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BELLEVILL8 I960, Letters to Glaus Cuba, Dear Santa ClausX I am -5 I' OWf Santai 1 am boV who will and In the first grade. I so to JeM be a year lew.days after Christmas, ferson Center school. Please bring me II am a good'boy, I do not know exactly a holster belt and a gun, and a sled. what I want for: Christmas; as both my Don't forget the candy. I'll see you on grandmas, and grandpas bring me new Christmas eve.

I have been a good boy. toys real often. But, if you have, a llt- Your friend, Robert Blaaek. tie rooking. horse, think I would like I thajt.

Please do not forget my little Cuba, Kansas cousins, Barbara Joyce, Linda, Larry Dear Santa Claus: i have been a good and baby Karl. All my love, Steven boy this year. For Christmas I want a Vytlacil. double holster belt and 2 guns, play I farm, caterpillar, wlndup tractor, plow, Munden, Kansas disc, saddle, play watch. Please bring me 1 Dear Santa: How are you? I am fine.

some candy and nuts, too. My little How is Mi's. Santa. I hope she is all, brother, Erwln Dale, wants a billfold, right. For Christmas I would like an; I am 6 years old and in the first grade, electric train with switches, railroad I go to Jefferson Center school.

Your crossing and depot. Don't forget to bring iJil li itii'ii 1 IT HAPPENED IN' friend, Marlln Lee Havel. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you and reindeers? Are you getting ready lor your big trip on Christmas eve? I jo, to Pleasant View school and I am fa the 5th grade. Would you please Irlng me a tool set, log set, and some fOecvds for my player. Larry, my brother, wants a farm set, double holster and please bring us both lots of Jandy and nuts.

Your loving friend, Paul Gene Bundus. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa: I'm a good little boy 4 ears old and i have little twin sisters 3F years old, they are good too. Their Cuba, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you? I am fine. I am 11 years old and Will be 12 on January 7th. I am in the 7th grade.

I go to Jefferson Center school. For Christmas I would like a wrist watch, i If I don't get that I want a Lone Ranger pocket knife, chain, and star, a horse, but no saddle, because I bought a saddle for 76c and my brother bought the other half for 75c that added up to (1.50. I would like a whole lot of candy and nuts. My teacher's name is Miss Gloria Lawson. Come to our Christmas program December 22.

Your old friend, Harold Blazek. some candy and nuts, pal, Gary Houdek. Good by, your Narka, Kansas Dear Santa: I am in the 1st grade. like school very much. My teacher is Mrs.

Dorothy Novotny. For Christmas 1 I would like a box of 48 colors, pencils, buggy and lots of candy a.nd nuts. Your friend, Jerilyn Dolezal. flames are Anita Lou and Bonlta Sue. I would like a train, football and some 4 and nuts and the girlB would like i doll buggy and some books, also candy! hf rivbr nuts.

Bring my little cousins Borne- lots of candy and nUts thing too, they live over by Narka. forget my little friend, Dougie. Lova. Calvin George Hamblln. Belleville, Dear Santa Ciaus: I am 7 years old am in the 2nd grade.

Would you please Bring me some doll clothes, play stove, records for our 45 rpm record player some crayons. Mv sister would like Some records. Don't forget mama, daddy, and all my friends. Also I want lots Qf candy and nuts. Your friend, Anita Murphy.

I Munden, Kansas Dear Santa: How are you, I hope you i 'an come to our place Christmas eve. I rould' like a farm set, BB gun. Don't orget the other boys and girls in the Wide world. I am in the 3rd grade. I a boy.

Don't forget to come to our place. Bring me some candy and nuts. by, your pal, Marvin Houdek. Narka, Kansas Dear Santa: I am 9 years old and In the 4th grade. For Christmas I want a music box and Please don'tfor- get my nephew.

Jerry, and all my brothers and sisters. Your friend, Nalma Dolezal. Munden, Kansas Dear Santa: I am a little girl yeora old. i have tried to be good, but its hard for me. For Christmas I would like to have a doll, and a doll bed.

Also bub-, ble gum and candy. Don't forget Linda and Sherry. Thank You, Jackie Ely. Munden, Kansas Dear Santa: I have been a pretty good boy for 2 years old. My wish for is a toot-toot train.

Also candy and nuts. Please remember other little boys and girls in Mun'den, also my greats grandpa and grandma. Thank you, Stevle Ely. AioBtLtJ 'H THE MOST fiEARLG MSTONCe, IV 1871, Hi Munden, Kansas Dear Santa: I am a little girl. 6 years old, this is my first year in school.

Bo to Midway school. For Christmas will you please bring me a "Cao" dolly, dolly walker, suitcase for her clothes. I would like lots of clothes for her. Hope I'm not asking for too much. Love, Joyce Coonrod.

Narka, Kansas Dear Santa: I am 3 years old. For Christmas I would like a doll with eyes that open and close, a rocking- chair, and a new dress. Lots of candy and nuts. Don't forget mother and father. Your little friend, Sharon Kay Dolezal.

Narka. Kansas Dear Santa: I am 5 years old. I will start to school next fall. For Christmas I want a wagon, doll, play dishes, and Munden, Kansas Dear Santn: I am 4 years old. I want a new car for Christmas like my daddy's, aslo a tool box with tools, so I can repair It.

Don't forget to bring something nice for Sharon. Your little friend, Kenny Coonrod. Cuba, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 3 years old. I try to be a good bov. For Christmas please bring me a bulldozer, crane, trucks and some candy and nuts.

Don't forget my half-brother. Yours truly, Robert James Fisher. Cuba. Kansas Dear Santa: I am a little girl 6 years old, and in the 1st grade. My teacher's name Is Mrs.

Marvcne Chambers. For Christinas please bring me some doll THE AtAi SOON AS HIM' 6XCITSO BY TrtAT TIMS THAT H6 FAIL6D TO HISDWW D6PUTY AND SHOT KILLING HIM MSTANliLvZ Nebraska Wayne, Kansas Dear Sottta Claus; bring me Dear Santa Claus: am a girl 11 doll, doctor 1 Mfr'ana a record Tears old In the Sth grade. For Bring bill '-Snd'a train for ihy Christmas I want a ring; sewing set and brother. I Wftttf: tttfAle cutters for my perfume. Do not forget my little brother, mother, Father a pah- of gloves Raymond Lee, who Is 4 years old.

He and a hat. 'Good-bye, Ramona Reed. wants a holster set, also a lot of can- dy and nuts. Your friend, Grace Ann Chester. Nebraska Dear Santa Claus: When are you going to come? If you are coming, please 1 bring sack of candy, shirt, pair of Wayne, Kansffs Dear Santa Claus: I am a girl 8 years Jeans, undershirts and a pair of slippers, old.

For Christmas I want a doll stroi- That is all, so goodby dear Santa, From loving, Lorelei Reed. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa: I am in the 4th grade, Can you come to the program at Spring Hill School? I want a horse shoe set, football and knife with a chain, and some candy and nuts. Your friend, Johnnie Skupa. ler, perfume, billfold, doll dress, candy and nuts. Your friend, Helen Ruth Baxa.

Belleville, Kansas Dear Santy: I want a little doll that has a little pink or blue blanket around It and a cash register. Bring Cynthia any kind of a doll. Judy Beth Kueker. Dea- Santa: Belleville, Kansas I am 5 years old. Please! school and come to the Spring HU1 school program I am going to give a recitation.

Please bring a banjo, spurs, guns, cowboy boots, accordaln, moulding clay, crane, and cash register and just a few anklets. Hope am not asking too much. Your friend, Richard Lee Skupa. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am in the 8th grade and 14 years old. go to Pleasant View my teacher's name is Mrs.

Esther Miller. For Christmas I want a wrist watch and some playing cards, also some candy and nuts. Your pal, Eugene Bartak. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: For Christmas I want a wrist watch, and a pair of boots. Kansas i 4 am 10 years old and in the fifth grade.

Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 61 Can you come to our school program years old and in the first grade. My: December 22 at 8:00 p.m. have one teacher's name is Mrs. Redden. I like! brother, Dwlght, who wants some play her very much.

For Christmas Would you please bring me a pair of roller skates and cowgirl boots? My brother, who Is 3 years old would like to have a cowboy suit and boots. Don't forget the candy, nuts, and fruit. Your little friends, Karen Kay and Kevin Ray Shulda. bricks, overshoes and a top. I have one sister.

Marietta, who wants a doll, ings and a top. Your pal, Gerald Rlcketts. SelievlUe: Statu' Dear Santa: I am 2 years pretty good. For Christmas I would, "like 1 to have a truck or traitor or- anything a-little boy would like. Don't forget my.

little sister, Ina May. Love, Meal Wayne" Lorimor. 1 Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you and all your reindeers getting along? I nm 12 years old and go to Pleasant View school. My teacher's name is Mrs. Esther Miller.

For Christmas I would like to have a- camera, blUe sweater and skirt; finger nail file, blrthstone ring, radio and bracelet. Don't forget the candy and nuts. Please come to our Christmas gram, stmt a. It will be on Friday, December 22. Bring plenty of candy and nuts.

Your friend, Barbara Johnson. Belleville, Kansas, Dear Santa Claus: I want to have a I' merry-go-round and a typewriter. some candy and nuts. I am 6 years old and In the first grade. My teacher's name is Mrs.

Esther Miller. How are you -and Mrs. Santa Claus? Your pal, Janet Horak. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa:" How are you and Mrs. Santa? I am in the 5 grade and I am 10 years old.

go to Pleasant View school. I want a filling station, billfold and a record player with some records. My sister, Kathleen, who Is 4 years old would like a doll -and a farm set. Are you ready for your trip, Santa? Bring candy and nuts. Your pal, Marlene Horak.

candy and nuts. Please don't forget I dresses, house slippers, bracelet and can- uncle Hony and aunt Nettle. Anne Dolezal Love Le Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: am a good boy. Come to our house. I want candy and nuts.

Jimmy Lee Russell. To AH Our Customers We Sav CHRISTMAS Men Let Us Help You With Your Last Minute Christmas Shopping We Gift Wrap Free Open Thursday Friday Saturday Evenings till 9:00 o'clock Style Shoppe HELEN VANOUS Northwest Corner of the Square dy and nuts. Also don't forget my little brother, his name Is Carl Lee. He wants a truck, train and lots of candy and nuts. Your little friend, Shirley Mae Kolars.

Agenda, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am past 3 this year, and I'm very excited about Christmas and you. I'm trying to be good. Could you please bring me a little (able and two chairs, big tractor, and some other toys? My little sister, Lynnette, wants a dolly, toys to pull, and one 'of he chairs for my table is for her. I hope you can remember all my friends. I think they are trying to be good, too.

Merry Christmas. David W. Larkins. Concordia, Kansas How are you and Mrs. Santa? I am a very (food little girl 4 years old.

would you please bring me a doll. house, house coat, house slippers, gum and chocolate star candy, or any other goodies to eat. We will have something ready again for you to lunch on when you come to our house. Bring mommie and daddy something nice. Your little friend.

Marvene LaMne Kauer. Concordia, Kansas Dear Santa: I nm a little girl who will be 7 years December 23. I'm In the 1st grade and I like my teacher, Miss Goertng. Please bring me a go-cart for my doll and a baking set. candy and nuts.

Don't forget daddy and mother. Love, Lyla Mae Anderson. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: Our room is all decorated for Christmas. We have made gifts for our mothers and fathers. Please bring me a spy glass for Christmas.

Harold Chrlstensen. Scandia, Kansas I Dear Santa Claus: How are you? I am fine. I am a little boy 4 years old. For Christmas I would like to have you bring me a punch-me, service station, duck i pins, fire chief auto and some candy and 1 nuts. Please don't forpet my mama and daddy or my little brother, Jovce, he is years old.

Your little friend, Merle Jackson. Scandia. Kansas Dear Santa: am a boy. For Christmas I would like a train and a tractor like my daddy's. I want a dog and a cat too.

I am a good boy. Good-by, Santa. Merry Christmas. You are my friend. Allen Mc- I Gregor.

We send our simple but enduring respects this season. JRTHUK BELLEVILLE PIONEBR. HAS A CHAIR WHICH AS A IT HAS USBO SLKXeSSlVeLY BY HIS CHILDREN; GRAND CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WE 76VSAR OLD HIGH CHAIR IS STIL-LIN GOOD fecsNTLY MICHAEL AGE OF TOP6KA, WAS TOTH5 DENTIST WITH WHAT HIS BARENTS THOUGHT WAS A TOOTH HIS TB6TH WSRE IAJ PERFECT CCWDITIOW BUT A SEED HAD LODGED IN HIS GUM AND HAD SPROUTED AND WAS TO Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: I am a little girl 4 years old. For Christmas I would like a set of dishes, electric iron, blackboard. Dbh't forget to fill my stocking.

Please don't forget my baby sister, Barbara' Sue. I'll try and be a good girl. Patty Lee Tate. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: I made my mother a surprise at school. How are you, Santa? I would like to have a doll for Christmas.

I am, Verna Louise Hill. Dear Santa Claus: room. It Is pretty. I want a bicycle. I hope you will be here.

Larry Larson. Byron; Nebraska Dear Santa Claus: How are you? I am fine. I would like to have a doll that you can give a Tonl, buggy, pencils, tablet, cash register, comb set, elbthes, girl outfit with Dale Evans on it. Do not forget all the other boys and girls. to' our' Christmas Scandia.

Kansas We decorated our 1 I hope you can come Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: Our room is pretty. We have already decorated it for Christmas. I want a doll for Christmas, i will be happy. Your friend, Delores Thompson! Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am Lonnie Lewellyn. I want a bicycle, truck and a dog for Christmas.

I made my mother a surprise present at school. We had fun decorating our room. Lonnie Lewellyn. Scandia. Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I wish I could have a bicycle for Christmas.

We have already decorated our room. We have Santa Clauses, bells, candles, snowmen, a paper Christmas tree and everything on our walls. I am glad Christmas is coming. Your friend, Ivon Owen. program.

Good-bye Santa Claus. friend, Ramona Bohling. Your Byron, Nebraska Dear Santa: I am 9 years old and i am in the 5th grade. For Christmas I would like to have an electric train with tracks, and an adding Don't forget mother, daddy, Roger and Delorls. Bring candy and nuts for the whole fam-i lly.

Please come to our Christmas program at Ash Grove school. Yours truly, Lavon Bohling. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you? I am fine, i am a little girl 6 years old. I am in the 1st grade and I go to Kackley school. My teacher's name Is Mrs.

Smith. For Christmas i would like to have a dolly, pencil box with crayons, sewing set. and some candy and nuts. Your little friend, Myrna Jackson. Byron, Nebraska Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll bed, tricycle, table with 4 chairs, set of dishes, and a doll house.

I will hang my stocking up for you to put some candy and nuts In. Please remember all the other boys and girls all over the world and bring them something, too, for Christmas. Yours truly, Loralne Bphling. Scandia. Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you and Mrs.

Claus? I am a boy 8 years old. I try to be good. I would like you to bring me a machine gun, bow and arrows. I will leave a lunch for you. Please don't forget my new little sister, Cheryl.

Your friend, Dale Lee Dolezal. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: We have decorated our school room for Christmas. I want you to come to my house. I would like to have an electric train and a tractor. Your friend, Jimmle E.

Scandia. Kansas Dear Santa Claus: We decorated our room last week. We made presents for our mothers and daddies at school. I would like a doll for Christmas, skates, candy, nuts, dishes and a playhouse. I want doll clothes and a suitcase, too.

Merry Christmas, Santa, Lorraine Larson. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: We decorated our room for Christmas. We have sheperds In the back of the room. I wish you would bring everybody some toys. Come to mv house and bring mc something that I want.

Please bring some presents too. Merry Christmas, Santa, Mary Ellen Winkel. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: I want a doll that has real hair and that can talk and walk, and a dress, want a bicycle too. Please come to our house. Helen Nystrom.

Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: How are you? I want a bicycle and an airplane for Christmas. I wish we had been here the night you came. We made a surprise at school for mother. Good-by, Santa, Bobby Isaacson. Byron, Nebraska Dear Santa Claus: How are you? For Christmas I would like an adding machine, electric football field that has men that move up and down the field, also some peppermint candy.

Your pal, Kenneth Naysmlth. Belleville, Kansas Dear Santa: will be 6 years old on the 15th of December. I have been a good girl all year and help my mommy lots. I wish you would bring me a purse and a car that has doors that open. That's all.

Please don't forget Iva May. She will only be months old at Christmas. Lots of love, Carol Ann Lorimor. Norway, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am 8 years old, and in the 3rd grade. I have a little sister who will be 3 in January.

Please bring me a doll that puckers her lips and cries, and a rubber bone for my dog. Don't forget any of the other little girls I and boys. Your friend, Janet Sue Fraser. Norway. Kansas I Dear Santa: I am too little 0 write letters, myself, so my sister, Janet writing for me.

Please bring me a doll that cries and some candy and nuts. Don't forget mother, daddy and Janet. I want to see you this year. Your little friend, Linda Fraser. Narka, Kansas Dear.

Santa Please bring us a doll house. We would like some peanuts and candybars. Also bring our baby sister, Peggy Lee, something nice. Your' UN tie friends, Jeariette' and Judy Lahodny. Agenda, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 5 years old.

For Christmas I like for you to bring me a doll with hair, service station and some dishes. I am: trying to be a good girl. Your friend, Annette Denk. SEASON'S GREETING MONTE HILL Insurance Agency Consolidation of Five Agencies Started in 1915 CHRISTMAS JOY MERRY CHRISTMAS ToAllofYou from All of Us HAROLD HANCHETT BOB SMALLEY KEITH HAGINS DEAN VANOUS SHOES Belleville, Kansas Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: I am a little boy and in the 2nd grade. For Christmas I would like a gun and basketball.

Bring something nice for my 1 little brother and sister. Roger Larson. And hope this Christmas is one you can cherish forever. Phbtee 246 We Will Be Open Christinas and New Years UNION BUS DEPOT CAFE rilte. MR.

AND MRS. A. A. HARTLEY Belterille, Scandia, Kansas Dpar Santa Claus: I don't know what I want for Christmas, but I am going to get a bicycle In the summer. How are you? I fine.

We made a surprise to hang on the wall for our mothers and fathers. Please come to my house Christmas night. Good-by, Phyllis Newcomb. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa Claus: i hope you will be here for Christmas. You know what I would like to get? I want a doll with golden hair.

I hope get a dog too, Santa. What do you want for Christmas? With love, Martha Sue Roblson. Scandia, Kansas Dear Santa: I want a pair of skates. I made something for my mother for Christmas. How are.

you Santa? Merry Christmas. Santa Claus. Your friend Delores Thompson. Scandia. Kansas Dear Santa Claus: We alreadv have decorated our room.

We realljr fooled you. I wish that we would have been here when you oome. I want a pair of skates and some candy and nuts, doll clothes In a suitcase and a picture book of you. Fill my stocking clear full and don't forget the other little and Christmas. Santa Claus.

We have made our mothers surprises for Christmas. Love, Judy Freed. Byron, Nebraska Dear Santa Clous: For Christmas I would like- to have two cap guns that break open; two holsters, electric train and a bow and arrows. Your friend, Dennis Frye. Byron, Nebraska Dear Santa Claus: I am In the let! 6 years old.

My teacher's name IB Mrs. Wledel. How are you; Santa and alee the PorJH Christmas I would like a doll, toy. -typewriter, farm with ptaatle balea. Remember Sharon, Tnommr daddy.

Bnd'ail the othef girls- Will you come to ouiP: orrpeeember J8. With fiqje, Susan Byron, Nebraska -Santa Claus; I am 4 years old. Lois Hobtlmsnn, 'my neighbor helping me-writejthfs, letter, plejsf Wag her fo Christmas, Tor- Christmas Xi would, like to have a ioy i. sink, stove, doll with We wish each of you the sum of all happiness. Let us share the joy of the season.

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