Dec. 1919: Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Cotner, after spending about two weeks in the country with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bush, returned home Saturday. "Boss" said he put in some strenuous days using the hammer and saw and that the outing proved beneficial to both. He could eat more and with greater relish and the wife's health much better. Mrs. Geo. R. Hawley is the guest of her mother, Mrs. C.H. Lyman, in Star City, and will remain until after the holidays when she will join her husband at Pine Bluff where they will in future reside. Mr. Hawley is engaged in the realestate business in that city. Virgil Flemister, one of our longtime colored subscribers, owing to sickness, let his subscription go by default, but as soon as he could he came to town and again enrolled as a subscriber for the Ledger. Lincoln county is noted for its many industrious, law-abiding negro citizens and in this respect Virgil is numbered among the best. The other morning when W.A. Echols took pity on his wife and got up preparatory to making the fire, he heard something scratching on the wall. On investigation he found a rat on a nail in the wall and he secured a stick and killed the reptile. He said the rat in attempting to get away scaled the wall and got wound around the nail and not knowing how to unwind itself perished by a knock on the the head by the valiant gentleman. The Ledger just learned this morning of the total destruction by fire Wednesday night of the residence occupied by Lincoln county's former farm demonstrator, Sam Williams, with his daughters, at South Bend. With the exception of a few articles of clothing they loast all their effects and the family arrowly escaping from the burning building. Star City, Dec. 9, 1919: Dear Old Santa Claus, Please bring me me a bugle, toy auto, knife and lots of fireworks and fruits. Your little boy, Woodrow Vick. Dear Old Santa Claus, I want you to bring me a trunk, story book, knife and lots of fireworks; also my little sister, Geneva, a big doll and little broom, and don't forget the fruits. Your little boy. Newton Vick. There are some processes in the world in which the speed mania does not yet wholly control; and one of these, we opine, is in connection with making love to a girl. There are a great many old folk right here in Star City and elsewhere over this big country, which does and has done so many big things in a hurry, who have not forgotten and who never will forget, the elm-bordered meadow, the moon-lit path and the murmuring stream along whose bright banks they wandered when they first were in love. The vision of of bright eyes swimming in their own ethereal essence, pouting lips and glossy ringlets and voices that rang sweetly in their hearts, are living realities today, even while many of these same old sweethearts are passing down the western slope of life's steep hillside to sleep at the foot in long repose. (wonder who wrote that!!) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com