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< Trte.ee letters are just as written by pupils of the third grade of the city schools, ext? mporaneous, no tinu for previous preparation having been al? lowed th.'H.) *Dear Santa Clans: 1 want you to bring me a pony, doll carriage, cart and If you can't bring me tin DOM) I art any way bring me the p. n\ and cart and I will be glad if you bring me a little rubber ball fttf my kitty. He says he loves ><>u and he hopes you will bring my mother everything that she asks for Santa Clans you think I am writ? ing for too mo- h. Qood bye. l'rom? Dear Santu Claus: 1 want you to bring me a pair of >t shoes and suit and leggings and a little tire aiglm with ladders and a dollur to have the cycalde fixed, a rain c ut an,I 1 p o k . . ->f lire craek era and 4 packages of sparkers and 6 roman > undies and T> skyrocket* I will have to stop now. i *rom? I ajar Snntn Claus: 1 don't want anything this t'hrist maa for 1 have one doll from last t 'brist mas Troin?i Dear Santa Claus: I have to study very hard this year. My reading is my hardest lesson. I want you to bring me a doll and a doll buggy and a rain coat for mine is worn out. I want some nuts too. From? Dear Santa Claus: I am well and hope you arc the same. Ph ase bring me a pencil box; bring it yourself so I can see you. 1 like my teacher very much. She is very nice. Hring mo a tea set, doll stove, r. doll trunk. I have been study? ig very hard. S. C. cant tell you how much 1 love you. From? Dear Santa Claus: I want a big doll and a little stove and a tea set a puzzle and a carriage and a little machine and some cloth tC make some dresses. I want a stock? ing full of candy and some nuts ami s.?me fruit. From? 1 ?rar Santa Claus: 1 want a doll, and a doll carriage ami a siory book, f do not want a Utile doll 1 want a big one and some fruit. From? 8R! iPBBF ?ffWBBW >,<W'?-''''?WW}(.y.y.w>ci'^T. mm d ? / m Dear Santa Claus: 1 am going to toll you what 1 want for Christmas. I want a doll and a doll cart. 1 want a rain t*oat and some rubbers to go with it. 1 want a pair of ntw shoes. X want a doll table. I want a set of muff and furs. I want a pretty dress. 1 want some nuts and candy too. 1 want a doll house. Uring me all these things because 1 have studied hard and have been good. From? ' Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a black board with a true piece of chalk, a little doll that is dressed like a little baby with a Ut ? tie cap on its head, a little coat, and i a little pony and a little carriage. j I love you so. From? Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll house and a stove. I want some dolls clothes. I want a knife and machine to make some doll's clothes. I want a pony and cart and some fruit. From? Dear Santa Claus: Hring me a bicycle and doll and carriage. I love you a heap and a heap. Hring mo a room set and or? anges and apples and candy and nuts. Ba sure and tell Santa how I have studied. I studied hard. 1 have stud? ied it about ten times and 1 am going to study more. From? '' Dear Santa Claus: Will you bring me a writing desk and a chair for it? He sure not to ...t let it be too tall for t is for my play i i house. I want a baby doll and a 1 nice box of oil paint*. From? I i till'. ? ? i ''10 Dear Santa Claus: . i ;? n Ph ase bring me a doll and a hed and an Indian suit and a carriage and a wash board and a clothes line and u bureau and a desk and a tea set and sojne fruit and a wash stand and .some Clothes and 1 Will be satis?ed. I -have studied hard. From? Dear Santa Claus: l want you to bring me a little doll and a pockethook and a little book and some nice nuts and some : nice apples and some nice bananas and and some nice oranges. Dear Santa 1 am a good little girl and I have studied my lesson by 8 or 9 times but I am going to study more. 1 love you so good I think by you all the time. From? I tear Santa Claus: 1 want a twenty-two rille and two boxes bt [twenty-two shells and ja row boy suit, and a pistol case and motorcycle and a pair of bicycle tires.. And that is all. From? Dear Santa Claus: What are you going to bring me [ I want a lot Ol marbles, flint, and a ? rifle please, and a boy scout suit. Will you bring me some lire crackers and a pistol? Please bring me a lantern. Good bye. . From? Hear Santa Claus: Will you bring me a horse blanket and a saddle and a motor cycle and that is all but a foot ball and a pistol case. From? Dear Santa Claus: Hring me a doll and a (hair and a tea set and a doll bed and a doll set and a carriage and a oil stove and a piano and some fruit and 1 will be satis lide. Dear Santa Calus I have studied hard at school and 1 am going to I study harder. Frogs-** Dear Santa Claus: I am so glad it is most time for you to come again, and I want you to bring me a bicycle that has a coaster brake on it too, and 1 want some candy and some oranges ami nuts and other good things like that. Will 1 will c lose. Dove to you. From? 1 >ear Santa Claus: Please bring me a foot ball and a bicycle and a rille and a box of fire, trackers and a pair of boots and a horse and cart, with an air rifie and a ? < ap pistol and some caps with it and a knife with two blades, and that is n. From? Dear Santa Claus: Please send me a big doll and a carriage and I want a hose set and a ! ? oll piano, and then a stove and a; I trunk and a pony and a doll bed, and j I want a picture book and 1 want a machine and that is all. 1 have studied hard this year. 1 have studied everything 12 times, so you must. From? Dear Santa Claus: I wish you to bring me a doll, a doll bed, and a tea set, a doll car? riage. 1 want a checker board I some checkers, some apples, orai ' 1 ananas, and some apples and s ? candy, i want a kitchen set, room set, a sitting room set. 1 haVf i een studying hard all this year but i am afraid l will not go up. So i will close for this time. From? Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a baby doll like the one in the Sumter Dry Goods winder. I want a carriage, a cut glass set, a pony and a cart, a machine, a stove and a big doll bed. From? Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a bicycle and a doll and a carriage and bed so I can ride here in the carriage and put her to sleep in the bed and a little pair of ^b ves so they can keep her little hands warm. 1 have not much time t(f write much but a few no.ro lines. Ethel, my little sister is the prettiest child in the house and 1 am next to Ethel. From? i Dear Santa Claus: i I want a doll and a stove and a carriage. I will leave the door open In llama's rout -., i have boon good. I hf ve studied hard. Bring nie a pencil box and ?ome story hooks to read In. i warn some rugs, a bed and a tittle cradle, i am well and khappy and hope you are the same. Will (lose for this time. 1 love you Dy-by. From? Cbc tttatthffln oft $Gutbron. tiuered At the Postnfllce at Suinter, S. C, aa Second Class Matter. PKIISON.YI) MOWS. Mrs. deSaussurc ('larks.?n, of Char? leston, who has been MMiimg her als? ter. Mrs. K. I?. Ki< ker. for tho past Vtatfa i?'ft for Columbia Wedneaday to visit relativ i'M there. Mr. w i: LaaMnoa, al BllloUa, wai in town Wodntaday on buatBoaa Mr. A. Kllcrbe, of Kcmhert, spent \\ i iliM-s'la v In town. Mr. T. K. Hodge, of Tintlal. was In town WV'In. sday. Dr. W. L. McCutcheon, who hai l?een Mlrk for tho past week, is still confined to hai bed. Miss IM< i i Tohin. who has boOfl the ?neat of Mrs. k. Doaler Lao for I ha lost month, left Tuesday for <>r ? in*. Our? ami Augusta, where she will visit tOfon returning to her Imme at Allerel.ile. Miss Theo Lop?/, has return* d |0 tho city after u visit |o relatives in Philadelphia. Mr. C. K. MH'ormaek and little daughter spent WodttOOda) in Goluin hi a. Mrs. Coward, of Cheraw, is Vlaltlltl Mrs. W P Smith. Mr. aajd Mrs. William Iforan havi pNH to Philadelphia |0 visit rela? tives. UM I n in for sale. I will sell for cash, at public OUt cry. at Sumter. S. on the 1st Moo day In January It'll. sahsdaV, th.it fine farm formerly owned by FotOf < If wriliiK. Sr. eoatalalMi tin aero including 1." .ens or line farming 1111 ? I. ino bnlanee \? heuvll) timber? ed with unbbd long p-af pine, oak, hh koi v and - v pfOOl Tfcll farm is lo? cated in Sumter County. mar the Clarendon line. ti\e mihs from tie* town of I'm. wood, and adjoining farm |0 wM Governor John L. Manning': mansion. Tin water Is line; health K.I. ami tine railroad f.ieihtu 1'urchasera to pay for papers. I'm further information apply to |vi. r t hewnim:. Sumineiton, H C Advt. V. M. C. A. SI NDAV MEETINGS. Illnstraiad Bible Study Lectures to bo t.lvon I .1? 11 Sunday in Lyric The? atre. The local Y. If. C, A. RellflOUl Work Committee has arranged with Underwood and Underwood ?>f New York city lor a series of i."? illustrated Ulide let lures am these will he given saoh Sunday at l.ll p. in. in the Lyrk Theatre. The c haracter of the work of Underwood and Underwood Ii too weil known t? comment on. gui? nea it to say that they are world-wide. The lirst lecture next Sunday at j.15 p. in. will he "Joshua, The Sol? dier of the Conquest This is in di? rect line with tin International Sun? day school 1- SSOl I and every man and boy in Sumter should attend. ! admission fee is to he charged at any of these meetings which run through to April. Marriage License Itccnid. License to marry have been issued to tin- following: Mr < din I.. Stubbs of Arcadia. Fla., and Miss Louise Thames, Sumter. Mr. .1. A. Scurry ami Miss Annie Lawrence of Brog don. Negro couples to secure licenses were: John Blair ami Haatls Moore, Pri? vateer; t. (?. Abrami and Carola (livens, Dalaell; Nelson Colclough ami Noney a trams, Dalaell; Leo Ander? son and Florence Loss, gumter; i? iI? II ird llo - and Blla Doaler, Bumterj Jacob Wilson and Viola Sanders, Bumter; J, T, Welli and Delia Trues dale, Khlloh; Wallen Montgomery and i' ie llohertsoni Horatio; Bryan! IVIIllumi and Mary Pierson, Bumter; H, P*. Toil.ird ami Eva lllchardson. i lorden, Manning Tunes. The commissary on the plantation of Mr J. McDowell Md adden about itx miles ysal oi Manning, was brok en into last Thursday night and rob Ik d of a considerable quantity ol inert handlso, The Ihleves opened a i* i of ,, k ;, emptied II on lb* floor <i ,1 Hilt <I up the sack- with shoes and other goods. Store ItoUhed. NEW MANAGER FOR WESTERN UNION. Mr. C. A. Murphy to Take C harge of liOOll Telegraph Oflicc. Mr. ('. A. Murphy, of PayottOVlUe, x. C.i la in the city to take charge of the local Western Union Telegraph offico as aoon aa Mlaa Grady Rumph, wliu haa boon manager of the otlice for the past year, can he checked out. j This will probably be during the re? mainder of this week and Mr. Mur? phy will therefore he in charge by the beginning of next week. Miss Grady Rumph has made a very efficient manager during her stay iure and her many business and so? cial friends are sorry to see her leave, but wish her success in her work in Charleston, whither she goes from here. Married. Married at the residence of Mr. William Jones. Wilmington, N. C, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock, Miss Marie Pierson, daughter of Mr. W. (J. Pierson, of Bumter county, to Mr. 1?. P. Jones, of Wilmington. The bride la a native of Bumter and made her home here until recently, hut for the Past year has lived in Wilmington. Thnincs-Stubbs. Married at the residence of the brido'a parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thames, on llarvin Itreet Wednes? day afternoon, Mr. ?Hin Btubbs, of Arcadia, Pia., and Miss Louise Thames. The ceremony was performed by Rev, J, P, Mai inn. Only the Imme? diate family and a few friends were present. I The bride la a youi g holy of rate accomplishments, graduating the pasl year at St. Joseph's Academy. Mr. Btubbs is originally from Chcraw, bul lately located in Florida, where he is a prosperous and Influential citisen. Immediately after the marriage they h it on a bridal trip before going to their new home. The burgaln hunters and careful buyers will keep an especially close watch on the advertising columns7 of i the papers during the next few WCdkS. PAltltlS AND JA t'DON TRIED. Two Mon Arrested in Bunter for Rob* bery at Lanes Get Sentence of Bis I Months. j s. v. Jaudon and J. F. Parris, the] two young white men who wore ar? rested In this city last March for breaking into a box car and robbery at Lanes, were tried In the Federal court in Charleston Wednesday and both of them were found guilty and sentenced to serve six months each in the Plorence prison. Police Sergeant J. M. Harwick and Deputy Sheriff John D. Epperson went from here to Charleston to be present and testify at the trial of the two men. others from here attend? ing the Feedral Court were Messrs. C. 1>. Schwartz and R. S_ Cherry on the grand jury and J. R. Mercer mi the petit jury. Protracted Meeting at Wedgcflehl. 1 A protracted meeting will begin a.l j the Wedgefleld Presbyterian church [ on Sunday, December 7th, at 7.:'.*? ; p. m.| conducted by Rev. John C. i Bailey, Serv ices will be held twice each day, at the following hours: :'. o'clock in the afternoon; 7.;io at night. A cordial invitation is ex? tended to everybody to attend these services. , The forests of Florida contain 17."? different kinds of wood. Ii ET-TOG ETIIEU STEW. _ Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants Association to Hold Meeting Xext Wednesday Night. An affair of Interest to the business nu n of the City is the meeting to be? held on next Wednesday night of the Chamber of Commerce and the R< tall Merchants' Association in the Armory Hall, beginning at 8.00 o'clock. Ev? ery member of these two associations is expected to atend the meeting at which matters of general interest to all will be discussed. a feature of the meeting, which is expected to be a drawing card for the men is the McKagen chicken Btew with accessories. This will be served in the Armory Hall and everybody knows how popular these affairs al? ways are. The supper is to be a get-together affair ami the committee is at work arousing Interest among the clthsens of the city. This committee consists of .Messrs. J. Z. Hearon, Chairman; \\. W. McKagen and J. H. Levy, with St cretary E. I. Reardon. Patient Burned to Death. Atlanta. Dec. 4.- G. W. Day, aged -7, patient at Dr. Brawner's sanl torlum mar Smyrna, was burned to death this morning wi n the cottage in which he was confined burned. I Pour other patients wa re rescued lust in time to save their lives. The origin of the lire Is unknoan. Death. Mrs. EL II. Muggins, for a number ?f years a resident of this city, died at her home on Bast Canal street Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock after an illmss of about one year. Mrs. Huggins was about 80 years of age and had a number of friends through* out the county. She was a native of the Spring Hill section. Mrs. Hugging is survived by her husband and one son, Mr. Willie Hug? gins of tins city, and one daughter, Mrs. J. W. Towers of Columbia, She also leaves a brother, Mr. Ii. L. Pain, of Smithville. SOITKB COTTON MAltKET. Corrected Pally By Ernest Flelo Cotton Buyer. Bumter, Dec 4. Good Middling li 7-s. Strict Middling 12 3-4. Middling l Strict Low Middling 12 1-4. Low Middling ll 5-8. Strict Good ordinary 11 1-8. Staple cotton nominal* New York Cotton Market. New York, Pec. 4. May July Pec Mar Jan Open . .1:1,06 . .isAc ..1111 . . 12.19 ..12.11 . .13.23 Close. 13.00 13.12 13.00 12.94 12.07 13.15 Building Material and Feedstuffs TIT r>i 1 1 Rottgh and Dressed Lumber, Flooring, Ceiling and Siding VV L^f"* I I ? ? Mouldings, Shingles, Lathes, Metal and Composition 7 T w fc^^xx Roofing, Lime, Cement) Plaster Paris, Hard Wall Plaster, Fire Brick and Clay Ornamental Brick, Mortar Colors, Shingle Stain; Sewer and Drain Pipe, and a Full Line of Building Material of all Kinds. Also Hay, Grain, Mixed Feeds and all Kinds of 1 Corse, Cow, Nop; and Poultry Foods and Remedies. Booth-Sh\iler Lumber a^nd Supply Co., Successors to Booth Hur by Live Stock Co., (8t Central Lumber Co. nm\S$3S*S?il? Geo. Epperson's Old Stsxnd Opp. Court House.