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days before Christmas!
4|f* Tomorrow’s the day we draw
v | our pension,” Ken joyfully
£> I said, and reiterated no less
t,lan slx t,raes ,n the en "
fyjgi suing half-hour to the “new
doctor’s wife.” Ben, detailed
*** by the captain of the Old
Soldiers’ home, was helping
“the new doctor’s wife” get a few
pieces of furniture uncrated and
placed in the apartment—just a few
things they had brought with them
to add to those furnished by the state
and thus make the apartment more
homelike for them. Ben was a trifle
slow, but considering he was beginning
his seventies, he was very spry.
“You know tomorrow is pension day,
and I draw fifty dollars. I’ll have to
get to bed early tonight because that
Helping Get Furniture Uncrated.
line in front of the treasurer’s office
will be a block long at sis o’clock in
the morning. Every month it’s that
way.”
“My,” put in the doctor’s wife, “that
is a lot of money. What will you do
with so much?”
“Umph, after you have been around
here a month or so you won’t have to
ask that foolish question. lam going
to town., find .ia.cr.i.lt * Siis mouth a
good shhre of i! Wi.' go for Christ
mas.”
“But what about saving for a rainy
da.v?”
“That idear doesn t find much foot
ing with me and a few others here.
You see, it’s like this—if I was to get
a little bit saved up, someone of these
widows would come shinin’ around and
want ta marry me. Look at Joe, for
Instance; he lost his wife about two
years ago and now he’s going around
with that Widow Willows, who’s sure
enough just winding him around her
little finger. Just before you arrived,
that Townloy couple were married.
They make me tired, being so spoony—
lie eighty-two and she seventy.”
The doctor’s wife suppressed her
smiles and comments and found some
tasks to do in another part of the
house. The furniture never would be
uncrated if Ben were to tell all the
romances in progress, and it was nec
essary that the house be settled, as
Christmas was two days off.
Christmas eve the captain held a
celebration at his home for all ills as
sociates on the staff. The Inmates
also had their part'es in their quar
ters and entertained as they desired.
Just before the captain’s party broke
up, amid all the gaiety, word came to
the captain from the hospital asking
that some of the doctors lie sent over
there, and in particular, Doctor Brown,
the head of the drug addict ward.
The next morning, Christmas morn
ing, the dining hall was noisier than
usual. Christmas was in the nir, and
added to that, the news that someone
had broken through the window lead
ing from the fire escape into the drug
dispensary room and stolen a large
quantity of morphine.
Ben had found out some of the par
ticulars and was dispensing them free
ly to the enjoyment of his listeners.
“Yon, they’re trying to get that dope
fiend to tell whore he hid what he
stole. He’s about crazy for some, hut
he won’t go to it. I’m going to get in
to that ward,” he lowered his voice;
“it’s Christmas and the guards will be
in a good humor. Yon wait; at dinner
time I’ll be able to tell you where it’s
hid—”
Ben’s friends were not all as sure
as ho was that he would come hack
With the spoils.
Dinner time came and the old peo
ple, returned from Christmas services
in their respective churches, were in
higli spirits. Some piece of news was
being passed around like wild fire. It
was time to take their places at the
table. No Ben. The blessing was
asked. Still no Ben.
The entree was being served. Ben
was - ’_’s CUrMnias diaper.
CHRISTMAS is HERE
It is Only a Few Days Between Now and Christmas. On account of
having so many friends we will not be able to send each an individual Christmas gift,
but to show our appreciation of your wonderful co-operation and patronage, from
now until Christmas day we are going to mark our entire line of merchandise at Still
Lower Figures, so that you will save a considerable amount on every article you
buy during this week of your Christmas shopping.
WHAT BETTER WAY CAN WE SHOW OUR APPRECIATION than to help you make
your money go as far as possible during these shopping days? So This Will Be Our Christmas Oift
To You, “A REDUCTION in PRICE on EVERY ARTICLE.” What better Christmas gifts
can you give than something useful like shoes? We are going to Specially Price every shoe in our house
during this next week so that you can almost buy two pair for the price of one.
By giving articles that will be useful as your Christmas remembrance you will not only
get a great joy, but RENDER a REAL SERVICE. And our stock is brim full of this
class of merchandise, which is now on display, makes it easier for you to make selection
We want to express to you our hearty appreciation for your patron
age and wish for you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
and Prosperous New Year.
Ample help to wait on you during these temaining shopping days.
Hewlett & Downs
Conyers, Georgia
THE ROCKDALE IlfecuKD, cuNYERg, GEORGIA
Toe dining'half door" opened and In
came Ben. lie walked toward the
captain, his hands behind ills bent
back and with the rather Joyous but
saucy look of a naughty boy. Arriv
ing before the captain, he presented
him with n small package.
“Majr this make yours and Doe
Brown’s Christmas ‘ a happier one,
captain.”
The captain, surprised beyond words,
opened the package. Determining its
contents, he excused himself and
strode with lengthy steps over to Ben’s
chair—
“ Many thanks for my Christmas
present, Ben,” shaking ids hand. I’ll
recommend you for a spy In our next
war.”
(©. 1929, Western Newspnpor Union.)
Christmas a Day of Hope
Christmas Is a day of hope. It
brings the promise of a better future.
It denies the despairing charge of the
pessimist. It witnesses to something
that lives behind the shadows that
darken the present, and the evil that
threatens the future —to that invisible
but eternal presence whence It came
and “whose dwelling is the light of
setting suns and the round ocean and
the living air.”
Flurries of snow from a lead
en sky ; windows bright with can
dles and holly wreaths; the
streets crowded with smiling,
happy people whose arms bulge
with gaily wrapped bundles. The
holiday season brings all these —
but it brings more. It brings the
thoughts of distant friends, and
tin* feeling of good will towards
all mankind. To our friends and
neighbors we wish ail tint joyfc
and comforts that are contained
in those magic words.
White & Cos.
CONYERS
Phone 26-37
The Lt Straw
“Hear about poor old Slyce? Why
did he do it? He'd stood up under all
sorts of hard luck.”
“I know if. Five, shipwreck, panics,
divorces —we figured he was case
hardened, ami now lie’s gone.”
“Jumped off that, cliff by the third
tee, didn’t be?”
“Yes—just scrawled a note and left
It with Ids clubs.”
“Wlint’d It say?”
“It said, ‘This Is too much. Have
Just made a bole in one, without u
single witness, flood by.’”
Close Golf
Walter Hagen told a golf story at
a dinner in Hollywood.
“The Scotch,” lie said, “take their
golf very seriously. Two Scotchmen,
Angus and Saunders, were playing a
close round of golf one day, and at
the seventeenth hole they tied, and
the excitement was great.
“The excitement was so very great.
In fact, that on the last bole Angus
had a paralytic stroke, and Saunders
made him count it and won out.”
Unfair Triumph
Senator Smoot at a Washington re
ception said of anew Bolshevik tri
umph in Russia:
“Tills triumph reminds me of burly
Mr. Strnwhridge. He bragged:
“ ‘The man Insulted me, lie cursed
me, and. fierce ns lie was, I knocked
him down.’
“‘What? With your fiat?’ they
asked. .
“‘No,’ said burly Mr. Strawbridge,
‘with my car.”’
Rough on the Farmer
Topkin—Recently a biplane was
used to pull a plow.
Popkin—And I know wliat the farm
er said: “By beck. I never took jumps
a rod long since I tried to hold in
that hrindle calf.” —St. l.ouls tllobe
Democrat.
Still Ha* One in Reserve
Squire (to oldest Inhabitant) —So
you are going to marry a third wife,
John, 1 hear?
John (with satisfaction) Yes, sir;
an' if she should lie taken afore me,
I know where I can get a fourth. —
Pearson’s.
Plan Study of Gorilla
Scientists from Yale university plan
to make a year’s study of gorillas in
tlie Belgian (’ongo to learn if 'here Is
any similarily between the conduct of
ape and man.—Providence Journal.
A Merry, Merry
Christmas
to All of
Our Friends and Patrons
is the Wish of the
HENSON FURNITURE
COMPANY
W. A. Henson Mrs. W. A. Henson
Busies, Wagons and
Harness
We carry a complete line of Bug
gies, Wagons and Harness at Social
Circle and Monroe. Our prices are
low. We deliver all sales.
E. L. ALMAND