The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1935, Page 42

§ xgae | Syt ¢ P o ¥ ¥ 3 et e yej, There 91 a Santa Claus! ANY YEARS AGO a little girl wrote to the editor of a & great newspaper, saying: “Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says ‘If you see it in the Sun, its so.’ Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?” Merry Christmas to our friends, Frolic, Feasting, Fun! HAPPY NEW YEARI! JOY TO YOU! Each and Every One MERRY CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Winter & Pond Company e Aaae Rras i - % So the busy editor wrote an editorial to restore the child- ish faith of this little girl and that editorial has become one of the most famous pieces of writing in the English language. DOUGLAS INN JOHN MARIN, Proprietor “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” he wrote. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” Your Home Town Newspaper believes, even as that famous editor believed, that there is a Santa Claus. It so believes because it serves a community in which “love and generosity and devotion exist” in the form of neighborliness, of friendly interest in each other’s welfare, of sharing in each May this Christmas Season bring real joy and happiness to you and those dear to you. And the New Year find us and leave us as the one just closed— Genuine Friends. other’s joys and sorrows. of close kinship in ideals and aspi- WE HOPE— YOUR CHRISTMAS May Be Merry! YOUR NEW YEAR May Be Prosperous and Happy! rations to make our community a better place in which to live. And so at this season of the year, when love and generosity and devotion “abound and give to life its highest beauty and joy,” we reaffirm our faith in our community ard extend to each and every one 1 1t our heartiest holiday greetings. Douglas Transfer The Piblishers JOHN MILLS, Proprietor Let us haul your fuel oil! Douglas Dairy MIKE REISSER, Manager Douglas, Alaska £ Ny 1 4 N4 £ 1 1 1 & X 1 4 1 {g y\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\“\\\\\ _ N\ 7 N WERRY CRSTm A3 Mel'l‘iest c‘“'istmaS! Christmas Cheer! It gives us pleasure to extend to you the compliments of the . To every friend and customer Season and to wish you a With full appreciation of the many with us We send a Christmas Greeting, most courtesies shown durmg‘ the past You've e U moE ncete May this Glad New Year bring HAPPY CHRISTMAS year we extend our best wishes for a We hope then more joy and ‘ MERRY CHRISTMAS { PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR and a ! better fri Each day is joy repeating. we'll be better friends HAPPY NEW YEAR This Prosperous New Year. Goetz Grocery DREAMLAND Fleek’s Machine Shop A. E, GOETZ, Propristor MIKE PUSICH, Proprietor Tony Simin Grocery DOUGLAS, ALASKA Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska DOUGLAS, ALASKA If in the past you've dealt In grateful acknowledgment of H 1 this opportunity, Mel'ry Chrlstmas. Made possible by the most Mel'l‘y Christmas! Me"y ChrismaS! Happy New Year! Pleasant business relations of the past, Qur cordial Greetings go out Out Of‘the Darkness comes All the joy bells are repeating, ‘We extend you our hearty to you the Ship C({stGolden Cppor- And we add a wish sincere, wish for a In the Hope that the New unity and Success— Send you our Christmas v Year will be bigger, bright- We hope and trust it will Greetings. N agSIZISTMAS er and more prosperous dock at your port many . HAPPY NEW YEAR than every before. times during the New Year. Douglas Hand Laundry Ed Andrews Coliseum Theatre DRY CLEANING—PRESSING Guy’s Drug Store PHOTOGRAPHER CHAS. WHYTE, Manager ROY SERII, Proprietor Douglas, Alaska Douglas, Alaska Phone 51 Douglas, Alaska DOUGLAS, ALASKA