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Published Thursday Morning at
Washington, Rappahannock
County, 'Virginia
Dial Washington 2851
LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
Publisher
Entered as second-class nail natter at the post office at Washington, Virginia.
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Christmas.
The next few days will he celebrated throughout the land, in each family, among different faiths and nationalities, each man according to his own customs.
Youngsters in school have carefully gathered information and facts and written their themes on customs in every land for celebrating the Christmas season. They will think that every child in The Netherlands will place his wooden ahoes for their interpretation of St. Nicholas to fill. Legend tells them that the saint rides a white horse and is accompanied by a colored servant, Ruppert, who places switches in the wooden . shoes of bed hoys and girls. The school children %rilfstudy farther and learn of the Scandinavian customs of feeding the animals extra on Christmas Day; the English Yule-log custom; tbs Spanish celebration in breaking the season’s clay bowl in which presents are . . kept.
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