Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Christmas Firecrackers. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Firecrackers.

In many parts of the south for years after the <*Ml war it was Christmas Instead of the Fourth of July that was the season for firecrackers. Every Christmas the storekeepers laid in large supplies of firecrackers, and the small boy of that period felt sadly slighted by Santa Claus unless he found at least one of his stockings stuffed with bunches of the little red explosives. In these districts such a thing as a firecracker on the Fourth of July was unknown. Of late years, however, the firecracker has been restored to its proper date in nearly every community, and Christmas noise Is confined chiefly to the blowing of horns and the beating of toy drums.