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gjapt w wish you and yours a rich abundance of all of the joys of this happy holiday season don houston greetings our incere thanks to all our good friend for their continued patronage may you all enioy a very merry holiday season and a very happy new year wigo tv and radio 32 main street tr 73376 sugar and spice dupenicd by dill 8 mi ley or the wurton echo once upon a christ mis time i there was a little boy with a inny freckled face ond big solemn blue i ejes he was old enough to knqw that thire was bomcthinc called the dipussion and that he and his fa mily was ntht in the middle of it the depression was somehow i connected with the fact that pea soup and homemade bread were very often the staples for supper thta ho had to wear his big broth er s trousers cut down that his dad came home so often looking very tired that on rare and terrl ble occasions he would come in and find his mother who was af raid of nothing on earth sitting at the sewing machine with her head down on her arms crying rul noni of this bothered him too much small bov art toiih little characters for the mot part the nn adapt to almost ivirj thing the only things that really bother thim are thi tiling tint go on in thin hi ids and that was this kid s trouble for two years now be d been want a pair of skates oh he had skates but he d got so sensitive about them he wouldn t even wear them any more they were an old his mother had worn when she was younger they hacr long tops almost up to his knees he had to wear three pairs of socks to fill them his ankles wobbled bad ly in them and every time he showed up at the pond somebody would yell where d a get the girl s skates whil hi w inlid v i i pair of jl skill- tub s thi ill tin m in thosi dis hoikij skills tin ckxxwcviwexwicxwxwiwrax seasons greetings ernies radio f x mill street tr 7 2701 jj i arc called now he had a hockey stick at the first game of the year when the seniors were play ing he d had a real stroke of luck after climbing in the window of the rink in the middle of the sec ond period with some other kids he d wigglid hi way right down beside the players box he was just nicely settled and trying to peer around a large viol ent hockey fan in front of him whon one of the players dashed up to the bench with both parts of a broken stick and threw them to the coach the latter looked around straight into a pair of beseeching eyes and said here kid heres a stick for you with the help of his dad who spliced the stick and some tape he had wound up with a dandy stick but no skates hid tried to arn moniy for a pair hy shovil ling snow the first time out he d asked an old ladj if shed like her snow shovelled she sud jes ik shovelkd like i little demon for an hour lie knocked on her door red in- thi aie ind told her it was done shi said and i have some thine foi joti for your tioubti i and ha ndi d him a cookie that soun 1 him on snow showllinjj and niti ojd ijdits for sunt time all his other sources of income empty beer bottles scrap iron and old tires were covered by snow he spent and hour and a half siph oning the money out of his penny i bank with a knife there was on- ly 13 cents his kid brothers bank yielded only another 8 cents hie dijs unit on ind the otlur ki is plied hockiy on the pond wink he had to pretend he didn 1 uinl to pla tin disiri for kilis bee mu mire ami more of in obsession a hundred wild scl in s wml through his mind nisi tin mom j all sorts of si us like the one in which he sprani out and slipped the runaway horsi and the cowering dmir in erati lu u li him fiw rlothrs tan thimifb his head no garbage collection christmas day and new years day pick ups ordinarily made on these days will be made on the wednesdays following the holidays motor license bureau hours for 1957 licencing commencing wednesday jan 2 9 00 a m till 5 30 p m monday till friday saturday 9 00 till 12 00 1 00 till 5 00 the bureau will be closed christmas weekend from friday december 21s until wed dec 26th inclusive hewson motors dodge desoto tr 72422 it was christmas eve he d de livered on his sleigh a basket of food his mother had sent to a fam ly that was down and out on the other side of town he d done it sullenly bis inner eye seeing noth ing but those feverishly desired skates he was walking home down the main street looking in l the bright store windows with en vy and despair in his heart and ki icking viciously at chunks of froien snow suimtnh his fnt struck sonic thinj ihil ilinkul he bint nul puk d il up it wis i chanti purse tul dl he opened it 1mn wire tv twodollar bills and some coin in it thcie was also a receipt ll lion the n inn of t woman hi knew well she had i i useless bum of a husband ind a backvard full of kids boy will she ever be glad to get this back muied our hero immediately mjaking himself the central figure in a christmas eve drama in which he returned the poor woman s money as she tat keening with her ragged children in their f reeling shack his spirits lifted he shoved the purse in his poiket and was off like a shot to return it he was tia rink alonu his sleigh banging his heels his whole body tingling with pleasure suddenly he stopped in his tracks there in his minds ije was a picture of himself glid inn ver the lee on a new pair of tube skates with the rest of the kids trying hard but unable to catch him and in the same sec ond came the realization that he had enough money in his pocket o buy them he walked on for another block i very slowly now he was sick with temptation he cam in sight of the womans house satan was whispering he got to the door twice he raised his hand to knock and dropped it then he tipped down the steps and ran like a rabbit back to the hardwood store bought the skates whitefaced and ran all the way homo heart thumping stomach nek he sneaked in the back way and was hiding the skates in the woodshed his mother and father were talking in the kitchen that vas foolish dad she was sayinfe you know we owe grocery bills and there s fuel to buy and we all need clothing his dad answered i don t cart if we re all starving by spring i know what its like to want something that badly the boy went around to the front door came in quietly and crept off to bed after murmuring goodnight to his parents he didn t get to sleep for a long long time in the morning his kid brother excitedly dragged him out of bed to go down and look under thi tree he was fetlini wretched he knew there s be nothing under the tree but some nuts and candy and an tpple and majbe a new suit of lonj undeiwear wrapped in fcift paper that was the depression when he saw the new skates sit ting there his insides gave a lurch he knelt beside them and saw the card to bill with love mother and dad when his pa its came down he was still on his knees the tears streaming down his face his mother though he was crying for happiness and loved him up his dad tried to oke him out of it talking about the great hockey star hed be it wi uld be mil to mil the storj in simiu he i ild them uu whole story the skates he d bought wilh the found money uert ictiniud the woman fol hir mone ill wis forgiven ind he nccr su le am thing af nn as ion as he lis i ft but that s not the way it was he took the skates out of the wood shed that night ran with them to the river and threw them over the bridge into the black water played hockey every day when summer came he stole apples and grapes as he always had he plan ned to save all his money and give it to the woman whose money he had stolen but he never got around to it he planned to do something wonderful for his parents and ne ver got around to it saturday december 22nd 1956 the georgetown herald mcufcllthejcu5 of christmas be tjours throughout the new year hamilton construction 66 prince charles drive tr 7 3480 a new year slogan if ou dr nk don t dnve rrb don t dim oil ltll di n t drink l ik tin h pi holuli for j uii if an i ythu in ilorisls under iputhatl the bright idea of a new york fire commissioner gics us an idea too tic liked his dress cap disliked the regulation fire hel met but he recognized the ever present danger of falling debris so he simply had an in ner shield of aluminum made and fitted into the cap and lhats where our idea comes in a lightweight alu minum shield that would fit under a wayward husband a fedora and save him many a skull abrasion when ho sneaked in late at night to a rolling pin reception by the little woman ah aluminum thetwiimetatl aluminum compaq of canada ltd alcan flowers for every occasion i dtilgn work spdlryl flowers bj wire anywhere in the world norton floral tr 73sm oortown y i jcssows wishes k p cri is our our sincere wish that all the goodness of this glorious fib ma be yours to enoy to the utmost merry chnsfmas maveal motors nash cars international trucks main street north stoh m ja l may your xtj- heart be filled with peace and 7 if good will on tins happy day vj wilsons grocery stewarttown happy christmas 10 all moy your 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