Show made best of worst of christmas time mishap TUB THE enow began nearly a week before christmas christinas and when the great day arrived folks were trying to remember the time when it snow enow in morton anorton city barnes the only merchant had put off getting his shopping supply y so there were no gifts in tow town n to be bought for love or money but when news got about that the train down on the mountain siding was snowbound in morton city old and young sort of 0 forgot about the lack of gifts too the president of tile the road with his party had a special car on the rear of tho the snowbound passenger and that a great honor indeed follia folks got over the novelty ot of their visitors in time for the organization of a huge choir of carol singers that went down too to the train and paraded through the length of the coaches coa chea even to singing for the clief chef and the porters and of course all the train men they had remembered to take along a tree decorated with the makeshift ornaments they had on hand from previous years dut but somehow they made a great bit with all the strangers who joined heartily in the fun the passengers dove into their baggage and brought up books boxes of candy candy bars ties fancy soaps and bath salts highly perfumed perfume d beautiful towels and even lovely baby clothing wearing apparel and jewelry in fact not a soul in the little settlement was without one of the impromptu gifts the passengers received old tash toned roasted fowls fois and all trimmings of a generous feast what one hath not the hie other had seemed the most teree eipl explanation of the happy condition luella B lyons 0 western newspaper union n amirr JM irr |