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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me nice don with a
blue silk dress on. set of dishes. little
able wagon. little umbrella, red
sweater, nice gold bracelet, and nuts.
ruit and cand. Please don't forget
title brother Jack and bring him
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear Santa CLAUS:

Dear Santa Claus:
thought I would write and tel
you what want for Christmas.
want . plain band ring size $. and z
fur and mum, pair Of fine shoes and
over shoes. size c. and some candy
nuts ana oranges.
Your little SirI.
FORA b. EELLISoN.
Meadowhronk. W. Va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
De- snnta clans:

Dear Santa Claus
am u little girl nine years old,
please bring me big Teddy bear. q
pair OF gloves and a candy cane, nuts.
HELEN wEIDENHARIBR.
SOC y. Sixth street
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
am little boy over years old.
wrote you last Christmas and I got
all I wanted. hope you viii not
catch bad cold and there wiz be
lots OF beautiful snow so you and
your renders can get all around. /
want you to bring me an engine that
viii run. fire wagon with horses, and
ladder and hose. football. picture book,
table for Teddy and chair so he
can eat. drum and elephant. II you
arc cold be sure and warm yourself
and 80 in the dining room and get
some turkey and coffee
STUART HoRNoR.
657 West Pike street.
P. s.-There Is another little girl
bathrooms ut my horse. Agnes. bring
7er something nice.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
WILEY ASHLEY
Dear Sand claus:

Dear Santa Claus.
am a little girl years old. /
want gold bracelet. little white
Teddy bear. set OF dishes. an um-
brella and go-cart with an UNI
brella, that is all. Dear SAINT Claus
II you bring all there things 1 VIII
tr5- and be better girl My home Is
in Alta Vista. and my name Is
ELIZABETH ASHLEY.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me nice don and a
Teddy bear. a piano and a buggy, a
box of candy, q sled with fast run
ners, a pair OF gloves, a ring. a muff,
furs. a little iron and some nuts and
candy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

vlgor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the lSidneysare
out Of order or dis
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that It IS not uncona-
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
NAcnIr l.iriYrE.re Iffha
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear Santa claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
am little boy six years old,
give me your attention-what want
for Christmas Is a suit OF clothes. a
pair OF skates. size s. and pair OF
boots. nuts and candy.
Yours truly
RAYMOND.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Pinesalve Carbolized acts like a
poultiee. draws ont inflammation and
poisons. Antiseptic. healing. For
Snapped hands, lips, cuts, burns. Sold
by H. F. Burke,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Lovingly yours
ARTHUR LEONARD DYSON.
Iulianna St, Parkersburg. W. Va.
Dear santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
AS hear all the children are
writing to you ! thought would
write few lines and tell you what /
want. want % caliber rife and
a box OF bullets and 4 foot ball /
have no papa and l hope old Santa
Claus will find our little hut on the
side OF the hill.
Yours truly,
ARCHIE SMITH.
Il. r. d. No. /, Lost Creek
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me doll and a pair
of gloves and a piano and II table
and n ring and an iron and a go
cart. set Of dishes and some candy
and nuts.
Your little friend.
MARGARET McAPEE.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
I will write you a little letter. I
want you to please bring me new
dress and any thing you have for
me. am ten years old and go 10
school. am in the third grade: don't
forget my teacher for she is a very
nice teacher. and don't forget my
papa and mama. and brothers and.
nieces and cousins.
Your friend,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear SANTA claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
viii write to you to let you know
that am a good boy and good in
school. 1 get 100 in conduct every
month, so know you will remember
me. ! would like to have a coasting
sled. a pair of skates. humpty dump
ty circus, hin climbing engine. a
nice story book. bath robe, a pair
or trousers to match by new brown
one. and what else you want to bring.
live in Parkersburg and am sorry
of it for this town died some time ago,
but if my grandma comes home from
Georgia YOU can leave the things
there. / always spend Christmas
with her and think she has been
real good so please leave her and my
grandfather both something.
Lovingly yours. =
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Yours truly

Dear Santa Claus:
hear that all the children are
writing to you. ] have no papa and
am glad there is a Santa Claus. I
want you to bring me a doll and a
dol bed and a doll buggy. will
thank you thousand times.
Your frien.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear SANTA Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
l. am little boy years old, the
doctors just let mo out of the hos
pital. I was shot and will not be able
to go to school any more this winter,
50. bring me box op paint and some
drawing PAPER. Teddy bear: my
papa Will not be able to get them for
me as he has much to pay now
Your friend.
CITY BRAGG.
Broad Oaks.
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Dear santa Claus:
live on Water street and am q
good boy and help my mother and 90
to school. / like it and love my
Teacher. ! am l. years old and ]
want suit of clothes, some candy
and nuts, and will be a good boy
so you won't forget me, you can
don't forget my dear friends. my pa
pa and mama, and sisters and broth
ers.
Your dear friend,
HAYWARD FoGG.
51a Water street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

child urinates too often, Il the urine scalds
the desh, or If, when the child reaches an
age when Il should be able to control the
passage. It Is yet afflicted with hed-wet-
ting, depend upon il, thecause of the Diff
Guilty Is kidney trouble, and the FIRST
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble IS due to diseased condition OF
the kidneys and bladder aud not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Womensas well as men are made niser-
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
aud both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Rooe IS soou realized It is sold
by druggists, in fifty
cent and ohe-doIlaT = -
size bottles. You may -
have sample bottle -
by mail free, also HOus q GEanpRooa
pamphlet telling all about SwaTup-Root,
including many of the thousands of testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
cured. In writing DR.. Kiiner s. Co.,
BinghaInton, n. Y, be sure and mention
this paper. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swsnp-Root, and the adj
dress, Binghainton, y. Y, on every
OSes4s.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
LOUIS THoRNBURG.
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
win write and tell you what /
want for Christmas. l want u pair
of mittens, a false face. black one
with red lips, a pair Of Sunday shoes.
a drum, candy. oranges and bananas.
Yours truly.
|. HARMON ROBINSON.
Dodge COnrf
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
am little seven year old, want
a doll and doll cart, ana chain
and Iocket. skates. set of dishes
and nuts and candy, and everything
else you have to spare.
Your little friend,
MAY HESS
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Clnus:
l want to let you know that | want
some new heads for my dear. dolIies.
one feIr or the tree last year and
broke, a trunk for my dolIies clothes.
Santa please fix my dolls bed and
cart. some new books. am 1 years
old. Don't forget papa and mama.
try to he good girl.
From your little girl.
ALICE MECHLING.
III Mechanic street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
/ VIII write to let you know what
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

OLA SMITH,
II. r. ID. No. /. Lost Creek.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

SIS water street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Broad Oaks.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
would like to have a sled and a
fur and u mum and a pair of leggings
and would like TO have story book
If it is not TOO much.
Yours truly,
PEARL THoREBURG.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Women as Vel as Men ME Made
Miserable By Kidney and
Bladder TTDuhIs.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind.
discourage and lessensam6ition; beauty.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
want . little 10 cent swapping
gun thnt shoots-caps. and some candy
and nuts and don't forget papa and
mama. bring mama a nice set or
side combs and bring pap six nice
hand<erchiefs; now that is all Santa
Claus. You knock at our door ana
mama viii let YOU in,
From your little friend.
BLoNDIA RAY KENNEY.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

Dear Santa Claus:
want a rubber doll. a set Of
dishes. a Teddy bear and little
drum, candy. nuts and sled and some
fruit. / live on the corner of Month
cello avenue.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear Santa Claus:

Dodge Court.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11

MAY HESS.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-12-11
Dear santa claus:

MARGARET McAREE.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
REMEDIES FOR ALL DISEASES.
But No Particular cure-All for Every
Malady.

Every disease has lis remedy, and
In the search for that remedy hun.
dreds OF cults OF medicine have sprung
up. One man pins his faith in minute
doses Of powerful drugs; another
walks barefoot over wet grass; an
other eats raw fruit and grain, one Is
confident that mud baths induce
health and still another urges US to
chew each mouthful of food at least
30 times before swallowing. No
doubt, every one Of these cures is
OF benefit to some form OF disease.
The mistake of followers Of the treat
ments is in thinking their particular
remedy cure.all for every malady.
There are no universal remedies. In
deed, every type of disease must re-
ceive special attention and be treated
after the fashion long experience and
study have taught the medical profes.
sion is best adapted to the case. Ger
tain ills respond quickly to drugs, the
virtues of which are sometimes won.
derfully effective. Others need moth.
Ing but fresh air; still others a change
of climate, and a variety of diseases
need no drugs and no journeys to the
Mountains but are best relieved by
simple dieting.-Leslie Weekly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Smuggling Popular.

Smuggling is still fairly flourishing
industry in England. According to
the annual report, recently issued, Of
the commissioners Of customs for the
year ending last March, the number
of detected attempts to smuggle duti-
able goods during the past year was
the largest recorded since 1895. The
quantities of tobacco, cigars and splr.
its seized were less than in the pre-
ceding year. but there was a consider
able increase in the number Of seiz.
ures and of persons fined, says Home
Chat. No fewer than 9,104 persons
were fined for smuggling, and the pen
alties recovered amounted to s21 900.
The tobacco and cigars seized amount.
ed to 11,222 pounds and the foreign
spirits to so gallons
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
RIGHT AND LEFT HANpEDNess.
Matter Of Physical Structure, Accord.
ing to an Authority.

George NJ. Gould of PHILADELPHIA
says that mentality preceded and
created structure. It has been shown
that the mechanisms that give the
man external validity, speech and
writing, are one-sided. This one-sided
differentiation is progressive through.
out life. Right-handedness Is partially
matter OF right-sightedness In 81
per cent. OF children the right eye is
the better-seeing eye. II one Is right.
handed the centers for writing and
speech must be on the left side and the
visual centers on the same side.
Pathology follows any attempt to in.
terfere with right or left.handedness
Those persons who demand right.
handedness Of the left-handed child
make him morbid and maladroit. The
author gives several very interesting
cases of the lifelong crippling of the
faculties and mechanism of writing
resulting from attempts to make left.
handed person learn to use the wrong
side of his brain for writing.-Medical
Record.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Whalebone Worth Millions.

A century ago, when whalebone was
worth no more than ten cents pound,
few vessels brought any home. From
1874 to the outbreak Of the civil war
the output averaged about 100000
pounds annually, the greatest for one
year being 5,692,300 pounds in 1858,
and the price increased to one dollar
pound. Since 1860 there has been a
steady decrease In the output. The
total amount of whalebone landed in
America In the course of the nine.
teenth century exceeded 9O,O00.000
pounds, worth at the present market
valuation about $450,000.0O0, a sum
that would make the possessor one of
the richest men in the world, If not
the richest of all.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
The Modern Woman.

II was in Lenox avenue subway
train and very tired and cross
youngster Of four, who had evidently
spent the day shopping with his moth
err, was keeping the car in a turmoil
by little pastime Of his own. He
sprawled all over his mothers lap, at
the same time keeping up whimper-
ing cry, Mamma, mamma, mamma"
This went on until an elderly man sit
ting next suddenly turned to the child
with: Have you a father?" The
youngster startled out Of his imagi-
nary grief, stopped crying and nodded
his head, Yes" We'll, for Heavens
sake, call him and give your mother
rest" The boy sat up like ram
rod and never let out another whim-
perm. Y. Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Taking No Chances.

Johnson Ito wife)-"Well. Maria,
I'm going to stay at home with you to-
day and help you to tidy up the house,
I'll tack down the carpets and hang
up the pictures to begin with" Mrs.
Johnson Ito the children)--"Children,
you may go over to grandma's and stay
all day. (Aside) | know my husband
is a deacon of the church, but for all
that he's just as apt to hit his thumb
with hammer as any other man
Tit-Bits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
"Tlme. the Great Healer,

A doctor who had treated patien,
for long time without giving relief
finally wrote TO him that he could do
no more, and that tempus edax reruni
was the only remedy The patient i'm.
mediately went TO drug store and APP
piled for the remedy. The druggist
gave him bottle OF some kind of mix
ture and charged him large sum for
It. After the patient had taken the
compound for some time he met his
doctor and thanked him for the won
derful prescription. which had cured
him. The druggists trick was dis
covered and the patient sued him fol
the money spent on the bogus medi
cine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
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UNIX aaHLo ON ANVIL CIV
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'CAV3A Axis 49,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Military Epiqrams.

Col Philip Reade, of the Twenty
third United States infantry, is the
author of the following "epigrams Of
the RANGE" THE ultimate of the SOL
dier's profession is to know when and
where and how to pull the trigger"
"other things being equal, thu SOL
der who can hit with measurable &C
curacy what he aims at Is the best
SOLDIER" "the way to learn how to
hit is TO find out why you miss"
brains must be mixed with gunpow-
DER" soldiers who are not good
shooters are apt to be turned into
good scooters;" most good shots are
made good shots by systematic in
struction and practice"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
"cash" and Domestic Rows.

That money is the root OF all evil'
Is maxim we all learned in our copy.
book days. And so per cent. Of newly.
made wives discover to their astonish,
ment that money worries, disputes
over bills, and accusations of lex
travagance" against the lady of the
house are at the bottom Of the clouds
and thunder storms which rouse the
honeymooners to the fact that life Is
real, life is earnest and not an un
ending chapter OF connubial bliss
counting and kisses.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Too Much Tee.

He was solicitor of more or less
repute, and his Saturday afternoons
pursuit was golf and whisky and soda.
On this particular Saturday, however,
he had been detained in town. On
reaching home he was met by his wife
and little daughter. "Nt game to-day,
my DEAR" he said to his wife, as he
picked up his little girl and kissed her.
Then his daughter shifted the air and
said, well. daddy, you do smell aw.
fully Of golf."-Tit-Bits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Estate of Nahum F. Wheelock.
Notice OF Settlement and Application for
Distribution.

Distribution.
CyTATE OF VERMONT, At a session
y District OF Bennington. IS. OF the Probate
Court holden at the Probate Ofiice. in Benning
ton, In said district. on the 3rd day OF Dec. (.
A. ID. 1907.
Present. EDWARD c. BENNETT. Judge
Eli a Burgess, administrative with the will an
exed, OF The estate Of Nahum #. Wheelock.
ATE of Salisbury, in said district, deceased,
presents her administration account for exam,
naton and allowance. and makes application
or decree OF distribution and partition OF the
state of said deceased
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court, that
said account and said application be referred to
n session thereof, to be held at the Probate
ONCE aforesaid, on the 10th day of Dec, A. ID
1907, for hearing and decision thereon; And II
is further ordered. that notice thereof be given
TO all parties interested by publication OF the
same three weeks successfully In the Benning-
ton Evening Banner, a newspaper published at
bennington, previous to said time appointed for
hearing. that they may appear at said time and
place, and show cause II any they may have,
VIII said account should not be allowed and
such decree made.
A record whereof is ordered to be made.
A true record.
Attest. GRACE B. HOLT, Register.
A true copy OF the original record.
Attest. GRACE b. HOLT. Register.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Maxim IL plain.

Little Rastus-But All KANT ondah.
stan bout de yarth an de sun. Uncle
Mose-Lemme 'splain hit ter you all.
Now s'posen dis lantern am de sun,
an nah haid am de yarth. All swings
de lantern roun an run an It done
shed light on de inhabitants Of nah
haid. Now does yo' ondahstan'?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Passed Examination Successfully

James Donahue, New Britain, Conn,
writes: Il tried several kidney rem
edies, and was treated by our best
physicians for diabetes, but did not
improve until took Foley's Kidney
Cure. After the second bottle | show
ed Improvement, and five bottles cured
me completely. ! have since passed
rigid examination for life insur-
ance." Foley's Kidney Cure cures
batk.ache and all forms Of kidney and
bladder trouble. Quinlan's pharmacy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11
Argo Red Salmon Is standard in
quality, quantity, color and price.

There is nothing better offered the
public today for stomach troubles,
dyspepsia, indigestion, etc, than
KODOL. This is scientific prepar-
alton of natural digestants combined
with vegetable acids and 1t contains
the same juices found in every healthy
stomach KODOL is guaranteed to
give relief. 1t is pleasant to take; 1t
will make you feel fine by digesting
what you eat. Sold by d. A. Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-11

Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
pills; they are for weak back, inflam.
nation of the bladder, backache and
weak kidneys. Sold by d. A. Ward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-21
guaranteed. Charles Fiebig, 1919 Third
avenue. Open evenings.

guaranteed. Charles Fiebig, 1919 Third
avenue. Open evenings.
Nut picks in sets, silver knives,
forks, spoons, butter knives, sugar
shells at great deal less than else
where See Allen, Myers G. Co. dis
play before you buy.
A box or package with the McCabe
name on it, stamps quality and moth
ing satisfies both giver and receiver
so much as to know that the article
is genuine-the best of its kind.
Have you seen Stewart redwood? ?"
If not. why not? Only sold at one
place in Rock Island and that is at
Allen, Myers & Co. They would be
pleased to show it to you whether you
buy or not
Michael Kennedy of Davenport will
speak at the Industrial hall tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock in the socialists
lecture course, his topic being "The
Panic: Its Cause and Cure The sub
ject will be open to discussion.
More factories have shut down until
after the New Year. We have bought
up the surplus Springfield coal cheap
and will deliver same i'm two-tons lots
to any part of the city at hard time
prices ii taken from the car at once
Sold only by the Mueller Lumber
company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-21
Fanny Davenport, the actress, died
last night of pneumonia.
OHIO HITS ATPlUMeeR TRUST
Court Orders Companies 10 Get Out of
National Combination.

Columbus. Ohio, Dec 21.-In the cir
ney General Ellis took judgment of
custer against the 90 Ohio companies
and firms dealing in plumbers sup
plies which were found TO be in the ma
tional combination of such dealers.
The court orders the companies out of
the combination, and not to observe or
obey any of its rules and regulations.
1t found that the organization was in
restraint Of trade.