SANTA CLAUS IS COMING It is only one week until old Santa Claus will come around and visit the children through the town He will bring them nuts, raisins and candy, and will fill the stockings that are hanging handy, He will start early in the night so that he may get through by daylight. When on Christmas day he will take his rest. and watch the children run and play and skip and do their best, Old Santa Claus is a good friend, and all the children like to welcome him. JOHN S. ELDER. --------------- My Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little girl about 6 years of age. I want a nice doll, candy, apples, raisins, and a lot of other good things to eat Christmas. Now please don't forget me. I live on North Church street. I want you to hurry and come to see me. So goodby, JANIE PARRIS, Spartanburg -- Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me one rifle, one tricycle, one horn, one drum, one french harp, one dozen apples, one traction engine, one dozen oranges, 2 pounds of raisins, one rubber ball, 5 pounds nails, 5 bunches firecrackers, 20 roman candles, one dozen tangerines, one cap shooter, one rag doll for SUNNY, one new cap for Sunny, one rattler, one nice little wagon for SUNNY, one knife with chain for MILAM. Your friend, MILAM F. WILLIAMS, Jonesville. -- Dear , Good Old Santa Claus: I will write as I want so many things and I am a little tiny girl 5 years old. Please bring me a doll that can open and shut its eyes, with a red cloak on, and shoes and stockings and please bring me a green hat with a red tip on it, for I have been wearing a little skeedee hat. Bring me a fur and muff and candy, oranges, apples, bananas, and a bum stick and anything else you have got to spare. Please bring me a pair of vases. As ever your little girl, ANNIE WOOTEN , 114 Oliver street. -- Dear Santa Claus: I will write, as I would like to have something too. Please bring me a black hat with a white feather on it, a doll and a doll carriage, fur and a muff and a bracelet. Please don't forget my little sister, LULA. Bring her a doll , for she will want mine and bring her a chair to sit in and bring us both fruits of all kinds. >From a little girl 5 years old. By-by Santa. TILDA PRESLEY, Spartanburg. -- Dear Santa Claus: Will you please bring us a horse and wagon and childs [ girl ] cap, and a teddy bear, some candy, apples, nigger toes, bananas. I am a little shut-in and 4 years old, and can't walk. MADALINE MOSELY, Spartanburg. -- Dear Santa Claus: We have moved from Barnwell to Spartanburg, 130 North Liberty street. And please bring me a little train that has a switch and 4 packs of firecrackers and a little trolley car , a drum, and pop gun and put in all the fruit in my stocking. Good-by Santa Claus, My name is WILL LANGLEY. -- Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 4 years old. I am visiting my grandmama but I live with my mama and papa in Newberry. Please bring me a drum and a horn, a jack-in-the-box and a lot of other things. Lovingly, WALTER WADSLEY ANDERSON. -- Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me some of everything please. Please send me the bear up in the tree what the man shoots, and some horses in the stable and some hay what they's eatin' and a kickin' mule, a horn, and some marbles, and a doll, and a teddy bear, and a stove and pop gun and a train and a velocipede. Please bring my little baby brother some rattlers. His name is GEORGE DEAN JOHNSON. EDWIN WALLACE JOHNSON, JR., Spartanburg. ------------- more to come..... nancie o. - share, don't sell.