: ‘which Mdvertisements y FOR RENT ! ve-room house in Dallas Borough, Fernbrook. Inquire Harry An- 12-21-2t. 0 FOR SALE . ‘Chinchilla rabbits for sale. Price, $2.00 per pair. Orchard Farm. Phone Dallas 209. ‘ 12-21-2t —————O 5 FOUND Brindle bull dog strayed to our remises. Owner may have same by entifying it and paying for this aad ud the board. Apply William F. fairl. Phone Dallas 132-R-8. : 12-21-1t Or Copied English Name The great English Derby is run at flipsom Downs. Col. M. Lewis Clark Jpatterned the Kentucky Derby after the English Derby. He was the ephew of John and Henry Churchill, Who owned the tract of land upon the Churchill Downs race course is situated. Hence it was so ~ mamed. 3 fh ¢ Xmas Wreaths hristmas TREES Enough For Everybody Beautiful Pocono single and double spruce and balsaam trees. Leave your order with us now while we have a large selection to choose from. We'll keep it for you ’till Christmas. LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN Made of Native Ground Pine 25¢c = CANDY SPECIALS American Hard Mixed, Ib Cocoanut Bon Bons, |b. Chocolate Creams, Ib. Clear Toys, Ib. ~ NATIONAL FRUIT CAKE 2 Lb. Package $1.65 EW’ § SFAMOUS' VERMONT AUS SAGE § | Court | Barre, 1 | on Saturday, Whitings pk Fillets Forty Fathom T x Pac, 35¢, 39¢, 45¢ FAS HONEY Domestic Clover Comb, 25¢ Brookfield Butter Strictly Fresh Eggs Oysters Mushrooms Cranberries ALL KINDS OF FRUIT Just Call Dallas 283-R-10 and Have Your Orders Delivered L2Bar, Prop. oot am 2m cm 1570 0-0 A> Oc 0 1655 | interest of the defendants tas follows: | of { Zerne | will due i { thence along 3 and of | Harris { 49¢ per Dozen! i | Wayne | sixt; | , | along land of ~ Dallas Socials — Mrs. Ryman of mins street will leave Tuesday to spend the Christmas vacation with her son and family at their home in Wilmington, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith of Rice street are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby girl on Wednesday. Mrs. Earl Cairl is ill at her home on Main street. Mr, and Mrs. John Shook of Center- moreland spent Thursday with their daughter, Mrs. Fred Welsh and family. Mrs. Steinert of Huntsville streetg ‘who has been ill for the pasti week, is much improved. The youngsters are quite delighted with the Christmas tree which Dr. Bodycomb has on display in his office. His only fear is that it will be worn out before Christmas. Mrs. ‘Albert Groblewski of Trucks- ville and Mrs. J. S. Thomas of Dallas attended the Christmas party of the Plymouth Civie Club Wednesday eve- ning. There were quite a few visitors in town Thursday evening to witness the conferring of several degrees of the Masonic order. The students of College Misericordia have left for their respective homes to spend the Christmas holidays. —e (1) SPECIAL CHRISTMAS ICE CREAM Delivered to Your Home Christmas Day Full Line of Holiday Goods THOM HIGGINS Dallas SHERIFF'S SALE Skturday, Jan. 11, 1930, at 10 A. M. By virtue of a writ of Pluries Fi Fa No. 18, January Term, 1930, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Lu- zerne County, to me directed, there will be exposed to public sale by ven- due to the highest and best bidders, for cash, at the Sheriff’s Sales Room, Court House, in the City of Wilkes- Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, the 11th day of January, 1930, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of of the said day, all the right, title and in and to piece or the following described lot, parcel of land, viz: ALL THAT CERTAIN lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, bounded and described BEGINNING at a point westerly side of Delaware street, distant north 32 degrees 15 minutes east, three hundred wand twenty-nine (329) feet from a corner formed by the northerly line of Henry street and westerly side of said Dela- ware street and being the south- easterly corner of lot No. 143; thence running’ along the westerly side of said Delaware street, north 32 degrees 15 minutes east, forty (40) feet to line of lot No. 31; thence along said lot No. 31, north 57 degrees 45 minutes west, one hundred and three (103) feet to an alley; thence running along the easterly side of said alley, south 32 degrees 15 minutes west, forty (40) feet to line of lot No. 27; thence south 57 degrees 45 minuted east, along line of lot No. 27, one hundred and three (103) feet to the point of beginning. Reing the said several dimensions more or less and being the lot of land conveyed by Moses Grififth, et ux, to Mike Niedzwicki, et ux, by deed dated November 15, 1916, and recorded in Deed Book 514, page 179. Seized and taken into execution at the suit of C. I. T. Corporation vs. Mike , Niedzuieuvki, Victoria, Nied- zuiecki, and will be sold by on the fore Christmas,” JOHN MacLUSKIE, COUGHLIN, Attorney. Sheriff. R.’L: | | SHERIFF'S SAL Is Jan. 11, 1839, at 19 of a iy A.M. | | | | | ssued out Court of Common Pleas of L.u- County, to me directed, there exposed to public sale ve n- | to the highest and best at the Sheriff's S Hous in the « int th day of i 39 Term, 193 SJ, the January 1 be hy for cash sity 1izerne ( the 10 o'clock ( 11 1930, at forenoon of in the proved yuthuildings 1 COY ith Divi Township, ANN rston Ros? twenty along hundrec thence three corner, line 43 des to a corner, Emma Wheeler south degrees east three hundred perches to line of said Mountain Tier, thence along said last mentioned line north 43 degrees east perches to the beginning, Conklin south west five perches rrees thence 31 excepting therefrom six acres 142 perches along | the public road and creek as excepted and reserved in deed from Mitchell J. | Heft to defendants, dated July 1st, 1921, and recorded in deed book —, page -—, wherein there is also excepted and reserved a certain spring and water right. Seized and taken into execution at the suit of Mitchell J. Heft vs. Hugh 0. Jones and Elizabeth V. Jones, and will be sold by JOHN MacLUSKIE, Sheriff. G. J. CLARK, Attorney. gh o— SHERIFF'S SALE Saturday, Jan. 11, 1930, at 10 A. M. No. 3 | Tot | are January, |.(1r of | twenty | sixty-five | By virtue of a writ of Ti Fa No. 52,December Term, 1929, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Lu- zerne Connty, to me directed, there will be exposed to public sale by ven- dne to the hichest and for cash, at the Sheriff’s Sales Room, Court Honse, in the (itv of Wilkes- Rarra. Tao otint , : Crips > 2 xa, 1140 arno An best bidders, | (Continued from page’ 9 Sipping down chimneys with a pack on his back to fill the stockings which hung from the mantel of the open fireplace, was given its present fixed form by Clement C. Moore, whose poem beginning “’Twas the Night Be- was written nearly: a hundred years ago. Mr. Moore did not call him Santa Claus but entitled his poem, “A Visit From [St. Nicholas.” Origin of St. Nicholas Who was the real Saint Nicholas? Why is he associated with the giving of present to children? Nobody knows very much about him. Like some of the other leaders of the early Christians, a mass of legend and myth has grown up about his name, but the records are strangely silent. All that is known definitely is that he was the Bishop of Myra, a town in Asia. Minor, abouet three hundred years after Chnist. Nobody knows how the legends about him started, but he was held in such high esteem that within a century or two after his death thousands of churches were named for him. In England alone there were at one time a thousand churches of St. Nicholas, and he was established as the patron saint of all Russia away back in the Middle Ages. Pictures of St. Nicholas usually show him standing in a tub with three boys. The legend back of this is that he miraculously restored to life three youths who had been killed by an inn- keeper and their dismembered bodies packed in a salt tub. But the story of St. Nicholas which associates his name with secret gifts is that he learned of a poor man with three daughters, who were unable’ to get husbands because they had no doweries. Their father was planning to kill the daughters and himself when St. iNcholas slipped into their cottage by night nad filled the stockings of the daughters with gold! St. Nicholas Day is December 6th. and for a thousand years the Eve of | St. iNhcolas, December 5, was the | date for filling the stockings. Christ- mas was not fixed on December 25 until the Christian church was nearly five hundred years old. In some parts of the church it was celebrated on January 6th, elsewhere on March 25th. | There is, of course, no record of the | date of the birth of the Savior. But | the Angels, the ancient German people | whose blood and traditions still rule the English-speaking world as well as the German, had a pagan festival of! Deceber 25, “Modranecht” or Mothers’ iNght, when their New Year. began, and in the course of centuries that festival came to be celebrated as the anniversary of the greatest event in the life of the greatest Mother of all time, Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Christmas was still, however, dis- the children had their innings, until the sixteenth century. On St. Nicho- las Day it was the custom to elect a boy bishop, who appointed other boys to the ofifces of the church, and the youngsters ruled their towns (since in those days the church dominated everything) until Holy Innocents Day, December 28. In some parts of Ger- 1930, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of of the said day, all the right, title and interest of the defendants in and to the following described lot, piece or parcel of land, viz: ALL THAT CERTAIN piece or par- cel of land designated as L.ot No. 5 on a plot of lots surveyed; and plotted by Louis Burket and Emaline Burket, situated and located in the Borough of West Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which said 16t is more fully bounded and described as fol- lows, to-wit: BEGINNING on the southerly side of a thirty-six (36) foot street, as ex- tended and laid out on the aforesaid plot, said point being the point of in- tersection of the easterly line of Loot | and thence fifty (50) feet alon said street to the corner of Lot No. 7; thence along the westerly line of No. 7 south twenty-nine (29) de- fifteen (15) minutes east for ce one hundred and seven- (100.7) feet to the lands of the state; thence along the lands Labar- Estate south sixty (60) twenty-seven (27) minutes , a- distance of fifty (50) feet to of Lot No. 3; and thence nty-nine (29) d ees fifteen iinutes west a distance nine-tenths (100.9) (36) ying. of ner of one feet street, » premises conveyed Smith by deed of ated 0 Office .. et ‘ua March corded in the of Deeds for Luzerne No. 623, ji single two and re of the unty story dwelil- ion Sank, West Smith anal by Sheriff. taken into West Side Pittston, Pa., vs. James h Smith, and will be sold JOHN MacL.U SRN, CARROSSA, LBERT B, and suit of execut Attorney. Ne 1% x PC 3 First National Bank * * * DALLAS, PA * * = Members American Bankers’ Association * = > DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, D. P. Honevwell, W. B. Jeter, Sterling Machell, Wa R. Neely, Clifford W. Space, Wm. Bulford, George R. Wright. OFFICERS George R. Wright, President D. P. Honeywell, 1st Vice-Pres. C. A. Frantz, 2nd Vice-Pres. W. B. Jeter, Cashier ‘x 8 ® Jhree Per Cent. on Savings Deposits No account too small to assure careful attention Deposits a Demand nt nk Fr able on ie for, ‘many the boy wile derimont pers sisted until 799. But in England Henry VIII abolished it. in 1542. Queen Mary restored it in 1552 and Elizabeth abolished it finally a few years later. ‘The festivities which had been a part of St. Nicholas Day then began to be transferred to Christmas, though there was a time when ever Christ- rgas, though there was a time when even Christmas celebrations were for- bidden in. England. That was in 1644, when Cromwell’s Puritan Parliament pased an act forbidding any merri- ment or religious services at Christ- mas on the ground that it was a heathen festival! This feeling against Christmas persisted among the Puri- tan settlers of New England down to | the nineteenth century. The exchanging of gifts by grown- ups on Chnistmas Day is a very mod- ern idea indeed. And children today know where their Denis come from; afew: pany now in full swing. needs here and save 75 per cent. they no longer believe in the good St. Niklaas, who fills their stockings se- cretly by night. Perhaps the world was happier when Christmas giving a joy .and the little ones still believed in fairies and Santa Claus. was less of an obligation: and more of Hikers io ire troubl with ten- | der feet are adiised by th American Magazine to fdlow the e soldiers during the war ay gr long ‘hike, with vaseline o candle gres se. 50 18.b draws BOILS to a natural heal] “ BEAR BRAND DALY age Includes spat: ndage and tape eg GROBLEWSKI §.CO.P So, LPs. $1 0,000 Der or Stock of the Alco Radio and Tire Con Get your Xmas Radio and Tii Tires and Tubes belo $162.50 latest and eight electric tubes. $69.50 1929 Earl Electric Radio in beautiful console, complete with power speaket Complete—Nothing Else to Buy A. B. C. Eliminator 510.75 11929 Bremer-Tulley Superb Electric Radi Regular price $172.50. Our price scompletd with electric tubes $49.50 TIRES AND TUBES 30x3V5 Tires 30x31, Tubes 30x35 S. O. S's 29x4.40 Tubes 30x5.00 Tires 30x42 H. D. 30x45, H. D. DECATUR $35.00 SPEAKERS $9.75 TEN BATTERY SETS $4.95 EACH R. C. A. ARCTURUS SERATRON, Etc. | $18.50 Twenty Radio Conscles (Battery) With Built-in Speaker All Necessary Tubes, Beautiful Type Cabinet and B Batteries, Only Each HAVE YOU OSE! The Splendid Christmas Gifts at Evan’s Pharmac Shop Here--Sav e Yourself Time, Money, Travel and Trouble COMBINATION PERFUME oLTo SETS WELD IN LOVELY BOXES Comprising Powder, Compact, Pex fume and Toilet Water. Salts, Also Bath in pretty Smelling Salts bottles. LEC a Waving Flashligh FORT Cig ars Percolators, Curling I RIC GOODS Yons, Hai x Electric C its and Batteries. MAN and Cigarettes rons, HE . All popular brands mn Christm nas wrappers, AMITY LEATHER Leather Billfolds for the new small currency. Shaving Sets Thermos Bottles RUBBER GOODS Hot Water Bottles and Ice Caps, Fountain Syringes in seven: colors. We will take your order and have delivered to you on Christmas Day Kris Kringle Ice Cream, comprising whip cream, pecans, dates, figs, nuts and ice cream in several flavors. This Is Your Community Drug Store It Merits Your Patronage Evan’s Pharmac Shavertown NO CHARGE FOR DELIVERY NEXT TO THE A. & P. STORE P. S.—We Fill Prescriptions Ee ne om ee Hpi mediratont 7% CRE CT i EWR = Sheldon T. Evans, Registered Pharmacist, in Charge RE MS RE Swe eos TELEPHONE—DALLAS 222 CS Te el
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