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ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE
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INDEPENDENCE, OREUON, DECEMBER 17. 1920.
VOLUME m .
NUMBEM 38 .
Make this a Joyful Xmas
By Selecting
Useful Gifts
If'
FIRST—THAT WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY
SILVER WARE
Patrician Pattern Hollow Handle Knives and Forks
and also the Mottled Handle Knives and Folks make
excellent gifts. Then, there is the table and tea
spoons, Berry Spoon, Gravey Ladle, Cream Ladle,
Sugar Spoon, Butter Knife, Tomato Server, Jelly
Server and Olive Spoon. These are all new goods
and we have them in stock.
SE C O N D -SE E WHAT YOU CAN
ELECTRICAL GIFTS!
GET
Mounted and unmounted Casseroles, Baking Dishes
Pie Plates. We were the first to introduce this ware
in Independence and our stock is more complete now
then ever.
Plays all makes of records.
Tea Kettles
Placed in your home on
trial.
Boilers
IN
Roasters
and
Electrical Coffee Perco
lator $78.50, Bed Room
Heater $12.00, Electri
cal Reading Lamps
$4.25 and up. Lamps
will make a useful gift
also.
Cooking Utensils
All sizes of
Perculators
$4.75 Lunch Kit
W a tc h our w indow s.
These make excellent
FIFTH —KEEN KUTTER GOODS
All Guaranteed. Your money refunded if not satis
fied.
Keen Kutter ¡Shears, Pocket Knives and Safety
Razors.
Keen Kutter Hammers, Saws, Bits and Chisels..
All of the above are useful presents.
THEN LAST IS THE MOTOR ACCESSORY
DEPARTMENT
Flashlights, Spotlights, Spark Plugs, Tool Kits,
Wrench Sets, Pumps, Tool Boxes and Jacks.
Racine 6000-miles Tires.
Do not overlook this for Christmas gifts.
WILLARD E. CRAVEN HDW.
gifts
Ssnrlce is
P our motto
Come in and hear its most
wonderful tone.
FOURTH—ALUMINUM WARE
Electrical Iron and Toaster, Electrical Coffee Urn
$31.50. Do not miss seeing this if you want one.
&
THE MANDEL PHONOGRAPH
THIRD -T H E WONDERFUL PYREX BAKING
GLASSWARE
We will be pleased
to show
Christmas u**ds
SUCCESSOR TO CRAVEN & H U FF HDW. 0 0 .
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Best Christmas
for a Boy
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
1920. W es te rn N e w s p a p e r t u i o n >
S OXE boy to an o th e r—
for I have never notion
over being one, although
I am getting a s g ray
as a billy-goat around
the e a rs —I w ant to give
It ns my opinion th a t a
C hristinas an y w h ere but
in the country is no
" h f is t m u s at all!
A city C h ris tm as is a
make-believe, a hollow
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..... ,i .also alarm , an imitation.
J have tried both kinds, and so 1 know.
A city C hristm as lias all the tin and
tinsel, and th a t Is all. By the time
you get as old and feel as young ns
1 am , you find most of the p late worn
off.
Honestly, boys (and girls), 1 d o n ’t
C a n t S anta Claus him self ever feels
very much at home except on a ru ral
ro u te ! He lias a mighty poor job in a
b i ; town, with Hues instead of chim
neys, and everything. And it is hard
to st e where lie gets room to tu rn a
lelgh and eight reindeer around, tiny
reindeer though they nmy be. He'll he
p re tty certain to bump Into a h y drant
o r tip over on u curb.
And with tw enty families all using
one Hue (and, what is worse, a soft
coal flue at th at) how In the world
Is the most experienced Snnta going
to find which is B row n’s and which is
Smith's, and where the Greens live?
Even If lie dared rap and ask (which
no S anta C’laus Is ever supposed to
do) nobody could tell him. For p e r
haps the Browns ami the Smiths have
never "m et.” and th e Greens might
live across the hall for a month be
fo re anybody th ought to inquire their
name.
For th a t Is one thing you don't get
much of in the city—neighliors. Some
times when the woman across the
r uid keeps running In Just when your
m other is cunning, or baking, or t r e a t
ing a shirt-bosom kindly hut firmly
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with a flat-iron, your m other may al
most wisli th a t they w eren’t quite so
plentiful hi the country— but she
w ouldn’t. She would miss them, just
the sam e us you would miss having
the sam e hoys to play with y e a r a fte r
year.
F o r in th e city you a re alw ays get-
Jing a fresh lot of playm ates— and
som etimes they a re a mighty fresh
lot, too. Of course there are some
good kids, als o ; but it alw ays seems
th a t j u s t when you get to liking some
, fellow up th e street or across the alley,
| the landlord boosts tlie ren t and his
! folks have to move, and you never see
j him again. He may move only from
one side of the city to the other, hut
it might as well he to an o th e r stale.
1 It is five or ten or tw en ty miles—
I miles of houses, no, miles of flats, and
j stre e tc a r tracks, and railroads, and
| factories— and you never see him again
or any of his folks.
The boys you know this Christm as
probably won’t be around at all next
C hristm as, if you live in the city. T h a t
is a funny thing about city folks;
they a re alw ays going somewhere and
never getting anywhere. Why, even
If the landlord didn ’t raise the rent
October 1 or May 1 or whenever the
lease expires, they might move an y
way! People who live In flats instead
of homes a re alw ays looking for some
thing b e tte r and getting something
worse. They have th e most wonderful
collection of rent receipts, but not a
foot of ground, not a roof or rafter,
they can call their own.
Now, I do n’t know what you think,
but I think th a t every family ought to
have a house of its own, a house it
lives In y ear a ft e r year. Thnt Is, of
course, unless the fa th e r has some
sort of job th a t m akes it necessary for
him to move to some other town every
o ther y e a r or so. But It Is a great
thing to live In a home, not Just a
house, and th a t Is about the best place,
and the only place, to have a C h ris t
mas. a real, sure-enough, honest-to-
goodness Christm as.
Most of you boys who live ou the
farm and In th e small town have th at
kind of home, and I w onder If you
know how lucky you a re ? W ouldn’t
you h a te to wnke up C hristm as m orn
ing and look at the ceiling and realize
th at someone else owned It, and then
gel up and go out In th e fron t yard
and realize th a t someone else owned
that, too— why, you’d get so a ft e r
awhile that, everything you saw, you
would wonder who owned it!
1 tell you, hoys, it’s a great satisfac
tion to have a back yard and to know
it’s yours, and th a t you can invite
people into it, or Invite people to stay
out of it, ju s t as you please. Why, th a t
is what brought th e Pilgrim F a th e r s
to America—they wanted a spot they
could call their own. I don’t say th a t
It was exactly a hack yard they w ant
ed. hut w hat they w anted was some
place they could play ball and no
landlord of a king could coine-nlong
and tell them to stop because they
might hrenk some of the royal win
dows. You know old King George did
come nlong and try to m ake them stop
—and you know w hat happened to the
royal windows. Z a m !
And th en th e r e is tills m a tte r of
snow. You know some people don ’t
think it is much of a C hristm as w ith
out snow. Now. I know quite a lot
about snow because I’ve been a c
quainted with a lot of it.
I have
tram ped through It up In tlie Hudson
Ray country, and P vp wallowed around
tn it In the sum m ertim e on top of the
Rocky mountains. And I want to tell
snow forts, an a your snownall battles.
(Only please don’t use your artillery
on older folks, or girls, or me.)
Or p erh ap s th is snow storm is one
of the blizzardy kind, with the wind
zioning around the house and niling
tile suow up in tile corners— wliy um t
kind of snow doesn’t seem to come
down a t all, but ju s t goes slanting by
until it ru ns up a g a in s t something it
ca n ’t pass.
I rem em ber being on a night train
one t i m e ; and when we woke up in
the morning, and the train w as ru n
ning over tlie smooth prairies, a little
girl from a big city in w estern Penn
sylvania (I w on’t tell you w hat city
it w as but maybe yotr can guess) ex
claim ed a s she looked out o f the
window :
“Look, M a m m a ! T he snow out here
Is whife I”
I don ’t need to say much about the
C hristm as dinner. But If you have
your C h ris tm as d in n er In the country,
j the tu rk ey perh ap s is one your folks
raised, or th a t w as ruised In the
neighborhood—anyhow, It Is pretty
likely to be a native, and not a resi
dent of a cold storage plant some
you that there is a great difference where. Or maybe you’ll have a goose
In snow—thn t Is, th ere Is a great dif or a brace of chickens. Anyway, you’ll
ference between country snow and know th eir pedigree, and th a t they’re
city snow.
fresh and good.
We may not have snow this C hrist
And It will he the same way all
mas, but we’ll Just suppose we do. down tlie line— vegetables, and pies,
Isn’t a good, old lively snowstorm and everything. Ami cooked !— cooked
g re a t? P erh ap s it is one of these lazy to a tu r n —Just long enough—Just
snowstorms, with the lug, white flakes short enough—Just right.
Just floating down like fe a th e rs and
And you will more than likely have
slowly tu rn in g the roads and roofs to one thing that they won’t have at the
white, like a coat of good white paint. ■ C hristm as dinner In tlie city, because
Maybe th ere will be enough of it tn you know the cost of living Just now
make good cou stlr : on the hills and '» mighty high. In town especially, for
good sleighing on ihe roads.
both rich and poor. So you will have
And, by the way, do you know one tiling th a t tlie city boy probably
there a re boys in the big cities who will not have—
have never seen a sleigh? Because a
Enough!
sleigh is getting to be a scarce article
So I could go on an d show yoti a
In the cities. You see, as soon as a dozen o th er ways In which a Chrlst-
little snow comes the street-cleaning mns In th e country puts It all over a
dep artm ent gets busy and sweeps It C hristinas in tlie city, but I am going
up, before it get* a chance to melt to mention ju st one thing m o re: the
into slush.
C hristm as tree.
In the country the w inter wheat
Of course they have C h ris tm as trees
needs It. and th e ground takes care of In the city. In New York trnlnlonds
It. But in Hie city It just m eans slop it them come down every season from
and .slush. So they sweep It up and 'he Adirondacks, and in Chlcngo boat-
carry it aw ay an d uncover the ugly loads come from Michigan’s upper
pavement ns soon as they can.
lenlnsula. You can buy them for fifty
But they let you k’ ep your «now In •ents or a dollar, and they make very
the country.
When a warm wind food C hristm as trees indeed.
comes along it w ill pack tine, ami >ou
I don’t know w hat you think about
can have your snow-men, and your bis eith er—but I have alw ays thought
:iiat things 1 did myself and for my-
ielf were just twice the fun of things
f bought myself or hired myself. And
! think th a t especially about a C h ris t
inas tree. If you a re lucky enough
o he able to go out and pick your
>wn tree, and chop it down, and bring
t in—well, th a t’s what I call a real
Jhrlstm as tree I
Because that Is really and truly
/o ur Christm as free. You selected It
vlth your own eye and chopped It
lown with your own axe und brought
t home with your own muscle. T h e
Christmas tree—th at is your Job:
Bringing in the Tree
F a t h e r g e t s th e t u r k e y ,
M o t h e r m a k e s tlie pie—
E a c h o n e h a s a C h r i s t m a s Jo b
T o do, a n d so h a v e I.
S iste r strin g s the popcorn
T o d e c o r a t e —b ut, ge e!
I h a v e got the biggest J o b -
B r i n g i n g In t h e t r e e !
T u r k e y Is I m p o r t a n t ,
P ie a n d such a re groat.
P o p c o r n s t r i n g s you h a v e to hav*
W h en you decorate.
B u t I g u e s s a. C h r i s t m a s
C h r i s t m a s wo u Id n ’t he
I f y o u d i d n ’t h a v e a h o y
B r i n g i n g In th e t r e e !
Do not fail to read Willard E.
Craven’s ad in this isaue. Note
the useful Christmas gifts that
you can get there for your
friends.
CITY AND COUNTRY
Mrs. Lucy Whiteakerhas gone
Heltopia, Wash., where she will
remain this winter with a daugh
ter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hubbar!
will spend the holidays with Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Hubbard in
Portland.
E. E. Tripp returned home la tt
Friday from Minnesota and Iowa
where he spent several weeks
with relatives and frie.ids of his
boyhood.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Taylor Jones
and son, Russell, left Saturday
for Lamar, Mo., where they will
spend the holidays with Mr.
Jones mother and sister.
FOR SALE: 3 registered Shoit-
horn cows, 3 years old, also two
calves and a young bull. A Bargai i.
Ace Garage.
When you want the best call In
Liberty bread. Baked by elec trie it i
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And are putting out the best bread on the market.
It is more like Mother ’3 bread. Clean and baked
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■ Try it; You w ill lik e it.
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