West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-01-03
Brardonviue.

spresdin' themselves these balmy DAYS
SO m writ,n you piece.
There Amt been nobody much here only
what belongs here Tor long spell so I
cant hliu2 my letter on "The beautiful
aud accomplished Miss So.and SO Is visit.
Ing her friend Miss Thus aud thus 5.
There has been little aappln OF wings
amone the birds o. passage aud itell
you OF them.
Roe Hopwood. who has been takin'
in the c cphant over in the Willis o Fayette
county. Pa. is home to rostieatc some.
Roe" has bought himself stced.
Albert Benson. who has been QUO OF the
Bell ,Telephone Companys linemen al
Uniontown. came home TO rest up. so he
says. bet you he was afraid u he kept
on elimbin' he'd stretch I'LL he'd get too
tall 20 be Barnum's giant.
Charley waddeI was home for Christ
mas from his school teachin away to Fair.
mont. asst him what the boys and girls
call him in his school. and he blaxed up
and said Professor. Dad burn en-
wanted TO asst him u they took him to be
professor of religion OF what. but he sawed
me OF SO short like hated to approach
him again.
Bud willett. he got himself woman
last week. She's an awful nice little wo.
man and a lot of us felers thought we'd
so out and pay our respects in the shape
OF good old fashioned bellin. We didn't
mean a bit of harm or anything OF the kind
We sort o. thought maybe Bud d be so
tickied he'd set EN- up. Well. we bclled
around In the road awhile and then went
in toward the back door. bcin mighty care.
full TO keep OF the grass and when we
got purity nigh to the door, l jngl out
jumps Daddy Bill brandishin' the big
poker sill you'd a thought he was maxim a
campaign speech. Some of the fellers tried
to calm him down but he kept yellin.'
Out o here! out o here's to beat cat
hghtin, so us fellers skeedaddlcd Never
you mind. old fellow. II we dassent slide
down your cellar door. I ling. you shant
climb ourapplc tree.
Well. of ali the Dad blamed blanaet
stretchin Teller ever hearn OF that Merry
Christmas Trip TO Santa Clausville beat
en- all. Ofcourse | expected some kind
OF a railroad and when went to the school
house Monday afternoon to git package
checked for old Santa to give my best girl
sort o squinted around and tried to get
peep at the tail end OF the train but all
could sec was an old brick chimbly pecpin'
out over the top OF the curtain. / still
didn't quite give up hope o the train
cause ! said TO myself They're got a
chimbly so they can have fire and ire can
make steam and steam can make things
move"
We'll sir xvhat. frnf ,s..ts a
everybody else got there and everybody
had everybody else crowded and mashed
into "A cold pancake. some Teller played
he was conductor and grabbed our tickets
and another fellow played he was brake
man aud yelled Jollytown and Hiiarity and
some other places aud some fellow bowed
a horn and rung bell aud an old widow
aud her small oGsprings fused some with
the conductor and lac put her out and the
brakeman hollered Santa Clausyile
Up went the curtain and IA swan! IL
there didn't stand mighty cute log cabin
and old Santa a standin' by the door The
north pole was propped up agin the cabin
and old Mercury was chained fast to il.
Santa Claus made lot Of people come up
in front OF the cabin and recitc and sing.
better give you their names or they won't
like il.
Fred Weltner, Recitation les Fore
Christmas. Gertrude McEndoe recitation
---Daisy's Telephone Message. Anna Oar
by, recitation-AuDt AIMS Christmas Pres
eni Caliie Forquer rccitation-Th stars
and the Child. Lynne Waddel recitation
The Bear Story. Ernest McGrew. rec
italion--Who Santa Claus Wuz Dialogue
Christmas Geography Lesson. Arthur
Fr4nkhouser. recitation--A Tree Song
Scott Barnes. recitation-'fhe strike OF
ST. Nick. Flora Talbot. recitation
Christmas Eve vida Barnes recitation
The Christmas Substitute. bessie McEn-
doe. recitation-Thc Famine.--fongfcllow
Mamie Barnes. rccitation--Pugglc S Xmas
Dinner. Olive Scott recitation. Orphant
Annie's Christmas Legend VIII. Benson.
recuation--A Cabin Christmas--Aason.
There we're songs and organ solos and
music from a good photograph and every
thing was good. but a fellow bad TO work
his mag nation mighty hard to make him.
self think he was ridin on a train. They
carried the joke pretty well along. though.
Even had signs up around tclln' passen-
gers 20 keep of tho platform while the
train was was in motion. One sign said
Don't spit on the floor. Spit on the
Ceiln'." I jinsl tried il and like to
strangled myself ana got tobaccer juice in
the eyes Of the baby sittin' next to me.
I set still after that
reckon you've hearn Of all the kinds Of
wedin's married folks have nowadays TO
git presents. Well tin weddn s the
kind they have when they've been married
ten years.
Charley Frankhouscr and his wife. Min.
ME had been married ten years a Christ
mas but Law they've got enough tin to
buy all the tin they need so they WASN'T
goin TO give Us spread Maud Kim
berry and Mrs Pctrea Matched up a scheme
to give EN- a rattlin big surprise. aud so
Christmas night lot Of people went out
there and lugged EN- enough tinwarc to
stock tin SHOP. Most Of the crowd had
got there and unloaded their buckets and
kittles and stun and Charley bad taken the
cotton out Of his cars when they heard
some boys and girls a squawkin' sieIghin'
song and some crank a tootin' tin horn,
and. FIRST thing they knew. chewhangl
came a sled load Of tin STUFF on the porch.
Minnie LET EN- ia without waitin' for en- to
I ring the door bell They jcs give the tin
pcdlars the place and Charlie and Minnie
bad TO be married again. Maud Kimberly
/ Lynne Waddei. Oksy Michael and Will
King helped EN- stand % and say the
words and after everybody had wished
en- al kinds 81 party wishes the itnc
/ boys brought in few bushels OF ROSY
checked apples and Charley wound up his
Edison phonograph and played en- some
tunes and before a fellow knowed 70 Nan.