Washington County News | 1924-12-25 | Page 9 | A Real Santa Claus

I A REAL SANTA CLAUS If INCE we must have our Christmas trees the chief g problem is how they are to j I be obtained. The cutting, ship- g j S ping and selling of Christmas g S trees has developed into an estab- S lished business, extending over a 1 the entire country. One large 8 U shipper of New England has S been in the business forty years S i and in that time has sold many S thousand carloads of trees, g Some of these have been shipped S S as far south as Texas and as far west as Chicago. This pioneer g in the industry is now eighty- two years of age, but he Is still g active, and curiously enough he gj is a real Santa Clnus in appear- ance. Frank Herbert Sweet. ffl p (. 1924. Western Newspaper Union.) g!