPPY N! TROU] WOK 'HIS HAPPY SEASON OF TI ie constant and libe i i j lGE and we believe mi at. >YER AND YORK COUNTY tG THE YEAR, A MERRY C / ,rG OF 1923 WILL FIND US . EVER TO TAKE CARE OF )E AND GINNING r Christinas and a Happy Ne\ :ause of the many new friends AND GINNING C( \ ' \ r \ngles knows how to treat her new millionaire::, within the hour after he word vaa reaeivcd, Mrs. Dcvane rad 37 callers. Twelve were automobile salesmen, twenty offered oil docks, live were real estate men, sut up to now she has not bought mything. But?here is the glad i>art, the telephone man called up. "Mrs. Devanne," he said, "tVe'll have yoirt^>hone installed withlq^tlwee lays." * The application had been in for tiifino months. C ' ' . y ions" 1 / yers | GIFTS FOR THEIR jg EIR UTILITY?THE If r FOR YEARS FAST & [NG. THIS YEAR IS jfi IE BUYER OF REAL ft OODNESS THAT IN- $ IPIENT. COME IN f and Cape Glofes and 31 ' ladies and gentlemen. $2 ?r gentleman evei- bas jg ifs. We are showing a especially suitable for m 1 linen. Mr v linoa nf nintbirio' fnr jwtf: )lendidly good Clothes, SE bbon in quality and to jj|.; i very low. 3 practical and accepta: W adv?your mother, sis- 35^ r son, would be delight- W. our High or Low Dress Sj Riobon Quality, Style jS 3air. A size and last to S '. show you Shoes'? j( suggest Underwear, a brellas, Hose Support- ?? )ress Pattern, etc. 4^Tft BEST WISHES 1 EHV YEAR. n pl _ A f r onoes I : :d | IE GOOD YEAR 1922 g RAT. PATRONAGE 32 THAT YOU PEEL B rrrrrrk TTAVT? fAV. ?fy YV A IVy 1U1 I JJ vu?.< 3HBISTMAS AND A ? AT TIIE SAME OLD $j& YOU IN THE WAY v Year, we want You S we have made amo^g )MPANY I CLOVER, S. C. & . - f -a t j?. ..a