USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. West Side News Wish you all a merry Christmas and Happy and prosperous New year which includes health with plenty to eat and wear. To help reduce the high cost of living Elmer Killen has turned Chinaman and got to eating rats. He says they are superior to rabbit. I don't doubt this as I would just as leave eat rat as rabbit. Ever since I offered a prize for smiles, Mr.s Johnson over on the East Side has been dunning me up and I want to make this bargain with her, that is, if she don't say any thing more about it I will not tell she is one of the East Side writers. Now that the world did not come to an end and the New Year is close at hand let's turn over a new leaf and resolve to do better than we ever did many years past. If we put the emergency break on our temper when we get angry and hold it there till we cool off a little we will not say anything we shouldn't say, and if we can help a neighbor in any way who really needs help and do it, we will all feel more happy. By our neighbors I mean the town and surrounding country. Yes, the East Side, too. After Christmas it will be all right for the Christian minister to tell what they will do on Easter. Please inform Mrs. James Hammond that she can tell Palmers new run about from all others by its color which is pure white with a self starter and aircooled. As in everything else the West Side is ahead in automobiles. Chas. Benroth has his new car now and it has all the improvements of any car and some besides, having an aluminum body and top and all other parts made from the highest grade material. There is only one car ahead of his and this will soom be ? in Toledo, and will be ran with compressed air if John ? goes not buy them off. Just over the line that divides the East from the West, but of course on the West Side, Geo. Miller has nearly completed one of the coziest residences in town. The porch is very wide and supported by only two posts and nothing like it in the city, and French glass doors separate the dining room from the siting room, and all other handy contrivances to make it an up-to-date home, and they should be proud of such a nice place, and I am sure they will. One day recently when Jay Hartman and his wife were having a friendly chat as all husbands and wives should have, and when they were in the Hartman store a traveling man dropped in and Jay intooduced his wife as Mrs. Hartman and she soon went out of the store to give the men a chance to talk business, when she was no more than out the traveler enquired of Jay if that was his wife. Jay did not like it very well and the traveling man lost an order. He deserved to loose more than that. Mrs. Hartman has The report has it now that the East Side curb market has added apple jack to their line of wares. Jim has been acting kind of queer for some time and this accounts for it. It this is true it is worse than stealing wood from Geo. Boyers wood house when he lived on East High in the Turner neighborhood. I did not write much for the paper last week on account of being too busy getting ready for the end which did not come. The editor postponed running the paper two days for the same reason. I heard from Grand-mother Witteborg recently, who is making her home with her son Alfred in Green Bay, Wis., She says she has a hearty laugh once a week reading the West and East Side controversies. Her Husband was known here for many years as the Dutch Baker. Belty Witteborg says it is a sin to roast Bell Keirns so much. Bell is not like a great many other girls. She is very able to pay back as much as she gets. We are all hoping she will be well by Christmas to enjoy the day with the balance of the West Side. I. E. Bogart & Som received by express last Saturday two gilts of their breed of Spotted Poland China's which were fine specimens. The litter mates of the ones they received sold for $750.00 each. I did not enquire what the two cost them as I dislike to meddle with other peoples business. If W. B. Stanley is not a subcriber to this paper Mr. Editor won't you please send him a copy and let him know that there will be Sunday School next Sunday promptly at 9:00 o'clock. The receipt the Christian minister gave last Sunday in his surmon works right just before Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Fullerton, who havebeen visiting their parents here for some time, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Allen will visit in Milford Center this week returning here for a short stay before going to their home in Flordia. One thing we can be thankful for at the approach of this coming Christmas is the absence of flu which was so prevalent a year ago when the doctors had to work day and night to relieve the suffering and many patients too sick to care for Christmas time or any thing else. I recieved the following in my last Monday's mail. 105 Saint George St. St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 18th 1919. Dear West Side Editor: How would like a couple carloads of cracklings from this animal? They are all very cheap down here. I'll take your order if you let me know how many you want. Every on down here are as hungry as the maneater or more so but they won't eat cracklings. Your Friend, LaVerne Sink. What she meant and there was an aligator with mouth capacity enough to swallow a three hundred pound hog. As the Christmas season approaches we naturally think of the celebration in our own homes and also of service which we can render in helping others to have a merry Christmas. Of course it is the spirit of Christmas that realy counts, and if we think of others more than of ourselves, that will be great forward step in making it a good day for everybody. Let us all remember always that it is more blessed to give than to recieve and the statement applies to the good will which we manifest towards others as well as the presents we give our friends. ---- Gwendolyn Hardesty Oliver