The County in General
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FARGO
Sill Hutueker attended the show.
•»ok Briggs attended the show at
Fargo,
Vren WhitehiHi was on our streets
Saturday.
John Michels delivered corn for H.D
Wagoner.
. iu by Wagoner spent Sunday with
home folk-.
Dora Speers: was shopping in tuwn
Wednesday.
John Michels made a trip to the
aunty seat.
John Mandevilie isshu : king corn for
gnus Leery.
•Maggie Mandevilie wus shopping in
to vo Tuesday.
John Bauman transacted business at
the county seat.
Maurice Mandevilie was on o n r
streets Saturday.
Julius Zimmerman is shucking corn
for Bill Herbster,
Minnie King spent Sunday with
aura Zimmerman.
Will Zimmerm in transacted business
a: the mill Saturday.
There has been a protracted -how
here for the past week.
. F. Durfee spent Sunday with It
D. Wagoner and family.
till Strccker of this vicinity. tran
. ted business in our town Saturday.
Dear! Laurence of Kalis City attend
ed the box supper given at the Kisher
- bool house.
There was a box supper given at the
Fisher school house and a program whs
rendered. All report a good time.
BARADA
Andrew Wileman was in St. .loe
this week.
.Iby Morgan came down from Peru
to attend the funeral of his nephew,
Fllard Butler.
A Christmas program will be given
by the pupils of the Arnold school on
Wednesday evening, December 2.T
.!. C. Wileman was in Kansas City
week disposing of apples. The For
est Hill Fruit farm manager shipped
twenty eight car loads of apples this
y car.
The opster supper given by the W.
it. W. on Saturday evening was not
so well attended as anticipated owing
t i the inclement weather. Those
resent report a pleasant evening.
Kllard Xavier Butler, infant son of
A E. Butler and wife was born Aug
ust 7. 1!mh. died Sauirday, December
5th, aged three months and twenty
eight days. Little Eilard had been
ailing for some weeks, but for several
days had seemed to lie improving,
when congestion of the lungs took
place and in a few hours the iittle one
was dead. The funeral service was
held Sunday afternoon. The little
flowers budded here to bloom in
heaven. Our sympathy is extended
to the sorrowing parents.
E. E. Butler accompanied his son
Henry to Lincoln, last week, where
he placed him in school that he may
pursue his chosen vocation of music.
We are glad to note and commend
this step in advance taken for furth
er educational progression by one of
our young men.
Henry i’archen moved his family
onto a farm south of town.
VERDON
Mr. Jenkins was down fuom Stella
Friday.
Dr. Frazier of Nemaha was here
Friday,
Beecher Cornell wa- in Kansas City
Saturday.
Scott Saylor was up from Falls City
Wed r.esduy.
Mrs. Fogle came home from Falls
Cltv Friday.
Boxie McCullough was a Daw-on
visitor la«t week.
Mi.-s Chine Wilkin-on was in Ni
brasku City Sunday.
M'ss Schock and Mamie Byorly visit
ed in Falls City Sunday.
Mrs, Watkin* went to Auburn Sun
day on a visit to relatives.
Minnie Walker and children were
up from Falls City Thursday.
Miss Amret Hart left Thursday for
Grand Island to be absent two month-.
Al Hardin and wife came in from the
west Monday for a visit with relatives.
Mesdames Janus Ayers and Dude
Coro were Falls City visitors Tuesday.
Pearl Clements came down trom
Stella Wednesday od a vi-it to rela
tives.
Mrs. Bowman who travels for a St.
Joe candy house came home Monday
to spend the holidays.
Fred Gibson went to St. Joe Sunday
and returned Monday accompanied by
Ids wife who had undergone an opera
tion at that place.
MISS DUPREE'S HOLIDAY JOY
8he Recall* One Memorable Christ
mu Performance in the City
of New Orleans.
□HENEVER possible, I pro
fer spending Christmas
with my family out on
Hong Island, and unless my
engagements take me tor
far away I always make il a point tc
be with them on that day.
There are times, however, in this
profession when the wish must take
second place to necessity, and from
the viewpoint of actual novelty 1 sup
pose my most interesting Christmas
was the one 1 spent in the southland
t»ur routing took us Into New Orleans
at Christmas, and to me, who had al
ways up to that time spent the day in
the colder north, the novelty of seeing
trees in leaf and flowers blooming was
n« pteasfng as it was unusual.
On Christmas afternoon, when oth
ers were borne enjoying ihe big dinner
with the family, I was getting ready
loi a special holiday matinee 1 was’
lit pi i ed with myself or with a pro i
C-sum llull demanded of Its members
out ihey labor on Christmas day—!
Cove all others—and il was not with'
» pur vularly light heart that I
dressid for my part
Cut when the curtain went up on j
Cie first act and I made my entrance j
the welcome I received compensated
lor the disappointment t felt.
It was a special matinee arranged
for the poor children of the poorest
quarter of New Orleans, and the en
joyment of those childish auditors
soon melted the disappoinmeut ml of
mj heart,
After the matinee I had arranged
with my manager that I would receive
the little folks on the stage, and the
w ise man In Ills knowledge of childish
hearts sent out a hurry order for
candy and other things that make
Christmas a day of cheer to kiddies.
At the conclusion of the last act the
stage was cleared and l held the most
unusual reception that 1 ever experi
enced.
Clean as pins, but with their little
bodies clothed In many cases in gar
ments ragged and frayed, they came
up on the stage, were Introduced and
sent away after a handshake, each
with a box of candy.
I have spent many other delightful
and out uf-the ordinary Christmases on
the road, but none that afforded me
mora real satisfaction than the one
bn New Orleans.
MINNIE DUPREE.
MISS GEORGE’S CHRISTMAS
Happy Memory of a Season When She
Did Not Write One Glad
Holiday Story.
H. my happiest Christmas!
I did not then realize it, but
I recall It now with a ra
diant glow of delight. It
was my first season upon
stage. I was only a novice, one
soaring upon the buoyant wings
boundless ambition; the next
plunged in an abysmal depth of doubt,
despair and self-depreciation. It was
a very tiny part that had fallen to me
The compensation was but sufficient
for the barest necessities. The route
bristled with all the horrors of the
one-night stands.
At. midnight, huddled, miserably
worn, dejected, and wretched, in the
waiting room of a country station,
listening in vain for the whistle of a
belated train, 1 confess to a sudden
flood of tears. What a mockery this
Christmas day had been. Kven the
chimes had sounded like the tolling
of a funeral knell. The cheerless dis
comforts of a cheap hotel, the unsa
vory, slatternly served travesty upon
a Christmas dinner, the cold chill of
a shabby, musty dressing room, the
added toil of an extra matinee for a
mere handful of people, and now the
hungry wait for an accommodation
train of dingy day coaches.
1 hat was all Christmas had meant
to me. Iowa was blizzard swept.
Malls were delayed and tangled wires
hung useless in gathering snowdrifts.
No message of cheer, no souvenir of
remembrance, had come to any of us
Our hollow, half-hearted exchange of
Christmas greeting had carried no
conviction. We were only strolling
vagabonds, outside the pale of sym
pathy, debarred from the domestic
joys of living, mere dispirited rain
bow chasers, with success ever mock
ingly elusive.
Hut as I recall it all now, I am sub
merged by a great wave of passion
ate. longing regret, for I know that
such a Yuletide will never come to
me again while 1 am upon the stage.
It was my happiest Christmas, be
cause the first and only one, since I
began to tread the thorny and tor
tuous path of my profession, that I
have not been called upon to write a
Christmas story.
GRACE GEORGE.
Speak as you think; be what you
are; pay your debts of all kinds.—
Montfort.
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SaQta Claus’ Tree
By Wallace Irvin
It looked rather hare, standing starkly out there.
And limmy’s poor mother, the picture of are,
And Jimmy's poor grandfather, lean as a Turk,
And Jimmy’s poor father, who hated to work.
Set eyes
On the prize
With unquenchable sighs.
It isn’t so pleasant to be a poor peasant,
7 o have to ride steerage
And bow to the peerage
And go through a Christmas wdh never a
present!
And Jimmy remarked as he looked on his Tree:
"1 wish 1 were wealthy as well, let me see
So rich I could rig
Every branch, every twig
\Y i:h candy and peanuts and pop-corn and gmn
Enough tor each person who lives in a slum,
With shoes that have soles
And socks without holes,
With alpaca dresses for mother, and some
Small purses of gold, so that poor folks could
come
And takf on their backs
Sacks and packs,
Stacks and stacks,
And always walk up to the Tree for a store
And never know hunger and want any more.
And (such w as the speed of those magical days).
No sooner the words than the I ree was ablaze
With bright-hanging diamonds dropping like dew,
W'ilh fairyland candles that twinkled anew.
With toys so unstinted
You’d think they were minted
For all the world’s children as fast as they grew.
Anti big boys and small boys,
And short boys and tall boys.
Meek girls and sleek girls and slow girls and
spry.
Young folks and old folks,
Modest and bold folks
Came flocking each stocking of Christmas to try.
And Jimmy he stood by his 1 ree in his pride
Anti handed out presents to all who applied
1 iii each grizzled grandsire, each babe, youth or
maiden
Departed with joys of the season so laden
1 hat some were afraid that their shoulders would
crack
And saved themselves trouble by hiring a hack.
Here’s the strangest of all I When the winter
was past.
The Saint’s 1 ree took root in the soil and grew
fast,
And every Christmas it blossomed once more
With gifts to the poor who applied at the door.
And Jun grew so famous that when the King
died
They gave him the crown which he wore with
out pride,
TTe Kingdom improved
And he had the throne moved
1 o the porch of his house where he sat all the
day
A-talking with neighbors in quite the old way;
But he always kept watch, as if kindly to guard
The magical Tree which still grew in the yard.
But just once a year, as the gossips still tell,
A genial old fellow drove by in a sleigh
And winked at King Jim saying : “ I ree’s doing
well! ”
TTien snapped up his reindeer and capered
away.—Success.
THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY.
Strange Actions by Father, Mother
and Children at Christmas Time.
The mystery began with the hus
band coming home half an hour later
than usual, so as to have the cover
of darkness when leaving a package
behind the vestibule doors, while he
entered the house with a very innocent
look on his face and told of his street
car being blocked.
At midnight of that night, while his
Innocent-hearted wife was sleeping
by his side, he sneaked out of bed
and down stairs and secured the pack
age and hid it in a closet.
The next step was taken by his
wife. She took down from the pantry
a pitcher in which she had been stor
ing up dimes and nickels and pennies
for months and months, and, after
counting them over, she sneaked down
stairs in the forenoon and bought and
lugged a parcel home and hid it away
on the top shelf of a dothespress.
Then one of the children came in
one day and looked and acted very
mysterious, and shortly afterward
might have been found hiding some
thing among the rafters of the garret.
Then, as the mother suddenly and
unexpectedly entered the parlor one
afternoon, she almost stumbled over a
daughter who was down on her knees
and reaching under the sofa. The
mother cried out in her surprise, but
asked for no explanations.
Then desk and bureau drawers that
had not been locked for a year were
found closed tighter than a drum.
C'loset doors that had stood wide open
were made fast. There was lingering
behind when others went to bed.
There was getting up before the oth
ers in I lie morning. Each member of
the family went around trying to look
as innocent as a sheep, but at the time
bearing a load of guilt on his con
science
The strain was intense. The mys
tery could not last. The day came
when the murder was solved. It was
the day before Christmas. That fam
ily had simply been preparing to
Santa Claus each other. It always
acts that way, and it always turns out
happily.
The Sweetest Bells.
The bells ring clear at Chrlstmastide
From steeple and from tower;
All hearts with love are beating high—
Love is their Christmas bower.
There is no time in all the year
When hearts are more atune—
The Christmas bells to winter are
What roses are to June.
But steeple bells and tower bells
Ring not for saint or sinner,
A sweeter note than bells of horns
That calls to Christinas dinner.
ino L-ause ror joy.
Photographer (taking family group)
—Now, then, Mr. Housefull, the ex
pressions are all right but yours. Try
and look happy—remember that
Christmas is coming.
Mr. Housefull (despond|ptly)«sp
Confound It, man, Hut's Ju*t trial !
am thtnkifii _ i
The Place to "Buy your
Christmas Goods
CUT CLASS
FANCY CHINA
GLASSWARE
Dinnerware, Lamps, Jardiniers, in fact anything
that goes with a complete china stock. We have
French, Austrian, German and Bavarian Fancy
China. Haviland & Co.’s and Avener's French
Dinnerware, Austrian, English and American Din*
nerware. Two patterns in Haviland, two in Aus.
trian and eight in English and American ware.
It will Pay You to
Examine Our Stock
Before You Buy
All goods for the country carefully packed. A full
stock of good groceries. Try our new line of
Coffees. None better.
CHAS. M. WILSON
^RIDG^0^
COPvUloHT APKEC9
HAVE YOUR TEETH PUT IN ORDER
FOR CHRISTMAS
You will enjoy your Christmas dinner
and the holiday festivities much more if
your teeth are in first class condition.
We do all kiuds of dental work. Our
operators are all reliable dentists, and
our methods are the newest and most
scientific. Charges very reasonable.
Examinations free.
DR. YUTZY
BERT WINDLE, I). D. S„ Assistant
Falls City, Nebraska
!| The Falls City Roller Mills j|
j» Does a general milling business, and manufactures the C
following brands of flour Jt
I* SUNFLOWER MAGNOLIA CROWN
The above brands are guaranteed to be of the highest pos- i j
sible quality. We also manufacture all mill products and < J
conduct a general jt j
Grain, Live Stock and Coal Business jr
and solicit a share of your patronage (j;
P. S. Seacock & Son Falls City, Nebr. || ,
i _'
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 flue build
ing and control of the
fire, owing to fine
tu ..... workmanship.
' and this, with the new
side flue heating surface makes it _ __
the STRONGEST HEATER for amount I P 'T' A MMPI1
of fuel used EVER PRODUCED I I I LM 1 1 P il
~rfeA/etv ROUND OAK BASE 1 Wl
BURNER wort/i /nvest/Satwg Fa,|s Cjty Ne5>
Empty that old Stodging h
That contains your savings of many years and bring it to ^
our bank where it will begin to work and earn something ^
besides being safe from loss. Brush away the cobwebs H
around your methods of doing business and swell the army
of prosperous men and women who are gaining handsome- ^
ly by adding regular to their bank account. Three per
cent interest paid on time deposits.
The Farmers’ State 5ank 3
PRESTON, NEBRASKA
Passenger Trains
South Bound
Tr. 104—St. Louis Mail and Ex
press .1:23 p. m.
Tr. 106—Kansas City Exp., 3:41 a. in.
Tr. 132 x K. C.local leaves. .7:30 a. in.
Tr. 138 x—Falls City arrives 10(10 p. re.
x—Daily except Sunday
North Bound
Tr 103 -Nebraska Mail and Ex
press.1:52 p. m.
Tr. 105—Omaha Express. . .2:23 a. rc.
Tr. 137 x—Omaha local leaves 6:15 a.rn.
Tr. 131 x—Falls City local ar
rives.8:45 p.ra.
x Daily exeeut Sunday
Local Frt. Trains Carrying Passengers
North Bound
Tr. 192x—To Atchison.11:10 a. m.
South Bound
Tr. 191x—To Auburn.1:23 pm.
J. B. VARNER, Agent
J OH X W1ETSE
ATTORNEY
Practice in Various Courts.
Collections Attended To.
Notary Public. FALLS CITY
EDGAR If. MATHERS
DENT IST
Phones: Nos. 177, 217
Sam’l. Wahl Building
R I\ROBERTS
DENTIST
Office over Kerr’s Pharmacy
Office Phone 2(>0 Residence Phone 27L
DR. C. N. ALLISON
13 PI Nt TI © T
Phone 248 Over Richardson County
Bank.
FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
TROWER BROS
/ Sam R. Trower, Harry F. Trower \
V and Ben E. 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 pa»t twenty years. jj
Plenty of Yarding Space and Plenty of u
Help, enables us to handle all business to a I]
Better Advantage than ever before.
D. S. ricCarthy
DFiAY AND
TRANSFER
Prompt attention given
to the removal of house
hold goods.
PHONE NO. 211
Hides and Purs
Wanted
Highest market prices—1st
house south of Peter Freder
ick, 8r.
PORTER RANDOLPH
Phone 422
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rids the system of a cold
by acting as a cathartic on th«
bowels is
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contains no opiates, gently moves the
bowels, carrying the cold off through the
natural channels. Guaranteed to give
satisfaction or money refunded.
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