Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1938 — Page 12

Wishing You a JOYOUS YULETIDE JT AND GOOD LUCK"! IN THE COMING ►<- IL YEAR J MUTSCHLER MEAT MARKET A MERRY CHRISTMAS Today, as on previous occasions, we greet you with all the sincerity that is in our hearts; and thank you with a deep feeling of grateful appre* ciation for your thoughtfulness in the year just closing. BOB'S CONFECTIONERY

MAINTAINING * * w wfe * * A STANDARD at tfouMujhJtfuL VbuiflJjuMc W 2 / £ The Holiday Season, with its spirit of good cfieef and friendliness, Erings to mind the splendid K>» 2yt ( *Vf associations that have been ours during the past year. It reminds us of the loyalty of our cusA C tomers, whose patronage has made possible one of our best years in business in this community. j M* We gratefully acknowledge our appreciation of your consideration and favors. The trust and confidence you have shown are our incentives to even greater service during the years to come. They lead us to keep thoughtfully in mind your needs and desires so that we may more efficiently fulfill them. C* HR I ThA A S As the old year draws to a close amid the good fellowship of Christmastime, we consider it singu- wHw ' larly appropriate to extend the compliments of the season to our good friends of this area. May GREETINGS VOUr ristmas be a bappy one and may success attend your New Year. and A HAPPY XX City of Decatur Electric Light and Power Dept. Water Department

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23,1938.

• THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND THE SPIRIT OF GIVING AND RECEIVING THAT MAKES US ALL HAPPY. IT’S THE SAME CORDIALITY THAT CAUSES US TO STOP FOR A MOMENT TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS TO YOU AND TO WISH YOU A MOST SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR. Peter B. Lehman Dairy Hearty Christmas (Greetings an& Slest Wishes for ttye Nern Hear MORRIS S& 100 TO SI STORE I 1 ... ■.» ..iLiL.-T*? •«

Who Hasn’t? I bear sU/ftfcl c ua>us- ! I « A a. j •<*! .cjA /j o'Jr.e In. £c hv*L. jjp .’<(, 1 I »> Lcvr " A- r 1 ' ■ »»... J Each Chrtotmae season hundreds of plaintive notes to Banta Claus, like the above, tod their way to the Pest Office department’s desd letter office. Others reach the town of Santa Clans. Ind. AMAZED SANTA CLAUS FINDS 33 STOCKINGS IN MARYLAND HOME! LEONARDTOWN. MD.—No less than 33 itockingi are hung by the chimney with cere each Christmas eve at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Sterling here. The couple has 17 children, who with the grandchildren and in-laws add up to the grand total of 33. Santa Claus can hardly see the fireplace for the stockings when he slides down the chimney. But he never fails to fill them all. In the yean since he started visiting the Sterling home, Santa has found that another called, the stork, also has the Sterling address In his book. Each year there has been a ‘‘new addition" to the Sterling household, or in the homes of their children. As Santa’s burden has become greater he has cheerfully risen to the needs and found plenty of toys and other “goodies’* to go around. But he has to replenish hie supply after each visit to the Sterling home. Late Yuletide Observed By Orthodox Christians Conforming to the Julian calendar, thousands of Americans will not celebrate Christmas until January 7,14 days behind the Gregorian calendar. These people are Russians, Serbians, Armenians, Bulgarians, Syrians and Macedonians — followers of the Christian Orthodox church. Greeks and Rumanians, also of the Orthodox church, mark Christmas on the Gregorian calendar but adhere to the Julian calendar in observance of Easter Sunday.

CHRISTMAS Christmas is here again with its good fellowship and good will. Its warm spirit reminds us that in our friends, not in our ledgers, do we find our real assets. So we want to express our appreciation of your evidences of friendship for us and to wish you Merry Christmas Proupvroun Nr tv Year Meshberger Bros. Stone Co. LINN GROVE, IND.