The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 24, 1947 Page: 18 of 22
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THE NOCONA NEWS, Nocona, Tex. Dec. 24, 1947
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TO VVlSHYOU T
cCHBISTMAS y joy
TANH HAPPINESS
V Throu jhout the coming year
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T/'AI.LY O’NEIL walked slowly up
the front steps. Her mother
watched her from behind the cur-
tain Being five years old and having
a problem had her near tears. She
reached up on tip toes and opened
the door.
“Kally, honey. Come in here a
minute.” Kally pushed the hood of
her snow suit back and went into
the living room.
“What do you want. Mommie?"
She shook her blonde curls free.
"Oh, nothing much," her mother
smiled, “I just want to know why
my little girl looks so sad?"
“Well, Mommie," she slipped her
coat off, “it’s that girl down the
street."
"Yes, dear, what about her?”
Kally could stand it no longer. She
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i burst into tears and running over
laid her head on her mother’s lap.
“That girl says,” she sobbed, "that
(there isn’t any Santa Clans."
I "Well, now,” her mother leaned
down and gently bit the tip of her
ear, “who’d ever believe a tale like
that?"
“You don’t believe her?”
"Of course not,” she smiled down
into the worried blue eyes. “We
know there’s a Santa Claus.”
“B-but she said Daddy was him.”
“Oh, pooh. Sit down there on the
floor and I’ll help you get your snow
pants off."
. "We could ask Daddy,” Kally sug-
gested.
"Yes, we could," she had an in-
spiration. "Better still we can wait
' until tomorrow night and see for
ourselves.”
"We can?” she sat up in surprise.
“Sure. You go to bed just like
always, then when he comes I’ll
wake you up.”
What better time than Christmas time . . .
to wish you all the good’things in life!
There are 11,000.000 acres of East
Texas pine and hardwoods in 36
counties of the state.
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“Santa was just coining out.”
called
in the
as he
CHE got it and took her mother’s
hand. They crept down the stairs.
Mommie held her back while she
made sure Santa wasn’t smoking a
cigar. He was placing gifts around
the tree. She motioned her to look.
Kally peeked around the corner with
big eyes. Then her head darted
back.
"Where’s daddy?” she asked in a
stage whisper.
They heard footsteps on the stairs.
Daddy crept down. Kally peeked
around the corner again. Santa was
just coming out with an army bar-
racks bag over his shoulder. The
three of them ran and hid behind
the staircase. As soon as the front
door slammed Kally was up the
steps like a shot.
"Hey, Sweetheart.” Daddy
after her, "he left the toys
living room." He stopped
heard his wife's laughter.
“What’s the matter with her?” he
glared at her suspiciously. “Don't
she like the trike?”
"I'm afraid, dear, that you’ll nev-
er understand the feminine mind."
“What do you mean . . . where's
she going?”
"To get her coat.”
"Her coat . . . why?”
“She's going down the street to
tell the little girl that she's all wet.
Because she has just seen Santa in
her front room.”
She got up from the floor all ex-
cited. "You mean we can peek?”
“That’s just what we’ll do.”
I "George,” she turned to her hus-
band that evening after Kally had
been put to bed, "our daughter has
quite a problem."
"Women always have problems,”
he smiled over his newspaper.
"What is it this time?"
"She knows about Santa.”
"That’s too bad," he pursed his
lips, "but what can we do?"
"Get someone to put her toys un-
der the tree while she watches."
“Sure," he laid the paper down,
"why couldn’t I do it?"
"She heard that you are Santa.”
He chuckled. "She isn’t the only
woman in the family thinks that.”
“How about Bob Perkins?” she
ignored his attempt at humor. "He’s
the right build.”
"Okay," he agreed, “I’ll arrange
it in the morning.”
“Kally," her mother shook her
gently. “Santa is downstairs.”
"He is?" she sat up rubbing her
eyes, "HE IS?!"
"Okay,” she slipped out of bed and
into her slippers. In the early morn-
ing light she looked like a tiny blond
elf.
"Put on your robe."
Christmas is more
than a clay or a season.
It's spirit lasts
forever with an
ever deeper, stronger
faith in "Peace —
Good Will — To all Men.”
• • •
Merry Christmas to one and all.
To all our friends we wish the mer-
riest of Merry Christmases and the
happiest of Happy New Yea:
WILLIAMS
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We are told that the fir tree goes
back to Eve, but it was not until the
time of Martin Lu-
ther that the ever-
green was used as
an indoor decora-
tion in celebration
of Christmas.
It is said that Lu-
ther one Christmas
Eve wandered
through the woods
and became enam-
oured with the won-
der of the night.
He cut a small
snow-laden fir tree, and set it up in
his home for his children. He il-
luminated it with candles to rep-
resent the stars.
It was not until 1604 that, in Strass-
burg, the first Christmas tree ap-
peared in literature.
E. L. McNABB
Old spring plants of tomatoes,
eggplant, okra and peppers, If fer-
tilized, worked, mulched and water-
ed, will yield excellent tall crops.
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Laws are always useful to persons
of property, and hurtful to those
who have none. —Rousseau.
Legumes, pastures and succulent
feeds aid production and profit and
affords one of the best ways of
saving high-priced grain.
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The execution of the laws is more I
important than the making of them.
—Thomas Jefferson
GOLDEN GLEAMS
Laws, like cobwebs, entangle the
weak, but are broken by the strong.
—Solon.
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Some of the art that we some-
times see is not what we would like
to see.
Ellis-Williford
enjoy every day in holiday spirit!
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Perry, F. L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 24, 1947, newspaper, December 24, 1947; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1216970/m1/18/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.