Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-12-29
HOLIDAY SEASON
How The Christmas Spirit Finds Ex-
preston in This Communicable
Home Corners and The Home Folks
The Overflow of Good win and
Good Intentions for the New Year.

Once more we are in the midst of
the holiday season and Whatever we
may say ana however indlnerent we
may appear, u0wn at the heart OF
every one Oh US we are mighty glad
thar Christmas has une lnveCerate
haDlt OF coming "once year."
Christmas really arrives before it
gees mere; and people have been vic
TINS on the Christmas bug" for the
past two or three weeks, a circum-
stance tor wmen the merchants are
pioloun0ly giareful; for 1t makes peo-
pie open up get generous and buy
goods Iney would never have thought
OF Duylng otherwise.
WauseOn merchants testify that
their trade has been exceptionally
good this season and the clothing and
ary goods merchants say that the buy
ing mas been largely of the staples
and useful articles rather than the
novelties and more frivolous class of
goods, which generally constitute a
large proportion of the Christmas
trade This holiday trade of the
merchants is in itself an expression Of
the Christmas spirit. But Warseon
has other expressions of this spirit
than that of buying and selling.
The ladies of the Civic Club took
charge of the gifts from the Sunday
Schools and distributed eighteen good
large baskets of provisions to the
homes Of as many needy ones.
The Community Christmas Tree not
as large this year as last but possess
ing, to our mind, more of real grace
and symetery was put in place last
Saturday and the opening exercises
were held in due form on Saturday
evening. Music was rendered by pu-
pills Of the schools. Mayor Hoy pre-
sented the tree and Prof. Perry gave
a splendid address replete with
Christmas spirit which was highly ap-
preciated by all who heard it. Sunday
evening the various Sunday Schools Of
the Village held their usual Christmas
exercises and it goes without saying
that there were many happy kiddies
in town whose heads were filed with
pleasant anticipations of what the
morrow would bring to them.
One Of the principal factors in the
good cheer and happiness that pre-
vails in our village each holiday sea
son is the home coming of the boys
and girls and men and women who
are glad to get back to spend a little
time with the "Old Home Folks" and
how glad the "Old Home Folks" are
to have them come back. How glad
and how proud They come from Uni
versity and College, from shop and
Office and profession; they bring us
something from the world outside OF
the Home Town boundaries, they may
bring us gifts. but best of all they
bring us themselves and we know that
they are our own part of ourselves;
we are glad to have them with US
glad to hear their voices, see their
faces and proud Of their development
and successes. Christmas means twice
as much to us with them as it would
without them. We are all glad that
u comes once year and not many Of
us would object if it should happer
to come twice.
We shall carry over with us into
the new year much Of the joy anC
gladness and good will and good inten
tions which the holiday season hal
brought us and consequently we shall
all be better and happier and easier
to live with than we might have beer
If Christmas had never come.