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V. G. LYFORD'S I V. G. LYFORD'S V. G. LYFORD'S | V. G. LYFORD’S_ Ladies' Skirts for $2.50 40 ladies high grade, all-wool Skirts, formerly sold at from 55 to $S 50, in blacks, browns, blues, greys and fancies —all sizes, to close Now $2.50 These are not bad st\ les. They are good wearers and are better values than we have ever offered at a closing out price. Ladies Goats, $10 About Fifty All wool, kersey, full-length, half Venetian lined, beauti fully trimmed with satin strapping; in black, navy and brown; sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. This is the best value we have offered this season, These coats would be cheap at $12.50. Bv a late purchase we can sell them For $10.00 New Sul JUST IN Brown and Blue Tailored Suits, in the styles that have been most popular early. Elegantly trimmed in satin strap pings and buttons. Sizes 34, 36 and 38—as good values as we could give thirty days ago for $25. This lot goes at $18 and Only a small lot—come early if you are interested. Misses’ Coats for $2.50 2d Misses' Coats, 6 to i } years, in blue, red, castor and brown. bull length, not out of stale, worth, up to >5. lo close at Only $2.50 GhildsCoat$S.25 15 Child's Coats, 2 to 5 years, white, red, blue and lancies. W orth $2 to $3, to close now at Only $1.25 Ladies' Tailored Suits for $5.00 io Ladies’ Suits, formerlv sold at from $14 to $20, not new this season but high grade materials, short jackets ---- and serviceable. In black, two si/e 44, two si/e 36, one si/e 38, three size 40; dark grew one size 3<>, one si/e 40. Your choice of these Suits » For $5.00 From Across the Seas An Interesting Communication From Thurston McCoy Through the kindness of Mrs. C. McCoy we are enabled to give our readers the following letters received by her from her son Thurston, who is on the U. S. S. Georgia, now in Japan. U S. S. Georgia.—My Dear Mother:—Just received a wine less telegram that a typhoon is passing over Cavite and coming this way, though it can do no harm to us in the inner harbor. I have been in three or four al ready. We are coaling ship now, (Sunday) going to take on 1,500 tons. Won’t get paid until we reach Yokohama. It is awfully hot here. No liberty to be granted on account of an epi demic of cholera, so it is very doubtful whether we will see the city or not. Am well and feeling fine, but am always thinking of the length of time still to be served on this enlist ment and I will be one of the happiest men alive when the day comes to be discharged. Jjst think, it will soon be six years since I have been in Falls City. Thanksgiving and Christ mas will soon be here. I ex pect to spend my Christmas this year around Ceylon and my next birthday in Morocca. I’ll try and get the steward to bake a cake in my honor. My last birthday was passed in the St. ot Magellan and the one previ ous in Washington, D. C. The typhoon is on us and it is storming something great. It is so rough on the water that I can hardly write. I am get ting so I rather like them now as they cool the air off consid erably in this hot climate. When we left Albany, West Australia we were wearing blue. Four days out put us in whites and from the time we struck .the north part of the Indian ocAin and got into the Java Sea, it has been severely hot. All the way up the coast of Borneo we sweltered in heat but the Philippines are the lijmt. Coining by Zamboanga, the largest city on the Island of Mindinao, wTe were given and returned salute. The only white people down there are a few soldiers and the Governor Gentral. We are anchored in the vicinity of where Dewey was when he did his famous 6tunt and can see w’here the Spanish fleet was lying. I guess I will have to end this letter as I am information ex hausted and you and Grandma will be tired reading it by tins time. Now write often and keep well. From your loving son, J. T McCoy. U. S, S. Georgia, Oct. 2J— Dear Mother—Well here I am in another foreign country. I add a new one to my list every two weeks. We leave tomorrow to go back to Manila and will put in over a month there. I have been so busy since our arrival here that 1 havn't had a chance to do any writing what ever until this afternoon and' then the mail closes at 7 p. m. I today. You should receive this } letter in about three weeks. I have not received much mail from the states since leaving, I wonder what is the matter. Have had a very tine time in Japan anti everything is very interesting. We have had the | best reception of them all in' Japan. They are very polite and put themselves out to do the most trilling of things for us. I wish you could see all of us riding in jin ricka-sbas. You get in a little two wheeled car riage and a Jap pu ls you all day on a dog trot and every where lor almost nothing. Some of the Japanese girls are very good looking and one thing nice there is no false modesty about any of them. I’ll have to shorten this letter to get some official work com pleted. Am enclosing itinerary of our return trip from Manila. Take good care of yourself and Grandma and say ••hello’’ to my friends. 1 got your letter with the post card picture of the house, but can hardly make out any of tne people are. Will close with love to you all. Am well and dappy. Write often and don't worry over me. Your loving son J. T. McCoy. Obituary Harry Cline was born May !, 188b, (lied Nov. 12, 1908, aged 22 years, 6 months and 12 days. He was ill for many weeks with typhoid fever and in the early morning he fell asleep to awaken in another world. The funeral services were conducted from the Maple Grove church by Rev. J. Lehrman. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, two infant chil dren, and one sister. His m ny friends join in extending sympa thy to the loved ones in their hour of trial and sorrow. MARKET LETTER From Our Regular Kansas City Stock Yards Correspondent Kansas City Stock y aids,Nov, 1 0, Smaller cattle receipts after Mon day last week caused tire market to turn upwards, and Wednesday was the high day this fall on nearly a'l kinds, Thursday there was a liberal run at all points, arid prices declined slightly,and closed the week 15 to 25c below the high time. The run today is 18,000 here, and excessive at Chicago, market 1m to 20 lower on steers, other cattle, including cows and stockers and feeders, steady to 15 lower. The large volume of sup plies since a week ago has put packers ifi shape to dominate things temporarily, but it is not believed that the run will continue heavy, and when receipts drop down, there will no doubt be another bulge in prices. Feeders in the corn belt are against long feeds, arid few finished beeves are included, tops last week $7.25 to i $7 i!0. Any incentive in ihe way of higher prices causes a rush to market by timid rperators, as in stanced in today's heavy supply at all points. Bulk of the fair to good fed steers bring $5.50 to $0.80, some e1eer& last week fed on corn since pastures began to fail at $5.25 to $5.75, grass steers $•1.75 to $5.50. grass cows $2 to $1.50, top fed cows $5, heifers $0, bulls $2.40 to S-1.75, calves 25 to 50c below a week ago, $1.50 to $0.75. Stockers and feeders mov ed freely laRt week »t 25 to 40c higher prices but closed with a reaction of 10 to 15maiket steady to 10 lower today, stockers $1 to 4.40, feeders $1 75 to $4.75, good branded cattle $2.Sq to $1.25, Hog receipts here last week ag gregated 102,000 head, and the market declined 10 to 15; for the week. Run is 14,000 today,market 10 lower, top $5,75, hulk 65.25 to 6 ».<)5. Quality is getting better each week, and weights a little^ heavier, but tendency is to finish them at as light a weight as possi ble. Considering the lug receipts lately, the market is strong, 40 to t»0c above a year ago, when re ceipts were only half as heavy as now. Sheep and lambs are in light supply, 23,000 here last week, and (5,000 today, and prices are 25 to 40c above a week ago, though barely steady today with the high point reached Friday, Top lambs sold at $(5.10 today, yearlings 1 worth up to $5, wethers $4.60, | ewes $4.25, whether the stuff is fed or fattened on grass, if well finish* 1 ed. Country grades are 30 to 50c higher than a week ago, feeding lambs up to $5,15. yearling $4 to $4.50, wethers up to $4.25, stock and breeding ewes $2.75 to $4. I Fire at Morrill i Fire was discovered in the Spurgin millinery store at Mor rill Wednesday morning at two o’clock. The Misses Spurgin lived in the rear of the store. The tire is suppossd to have caught from a defective Hue. T..e row, four in all, of frame buildings from the post office to the Citizens State bank was burned. They were owned by Francis Schaffer and daughter, of Falls City,the Brown County Mutual Insurance, and E. B. McKim. The total loss was about$700J with an insurance ot $8,500. The brick building owned by Dr. Robinson was next to the burned buildings but only the up stairs of this was damaged. Dr. Robinson's office fixtures valued at $400, were burned, no insurance. Dr. Chas Davis, dentist, lost bis office fixtures, valued at $350, with no insurance. The loss on the building a as $1,000 which is covered by insurance. The citizens bucket brigade turned out in full force and had the tire under control at four a. m. —Hiawatha World. Corked 'Em Up The crusade of the sheriff and his deputies waged against whiskey importation from Falls City and bootlegging in ibis city lias corked ’em up in certain quarters and the inquiry is. wnat shall we do to be saved. The sheriff was accosted by a colored fellow with, “Say Mis tali Seamings, what ah you all wanton for to do? Can’t a pus sen tote ah bottle uv whisky in his pocket?” ‘Tt looks that way now,” said the sheriff, “and things seem to be getting worse every day. ” “Well sail, yuse ul never catch dis chile wif a bott e in lie’s pocket.’ That’s right, said the sheriff and tor the boy’s information suggested that when the X-ray I machine and stomach pump, which thecounty commiss.oners sent for arrives there will be something doin' when the fel lows who go to Falls City and come home full. De Lord amas sa said the colored boy as he broke lor down street. H iawa > tha World. I am now prepared to do all kinds of Pump and Windmill repairing Can also furnish you Pumps. Wind mills and Gasoline Engines. Phone calls answered. 12-11 J. D. HAYS If You Are Over Fifty Read This Most peopl e past middle age suffer from kidnej aDd bladder disorder which Foley’s Kidney remedy would cure Stop the drain on the vitality and restore needed strengtn and vigor. Commence taking Foley's Kidney Remedy today. Kerr’s Pharmacy... ... IN THE REALM OF THE CZAR Russians Look Upon Christmas as the Most Sacred and Most Celebrated Holiday. aHIUSTMAS Is the most sa- I cred and most celebrated holiday In Russia. Contrary to the custom In nearly all other countries, Christmas there always comes on Sunday, and a1 continuous celebration is held until midnight on January 2. The Russian believes In devout re ligious services in honor of the birth of Christ, and eacl\ day during the season each family, including all its members, attends church at least once. On Christmas morning the most important services take place. Each congregation marches solemnly to the nearest river, which is always frozen over, the ice being sometimes as much i as three feet thick. After a largo hole has been chopped ! In the fee the priest dips his cross in the water and prayers are pronounced, after which the priest holds baptismal exercises. Having been blessed by the priest the water is considered to be holy and as hist as the people can file by the hole in the ice bottles of all sizes and descriptions are filled with the water. . This water is prized the most high ly of anything in the home, and bottles of it are sometimes found a century or more old. Some fanatics securo large quantities of it and bathe In it at regular intervals during the year. There is one custom which many Americans would cherish in their own Christinas celebration, and especially the young people. It is that of kissing, for on Christmas day every one steals a kiss from whomsoever he meets. In some cases, and among the older peo ple, the hearty handshake is much used, but the younger element clings closely to the old style. Santa Claus is unknown to Russian children, but the “Babushka," an old woman witch, carrying a long stick and attired in the usual w'itch cos tume, visits the homes in every vil lage and city and distributes greetings and then comes at night aud leaves the gifts for both old and young. WORSHIP AT CROSS OF ICE Scattered Christian Tribes in Turkey Celebrate Christmas with Im pressive Ceremonies. aSBaggaOHAMMKDISM Is tile pro vailing relie.lon • in Turkey unS Ml and for that reason only the few scattered Christian tribes observe the birthday of Christ in any manner. The Mo hantmednn Turks have hut two boll days in the entire year, those being "Car Hon Hiram,” the day of forgive ness, which is the Mohammedan New Year, and "Bairam," the anniversary of the date when Mohammed gave to his people his scripture. The Fri day of tlie Christian Is the Sabbath of tlie Mohammedan and is observed by him in Hie same manner as Sunday with the Christians. The Christian Turks, who include the Bulgarians, Servians, Monte negrins and other smaller tribes, ob serve Christmas with impressive re ligious ceremonies. Three days before Christmas tha 'Hladego" appoints a delegation of 100 men form each congregation, who go to the river and hew out immense rakes of ice, after which they con struct a huge pyramid near by, A great cross measuring about -10 by 60 feet and cut from the bed of ice is set up against the pyramid, and the place of worship for Christmas day is completed. Early on Christmas morning all the people march to the pyramid, where the initial exercises are conducted by the “Hladego." A small crucifix used by him in the exer cises Is the prize of the younger men of the tribe, who dive into the ice-cold water after it as the "Hladego” throws it in. Many are drowned annually ia this practice, but they all consider themselves fortunate to die while ea such a mission. From the pyramid the procession marches to the home of the priest, where bread is blessed and broken by the "Hladego” and ull present partake of the food. Keep ever in tlie path of duty, hu' ail not to climb the steep of knowl edge.—Newton. A grape cream of tartar powder. Makes pure, healthful, delicious food. No alum, no lime phosphate. i There is an infallible test by which every housewife may detect the uuhealth ful alum baking powders— The label will tell Study the label. If it docs not say cream of tartar the baking powder is made from alum and must be avoided.