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Show SATURDAY, DECEr loj. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925 hatrv by illness and wrecked health.1 If you oWT5 mV9WmWVKWM JH mv yj of nature you are. made happy with good health. And . it goes. u o MA SHOWING GRIT "Ma" Ferguson, governor of Texas, is showi v .. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Office Alpime Publishing Company Boildiag Phase 8T I "J i i I, v! J:' ; ... .j .: .1 If'. ll it if " 'A t r .1 O" ' 5 . (S A PROGRESSIVE, INDEPENDENT N PUBLICATION Entered in 'the Post Offiee at Aaericaa Fork. Utah, ai lectad-clasa matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year in advance.' Advertisement rates: Display, 30 cents a column inch. Legal nttices and readers, legal rate of 10 cents per eight-point line per in sertion. Want ads. Rate 2 cents per word each insertion. Payment Must accompany advertisement. A. F. GAISbXHtl) JR. -EDITOR MERRY CHRISTMAS Very noon now we are going to hear that glad old greeting from. every one we mjt, "Merry Christmas", and we are go ing to respond with a hearty, ''Same to you", and what may surprise some of us grouchy ones we are going to mean it. Rant and rave as one may about the nonsense of Christ mas, the rusk of the holidays, there is something suggestive of gay holly wreaths and roaring Christmas fires and jolly old Santa Claus, in that greeting. "Merry Christmas" it gets at one whether ho rqally starts out with the intention of being be-ing merry or not. fortunate even the most unfortunate of us Americans are, And its a grand good thing that it does get at one. Considering Con-sidering what a really good place this world is to live in, how there are an.' astounding lot of people who try terribly hard to be confirmed grouches. They really don't want to enjoy life, and keep themselves ho busy hunting up unpleasant things that they actually never see the pleasant ones. But this habit we have of greeting each other at Christ mas time with that jolly little word "Merry" just knocks all those gloomy folks away. One simply can't grunt and frown in return to a 'Merry Christmas". And if he gets enough such greetings in a day, he soon gets over the desire to frown, and begins to "Merry Christmas" a few folks himself. TheJbigJrQublo of used all through the year. If it were then perhais each day's journey would bring fewer and fewer of those glum sour folks whom one hates to meet and more and more of those pleasant, interesting people whom one loves to know. The best solution probably would be the suggestion that everyone carry the Merry Christmas spirit into his year around greetings even though he can't use the words. No use making oneself a villege joke by calling Yuletide greetings greet-ings during July, you know, but one) can say good morning in fmeh a manner that the person he is meeting knows he rather likes the world. And if he does he will be keeping the old pledge, "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." o v HOME TRAINING 5 . " I if" Call and Get Your Picture S t Hi "The Appeal to The Great Spirit" By Cyras Edwin Dallin A limited number of this vitV beautiful picture, pic-ture, painted from "Tin Appeal To The Great Spirit" statue, have been secured and will be released by his bank for distribution Monday next to our many friends and patrons. Bank of American Fork 33 Years Successful Banking A STRONG BANK the face of almost overwhelming opposition, and if!?' r9 -imneachment she'll be doing more than W l..! Tr I that not rule, as the Fergusons are to rule. A death grapple soon ensue. in stays 'impeaenmeni was able to do a lew years ago. wouia apnear number of Texans are as determined that a Ferguson large shall WAS THERE EVER SUCH A ONE? What has become) of the old-fashioned man who wm-Wj hard six days a week, sat at home and read in the eveninw slept soundly and without the pangs of conscience, went to nraveVmeeting Wednesday, church on Sunday and ininU his own business all the timet THE WAY TO ADVERTISE A TOWN How often we have heard an expression of regret that death deprived a boy or girl at an early age of parental love and guidance-at just the time they were needed most. And yet, how many children, whose parents are living grow up with as little in tho way of parental love iand guidance as those whose parents have died T Ifi the boy is the father of the man and tho girl is the mother of the woman, the character charac-ter of America's future citizenship is deiendent upon the home training for which there can be no real substitute. 1L '695 1 Touring 525 HoaJbter 525 675 r775 Coup. FLINT, M1CHIUAN '.T.'.-.v'"."" jKTtrf.'.'Tr "".i,."'.'-":,M""j:'r 9feFamuys Present to thefaxxtify I A Chevrolet for Chrltma there a gift tuggettloQ that thousand will welcome 1 Pool the coit of leaser gifti for father, mother, tliter, and brother and make a Chevrolet the family1! preaent to tha family. Talk it over at the table tonight. Then pay ui a riait. Learn how little it will coit to have a good-looking, dependable car in which to make the ChrUtmaacalla thi year. Offering quality at low cott, giving you quality feature! fea-ture! found on the finest cart, a Chevrolet will be a ' lasting giftone that you and the whole family will be enjoying long after letter gift! have been forgotten. Paved sU-eets and sidewalks aa much in forming thp opinion of the stranger who is passing through the city. - o GOOD PHILOSOPHY Life, no matter from what angle you mav take a slant at it, is made up of just two things-- happiness and unhanni vjuuu ut-t-us onus nappiness, Dad deeds brings' the If you violate the laws of nature, you are made un- ness other. Novel Firt Fighter London'! fire-flghtlng equipment hai been augmented by a unique unit which not only carriee a 6.000-gaUon tank of foam-forming extinguishing chemlcala used for combating oU flre, but also electric cutters, drilli, fearchllghtt and "groop light. The ch:i)lcal are carried In two tanka connected to an electrically operated purrp powtrfal enough to throw a Jet of the foam 150 feet Tne electric cutters are used for going through the steel side of a ship. This new unit answers all district calls and la kept at fire-brigade headquarters. Plan Ideal Marriage Latest of the additions to Berlin's myriad clubs and verelns Is the Bachelor club. The members pledge themselves not to marry until they have amassed a capital of 100,000 marks (nominally 123,800) and then to marry none but poor girls. The club members believe that the root of the social unrest is misery and that most marriages that fall are shipwrecked on. tadlgence.- Therefore.thei believe the ideal marriage demand a comfortably com-fortably situated husband and a girl he loves. Guineas i In the dayi of the mewkant aft, tnrers the coins minted from the Z .Vrwight from territories cWta. aronnd the Gulf of Oulae werTstruJ -tulnta,- and they thu. bec, faoMos throughout the world u 2 0ld coast itself. Theodore Roeti h the Empire Review, London; Hatched by Hot Water Eleven pheasant chicks belonging to Clarence P. Billings of North Adams acknowledge a hot-water bottle as their mother. Set under a ben who abandoned them after sitting only a part of the Incubation period, they were removed by Mr. Billings. With the aid of a covering cloth and constant con-stant attention, the hot-water bottle finished the Job and hatched 11 chicks out of a setting of 15 eggs. Boston Hlohe. HOLIDAY, EXCUtt FARES Via DEIiHER & RIO GRUKOE VESTERII RAILROAD 15 FARES For The BOUND TEIPP Tickets on sale December 18 to 15, inclusive, 30, 31, 1925, and Jannaiy Tri92brween Denver & Rio Grande Western, li Utah; also to points on Westen Pacific, Southern Pacific and Lot Angeles A Salt Lake railroads, where one-way fare from starting point to destination does not exceed ex-ceed 130.00, adding sufficient to make fares end in multiples of "25M. Minimum round trip fan $0.50. Original starting point mtut be reached by midnight January 4, 1926. Call on nearest Rio Grande Agent for detailed fares and train service. CHRISTMAS I A STORY In two parts. The j birth of a Babe, heralded J by angels, and the wonderful i light from a star; The career of i a Man whose life radiated Igye J1 una goou win. With the Babe God came to earth. In the Man He walked and communed with men. In both, the Divine and human are beautifully Interwoven Into the love which; Christmas personifies. personi-fies. Let us sense the light above the manger and feel the warmth of the love which has hallowed the day" since first the angels brought their unusual message. May Christmas bring you Joy. W. D. Pennypacker. i (& 1111. Wnrn Nawtpapcr Uatoa.) 2 I SEASONABLE WILD NESS She I know a place nearby where the mistletoe jrrows wild. He Lead me there. I'll grow wild too. Martin Nielsen Auto Co. . AMERICAN FORK . UTAH QUALITY AT LOW COST Varying Mindt Strong minds will be strongly bent, and usually labor under a strong bias, but there Is no mind s weak and powerless pow-erless as not to have its Inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without Its prepossessions. Exchange. Before Sherlock Holme . Wcman ln 'N16" Published In 1S60, waa the first of, the modern detective novels. It achieved wide popularity, and its author, Wilkle Collins. Col-lins. Is known as the futher of the detective de-tective story. t 3: I t (Greetings Our Rivntost asset is the gocxl will of our HistonuTs and wo sin-eivlv value the business you have piven us Mav vour hnstmas W Mowy and the New Year letter and moiv prosperous than ever before. BONNEVILLE LUMBER Ctl t i H y c o m m o m v a u c i c S E. W. PAX MAN, Manager J I 2 |