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Show THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 mfTinr 1939 I Jill H Christmas Invitation Christmas Play By Kathcrine Edelman By Katherine Edelman a MS Appreciating our pleasant business relations during the past we wish you the compliments r, the Season and trust that the coming Christmas will be the best you have ever known in happiness and Good Cheer Webb's Conoco 4V May your way be gay; your pleasures unending; your Christmas a merry one; your New Year a prosperous one. These are our wishes for you. For ourselves ... all we want Is your continued friendship and patronage. This Is enough for anyone MEILING'S CONFECTIONERY -Meet Your Friends at MellingV Migrating Birds Die Thousands of dead birds, mostly Marks, were washed ashore along Jfc coast near Deal, England, after aerer winter storm. They had StgraWd from the European conti-t conti-t because of the cold weather, collapsed In the storm while inM the English channel I found CK the for rtti W" " -vArUS"" vw Year " ' - to ed , Saturn Service Station tfERES WISHING YOU All THE HAPPIEST MUM SEASON Brlght Faint Cools Radiator Bright paint on radiators, like aluminum or gold, cuts down the heat by a large percentage. It acts like a mirror and reflects heat; the reQection is back into the radiator. This applies to all the radiant beat given off, which is about 40 to M per cent of all the warmth of the radiator. bring W frv eats'- neccm- in1'" ceil aUs THE town hall was wreathed with holly and mistletoe. Bright red bells hung from the old-fashioned chandeliers. Christmas candles sent their soft glow Into the night The whole place cried out welcome to the crowd who thronged through the doors. By eight o'clock every seat was occupied. Small gossip and murmurs mur-murs of expectancy ran through the crowd. The little town was proud of the boy who was taking the leading lead-ing part in the play. They had known Ted Rawlings all their lives, Known him as an easy-going lad. Interested In-terested In nothing more than fishing fish-ing and hunting around the country, coun-try, and later as an astonishingly changed ambitious fellow. No one seemed to understand how the quick transition occurred. All eyes turned to the stage as the heavy curtain rolled upward. Three hundred pairs of eyes fastened themselves upon the moving, speaking speak-ing figures. "Isn't Ted wonderful," young girls whispered breathlessly to each other. Between acts, thun- "Ted, you were perfectly wonder ful," Sally was saying. derous bursts of applause filled the room. Hands clapped with vehemence. vehe-mence. Small boys made their approval ap-proval known by shrill whistling. Ted carried the audience with him, every step of the way. He seemed to enter, to merge himself completely in the character he portrayed. por-trayed. His make-believe was so in-tense in-tense in the last act, that there was a deep silence for a moment when the final curtain fell. 1 l?OR the time it was no make-He make-He was living believe to Ted. again all the agony of parting, of seeing Sally Howard go away without with-out a word. He had been sure until her train pulled out that she would come and say how sorry she was for the bitter, reproachful words she had hurled at him. Words that had left their mark upon his soul that had stung him Into a mad, ambitious am-bitious desire to show her what he could do. He found no real satisfaction in the tumultuous applause that followed. fol-lowed. In this hour of his triumph, his heart cried out for Sally. If only she was here! If only she had cared! He scarcely knew what he was saying in answer to the lavish congratulations. Suddenly small hands pressed tightly around his arm, and a remembered re-membered voice spoke in his ear. "Ted, you were perfectly wonderful," wonder-ful," Sally was saying, "wonderful, wonderful. I'm so proud so proud of you." "But, Sally, I don't understand, I thought you were in New York." "I was, until last night. I've been keeping track of you. I knew all bout the play, and and the way you have been working lately. I wouldn't have missed this for anything any-thing in the world." "But the things you said. Sally? iney nurt they still do." "I wanted them to hurt, Ted. I know I know It was cruel, but there seemed no other way. Someone had to give you the right kind of push to get you going. You know you were really lazy? But now. well, you've really put on speed." "Nothing like the speed I'm going go-ing to show in getting ready for a Christmas wedding. There's just two days left We've got to make it a really big event Let's give out the announcement now while the crowd is still in the hall." The First Santa Claus The first Santa Claus was St Nicholas, Nich-olas, Bishop of Myra, who started mysterious midnight gift-bearing Journeys. In the Fourth century he jwas famous because he was a rich snan who enjoyed giving secret gifts '0 the poor. One of his tricks was thro purses of gold into cottage idowi And run away. m ICurcf' Christmas Menu your cboice of Christmas Chim pudding in England, keese In fik?rmany, Vier-Efcnmark. Vier-Efcnmark. Fatigman's Bak-jrm Bak-jrm ay. Hom-saoe cake in V.culaai to Holland, and Stden. Shoeful In Holland xteer but on a white Teio t on sv ,,.nd. " instead of took- .inv" w 11 them with gifts. Appreciating our pleasant bus! ness relations during the past we wish you the compliments of the season and trust that the coming New Year will bring you the best you have ever known in Happiness Hap-piness and Prosperity GLEN'S SERVICE Among the gifts we will receive none will be more cherished than that bestowed by the passing year your friendship and the privilege of having; served you. So it is most sincerely sin-cerely that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 3-BAR DAIRY May this Christmas be the brightest you have ever known may it be a Season of Plenty of Joy STATE STREET SHOE SIIOP YULETIDE JOY It is with sincere pleasure and cordial good will that we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous Pros-perous New Year RAY'S PLACE YULETIDE JOY 19 3 9 It's been good . . . mighty good .. . . to know you and do business with you. We've enjoyed serving serv-ing you during the year and we now sincerely wish this Christmas Christ-mas Season will find you Happy and Prosperous. ALTA WEBB 6 HOLIDAY W 1 i L JACK TRESLAR hunched his broad shoulders deeper into the big chair, turning a new page of his book. He was reading a Christmas story, trying hard to become absorbed ab-sorbed in the tale. A sharp ring from the telephone brought him to his feet. Who could be calling him on Christmas eve? A strange voice responded to his "hello." "I hate to bother you on Christmas eve, Mr. Treslar. But I'm ringing up to ask if it would be possible for you to come and spend Christmas with me. My name is Bevan Willers. I live out at Richmond. Rich-mond. I have a big home, and" "But but I don't even know you, Mr. Willers. There must be some mistake." "I want you!" the low voice was emphatic. "Will you come or not?" Jack repressed a quick exclama-1 "I T had thnneht of soending i Christmas" he began. "Wouldn't it be possible to change your plans? I have a feeling they could be side-tracked easily." Jack thought of the lonely Christmas Christ-mas he had been anticipating. Aft- He ascended the steps leading to the massive door. er all, there might be something to this unusual invitation. "You are right about my plans," he admitted. "They are rather in the air. But but going to spend Christmas with an utter stranger took me back for a moment." "That's why I thought you might come." There was a note of disappointment disap-pointment In Bevan Willers voice. "I probably got the wrong man, however." Jack thought again of the lonely Christmas before him. And before he could debate the question, he heard a voice inside of him answering, answer-ing, calling through the wire to Richmond, Rich-mond, "You got the right man, Mr. Willers. I'm coming." An hour later, bathed and dressed, Jack Treslar was speeding along the frosted highway to Richmond. Following Fol-lowing the detailed instructions that had been given him, Jack found the long winding drive leading from the roadway. What a secluded, ghostly place, he thought, as he drove under un-der the snow-sprinkled trees. 13 EVAN WILLERS was waiting. In AJ the dim light from the chandelier, chande-lier, his tall bent figure seemed grotesque. gro-tesque. "I have let the servants away for the evening," he said, his bony hand motioning toward the end of the shadowed hall. Jack Treslar felt a twinge of fear as he followed. Here he was alone In the house with this strange old man. Anything could happen. There wasn't another, residence within blocks. Then, his adventurous spirit spir-it reasserted itself, and he looked smilingly across the table at Bevan Willers. "Well, what's it all about?" A dead silence was the only answer. an-swer. Gray eyes under heavy bristling bris-tling brows stared at him intently. Jack stared back unflinchingly. . Then a hearty laugh rang through the library. With amazement Jack saw the old man straighten up in his chair. Years seemed to fall off his shoulders. The twisted, grotesque gro-tesque appearance vanished as if by magic. He spoke quietly. "I'm not crazy," he began; "I'm just a lonely old fellow, ticketed as a sort of recluse. The true facts are that I've been trying for years to write. Yesterday I got word that a story of mine had been accepted." "But I still don't understand your strange invitation, and" Jack interrupted. in-terrupted. "I'm coming to that," Bevan Willers Wil-lers continued. "The hero of my book is a daring, adventurous fellow. fel-low. A man willing to answer a strange call that came in the night I got intrigued with the fellow, and began thinking. Wondering if there was any young fellow who would act as he had done. So I rang the first hotel that came to mind and described my hero. Young, unmarried, unmar-ried, interesting sort of chap. Pretended Pre-tended his name had slipped my mind for the moment They connected con-nected me with your room. You know the rest" Jack stretched out his long arm across the desk, and gripped the old man's hand. "Now that Tm here Mr. Willers. do you still believe you have got the right man." There was wistful entreaty in his dark eyes. 1 don't Just think-Tm absolutely absolute-ly positive." fill! WM IPJUWKIUIPWWMWWJWMMWWBM JM! B.MA'JM".' . t $ft j! " JM J i Tn n , " May This Christmas be your most enjoyable, in, with Health, Happiness and Prosperity DR. J. G. JONES DR. W. L. To our many customers and good friends we say "Merry Christmas." And may our friendships continue to grow even stronger as the years go by. We'll be seeing, you during the Christmas Season at DICK'S State Street A complete stock to meet your needs j haws COAL co. First East & Main Street -:- Phone 109 !' . 1 iff ' 'Nl V-' ' n KflttONfOT 1930 1333 E. N. Jeweler & I WORLTOIV HI DINER Lehi, Utah TO OUR MANY FRIETS: It is appropriate that we should pause in the year's busy work to observe oar fitting reverence to the anniversary an-niversary of the Christ Child. And in kpinf with the old custom Ut symbolizes Peace on and Good Will Toward Men, we take this way J extending our sincere' Greetings of the Season WEBB Optotnestrist (ooa"- |