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v.-<: , tC'77- - ' * '• * *• ' -*»' <»» • ^ . ' * * „5T4 ' ••' V "** 5'* "* "* -• / '"*• ' ** - ^ «nm ir*n Thursday, December 24,1936 t M. E. CHURCH ,-***i' * VA f&-'>i*" ••' . ! £? mg |-^, -. pi;'.i-" fl.,V , ufe*£;? Yb® are invited to attend services lift the M. E. church every Sundgf,, Sunday school, 10 a.< m. v ; : Morning worship, 11 a. m. Epworth League, 7:30.p. Hi. "„, •'•* ,.'. • Pastor: Rev. R. W. Pinnefl. ,< fMAWT'v; OPENS STORE AT LONG LAKE :/ A. G. Matthews, former manager of yiflve local A. A P. store, htfs taken over '•# store at- Long Lake. ATTENTION MEN! We Are Equipped To Give You A Complete Line Of Beauty Services STOMP ANATO'S 't Barber and Beauty Salon 226 Main St. . . 229 Benton St. Phone 641 Woodstock, 111. •- v.t' ;AV,; if V •?" t ~ 4#* V ' * HOUSECLEAN YOUR SKIN! Doat be satisfied to give it merely a hck- •ad a promise. Halfway tteaming measures are responsible for MM blemishes such as enlarged pores black hrsris dry and acaly skin. When you clean yo«r*in--"/kwsedwi' it. What you want is a penetrating face cream audi as Lady Esther Face Cream is. i-ady Bather f ace Cream actually penetrates th« porea and does it m a gentle and sootnina manner. It goes to work on the imbedded waxy matter -breaks it up -dissolves it and make* It easily removable. When your skin is really clean it resumes its natural softness, sinuotb- 4 Aa Lady Esther Face Cream cleanses the skin, it also lubricates it. it resupplies it with a fine oil thai Keeps it sott, smooth and supple Trr i^ady Eather Face Cream today and aas buw row akui .esponds. For Sale by THOMAS P. BOLGER This week's meeting was somewhat varied from the regular Monday night festivities, as you all know, or do you? This is the Christmas season, and so we appropriately broke down and had a party. The party was a huge success, , largely due to Joe Gausden's demon biscuit-making. Joe worked | hard and missed out on all the fun because of his delicacies and deserves a lot of credit, because his biscuits were really good, and I am not kidding. ' am told that several scouts from lead ing Chicago hotels tested Joe's biscuits and now the Stevens Hotel and the Palmer House, are bidding for the bustling biscuit-baker's services. Joe ! rolled his dough with a milk bottle, I instead of the usual rolling pin, and j baked them in a reflector oven with the help .-of an air heater, donated by j t h C a r e y E l e c t r i c S h c f p . , ' • ,[ Mr. Schoenholtz told us to all "be prepared," in the ccfming vacation for | such things as ice-skating, automobile land other accidents. So read up in that handbook of yours oi/^'haw to j rescue a person who has gone through [the ice." Every scout brought some kind of a present and when the presents were distributed, any innocent bystander would have seen these thinks: Angy Unti blowing a small tin horn until I thought he was going to drop from exhaustion; Ers Laures industriously reading "The Adventures of X-9," and last, but not least, Don Meyers playing with the idol of the rodents, Mickey Mouse, whose sweetheart is making history over the radio. Harry Conway reeled off some games that completed the evening's program. Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy NeKr Year! Scout Herb Reihansperger. GOME HERE FOR THE LAST MINUTE GIFT Hollywood Pottery 1 Pictures Waste Baskets - Library Box Scrap Book Linens 'Punt/' Evening Bags Costume Jewelry Handkerchiefs GREETING CARDS -- Scarfs Manicure Sets - Fostoria Glass Index Memo Bo^i: ^ Bill Folds Brushes Rulers- Collar Pins 1 jlioy Wallet veling Kit ' ^ -- _ WRAPPINGS Electric and Acetylene Welding I have just installed a new electric welder and now equipped to do either electric or acetylene welding. All work guaranteed. This garage is fully equipped now to take care of any kind of a repair job. Is your car or truck prepared for winter use. If not, let us put in new winter *il and grease. Full line of antifreeze solutions. Central Garage 24-Hour Towing Service STANDARD SERVICE STATION Johnsburg Phone 200-J Fred J. Smith, Prop. BY ALICE B/ PALMER GREAT preparations were in progress for the annual Christmas reunion at the Thomas home in Glendale. Lauris was decorating the living room with streamers of red and green and hanging bells and mistletoe above the doors. The holly wreaths were already hung and father had arranged the colored lights' on the evergreens in the front yard the night before. "Will be home for Christmas." u° "Johnny." Mother had proudly read the telegram alOud to the family and all were simply bursting with holiday enthusiasm, for Johnny was really coming home. All was hustle and bustle in the kitchen of fragrant odors. Mother was wholly surrounded by delicious sour cream cookies which she was busily tinting in the Christmas colors of red and green. The refreshing aroma of the traditional cardamom seed and of the spices, was most pleasing. Even little fim was gpf > ' Money For Christmas Can be yours so easily that you never miss it.if pou will be thrift wise next year Join Our Xmas Club As little as 25c will start you. Pay as little as 25c a week and two weeks before Christmas you'll receive a substantial check to take care of your needs. Join today. r Johnny Stood Aghast Taking in the Whole Situation. privileged to aid in this glorious Christmas preparation. When things were well on their way toward completion, mother sent the children into the living room. "I want you to pack all the gifts in that large box the grocer brought," said mother, "and wrap that holly paper around it so it will look more Christmas-like." "All right, mother," they shouted, in a chorus of happy voices, as they scampered in. They had glorious fun amongst the gifts slyly peeping beneath the sides of the gaily colored wrappers and feeling to try and guess the contents. Mother chuckled within as she heard the merry peals of laughter and happy confusion. "Soon now,, my children," siaid father, "we shall hear the train whistle which is to bring our Johny home." Johnny had mentioned that he did not wish to be met at the station and his desires had been duly respected. Instead of a train whistle, they heard the loud roaring and buzzing of an airplane. "Oh, I bet Johnny is coming by plane," shouted Lauris. "I just bet he is, too," cried Tim, all excited. "I wouldn't. , be Surprised." grinned father, knowingly. There was a rush to the frosted window to see if anything was in sight. "Oh, mother, look at poor old Mrs. Johnson sitting all alone over there in her window seat. Doesn't she look lonesome though?" said Bonny Jean. " L e t i n v i t e h e r o v e r f o r t h e evening," suggested mother. "She was telling me the other day that he son, Joseph, would not be home fo Christmas." 'Yes, let's," they all chimed in, beaming with the Christmas spirit. "That's a very fine idea," agreed father, smiling kindly. "You run over, Tim, my boy, and ask her if she would care to join us." "Oh boy," shouted little Tim, chuckling at the opportunity of getting out to throw a snowball. Some moments later, the dear little lady was in their midst, smiling her gratitude toward each one of them. "It. was kind of you to offer to share your Christmas with me," she said. "It has been pretty lonely this year without my boy." Just then the door burst open and in stepped Santa Claus. The children almost wrecked him in their excitement. He dropped his heavy pack and shouted, "Merry Christmas," with all the strength and energy he possessed. Mother couldn't stand the suspense another moment. She tore off his mask and hugged and kissed him hungrily. Johnny stood, aghast, taking in the .whole beautiful situation. The brilliantly lighted tree, the star of Bethlehem gleaming at its peak and little Tim jingling a rope of sleighbells all in his honor. But the best was yet to come, for he opened the door and in stepped a tall, handsome soldier, his face flushed with a happy holiday smile, his garments covered with the Christmas snow. "Hello, mother," he, said, as he rushed into the out-stretched arms of the smiling Mrs. Johnson. After all questions had been satisfactorily answered, Lauris began singing at the top of her voice, "When Santa Comes Marching Home." The others sensing the grand idea, joined in with a jolly good spirit of fun, in the combined Christmas reunion. ; . • Western Newspaper Swell Idea By STANLEY CORDELL- • AssWociNatUe dS eNrevwicsep. apers. Origin el "Sabotage" Sabotage originally was the nuh Ucious throwing of shoes, • r "sabots" by French workers Into the machinery of their employers. f LOYD BRIGHTON iie author, sat at his desk tnd stared at the blank sheet of paper in his typewriter and regretted last night's party. He had drunk too much and eaten too much and stayed up too late. His mind wouldn't function, which was bad, because he had promised his publishers a story for tomorrow. Minutes passed and Lloyd became panicky. It seemed that his braii? was becoming even more, blank. Certainly his headache had increased. Worse, some one had come into the next room and was talking with his wife. He listened a moment and swore under his breath. V was Mrs. Newbury, their jiext door neighbor. Drat that woman! She talked more than any other nine females in the world. She talked more and faster in five minutes than you would have thought it possible. Why couldn't she stay home? Why did she have; to come over here to do hef windjamming? Lloyd remembered his resolution of. a year ago to get himself an office downtown, where h$ could go and work alone and in peace and quiet. - He should have carried out the resolution months ago. Tomorrow he'd most certainly get in touch with a real estate man-about it. But that didn't help him much right now. Right now he needed an idea. He had to have an idea. Thinking about an office only detracted from his ability to concentrate on a story. It was Mrs. Newbury who had reminded him of the office. It tfas Mrs. Newbury who was proving the greatest source of annoyance. Right now it was Mrs. Newbury who was the chief Obstacle standing in the way of getting an idea. He waited five minutes, hoping that Mrs. Newbury would depart. But she didn't. Apparently she was pretty excited, tot *her voice rose in high cadence. And so," Mrs. Newbury was saying raucously, "they were married, and set off on their honeymoon. By airplane! Imagine! . It was Brenda's idea. About the airplane, I mean. Brenda declared that she was only going to be married once and she wanted a different honeymoon. And Peter--he's the groom -- agreed to the airplane idea. "Well, they started out and (few up into Canada and came down at a little town about a hundred miles over the border. And what do you think? They were arrested! Imagine ! Arrested on your honeymoon! It seems that they should have stopped at the border to be examined or something, and they didn't and the authorities in fte town had been warned that a young couple, posing as honeymooners, but who were actually gangsters in disguise, were expected in that locality, and naturally they thought that Peter and Brenda were the gangsters and--" Lloyd's eyes opened wide and his lower jaw sagged. By,George, here was His story right here! He rushed back to his desk, caught up paper and pencil and sprinted back to the door, feverishly jottfng down notes. If she only had a good ending now-- "--Well," Mrs. Newbury was sayin i, "Peter finally persuaded the authorities to let him use the telephone. He called "up Philadelphia On long distance and got a friend on the wire, and the friend explained to the Canadian police who Peter was. Well, that was all right, except that the authorities insisted that Peter had to go back to the border to get his papers from the customs officials. So Peter started back, leaving Brenda in the town, and when he reached the border, what do you think?" "I can't imagine,"* said Lloyd's wife. "What?" -r, "Why, Brenda was there ahead of him!" At this, moment Lloyd decided he c o u l d n ' t s t a n d t h e s u s p e n s e any longer. Pushing the door wide, he strode into~the room. "Hello, Mrs. Newbury, Pardon me for interrupting, but I couldn't help overhearing what you said. It's a peach of a story. Tell me, how did Brenda get back to the border ahead of her husband? Everything hinges on that." "Why, my goodness!" said Mrs. Newbury. She turned to Lloyd's wife. "Imagine! He thinks it's a good story. Well, Mr. Brighton, I knew you would. I just knew it!" "What do you mean, you knew it?" "Why that's what I told my husband. But he said not to come over here and disturb you with my silly ideas. Imagine! Silly ideas!" "It's a swell idea," said Lloyd, "so far. How did Brenda get down to the border?" "Land sakes, I don't know. I thought you'd be able to figure that part out. ' Goodness knows. I've done my share." "What? You mean it isn't a true story? You made it up?" "Of course! Isn't it ducky? I said to Paul, I said, 'Mr. Brighton is a writer. He'll know how Brenda got down to the border. That's really a small part. Why, land!' I said, 'probably he'll offer me something when he writes the story and sells it, it's that good!' " Washington •Letter --BY-- National Editorial Washington, December 23--With promises of retrenchment in governwen! expenditures madfe during- the height of the elc.-^oneerifog, official Washington is awaiting with ke*»n interest the release of the annua; President's budget message. Th? Bureau f the Budget has been buriuug the mid-night oil in an effort to rush the ponderous budgetary report from the public printery to the Congress. There were a number of Federal agencies created at the- last session of Congress which have operated'for several months ori borrowed funds with the expectation, that deficiency appropriations would be rushed through at the outset of the new session. Now the word has been passed that the President will insist on budget silts, which mean curtailed Federal spending and uncertainty as to the future of alphabetical groups. There are two official agencies studying the multitude \f government bureaus with the ide^of offering a re-organization plan tcPbave in the cost of duplicated operations. Armed with Presidential and Congressional authority, " the investigators have found a trail of inquiry blocked at every turn by petty politics and the manifest unwillingness of one agency to give up its particular mission. Other Presidents have endeavored to eliminate the myriad bureaus established over a long period of years but to no avail. However, no President has possessed the power of tire present incumbent and his word on the subject should be persuasive influence with the incoming legilature. The talk about a new Department of Public Welfare to consolidate various relief agencies will probably not advance beyond the conversational stage for another year. The special investigating committees finds themselves lobbied night and day by high Federal dignitaries anxious to retain their berths in officialdom. They will continue their resistance to mergers at the Capitol when the Congress has the controversy dropped into the wicket for consideration. v . While the current holidays are season's of good cheer, the politicians are merely marking time around the festive board. The clash of interests, personalities and ideals will be postponed until the ftrst week of next year when the Congress convenes. Officials in charge of the inaugural ceremonies say it is surprising how many men and women believe that they are entitled to special attention and favors for partisan reasons. Senators and Representatives, who have not been assigned their new offices or reported for. duty yet, find their mails flooded with requests from their local henchmen for front seats and a place at the ringside of any and all ceremonials. Until January 20, the solons will realize that they are truly "servants of the people" and not above menial tasks and fibbing to save tkeir face with the home folks. The Washington hotels have been booked solid for weeks. Trouble will start when the local delegations descend on their Senator or Representative demanding rooms and seats. Two Western Senators a1*e now at work placing the finishing touches on bills providing regulation of all commerce through a system of Federal incorporation and licenses. Senator ^O'Mahoney of Wyoming has given his original draft a long test, as it was originally introduced in July 1935, but did not press for a vote. Senator Borah has in mind a simplified form for Federal regulation eliminating the unpalatable labor features which aroused resentment in business O'Mahoney, as an Administation follower, will have the edge on his Idaho colleague whenevei" committees consider both drafts. O'Mahoney insists that industry should accept his plan in preference to a threatened Constitutional amendment tightening governmental authority over trade and commerce. Over the cocktails and caviar of Yuletide social affairs in official life, the 'chat veers to many subjects indicating the trend of behind-thescenes thinking. For instance, the feeling grows that the President's Commission which spent considerable time and public money studying consumer co-operatives in Europe are in a hopeless muddle. The conflict of opinion is so violent that the best compromise will be entirely valueless as a guide to action for the American government. One observer stated "the Co-operative report will be a costly travelogue." The suspicion gains in pro-labor circles that the National Labor Relations Act, which was another alphabetical agency created to force unionism on industry, will be shoved overboard shortly when the Supreme Court passes judgment. All labor legislation will be h4ld in abeyance until the highest tribunal hands down the edict. Administration forces are asking their followers to softpedal all proposals for tax revision until the session is well underway. No immediate changes are anticipated in the Cabinet and rumors about Miss PerkinB quiting the Labor post have been squelched with a renewal of a long-term lease on a residence here. A proposed Constitutional amendment by Representative Fulmer of South Carolina for a four-year term for House members will never get beyond the committee pigeon holes. Several hundred bills have been printed await numbers when presented at th session. "" HCfts Lay Stale Chickens canj and do lay Stale eggs. This occurs when a hen is badly frightened just before is ready to lay and, consequently retains the egg for as long as three or four days after.--Collier's Weekly. DSlHIU SUFFEttlS? 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Christmas Tree Light Sets • / Toy Qhina Dishes, Set 19# Playville Grocery' Large Dolls _ Electric Toaster ... Electric Heaters... $1.29 39# f265 89* 49c $1.19 •1.28 49* 39* 38# J. J. VYCITAL HDWL Green Street Phone 98-M A dance is merely a ball oh a smaller scale. Fewer people are invited and as a rule the decorations are simpler. Invitations to balls always Include older people, whereas invitations to a dance include persona approximately of the same age. Character There is no cosmetic for homely folks like character. Even tha plainest fatce becomes beautiful and noble in radiant moods. Christmas Bargains Bus Depot GUS UNTI, Pr^p.^ Cor. of Green and Elm tel. 104-ft ' The Popul9r Brands Cigarettes $1.24 Carton Old Log Cabin, 2 Yrs. Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey 89# a pint Dukes Ransom, 14 Yrs. Old Scotch Whiskey $1.39 a pint - 2 Years Old J Cream of the Country . Straight Bourbon Whiskey ' 89# Pi"t California Wine $1.75 gallon Home Made Candy 5-lb. box $1.25 Select your favorite brands from the largest stock of Wines and Liquors in town. In addition--A complete stock of Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes and Candies. GIVE HIM • Some / SMOKES ^4 box, nicely wrapped in holiday &ttire, of any of the leading brands of CIGARS, CIGARETTES, or if he uses the pipe, a Xmas can of his favorite TOBACCO. A new pipe could be included. ' - We t*rve a wong^rful 36c Dinner every days. Sunday, a full Turkey Dinner for 75# Oft We have just the kind she will like in beautiful Xmas wrapped boxet. , JULIA KTNG% is one of the most popular. 49# m* 70g| When shopping for gifts fr*; Gome over on RiversideDrive and stop at-- ' ™ v CAFE ^pBpMTAIN SERVICE "7" DeLUXE