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Christmas
Shopping
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There pre times when I wish
I were back in some-year-or-an-
other B. C. and such periods al
ways occur during my Christmas
shopping. I have heard of people
who really did get their shopping
done early, and actually enjoyed
doing it. I even know one wo
man—perfectly normal otherwise
—who buys things all through
the year and puts them away for
Christmas gifts. I admire such
forehanded folks; I look upon
Trafi c accidents in Oregon
clai lied a toll of 22 lives during
the month of November, accord
ing to Secretary of State Robert
S. Farrell, who' said this was
three more deeths than were re
ported in the same month last
year.
“This slight increase indicates
there is a greater danger of ac-
cidents this year, despite the
ctmmon supposition that danger
has lessened, due to wartime re
strictions on the vse of motor ve
hicles,” Farrell said.
them with respect and wonder,
but I can’t emulate them. In
the first place, if I bought things
all through the year, I’d cither
forget where I put them or find
there wasn’t anybody for whom
they would be appropriate as
a Christmas gift, and in the sec-
ond place I can’t get the Christ-
mas feeling until about the sec
ond of December.
Then ■comes the first faint
stirring of interest and I get
out my pencil to make a list of
names, Nothing but names, not
an idea for any gift do I have
to jot down for them. About
December 10 I find I’ve lost the
list and have to make another
one, and maybe Aunt Martha
would like a lunch cloth—or
did I give her one last year? A
week later I start prowling a-
round a bit through the stores,
after I finish buying the week’s
groceries and before loading up
with cow feed. My mind is a
blank so far as ideas are con
cerned, but I fondly hope that
maybe I’ll see something which
will help. I don’t, and I begin to
get a bit nervous. After all,
there’s only a week or two more,
Next year, decide firmly, I real-
ly will begn shopping early.
About the 20th I go to
Big Citv. determined to do
whole thing up at once. I
smashed in elevators, Sampled on
bv every fat w-man with a shop
ping hag and f’fteen bundles in
the whole place, my feet hurt,
my hat gets knocked over ope
e-r and I iust leave it there, and
at the end of an apparently end
less day I limp homeward, p led
to the eve brows with bags and
bundles full of stiff that,, judg
ing from th-> way I feel at that
moment, nobodv could ever want
rr use. and only rn idiot would
bvy. I hate my fellow shoppers
with a fierce vindictive loathing
and nothing on earth seems so
desirable to me as my old house
slippers and a soft chair, plus
the day after Chri-tmas.
But th't old Christmas spirit
keeps right on working. Next
dav I open the bundles and dig
cut the Christmas wrappings' and
reals, decide things aren’t so
bad after all, and hadn’t the Big
Boss better start looking for a
tree, and isn’t this a lovely vase
for Aunt Nellie, just right for
vipkts. and won’t the baby love
that cute doll, and don’t you
think I should go back to-
morrow and get those spures we
talked of for Bob, and if I hur
ry I can get that apron for Mary.
Then I start wrapping and ty-"
ing and the floor is littered with
gay paper and the packages look
so pretty and tuck some away
on the top shelf before the
daughter comes in and slip an
other in a drawer where I’m al
I
v *CHEER I
Hearty and cheery
And happy and true,
An ever so fervent
Merry Christinas to
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VERNONIA
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Vernonia Eagle
Thursday, December 21, 1944
Of the 22 fatalities in Novem
ber, six were pedestrians, seven
were killed in two-car collisions,
cne died in a motor vehicle
train accident; two in fixed-cb-
ject collisions and six in non
collision accidents.
For the first eleven months of
the year, there were 215 traffic
fatalities in the state, an increase
HOLY NIGHT
C hrist
as it comes
and goes proves anew
that love is the only
binding power of the
world. In these dark
days of late Decem
ber when the bright
ness of smiles make
ample amends for
lack of brightness
overhead, we again
send our most hearty
Christmas Greetings.
SQUARE DEAL
GARAGE
FROM US
TO YOU!
most sure the Big Boss won’t be
looking, and so on untill the 23rd
and the 24th come.
The tree is' the loveliest we
have ever had—it always is—
and the lights are so gay and the
presents heaped below it are so
interesting that you can’t resist
shaking or pinching them a little
bit—well, just to see—and the
house is filled with the rich, smell
of baking cakes and cookies, the
spicy odor of the tree, the salty,
buttery aroma of popcorn, and
there is confusion and laughter,
hurried wrapping of last-minute
gifts and frantic hunts for some
that have been too-well hidden,
and then at last THE GREAT
MOMENT comes. We sit around
like good children while the Big
Boss puts on his glasses and turns
slowly toward the heaps of lovely
packages on and under the tree,
lifts one and reads the name on
the little gift card. That is the
time I know I have never really
grown up inside. I still have that
little-girl feeling of eager anti
cipation.
I like Christmas. I like the fun
and the laughter, the secrets and
whispering, the planning and
wrapping—in fact I like every
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SILENT NIGHT
Li r.TVwn : j a a i igei
■& The message cf gocd will ihaî
emanated from Bethlehem 2,000
years ago not only transforms
the world at Christmas but is the
foundation of every honest trans
action. We depend upon your
good will;you depend upon ours.
Your good will has been a price
less asset to us during 1944 and
Carry on the tradi
tion that is America.
Be thankful for the
many bjessings God has
bestowed upon us
HERRIN’S GROCERY
other years. We thank you for
the confidence you have placed
in us and wish you the manifold
blessings of a happy Yuietide
MILLER’S Department Store, VERNONIA
soöotf ö Greetings
To all our good friends everywhere we send our
deepest best wishes—for the health and safety
of loved ones; for the welfare of our great
nation; for a speedy Victory and a pist peace
JOY TO ALL
BUY
WAR
BONDS
A. L. KULLANDER
Watchmaker
HAT clatter out on the porch
means Santa Claus ... or maybe
it’s only Uncle Joe in his annual role
of St Nicholas.
T
Yes, there IS a Santa Claus, and
there will always BE a Santa Claus in
the good old ILS.A.
Jewe’er
We wish for you and your family
this season of 1944-45
American Christmas.
a typical
SEATTLE BREWING
Since 1878
7
of about three percent over the
toll of 208 deaths for the same
period a year ago.
Railroad crossing fatalities, the
dark spot in the traffic picture
th s year, total 23 for the first
eleven months, compared to only
five for the same period of 1943
This is an increase of 360 per
cent.
part of it but the shopping. May
be there is something to this
“shop early” business. Next year,
I swear—but what’s the use—
I know I won’t.
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Traffic Deaths
Up for 1944
Si c k , Pres