Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-20
Tuesday, December 20, 1921.
under the auspices of some school or

under the auspices of some school or
church.
There are to be many Christmas
trees given by Sunday Schools and
other religious societies. In some
Sunday schools where there is to be
no Christmas tree other exercises are
being planned for the occasion-exer-
cises that will be calculated to make
pupils realize more fully that 1t IS
Christmas. ...<
Dealers who carry Christmas cards
say that sales In those cords have so
far been as heavy as usual. There Is
no way of telling how many Christ
mas cards are being carried in stock
this year but the number goes up into
the thousands Practically every one
of them will be sold before Saturday
night because it is rarely the case that
any are carried over one year to AN
other.
Christmas comes this, year on Sum-.
day. Practically every minister in
York county will baGe his sermon for
next Sunday on the story OF, the birth
of tie Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in
a manger at Bethlehem and it would
not be surprising IL there is large
congregation in attendance upon those
services ip every church. There should
be because since the day comes on
Sunday ard the following day will be
reserved by most people as the regular
Christmas holiday, there is no reason
why almost every body should not at
tend church in commemoration of the
birth of Him in|whose honor iS Christ
mas. Some Of the churches will take
special collections for the orphans and
some. will not.
Next Monday will be n holiday with
practically everybody except the post
office employees including the rural
letter carriers and the city. letter car
riers Work must go on with them
just the same. While Uncle Sam is
pretty liberal with his postal en-
ployes on holidays he has never rec
ognized Christmas and they must car
ry on as usual.
Doubtless the mail carriers will be
laden down with packages next Mon
day because while many people obey
the requests OF the post office de-
partment to mail Christmas packages
early, there are many who do not. be-
cause they are indifferent and thought
leEJ.
Despite sol called "tight times" it
bids fair to be as big a Christmas from
n business stand point as usual. Those
merchants of the county who carry
Christmas stocks have in as large an
assortment of holiday goods and gifts
as usual. There has been quite a. lot
of cotton sold within the past few days
and there will be more during the ball
ance of the week. Everybody has
more or less money to spend. The
Christmas Savings club money which
clubs are conducted by several OF the
banks Of the county was paid out to
depositors recently and quite lot Of
this will be spent for Christmas things.
The merchants are well pleased with
Christmas business so far and they
are expecting to have a big trade be-
tween now and Christmas eve. In
fact" said one merchant yesterday in
discussing business, "if my sales every
day of this week are anything like as
good as they were last Saturday III
be ltickled to DEATH"
There will,be lots of visiting this
Christmas ..s usual and the roads
will no doubt be- lined with autpmo-
biles while the trains will be crowded
TO capacity. At least the railroad men
say that they are expecting 1T. Form
er York county folks-lots OF them'
are planning for a Christmas home
coming and lots of redidents OF the
county are planning trips with reia-
tives and friends elsewhere.
hot
pecting, things to be rather quiet In
their line-at least they nope SO; VI
course they expect that there viii De
more or less bootlegger liquor scat
tered around--probably less. They
are keeping both eyes peeled and are
determined that there is going, to be
as little of the o. B. Joyful as they
can help. Still they know that some Is
going to trickle into the county and
down the throats of some. The price
of the stuff, by the way, always goes
up y. little at holiday time and todays
quotations are $4 a quart for rot-gut,
with the market Indicating an up
ward trend Still the officers belieVe
that folks are going to be quiet ana
orderly and that they will have an OPP
portunity 4 eat Christmas dinner with
their families the same as other folKs.
At least they hope 30.
And thero are other signs, of the
approach of Christmas. The show
windows show it, The house w1fe's
talk of cake and fruit and turkey and
oyster, dressing ap everything, shows
il. The approach Of n smile on the
solemn, sullen, mutty face of tho old
inhabitant who wears Il crouch on his
mug most of the year shows it. Jolly
children's talk of Santa Clcus indi-
Gates if. Only four more days and 1t
is here. And may it be a merry
Christmas for every one! And as
Tiny Tim would sGy: May God bless
us every oneW
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