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Show THURSDAY,- - DECEMBER 20. 1945 PAGE 5 SS.jes 5s , a ? ea On this most glorious s oc- - casion we want to express CLLSiiiJsiiEI; Maw Levis called from kitchen, "you get your lazy bones out of that chair and wash Dinner'll be ready in two up! shakes of a lamb's tail." Pop managed to lift his six feet of bone and sinew to his feet and headed for the kitchen sink. "Don't you go usin' that clean towel, neither," Maw admonished. 'That's for company. Use the roller towel. Sakes alive, I do believe you'd wipe your dirty feet on the front door mat if I'd leave it out." "What's a door mat fer," Pop flared, "if it ain't to wipe feet on?" Pop gave the roller towel a vicious jerk. "Y'know tonight bein' New Year's Eve, Maw, you 'nd me ought to step out somewheres. They're having a big shindig over at the "pOP," the ST.NICHOLAS A of snow on the roof, BLANKET peace and stillness and warmth and firelight, the lovely litter of Christmas on the living room floor. Certainly there's a Santa Claus, and as we wish you a Merry Christmas we add this wish for good measure: May good old St. Nicholas come laden, this Christmas of 1945, with more of the good things of life for you than you have ever before enjoyed. l n :xxxxxxcxxcx?n o y 3 t our heartiest wishes to one and all for a Christmas m brimming over with joy and happiness. X THE TROfiADERG CLU8 S? Season's greetings t0 all our friends. May this Christmas bring you unbounded this New Year, the joy fulfillment of all your hopes 0,11, LUNCH 4 I v - : : : i y V V V 4' 4' ' Ik '4' IA V 4 3A &?' S3 DRUG 4 ij 4 4 "4 4 1 4v 'Jed Hafey's openin' a keg." : ?5 V" L&A 9 jt.. jta":.irAjrA kb ". Jvn--- . ;: y y Corners store. Jed Hafey's open- in a keg. "If it's anything like that keg he opened Thanksgiving, you ain't get-ti4 any nearer to it than you are v right now. Pretty howdy-do- , you comin' home six o'clock in the mcrn-i- n and shootin' off the shotgun 4 through the roof so it leaks like a n sieve.. No, siree, you ain't even y gettin' near enough to have a smell of any keg Jed Hafey opens," Maw 4' said. Suddenly Pop looked up from his plate. "Well, consarn! What you cry in' about, Maw?" "I ain't cryin'," Maw denied. "I'm, s just thinkin' thinkin' back 4 years. You was payin attention to me and kind o' jealous like. I couldn't turn 'round but what you was kissin' me. You was jealous o' Jed Hafey jealouser than anything." Pop snorted disdainfully. "What'd I have to be jealous o' Jed Hafey fer? Tell me that." "Plenty," Maw said, "I was going to marry him." Pop dropped his fork. "You was n' 4 we see WHENhands little loys and urls with Santa Claus this thought comes to mind: We would like our expression of appreciation for your patronage to he a hearty shake of the hand for each of you. As we seem to he denied this opportunity, please accept this, while a substitute for a baud, shake, as no less sincere in wishing you a HAPPY CHRISTMAS This is the season of good will, and, looking down the long list of names of those who . have shown their good will towards us in 1945, we come to yours. We want to thank you for this good will on your part, and to send just the friendliest of wishes for your 4?i 4 4v n 4 happiness and cheer at l i 4 y $ y $ y At Christmastime. n' TO WISH YOU hristmas I i - Christmastime we feel more sensibly the charm ol each other's society, and re drawn more closely together by dependence on each other for enjoyment. -- WASHINGTON IRVING. Al May this spirit of Christmas, which Washington Irving so ably wrote about, pervade your home this Christmas season of 1945. fJeit whites from us for a 0. K. CLEANERS fifty-tw- to o' marry Jed?" "Sure. Only his folks wanted him to marry Edda Stout. She owned all the bottom land nearly in Clarke county. He couldn't marry me until he was of age, on account o' his folks wantin' him to marry Edda. In a year he figures he can get all her money and then divorce her and marry me. Meanwhile he said I might as well marry you,, then when he got all Edda's money I could divorce you and marry him. Said you was about the most harmless male bein' in all Clarke county and no harm would come to me marryin you. He said if I married anybody else I might fall in love with him and then he'd lose out." "So that was the way o' things! I remember. Jed did divorce Edda a year or so later. How come you never told me this before, Lil? And how come you not to divorce me and marry Jed after he got his divorce?" "How come?" Maw said. "Well, Pop, I guess maybe you was kind o' responsible for that. Ain't no tell-ihow a woman looks at things until she's hogtied to a man. I just kind o' forgot about Jed. Money didn't matter so much, after all. I found out it was the man that mattered. You kind o' had good ways about you, Pop. Different kind o' ways, only they was the right kind. Made a girl think twice afore jump-ifrom the fryin' pan into the fire. You was good enough for me, I found. If there was any better men'n you, I wouldn't have no way o' knowin', o' course. Everything was so nice I didn't think it could be any nicer, so I just decided to hang onto you and let Jed root for himself." "By gum!" Pop exclaimed after a moment's reflection. "Now I am to that keg openin' tonight if it kills me. And you're with me, Lil. I won't have Jed thinkin' he didn't get cheated in the deal, consarn his danged hide! If I go without you he'll think I don't care none about you, and I want to make him feel right good and jealous." "Jed jealous after fifty - two years?" Maw said incredulously. I "Well, if he ain't he ought to be Happy New Year, Maw!" "I'll go," Maw said, "but remem- -. ber, Pop Levis, if you get drunk tonight I'll break the mop handle over your head when we get hon.c - that is, if I'm still able to tell a mop handle from a crowbnr." n' hristmas Cheer H 4 EASTERN UTAH ELECTRIC COMPANY PRICE '4 n EMIL '4' TAVERN UTAH Of hemlock, pine and holly. Again may friendly voices call A greeting warm and jolly; And again may the meaning of Christmas, Deep and still more true Bring faith and hope and gladness To the hearts of yours and you. GRILL CAFE JOHN PINARELLI. Mgr. " Under New Management " At 4 s:x?:xcxsx?xcj9bxo jr tjr 4& ff & S1 he yinbl f (Peace The untroubled hush of snow-lade- n, starlit streets: the free abandon of song and laughter in warm, guest filled households: the love in our hearts for one and all these make for the very spirit of peace and good will. n' Again may yon know the fragrance S A Joy!!mil (UTAH FUEL COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH |