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Show ' a ' -- ? 'irti i - r ' i J 1 , f j PROVO POST XXX0X00XxXXXXX THE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1921 V His First A Christmas Joke BEST WISHES t It Is with the greatest pleasure,, that we extend to all a hearty wish, for a Merry Christmas. You can all make your Christmas a great deal merrier by spending yonr money wisely and trading at Skaggs, . where you get the most for your dollars. t Bv By MART GRAHAM BONNER mast griaham bonner ftOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CoprrtcM. It 11. Wotsr Wtwipapar Delos. Copyright, lx Z. 12Hc lb 17c 80c FRESH HAM LEGS PORK, HALF OR WHOLE, lb 8c and 12 25c SHOULDER PORK ROAST, lb ORANGES SOME OTHER SAYING PRICES GRAPE FRUIT NEW CROP CURRANTS Fancy California Orange 85c 45c 65c 65c 40c 80c 25c 85c ..45c Large Oranges .... Extra Large Oranges....... 55c ....80c Fancy Lemons Florida Grape Fruit. 2 for 25c Med. Oranges . Extra Med, Orange t SWEET POTATOES 30c 30c 30c 20c 25c 12 Frfesh Currants...... 20c Fresh Seedless Raislns......20c 19c Fresh Seeded Raisins -- 15c Mince Meat 20c c Dates e Figs NEW CROP NUTS , Christmas Dinner is not complete You Wonld Hardly Believe Such a without them. Price Were Possible. 10c Fancy Sweet Potatoes, 6 lb 23c 20c Fresh Rstd Peanuts, 2 lb 20c POPCORN 60c 6 lbs, for 2 ....45c lbs 4c Fresh Kind Almonds, The Fancy Eastern Popcorn 45c That Pops. 40c Large Brazils, 2 lbs 5 lbs. for- ..$1.00 15c 2 lbs. Eastern Popcorn-.- -. 30o Large Hard Shell Walnuts, 5 lbs.' Eastern Popcorn . 63c 10 lbs. Eastern Popcorn . 45c 22 lbs. for 5 lbs. for 05c ; .CANDIES 4 5c- - Fresh Soft Shell Walnuts, Try Bone' of Our Fresh Christmas ' 65c 2 lbs. for Candies,' 80c Large can Walnut Halves 65c 30c Fancy Christmas Mix, 2 lb 80c ....... 03c . , 5 lbs. for PINEAPPLE , 65c 45c H. M. Chocolates, 2 lbs 5 lbs. for 11.55 A Splendid Dessert 4 Sc Assorted Chews, 2 lbs. ....... .65c .. 5 lbs. for 15c $1.55 18c Small can Sliced 40c French Creams, 2 lbs.... 50c 30c Med. can Sliced 25c $1.80 i lbs. for .20c 59e 40c Large can Sliced 40c Peanut Fudge, 2 lbs 45c box of Chocolates$2.05 28c can Grated, 2 cans for. 33.00 Water Nowapopor Unto. WAS very gulet in the house. Outside the snowflake were chasing each other with PRICES GOOD UNTIL NOON 87c UC 83c 1111. T Six SATURDAY MORNING UNtJSUAL BARGAINS 50c SKAGGS CREAMKRY RUTTER, lb..T.. 10c NICE LARGE SWEET POTATOES, 5 lb FRESH RAISINS. REEDED OR SEEDLESS, 2 for 25c I5-OBEEF POT ROAST, CUT FROM HIND QUARTER ROUND, 25c vigor and aa gayety and sense of the merriment of the season. on depended to present furnish b e r borne. new When she bad dureceived plicate which were not Initialed she hastened to the place from which they had been purchased and picked out other, article of beauty and of household necessity. Iler friends had really been remarkably kind. She had been surprised to find how ready the shops had been about taking back gifts and substituting with others, or in engraving presents which had not alrecdy been engraved. Only one had charged for engraving the gift had been purchased at "wholesale rate and so engraving was not Included. j Altogether from the point of view of presents as well as from the point of view of a mate she had done remarkably well. This would enable them to make a very good appearance In their home without having to draw from the none too plentiful savings. She viewed everything over again one evening, presents and those which were exchangee. There was Just one thing among them that waa not necessary and not particularly pretty. It She knew of no was a gravy-disparticular use to which she could put had one of the kind she really Voices ing, waiting. How tense and long seemed the wait How nervous, how frightful, and yet how marvelous if all went well. But Just suppose everything didnt go well? Suppose anything happened? It ; - : - WHILE THEY LAST I Sale Starts 10 oclock Sale Starts 10 oclock . Saturday we place on sale and will sell as long as tljey last, these Blank, ets for the small price of $1.95 Pair and $4.75 Pair. See these Blankets Full size; good weight. 1 - could he beard shouting across streets, wishing others "A Merry Christmas." i Now and again the wind blew loudly, but not ahrilly nor harshly, nor with a walling sound. The wind, too, seemed to be quivering with happiness, All of nature had Joined together to be as beautiful, as radiant, in honor of the day as possible. The hills were covered with snow. The branches of the trees were laden with It Icicles hang from eaves and from corners of bouses, and windows were frosted with exquisite designs. The shrubs, too, were covered with snow. It looked more like Fairyland than anything else. In the house they were waiting, wait- e liked, AWMflV .Christmas BLANKETS BLANKETS $6.75 Value . $2.75 Value $1.95 PAIR ' $4.75 UP THE STOCKING HANGING GUIDES BABE OF BETHLEHEM Custom Christmas Datss Back to th Days of $L , Nicholas of Padua.,' , . Time-Honore- Lighted Candl in Window on Christ, mas Ev Will Bring Happiness, an Old Tradition. N OLD tradition has It that "a lighted candle set In the window on Christmas eve will - guide - the Babe of Bethlehem, to your home, that He may bring yon happiness. In some countries it has long been the custom so to mark the coming of Christmas, and John H. Stedman of Rochester, N. Y has originated 'a movement to spread It In this country. In pamphlet urging all to light the "Christ-candl- e on Christmas eve he t - b. L- . full-nss- y laia if ' 2. ppes Emils Cafe SUNDAY, 85c EAT WITH EMIL" 85 North Uatverrity At case. A skipping fop Is a Joy to the asked. r sturdy little girt, especially "It waa the baby who cried?" "Not a cry, my love, Merry Christ- when It has Nannettesnd Rlntlntln for handles. They are painted n deep mas was what ha mid! pink with faces, hair, neckties and Lillian, my own, my, own," ha murmured, and bent down ever her. And buttons of black paint By substitutnow th tears cam freely. He didn't ing clothespins for these handles and car at all about them. Nothing mat- tacking tbs rope to them It Is easy to tered. Foe th 6aw they were tha mak this treasure of childhood at bone. tears of Joy I nut-doo- 1 e, ? FOR RENT 5 room modern bouae, cloee In. Call at 145 N. 3rd -- ' West - D-3- FOR RENT close in. Call Four-roo- 483-- 1 house, m South. -- 1 - A 3200 JM "Creators" steam popper and peanut roaster 48 North 1st West; phone LOST OR 8TOLEN popcora for flH. 705, Pr- ' ovo. J. Dog collar Dear Baby Why not send studded with brass e bwk. Ml your photo for Christmas morn. Phone Information 256. See Larson & Rollow, Columhie? DRESS MAKING Plain. splke-lik- bia theater. A NEW DAIRY FOR , PROVO r- Wiil Delive10 Cents Quart . embroider, tatting, crocheting ut beading. Mrs. Amy E. Watkins, ID Ml North Ith West, Provo. , CLEAN COTTON RAGS WASTE: AT THIS OFFICE. Ml kiifc WANTED Sewlng-Of-174 North 1st East (north put si Ml . house.) JERSEYMlOC . worn Middle-age- d WANTED for general house work. Call it Ml North 1st West. Phone ttl-J- . -- E Ward Chase Phone -l ORDERS NOW TAKEN for delivery of baby chick from th oneer Hatchery, Petaluma, CaUt DurranL Phone 562. 767-R- Pi- WANTED Dairy csttls, Jeney for results, h preferred. try me; beat and most successful 13 or 442-- Wells L. Brimball; -- W MABRY ip LONELY; Home Maker"; hundreds Tlch wish marriage soon; strictly confidential; most reliable; years experience; descriptions "The Successful Club," 'MRS. NASH, Box 551. Oakland. California. 1,. fst Plf Celery and Banana Salad. Cot tha bleached portions of crisped lengths. Mix with celery Into half-inc- h It an equal quantity of diced banana. Arrange In small mounds In Isttucs cups, diets with paayonnaist and garnish with English walnut masts, or. if novelty la desired, serve la banana Miscellaneous b-- 5 CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR SALE time-honor- .Ac Qay Skipping ADS ROM Italy comes the legend FOR SALE A- -l ro&d milk cow from which we are supposed L. B. ohnson, West 12th Sootl custo get the , , tom of hanging up the Christmas stocking FOR' SALE First-clas- s alfalfa Good old St Nicholas of Padua hay; first and second crops, 111 per used Xfi throw long knitted purses tied ton; third crop, $12 per ton. Phone at both ends, into the open windows 767-R-of the very poor people. These purses were made of yarn not unlike a footFOR SALE Davenette, dtep less stocking. Finally it became the Call 59 East 5th South. custom of the people to hang them FOR SALE Bargain In slightly outside of their window on the night before Christmas, po that St. Nicholas used piano, case and action like uv could put agfft Into them as he passed See H. B. Schulthess, 377 E. Rnt i by. By and by, when coin became North. scarce, toys were put in for the chilFOR SALE Singing canaries tud dren, and useful presents for grown people. In the North country where Rhode Island Red roosters, til V It waa rather chilly at Christmas time, 1st North. the parses were hung on the mantel-piec"FOR BALE Parsnips, , carroti, and It was believed that the cabbage and nfc good, old saint would come down the beets, turnips, 314 Wed 4tl for chickens. cabbage fill When them. the chimney, and Ml Phone South. (12. 'purses were out of use, stockings wars substituted and have been used ever FOR SALE-- Household furniture. since. Call 635 or inquire at 787 Eutlrd -- , CLASSIFIED d V It had She could not exchange h monogram In the center. ; I kuow what PU d with It," the Ray Clarke paced Up and down the said to her husband. Til' give It to floor and wondered how he Could have says: Molly Stevens for a Christmas pres- been so happy so free from nervous"The Irish will tell you that the iia and ness for so long's time. ent She has been so good to Christ-candl- e was always lighted In Td like to show her how- - much He hated the great beauty of the their homes In the Emerald Isle as It . outside world. When be beard people has 'been for years and years In Nor appreclate.lt "Yon know she la going to get mar- wishing each other "Merry Christmas way and Sweden. Boston has had It ried In the spring that l her en he almost hated their smiles and their tft a decade. In Rochester 1916 was cheerful voices. gagement la all but announced. oar third celebration the first year a A FEW SAVING MEAT PRICES "Dont you think It would be a good How .deeply he loved Lillian. She few houses shone the secobd over e Idea? She waa so helpful about my was worth all the Christmas presents thousand the third nearly every one; You can always depend on good quality, government Inspected wedding and she has told me, quite In the world 1 Of course. There were and It has spread to town, village and meats at our market for much less than you pay elsewhere. Christ confidentially, that the wedding will no two ways about that. radios. Many country over a mas dinner would be incomplete without a beef or lamb roast fronf in the spring. be And the doctor had said with such faraway homes, Wisconsin, Maine, our selected young meat. "It would be a good Idea to give her n genial, merry twinkle in his eyes California, Florida, kindled their can"Welt, I fancy the young son and dle from onrs, and when yon 'Rave VEASPRING LAMB j heir will be a Christmas present from lighted yours you will, appreciate 22c 20c 20c Loin Veal Chops, lb. 26c Legs Spring Lamb, lb. V- the missus to you I why." 20c 20c Leg Veal Roast, lb 35c Loin Lamb Chops, lb... 22c He had laughed at the time, and &CSST35 25c 8houlder Lamb Chops, lb. -- 18c 25e Rump Veal Roast, lb. Lillian had blushed and smiled and 18c 5c 25c Shoulder Veal Roast, lb. -- 18c 15c Lamb Stew, lb laughed, too. The doctor was such The Truer Things of Life. n friendly old aonl he had been the -- 10e 20c Veal Stew, lb W stand together at another s BEEF doctor when Lillian had been bora. 15c Veal Shank, lb 8c of n Is It fullness time; perhtpe And he waa fine, too. In which material things, the manPrime Rib Roast, Boiled, lb 20c But perhaps he counted too much on PORK 20e Sirloin Beef Steak, lb I8c Lillian's strength. Ray had been sent made things, bulk largest perhaps It Is time in which confidence In th .20c 20c Leg Pork Roast, lb. 26c out of the room and he had been alone Steak, lb seems to excel confidence la human 18c 20c here now for so long. 20e Round Steak, lb.... f Leg Pork Roast, lb. divine. It Is becoming lucres-JngfAt first he had been so fall of hlgb The 22c 20c Pot Roast Beef, best cut 12Me 25c Loin Pork Chops, lb evident that there must speedily But as the delay bad been 7c 25c Loin Pork Roast, lb. spirits --22c 15c Rib Boll. lb. ieome to men the visions of Ilf end 18c strange. They hadnt told --him there real valnee as they find 15c 20c Shoulder Pork, lb. 20c Rump Roast, lb their finer would to tuy luch delaf. They tad and n:15c 25C Shoulder Porkreenterrcut, 20c"HeeI Boll, lb larger Interpretation of him 15c him 10c Brisket Boil, lb. lb. sent out room of the and simply whose birth the world celebrates at 17c -- 10c 20c Pork Steak. I- b16e Nice Kidney Suet, lb had said that everything waa all right, Christmas. Thar Is a tragic. If Inar20c Fresh Hamburger, 2 lbs. 25c 20c Country Sausage, 2 lbs. 85c and that theyd come and tell him ticulate, appeal being mad today for soon to be bec$ to eee his child. n return to the homelier, stronger end He wonld go upstairs. He couldnt truer of Ilfs ; ws are looking for stand this another moment. And it n new things of birth shall re-- ' waa so He had fancied It store our loot goodnessandthat back peace "I'll Give It te Molly itevens for s wonld notquiet. bring be quiet Then he heard a to earth the deeper satisfaction Christmas Present again shrill voice. strange of the human heart. Jams E. How curiously It sounded. Waa something for Christmas that aba that Lillian. 8be must be very 111 to could have for her new home. have a voice sound so curiously. He We really cant afford to buj never heard It like that another thing Just now and that will UTAH -- PROVO, 247 WEST CENTER STREET. They couldn't keep him from her. do beautifully." 8he would want him, too. Of course "But the' monogram?" her husband she would! Inquired. He hurriedly ran np the stair. The "Oh, that can bo taken off you doctor waa at the top of the stairs. ADVICE TO FOOLISH WIVES. NOTICE OF EXAMINATION. know, and another one put there In "Walt a moment; not eofast; not so For applicants for position In fire Its place. I beard some one ordering th doctor smiled. "I was comMISS DUPONT. of Provo By and police department! that to be done In one of th silver ing to tell you." Provo City, Utah. j husband in hand is worth two shops the other day." "Couldn't yoq hare let me come to Notice is hereby given that a in Acourt. , "Yea thats s splendid Idea," her her? Did you have to wait until It physical examination for applicants . Tour husband will never outgrdw husband heartily agreed. for positions In tho tiro and police and attend te It of Provo City, Utah, the boy stage. Treat him as such Til go down-tow- n departments CHRISTMAS IN FIGVILLE will be held at the office of Dr. Wal- and hell coddle like an infant. tomorrow. I havent much time. Foolish wives are those who buy Christmas Is almost here." Fapa My hew the ehllSren ter T. Haaler, at 260 West Center will appreciate thl nlee hag f nurtl street. Provo City, Utah, on Thnra heavy glasses to find their husthe said "Our Christmas" first day, December 21th, 1621, begin- bands weaknesses. his Taffy now la bettor than epltaphy young husband as he clasped ning at $ oclock a. m. him. to bride kind with later. It word) bo will examination Say mental a Also "Our first Christmas" she murconducted at the City Commissioners flowers wilt. Youve got him lot the others mured. room (Room No. ) County Court was all over to come and The next evening be asked her House ,on Friday. December 30th. worry. If he says ho has been at a lodge she had arranged about sending the Bay said In a husky voice. 1021. at 10 oclock a. m. "She wanted It to be that way, Applications tor examination must meeting, believe him, you wont add gravy dish to Molly Stevens bo made before December 26th. 1621. to your peace of mind by learning th doctor said. Still he waa amtllng. "I couldnt send It," she said. Blanks may bo obtained from tho otherwise. How could he smile at such a time? "Why notr he queried. i If you dont tell him hes wonderCity Recorder. How hard and inhuman doctors beIn the of "Because monogram the ful, theres a flapper waiting round FRED EVANS. came. center," ahe said. Secretary Civil Service Commission. the corner who will. "I dont believe a word of it,", be "But you told me that that could if half he tells you it true let Dated at Provo City, Utah, DecemShe wanted me, I know, laid. be erased by the aUThrsmltha hud the other half tilde. ber 22rd, 1621. ' new monegram placed there" her heard her cry. That was It You husband persisted. kept me from her. You wouldnt let "I know I did," the young bride me go to her and ahe ebe wanted answered, "but you eee they told me me." 'My dear Ray, Just a minute," the today at the shop that It would he possible to do It were It not for the doctor said, hut Ray had rushed pest fact that It had been done so often to him and was in hi wife's room. Tears this gravy dish that they wouldn't were in his eyes. THE GUEST OF HONOR Oh, hed never forgive himself that dare take a chance with It again. he had consented to do wbat the docThey'd not be able to avoid boring now la yonng New Tear, waited hole this time I It has been given tor had told him to when suddenly upon by hoary Old Year who away once too often for me to put to be noticed that Lillian was looking at will feast no more. Come here him, her eye wide open, smiling hapany use," she sighed sadly. to Emils restaurant If you want ' "And I shall Just send Molly pily. the beat holiday dinner In town "Did you bear him shout out come and see the New Year Christmas card. After all she did no more than any one else!" In' and have a Jolly time. Merry Christmas to you, Ray?" she ft (ft Fine Wool . IF YOU ARB LOOKING (of painter and paperhanger of Iom perlence, call Oeorge W. Wstklu 21 East Center it. A2 phone 11S-- J. work guaranteed. GREATEST SUCCESS AND MOST ARTISTIC TRIUMPH EVER KNOWN IN HISTORY of the Modern stage Cho F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest, Producers of Chow," Announce at the . Cfch SALT LAKE THEATRE ' , THURSDAY 29 - 30 - 31 SATURDAY MATINEE SATURDAY THE SENSATION OF NEW YORK AND PARIS APHRODITE (From the Theatre Renaissance, Paris) Direct From One Entire Season at the Century TTiefitit New York Play by Pierre Prondale and Geo. C. Haaelton From the Novel of Pierre Lonys Music by Hear Perrier and Anselm Goeta! A Romance of A sclent Egypt la the Day When ClvUixatloa Waa to It Infancy; When and Idol of Clay Ruled the Tempest sous Paaaios of Men. Positively the Biggest aad Moot Colossal Attraction Ever Bent on Toar to the History of th World. Gods-of-Eart- Costume Percy Asd of Londo h , , Addttiosal Costumes M Leon JSakM Paris ' Bcenorybf FbUfr Joseph sad Barker of London Choreopaphy sad Daacesby MICHEL POKIXE, the ET& Creator of the RuasUy Ballet. Staged by E. LYALL 8K World-Fu- ? COMPANY OF 300 PEOPLE 8arard-jM-U.- NIGHTS AT 6 tx wmattczs AT $1 as, ee P. J4. $1, 2 - ft, $aVr. |