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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
H JH T 1 I grzgi Gifts for the Children V S3SS Ofcbor gifts may please tho r child for tho moment but the BEST of all holiday presents is a Bank Account It costs nothing it brings lasting pleasure and it teaches tho Saving Habit Young people who learn to save live wholesome lives for they do notspond their money in ways that are detrimental to health and charactor You can opon an account for tho boys or girls Christ mas at this bank with ONE DOLLAR or more Wo give you a neat little bank book with the first record therein to bo presented on Christmas morning The First National Bank of Mccook - gJjAlJtJJUgHtfjirmKHTWiiijitu By F M KIMMELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Yearin Advance BARTLEY Mrs L O Davis went to Iowa last week being called there by the illness of her father Will Cornwall is hpre from the Pacific coaBt visiting relatives and old time friends E H Sexton left here this week with his family for his future home near Boise Idaho Hachenberg the furniture man has put in electric lights and purchased the furniture and undertaking goods of Jones Finegan Crawmer and now has the largest stock in Red Willow county The M E Sunday school is preparing a cantata to be rendered at the opera house Christmns eve Mr and Mrs Hodges of Cambridge visited in Bartley a few days last week with Mr and Mrs Philipp Voiles Lute Flint came home Tuesday from the hospital at Arapahoe where he was operated on a short time Bince for ap pendicitis Henry Cozad returned home Mon day from a business visit to Indiana John Ritchie is haviDg his barn en larged Mr and Mrs Wood of McAlester Oklahoma visited Mrs Woods father Dr Brdwn and other relatives in Bart ley a few days and left Tuesday on No 13 for their new home at Twin Falls Idaho Everet Olmstead came home from Lincoln last Friday where he has been attending the state university He will spend the holidays here with his par ents and many friends and then returr to his studies F A and R R Hodgkin are finish ing the E- E Smith ice house this week When completed it will hold over 300 tons Sam Peterson returned from the east ern parfc of the state this week to spena the holidays with Bartley friends Born to Mr and Mrs A L McElro a nice baby girl Tuesday December 22 There will be a Christmas tree at tht Christian church Christmas eve Mr and Mrs H L Burton of Wau neta are here to stay during the holi days They are visiting their daughter Mrs Etta Hoover and other relatives and friends GERVER Frances Albrecht who has been work ing at Abe Peters came home Thurs day - Mr Bailey who has been visiting in the east returned home Friday Lzzie Daugherty the Grant teacher went to McCook with M Austin Satur day There was a taffy pull at Albrechts Friday night Miss Daisy Albrecht returned Sun day from F S Loftons where she has been working - Some of the boys who have been husk ing corn in the eastern part of the state are home again M Austin lost two head of cattle in corn stalks Sunday Some of our citizens are shelling what corn they have Charlie Olmstead lost a horse and a cow in stalks recently Miss Sallie Hawkins was home first of the week Alex Ellis finished threshing cane seed for his neighbors Thursday - - sssasxawnTy it i wi i m Cbrietmas on tbe Stage UNDER THE MISTLETOE Seeing Santa Claus By LAURA FROST ARMITAGE Copyright 190S by American Press Asso ciation I E ARL to Ruth Oh I just wish we could see him Fred See whom Ruth Why Santa Claus Earl and I have just been talking about him and we were wishing we could get a peep at him once Gladys Oh I wouldnt like to Dorothy Harry and 1 tried it last year We came down and hid in the front hall but papa found us and sent us to bed Fred after thinking awhile Ive thought of something Santa Claus wouldnt come in if be should spy us but if he thought we were not real children he might Couldnt we fool - if - i - zyi i i L r 2ix5 4 r j CSS rtt 5 - mk - m SANTA WOTTLDNT COME IN IP HE SHOULD SPY US him by making believe we were Moth er Goose children right out of the book Dorothy How could we do that Fred We could dress like them and then stand perfectly still as if we were made of wax or something just the way you do in a tableau you know He might think if was sonif kind of n show of wax figures Earl Oh my I 1 couldnt keep as stil as that Harry ou could sf yuti really want ed to see Santa Claus Earl Oh I will I will See ui Poses Gladys Will we Iflive to sfand s very long Fred Oh not very very long We must all be ready before 12 oclock We must dress like Mother Goosa dren and Ill fix you in your places Ill be Boy Blue We can find some dress up clothes in the attic Harry 1 think Ill be Jack Horner I can have a pic Dorothy 1 want to be Bopeep A cane with a hook handle will do for a crook Gladys May I be Miss Muffet Earl What can Ruth and I be Fred You might be Jack and Jill and carry a pall of water An empty pail will do Now lets be off and see what we can find Then well go to bed and Ill lie awake and after papa and mamma go upstairs Ill call you and well come down very softly Exeunt II Children come tiptoeing in in cos tume stockings in band Fred Now well hang our stockings first All hang them Then well get into place Bopeep you stand here Hold your crook so Miss Muffet you must sit on this footstool and you must be eating Put your spoon to your lips so Jack Horner get into that corner and hold up your thumb with the plum on it Jack and Jill stand over here and take the pail be tween you I will stand here and hold my horn to my mouth so Now we mustnt move our eyes Its getting late Now all ready All pose Ruth after awhile Oh dear This pail is so heavy even if it is empty All Sh - Gladys after awhile How my arm aches All Sh Earl yawns aloud All Sh Harry My thumb is tired of stand ing up Dorothy Im so sleepy yawning All Sh Jack Horners hand drops then his head Bopeep drops crook and leans against wall Jill lets go of pail and slides to floor Jack soon does the same Miss Muffet s head drops for- ward Boy Blues eyes close and horn falls This rouses him for a moment but his eyes soon close again and he leans against the wall Enter Santa Claus All fast asleep Santa Claus Ah Well well well Some of the children of my old friend Mother Goose But what are they do ing here Walks about and looks at them closely Aha I know these children Theyre not Mother Gooses family Aha I see what they are up to Theyre waiting to see me and they dont want me to know them But they cant fool this old fellow Just as if he didnt know every child In the world Ive found children waiting for me many a time but they always fall asleep and miss me Ill fill the stockings and wont they be surprised when they wake up and find theyve missed me after all Fills stockings then puts toy or candy into Miss Muf fets bowl and into Jack and Jills pail Now I must be off But I be lieve Ill trv that uri of Roy Blue once Blows and rnis off dropping horn near door ildivii retire up i little at tind tV i rl bel Pjm for mcr po iti - III Morni - I ivd vv I viy Wake up Vi - ci for Harry-V-hi - Dcrothy nui - I Gladys I was Earl yavniiiT P 0 1 Ruth almost was sc sleepy Did you ell see him Others Oh no no Fred Well Im if raid we wore nl asleep But I heard him He blew on a big horn Harry and Dorothy I heard him Gladys And theres your horn Fred over by the door He blew on that Ruth See whats in our pall Hold ing it up Gladys And in my bowl Harry And see the stockings All Oh oh oh All run to get the stockings Dorothy Oh why couldnt we have kepi awake Fred Well weve missed him this time sure But nest year well try It again and well all keep awake All Yes indeed we will Cut It Out 99 A New Years poem old years shades were quite THE pulled down When through each village city town There passed a sandwich man with sign Whose legend filled a single line Cut it outl Be more specific said the man Who plainly rushed too much the can The sandwich man neer turned aside Only the legend writ replied Cut it outl Please state ex actly what youd say Desired the man who smoked all day But all the an swer that he got Was this laconic center shot Cut it out The man whoso face so haggard white Meant poker play ing night and night Required to know what thing was meant And got this answer eloquent Cut it out So every ono who looked on it Felt his especial fault was hit Their souls with new resolves did fill And all exclaimed aloud We will Cut it out So all braced up and for three days Frequented narrow proper ways And followed fully up the plan Suggested by the sandwich man Cut it out But ere the sandwich man did trace A four days journey from the place All things were as they were before And no one ever hinted more Cut it out New Orleans Times Democrat AZTECS HORRIBLE HOLIDAY They Celebrated the New Year With Human Sacrifices - The bloody and complicated ritual of the Aztecs commemorated the return of their masterful war god the sun from the south and the ceremonies carried on in his honor occupied a period of several days The initiatory rites be gan before daylight of the first morn ing when the chief priest and his sub dignitaries wended their way in sol emn procession to the top of their greatest pyramidal sanctuary Here the high priest retired alone to a small temple whose doorway opened toward the east and as the rising sun crimson ed and purpled the serrated mountains he knelt and sprinkled thickly upon the marble floor the sacred meal As the first rays of the newborn sun strike slantingly across the floor of tbe tiny temple the bended priest beholds a miracle Faintly at first then strong er and stronger grows an imprint in the meal of the naked foot of their war god Upon this miraculous manifesta tion the high priest announces to the assembled couriers that their god has returned to them and that the grand festal occasion is inaugurated Unhappily tht first feast rites were of a grewsome and horrible nature consisting mainly in sacrificing youths to the gods It is said that they were feasted for days previous to the cere mony that they might be In a whole some and pleasing condition upon their last and the war gods first great day In other ceremonies human beings were killed and flayed and the partici pants in the sacrifice enveloped Them selves In the bloody skins of the vic tims while they took part in a wild and uncanny dance While the observance of the new year among the Aztecs seemingly pre dominated in bloody rites tliey were most likely confined to the religious or der of the priests and the great mass of the people with no taint of blood on their hands might be happy and revel In the feast of the new year New York Herald The Jewish New Year In striking opposition to the spirit of joy and happiness which pervades Christendom generally is the New Year of the Jews With the Jews who also observe the New Year for two days the days are not days of feasting and enjoyment but days of judgment According to the belief of every orthodox Jew every member of the Jewish race is tried on the New Year The books kept in heaven are opened on that day The record of each man for the year just ending is looked through and taken under advisement for ten days On the tenth day the day of atonement the fate of each man for the coming year is drawn up whether he should live or die prosper or be poor On the day of atonement the fate is sealed and nothing can change it any more Chicago Tribune Their New Years Wishes y Weary Wraggles If I wuz only back at me old home what a spread Id have dis New Years day Oh fur de wings uv a dove Hungry Hank Oh fur de wings uv a turkey wid some plum puddin to come afterward New Years Preparations Jings I notice that Soakly wets his finger in the glass every time he takes a fresh drink Bings Yes he wants to keep It moistened so he can turn over that new leaf on the 1st im fiUfyliiiitMMITMI1llfffylyWyfyyW miUHHHHHMlWIWV THE OTHER WISE MAN Four were the wise men watching the star Three of them travelled with gifts from afar Three were searchers with wisdom grown After the pearl that a world might own Three found The Babe in a manger it lay The other the fallen along the way Three of the four in keeping the tryst Found Jesus alone the other the Christ j f F riwjttofcjbfayfcAiiWiii1 1y ittuituiautti j jiitiit4ttofcji n avwwwvwmWixvi Conducted by tbe McCook W C T Harrison County First Division Second i vision Tird Division Ionr Large Counties s 5 o r 0 0 0 5424 4175 86 C9 9 5 298S 2102 80 159 21 11 240C 18IH 77 335 26 18 2107 1678 67 5 to 31 5rp 4 68 51 3 a i 8 45 73 92 120 1GS W 5 TEMPERANCE COLUMN S U alcohol tiued and found guilty some of the evidence and the ver DICT startling exhiuit ok saloon INFLUENCE Here is a little object lesson on the Baloon as related to crime insanity di vorce wealth taxation and school at tendance It is compiled from tho Stato Auditors Report of the Stale of Ohio for the year 1906 Harrison couuty which has been 1 dry for many years is placed first in tho table then a number of counties designated as the First Division in which the saloons bear the smallest pro portion to every 100000 inhabitants then the Second Division having the next larger proportion of saloons then the Third Division and then the re maining four counties which are the four largest counties in the state This is the most startling exhibit of the real influence of the saloon that has been printed in many a day Read it Study it v 2 - - 2 o - g3 Li a o S S g 2 o o g w S a -3 s a o a o o tiii i - 8 S 2 2 g i i I I a i 1979 2aS0 288 52 8 2812 C33 3539 735 3923 918 Clint Hamilton Lumber Co I J R Stansberry Manager and Owner tniii itii j ttritriiiii iin iu i i1 1 I1 iniitxiii iij lllltl t r V Can any sane man after grasping the significance of that table go into a voting booth and conscientiously mark his ballot in favor of licensing saloon The Illinois Issue HOW AUSTRIAN UREWERS UNINTENTIONAL LY AIDED THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT At last we have an example of a boy cott of workingmen against tho raising of the price of beer When the brewers of Upper Austria attempted to raise the price of beer a boycott under the lead ership of tho Socialist executive com mittee was organized Literature was distributed to justify the boycott laying especial emphasis on tho fact that beer is a drink without valuo and detrimental to health Many thousands of workingmen who considered beer a necessity in their laborious occupations have become abstainers under the boy cott No doubt many will continue such when the brewers have found a way to end the boycott Union Signal A very interesting and helpful Ep worth League program is being planned for Sunday evening Dec 27th at the Mothodist church beginning at 645 lsdbythe cabinet oflicers Music by the E L choir Strangers are welcome j SSivr li E JJUKIIAM PAINTING and PAPER HANGING I make a specialty of paper hanging and carry a well se lected stock of wall paper Work guaranteed and prices reasonable Phone Red 267 foVWf I Live and Let Live lou know that I have lumber to sell and I told youlast week that I know how and where to get the very best lumber - on the market and that if you would call I would make you the price etc Now I want to tell you about a paint that I have to sell black in color and sells for 75 cents per gallon in small lots It covers shingle felt or paper roofsmaking a coating like rubber You can repair a leaky rcof in afew minutes or a bad place fixed around the chimney a leaky water tank made good as new common muslin covered with this paint and you have a stack cover can paint machinery of any kind in fact you can cover or paint anything that will take paint It will not crack or peal off it is waterJweather and sun proof it is odorless when dry makes a roof water tight and possesses a very high fire test and when applied as we direct we guarantee it for FIVE YEARS One gallon will cover 250 square feet and only costs 75 cents then why not patch up that leaky roof put a good roof on the chicken coop make a stack cover that will cost you 200 or 8300 that would cost you 81200 or 1500 bought in the regular way Call at the 3 2SSSZSSb V- SVfc V - 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