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GOLF BAWLS.
Thanksgiving Day was an ideal day
for golf, except that the course was
covered with snow and nobody likes
playing golf after Thanksgiving din
ner, so Judge Dickson and J. A .Dono
hue took advantage of the day to de
monstrate the oft asserted theory of
James O’Donnell and John Weekes
that women do not know how to play
whist, particularly duplicate whist.
Their better halves were chosen as the
objects of the graphic demonstration,
with disasterous results to the theory,
the score on playing the boards
through twice ending two to five in
favor of the ladies. Weekes and
O’Donnell are the next vicitims chosen
for the slaughter, after which the
ladies are considering giving a few
lessons to other members of the Hoyle
Memorial association.
* * *
P. C. Donohoe and Kelsey Coyne
have solved the snow golf problem by
dyeing a bunnch of golf balls red.
M. E. CHURCH NOTES.
The Ladies Aid bazaar, dinner and
supper, given last Saturday, was a fine
success in spite of the stormy day.
They took in $110.
The Epworth League will give a
banquet to, the side winning the con
test on Friday, December 2nd, irt the
church basement.
The young peoples prayer meeting
held on Wednesday evening are some
of the finest prayer meetings this
writer has ever attended. It will do
every young person good to be in
these meetings.
The choir are to practice for the
Xmas program Saturday evening at
the home of Mrs. Naylor. All are
urged to attend.
The personal canvass for the Ne
braska Wesleyan Endowment will be
made Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Harry Kimble, son and dau
ghter of Creighton, visited at the
parsonage Monday.
Mrs. J. A. Hutchins’ brother, Wm.
Fry of Winside, Nebr., spent Thanks
giving Day visiting in O’Neill.
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JAMES CASSIDY.
Spencer Advocate, Nov. 17.—James
Cassidy was born in Niclow county,
Ireland, Nov. 16, 1840. He was mar
ried on the 29th day of December,
1869, in Stocton On Tees, Durham
England, to Anna Foley. They lived
in England four years. In 1873 they
immigrated to America and settled
down in Scranton, Pu,; there they
lived for five years, where he worked
in the iron works; from there they
moved to Yankton, S. D., where he
worked on the steamboats on the Mis
souri river. While there he took a
timber claim at Alexander, S. D. and
to make it a timber claim he would
gather small trees along the river and
walk from Yankton to Alexander.
After proving up on his timber claim
Mr. Cassidy and his family moved to
Fort Randall, where he worked for the
government anu wm,e tnere took u
preemption in Holt conuly, and later
a homestead in Boyd county, where he
made his home until fourteen years
ago he moved to Gross, where he lived
until last June when, on account of
poor helath, Mr. Cassidy moved back
to the old homestead with his son,
Joseph, where he died Nov. 6, 1921,
Mr. Cassidy was 80 years, 11 months,
20 days old. He leaves to mourn his
loss one daughter, Theresa, of Gross,
and three sons, John and Andy of Fort
Randall, and Joseph of Gross, and 29
grandchildren.
PAUL FULLERTON.
Atkinson Graphic, Nov. 18.—Paul
Clever, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Ful
lerton, was born in Tingley, Iowa, De
cember 4, 1908, and departed this life
November 11, 1921.,
He moved to Atkinson, Nebaska,
with his parents, in the spring of
1911.
He united with the Presbyterian
church at the age of ten years.
Through his long illness of six
months, he was a patient sufferer, ut
tering not one word of complaint. He
was a most unselfish child, always
grateful for the slightest thing done
for his comfort, and even in the long
hours of the night, when he could not
sleep he refrained from disturbing
those near him more than was abso
lutely necessary. Everyone who knew
him loved him.
He leaves to mourn his departure,
his parents, one sister* three brothers,
and a large number of relatives and
' friends.
Funeral services were held at the
home on Saturday afternoon, con
ducted by Rev. Whiting of Stuart. In
terment was made in Woodlawn cem
etery.
I ALLEGED SLACKER f* JAIL
Martin Bausch of Leigh> Neb. Is In
Fort Crook, Awaiting a Trial.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 21.—Martin
Bausch of Leigh, Neb., the first Ne
braska boy to be arrested on a charge
of being a “slacker” following publi
cation of slacker lists in newspapers,
is in Fort Crook prison now awaiting
trial. Bausch was arrested on armis
tice day. Fort authorities are await
ing orders from the war department.
They charge Bausch failed to answer
a Holt county draft board call.
TOM PRICE STABS MAN.
Atkinson Graphic, Nov. 18.—Frank
Bowers a Milwaukee conductor, is in
a precarious condition at Ottumwa
hospital from knife wounds and Thom
as W. Price is in the county jail fac
ing a preliminary hearing in police
court late this afternoon on a charge
of assault Iwith intent to commit mur
der as a result of an altercation be
tween the two alleged to have taken
place on East Second street in front
of the Roseland Fuel company’s office
about 12:30 o’clock this morning. The
affair is said to be the outcome of an
old grudge involving domestic trou
bles.—Ottumwa (Iowa) Daily Cour
ier, November 12th.
Tom was the catcher on the At
kinson base ball team some years ago,
and will be recalled by. a lot of the old
fans who will remember him as one
of the team’s strong factors in help
ing to win games against boasting
rival teams, and who will regret his
unfortunate offense. He was a quiet,
easy going sort then and one whom
it would be hard to conceive of get
ting into trouble.
AMERICAN LEGION THANKS
PATRONS OF CARNIVAL
The members of Simonson Post,
American Legion, desire to thus pub
lically express their appreciation of
the gracious patronage afforded the
Legion carnival the evening of Armis
tice Day.
LOW NEWSPAPER PRICES.
The Evening State Journal has been
reduced to $3.50 a year or $4.50 with
Sunday. The Morning Journal $4 a
year or $5 with Sunday. This makes
the Journal the biggest newspaper
bargain in Nebraska.
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Adeste Fideles
IiJI^HIS well-known and great- ig
Ijjy ly loved Christmas hymn j
was used at Benediction
at Chrlstmastlde In France and j;
England since the close of the
Eighteenth century. It was sung *
at the Portuguese legation in j
London as early as 1797. The 3
most popular musical setting 8
was ascribed by Vincent Novel- 8
lo, organist there, to John ltend- gj
lng, who was organist at Win- g
Chester cathedral from 1675-81, 8
Bit Winchester college. ®
Itself has been nt_* '
St. Bonaventure, but >1;
nd among his works, «
bly of French or Ger- j
irshlp. It Invites all j
il to come to Bethle- j
rorshlp the new-born j
(thollc Encyclopedia. J
Roast Pig.
Have your butcher prepare the pig
for roasting and lay him In cold water
for tlftoeu minutes. Dry him Inside
aud out with n soft cloth. Make a
slutting of bread crumbs, seasoned to
taste with suit, pepper, parsley, sweet
marjoram und thyme; moisten with
butter, and work Into the dressing two
beaten eggs. Stuff the pig so that lie
will bold his original size uud shape,
and after sawing him up bead his fore
legs backward and his hind legs for
ward under him. Skewer or tie him
jlu this attitude and after dredging hlm
well with flour put him, with a little
water, In a covered roaster. Itoust for
an hour and a half before removing
,the cover, then rub him well with but
ter, baste him with the gravy iu the
pan and roast half an hour longer,
hasting twice during that time. Apple
sauce should be served with him, a
‘lemon should be In Ills mouth, cran
berries In Ids eye sockets.—The Delin
eator.
IN DOUBT
Wlfey — Thl*
year you muit
tell me Just
what you are go
| ing to give me
for Christmas.
Hubby — But
how do I know
what you have
decided upon?
Christmas in the Shetlands.
In the Shetland Islands they cele
brate an old Christmas Kve, January
5, and on that occasion tlu> young men
and chlldjpn go “a-gulzing," The chil
dren disguise themselves in strange
dresses, parade the streets and In
vade the houses and shops begging for
offerings. At one o’clock the young
men, coarsely clad, drag blazing tar
barrels through the town, blowing
horns and cheering. At six o’clock In
the morning they put off their grimy
clothes and dressed In fantastic cos
tumes go In groups to wish their
friends the season’s compliments.
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BELIEFS OF THE PEASANTS
Odd Christmas Superstitions Handed
Down From Past Ages to the
Ignorant Europeans.
HE peasantry of Europe
have had certain Christmas
superstitions handed down
to them from past ages.
Just how far these simple
folk can be fooled Is to be wondered.
If the light Is let go out on Christ
mas morning, you will see spirits.
If you are born at sermon time
Christmas eve, some one In the house
will die within the year.
If you steal hay the night before
Christmas, and give the cattle some,
they will thrive and you will not he
caught in any future thefts.
If you eat a raw egg, fasting on
Christmas morn, you can carry heavy
weights. It is unlucky to carry any
thing from the house on Christmas
morning until something has been
brought In.
It Is unlucky to give a neighbor a
live coal to kindle a tire with on
Christmas rooming.
If the Are burns brightly on Christ
mas morning, It betokens prosperity
during the year; if It smolders, ad
versity.
If a dog howls the night before
Christmas, it wlU go mad within the
year.
If you steal anything at Christmas
without being caught, you can steal
safely for a year.
On Christmas eve thrash the gar
den with a flail, with only your shirt
on, and the grass will grow well next
year.
Tie wet strawbands around the or
chard trees on Christmas eve and It
will make them fruitful.
On Christmas eve put a stone on
every tree, and they will bear the
more.
Beat the trees on Christmas night,
and they will bear the more.
If after a Christmas dinner you
shake out the tablecloth over the bare
ground under the open sky, crumb
wort wlU grow on the spot.
If on Christmas day or eve, you
hang a washcloth out on the hedge,
and then groom the horses with It,
they will grow fat.
As often as the cock crowB on
Christmas eve, the quarter of corn
will be as dear.
If you burn elder on Christmas eve,
you will have revealed to you all the
witches and sorcerers of the neighbor
hood.
SHOULD MAKE OTHERS HAPPY
Best Way to Celebrate Christmas Is
to Do Something in Memory of
Childhood Days.
T SEEMS that when one
has grown a little old, the
best and the happiest way
to celebrate Christmas is to
to do something for remem
brance—In remembrance of one’s own
childhood, for Christmas Is really for
the children, after all.
It is for children more than for oth
ers because It Is a day that commem
orates the birth of a child—that won
drous Christ child that was boru In a
manger of a stable In the little town
of Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.
Now, there will be scarcely a child
In all the world who will not await
the dawn of Christmas morning with
,a wondering soul. It Is the dawn of
that day when the morning stars sang
together, and when peace on earth
and good wIU toward men were pro
claimed from jthe high heavens. But,
there will be many a child to whom
Christmas will not bring Its dearly
longed-for happiness.
The children of the rich will not
be disappointed, nor will the children
of the very poor be disappointed. It
Is the child who has not rich or well
to-do folks, but who, at the same time,
Is not subject for charity, who will be
unhappy when Christmas comes.
And it Is this child that you should
gpek out and make happy—for remem
brances.
You see, It Is a fact that we can
make a happy Christmas tor ourselves
only by making some one else happy.
Do not think that you can make n
happy Christmas for yourself any oth
er way, because you cannot do so.
’fry the way here pointed out. The
child is easily found, and when you
have found that one and have'made It
happy, the very angola of God will
envy you the gladness Ufat you will
feel.
Devil's Food Cske.
Beat to a cream five level table
spooufuls of butter and one cupful and
a quarter of sugar. Add 8H squares
of unmelted chocolate, three unbeaten
eggs and one teaspoonful of vanilla
and beat together until smooth. Sift
3V4 level teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der with one-half cupful of flour and
stir In with the butter, sugar and egg
mixture. Then add alternately milk
pnd flour until you have used three
quarters of n cupful of milk and one
cupful of sifted pastry flour. Beat
smooth and bake in a leaf In a mod
erate oven. Pastry flour Is always bet
ter for cake than bread flour.
After ganta Has Filled to O’erw
flowing—
—the stockings of each girl and boy,
with trumpets and horns made for
blowing, and every known kind of a
toy—I wish that he’d buy me a pres
ent, a gift that no other could match,
that would make me feel Jolly and
pleasant—some woolens that never
would scratch.
His First 0
Christmas X
/>T MARY GRAHAM BONNER 0
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Copyright. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.
T WAS very
quiet In the
house. Outside
the snowflakes
w ere chasing
each other with
vigor and a
gayet.v and a
sense of t lie
merriment of
the season.
Voices could
lie heard shouting across Streets, wish
ing others “A Merry Christmas.”
Now and again the wind blew loud
ly, but not shrilly nor harshly nor
with a wailing sound. The wind, too,
seemed to be quivering with happi
ness. All of nature had Joined to
gether to be as beautiful, as radiant,
in honor of the day as possible.
The hills were covered with snow.
The branches of the trees were laden
with it. Icicles hung from eaves and
from corners of houses, and windows
were frosted with exquisite designs.
The shrubs, too, were covered with
snow. It looked more like Fairyland
than anything else.
In the house they were waiting, wait
ing, waiting.
How tense and long seemed the wait.
How nervous, how frightful, and yet
how marvelous—If all went well.
But just suppose everything didn’t
go well? Suppose anything happened?
Kay Clarke paced up and down the
floor and wondered how he could have
been so happy—so free from nervous
ness for so long a time.
He hated the great beauty of the
outside world. When he heard people
wishing each other “Merry Christmas”
he almost hated their smiles and their
cheerful voices.
How deeply he loved Lillian. She
was worth all the Christmas presents
In the world ! Of course. There were
no two ways about that.
And the doctor had said with such
a genial, merry twinkle In his eyes:
“Well, I fancy the young son and
heir will be a Christmas present from
the missus to you!”
He had laughed at the time, and
Lillian had blushed and smiled and
laughed, too. The doctor wras such
a friendly old soul—he had been the
doctor when Lillian had been born.
And he was fine, too.
But perhaps he counted too much on
Lillian's strength. Hay had been^ent
out of the room and he had been alone
here now for so long.
At first he had been so full of high
spirits. But the delay had been so
strange. They hadn't told him there
would be any such delay. They had
simply sent him out of the room and
had said that everything was all right,
and that they’d come and tell him
soon to be back to see his child.
He would go upstairs. He couldn't
stand this another moment. And It
was so quiet. He had fancied it
would not bo quiet. Then he heard q
strange shrill voice.
How curiously it sounded- W»S
that Lillian. She must be very ill to
have a voice sound so curiously. He
never heard It like that.
They couldn’t keep him from her.
She would want him, too. Of course
she would!
He hurriedly ran up the stairs. The
doctor was at the top of the stairs.
“Walt a moment; not so fast; not so
fast,” the doctor smiled. “1 was com
ing to tell you.”
“Couldn’t you have let me come to
her? Did you have to wait until it
was nil over to come ami tell me?”
Rify said In a husky voice.
".She wanted It to be that way,”
the doctpr sai;J. Stll) hp was smiling.
How could he smile at such a time?
How hard and Inhuman doctors be
came.
"I don't believe a word of It," lie
said. "She wanted me, I know. 1
Jienrd her cry. Thflt was it, ¥W
Kept me from her. You wouldn’t iejt
me go to her and she—she—wanted
me."
"My dear Ray, Just a minute," the
doctor said, but Ray hnd rushed past
him and was in Ids wife's room. Tears
were In his eyes.
Oh, he’d never forgive himself that
ha had consented to do what the doc
tor had told him to when suddenly
he noticed that Lillian was looking at
Mm, her eyes wide open, smiling hap
pily.
“Did you hear him shout out a
‘Merry Christmas' to you, Ray?” she
asked.
“It was the baby who cried?"
•-‘Not a cry, my love, ‘Merry Christ
mas’ was what he said!”
, “Lillian, my own, my own,” he mur
mured, and bent down over her. And
now the tears came freely. He didn't
cara at all about them. Nothing mat
tered. Tor the tears—they were the
tears of Joy I
FORMER O'NEILL
GIRL MARRIED
Fremont, Neb., Nov. 18.—A very
pretty wedding took place on Wed
nesday, November 16, at 9 a. m., in
the summer room of the beautiful
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Sch
moldt of this city when Miss Minnette
Nesbitt of Casper, Wyoming, was
united in marriage to Mr. Roy A.
Meads of this city.
The Mendelssohn Wedding March
was played as the bridal party enter
ed the room, attended by Mr. and Mrs.
Schmoldt.
Miss Nesbitt wore a going-away
suit of brown Silver-tone with hat to
match, carrying a beautiful boquet of
white Kilarney roses, artistically
caught up with bows of white ribbon,
while Mrs. Schmoldt was gowned in
a Pekin georgette over satin.
The impressive ring ceremony was
performed by Rev. E. D. Hull of the
First M. E. church.
The bride is one of Fremont’s effi
cient nurses, having won many friends
luring her training at the Fremont
Gen. Hospital.
She was a graduate of the O’Neill
ligh School in 1911, and has taught
n the Holt county schools.
Mr. Meads is a young man of ster
ing qualities who needs no introduct
yn to his many friends of this city in
vhich he has made his home for
nany years.
He is an ex-service man having
erved four years in the regular army,
welve months of which he was in
ctual service in France.
The happy yo.ung couple departed
nmediately for Omaha and Council
Huffs for a short visit.
They expect to make their future
ome in Southern California for which
dace they will leave very soon, stop
ing enroute at Casper, Wyoming, to
isit the bride’s mother,, Mrs. Emma
\Tesbitt of that city.
Their many friends of Fremont
vish them much happiness through
ife. ***
SUPERVISORS’ PROCEEDINGS.
Board met pursuant to call of the
clerk for the purpose of settling the
natter of the right-of-way at Liddy
lill on Road No. 49, Project 14-A. All
members present. Called to order by
chairman.
To the Honorable Board of Supervi
sors of Holt County:
In accordance with our private ne
gotiations and for the purpose of now
formally presenting the matter to the
Board in session, we, the undersigned,
John Liddy, Sr., and John Liddy, Jr.,
de hereby offer and agree to sell to the
County of Holt the strip of land re
quired by them for load purposes in
Section 24, Township 32, Range li
and to settle and satisfy all our claims’
tor damages to the remaining part of
said land, for the sum of $1,500 00
and upon payment of said amount, we
do hereby agree to convey said right
^ way by good and sufficient warranty
We further agree that in the event
of the acceptance of this offer by the
County Board by < formal resolution
that the County may immediately take
possession of said strip upon entering
an order for a warrant for the above
amount.
JOHN LIDDY, JR.,
By J. A. Donohoe, His Attorney.
JOHN LIDDY, SR.,
By J. A. Donohoe, His Attorney.
To the Honorable Board of Supervi
sors:
Gentlemen: 1 move you that we ac
cept the proposition of John Liddy,
Sr. and John Liddy, Jr., presented by
their attorney J. A. Donohoe and in
struct the clerk to draw a warrant on
the Road Fund for $1,500.00 in favor
of the parties above mentioned and de
liver same to them upon delivery of
deed for the land in question, and that
we rescind our action of Nov. 5, 1921,
requesting the County Judge to pro
ceed with condemnation proceedings.
J. V. JOHNSON.
JOHN SULLIVAN.
Upon motion being put by chairman,
same was carried.
Mr. Chairman: I move you that we
ask for one years’ extension *for the
completion of our contracts on State
and Federal Aid roads.
L. E. SKIDMORE.
J. V. JOHNSON.
Motion carried.
At 12 o’clock noon, on motion board
adjourned until Nov. 29, 1921, at 10
o’clock a. m.
W. T. HAYES, Chairman.
E. F. PORTER, Clerk.
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