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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1939)
THITUKO AY, DECEMBER 21, 1939 THE SENTINEL. COTT AUK GROVE. OREGON In appreciation of the only asset money can not buy, your good will, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a year of happy days. Practical Wearable Gifts for Men The Men’s Toggery A. W. HELLIW ELL McCoy’s Garage By Mac and the Boys . V In Grateful Appreciation We take this opportunity to tell you how much we appreciate your patronage! Farmers’ Union Store This Yuletide tWe Wish For You— Health Wealth And Happiness During This Holiday Season Your Confidence Has Made Us As Happy As We Know This Christmas Win Make Yon iH.K. Metcalf George’s Dairy S Insurance Season’s Greetings A T T H IS SEA SO N We take this opportunity to thank our many friends in and around Cottage Grove for your liberal pa tronage and loyal support during 1939 and here is hoping that we will merit your continued good will during 1940. We wish to express our appreciation for your pa tronage and good will during the past year and wish for you all the hap piness the Christmas sea son can bring. May 1940 It is our pleasure to wish all of you a Merry Christ mas and very Prosperous New Year replete with many blessings. be a prosperous year for all of you. AUGUST HEINRICH Cottage Grove- Eugene Freight & Transfer Jeweler * At this season we pause to express appreciation to t h e friends whose confidence in our firm is the most important asset in the whole inventory So we wish you a Merry Christmas and a bright New Year 5EASON5 GREETINGS Back in 1897, little Virginia O'Hanlon w rote the fol lowing le tte r to the editor of the New York Sun: “ I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there Ls no S an ta Claus. Pa[>a says. "If you see it In The Sun it's so'. Please tell me the tru th is there a S an ta C laus?" The editor w rote a newspaper and literary classic in reply to this childish plea. I t is reprinted here: “ Yes. indeed! “ Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age— they do not believe except what they see— they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. “ All minds, Virginia, whether they he men’s or children’s, are little. “ In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant. in his intellect, jus compar ed with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasp ing the whole of truth and knowledge. “ Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. “ He exists as certainly as love and generos ity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childish faith tlwn, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. “ No believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! “ You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove! Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus— the most real things in the world are those neither chil dren nor men can see. “ Did you ever sec fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not. but that’s no proof that they are not there— nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. “ You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see «hat makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside the cutrain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. “ Is it all real?— ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. “ No Santa Claus! Thank God!— he lives, and he lives forever— a thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.” Christmas Is the Time for that something you’ve always wanted, but felt you could not af ford— Inexpensive gifts for prac tical purposes. t Woodson Motors G r a b e r - G e tty s Authorized Ford Dealers Dependable Hardware Season’s Greetings Permit us to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and n Happy New Year. May the coming yule- tide be the happiest you have ex|M?riencc«i. Allow us also to thank you for your patronage «luring the year 1939. We are grateful for the loyalty au<l go«xl will of our friends and patrons and take this means of expressing our appreciation for your cooperation in the past ami express a hope that our pleasant relations will continue. 903 Main RODMAN’S Phone 216 íltstinriive I? ä GIFTS L » A There is someone whose love you treasure above all else: there is someone whose cloae friendship merits a lasting remembrance. There is someone to whom you should be particularly gracious—and it is to those im portant people who you will be wisest to give—distinctive Christmas gifts of jewelry. Glassware, Wood Carving, Myrtle Wood, Pictures and Many Other Distinctive Items, Inexpensive, but Different. The Picture Shop Since 1890 ___ The First National Bank Has Witnessed 49 Christmases The Yuletide season has brought happiness to many, sadness to a few. . . . If we had our way this Christmas would be a happy one for everybody and if our wish ma terializes, your Christmas this year will be the best ever. In appreciation of the good will of our friends and customers we hope the best of everything for you during Christmas and 365 days of happiness in 1940. F irst N ational B ank
