Show alt 1 made best of worst of christmas time mishap THE LIE snow began nearly a week before christmas and when the great day arrived folks were trying to remember the time when it snow la in morton city barnes the only merchant had put off getting his shopping supply so there were no gifts in town to be bought for love or money but when ne news s got about that the brals down on the railroad siding was snowbound in morton city old and young youn sort 0 ot forgot about the lack of gifts gift S to too the president of the road with his hi party had bad a special al car on the rear of at the snowbound passenger pas benger and nd that a great honor indeed folks got over the novelty of thel their r visitors in time for the of a huge choir of carol singers that went down to the train and paraded through the length of the conches coi chea even to singing for the chef and the porters anil and of course nil all the train men they had bad remembered to take along a tree decorated with the makeshift or laments they had bad on hand from pre alous years rears but somehow they madia mada a great hit with all the strangers str angera who joined heartily la in the fun the passengers dove dore into their baggage and brought up books boxes of 0 candy candy bars bare ties fancy soang and bath salts highly perfumed beautiful towels and even lovely baby clothing wearing apparel and jewelry in fact not a soul la in the little settlement wag without one of the impromptu gifts the passengers received old roasted fowls and all trimmings ot of a generous feast what on hath not the other had geemer tho hp most explanation of tho ti happy uella P B lyona l yona jb fi wrt a t rr |