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Yet most people who dream of revolution would be satisfied with one good sock at the person who highbatted them. Be the first to open wide the door to let Christmas in, and you will be the luckiest person in the house for a. year. But you must cry: “Welcome, Father Christmas." Hear the chirping of a cricket on Christmas Day, and your affairs will prosper. Dofi’t §efuse mince pie at Christ- mas time or fortune will forget to smile at you. If a dark haired lad is your first Christmas visitor, good fortune is in. store for you. Remember these when Christmas Eve comes around, and maybe you’ll make 1937 a lucky year. Eat apples at midnight on Christ- mas Eve and you’ll enjoy good health. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% W§§a§i§§§h§a§3§a§a§a§a§z§a§a§a§a§a§fifia§3 %W%W Q§%%9%£§9$§!§9§9§W 2%; WW§B§¥§3§3WW§Q§ Davies’ Dry Goods Store§ PAGE FOUR ‘See our windows and buy by comparison’ Draw for prizes will take place on Monday evening, December 28th at 7 o’clock by J. A. Greene, Reeve; H. J. Mills, Councillor; J. Smith, Editor of The Liberal. Davies’ Dry Goods Store A full range of fancy novelties suitable for Christmas and New Year gifts In view of improving conditions We are this year giv- ing three prizes: lstâ€"A beautiful .Floor Lamp, three candle light 2ndâ€"21-piece Tea Set, “Royal Albert” 3rdâ€"Congoleum Rug, 6 x 3 ft. PHONE 119 i new feature this year a lucky dip box, articles from 10c. to 25C. â€"- 10c. a dip Once more the symbol of peace and goodwill for each and all of us descends upon this work-a-day world. Once more the festival of gift-giving and gaiety prevails; once more the song of home and children and loved ones predominates. To you all we say -â€" A very Merry Christmas and a full measure of Prosperity in the New Year. Phone 33 Richmond Hill THIS STORE WILL REMAIN OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL CHRISTMAS REMEM BER I. D. RAMER & SON Austin’s Drug Store We pause in serious reflection to express our appreciation for your generous co- operation. All connected with this business wish you peace and goodwill. Christmas Now on display in our windows GREETINGS Citizens during the past week have been discussing freely the pros- pects of a municipal election in Rich- mond Hill. Councillor James McLean has intimated that likely he will be in the field for the reeveship and if a contest develops between Mr. McLean and J. A. Greene the preSent reeve, a lively contest is assured. However there are those who still feel that probably the 1936 council will [stand for ’re-election and receive the acclamation which many think the ratepayers are ready to accord them. However at the moment it Campaign Material of Other Days Should be Inspiration for the 1937 Some Ideas For Reeve Greene and Councillor McLean If They Meet in Reeveship Contest Candidates Seeking Municipal Honors} RICHMOND HILL Richmond Hill Ontario i5; However even anticipating the prospects of an election makes in- teresting local gossip. In the past seven days the pros and cons have been talked and retalked in the “sen. ate," “Dinty Moore’s”, the barber shop‘s» the Post Office, the blackâ€" smith shop, over the bridge table, in fact wherever people are gathâ€" ered prospects of the election have been a subject of conversation. appears the decision of whether or not there will be an election rests entirely on the decision of Mr. Mc- Lean, and what his final decision will be awaits his pronouncement on nomination night. The election talk has revived me- mories of old timers who recall with interest election contests of the long ago. Since those good old days times have changed and nothing has chang- ed more than elections. There are those still living who can vividly re- call the days when. elections were elections and tell of times| when votes were not only sought but unblush- ingly bought, when in short it was the candidate with the longest purse who usually, became the “worthy councillor” and held- the place of honor at all the garden parties and box socials for the ensuing year. Those were the days we’re told when every man had his price and at nom- ination meetings nobody was dryâ€" not even the speaker or his speech. One of the interesting yarns told concerns a. municipality, not Rich- mond Hill, but one of comparable size, where an interesting election held‘ back in the early nineties is still the talk of the town. The Cattlemzm Replies IJot to be outdone, the forthright cattleman also chewed the pen, and caused the foHo“dng to be sent a- broad: “I am not a blacksmith, thank heaven! But a man of herds of catâ€" tle, like Moses. the great law..make1' of old. Being in the same line of business, I believe I should make a good law-maker too. You have been told to strike while the iron is hot, but them as meddles with hot iron are apt to get their fingers burnt; so I says vote: for me, and, like a real cattleman, I’ll lead ye into green pastures Where the picking is good.” This lucubration was acclaimed as a perfect masterpiece, especially the last part of it, that promised so much in such elegant, language. Needless to say this tooting' of the cattleman’s own horn completely downed the clanking of the smithy orchestra and gained for this sec- ond Moses the coveted office “amid the plaudits of admiring crowds." Two were after a vacant seat on the council. One was the local black- smith and the other a convivial cat. tleman of some standing in the comâ€" munity. Both enlisted the aid of the pen, believing it mightier than the sword, to say nothing of fisticulffs, and some choice campaigning literâ€" ature circulated. One of the blackâ€" smith’s handwritten bills read thus: ises is another storyâ€"and, anyway, it is not known; but it is quite likely that they shared the fate of the ma- jority of such pledges. Indeed, it is more than likely, particularly if on the books of the body to which the convivial cattle-man was elected stood a resolution such as Brantford leg-â€" islators of 1847 actually found it necessary to passâ€"“That any mem- ber of this council who comes here drunk and acts like a fool be not listened to.” and up and down the sme l‘ouus, mm the worthy smith’s effort was judged “a real smart bit 0’ writing, by golly!” “I‘m not a man as ever brags, But I tires your wagons and shoes your nogs; I sharps your harrows and mends your plow, And I satisfies all, ’cause I knows how. “I also reckons I knows how to do a good job as councillor; so strike while the iron’s hot, like I does, and vote for me, boys!” Copies of this were. tacked in pro- minent places through the village and up and down the side roads, and Whether the victor remembered and redeemed his pr-e-e1ection prom- And so the electors of Richmond Hill can only hope that if the elec- tion gossip of recent days actually develops into an election contest and they are asked to bestir themselves on the first Monday in January to select a reeve, that the candidates will, like the candidates of the good old days, provide some original and spicy campaign material. CABLE GREETINGS FOR CHRISTMAS Low rates prevail for Overseas Yule Tide greetings. A number of form messages to choose from. For information please phone Canadian National Telegraphs. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO pfinberji‘ A hick town is a place where there BURTONâ€"CONSTABLE A very pretty Christmas wedding took place on Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Constable, Vellore, when their eldest daughter, Mary Isabella, became the bride of Mr. Robert E. Burton young. est son of Mrs. Burton and the late Robert Burton of Nashville, Ontario. The room was tastefully decorated with ferns and pink ’mums. Miss Hlelen Stpng, cousin of the bride played the wedding music. The bride, given away by her father, looked charming in a gown of Coronation blue chiffom velvet made on 10ng sweeping lines with matching hat, wearing a sapphire pendant, gift of the groom and carried a beautiful bouquet of white roses and maiden. hair fern. She was attended by her sister, Miss Jean Constable, gowned in wine chiffon velvet with matching hat carrying yellow butterfly roses. Mr. Bert Dunn, nephew of the groom was best man. Following the ceremony dinner was served to about thirty g-u-ests. Later the happy couple left on a short motor trip. On. their return they will reside at Nashville. For travâ€" elling the bride chose a navy blue crepe dress with matching coat and accessories. Miss Elma Farr is to be congratu- lated on the success of the annual Christmas Concert which was held on Friday evening with the usual good crowd in attendance. -.1 Mis;_:Ieén McKinnon visited with friends in the neighborhood over the [is nothing to do on a rainy day ex- cept cuss your rheumatism. weekâ€"end. There is a story of a little girl who brought her birthday book to a‘ guest, staying for the first time in her home, with the request that he” write his name in it. Idly turning” the pages, he come to Decemfbel’ twentyâ€"fifth, and found carefully written in her childish hand,~ “Dear Jesus Christ.” “But, Margaret,” he‘ said, “this book is only for the names) of your friends.” Looking back at him earnestly and without self-consciousness, she re- plied, ”Mother says that Jesus is my' dearest friend, and I think his birthâ€" day the nicest time of the year." In all history, in all mythology, there is no narrative so chaste, so‘ sweet and reverenceâ€"compelling as that of the birth of the Christ-child. In truth, there is in all the Scripâ€" tures themselves, no portion with more effective influence in cleansing human hearts of all selfishness. How insignificant it wasâ€"only the birth of a little child'! Yet how mysteriâ€" ous and far reaching! How are we planning to c0mmem- orate this nicest time of the year and to whom shall we bring our gifts? And in what spirit? Are we' forgiving and forgetting or are we‘ remembering the petty! so_called in_ juries we think we may have suffâ€" ered from others and approaching the Christmas season with a Shade 0; hitterness in our hearts? Have we made our own, the song the angels sang “Glory to God"? Have we done our part in making “On earth peace, gcorfwvill to men" come true? If we have failed in this, let us recapture the Loveâ€"Spirit of that first Christmas gift, sharing it genâ€" erously with others and making our Christmas giving, loveâ€"giving and‘ more Christian. “Wake me, dear Lord, that I may long May bear the song Awbout with me in the world’s throng; That treasured joys of Christmas tide May with mine hour of gloom abide! The Christmas Carol ring ‘ Deep in my heart. When I would sing, Ensuring happy months, and hallow- ing common days. hear The Christmas Bells, so soft and clear, The high and low glad tidings tell, How God and Father loved us well; Wake me, that. I the twelvemonth' CHRISTMAS FOLLIES To give presents when you con- sider gift-making' a nuisance. ’ To spend) the landlord’s money for presents. To give not because you want to but feel you must. To give presents as an investâ€" ment. A man should write his biography before he is sixty. By that time, nothing he has done seems worth mentioning. To buy gifts on the instalment plan. ’I'nc oldâ€"time aristocrats were right. They said the poor would be a “menace” if they learned‘ to read. Decembeerenty-Fifth VEI .LORE 6 FRESH HOLSTEIN COWS. Apply George McNair, Jefferson. 7 TUBE PHILCO RADIO; also Driv. ing Mare. Apply J. Jones, RE. No. 2, Gormley. ALFALFA HAY about 12 tons in stack. Apply Alex. Henderson, Hag. erman, R. R. Milliken. ' COWS freshening first part of Januâ€" ary. Apply E. Clarke, Concord, tele- phone Maple 2168. STRAW, baled wheat, R. Roddick, Lot 9, Con. 4, Markham, telephone Agincourt 42r2. TURKEYS dressed for Christmas. Apply Thos. Moore, Stop 22A Yonge Street, telephone 1r3.‘ SAND & GRAVEL. Cement bloeks, buildings raised. John Jarvis. Rich- mond Hill. telephone 94M. JERSEY BULLS, reasonably from our famous herd.- sires. lawn Farms, Richmond Hill. AXMINSTER RUG, 12’x9’, Blue and dark brown in colour. In good con- dition. Apply Box 777, The Liberal Office. SKATES AND BOOTS size 7, tubes, good as new, only used one season, reasonable. Apply Selah Smith, Richmond Hill. BUILDING 22x18 ft., 1 storey, locat- ed on Lot 28, Yonge Street, South of Thornhill. Apply Arnold Mortâ€" son, Langstaff P.O. WELL RENTED HOUSE in Midland, value $1500. Very small encumâ€" brance. Exchange for something of equal value in Richmond Hill or vi- cinity. Post Office Box 159. Last Wednesday evening friends and neighbours gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Baker for a charâ€" ivavri parLy. The gathering- present- ed Mr. and Mrs. Baker with a beau- tiful clock. 8 THRIFTY HOGS, weighing about 100 lbs., 10 Yorkshire pigs, 3 months old; 2 good brood sows due middle of January. Priced to sell. We’ll deliver. Apply De La Salle farm, opposite CFRB Station. To one and all a Merry Chris-t- mas. THURS, JAN. 7â€"Extra choice herd of 30 T. B. Gov’t tested Cows, weigh- ing up to 1400 pounds, mostlryl Holâ€" steins and a few Shorthorns, due to freshen at once. The property of Chas. Harper, lot 30, con. 9, Mark. ham, just south of StOuffville. Sale at one o’clock. Terms cash. Every animal will be sold and is in the pink of condition. A. ‘8. Farmer, auctioneer. Take notice that it is the inten- tion of the council of the Municiâ€" pality of the Village of Richmond Hill to purchase the lands offered for sale. in the Village of Richmond Hill for arrears of taxes, charges; and costs, at the adjourned sale to be held in the Municipal Hall, Richmond Hill on Saturday, December 26th at 10 o‘clock a.m. Mrs. J. Clement spent the week- end with Mrs. Luesby at Thornhill. Mrs. P. A. Drul‘y and ‘Miss Dorâ€" othy Hobday are spending the Xmas holidays at their hOmes here. School closed Tuesday afternoon with a concert and Christmas Tree. The children report a good time. The people of Carr-ville were saddâ€" ened by the news of the death of Rev. Frank Maxwell, a former pastor of Carrville Church‘ Carrville Young People’s Union held‘ their annua) election of officers last Monday evening in Carrville Church. The officers and conveuers elected. for 1937 are as follows:â€" Hon. President, Rev. J. Macdonald; President, Mr. Stuart Wark; Vice- President, Mr. Clarence Reid; Secreâ€" wryâ€"Treasurer, Mr. Bruce Wark; Organist, Miss Sadie Middleton; As- sistant Organist, Miss Jessie Mitch- ell; Christian Fellowship Convener, Mr. Bruce Keffer; Christian Mission- ary Csonvenier, M's. Macdlon‘ald; Christian Citizenship Convener, Mr. Lloyd Gane. NOTICE Re Adjourned Tax Sale MUNICIPALITY OF THE Village of Richmond Hill “THIS IS THE DAY OF AD VERTI-SINGâ€"MAKE THE MOST OFJ'I“ RATESâ€"Five lines or less. 25 cents for first insertion and 15 cell's for each subsequent insertion. Over 5 lines 5 cents per line extru each insertion, IF CHARGED 7 CENTS PER LINE. Classified Advs. SALE REGISTER FOR SALE CARRVILLE A. J. HUME. Clerk and Treasurer THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24th, 1936. priced, Rose. HOUSE, 24 Mill Street, Richmond Hill, all conveniences, garage. Apply Liberal Office. SIX ROOM HOUSE on Richmond Street, water and electric. Apply 0. L. Wright, Richmond Hill, telephone 78. FRAME HOUSE corner Yonge and Wright Sts., good garden and gar- age. Apply P. C. Hill, Richmond Hill HOLSTEIN or Shlorthorn bull, old} enough for service. Apply to C. E. Walking’con. phone King- 4213. STRAW WANTED. Apply Liberal Office, Richmond Hill FURNITURE repaired and rebuilt. Also some walnut pieces for sale. Apply N. G. VanD'yke, 33 Hunt Ave., Richmond Hill. ear missing, scar on shoulder, white patch on chest. REWARD. Tele. phone Thomhill 61'2. BROWN IRISH TERRIER, tip of one PAIR near Public School. Finder kindly leave same at the Liberal Office. Markham Rd. Use§ Cars Garfield Yerex 1935 FORD V-8 TUDORâ€"Excellent Condition. 1933 FORD V-S DeLUXE ROAD- STERâ€"A Sporty Car. 1929 FORD 1% TON TRUCK. 1929 FORD ROADSTER â€"- Rumble Seat â€"- 1937 License. A good buy. Little Brothers Ford Sales & Service RICHMOND HILL. ONTAR-{U â€"is the time to trade in your present radio on this beautiful new 1937 MISCELLA NEOUS 05mm Foreign Reception Guaranteed. Covers United States, Canadian and foreign stations, police, ama- teur and aviation. Six New-Type Tubes, including Dual-Purpose and METAL-Spray Tubes, give full 8- tube performance. $11415 DURING OUR GIGANTIC TRADE-IN DRIVE SPECTACLES, on Yonge‘St. T0 RENT WANTED $375.00 $150.00 $135.00 $525.00 LOST LIBERAL ALLOWANCEâ€" EASY TERMS Richmond Hill