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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

Dear Santa:
and going to school. like my teacher
fine. | want you to bring me one
bicycle and apl!cr, oranges, fruit of
all kinds and some fireworks Yours.
Coleman Horton.
HEATH Springs. s. c., Route =.
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Lancaster, S. c.

Dear Santa:
am little girl six years old and
so to school. My teachers name is
Miss Leola Sapp. Dear Santa. / am
not going to ask for much want
some candy, fruit. nuts and a little
baby doll. Your little friend.
Eliza Jane Parks.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
know IT is hard times. but please
remember me. l am seven years old
and in the second grade l want you
to bring me a tricycle., candy and
fruits. I have two little sisters.
please bring them something they
can't tear up.
Rebp Bailey.
Kershaw, s. G..
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Dear Santa:
| am a little girl eight years old
and 20 to school every day. am In
inc third grade. My teachers name
is Miss Leila Sapp. Santa. do not
want much, as the times ore so hard
| want some candy, nuts and fruit.
and little baby doll.
Aline Parks
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me a little
wagon with horse hitched to it and
some fruits and candies Your little
friend. Richard Bell Long, Jr.
Lancaster, S. G..
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Lancaster, S. G..

Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a nice big wagon,
story book and horn. Then / want
plenty OF fireworks and good things
to eat. Now. please don't forget
those toys and remember little sister.
Your friend.
Paul Robinson
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< Dear Santa:
want you TO bring me a twenty
s no me and some fruit and some
q ~ cFackers. Hilliard Stewart.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

Dear Old Santa:
am little brown-eyed girl 6
and help mama all | can. and help
papa pick some cotton. / want you
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Dear Santa Claus:
Please send me doll baby. ring.
pair OF gloves. and some fuit and
nuts. II you Will bring me ,nese
Will thank you Mr.. Santa Claus.
Your little friend.
Kathleen Adams.
Lancaster, S. G.. Route 4.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
/ want you to bring me ring and
some ribbon and some big vases and
some fruit and nuts and fire works
Ida Beckham
Your little friend.
Lancaster, s. c.. Midway Street.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

to be sure and come see me Xmas
eve and bring me n tea set. a small
baby doll and a bedstead for her.
candies. nuts and fruits or all kinds.
Now please don't disappoint me.
Lovingly.
Queen Elizabeth Threatt.
Heath Springs, S. c.
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Dear Santa:
am a little boy Z years old and
going to shool and l want you to
bring me some fruit and nuts, fire
crackers. cap pistol and one train. 80
/ won't be too hard on you this time
Yours truly.
Conley Horton.
Heath Springs. S. c.. Route 2.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17
Dear Santa:

Dear Santa:
I love You more than did that
other time. 1t is only a few days un-
til you come to make all OF the little
children happy and you will make
me real happy II you will bring me a
wagon so / can haul stove wood IN
IL for my mother. / would like to
have toy man that turn around ami
hits bell when yoT touch an cleo
trio button and please. Dear Santa,
bring me a whole animal show and
good things to eat like all boys want.
l love you still more. Roland
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

Dear Santa:
l am four years old. | would like
for you to bring me big baby doll.
and oranges. apples. candy and al!
kinds of nuts and poke full of candy
kisses. Santa. l want you to bring
me baby carriage IL you please
From Miner Bruce Adams.
Lancaster, S. G.
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Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me a drum and
a horn and cap pistol and some caps
and some fruit and nuts and fire
works.
Your little friend,
Jimmie Beckham.
Lancaster, S. c.. Midway Street,
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Kershaw. S. C..
Dear Santa:

Dear Santa:
am a little boy one and one-ha1f
years old and want you to bring
me one little train, one horse and Iit-
tie wagon. fruit and nuts and a little
goat. so I will close. Thank you.
w. C. Horton, Jr.
Heath Springs, S. c.. Route 2.
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Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me a big doll
some little dishes. some candy and
some fruits, Your friend,
Henrietta Long.
Lancaster, S. G..
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Dear Santa Claus:
| am little girl years old. Please
bring me a little doll and carriage
and dol bed, and some fruits, and
my little brother four years old wants
all kinds of fireworks and horn,
some fruit. know Santa times are
hard and I won't ask for much.
Yours truly,
Nellie Pate.
Lancastsr. 8. c., 4os Midway st.
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Dear Santa Claus:
Please send me doll bed, trunk.
machine. iron. box OF chocolate
candy and some fruit. 1r you Will
bring these | will thank you. Mr.
Santa. Your little friend,
Willie Mae Adams.
Lancaster, S. c.. Route A.
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Dear Santa:
am going to write you LIT
piece to let you know what / wa
l want you to bring me a little iii
and a little set OF dishes to play
with. I am n little girl IL months
old ana want something to play with.
Little Lula Fay Bowers.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17
Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
am little boy years old. Please
bring me cap pistol and some or
anges. apples, candy and all kinds OF
nuts and bring me all kinds Of fire
works. My little brother said bring
him little truck and all kinds of
fruits. candy and nuts and little
rifle that shoots bottle shoppers. NV
little baby brother says bring him n
rubber doll, baby rattler and all
kinds OF fruits and candy. l guess I
had better close.
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Lancaster, S. G..

Dear Santa Claus:
! have not got any father to look
TO for nothing for Christmas. and
times are hard and l am going to
look to you f6r something for Christ
mas this year. l want you to send
me some apples and oranges. candy
and all other kinds of fruits and
some nuts.
Yours trufy
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1920-12-17

Dear Santa Claus:
will write you a few lines to let
you know what want | am a little
girl 4 years old. Bring me a doll a
doll carriage and all kinds OF fruits,
candy and nuts. Bring my little sis
ter. Is moths old, n doll and rubber
ball and all kinds of fruits and candy.
l Will close. From
Lula and Madeline Horton.
Heath Springs, s. c.
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Dear Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me a doll and
a piano and some fruit and nuts and
fire works.
Your little friend.
Ruby Beckbam.
Lancaster, S. c.. Midway Street.
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Dear Sata:

Dear Sata:
l am little hoy eight years old |
know the times are hard. but want
you to bring me all the fruits and
candies you can spare and also some
fireworks.
Sincerely yours.
Wallace Long.
Kershaw, S. c., Rt 8, Box 81.
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Dear Santa:
I am z years old | would like for
you to bring me nice doll and can
dy OF all kind and all kinds of fruit
and nuts. l would like for you to
bring me little stove and and skill
let and coffee pot and kettle.
would like for you to bring me 4
little glass train.
From Ella to Santa Claus
Lancaster, s. G.
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Dear Santa:
We want you to bring a wagon, a
kiddie kar, harp, some fruit. nuts
and candy. Thanking you in advance.
We are your little boys,
Woodrow and Julius Blackmon.
Lancaster, S. c., French st.
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Dear Santa Claus:
/ want you to bring me a train. a
train track and some fruits and
candies. Your friend.
Billie Long.
Lancaster, S. G.
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LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS

10 ~ )
| Dear Santa:
want you to bring me baby
doll and carriage. also want some
fruits and nuts. 1 am in the third
grade. l am II years old. 1 also do
not want you to forget the orphan
home. will close Sadie Small.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
l want you to bring ME a doll and
a bed and some fruit and nuts. 1 am
little girl in the third grade.
Please don't forget other little chill
dren. Eula Wallace.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
am little boy in the third grade.
| want YOU to bring me bicycle.
And l also want some nuts. I want
you to bring me some apples and all
kinds Of fruits. go to school every
day. l will close for this time.
Baxter Phillips.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
l will write and tell you what 7
want you to bring me- Some apples.
candy. oranges and some nuts and
raisins, handkerchief and some water
colors. Yours truly,
Sallie Neal
Heath Springs, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
l am little girl nine years old I
Will write you few lines. I want
you to bring me doll and a doll car
riage and little stove and some
little dishes, and all kinds of fruits. |
Will close and wish you jolly time.
Alma Ellis.
Lancaster, S. C.
Dear Santa:
want you 10 bring me a dol, and |
doll carriage. | want YOU to bring
ME some fruit and some nuts. wgn'
you to bring me some apples and
some oranges. 1 want you to bring
me table and some chair and liz
tie tea set. l am a little girl in the
third grade. Nettie Stacks.
Lancaster, S. &.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want you to bring me a big doll.
some little dishes. some candy and
some fruits, Your friend,
Henrietta Long.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
/ want you to bring me a train, a
train track and some fruits and
candies. Your friend.
Billie Long.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me little
wagon with horse hitched to it and
some fruits and candies Your little |
friend. Richard Bell Long, Jr.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa:
know it's hard times, but please
bring me sleepy doll, pair of lit
tie scissors and all kinds OF fruits,
nuts. Bring my little brother a lit
tie automobile. all kinds OF fruits
and nuts. Your little friends.
Grace and VIM Neal.
Heath Springs, S. c.
My Dear Santa:
! want you to bring me pair OF
beads and all kinds OF fruits ond
nuts. and one little tiny doll, Your
little girl. Florence Neal. -.
Heath Springs. s. c.
Dear Santa:
am happy little baby AS am
little ] do not want much candy,
fruit, nuts and toys. Your little
friend, Effie Lucille Parks.
Lancaster. S. c.
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THE SUL-FERRO-SOL co.
Desk A Montgomery. Ala
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N
LETTE
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl II years old and
4 am in the third grade. Please bring
me baby doll and baby carriage
} and some fruits of all kinds and some
nuts too, and I wish you a jolly time
SO will close for this time.
Pearl Jordan.
Lancaster, S. c.
Dear Santa Claus:
1t is getting near Christmas. 1
want you to bring me some fire
crackers. and some Of all kind OF
;nnts and all kinds of fruit. I am a
little boy in the third grade.
Odell Evans.
Lancaster, s. C.
Dear Santa Claus:
am a little girl in the third
grade and 1 want you to bring me
baby doll and carriage. 1 also want
some fruits and nuts. Santa Claus:
Please don't let the waste basket. get
my letter. From Fay Baksr,
To Good Old Santa Claus.
Lancaster, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus:
I want you to bring me an air RI
ne and bicycle. 1 also want some
fruits and nuts. am a little bo-
In the third grade. l am IL years
old. We have jolly time. will close.
Answer soon. Your little friend,
Willie Foster Starnes,
33S Midway Street.
Lancaster, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus:
l will write you a few line. Il
want you to bring me a sleepy doll
and doll carriage. also want SOM
fruits and nuts. | am little girl
in the third grade.
Adelaide Wallace.
Lancaster, S. C.
Dear Santa:
want you to bring me a dell and
doll carriage. I also want some
1rult and nuts. 1 am a little girl in
the third grade. Ruth Deese
Lancaster, S. C.
=
Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me rifle and |
some OF all kinds OF fruits, and some
OF all kinds OF nuts.
Arthur Wright
Lancaster, s. c.
Dear Santa:
/ will write you few lines to lei !
you hear from me. I am little boy |
In the third grade. And please, Santa.
I want you to bring me bicycle, and |
Santa, also want to bring m some
apples and nuts and candy. So i
Will close for this time.
Henry Funderburk.
Lancaster, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus:
/ want you to bring me a doili.
and a carriage. I alsos want you u
bring me some roman cannons anu
some sparklers. And 1 also want you
to bring me some fruits and some
nuts. l am a little girl in the third
grade. Irene Harris.
Lancaster, s. G..
Dear Santa Claus:
want you to bring me doll and
a carriage. 1 want you to bring me
doll bed. also want some fruits and
nuts, - am little girl in the third
grade. Florence Willis.
Lancaster. S. C.
Dear. Santa Claus:
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Yours truly,

Archie Finley Odell Crimminger.
Heath Springs, S. c., Route =.
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Lancaster, S. c.
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Lancaster. 8. G.
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Dear Santa Claus:

Lancaster, S. C.
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Lancaster. S. G.
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Yours truly

Virgie Whitaker.
TaXahaw, s. c..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-13

C; 70 tr:-. I!e does not say that he
al do nothing. He may be a crank
N cotton, but cranks turn the
.,,.,ccls CT progress"
The difference then is between a
nan who says he cannot help US, and
,ne whc says he can, and who we
NOW has tried. Which will the peo-
ole take? The clothing merchant, the
y goods merchant, the banker, the
furniture merchant, the lawyer, the
oc.or-all of US are dependent
here on our farm products for our
prosperity. Will we allow sentiment
and factionalism to sway us in this
emergency, or will we act like sensi-
BILE men to promote our own inter-
ests? That is the question.
Let the people answer it according
to the facts at the ballot box tomor-
row.
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A HAPPY TIME

Ten thousand gallons of fine
wine in a tank car being shipped by
the government from New York to
st. Louis was spilled on the Sea-
board near Van WycH, twenty miles
this side of Monroe, Saturday, when
a freight train was wrecked. The
ten thousand gallons gave up a per-
fume which pervaded the air for
miles around it seemed from the
crowd which soon gathered on the
scene. There were a lot of indenta-
tions in the ground about the rail-
road track ad here and there a few
gallons stood in puddles. The men
got down and Tapped it up some
thing after the fashion of dogs, and
in a little while there was a happy
crowd on the scene. 1t had been a
long time since there was such a
love feast in that community as
then was held.
The men got so happy that they
didn't know. each others color. A
white man and a, colored man were
seen by a member of the train
crew revolving down the railroad,
each saying the other had taken a
little too much and that he was tax
ing the other home.
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merican citizenship and America
will continue to accord it to your
people. If I have anything to do
with it, it shall also be good Ameri-
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bounty by the mere TACT OF having
liberty and equality written over its
door, and that citizenship need
make no deposit in the bank Of COM
man veal in order to write checks
upon the bank. Here at home we
have had too much encouragement
given to the idea that government
is a something for nothing institu-
ton. But say that citizenship is
not based up on what one can get,
but that it is based upon what one
gives. say-and I wish that I could
speak through you to all Ameri-
cans-let's serve
Under that slogan of good citi-
zenship there is no reason why you
should not hold your heads high.
You who are assembled today and
YOUR race in America have the good
sense, as all thoughtful Americans
must have, to know that it is only
in a country where the merit, capa-
city and worth of men and women
are recognized and rewarded that
merit, capacity and worth are de-
veloped. You and l, and good Amer
i.ans Of whatever color, blood or
creed, know that the aspiration Of
all men is equal opportunity, and
tat no injustice known to man can
be greater than tina: of the tyranny
and autocracy that label themselves
democracy, or bolshevism, or prole-
taliat, and enslaves all men and all
their freedom with the iron band of
mediocrity.
Says Negro Has Met The Test
"The American negro has the
good sense to know this truth, has
the good sense and clear head and
brave heart to live in, and I, assum-
ing to speak truth which America
ought to know, proclaim it to all the
world that he has met the test and
did not and will not fail America.
81 proclaim more. I assert to the
world that America has not failed
and will not fail the. American
negro. If there are those who doubt
me, let them look to the record of
the colored race in American citi-
zenship and the record of America
in giving opportunity.
"The expression of spiritual life
alive in the hearts of the ieople of
your blood has I believe, been the
basis for the achievements Of the
American negro. They are great
and amazing achievements. They
have been wrought, not with words
nor false claims, but by patience,
tolerence, restraint, and by the
American negro, earned rewards of
that merit, capacity and worth in
citizenship of which l have spoken.
"But when we Americans of
whatever color render tribute to the
record of the American negro, let
US not forget to render tribute to
America, under whose institutions
and among whose people their re-
cord was made, for I tell you-and
through you I tell all Americans
that if your people have progressed
in so amazing and inspirig a manner
it must have been that America has
given you opportunity. You have
risen by your merit, capacity and
worth, and not by agitation and
violence and revolt against our i'm
stitutions, and have loved them.
''If the men and women of your
blood have given, as we all desired
to give, great outpouring of treas
ury and blood upon the altar of pa
triotism, it is because the truth was
in your hearts.
america has given you her great
blessing of justice. You have it and
YOU shall have it: 1t will be good A
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HARDING PROMISES
JUSTICE TO NEGROES
Tells Visiting Baptists and Metho-
dists They Have Met The Test
OF Citizenship.

Marion, Ohio, Sept. Ex-senator
Harding, addressing several negro
delegations from his front porch to-
day, said that the American negro
had met the test and would not fail
his country, and that "America has
not and will not fail the American
negro"
"Citizenship," he went on, "is not
based on what one can get, but is
based upon what one gives. say
and 1 wish that could speak
you to all America-let's
serve
Inez McWhorter, Senator Hard
ing's cook, left her kitchen for the
front yard, where the negroes were
gathered this morning, and stood
beside Frank Blacksten looking up
at an overcast sky.
Frank" she said to the Sena-
;or's chauffeur, "every time the
white folks has a delegation the sun
shines bright, but every time the
,ulled folks has a delegation the
Debbil comes with his rain and
But the sun finally came out.
driving a few shadows away from
the front porch, and the negroes
of two branches of
both the Baptist and Methodist
churches and the National Equal
Rights League, staged ceremony
that had all the fervency of a camp
They sang "Old Time Re-
ligion" and other camp meeting
tunes, while "Hallelujahs-" and
"Amens" and "You tell it" inter-
rupted the speeches.
The numerous negro speakers
grew eloquent in praising Senator
Harding, and one preacher in hi:
prayer invoked the Almighty to
look down on Pennsylvania Avenue.
March 4, on "the inauguration o.
n.:lo.+ IIorl;,,ory
Another speaker implored his
carers to march in solid phalanS
t, the polls November a." Another
rut Confederate buttons on William
H:cKinley, but asserted he had never
worn the Southern yoke"
Senator Harding delivered the
s me speech to both morning ant
AFTERNOON delegations, addressing
them as "Americans." He said ir
part:
"Too much doctrine based upor
another principle has been loosed OF
a warworn world. Abroad, particu
larly in Russia, there has grown W
the idea that by some impossible
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can obedience to law only be dealt
unlawful violence whether Americans
who break the they be your pood OF "
or from those ho the wv into mine"