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LOCAL NEWS.
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Mr. C. 11. Mathis visited his old
home in Colquitt for several days
last week with fiiends and relatives.
" Mr. Hollis Fort , of Americus,
spent Thursday in Lee county hunt
ing.
Miss Mary Carter left Sunday fer
home in Ellaville, having resigned as
a teacher in the Leesburg hgh
school. ;
Dr. H. T. Simpson, of Smithville
was in Leesburg, Tuesday on busi
ness.
666 prevents Colds.
Mr. 3. Statham a student at
Georgia University is at home to
spend the holidyas with his par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. O. W, Statham.
§ Shiriteipe |
Mrs. O. W. Statham was in
Americus yecterday -shopping. ;
The many friends of Mr. R. H.
Forrester are glad to see *him out
again after an operation at the hos
pital in Albany.
666 for Headaches, Colds, etc.
Mrs. Mary -Bunkley is spending
some time in lochélle as the guest
of Mrs. Roy Jordan. <
Mrs. E. B. ‘Martin and children
left last week for Orlando, Fla.,
where tkey will reside in the future.
Mr. Martin will join them next weel..
666 for Colds and LaGrippe
Miss Olivia and Anrie Mary Hr
returned home today from Ather:
where they are attending the Stat:
Normal .to spend Mmas with the
pavents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ha:
Miss Sara Long is at kome fron
Miiledgeville where she is attendins
school to spend the Holidays wit
home folks. j
m,s Mildred Powel. arvived yesier
day from Milledgeville, where ste 3
attending school to spend Xmas wit
her parents, Mr. end Mrs. S. J
Powell. ’
666 for Malaria! Forrv
Mizs Kate Smith is at home fron
Milledgeville, where she is attendine
school ‘to" spemd the Holidays w.
her - parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8.
Smith, :
COMINE TO
UOULERINYY AV
Ly
DOCTOR REA
Medical Doctor Specialist
AT THE ALBANY HOTEL THURS.
DAY JANUARY 3.
Hours 10 A. M. to 4 P. M.
ONE DAY ONLY
Will demonstrate at the principcfll
towns throughout the state how he
.ni lis progresrive Medical Doctor
Associates treat diseases and de
¢~rmikes without surgical operation.
The doctor Las had years of ex
perience in the treatment of chronic
diseaces; he is a- practical specialist
in internal medicine, and his clinics
are patrqnized by those who know,
and appreciate the advantages of
treating with an experienced doctor.
The disceses treated are liver, kid
ney, stomach, bladder and bowel
troubles, nosc, throat and lung
troubles, gall stones, appendicitis,
blood and skin diseases, leg veins, en
larged veins, rheumatism, neuralgia,
paralysis, epilepsy, undeveloped and
ceformed children, bed wetting, and
all shronic diseases of men, women
and children. :
Treir plan of treatment for goiter,
sreall tumors and external cancerous
diseaces with the hypodermic injec
tion method and their knowledge Ofl
t-c cuccessful uses of the various,
vaccires as used in this present day’l
and- age gives them special advant
ages in the practice of medicine. !
Will examine free all those in
te-ected as to their health and in
those cases sclected for treaténent
medicine will be sent direct from
their Jaboratory at Minneapolis,
Minn, Age
Marrie’ {aides are reques’ted to
come with their husbands, and chil
dren with tHéir parents.
Sunta Claus Js
Caught at Lust
By F. H. SWEET
(©, 1923, Western Newapaper Union.)
¥ LD SANTA CLAUS is comin’
to our house, His own very
'i} self. Here. Tonight
4> This was what Polly
\‘l% screamed to her little cous
giij ins, Faith and Jenny, when
&5/ %a they came to spend the day
' \ ¥ before Christmas with her,
“l know it,” said Faith, “I'm to
be In it.”
“So am I” eried Polly, “Come to
my playroom, and I'll show you my
dolls that are to be in the tabelo,”
Polly meant tableau, but that was
quite near erough for such a little bit
of a girl to get to such a strange
word. ’
Faith and Jenny had brought their
dolis to take part, and the little girls
were soon very busy seeing that they
were in proper order,
“I need & new doll dreadfully,” said
Polly, with a very sober face, “I told
Cousin Phil so, and he says I better
speak to Santa (’'aus about it. But
I should be afrald to, wouldn't you?”"
“1 don't know,” replied Faith, “He's
kind, they say.”
“Yes; and when he’s comip' right
here p'raps I might, Just seg. Betsy
Bobolink’s hair is all comin’ out, and
Little Miss Muffet's eyes won't shuf
any more.”
“'d ask him,” said Falth, encour
agingly. >
Early in the ecvening a number of
other little children came with theh
mothers, and no house ever held &
merrier Christmas Eve party than that
was: As it got a little later some of
the papas quietly stole into the front
parlor and looked on, which made
everybody more anxious than ever
that things go on well,
It was great fun getting ready for
the dolls’ tableau.
" “My doll won’t do,” sald little Bes
sie Plummer. She was iooking at the
fine dresses of the otiaer dolls, and
Polly saw that Bessle's doll was very
poor-looking and shabbily dressed.
- “Oh, yes, dear,” said Polly’s mamma.
“She’ll do for a nurse, She’ll make
a very nice nurse.” -
“Why didn’'t you bring some other
doll?” asked Polly.
“I haven’t any other,” replied Bessie.
Polly looked around at her dolls, say
ing to herself: “I do believe I'll give
one of my dolls to Bessie. I shan't
need all my old cnes If Santa Claus
brings me a new one.”
The dolls’ tableau was a great suc
cess. Not one of the actors in it
moved a single limb.”
If my space was bigger, I might takc
more time to teil about the other tab
leaux, and of the dance with songs and 1
laughter around the Christmas tree, at
the end of which Santa Claus himself;
stood behind it, and in kindly, gruff
tones invited each little boy and gl
to come and receive a Christmas gift
The last tableau was the very thing
to wind up a Christinas BEve. It wa
a picture of a room at midnight. Even
the hands of the clock were fixed tc
show half-past twelve. One or twe
smali white beds were in the room, on
the pillows of which could be secn
little curly heads and closed eyes.
But one pair of blue eyes were stil
watching for Sq%ta Claus. At a half
open door stood a cunning white
robed little figure peeping out as the
dear old fellow knelt before the fire
place. Some stockings hung above it.
and he was in the very act of filling
some he had taken down.
And then—what do you think tha!
darling, funny Polly did?
All the evening her head had beep
full of the doll she had been wishing
to ask for. But since she had seen
poor Bessie Plummer's shabby doll—
well ! :
As she peeped through the door, still
wondering if she dared, she saw that
Santa Claus had laid aside his long
loak. There was something in the
curly head above the fur-trimmed
jacket that looked very familiar. For
getting all about being in the tableau,
and all the people looking at it, out
bounded the little bare, dimpled feet,
“Oh, Cousin Phil!” she shouted, run
ning up to him, “won’t you give the
very nicest doll you've got to Bessle
Plummer?” ’
“Oh-h-h-h!” exclaimed Faith and
Jenny in a shocked whisper. “She's
moved. She's spoiled the tabelo.” _
But the papas and mammas sald, as
the party broke up with a deal of
laughter:
“It was the sweetest, prettiest thing
we have seen.” =
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“ 7 Normal Temperaturs.
As defined by experts, normal tem
perature for sny place Is the tempera
ture obtalned by averaging a perlod
of temperatures so long that further
additions will not materially affect the
result. Actually, however, there are
only a few such long records in the
' ¢ountry, and normal is taken to mean
‘the average of & perfod of observation
'of selected length, usually the longest
obtainable,
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL, LEESBURG, GEORGIA.
The Editor’s
Christmas Party
By Charles Frederick Wadsworth
_ (®, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.)
HE prospect for a merry
. Christmas eve was not
* bright for the three:- hun
; . dred-odd passengers on. the
Continental Limited, To be
1 sure, the “butcher” was all
but sold out, and all the
' kiddies on the train had
, been provided for, But the
{grown-up folks, who at Christmas time
,are not grown up, as they appear at
jother times, had not much in prospect
that would be like other years, |
Here they were, almost two miles
up toward the sky, with two locomo
tives pushing the long traln from be
hind and two pulling in front, with a
rotary ahead trying to bore a thor
oughfare through the deep driftf on
one of the highest passes of the Rocky’
mountains,
The train was hours late, and none
of the passengers hoped to reach des
tination for the celebration with rela
tives and friends which had been
looked forward to with joyous anticl
pations,
It seemed that of the assorted com
pany aboard there should have been
many who might have suggested some
thing in the nature of Christmas en
ktertalnment to make the evening mem
.’orable to the snowbound party, but
all seemed to be too homesick with
;dlsappolntment to start the ball roll
ing. - '
'_ Strangely enough it was not one of
the young folks who finally got things
going, but a grizzled iumberman from
the Northwest who stayted it, and
!Grnndma Howard from New England
who pronounced the bendiction.
Dinner had ‘been served and the
passengers were settling back in their
seats with emphasized disappointment
’when the big lumberman’s big voice
boomed through each Pullman in sue-
Icession: “All you folks who can
warble, come back in the parlor car.
E\Ve are going to have a community
sing.” : ¢
! The heartiness of the invitation and
'the novelty of the idea changed glum-
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ness to expectancy and frowns te
grins, as the travelers rushed the
aisles to be first to accept.
} Crowded to the doors, with every
|seal: full, and some propped againsi
the arms of the big upholstered chairs,
|the parlor car soon was ringing with
\“The Gang's All Here” It needed
just that kind of starter ta get the
;dlsabpointed ones fully uwake to the
opportunity of yet having a rea'
Christmas party.- Then followed every
gong - that could be recalled frowo
Sunday school days to “Dixie” and
“Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.”
The “sing” was a success, but songs
_were giving out and it was compara
tively early in the evening.
“Some one tell a Christmas story!”
It was the voice of a little old woman
sitting near the writing desk who
brought the halt in festlvities to re
newed interest. - : :
“All right,” said the big lumberman,
who had taecitly accepted the role of
master of ceremonies, “who will be
first?” There was a good deal of
kidding, but no one volunteered.
And who would have expected it to
be the big banker going to the coast
that would furnish a story-telling host
unknown to all and thousands of miles
away at that? He arose and put
his hané¢ Inside his coat pocket and
brought forth a newspaper and hand
ed it to the chairman,
“My friends,” sald he, “I wish to in
troduce to you a man who has been
telling me Christmas stories for years.
His name matters not. He lives in
a little town in eastern Pennsylvania,
where fie publishes the. little home
town paper that has been my pleasure,
considerable inspiration, and afforded
me a good deal of entertainment since
I was a boy. It happened that I had
a copy of his paper here In my pockert,
and I suggest that some of the splen
did Christmas stories and poems it
contains be read by members of our
company. I am sure all will enjoy
them.” A
The banker’s little speech was re
warded by generous applause. The
reading began, first by one then an
other, and many a silent tear was
loosed in memory of other Christmas
parties, and not a little humor was
mixed in, too.
At midnight the little woman by the
writing desk arose and asked the big
lumberman to take up a collection of
a nickel apiece from those gathered
in the parlor car. Glances of wonder
i were directed her way, but it was
' thought just a whim of a little old lady
' who was far from home in all but dis
tressing circumstances. While the
collection was being taken, she turned
to the desk and begap to write on a
sheet of the elegant stationery of the
raliroad. And this was what she
wrote:
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“Unconsciously you have beo;n the
host at a Christmas story-telling party
in the snowdrifts of the Rocky moun- !
talns. ‘The passengers ol’ uie UODTL
nental Limited render gratitude to you
for a pleasant evening afforded by the
Christmas stories in your paper, We
wish you and yours a merry Christ
mas. God bless you.” ;
Just.as she finished writing the big
lumberman dumped the coins collected
on the writing désk in front of her.,
“Keep the money,” she said, “and at:
the first station send this telegram to
the newspaper man.who has enter
tained us so well this evening.”
- The car soon was-in an uproar, and
the little old woman was’ embarrassed
by the attention shown her. i
Then the big lumberman suggested
that the message should have a sigha
ture. -A. number of-‘proposals were}
made, but the chairman turned to thel
writer of the message and asked r»é‘
“What is your name? We will sign. it
with that.” e |
“Just sign it ‘Grandma Howard,’
and he will know it might be any one
of a million’ grandmas, and they'rc
pretty much alike—especlally &5 |
Christmas time away from home.”
THE USEFUL GIFT 3
“You ought to be nice to your Aumnt
Mary. You knew-she always remem
bers you at Christmas time.” |
“Aw, what's the use of being nice t¢
her. She only gives us useful pres
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THE
RIGHT THING AT
THE RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
COURTSHIPSB el
IT WAS not long ago suggested Im
Fogland that the clergy ought t¢
open a school for courtship. ‘Khe suy
gestion was made quife seriously, as
it was pointed ont that many young
people meet clandestinely hecause
‘they find no sympathy at home. The
man who made the suggestion seemed.
to think that this condition could ba
remedied by the methods he suggésted
Really it secems as if the troubls
usually lay with somebody else besid¢
the young man whe is doing'the eourt
ing and the young woman who Is be
ing courted. It usually Mes with ap
unsympathetic family, Nobody, per
haps, can blame the family. It Is ut
terly unpleasant for the tired futhai
to come home from & hard day et
work to find that he must leave the
family llving room that ervening free
te his daughter and a young man whe
wishes to be his future son-in-law. It
is far easier for father and mothey,
Lig brother and little sisters, tg dis
port themsclves comfortably aboul
the family living room—and then faf
the young girl and her swaln to mest
ut the street corner and spend the
evening at a moving picture, show.
If there is a reception room or.par
lor or drawing room, well and good,
for that may be put at the digposd
of the daughters of tue family, and may
be made inviting to their frienda
Courting days don’t laxt forever. Ang
remember that the sacrifices you may
make now will be well repald in the
greater happlness and chances for 2
successful marriage that your daugd
ter will bave later on. ey
(@ by McClure Newspener Byadicate.)
~ Of all the days of the year, Christmas is the most
- celebrattd—and justly so. It is the anniversary of the
. greatest personage the world has ever known, our blessed
Savior. Mo
It is a day of good cheer that touches the hearts of «
every one, from the youngest little tot who can have any
concebtion of Santa Claus, to the one, ripe in years, who
. \ig.éwaiting the.summons to meet the one whose birth we
‘¢celebrate. | o®r
In thie Chyist spirit, “Peace on earth and good will
to man,” the peace that passeth all understanding, the
unselfish desire that every one should be happy, this
bank wishes you, one and all, a merry, merry Christmas.
BANK OF LEESBURG,
G. A. Nesbit, President ~0. W, Statham, Vice-President
' T. C. Tharp, Cashier. : i
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. ULE-TIDE is at hand and
' we hear.a good deal of the
_“yule-log.” In olden times
® they laid stress on ‘‘yule
_candle” and on “yule-cake.”
In very olden tlmes, five
! hundred years ago, they
spoke of “yule-dough” or
. “yule-baby,” which was
dough cut out in the form of a little
boy or little girl and baked and which
it was the custom of bakers to present
to their customers at Christmes.
“yule” is derived either from Scandi
navian or Anglo-SBaxon and there are
four times as many explanations or
guesses at the original meaning of the
word as there are letters in it, It has
been said that “yule-log” is a corrup
tion of “ale-log,” and it i 3 set down In
old chronicles that it was a custom In
England, more especlally in the coun
ty of Norfolk and other parts of
the North, to allow tenants and retain
erg of the lord of the manor to drink
the best or strongest ale as long as
the yule-log burned. For this reason!
the lord’s servants were interested in
.cutting the thickest and longest-burn
ing log, that they could find in the
lord’s forest. It was cut as long as
the fireplace was wide and knotty oak
was usually chosen. '
'+ To “the ashes of the yulelog “werd
Santa Claus Brought Dolly
“Yule-Tide” and
* the “Yule-Log”
ascribed certain efficacious properties
and they were gathered from the fire
place with care. For one thing they
w?e mixed with cattle feed to pre
sefve the animals from disease and
also to cure them of any disease.
Scattered on the land the ashes of the
yule-log protected crops against blight,
There are “authorities” who say that
thre yule-log was the center of the bon
fires which the pagan Scandinavians
lighted in honor of their god Thor, at
about the time of the winter solstice,
and that, Christmas coming at about
the time of the winter solstiee, the
yule-log burning was continued by the
Scandinavians after their conversion
to Christianity. Another gtoty is that
the Christian missionaries, after con
verting the northern pagans, required
them to cut down a large tree, hew
from its trunk a heavy log and then
burn that log as a symbol that they
renounced their heathen gods. This for
mal renunciation of paganism and in
duction into Christianity was ‘often
timed to take place during the Chris
tian celebration of the birth of Christ,
and it Is said that in this way the yule
log came to be a part of the celebra
tion of Christmas. s
“Yule” is spelled in 80 many ways
by the early writers that it is-confus
ing and one cannot always make out
what “yule” is meant. A clear and
frequent way of spelling it in the Mid
dle ages was “ewle.” Some writers
have hit upon a theory that there is a
connection between the words “yule”
ard “yowl” or “howl,” and that it was
the “yowling time” or the time for
making-.noise ‘and being festive—the
time of greatest revelry of the yean