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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
AS so many little folks are writing
you what they want this Xmas, I
thought I would write and tell you
what to bring me. Please bring me an
automobile and a horse. and plenty Of
nice fruits and nuts. Your little friend.
Tlay Plaxco.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Kings Creek, December 10. 1909

Kings Creek, December 10, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little girl nearly years old
and want you to bring my little sister
May and myself, something good to
eat, as you always do, and we will be
good little girls. hope to see you
when you come. Anna Dickson.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Yorkyille. Dec. II. 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
AS Xmas Is 80 near, will write and
tell you what want you to bring me.
want a big doll that can go to sleep
and a wagon to ride in. Also some
candy and nuts. Yours truly,
JAMIE Love.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Yorkyille. No. l, Dec. 10, 1909.

IUThVIIIe, NV' II Icc' R0' R'V0'
Dear Santa Claus:
We are four little boys and will write
to let you know what we want Xmas.
Please bring Us four guns, a bushel OF
apples, a bushel Of oranges and fifty
pounds of candy. Bring our baby SIS
ter a pretty doll, a dress and some
raisins, Your friends, Harry, Paul,
Norman and Herbert Biggers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Filbert, Dec. IL, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
am glad 1t is almost time for you
to come around again. AS times are
hard, and you have so many to divide
with, am not going to ask for much.
OF course you know we all expect nice
fruits and candles, and ! would like to
have a ring and a nice story book and
a pretty doll, but will be satisfied
with whatever you will bring me, and
will alwayh love you dearly. Your
little friend, Mary Emily Parrott
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14

Kings Creek, r. F. D. No. l, Dec 10.
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a billy goat and a
wagon, and bring Mr. Grist something
too, ! will have you nice fire to
warm by, and oblise,
Charles Henry Love.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Glover. Dec. 11. 1908.

Dear Santa Claus:
I here you love little children, so
I want you to bring me a tea-set from
the drug store, little sewing machine
from Charlotte, some candy, nuts and
fireworks. Your friend,
Jean Pressly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS.
Thinns the Children Would Have In
Christmas Stockings.
Kingstree, December

Dear Santa Claus:
Last Christmas I was in Yorkville.
but this year am in Kingstree.
hope you will not forget me. Please
bring me doll, a gold bracelet, a doll
piano, and some nice fruits and candy.
Your friend, Belle Hurt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Filbert, Dec. II, 1909,

Dear Santa Claus:
Here comes another one Of your lit
tie boys begging for something nice.
Mamma says l am a bad little boy. but
l don't think you will leave my stock
ing empty II you will bring me some
nice fruit, toy train, and little boys
own-knife, / will certainly think you
are a nice old man. Be sure and don't
forget my oranges and bananas, as I
am especially fond Of them. Your lit
tie friend, J. B. PARROT, Jr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Sharon, Dec. II, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
Will you kindly bring me an air gun
and some shot, violin, wagon, some
firecrackers, nuts, raisins and candy.
Please let me know when you arrive.
John Dixon Plexico.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Fort MIN. Dec. 10, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
am little girl nine years old, and
l want you to bring me little cup
board, a little stove and all kinds of
nuts and candies. Your friend.
Agnes Winnie Crook.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Clover. December II. 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me doll that
has on a long dress, a doll bed, some
firecrackers, and a little pony. Your
little friend, Claude Smith.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Smyrna, Dec. s, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
want you to please bring me wag-
on large enough to drive my Angora
goat to, some firecrackers and rife,
and OF course some candy, fruits and
nuts. Your friend,
G. o. Shillinglaw.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Rock Hill, Dec. II, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a pistol, 'what'll
sting" you just a little bit, but won't
kill you: a gun, an Irish mail, drum
and lots of candy and fruits. Hoping
that you won't forget me on Christmas
eve. am, your little friend.
william Leroy Williams, Jr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Yorkyille. Dec. II, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring my little brother Lorin
an express wagon, my little sister Ruby
a rocking chair and pretty doll. l
want a nice baby doll from Mr.. Wray's
store. Please bring us all some nice
fruits and candy, and remember Mr..
Grist. Your little friend,
Minnie Thomasson.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Hickory Grove, Dec. IA, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
Please don't pass Us by this year.
want a great big doll and just lots Of
nice things. Please bring Walter and
Nellie Smith something nice too, and
oh! such a good time we will have.
Mary Hosue.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Dear Santa Claus

I am a good little boy, and want you
to bring me little drum, lots Of fire.
works, and do please bring me some
skyrockets. I will be careful and not
get hurt, so please bring them. Please
bring some oranges, nuts and bananas
also II you please. Frank Smith.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Smyrna. Dec. s. 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me pretty doll, a doll
carriage, harp, some chewing gum,
and all kinds Of your nice fruits and
candies. Wishing you and all the dear
little children a merry Xmas. Your
little girl, Ola May Shillinglaw.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Yorkville, No. 1, Dec. 8, 1909.

1orkVllle, No. 1, bec' o, i9V9'
Dear Santa Claus:
l am a little boy going to school at
Bethany, my teachers name is Miss
Gall Dear Santa, please don't forget
me when you are passing through. I
will close with best wishes.
Wilborn Ford.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Sharon, Dec. II, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
I am mammals baby and want lots
Of things. Please bring me, some fire.
crackers, toy auto, banjo. some nuts
and a lot Of fruit. Little
Joseph Lee Plexico.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
Dear Santa Claus:

I have six brothers but no little sis
ters to play with, so please bring me a
nice big doll, have the nice cart you
brought last year and II you will bring
me a new doll that Will go to sleep,
and Just q little bit Of nice things to
eat, 1 will thank you so much.
Eula Smith.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14

10 The many-sided Kaiser often per-
sonally superintends the setting or
new opera.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
McConnellsville, Dec. II, 1909.

Dear Santa Claus:
l am so glad Xmas is near, and as
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-29

Fuel tests by the Geological Survey have developed that at low rates of working run of mine coal gives a higher equivalent evaporation than briquettes; at medium rates there is little difference, and at high rates birquettes do considerably better + Secretary. of Agriculture Wilson has asHkd Congress to increase to $4.O00 the maximum salaries which may be paid to scientific experts in his department have the services of high grade men. attracted away by higher remunera- tion-
 The Alps show such an extraordin- ar-y attraction for Hertzian wave cur rents that Swiss military aerograph- ists have been able to intercept wire less messages from points 1000 miles away. while the interchange of mes sages within Switzerland is unsatis- factory.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-29
FAIRFIELD

Many of the young folks in the cen ter of the town had the time of their lives yesterday in the form of presents from Santa Claus, and glorious Christ mas trees hanging heavy with the kind of fruit which such trees always bear. At St. Paul's church the boys and girls. youths and maidens. assem- bied in the chapel at p. m The room was festooned with ropes of lau- rel and across the rear end there was long table loaded with presents and bountiful supply of food for a lunch con. Chairs were placed in a large circle. and games were played. Miss Wheeler being the mistress of cere- monies. Many older people were pres ent. including MT. Huntington. MT. Mills. Mrs. Samuel Glover. the Misses Hinckley. Miss Deborah Glover. and Rev. Allen Beeman. He did not show agonies recently from rheumatism. as has been asserted. It Is said he has had a slight cold.
 The storm was so severe on Sunday but two persons went to St. Paul's church. and they soon found their way over to the Congregational church.
 At { p. m. yesterday a large tree was in full bloom at the Sunday school room of the Congregational church. and half an hour later some 200 peo- tribution of presents. The school numbers 161 pupils. and few if any were absent. Each bot and girl re- ceived whole box of candy; it took and there were many special presents. as well as no end of toys. books. drums. and such things as delight boys and girls. The tree was a tall cedar from the forest of Mir. Hill. the well known coal merchant. who was glad to present it to the school. MT. Liv- ingston Smith, Miss Morehouse and Miss Forsythe decorated the tree.
 Monday night Miss Durham gave a delightful straw ride to a party of her friends. They assembled at the home of Miss Loretta Perry. and entering one of MT. Bulkley's big busses were driven to the Durham residence on Greenfield Hill, where a bountiful. col lation was served. About. midnight the drive back to town was enjoyed. with laughter and the iingling of bells.
 Mir and Mrs. Howard Roberts have returned home from visiting their par ents. MT. and Mrs. James Kinsella.
 The Misses Mary and Grace West of Elliott street. gave a party to their young friends last evening. which was largely attended. A few of those present included Andrew and David Huntington. Roger Smith Louise and Helen Forsythe, Sadie Deyo. Louise Everett. Arthur and Biting Deyo. Amy Jennings. Miss Glover. and others.
 Miss May Beck is spending her school vacation with her aunt in Pas saic. N. J.
 The committee of the Hook & Lad Ger Company has perfected the ar arrangements for a smoker on New Years evening. Open house will be kept on Saturday.
 December 51st the drawing for a So gold piece will be held at the Ath- letic club in Lyceum hail.
 R. P. Wakeman of Sasco Hill. has really gone South for the winter. and the old house look dreary enough. with all the shutters closed and the front door locked.
 Mrs. Esan of New Haven. has been visiting the Misses Lee. who live on Sasco Hii.
 There Is a report that Mrs. Finnerty of Southport is quite i'll.
 Miss Morgan of New York. is visit
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-29

ing her sister. Mrs. Farley.
 Miss Katherine Callahan has made brief visit in town.
 MT and Mrs. Rufus Wales have been entertaining Everett Watson
 Rev Mr. Olmstead of the Greenfield church. has been presented with lovely silk umbrella.
 Mrs. C. A Wheeler of Mill Hill, has had for guests MT. and Mrs. Ashley Howell.
 Mir and Mrs. H. w. Goldsborough have made a brief visit in South port.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25

white face bobbed up from beneath the black lake. a pair of hands fol- lowed and gripped the opposite side of my plank. Although unable to see but few feet I managed to recognize the face of a fellow sailor, who was Sturgeon Bay townsman Of mine.
 Round and round the waves spun the board with myself and companion on either end. Time after time we both were beneath the surface and then we would fight our way up into the air again. After my companion had clung to the beard for about half an hour and we could see no lights in any direction and the storm grew fercer, could tel! that he was [ strangling Suddenly he threw one hand uR. He held it in the air fer an instant and then clutched the plank again. Then he released his hold and I never saw him again.
 T continued to grow weaker and several times almost lost my grip on the plank. Finally-I must have been in the water for two hours-my numbed feet touched the bottom. Gathering together the little strength I had left, I braced myself and slowly began to walk to the left instinctively. The water grew shallower and finally l was able 10 distinguish the shore line. I reached the shore and then I collapsed.
 How long 1 was unconscious I do not know In the morning when came to several farmers were bending over me and they told me was about two miles from Kewaunee. was taken to the city where medical aid I was administered and took the after noon train for my home. little thinking that the papers published an account Of my death.
 ''ft was supper time when I walked to the home of my sweetheart to find her in tears. For 9 few minutes every body acted as though I was a ghost and when matters were finally straight ened the girl showed me the account in the papers Of how I was swept away in the storm. Well, we talked about the escape and then about ether things aad decided to celebrate the event by getting married.
 ~gn stay or the water as long as ! live. don't quite care to drift around Lake Michigan fo: a couple 0s hou-s and watea @ friend sltsngie to deat! d seceS5 lps."
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
STUDENTS LOCKED
 IN \ FREIGHT JAR
COMPELLED TO SEWER IN DRESS SUITS UNTIL RESCUED 5T
 THEIR FRIENDS.
cLIMAx OF FRESHMEN DANCE
Upper clsssnen of Medical College at Chicago Give Beginners an on- pleasant Experienee-Giris
 Routed by Pepper.

Chicago.-As the climax to 3 dance py the freshmen class of medical college in this city the other night, the sophomore, junior and senior students captured 20 of the fresh men and locked them in box car on the Illinois Central tracks.
 They were held prisoners until oth. rs who attended the dance on in- vitation released them by tearing of the door of the car. All of the fresh men wore evening dress, and when rescued they were thoroughly chilled from the experience.
 Previous to taking t4s freshmen from the hall where the dance was held the seniors and other students. had torn the flags and banners from the walls of the dance hall. Red pep per and formaldehyde were sprinkled over the floor. while the freshmen and their partners were whirling around to :ta strains of a waltz. and the com Li:ation drove the girls from the hall
 Several gallons of sweet cider that was purchased by the freshmen to queneh their thirst was confiscated by the other students, and the same thing happened to the ice cream, which was intended for the girls.
 Failure of the freshmen to invite the other classes to their annual blowout" was the cause of the trouble. The freshmen observed the closest secrecy regarding the dance, but the matter came to the ears of the other students during the after noon.
 A meeting of the sophomore, junior dinner and plans were laid to circum-
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
CELEBRATES HIS
 NARROW ESCAPE
sHiFWREcKED SAILOR wEOS SWEETHEART WHO MoUhN5
 HIM AS DEAD.
ON PLANK FOR HOURS IN GALE
George Campbell Sees His Companion on Barge Swept to Death in Lake Michigan After
 Heroic Fight.

Menominee. Mich.-After surprising lis sweetheart, Miss Martha Stephanie. who bad read reports of his death in Lake Michigan when the barge Bald win fouRdeTed of Two Rivers. George Campbell, Q sailor. celebrated his mar row escape from drowning by marry. ing the young woman. He thus re lates his awful experience on the lakes:
 The Baldwin went dow at mid night in the midst of one of the fierc- est gales that has swept the lake this year. The wind was a terrific south easter. blowing diagonally across the lake at 90-mile clip. The Baldwin was stone laden and lowed a seow with similar cargo. and the heavine and pounding which the boat received caused several seams in the stern DOT ton of the hold to open.
 Before the pumps could be manned. the water. pouring into the hold in great quantities. flooded that section and put the pumps out of commission.
 Instantly the sailors-with the ex- ception of four of us who were below began to chamber into the lifeboats and when We reached the deck they had cast loose from the ship. It was either go down with the boat or take ohance in the tempest and we chose the latter course. Just as the vessel was sinking l seized a plank and ieaped as far as l could cut into the boiling lake.
 For short time the suction threat. ened to pull me under and l grew ex- hausted, fighting the deadly undertow. Finally. I was blown away from the sinking boat and just at the moment
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25

vent the holding of the freshmen soiree.
 At ten o'clock the dance was under full sway. Uninyited students to the number of 100 marched in a body to the hall and took possession. Ban ners and flags of the freshmen class decorated the walls, and these were the first objects for assault. Some of the freshmen tried to prevent the others from tearing down the class enblems. but they were thrust aside.
 Formaldehyde, which doesn't smell like altar of roses, and red pepper were then strewn over the flood. This had the desired result of driving the frcshmen's sweetheaTts from the hall
 The next event on the program was 10 capture 20 of the freshmen and march them to the Illinois Central | tracks. three blocks from the dance hall. Sophomores. juniors and seniors were clad in heavy overcOats. but the l freshmen were compelled to shiyer in their ballroom attire.
 While the freshmen were prisoners ia the box car, the other students sang Tn the Good Old Summer Time" as they walked away.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25

 country, when burning charcoal for the smelling furnaces was an in- dustry, the snakes were so many that the woodsmen and charcoal burners took day Of and indulged in a snake hunt There were more than one hundred men engaged and they blasted rocks and killed snakes the day through.
 The number of victims was never counted. but they were so many that most of the men became sick from the nausea caused by the Cdor given off by the poison ddcts and the mangled bodies which were thrown into a pile as they were slaughtered. There were hundreds of the reptiles killed, but enough were left alive to keep up the race and their descendants are still a cause of wholesome fear and considerable alarm to those who pick berries in that section.
 To most people the ter-- make den" means some sort Of a cavern il which the snakes coag-egate in great colonies. But the term as used in the oil country snake belt means a ledge of rocks covering acres of ground The snakes come from these retreats to sun themselves on top of the rocks or to lie in neishboring paths or road, ways or to hunt food in underbrush and berry thickets. The larger the rocks the more snakes they gener- ally harbor Although many at. tempts have been made by entire neighborhoods to wipe out such dens by blasting the rocks and de stroying their habitations the sf- forts have never been brilliantly sue cessful. The Wolf den on the estate of the late E. F. Clapp. in President and Pinegrove townships and tho rocky section of the country along Porkey and Cogley Runs, have been infested with snakes so long back as the memory of the oldest inhabitant runs and all sections have been at. lacked by organized posses of snake hunters gathered from their neighbor- hoods, but time and attacks have re. suited in very little decrease in tho number of the dangerous denizeEs.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
OLD BOILER WAS
 DEN 0F RATTlERS
REmARKA5LE SNAKE STORY EN-. ANATEs FROM THE OIL RE
 CONS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
6s BIG REPTILES ARE KILLED
District Noted for It's Number of Dan serous Denizens = Posses of Hunters Organized to De
 crease Colonies.

Oil City, Pa--The best properly au- .henticated rattlesnake story of the season to date comes from Tarkill, this county, where Henry Hess and Edward Kennemuth of Fern City killed 6S rattlers. The aon rad re gently purchased the Densnore lease and commenced to move an old boiler that had stood out all winter. As socn az they had it in motion aaakes commenced to appear frcn the fire box. from the aues sla from under heath The men were taken by sur prise, but were used to sCakcs and lost little time in securing clu5s and attacking the reptiles. Some got away, but they killed five dcsen and eight. If any one has any ambition to pose as a snake catcher or killer. he is as sured that there are stfl s ~a left ia that neighbcrhcod.
 Tarkill o.d Ccg,ey Ru-, ''s.rlc-s, which are not far apart, have for time out of mind becn noted for the large number of rat,les-akes tEst infest them. More tan fifty years aSc enc John McCool. whose nome was on East Sandy creek. that district. made considerable revenue in killing these snakes and trying out thel- oil. which he sold for fancy prices to his neigh
 boTs as 9 panacea for spTa.ns and aches. Ills methods were simple. but decidedly effective. He was a ia. nous hand with a rife and would station himself near the den at the mouth of Cogley Rua and shoot the heads of the reptiles as they ap- peared from beneath the rocks, On one occasion in the earlier days oi the settlement of that section of the
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Raeeoon sIew bud Lantern.

Chester, N. Y.-James Myers and H. B. Tuthiil were out after coOns the other night and located one in a tree which it was impossible to climb. They fired 35 shots without dislodg- ing the animal, so they fastened a lighted lantern to the tree six feet from the ground and went for more cartridges. On their return they found that the coon had descended. blown out the lantern light and es- caued.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Pillow Tops 25c

This gives you choice of a good as sortmcnt of Pillow tops that sell for SOC. all floral patterns. Roses, Pansies. Daisies. Topples, Violets, etc.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
kitn as Enen,u nfIn.ns.n

The Molteno (Cape Colony farmers have hit upon a novel plan fer dealing with lccusts. A farmer has imported some eagle kites for the purpose Of soaring locusts frnro the c-oas.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Woman of Eiahty Lived a. . Ma

Butte, Mont.-The sudden death at Manhattan of Sammy Jones, so years old, disclosed the fact that, in stead of being a man, as everyone in the vicinity of Manhattan for the last IS years had thought, Jones was a woman. This discovery resulted when the undertaken took charge of the body. She chewed tobacco and drank and associated freely with men as a cook.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Uncle Allen.

Talking of short measure" said Uncle Allen Sparks, there are lots Of people thai never seem to have got their share when the milk of human kindness was handed around"
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Wealth for the Frturs.

Tamaulipas Is believed to contain great mineral wealth. but little ex- oloratioa has been done. Copper, zinc and coal are known to exist, and some day will be extensively mined.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
Cure for Felon.

Take a tablespoon of butter just from the churn without salt. stir enough calomel in the butter to make a stin paste. Spread on cloth and put on felon. This is a sure cure.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
curb the unruIv Tonoy.

Give not thy tongue too great lib erty, lest it take thee prisoner A word unspoken Is like sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword Is in another's hand.-Quarles.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-25
RadIsh of Unknown perivatIon.

The radish, greatly modified by cul tivation, probably hal it's origin in the temperate zone. but from what wild species 1t is derived is not ex- aclly knowr.