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350’%0?80% gggggg C Egggsggggggsgggg 85 Maple St. South Phone 2100 Timmins g mmmmmmmmmmwmmmmg gwwwmmwmmmwmwwwmg Smith Elsto k3# ~41 Third Avenue McDO What ‘better time than Christmas time . . to wish you all the good things in life! A Very Merry Christmas: LIMITED _ Happy New Year A Merry Chiristmas and a _ _ â€"Happy New.Year We Wish You of Motormg and a Timmins Phone 327 Theâ€" noble chicftain was better than his word. He assembled a ‘great flotillai of canoes and desâ€" patched them to the Santa Maria‘ to bring all its valuables ashore.> Amid the cargo the natives saw many things that made their Â¥yes "open wide with envy. Yet so strong was their friendship for the white men and so careful suâ€" pervision that not‘ a ‘single article was stolen. ‘ America‘s first Christmas was celebrated by Christopher Columâ€" bus. It happened on Christmas eve of the memorable year 1492. But Columbus‘. plans went wrong. He was so tired from long watches while the Santa Maria cruised, the island channels that he retired to his cabin for a nap, While he was sleeping, the next in command also decided to take a rest and went beâ€" low. The helmsman, as tired as the others, decided that he deserved i rest as much as they and turned the tiller over to a cabin boy. Abandon Ship. The worst happened. / Within. a few minutes the Santa Maria was fast on a reef, The rolling surf drove the ship higher and > higher upon the reef and opened her seams. Soon she fell over on her side and the water poured into her hulls Coâ€" lumbus and the crew were forced to seek refuge on his other .ship, the Nina. Columbus Unlucky On Christmas Eve â€" In the journal which he was keepâ€" ing for Férdinand and Isabella, Coâ€" lumbus wrote}y ‘"‘These people love their neighbors as themselves; their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile.‘ I swear to your majesties, there: is not in the world a better nation : or tland."‘ Early next morning Columbus sent word of the wreck â€"to Chief Guacanagari. Promptly the chief sent a message toâ€"Colflmbts assurâ€" ing him that he would give him all the assistance possible. brought ashore,, Guacanagari had another plan. His guests had missed Christmas, but there was no reason why Columbus and the men should not enjoy the ‘finest banquet he and his folWbwers could provide. There was game from the woods, lobster«â€"and fish«from the sea; and all sorts of tropical fruits and vegeâ€" tables.. A ‘thousand natives danted in Columbus‘ honor after the feastâ€" ing and the climax of the ‘céreâ€" monies came when the chief‘brought out a coronet of gold and placed it upon Columbus‘ head. There were also presents of gold for the crew. ~_j ---l h. t t ' s dlard mstantly exclam.i :)111:: has brought it!‘ Once upon a time there was a man with three daughters, all of them wishing to marry, but with no dowry forthcoming. Sorry, indeed, was their plight. Their father had about decided to sellithem as slaves, but the good St. Nicholas heard of it, ‘and filling a purse with gold, went quietly by night to their home. Seeing a window open, he threw in the bag of gold and then stole away in the night. This money enabled the eldest daughter to marry. A second‘and a thn'd time St. Nichâ€" olas made the trip gm# T three daughters were After the Saint‘s third trip, the girls‘ father, who had been watchâ€" ing to see who brought the gifts, ran after St. Nicholas and thanked him for his kindness., St. Nichalas made him promise not to dxvuge his giftâ€"giving and afier that he ways deposited his prosents so ve- cretly ‘that no one ever saw t#r=. YÂ¥et people knew, somehcw, that it was he who brought gifts during the night, and so whenever they faund a package mystengu:z delivered they instantly exclai "Si. Nichâ€" Secret Gifts Left By St. Nicholas The story of how St. Nicholas beâ€" came associated with secret giftâ€" giving, and even today comes coâ€" vertly at night to leave his presents, is one of the most important in the history of his life. Christmas Banquet. 3 After the last article had been money of his own, unless he sold his boest suit to the reâ€"sale shop down Tthe street, heâ€"felt it would be even â€" better for his old heart to quit.tickâ€" ing than to face it and have Sally, say, "Oh, you didn‘t need to: give anything.: Bill. ~All I want is you! We‘ll have a real Christmas when you zet well." + Wasn‘t out maliing the living and he, a big hulk of a man, staying <The doctor had said he‘d overâ€" come the heart condition with proâ€" lunged rest. A * People were taiking. <â€" Bill knew. He‘d been standing ncar the living room door the other day when he‘d heard Kat Tyler, their neighbor, talking to Sally in ‘the kitchen. ‘"Well, it just looks a ‘shame that you, such a frail little thing, must work. Bill looks the picture of health. He weighs something near one lundred eighty pounds, doesn‘t hce, Sally?"" Kate said, and Bill had visioned with burning resentment hber. sharp, inâ€"everybody‘sâ€"business nose twitch with inquisitiveness. Bill visioned. too,. Sally‘s pretty proud head lift when her voice had come in quick sensitive rebellion, "I believe it‘s my affair about workâ€" ing. I really don‘t need to work. We have plenty saved up to take us through until Bill is able to go back on his job. I‘m working because I want to." s He‘d felt‘ like a cad. Therewasn‘t another guy in the whole universe hadâ€"a wife like Sally, who through her loyalty would even tell a fa@lseâ€" hood. Sally didn‘t deserve the hardâ€" ship he was giving her, And now with Christmas ‘upon them‘ and no Bill looked down at the money in his hand. Well, if he felt that way about â€"it.© But one hundred dolâ€" _~Bill put on his overcoat, hat and galoshes. It was about time to meet Sally, comang home from work He looked up then andsaw Sally trudging toward him through the snow and a happy, secretive smile ‘curved his lips suddenly. He slipped the money into his billfold and went to meet her. â€" f â€" m Cold rain mterspersed thesnow and. already the highway in front their place. was. getting coated with ice. Cars moved. along. cauâ€" tiously. Their neighbor‘s boy, Pike, eleven, slid by him on a sled. ‘"Wheeâ€"eâ€"e, watch me, Mister Bill!" _ > It all happened in a flash. If . Bill hadn‘t been gigantic in size, muscuâ€" lar and agile with youth, he couldn‘t have saved the boy. "Man, Pike," he panted, standing over hfin on"the sidewalk, ‘"‘don‘t play along the street!" ~Bill looked up from his overcoat collar. ‘‘Hey, be careful!"‘ he shoutâ€" ed and went into action with a leap when he saw the sled carrying the boy from the sidewalk into the diâ€" rection of an approaching car up the highway. ‘‘Thanks, fellow! Say,""‘ he said, mopping his forehead, "that was a close call! You certaxnly used your head."‘ 1 A large man emerged hurriedly from the big car on the side of the pavement and came up to Bill. ‘"I snatched hxm in time,"‘ Bill said. "But I don‘t want money for what I did,‘"‘ Bil}l protested, starting to back" away. The the into Bill‘s hand. "E‘d pay a thousand or more to escape what might have happaned just +now." Think what Christmas would.have ‘been for me if it shad happened, to say nothmg of the‘kid‘s parents. Thanks again, fellowâ€"and Merry Christmas!" "Aw, 1 could‘ve»made it, Mister BiH,‘"‘ Pike said, and dashed back up the street with his sled. i The man pulled out his wallet. ‘"‘Here," he said, holding a crisp bxll toward Bill. “Take this, fellow." He was gone before Bill could do anything. - Bill tooked up frorm his overcoat collar. â€" "Hey, careful!" he shotited. MOISE DAIGNEAULT, Proprietor :« NASH AND STANDARD SALES AND SERVICE INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS, MARCONI RADIO, SEIBERLING TIRES Schumacher Hardware and Furniture Co. 31 First Ave. j Schumacher mt* To our many fr iends, we extend our wishes for a Yuletlde filled with all the godd thmgs in hfe good Health, ,, Happiness, Peace â€".and Prosperity. _ Cor. Maple and Algonquin Blyd. E. DAIGNEAULT MOTOR SALES Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas And May the New Year To Come Be Joyful t HRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR Wishing you all MERRY CHRISTMAS and a 3. Pierce and Son8 16 Third Ave. 7 Timmins PAGE FIVR |