Show ituk t at A NEW YEARS CALL by HAROLD L COOK ti 1 I first was hanging heavily on the hands of mr and mrs willer wilier they felt that they should do something to distinguish it from other holidays or from sunday but tour four lu in the afternoon arrived without anything happening to impress upon them that they had really entered upon a new year the new england town where they lived lay peacefully under its blanket of white and probably most of its ill forty thousand inhabitants were as peacefully dozing in their chairs satisfied with their creature comforts and thankful that they were not a as other people mr willer wilier was roused from nil his quiet doze by the clang of the door bell are the misses baker in queried a throaty voice as he opened the door and saw nn an elderly couple standing landing s on his porch the misses baker 1 he exclaimed you mean miss bell and miss misa louise Lou lse of course replied the voice why the bakers dont live here mr air wil wilier ier explained they live on car caroline 0 line s street t reet they lived here in over oer twenty years thank you was the only response my aly wife and I 1 just thought wed pay our new years Y e a rs call on them can you ira 1 in agine that I 1 shouted mr willer wilier to his wife when he had closed the door the lew aises calling on the baker girls here and weve wee been n in this h house 0 u s e ourselves tor for over twenty years 1 mr air lewis even seem surprised when it was I 1 who opened the door well of all things I 1 laughed mrs willer wilier coming down the stairs but do you know john that gives me an idea suppose we go around the corner and crill call on mrs crump we wa bion there in a long time an and d lt it m huelit 1 lit cl cheer r her up alicle icle A all r right g mr r willer wilier replied mrs crump Is getting on and I 1 dont suppose we can wish her many more happy new years she must be over ninety now yes ninety throe spid sold mrs airs willer wilier drawing on her rubbers and we e dropped in to see her ln in sometime how long is it anyway asked mr air willer wilier 1 I dont know replied his wife but we certainly been there since we anre living inthis in this house hou s e I 1 so after ate twenty years mrs crump received a new years call from her friendly neighbors the Wll lers M E 1831 1931 western newspaper union |