A Lamp is An Ornament
As well as a necessity, in ev
ery home. We have them.
Our stock of Fancy I )ecora
ted, Nickle-plated and Glass
Lamps, consists of the dif
ferent sizes, shapes and dec
orations. ()ur stock of
Decorated Lamps
is the best we have ever lian
tC-'J. both- in price* nnd i|ualitv. Nothing he-tter for
Christina presents. We have them at
Chas. M. Wilson's
NEMAHA VALLEY
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i Pressed Stone and Brick Co. 1
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W. H. PU I NAM & SONS, Props.
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’ We manufacture and carry in stock a full line of Cement •
• Blocks, Brick,* Tile and Plain and Fancy Trimmings, •
. which we would pleased to show and price you before you ;
’ place your order elsewhere. We also wholesale and retail
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Sand, Cement and Crushed Rock
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; We are agents for the Boelt’S Concrete Mixer Visitors al- ']
* wavs welcome at our yards. Located on the $
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CORN PR 14th & MORION STREETS i
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: 2 Blocks from Burlington Depot FALLS CITY, NEB. |
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FOR SALE
RICHARDSON CO. FARMS
■10 acres rolling land, $1,400.
P4 acres bottom land, $o,?G0
100 acres rolling land, $5,000.
80 acres good land, $7,600.
80 acres good land, $7,^00.
80 acres good land, $0,200.
80 acres good land, $12,000.
110 acres good land, $12,760.
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160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $20,000.
320 acres good land, $25,000.
OKLAHOMA LAND
240 acres improved, $4,500.
160 acres improved, $3,000.
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PALLS CITY PROPERTY
A1 four room house, $1,200.
A1 fine modern cottage, $3,500.
5 room house, 5 lots, $2,500.
3 room modern residence, $4,500
10 room, fine residence, $3,200.
9 roorrujnodern residence $7,000
6 room residence, $2,500.
7 room residence, $3,500.
The above up all well improved properties and worth the money.
1 also have several good farms to exchange for good income
property or business.
1 have a I'ouplo of fine business propositions for sale.
'> '"'t wish t" bur, sell or trade see me, I may have a bar
men for you.
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FALLS tl I Y, NEBRASKA
YOUR LAST CHANCE I
to pay your respects to the de
parted is the erection of a mon
ument to their memory. Before
placing your order let us quote
you prices Our works and our
prices have always given satis
faction. The above, with many
other artistic and up-to-date de
signs now in stock
Call or write for designs and
prices.
Falls City
Marble Works
j Established 1881 F. A. R. A. NE1TZEL, Mgrs.
START RIGHT WITH THE NEW YEAR
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TRIBUNE-$I.50 PER YEAR
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Miss Anne s
ChristmasVisitors
By
Lena M. .McCauley
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11 op> tigt11.)
UO IS willing to play
Santa Claus? What
shall W‘> do with the
children ?"
This being the final
^ question, the chairman
ol the board of managers rat down
In wait for an answer. St. Eliw,
bt tit's orphanage was facing a Christ
mas .without fi .-livities, owing to the
marriage of the matron, and a dis
abled heating plant.
An Interval of silence followed Mrs.
I!1 tint’s appeal, though every one of
the motherly hearts of the women
present overflowed wIjh sympathy for
the 4f» homeless hoys and girls with
out prospect of Christmas cheer. They
had come prepared with check books
and the usual offerings of cake and
confections for the holiday, but the
personal entertainment of 45 shiver
ing children was something they had
not looki'd for.
Kittle Mrs. Thompson, confessing a
brood of six boys and girls of her own,
was the lirsi to speak.
"Suppose we invite the orptmns
home with us; l know many towns
folk would be glad to help us out. It
will be a treat to them. 1 can take
t wo."
"Hravo: ' said the chairman, clap
ping her gloved hands. "I will lake
two little girls myself.”
"Of course they will have their com
pany manners on. I will take a hoy
with curls. Mr. Jones doles on boys,
and we have only girls, but I must be
permitted to pick him out,” cried the
secretary, joining in.
"I'd rather have a child choose me.
I'll go into the school room and ask
those who would like to visit me to
leave their names on the desk, if
they choose me, 1 am sure they will
like me. 1 can take four just as well
as two. Our house is so large,” said
Mrs. Cliff, the Lady Hountiful of the
village
When the chorus had (piloted. 20
children were provided for, and there
was every reason to believe that all
“Of Course I Want You.”
would be settled 111 homes before
night. That afternoon a score of hos
pitable villagers visited the orphan
age, and it proved that therp were
more invitations than were needed.
As the children were cheeked off from
the monthly school room list, it hap
pened that a group of live quarantined
in the attic hospital for the mumps
were overlooked. It may be that the
over-cautious doctor had omitted their
names, or that some villager had hes
itated. but the days slipped on towards
Christmas, and they received no invi
tations.
I'p in the sunny attic, Alice Martin
and her brother Tom had long since
recovered, and said lessons and
played games in the sun parlor with
John Bell, Jane Smith and little
Mary Moore, who had been held on
suspicion, and who remembered too
late that the> had had the mumps
years before. They relieved the lone
liness of tlie nurse, w ho had become
attached to the happy group, and she
was in no hurry to send them down
stairs. The morning of Christmas
eve came, and the five were permitted
to take breakfast In the big dining
hall The nurse herself was going
home for Christmas They heard the
great news for the first time. The
three girls and two boys realized that
they had nothing in view, but youth is
hopeful, and they argued that ihe next
hour might bring an innvitation
St. Elizabeth's had never known so
gay an occasion. All the orphans
were dressed In their best, and one
t>> one they were bundled into sleighs
and carried away, the last going at
sunset.
"1 wonder who is coming for us?”
cried Tom Martin, In vexation’. The
five friends were gathered on the
steps watching the others go. "Some
body must come before long. The kids
said ladies picked them out, or they
picked out ladies they liked. I wish I
had a chance to choose."
"Don't mind, Tom.” said Alice, con
BOlingly "Mrs. Brown, the cock, prom
ised to let us play in the kitchen, and
have candles, and hang up stockingns
to-night. We can live with her till
the others come back.”
r should like a truly home to
.light," said Tom. "And you know
which house I'd pick out if 1 had a
chance."
"I know." said Jane Smith, "I know,
ft rhe house with Christmas trees
around it, and turkey gobblers in
the yard."
"Thufs where Miss Anne lives,"
aid John Hell. "It’s a big house,
,nd I'd think she would get real lone
onie with only peter and Reb < > '
"Is It the house where th lamp
bines like*a star all night?" asked
Mary Moore.
"That's the very one. Sh-sh. I
have an idea." cried John, drawing the
bve together for his secret, tot h- was
always full of plans.
Mrs. Drown, the cook, looked out
lrom her window nnd saw the confor
nre. "Of course nobody wants chil
dren getting over tin1 mumps," she
M to Is re elf. "But l'!l make 1 hem
have a good time. I'll go upstairs
right away and gather all the candle
<‘nds, and then I’ll cull them in and
make candy."
In the old colonial house surround
ed by evergreens lived Miss Anne
Armstrong. Her windows overlooked
the pasture where the children played
beside the orphanage on the hill. .Miss
Anne was the last of her family. She
ordered her life carefully nnd saw
• hat her inaid Rebecca kept the house
spotless and her man Peter kept the
garden weedless, while she knit end
less patterns of lace.
Christmas was coming, she knew by
ilie calendar, and that evening as she
walked home from the postofflee she
had witnessed the reception of or
phans at more than one house of her
acquaintance. Kven Widow Simp
kins, the washerwoman, had taken a
little boy who asked to visit her jolly
young family.
‘ Dear me, I feel left out," said Miss
Anne as she saw the young strangers
taken In the door. "1'wonder If any
one would have elected to go with me,
it I had gone io the orphanage I
must send Mrs. Simpkins some red
Jonathans for the children.”
Miss Anne saw the big flame of her
as(4al lamp blaze in her window like a
star sending its light across the snowy
fields to the group on the orphanage
steps. Then she met Rebecca at the
door f|ild seated herself beside her
bountiful (eatable.
"I do not believe that I shall have
a single visitor this Christinas," sighed
Miss Anne, a feeling of loneliness
creeping over her. "Hut why should
anyone think of me. when I do not
think of others as ! should."
At that moment there was a clatter
of feet on the porch, and the brass
knocker dropped with a resounding
clang, it startled Rebecca and Peter
in tiie kitchen, and both rushed into
the hallway.
Rebecca drew the bolt and turned
the knoli of the door which the wind
tore from her grasp, letting in a
whirl of snowflakes and five children,
hand in hand. They went straight to
Miss Anne at the table before the
blazing lire.
"We’ve come to spend Christmas
with you. We choose your house, be
cause" you have lots of room, and it
lias Christmas trees all around it. and
because you are kind," said .John Hell,
confidently.
"Well, I never," said Rebecca to
Peter. »"\Vhat do you iliink of tlint?
Come, girls, let me lake off your
wraps."
“Don't you want us?" asked Tom.
"Alice said this was a really home.”
Then Miss Anne found her voice.
She rose from her chair, and putting
her arm around the shivering boy,
said: "Of course I want you. I'm
glad you came. Peter shall find you
a Christmas tree."
A little later when she looked at the
circle of happy faces around her
table and the passing plates or cake
and manm/ade, she said lo herself:
"1 have visitors, after all, and I shall
keep them always in a really home."
Little Mary Moore having finished
her supper, slipped from her chair
and climbed on Miss Anne’s lap. That
lady did not see the orphanage ging
ham and the clipped hair, she only
saw the divine hope of childhood.
She drew Mary into her arms and her
feeling of loneliness vanished for
ever
"Tell me, lit lie one. why you came
(o in> house."
Mary looked up into the kind face
and said: "I came because you were
all alone, and your lamp shone like a
guiding star.”
Peter, sawing at an evergreen in
the yard, looked in at the window, lie
rubbed liis eyes and shook his hoary
head, saying: "They picked us out
for themselves. Who would have
thought it?”
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CHRISTMAS.
The earth has grown nh1 with its bur
9 den of rat e.
Hut at Christmas it always is young.
Tlie heart of the jewel burns lustrous
and fair,
And its soul full of music breaks forth
on the air,
When the song of the angels is sung.
It is coming, old Karth. It is routing to
night !
On flie snowflakes which rover tin* sod.
The feel of the Christ-Child fall gentle
arid white.
And the voire of the ('lirist-l'llild tells
out with delight,
That mankind are tlie children of Cod.
On the sail and the lonely, the wretched
and poor,
That voire of the Christ-Child shall fall,
And lo every blind wanderer opens the
door *
Of a hope that he dared not dream of
before,
With a sunshine of welcome for all.
The feet of the humblest may walk in
t lie Held
Where the feet of the holiest have trod.
This, this is the marvel of mortals re
vealed
When the silvery trumpets of Christmas
have pealed.
That mankind are tHe - liddren of tiod.
— Phillips Hrooks.
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THE OLD
STANDBY
The New
Round Oak
Base Burner
SOLD BY
J. C. TANNER
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There’s A Reason
There’s a reason fordoing all things. The “reason” in this
case for your giving us your
Grain, Flour and Feed
business, is that (J-U-A-L-I-T-Y is our most important watch
word. When you get it have it of the first quality. Free
delivery to all parts of the city. We are located
Just(.West Palls CitvgAuto Co.
Aldrich & Portrev
FALLS: CITY, NEBRASKA
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I am trying to make a
date with
WHITAKER
THE
AUCTIONEER
They tell me he is strictly up-to
date and well posted on all classes
of domestic animals and also farm
property in general.
He can certainly please you, as he has had s xteen years expe
rience. He is also from Missouri, and if given the opportunity will
“SHOW YOU" results.
BEFORE ARRANGING DATE. WRITE. TELEPHONE
or TELEGRAPH at my exponse)
J. G. WHITAKER
Phones 168-131-216 Falls City, Neb.
A Land for New Homes
Do you realize the excellent chances of future benefits bound to
accrue to you, if you make your new home in the Big Horn Basin
of Wyoming?
You can homestead a Government Irrigated farm or buy one
outright from private corporations, in either case on very easy
terms, and your farm will be located in a scenic country of splendid
climate, protected by grand mountain ranges with coal,, high grade
oil, natural gas, timber, stone and cement material, all around you.
Add to this the fact that the Burlington’s new Wyoming main line
will traverse the heart of that country and you have not only a de
sirable place to live, an excellent market for your products, but an
absolute certainty of greatly increased value to your lands. Does
not the history of land values that has gone on under your own ob
servation make this plain to you?
MONDELL 320 ACKE LANDS in Northwestern Wyoming are
going fast. The government land offices in that locality are having
an unprecedented rush of work receiving filings from homesteaders S
coming from all parts of the country, who realize the value ol these
lands and the excellent character of that country for a home.
I personally conduct excursions on the first and third Tuesdays of each month
to the Hasin amt to these lands. Write me freely
D, CLEM HEAVER, General Agent,
Land Seekers Information Bureau, Omaha, Neb.
1004 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebr.
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