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1910 letters to Santa From our Little Ones Dear Santclaws: I want you to bring a little doll and a dress for it and a bed for it and and stove to and and all kinds of nuts, that is all I can think of now. Lela May Buchanan. Dear old santa: I want you to please bring me a cow-boys suite with a whip and an interesting story book a great big drum a nice horn that will blow loud an air gun a great big sack of shot and some tire works candy and lots of fruit. I will be nice. lovingly llarward Burke. dear Santa Claus: I wan a big doll and a rocker chair for my doll and a orng and «alittle doll and some clothes for my dolls ami some apples, dont forget h-ono Koyston. dont forget to come, good bye. Your little girl Dollie Sharp. Dear S mta Claus: I have been a good boy. I want you to c ome to my house tirst. I will go to bed at seven oclock. I The Staff of Life 's s iid to be Bread. In which Pas'1 uiHiiy people lean on us foi' their daily sustenance. fl‘ey get it too—good, pure, wholesome nourishment that is appetising both in smell and taste. Our Bread, Holla and Biscuit are declared to be delicious by all who eat diem. If you want to pleas* Jour family and make them | strong and healthy, use our bread. It is not as dear as it should be. CITY MARkET and BAKERY PHONE 183. want you to bring me a air gun and some shot and apples and some oranges and some nuts, do not forget to come to my house. Your little boy Henry Stewart. Dear Santa Claw: 1 want you to bring me a drum and some apple and nuts orngs. 1 want you to bring me a air gun and a book and a horn some gloves, cocoa nut. I a good little boy and I go to school. Alfred Simpson. <$> <§> <$■ Dear Santa: I wont you to bring me a little wagon and a gun and some caps and bring candy and some apple and bring me some oranges and tire crackers. Yours truly Jesse Crow Dear Santa: I want you to bring me a little wagon and a gun and some apple and bring me some orange and some fire crackers, candy and nuts and some books. Your truly Chariie Crow. Dear santa claus: Please bring me a doll and little doll bed olso a little piano and some fruits and a box of candy and a little story book i want every thing you can think of and i want a little red sweter and i want a pear of gloves and i would like to have a little stove that i can cook in and dont forget Miss Irene and Ethel and Bertie and please look for Elsie Rees stock ings i will go to boy at 8 oelock and shut my eyes tight. Your littlepgirl Tressie Taliaferro. <$> <$> <$> My Dear Santa Clause It will soon be Xmas and 1 want you to bring me two target guns two air guns two rilies and bullets and shells to shoot with and a by belt to wear a good knife a little bicycle and pump r little boy doll and also lots of fire crackers roman candles and all kinds of fruit and candy. Claud Callicott. Dear Santa Claus: I want a little train and a fire whistle, and some blocks. 1 want a pistol too, and a little drum a Wagon and any thing else you want me to ‘have. Archie White Johnson. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a very sweet little girl two years old, and I want you to be sure and come to see me. I want a doll, a doll buggy, dishes some candy oranges apples and nuts. Your loving little girl Vanway Smith. Dear Santa Claus: l want you to bring a bicycle, handcar base ball bat and mit, air gun, horn, whistle, drum, candy, nuts, apples, oranges and raisins. Come early. Your little friend Joe Graeey Stitt •#> <» «> Emmet, Arlc. Dear Santa Claus: Will you bring me a doll and doll buggy and second reader and some candy and oranges. I am six years old. Inez Tyree. Emmet, Ark. Dear Santa Claus: I want a set of dishes and a post card album a doll and a second reader a little black board. Hattie Tyree. Ilodcaw, Ark. Dear Santa Claus: I want a toy horse on rockers and a toy auto. I want a toy buggy and some tire crackers and roman candles. Well I will close for this time. Harold Parker. «’«><*> Bodcaw, Ark. Dear Santa Claus: 1 want a doll and a doll buggy and a little stove and a set of dishes and a piano Xmas and I want a cup and saucer. I am a little girl 13 years old and blue eyes. Come to my house first. Well I will close for this time. Dell Haynie. <3> <®> Dearest Santa: Please bring my doll a mille tary cape, und hat. Bring me a rain coat a pair of kid gloves, and a doll trunk, and plesse a pair of skates. That is all that 1 want this Xmas. Your little girl Jerre Johnson. Dear Santa Claus: Please come to see me Xmas and bring me a bugle, a rocking horse, a whole lot of fire craskers candy, nuts, and all kind of fruit a harp and a rubber ball. Please come early. I will go to bed at seven oclock and shut my eyes tight. I will not look indeed I wont. Your little boy Charlie Riggs. W. C. T. 1. Let us have a “big” meeting » 1 ■ ■ Thursday Dec, 22nd the crusade' anniversary of the W. C. T. lT. Lotus recount those thrilling times, places and people, all of which are land marks in our on ward march to the goal, “When there shall be no more curse.” Let us get all of our Christmas work so near done that we can steal away to the house of Mrs. Jno. M. Pittman, promptly at 3 o’clock, and bow as it were at the sacred shrine in the old Pres byterian church in Hillsboro, Ohio, “where it all began,” and which is still preserved as a hal lowed memorial of those stirring times. Come one, come all. It ILh • JU It-vr..* hmo ut Uu*. .» Ml '.Uj uifcu# Local News, See our hand painted pictures. — McDaniel Hdw. Co. I have moved my livery stable to the barn belonging to the Farmers’ Union Ware house. Persons wanting a good team can get one here. Buss connections between the Iron Mountain and P. & N. W. daily. Call or phone 140.—A. S. Blythe Dr. R. L. Hinton will tit, and furnish spectacles, and eye glass us and do any kind of repairing— Moncrief Drug Store, Prescott, Ark. Satisfaction given, or your money back. Has had over 30 years experience and study of he work. ■ I [World's Greatest High Diving Horses]