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The Little River news., 1917-12-22
I rename yors for Ever,
 Ode,l Gill.
Wilton, Ark, Dec. 21, 1917.

Wilton Ark, Dec. 21, 1917. Dear Santa Clause:
 Please bring me big boy doll and a little trunk and some candy apples oranges and nuts a, stove and little dishes and Doll Buggy pair of scissors and please remember the rest of the little children My age and my little brother Alyy. Now dear Santa I Will go to bed early and thank you very much for those presents and will shut my eyes, tight I will not watch endeed I wont.
 Your little friend,
 Mary Chauncy.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
at School.
De-. Santa claws i:

Dear Santa claws:
 I am a, little girl I go to school. My teachers name is Miss Esther. My name is Jessie Penuel I am very good little girl. like to go to school. My teacher is very good Bring me a little baby doll little play duck a little bed little cradle. I am seven years old. I want a little story book little desk. That is all. your loven friend,
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Red Bluff, Dec. 20, 1917. Dear Santa Clause:
 Red Bluff, Dec 20, 1917. 1 want you to bring me vase som oranges Apples and a Ring santa I have sisters Don't forget them Dear san'ie Don't for get the Poor Little orphand children and Poor solder boys
 As ever your little friend,
 Francis Machcn.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown, Ark, Dec. IS, 1917

ASUuOWIl, RIh., DeC. 10, I51t. Deare Santy I have been going to school I have missed Q week have had the humps l hope I wont be very far behind my class. My teachers name is Miss Inez 1 sure do love my teacher Please bring me a Pop Gun and a trane and al wagon and som fire crackers and little drum ard some fruits and nuts I have got my toys you brought me l1st Christmas. 1 want to get out Gocres But my m2ma) sayl cant SO I guess I must stay in a little longer. I will noa ask for annie more toys as 1 want tie other children to get something.
 I rename yors for Ever,
 Ode,l Gill
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Arden, Ark, Dec. 18, 19I7

Dear Santa Claus
 as am a little gil 6 years old l have ben very good and I want you to bring me a doll doll bed and a little buggy wash tub and a rub board a little stove a little trunk a Mother Goose book a rocking chair a lot of candy nuts and apples oranges please don't forget my little cousin Jewell Fay Lewis and my little play mctes Maude and Virginie NeGl Perry for they would like something nice tc from your little girl,
 Aida Mae Nixon.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown, Ark, Dec. IS, 1917

Ashdown, Ark, Dec. IS, 1917. Dear Santa Claus:
 I am a little girl six years old. want a stove, a dresser, a piano. some apples, oranges and candy. Bring my little brother wagon Indian house ard a doll, also a book I'd like to have doll cart too please. Don't for get the poor little children who haven t any mother and father. I'm writing on the back of my arithmetic paper because since the war paper costs so much. Much love to you Santa.
 Majel Cobb.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Peytonville, Ark, Dec. IS, 1911

Peytonville, Ark, Dec IS, 1917. Dear old Santy:
 I will write you to ask you to bring nc 9 Air Gun and Knife and apples and candy nuts to l am a good little boy years old don't forget uncle Jesse He is in the war I will close hope you merry Xmas to I an,
 Willie McAllistcr. ball.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Dear Sana Claus:

Dear Sana Claus:
 I wrote you a letter last Xmas and told you to bring me a! tricycle. and you brought me horse with wheels on his feet instead I rode the wheels off in just little while and then the head came off. Now if you don't bring me tricycle. I'm going to quit loving you. I'd like to have little red automobile big enough to ride in but maybe I'd better work at Daddy's printing office and buy it myself cause you must take things to the poor little French and Belgium children. If you'd take all the little boys over there trieycles they could ride them in tI,e house then their mamma's couldn't hfgr the guns shoot and wouldn't get q .n9TFous, s.
 Your little boy, \ - Don Adrian Graves.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
At SUhoOl, Dec. r., Is.

At SLlOOI, Dec IF, I3IE ] want a black hord Deai santa Claus Iwnnt q san Il i'uller. 1 want a box of fire crackers. I want a cart. l want som candy. I want some ap- pies. l want a billy goat Waggan am a good little boy. Miss Esther Au- trey is my teacher. Bring mama and papa some hing. Your loving friend,
 w. G. Herring.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown,. Ark, Dec. 16, 1917

Ashdown, Ark, Dec. 16, 1917. My Dear Santa Claus:
 am a little boy years old and go to school every day. My teacher name ia Miss Esther and I love her very much and wsnt you to Bring me a horn. drum, fruits and candies and all kinds of fire works. pleace bring pa pa and mamma something.
 Your loving Friend,
 Clyde Thornton.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Rebecc1o Doughten.

NJ. Santa Claus,
 North Pole.
 Fear old Santa:
 am good little girl gC to school I Gm in the SC end grade, My teachers n:dme is Miss Esther. Santa. I want you to remember all my little play mates and my teaeher toe, and bring them all you can. And Santa, please don't forge. the little girls and boys wEo heEcnt got no mamma and papa. Santav please don't forget my sick mamma or my papa and all the rest. S.nta.I wish you would bring re lit tie trunk, some pretty ribbons, some nuts end oranges too. Also some can- dy and appi if you can spare them.
 Your little girl,
 Mena Marie Kcrsten,
 Acldown, Ark.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Wilton, Ark, Dec. IF, 1917. Dear Santa Claus:
 it will soCE be christmas and I want you to come to see ne and bring me big doll doll bed little set of di~hes and some candy apples oranges all kinds of nuts spd anything else you want to bring me. be sure 10 brin s mo those things.
 One of your little girls,
 Gladys Batie
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Arden, Ark. Dec. IS, 191'

Dear Santa Claus:
 Will write you a letter 10 tell you what I want for Christmas I want a toy pistol a little wagon and some candy please do Ed:. for get my chums Warren Bocox and Fred Martin for hey would be glad for you to rememb- CT them from your little boy,
 Bennic Mcdonald
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
At School, Zee. 13, 1917

At School, Dec 13, 1917. Deer San'a Claus:
 I am little school girl My name is Mabel Henry. My teachers name is Mis- Esther Autrey. I haven't got any whippings since l have been going to school. I am in the low second grade. I want a baby doll and doll cat and some cindy apples oranges and nuts. I want you to bring Lois little doll sitting in chair and little horn that says mama. I want you to bring Opal baby doll and a little story book to read. I want you to bring mama some, candy, apple oranges and nuts. And I want you to bring papa some things too.
 Your loving friend,
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
SANTA CLAUS LETTERS
Dec IS, 1917,
Dear 6 Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
 Pleas come to sec me I am a good boy I want to bring me some tinker toys and a, rubber doll and horn and some apples and oranges and nuts and candy 1 want you to bring mother and father something too, sister and broth CT too. 1 aln six years old. with love
 Robbie Cummins
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown, Ark Dec. 20. 1917

AshuOWn, Ark Dec. 20, 1y17 Bear Santa:
 l want you to bring me gun a rain and little house and table and scme pencils. l am a little boy eight years old. Your friend Mack Gammill.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown, Ark.
Mir. Sen @ Claus:

MT S9n 6 NIdUs.
 Dear Santa: For the first time, I'll try and write you letter and tell you what I war for Xmas first I would Hle ! Grum then a violin but most of all wan gun, a real gun, that will shoot l don't want you to think l want too much. I am 3 yrs old. l don't think that's too much for me, do you? good bye san a for this time III wrise again next Xmas.
 Harmon Pucl1ett.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Wilton. RI Box II.

Wilton, RI Box II, Forrest Santa Clau::
 In a little girl seven years old, live at Hicks Schcc. house. This war makes us all go sad, Dear Santa, thot Ide be willing to dc without any thing, to have you remember the little starved children in Europe, that hate no mama or papa. We also have l4s O. little friends in the L. s. that doA t have enough to cat or wear. Please remember all the poor children
 Lera Shaw.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Ashdown, Ark, Dec. 20, 1917

Ashdown, Ark, Dec. 20, 1917. Be2r Santa: am little girl years old Iwant you to bring me bucket and little steve and doll and ring.
 Your friend,
 Lois Gammill.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Dear Old Santy please bring me a little cart and some candy and apples and Fire crackers and little Doll and this is all for this Xmas.
 Buck Johnson.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Wilton Ark, Dec. IF. 191

Wilton Ark, Dec IF, 1917. Decr Old Man please bring me lit tie Jumping Jacl, and some candy and rubber doll. Your friend
 Floyd Hinton.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Ashdown, Ark, Dec. F, 1917. Dear Santa Claus: I want a big yellow Teddy Bear with little electric lights for the eyes. That is all
 yours truly,
 Katherine Jones.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Red Bluff, Dec. 20, 1917,

Dear Santa: I want you to bring me a little doll ring a story book candies apples and l2isens all kinds of nuts And I want rcn something to3.
 Your friend,
 Rohpor DC1phfep
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Dear Santa Claus:4. l am little girl years old Miss lnlez n is my teacher andFI love her Dearly Please bfingshh shh'erssolnethfng. And please bring me, a little piano q Doll and Doll Buggy.
 Willie May Aubrey.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Io December 19, 1917.

/1 70 December 1s, 1917. Dear San'a Claus: l am in the second grade. I am saven years old. I want doll buggy. l want little table and some dishes. want some fruits and nuts and candy. Don't frget my teacher Miss Esther Autrey
 Your friend,
 Mariel Lott.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Red Bluff. Dec 20 191

 Dear Santa Clause: Please bring me little doll a doll bed a doll trunk. candy apples oranges and all kinds of nuts. Please Santa, don't forget the little children in Europe
 your friend,
 Mayorie Combs.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Red Bluff, Dec. 20, 1917.

Ked BIuH, Dec. 20, 1917. Gear Santa Clause:
 Please bring me 6 Ii tie doll q story book all kinds of candies fruits and nuts, Please don't forget my little bl others and Sisters and all the othes little Children.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Dear ta-GauS:

Dear Santa Claus:
 am writing you this leUer to let you know what I want for Christmas. I want a big baby doll and a doll bug gy that is all for this time. Do not forge the poor children and nay fa-h- CT and mother.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Gear Santa Clause:

Cear Santa Clause: please bring me a Doll Bed, knife, Fork and spoon some nuts and fruit. l will hang my Stockings on the Tree in the Hall. don't for get to bring Grandma something
 your little friend,
 Baby Joe Sullivan.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

l don't want much A few things A football and back wheel of al yicbcle with tire on it Some candy and fruit, A bell for my bicycle. I will have cake ready for you, good by
 Hamilton Orton.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
)G~r Santa, Clause:

Please bring me a doll and doll trunk or dishes also please bring some oranges, apples nuts and candy. Don't forget little brother and sister and all the poo" little children who have no papG I am little girl six years Qld 3nd % to schooi.at~ AshdoWh aBd Tow ag-tG@chegyery nnucb-he slirfs &.a,d < -st .sfoi.s.st tdssllbr' ..@ ... .ssA ,xs.i .AQpr levsSs, fr.ieIfr,, 's>
 Mary Chenault.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Jessie Penuel.
December II, 1917

Tear Santa Claus:
 l want big Baby doll. want some oranges and apple and some nuts and a story book. Your little loveing friend
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Your friend
.ariel Lott.
December 19, 1917..

December 19, 1917. Bear Santa Claus:
 am little boy I want an air gun and some B B shots. I want a foot ball, box of crayols and eraser. I vent some fruits nuts and candy. Don forget my teacher, Miss Esther Autrey' Your friend,
 Arthur Lott.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
December 19, 1917.

December 19, 1917. Deer Santa Claus:
 l am good little girl. I am three years old. l want Q baby doll with Dobbed hair. l want a pull cart. an iron and some dishes. I want scme fruits, candy and nuts.
 Your friend.
 Kathryn Wales.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22
Wilton, Ark, Dec. IT. 191

Louise Sullivan, Ashdown, Ark.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Emma Lee Jones
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

yoCr Ii tie friend,
 Edna Combs.
The Little River news., 1917-12-22

Your little boy, Don Adrian Graves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
Our Neighbor Is a aCndidate.

The Marion County Patriot says;
judge Joe j. Durham, of Buena
Vista, has announced his candidacy
for congress to fill the unexpired term
Of Judge Adamson, paid his entrance
fee and started a vigorous campaign
He has gone to Cussetta and Columbus
and from there will make a thorough
canvas of the counties above the mour-
tains, making a number of speeches
throughout the district.
Judge Denham is one of the best
known men in the district A splendid
lawyer, a fluent speaker. man of
commanding personal appearance, a
student of state and national affairs.
He is in strict accord with the present
administration and is most eminently
qualified for the position of congress-
man.
Judge Durham was candidate for
congress when Judge Adamson was
first elected, and was only defeated by
Judge Adamson in the convention, by
& fraction of vote
For the past several years Judge
Durham has been in the service Of the
government at WASHINGTON as special
attorney for the Federal Trade con-
mission which makes him thoroughly
c0nversant with pending and proposed
matters before congress and is pre-
pared to take up sud carry on the
work in congress as we'll as if he had
already served several years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
SOME TOWN!

There is a town in Georgia, not sc
many miles from Americas and not
as large as Americas, nor located in
q county as rich as Sumter, that has
all of these things:
Cotton factory for the cotton
Cotton seed oil mill for the cotton
seed
Packing house for the hogs and cat.
tie. -'7'-
Creamery for the cream,
Elevator for the corn and oats.
Feed mill for the beans and hay.
Oil mill for the peanuts.
Canning factory for the vegetables.
Cash buyers for hides, tallow chick
ems, and eggs.
Curing houses and buyers for swee'
potatoes.
Buyers for surplus farm products
That's what we call a live, up-to-
date, progressive little city, one
that may well excite the envy of any
other small city of Georgia.
The town is Moultrie, and the county
is Colquitt
The Times-Recorder unstintedly
accords Moultrie praise for these
achievements. and respectfully submits
the record to the people of Americas
and Sumter county for their con-
sideration.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
LET'S GET THIS ATTRACTION.

Senator Hardwick seems to have diS,
fculty in securing places to speak. Ee
has announced himself to make an adj
dress at Millen on October 27-the in
vitation to speak there at the Five
County fair on the 18th having been
cancelled.
Any man that has the brazen effront-
cry to defend a record such as he has
made is a curiosity-like Katishas ell
bow, in the Gilbert and Sullivan OPP
era, worth going miles to see." Any
man that can look the public in the
face and seek to justify disgraceful
official career, such as Senator Hard
wick's recent career has been, is a
freak of nature, and the peopis v,sgnt
to have a chanace to gaze at him Fol-
they will seldom see his like again!
Americus has had the circus, Jess
Willard and the wild west show viii
soon exhibit not far from here, and
the street carnivals will be along pref
ty soon, But a greater attraction thar
any of these would be Tom-tit Hard
wick, the Unpatriotic Pee-wee, in ac.
ton. We hope some local theatre man
ager, or amusement promoter, will
arrange for his appearance here at al
early date.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
We Just Think-0wnS Up.

The Griffin News and Sun and the
Americas Times-Recorder want to
know where we get our information
relative to toggery OF various and
sundry sorts of the feminine variety.
Probably from the same source they
do-the street -Thomasville
Times Enterprise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
LIGHT AMID THE GLOOM.

Out Of the encircling gloom which IS
all over and about Russia, making
Darkest Russia appear darker than
ever before, there is one CLEAN of light
in the personality Of Alexander r.
Kerensky the premier
Through all the kaleidoscope
changes of revolution, amid all the
turmoil, uncertainty, excitement aud
despair, Kerensky stands like bea-
con, like bold figure Of antiquity
Already he belongs to the history Of.
Russia and, indeed, to the history of
the ages
In him there is combined some 81.
the qualities which indelibly stamped
Napoleon upon the record of time,
some of the attributes of the magnif-
cent Danton, some of the traits Of the
imperial Caesar, and some of the
pride, disdain, and airs of superiority
of the immortal sons of classic Greece.
Kerensky is easily the dominating
figure of the period, and apparently the
only man upon whom Russia can az
all rely to bring the bewildered, pc
fuddled nation out of its present muck
and mire to the dry, high land of free
dom, self-control and prestige.
Yet this man is only thirty-seven
years of age, and has been in promin-
ence only four or five years. He was
born the son of poor parents, he
studied for the law, sided with the
revolutionary parties, and became IN
avowed socialist. In the practice Of
his profession, he was nearly always
conspicuous in the defense Of men
charged with political offenses, but his
first leap into fame was as one Of
the lawyers in the celebrated Mendel
Beiliss case. Then he was elected 20
the Duma in 1918, where his force of
personality, his ability to speak, his
epic utterances marked him as man
among men. He was active in expos
ing the corruption in high places that
followed in the wake of Russia's entry
into the war, and when the revolution
itself broke upon the nation he was
appointed minister of justice Almost
his first official act was the release of
the prisoners in Siberia Since chen
he has been minister of war and ma
rine active commander Of the troops
in the field, and now premier.
Kerensky is a student, a scholar, a
statesman. He has the daring of Mira
beau, the power of Marat for reaching
the masses, the captivating appeal of
a Desmoulins, the character of CATO,
and the courage and domineering fac
u,ties of Napoleon. The people trust.
because they know he is honest; they
respect him, for they know he is UNI
afraid
Russia's contribution to the great
of history has been meager,
indeed, but in giving the world Keren-
sky this nation has almost atoned for
the past AS interesting as he is now
t. the present generation, how mu3n
more so viii he appear to posterity, /
who will have the benefit of a more
complete knowledge, a more penetrat-
ing insight, into the life and times Of
this really wonderful man
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19
TELLING THE TRUTH.

A most useful propaganda is n
progress, calculated to better awaken
the mass Of the American people to
tie German menace, and to the real
facts of this world war.
Former Ambassador Gerard is pup
fishing his memoirs of his stay in Ger
many, and they show beyond all doubt
that Germany was never a friend Of
the United States, but in its vast plans
for world domination had included
this country in its list of victims
Now comes Henry Morgenthau, for
mer ambassador to Turkey, with the
disclosure that the war was deliber-
ately planned by the Kaiser months
before it broke, and that the fact ives
known in all Of the inner circles Of
the Triple Entente. The Serbian in
cident was simply seized upon as an
excuse, though if the Austrian arch
duke had not been assassinated, some
other reason would have been found.
For the stage was all set, and before
even the Serbian youth fired the shot
that was heard round the world, Ger
many was modelling all Of its re-
sources for the struggle.
These publications will do good, SO,
too, will the revelations of the state
department, as to the meanness and
extent of the intrigue, Of which Bern
storff was the head 1t has been con-
clusively demonstrated that Germany
financed a stupendous scheme of spy
work in this country, and, worse still
actually conducted sort of petty
war throughout the width and breadth
of the land, blowing up bridgese and
industrial plants, dynamiting ships,
disorganizing labor, and seeking 70
bride legislators.
Added to these convincing testi-
monials there is now being widely dis
seminated in this country various
French and English publications which
more clearly reveal the sinister nc
tives of conquest which have long ac-
tuated the Germans, and which also
portray the horrible atrocities that
accompany German invasion. "Out
Of Their own Mouths is a book re
ceived by The Times-Recorder that
proves how world-power has been the
dream of German writers, militarists
and officials for years, and "The Ger
man Terror In France" is another
book that sickens the mind with its
depletion of the crimes Of the Huns
as they invade an enemy soil.
Henry Winter Davis, one of the
ablest men of his time, said in 1852:
The only alternatives are war in Eu
rope with Allies, or war hereafter on
our own soil without Allies" This
was provision personifed, a prophecy
as uncanny as it is remarkable And
we ought to be glad, in the light of all
the facts, that the war is in Europe
with Allies" and that our own fair
land is not subject to devastation AMI
to the outrages of war, as France, Ser
bia and Belgium have been, and are.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

A New Jersey man, who jumped in
tie ocean and rescued a girl has now
married the young lady This explains
why some fathers do not want their
boys to ever take swimming lessons.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

The New York World says it has
been decided not OF enclose cigarettes
in the comfort packages being sent
to the young lady Red Cross nurses
in France We would suggest also
in this connection that the commit
tee do not enclose any pipes, chewing
tobacco, shaving brushes or razors.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

Now that the high prices of some
thing to eat have begun to fall (ac-
cording to Mr.. Hoover, it will be our
luck to get caught out in the shower
without an umbrella.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

We want it distinctly understood
that we're absolutely neutral in this
Fourth district congressional race, but
if Judge Durham, of Buena Vista,
should be elected, we wouldn't be mad
bit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

In line wit thhe meatless Monday,
beefess Tuesday, and wheatless Wed
nesday idea, we would suggest that a
tripeless Thursday would be entirely
satisfactory to us.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

An Atlanta woman complains that
her husband choked her when she re-
fused to lend him money. Well, for
goodness sakes, did she expect him
to quietly take the insult?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

With silk stockings going to three
dollars a pair, we see right now that
it is going to be a hard winter on
the poor chorus girls, who already
have 10 support an automobile and
two French poodles each on their slim
salary Of eighteen dollars a week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-10-19

trade magazine says that there
are fortunes in short skirts" and in
conclusion we wish to be permitted
to add that we've seen several such,