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Harness, Saddles,
Whips, Etc.
Oiling Harness, $1.00
Ii in need of anything
in our line call and see
us.
All Work Guaranteed
OTTO WACHTEL
Falls City, Nebraska
When Santa Claus
Comes To Town
the improvements tli.it have been made
in the science of d. ntistrv, esp^'iidly at
Dr. Yutzy's, will surprise him. Kvery
year we improve in our m thuds of in
serting crown and bridge work, and in
improving the mouth with crown work.
All lines of tine dentistry are attended to
efficiently by
I)R. YUTZY
BERT WINDER, I). I>. S.. Assistant
Tails City, Nebraska
* SPECIAL SALE!
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* German China Salad Bowls
* Nicely Decorated, Special at
25c, 35c, 50c, 65c and 75c
Displayed in the South Window at
CHAS. M. WILSON'S
The Falls City Roller Mills
j> Does a general milling business, and manufactures the
following brands of flour
!* SUNFLOWER MAGNOLIA CROWN
The above brands are guaranteed to be of the highest pos
sible quality. We also manufacture all mill products and
conduct a general \
| Grain, Live Stock and Coal Business
i and solicit a share of your patronage
| P. S. Heacock & Son Falls City, Nebr.
It has&ejargest circulating! lie
base burner!
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,ond this,with th« new
Side flue neatingsurfair maKesit
the 5TRONOEST MEMTR foremost,
of fuel used EVER. PRODUCTD
7/if/Vetr ROUND OAK BAS L
BURNER./^ wort A in vestige ting
The New
Round Oak
Base Burner
The greatest heater for
amount of fuel con
sumed ever known in
this type of stove. It
is a decided improve
ment in base burner
construction and com
bines new and advanced
features in tine build
ing and control of the
fire, owing to fine
workmanship.
J. C. TANNER
Falls City, Neb.
Subject to Call
We receive deposits subject to call, al
lowing a fair rate of interest thereon
if left three months or longer.
Your account solicited.
The Farmers’ State 5ank
PRESTON, NEBRASKA
Under State Supervision and Control
SPOILED BY A COOK
CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE IN A
WOMENS BOARDING HOUSE.
Hov a Famished Tableful Had to Wait
for Their Turkey Until the Bel
ligerent Female Could Be
Coaxed from the Room.
“My most unpleasant and yet most
comical experience of Christmas keep
ing." said the concert singer, “dates
bark to the time when I lived for
economy's sake in a home for working
women. The cook we liar! was a good
one. and so. when Christmas day came,
we all fell assured that at one o'clock
we should have our orthodox turkey
arid plum pudding dinner.
“Hut one bottle of whisky, smug
gled into a Christian kitchen, will up
set the expectations of 30 hungry
hoarders, .lust how many drinks Hie
rook had that morning. I cannot say.
lull when dinner time came she was
belligerently drunk. The turkey was
as well roasted as though she had
been sober, but what was that, to the
hoarders In general, when she stood
over It, carving-knife in hand, declar
ing that not a soul in that dining-room
should have a mouthful of it hut
mamma and myself?
"Vainly did the matron threaten and
entreat. The determined cook was no!
to tie disarmed. Mamma and i were
bountifully helped, but the others sat
and waited, wondering what would be
the outcome of the trouble. Finally,
the defeated matron came out of the
kitchen, and with tears in her voice,
said to me:
"'I can do nothing with her. Will
you go In and see what you can do?’
"And so I went in, and in my most
affable manner invited intoxicated
Hridget to sit down and have a friend
ly cup of tea with myself. She com
plied, though with tm eye still on the
turkey. After we had had our tea, by
exerting all of my arts and wiles I per
suaded her to go up stairs and to bed.
It was not until she was safely out of
(lie kitchen that dinner was served to
tlie other hoarders.
“Of course (lie next day there was a
bad quarter of an hour for that rook,
one that ended with her 'getting her
duds together and skipping.' Many,
in fact, all of us, were ready to plead
for tier, knowing that she could not
easily be replaced; but the matron
was adamant, protesting that in her
experience with the creature she had
already forgiven her until seventy
times seven, and she wasn't going to
forgive her again. And I heard afler
ward that it. was really a year or
more before the woman was taken
back again into that kitchen.
"Naturally, it was easier for the
other boarders, who, you may be sure,
resented that ‘inwasion of their wit
ties,’ to forgive tin' cook than to make
friends with mamma and me, and from
that time on we were the most unpop
ular persons in the house. We had
been ruined by a cook’s favor. It
would not have mattered so much
about the boarders, but the defection
of her kitchen head was too much for
liie matron’s magnanimity, and as she
managed the lady managers of that
Institution, It was not very long before
we too, in our culinary friend's lan
guage, had to ’get our duds together
and skip.’ ”
HOW ST. NICK FOOLED JOHNNY.
The Boy's Parent Bought Useful Pres
ents When Santa Passed Him By
"I'll lay for St. Nicholas,” Johnny
said to liis little sister. Sue.
“Why?" she asked.
"If he wants to leave useful pres
ents I'll just stop him!” was his
boastful answer.
"You'd best not!" Sue said—girls
have these premonitions.
lie said: “Pshaw, I'm as foxy as St.
Nicholas!” and while his little sister
lay asleep he watched.
Time passed. The clock struck mid
night, Then he saw his papa and his
mamma entering silently with certain
bundles.
“What's up?" he called to them.
"Where's St. Nicholas? I've been lay
ing for him bo's to head him off from
leaving clothes and things as he did
last year!"
"Hash boy!” said his father.’after a
moment of reflection. “Your mamma
overheard your audacious plan—
which almost kept St. Nicholas from
the house! I assure you 1 would uot
have Intervened but for the sake of
your sister.”
“How? What?” asked John.
"Hush! Yes, St. Nicholas was very
angry you should dare to criticise his
gifts. He weuld have passed us alto
gether had 1 not gone to the roof and
said: 'St. Nicholas, don't go off like
that. 1 have a little daughter who is
innocent. Give me her presents!’”
“Did he give them, papa?" asked
the boy.
“For sure.”
“Then what are those store bundles?”
"They are your gifts!" answered
papa, spreading out the useful ob
jects—I think that it was a new hat,
overshoes and an umbrella. As St.
Nicholas left nothing for you. your
mamma and I went out and bought
them!"
A Perpetual Christmas Present.
Mrs. Caller—You surely don't give
your husband a necktie every Christ
mas?
Mrs. Athome—Oh, yes, I do! And
the poor dear never seems to know
m It is the same one!
A sty* arose o'er Bethjehern.^nd
to «ce ~~?M 1 1- \
The wondrous light flood lull/and -lie fco
mystery; /n I i ^//.
The shepherd* 'bowed their heads',m
wicked stooped to pravj J.^yVSK
For, grace and pity on their souls/r|Or\h
* Christmas Day
A star arose o’er Bethlehem eat IV. rock and hill
and tiee v./ C "" jL \ V^Vil
Swam then in wave- of amethyst andfnr as one
could see 'K/ i^VVY
The purple shades / upoiy/the /hillaa they, t,old of
leaf and,sum— , /(. J \ \ /J V. )
All this they saw with wondering eyr$, nor knew
“ifiT* i.iD' Uj(
A star arose o'er Bethlehem. XJ\ fost^ and Itveak
and bound!,/ A /' ^
There is a promise' in the words; a jsolace in the
sound.' / W;4Vi. ' ^ l/$t
O turn thy facpl towards hid&h>v plamnts lowly
manger see.'
And know the star o'er Bethlohrn '\e£ now the
star for thee!
' ^ e - Z? —RUTH STERRY
vs
HIS CHRISTMAS SCHEME.
Deep Laid Plot That Resulted in a
Fine Dinner.
"Mrs. Skinem.” lie timidly began as
the landlady <>f the boarding house
came to her floor in answer to his
knock, "I—I called to see you just a
moment regarding the Christmas din
ner."
"Well,” she asked with a scowl that
made him wish he was a thousand
miles away.
"You see," he went on, "we—we
were talking it over just now, and we
derided that it would be best not to
have turkey or plum pudding or ice
cream on Christmas, as—”
"Stop right where you are, sir—
stop right where you are!" rut in the
landlady, angrily. “Who do you think
is running this boarding house, any
way?"
"Why, you, of course, ma'am.”
"Who provides the meals here at
great trouble and expense?”
"You do, my dear Mrs. Skinem."
“Who sees that the people of this
house always get what’s best, for them
to eat?”
"You—you do, Mrs. Skineni.”
"Am 1 a woman, do you think, who
Is capable of running a first-class
hoarding house as one should be
run?" she demanded to know as she
looked him up and down in a way to
make his hair curl with fear.
"You—you certainly are," he prompt
ly replied.
“Well, then," she said, “you may go
down and tell the other boarders that,
just as long as I am at the head of this
place and pay the rent and buy the
provisions I propose to do as 1 see fit.
and 1 will take no orders, sir, regard
ing the meals."
And instead of the beef stew and
bread pudding that Mrs. Skinem had
planned for the Christmas dinner she
provided a 20 pound turkey and a
mammoth plum pudding and a gallon
of ice cream, and she went around
nil day with a chip on her shoulder,
just wishing that some one would
make a complaint about it.
But there were no complaints.
There were only chuckles and smiles
and whispers over the little game that
had been played so neatly on Mrs.
Skinem. and sometimes a shiver as
some of the more timjd thought of
what would happen if the husky land
lady ever learned of it.
LEGEND OF SANTA CLAUS.
Stockings Hung on Door of Mother
Abbess in French Convents.
There grew up a custom in Christian
countries of giving presents in secret
on the Vigil of St. Nicholas.
In Italy it was called the Zopasta,
which means in Spanish a shoe, be
cause the gifts were put into shoes to
surprise people when they should put
them on in the morning.
In many French convents the board
ers used to place each her silk stock
ing at the door of the room of the
Mother Abbess, reeommending them
selves at the same time to St. Nicholas
And In Germany a boy dressed as a
bishop would go round in vestments
and mitre and fill the stockings hung
up.
This solemnity of the boy bishop
came to be kept here with much care
and ceremony on the feast of St.
Nicholas to commemorate his youth
and his patronage of children. In
Salisbury cathedral there is, or was,
a monument to one of these boy
bishops who died during his term of
office. The same custom was observed
in Spain, and In Switzerland until the
end of the eighteenth century. At one
place in England, the convent of God
stowe, In Oxfordshire, public prayers
were said by a little girl dressed as an
abbess.
The custom, stopped here first by
Henry VIII. and afterward by Queen
Elizabeth, was in a different form
carried on by the Dutch in America
and became in the end the secularized
ceremony we still use here of Santa
Claus, a person dressed in Dutch or
German winter clothes of the sixteenth
century.
Suspicion, Not Surprise.
Mrs, Gramercy—She must have
been surprised when her husband
gave such an expensive present foi
Christmas.
Mrs. Park—Not surprised, my dear,
but suspicious.
Dispersion Sale of
Shorthorn Cattle
We will offer at
Public Auction,
at our farm six
miles northeast
of Falls Citv, on
Thursday, Dec,
3d, /908, about
50 head.
Henry Hahn & Son
Hides and Furs
Wanted
Highest market pr’ces—1st
house south of l’eter Freder- i
ick, Sr.
PORTER RANDOLPH
Phone 422
TROWER BROS
/ Sam R. Trower, Harry F. Trower \
V and Hen K. Rively /
are now associated with
Geo. R. Barse Livestock
Commission Co.
at the Kansas City Stock Yards
where they are taking care of and handling
all the business of their patrons the same as
in the past. Our pen location is the same
as fof the past twenty years,
i Plenty of Yarding Space and Plenty of
Help, enables us to handle all business to a
Better Ad vantage than ever before.
- John WmTSH
ATTORNEY
Practice in Various Courts
Collections Attended To.
Notary Public. FALLS CITY
EDGAR R. MATHERS
DENT IIS T
Phones: Nos. 177, 217
Sam'l. Wahl Building
J)R: M. L. WILSON
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office and Residence over
McMillan’s Drug Store.
Phone 329. FALLS CITY, NEB.
Fi F>. ROBERTS
DEN'TIS'T
Office over Kerr’s Pharmacy
Office Phene 2(i0 Residence Phone 27]
DR. C. N. ALLISON
DENTIST
Phone 248 Over Richardson County
Bank.
FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
The Cough Syrup that
rids the system of a cold
by acting aa a cathartic on the
bowels is
LAXATIVE
COUGH SYRUP
Bees is the original laxative cough syTup,
contains no opiates, gently moves the
bowels, carrying the cold off through the
natural channels. Guaranteed to give
•au^faction or money refunded.
A. G. WANNER
Rheumatism
I have found a tried and teeted cure for Rheu
tratiem! Not a remedy that will etraJghten the
flistorted limbs of chronic cripples, nor turn bony
growths back to flesh again. That is impossible.
But I can now surely kill the pains and pangs of
this deplorable disease. ,
In Germany—with a Chemist in the City of
Darmstadt—I found the last ingredient with
Which Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Remedy was made
a perfected, dependable prescription. Without
that last ingredient, I successfully treated many,
many cases of Rheumatism; but now. at last, it uni
formly cures all curable cases of this heretofore
much dreaded disease. Those sand-like granular
wastes, found in Rheumatic Blood seem to dissolve
and pass away under the action of this remedy as
freely as does sugar when added to pure water.
And then, when dissolved, these poisonous wastes
freely pass from the system, and the cause of
Rheumatism is gone forever. There is now no
real need—no actual excuse to suffer longer with
out help. We sell, and in confidence recommend
Dr. Shoop’s
Rheumatic Remedy
(ALL DEALERS)
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WINTER
JOURNEYS
WINTER TOURIST RATES
Daily 1 ow excursion rates
after November 20th to
Southern and Cuban resorts.
Daily now in effect to South
ern Califor lia. Lower yet,
homeseekers excursion rates
iirst and third Tuesdays, to
the South and Southwest.
CORN SHOW, OMAHA
December 9 to 19. Visit
this interesting exposition
of the best corn products
and their use. Attractive
program with moving pic
tures, electrical illumination,
sensational prizes for the
best exhibits. Consult the
agent or local papers.
SECURE AN
IRRIGATED FARM
We conduct you on the first
and Third Tuesdays of each
month to the Big Horn
Basin and Yellowstone Val
ley, assisting you in taking
up government irrigated
lands with a never-failing
water supply under govern
ment irrigation plants. Only
one-tenth payment down.
No charge for services.
Write D. Clem Deaver,
General Agent, Landseek
ers’ Information Bureau,
Omaha, or
E. G. WHITEORD,
Local Ticket Agent.
L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A.,
Omaha, Neb.
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I C. H. HARION I
I AUCTIONEER, I
x Sales conducted in S
x scientific and busi- 1
x nesslike manner x
i C. H. MARION I
| Falls City, Nebraska I
Passenger Trains
South Bound
Tr. 104—St. Louis Mail and Ex
press .1:23 p.m.
Tr. 106—Kansas City Exp., 3:41 a. m.
Tr. 132 x—K. C.local leaves. .7:30 a. m.
Tr. 138 x—Falls City arrives 0:00 p. m.
x—-Daily except Sunday
North Bound
Tr. 103—Nebraska Mail and Ex
press.1:52 p. m.
Tr. 105—Omaba Express... .2:23 a. m,
Tr. 137 x—Omaha local leaves 6:15 a tn.
Tr. 131 x—Falls City local ar
rives.8:45 p.tn.
x—Daily exceDt Sunday
Local Frt. Trains Carrying Passengers
North Bound
Tr. li)2x—To Atchison.11:10 a.m.
South Bound
Tr. lOlx—To Auburn.1:23 p m.
J. B. VARNER, Agent