PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913.
PAGE 2.
CHRISTMAS DOINGS
AT MASONIC HOME
AND ORPHANAGE
Christmas at the Nebraska Masonic
Home in this city was a very pleasant
event for the old folks at the Home,
as well as the youngsters at the East
ern Star orphanage, and the festivities
continued from Christmas eve until
the close of Christmas day. On
Christmas eve a large tree was held
in the parlors at the Home, which
was laden down with gifts and remem
brances for .everyone, and there was
something for everybody in the Home
placed on the tree. Gifts were" re
ceived in large numbers from the
members of the Masonic lodges in
Omaha, as well as other lodges
throughout the state, which gladdened
the hearts of all. and the members
of the Eastern Star from the different
chapters also added their part in the
delights of the Christmas season with
gifts and tokens of love and esteem
to the family at the Home.
After the distribution of the gifts
the time was spent pleasantly in en
joying the good cheer of the occasion.
At noon Christmas day the members
of the Home were treated to a rare
feast which had been prepared by
Superintendent and Mrs. Askwith for
their benefit, and tl.e following ap
petizing menu was served:
Roast Turkey. Dressing.
Gilbet Gravy.
Rcast Sweet Potatoes.
'Mashed Potatoes.
Coldslaw. Celery.
Cranberry Sauce.
Nuts. Mine Pie. Candy.
Bread. Butter.
Coffee. Tea. Miik.
The occasion will h? very pleasant
ly remembered as one in which the
feeling cf Chri.-tmas cheer and good
fellowship found its fullest expression
and the members of the Home feel
that they have never had a more de
lightful time
MUST WALK STRAIGHT
IN FLATTSMGUTH ON
CHRISTMAS EVEN
George Smith, giving his residence
as Iowa. Mnw irito this city Saturday
and proceeded to take on board a large
quantity of Nebraska corn jjice,
which he was una'de to handle in
proper shape, and which resulted in
his falling into the hands of the law,
with consequences which proved to
George that the way of the wrongdoer
is beset with troubles galore. The
Iowa gentleman finally ended by fall
ing into the hands of the law, and on
promise of going back to Iowa and
depositing a bond to cover the amount
of a possible fine, he was allowed to
o. and this morning in Judge Arch
er's court the bond was forfeited and
the amount added to Hie cash receipts
of the office, as George failed to make
his appearance.
FARM LOANS, at 3 per cent and 3'i
per cent. No delays. T. II. Pollock.
We have no patience with a shoe that will not nearly AL
WAYS do. The half-and-half sort are a pest there are
no varied grades of "BEST."
When Ralston-shod, you need 'not fear, that they might
strike some folks as "queer." In office, on the links a
stroll they always seem to make a goal. You may be
dining with a "pal or spooning with some fellow's
gal; you may be sitting in a show, or where the sty
lish gentry go no matter R ALSTONS are "in
place" the vogue and leading ev'ry race. With
proper pride, you look 'em o'er, as friends and
strangers have before. You say the while "they're
pretty fit there's not a single doubt of it."
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BASKET BALL GAME
ON ROLLER SKATES
The basket ball game on roller
skates which was he'd at the Crystal
Star rink on Saturday evening, at
tracted quite a large number and
much amusement as well as interest
was created in watching the antics of
the teams as they played, the sport.
The teams contesting were the Sharks
and the All Stars, and the victory at
the close rested with the Sharks by a
score of 17 to 2. The Sharks were
composed of Hatt, Druliner, Sattler,
Walling, Waintraub, t:nd the All Stars
of Briggs, Buttery, Wainscot, Forbes
and Rebal. The boys feel well pleased
over the result of their victory, which
was won with brilliant playing.
DELIGHTFUL PARTY
AT THE AUGUST EN
GELKEMEIER HOME
A most delightful Christmas party
was held at the pleasant county home
of Mr. and Mrs. August Engelkemeier,
southwest of Murray. Saturday even
ing. The rooms of the Engelkemeier
home had been made very attractive
with the Christmas decorations, and
during the evening Santa Claus made
his appearance and presented' gifts to
all. Many other amusements and
games were indulged in, which made
the occasion a most enjoyable one. At
a suitable time delicious and tempting
refreshments were served, which ma
terially added to the pleasures of the
evening. After the serving of the
luncheon a few moments were devoted
to a social time and then, after wish
ing the host and hostess a Mery
Christmas, the guest.; departed for
their homes, having thoroughly enjoy
ed themselves. There in attendance
were: Messrs and Mesdames John
Albert, Fred Engelkemier, Henry En
gelkemeier and family,' Julius Engel
kemeier and family, Thiiip Albert and
family, Otto Puis and family, Henry
Albert r.nd family, J?I:e Kracger and
family, George Engcll.emeier, Misses
Mar garet and Emma Albert, Rosa En
gelkemeier, Gladys Wisthler, Jose
phine Frivel. Messrs. Guy McGill.
Fred Kahler, LoVisa Albert, Mr. and
Mis. August Engelkemeier and
daughter, Margaret.
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Mrs. J. H. Thrasher Better.
Mr:. J. H. Thrasher, who has been
suffeiing for the past week or ten
lays with the grippe, is now able to
be up r.nd around and is feeling a
great de.l impiovcJ in health, al
though she is still far from beirg well,
and has suffered considerably from
her illness.
Laughter Aids Digestion.
Laughter is one of the most heath -ful
exertions; it is of great help to
digestion. A still more effectual help
is a dose of Chamberlain's Tablets. If
you should be troubled with indiges
tion give them a trial. They only
cost a quarter. Obtainable everywhere.
A Moral here for Mr. Man, who tries
some other sort of plan. Why not a
shoe of sterling worth, th peer of any
line on earth. Then be ye home or
ANYWHERE, your shoes need never
cause you care.
RALSTON SHOES
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at work or at play.
Prices $4 to $6
CHRISTMAS SPIR
IT HALTS SLAUGH
TER FOR THE DAY
Only Desultory Firing Mars the Yule
tide Celebrations Millions of
Gifts Reach Soldiers.
VIRTUAL TRUCE IN FRANCE
London, Dec. 2G. Christmas day
passed without a single infantry fight
of any importance on the long Franco
Flanders front, with unimportant pa
trol skirmishes on Uie Russian front
and without a single shot being fired
along the Seibo-Greek frontier.
Oflicial dispatches reported only art
illeiy duels. In Flanders the French,
Belgian and British batteries con
tinued to e change shots with the
German a.tiliery around Ypres, Lom
baijzyde and Dixmude. Iji France the
struggle for the summit of Hart-mar.ns-wellerkcpf
ceased Christmas
day though artillery continued to seek
cut enemy works.
"In the Champagne region, our gun
ners dispersed an enemy offensive cn
the Tahure-Somme-Py road," sai.l to
night'.; laris ccmmuiiiuue. "Our
batteries also successfully bombarded
German positions soiith of Angles and
around Arras."
The official statement from Vienna
confirmed Berlin reports of a lull in
the lighting on the Russian front and
indicates a quiet Christmas in the
Italian war theatre.
Truce in Fiance.
A virtual truce existed on both the
Franco-Flanders and Russian fronts
on Christmas eve. Only desultory fir
ing, the official statements indicated.
disturbed the Yuletide celebrations in
the trerches, the unwrapping of mil
lions of presents frcr.i "the folks back
home" iir.d the impromptu vaudeville
entertainments behind the lines.
The oITioial statement from the Brit
i.-h war office reported about normal
artillery activity along the Flanders
ficrt cn Christmas day, but men
tioned no 'important! nfantry clashe.'.
and unofficial reports from Paris said
no important engagements occurred.
except po sibly in the Vosges. There
was little likelihood. Fa; is reported
that the scenes of !at year, when
German?, French and British frater
nized on Christmas day between the
trenches, were repeated because of the
feelings of bitterness cn both side of
the battle front.
The Di it!.-li war cilice statement re
ported ar'.illery activity cn both sides
jlhicughout Friday and on Christmas
eve around Yfies. Otherwi.se the
niirht before Christ-nas brought an
absolute lull along the Biiti h front
Germans Halt.
The Geiman war eff.ee statement
mentioned minor operations against
; the Bi iti.sh around La Passee, but in
dicated a halt in the bloody fighting
on the snowy slopes of liartmanns-
wellerkopf.
"West of Lit Bas:;oe, the enemy's
mining works were destroyed by suc
cessful Geiman blasting," said the of
ficial statement from Berlin.
"Otherwise the western frcnt was
quiet.
"On the Russian fiont there were
patrol engagements at several places
in which the Russiivi reconnoilering
parties, trying to aj.oroach the Ger
man line, were repulsed. Otherwise
there was an utter calm."
Ather.:; dispatches reported not a
j sdntcle shot exchanged between the op-
posing armies lined up along the
j Greek border. Angle-French soldiers
at Salomki flocked to Christmas en
tertainments.
Only Aerial Scouts.
Saloniki, Dec. 2". Not one shot
was fired along the Balkan fiont on
Chiistmas day. The faint hum of pro
pellers of aerial i-coii's of the oppos
ing armies was the only warlike sound
along the border.
At no point were t'te Anglo-French
forces and the Bulgars in contact. The
recent retirement of the Bulgarian
forces to avoid frontier clashes with
the Greeks put a strip of land several
miles wide between the two armies.
E. B. Taylor of Weening Water was
in the city today for a few hours look
ing after sorqe legal matters at the
court house.
Tbrrp J tnnlo Ca'srrh iu tii-; T?:nn of thi
country tliau all ttu-r !i. aws j.ut ti'tfrrtirr, ami
until the lust ! ye.ir w;is i ui'ikmci! to be
InvuiuMt'. .lor u gp.t uuuy .Viurs doctors
prununmcj It a locul ili.s. ;ise mid 'iv.scribt'l local
reiiu'li. txl by cuiitjiiiy lawiu to cur.r with
love I treatment. iru:iouiKvti it incurable. tcieuca
tax j roien CiUurih to tjo a co.iMuuli nal disease,
aud therefore ren'ii.vs co;ig:ltuiional treatmeut.
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tional rare on t:ie market. It 1 taken internally
In doses from id drora to a fuspoonful. It acta
directly oa the hi f1 and mucous surfaces at
the system. They offer cn hundred dollars for
any case lr falls to cure. Seud for circulars and
testimonial.
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A Quaint Christmas
tnifCustonii k
Blowing iu the Yule from the grim
old tower that bad stood SOO years
against the blasts of the North sea was
one of the customs of the old town
that abide, however it fares with the
Nisse; that I kuow. At sun-up. while
yet the people were at breakfast, the
town band climbed the many steep
ladders to the top of the tower, aud
up there, iu fair weather or foul and
sometimes it blew great guns from the
wintry sea they played four old
hymns, one to each corner of the com
pass, so that no one was forgotten.
They always began with Luther's stur
dy challenge. "A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God." while down below we lis
tened devoutly.
There was something both weird and
beautiful about those faraway strains
in the early morning light of the north
ern winter, something that was not of
earth, and that suggested to my child's
imagination the angels' songs on far
.ludcau hills. Even now, after all these
years, the memory of it does that. It
could iit have been because the music
was so rare, for the band was made up
f small storekeepers and artisans who
thus turned an honest penny on festive
occasions. Incongruously enough. 1
think, the Oflicial town mourner, who
tuide people to funerals, was one of
them. It was like the burghers' guard,
the colonel of which we thought him
at least a general, because of the huge
brass sword he trailed when he march
ed at the head of his men was the
town tailor, a very small but very mar
tial man. But whether or no. it was
beautiful. 1 have never heard music
since that so moved me. When the last
straindied away came the big bells
with their deep voices that sang far
out over field and heath, and our Yule
was fairly under way. Jacob A. Riis,
in Century.
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Christmas
Many of the most beautiful things of life are but mem
ories. Here is an incident which may become for some read
ers a pleasant and recurring realization of joy. It was the
good fortune of the writer a few years ago to be fate Christ
mas guest at a home where the true idea of Christmas cheer
and spirit , was realized. On the eve of the great day the
father of the flock brought forth Dickens' "Christmas Carol,"
and a well worn copy it was too. After they had gathered
about the fireplace he read aloud the first part of the story.
Then mother and each child in turn participated until the
story was completed. Many times had the writer read the
carol, but under the conditions just related the beautiful tale
had a newer meaning than had ever before been experienced.
' When I came into that home at the Christmas season long
since past," he said, "I could sense the real and true spirit of
the occasion, and when I was told that the reading of this
tale had been a custom of years I felt I knew the well spring
in which the spirit had its growth. I have now adopted the
custom in my own family, with a few changes. The story is,
of course, quite long for one reading, so we have developed
the plan of beginning the reading a week before the great
day, reading part each night. Then when Christmas eve
comes I have found it additionally valuable in fostering the
Christmas spirit to have read aloud the wonderful, beautiful
story of the nativity from the sectmd chapter of St. Luke.
We then complete the Carol, and every one is then truly ready
for the glorious dawning of the morrow."
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An Old Time English
Christmas
"On Christmas day, service in the
church ended, the gentlemen presently
repair into the hall to breakfast, with
brawn, mustard and malmsey," says un
account of a sixteenth century Eng
lish Christmas.
"At dinner the butler apixdutod for
the Christmas is to see the tables cov
ered and furnished, and the ordinary
butlers of the house are decently to set
bread, napkins and trenchers, in good
form, at every table wiyi spoons and
knives. At the first course is served
u fair and large boar's head, upon a
silver platter, with minstrelsy.
"Two servants are to attend at sup
per and to bear two fajr torches of
wax, next before the musicians and
trumpeters, and stand above the tire
with the music till the first course be
served in through the hall. Which in
formed, thwy with the music are to re
turn Into the buttery.
"At night, before supper, are revels
and dancing, and so also after jsuptor.
during the twelve days of Christmas."
At this time the nobility had entire
ly discarded their Joints of salted beef
and platters of wood and pewter, to
gether with the swarm of jesters, turn
biers and harpers that formerly had
been indispensable to the banquet
room; a stately ceremonial and sol
emu silence wore considered to be the
indications of true politeness. The ta
b!e was daily set out with a great ra
riety of dishes. - -.H .'H
When the company bad finished eat
va the remaining provisions were seni
to the waiters and servants, anil wheii
these had sulliciently dined the frag
iiu'iits were distributed among the poor
AND THE REINDEER CAME.
What They Brought Up to the tfomt
of the Little Rich, Girl.
An'-an' the teacher said." lisped
the baby of the rich, "there was ieiu;
deer hitched to sleighs full of dolls an
toys an things, running over tops of
houses ou the uight before Christmas."
"Yes," the proud father answered,
"the teacher was right. They drove
over your house last night, uud Santa
Ciaus unloaded a whole Christmas tree
full of things for you." - r
They carried the little rich girl dowu
the wide marblo stairway to the oik
paneled library , ou the first floor.
There, between staIm?d glass windows,
was a ceiling ' high Christmas ' tree
groaning with toy clowns. Shetland
ponies, fairies with jeweled clothes and
knobby parcels iu delicate wrappings
concealed in the evergreen branches.
Some one turned a switch, which light
ed the tree.
A tiny box hung far out on a greeu
branch, which the rich baby's father
detached and opened. Thebaby bent
over it with an uncomprehending look
It contained gold pieces. Left to her
self, she went up to the ininh-t'ire
house and doll family within her reach
under the tree. There was the doll
mother hovering over bisque children,
who sat In tiny baby chairs. The
house had curtains, carpets, a kitchen,
real stairs and a nursery. 'The baby
stood before it in wonderment.
Then she spied pranciug reindeer at
tached to a toy sleigh, the back of
which was filled with games, with
din ks which bobbed their heads while
they said "Quack." and little doll go
carts, which had lace covers aud sun
shades.
The morning or the afternoon of
Christmas day and many other morn
ings and afternoons were not long
enough for the baby to examine and
play with nil the toys and gifts which
that stalwart tree held for her.
"An' an" the teacher said." added
the rich baby, "that sometimes the
reindeer and the sleigh stopped for
only a minute at a chimney, to leave
one toy, an' sometimes sometimes he
did not stop at all." New York even
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SHOOJIWG MISTLETOE.
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Sometimes Christmas Plant Is Har
vested With a Gun.
The hunter took deliberate aim and
fired Into the higher branches of a
swamp elm. Only a bunch of foliage,
cut from its supporting bough by the
charge of bird shot, fell a yard or so
away.
"Missed him?" was the half queried
comment of a "tenderfoot" who had
strained his eyes in vain to see the
object of the shot.
"Missed nothing," came the rejoin
der. "Shootln' greens." lie added hy
way of explanation. He picked up
the clump of leaves flecked with wax
en berries and threw into a gunny
sack three or four pounds of mistletoe,
the reward of his marksmanship.
The open season for mistletoe begins
early in December, according to the
JCansas City Star, and continues until
only a day or so before Christmas, or.
In the lean years, until the crop is ex
hausted. The mistletoe on the Kan
sas City market comes from Oklahoma,
where in ninny localities the shipping
of Christmas greens is recognized as a
winter industry. The old method of
"shooting" mistletoe has been in large
part displaced, however, by agile boys
who earn men's wages by climbing for
the crop and carrying it to the ground
In sacks slung from their shoulders.
That preserves the foliage beauty by
leavinjTlhe berries intact. When the
boughs are "harvested" by the shot
gun 'method the charge jars many of
the globules from their tiny stems,
and the fall to earth but adds to the
bfoe.'-
Hail to the King.
HaU to the King of Bethlehem,
Who weareth in his diadem
The yellow crocus for a gem
Of his authority!
Longfellow.
END OF THE WAR
NEAR SO SAYS
KING GEORG
England's Kuler Expresses His Faith
in the Nation's Army
and Navy.
London, Dec. 2(J. The end of the
world war is drawing nearer, King
George assured the men of the Brit
ish army and navy in a message of
Christmas greeting.
"I desire to convey on behalf of my
self and the queen,' heartfelt Christ
mas greetings and good wishes for
the new year," said the royal mes
sage. "In the officers and men of the
navy I repose absolute trust. On the
officers and men of the armies, I rely
with equal faith, confident that their
devotion, valor and self-sacrifice un
der God's guidance will lead us to vic
tory and an honorable peace.
"Another year is di awing to a close
as it began, in toil and bloodshed and
suffering. But I rejoice that the goal
for which you are striving draws
nearer."
Elks Formal Dance.
The Elks will hold a formal dance
at the club house o:i Friday evening,
December 31st, to which the members
of the order and their families are in
vited. It had been expected to hold a
masquerade on this date, but the in
ability made necessaiy the change in
plans.
If you want New Year cards this
season, see the fine line at the Jour
nal office.
E. O. Steihm and wife and daugh
ter were Christmas visitors here at
the home of Judge and Mrs. J. E.
Douglass, the parent3 of Mrs. Steihm.
Ed McMaken and family of Sheri
dan, Wyoming, came in Friday even
ing to visit over the holidays at the
home of his brother, J. II. McMaken
and family.
L. D. Iliatt and wife of Murray
came up Saturday evening and visit--ed
over Sunday in this city with their
relatives and friends, returning home
last evening.
John M. Epineter and family of
Om:dia were over Christmas visitors
in this city at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. T. M. Tatterson, enjoying the
holiday festivities.
Paul Outland and wife came down
from Omaha Friday evening and visit
ed over Sunday with relatives and
friends, being guests of Mrs. Out
land's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Buttery.
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