The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-12-31
CHRISTMASAND NEW YEAR

Value of Christmas and New
Years Greetings-An lIIustra-
tration Drawn from a View
from a Train.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
With the passing of the Ck Q
mas holidays, which broughiSsss
some good and pleasing things,
we find ourselves penning you
these lines to acquaint you with
the fact that The Robeson1l.h has
continued to contribute pleasure
from time to time from so many !
whom we have learned to es-
TEEN, through that medium-for
we right here would say that |
from our friends in Elizabeth
town Etchings', with Aunt |
Becky" and away out in Alaba-
ma there is the ''old reliable" A.
Id. who can go back in the dim
and dusty past, and bring the
same so plain to our view to all |
of these, and others as we'll, we
will return heartfelt thanks for
favors thus, and so often, bestow-
ed; and at the same time trust
that they all had many good
things come to them in all their
homes during these days of feast
ing and fun.
We had many Christmas visit
ors to our city during the time
and in this way much pleasure
was afforded to so many friends,
some from a distance who had
not seen US in many months. But
then we in turn sent almost as
many to their homes. Especial
ly was this so of school teachers,
who had a Well-earned respite
from their irksome and some
times tedious labors, to continue
through the closing of the old
and till the new year be ushered
in.
None of us can compute the
good that comes out of these
Christmas and NeWYear's greet
lngs of loved ones with each re-
turning season and they in this
way become the time-keepers, and
so often tell us the progress we
make in this respect as the years
go by.
We had quite an argument re-
Gently with one Of the good old
Methodist sisters (of course, this
} is unusual, for | do not like to get
out on these lines oftep)in regard
not to denominational questions
direct but as to the merits OF
each one of ourchurch organs, hers
being published near home, anc
: mine being from a large centre
: in a distant State, and conse.
quently more general in its cor
ception and expensive as well
7 I made use of the following fig,
2 ure, which we thought tended tt
, illustrate the matter and thus
= settle a question that might have
: continued for period of time
I While we were travelling to the
West on our way to a distant cit.
4 to attend the old soldiers reun
e ion last summer, passing through
a the hills of Georgia on our righ
n and on our left, our eyes fell o.
: a huge dark figure away ahead
n and sometimes to this and tn
other side of our car window
which proved to be Stone Noun
tain" out there near Atlanta
This, l remarked, was a pictur
v representing my large and state
e ly paper-while it seemed to kee
Il vigil over the hills of less magn
V tude, yet l contended that thos
Is hills, while they were not seen
n far, had been furnishing to eac
If travel-worn veteran who haI
r pened to be passengers the rich
# ness of their fruit, cosisting {
d peaches, apples, berries, and i
v addition other crops of unusu;
e service and variety, as we'll {
J. homes for a great populatio
for which the Empire State
the South is noted. In this Wa
n n we decided that each contestal
~ was entitled to consideration
n y there perhaps being more equal
u ty of advantage than at fir
e, might appear, the argument W;
10 discontinued.
"a "a Wishing for each of The Ro
~ esonian's staff, and likewise
u readers many happy returns
Is happy Christmas and glad Ne
Ie- Year.
n "Vidi. "
M Dillon, S. c., Dec. %, 1908.