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
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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
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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.
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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
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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