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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1916)
is Going Out of Jewelry Business 5 Santa Claus is Carrying Things Out in Bags, Baskets and Boxes. i, Prices Marked So Things Just Have to Move. Many things are marked away below manufacturing cost. It 's moving out the goods we want and not the price. Shelves and show cases must be cleaned out in the least possible time as wc must have the room for display of Electrical Fixtures and Everything Electrical. Wishing You Each and Everyone a Merry and Happy New Year. Rowe 9 Jewelry tore mm. y a. BY VINCINIA SOUTHERN B.at Day of th. Y.ar. Tta a bautlful lima lia Chrlatmna romea, All up Hi. airtivt mil ilown, Tor tianrla allulit make facea tuitttit When riin.imaa I'oii'i' In town NelRlir fi leiiU hi kl i'ln - maai, Thar are a eelluitu far am) near. When IHe I'hrtaimaa i,-.i.-a ti.l vU cm In the hollaat day of Hi wir Anonymous. With the approach of the holiday! wedding" bells have be gun to rinjr and so deftly has Dan Cupid, the romancer, the kninht of yore, performed his dutin that wedding chimes and Christmas chimes will mingle together in Rlorloin melody, for two daughters of a prominent family are to be lven in mar riage soon. Perchance marriage bells may still be ringing in Independence when 1917 is gaily ishered in. MISS MILLIE CAMON BICOMEi BKIDI Or D. C. STUART An interesting account of the Wf tiding of Miss Nellie Iamon, popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Damon, to Mr. Donald Stuart which took place at Fort Mc Dowell last Thursday follows: In the presence of rela'ives d fr.ends. Miss Ne!li Damon Jeslerday became th bride of onald luwtwick Stuart of Port land, Or. Chaplaia James Osse ward otriciated at the ceremony, which Uok place at high;ncKn at the home of the bride's uncle, Major G. L. Scott, at Fort Mc Dowell. The young couple plighted their troth in the drawing-room, which had bcn transformed into a floral bower. Garlands of its annual Christmas pie at the home of Mrs. VV. H. Craven Wednesday afternoon. The rooms were garlanded and fes tooned in Christmas yreens for the merry event which was al.o a celebration or trie Hostess birthday. The club presented Mrs. Craven with a dainty mayonnaise set, dons in pink and white, the club colors. Christmas greens interpsersed with holly were festooned throughout the room, and vases and jardinieres tilled with poin settias and Christmas berries also were used in the decorative oiheme. It was a Christinas wedding, and throughout the house the floral airangenient per tained to this season, with the exception of the dining-room, which was in yellow. The caval ry color was chosen as a compli ment to ths bride's uncle, who belongs to that branch of the service. After the cersniony a recep tion was held, to which all the icrvice set residing at the Army post was invited. The bnde made a pretty pic ture in her gown of ray Georgette-crepe, ornamented with real lace. Her two cousins were her only attendants. Mrs. Spencer Hunt, the matron of honor, wore a beautiful gown of cream tatTeta and carried an armful of Killar ney roses. The ring bearer was little Miss Georgia Hunt, who was in h dainty frock of em-j broidered w hite net, and carried I a basket of Cecil Hreuner roses, j The best man was Lloyd Mickle, son of Judge Mickle of , Oakland. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Damon of Independence, Or. j Site has been making her home with her uncle and aunt at Fort McDowell for the last six months, and has many friends on both sides of the bay. ' Donald Bostwiek Stuart is a graduate of Stanford University, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs.! D M. Stuart of Portland. -San Francisco Chronicle. Dec. 15. CHK1STMAS TIE. The Wednesday Club enjoyed C. I. c. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. K. C. Eldridge presided with dignity and capability over her first meeting as president of the Civic League. Routine business was Jarned out and plans were per fected to carry Ciiristtnas cheer to the homes that without ' ihoughtfulntss might be left ' gloomy and sad, A committee j to arrange for proper giving in- j eludes Alesiiames Sherman Hays ; David and Cox. The first week in January, a! day will be devoted to a club; homecoming when several ad-; jacent clubs will bo invited to i snare me pleasures ot the occa sion. '. . 'no .-r.ns the leys? NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that the un deisigned administratrix of the estate of George A. Kit h, deceased, has filed her final account in the county court of the State of Oresron for Polk county, and that Saturday, December 3uth, lit lti, at the hour of Hi o'clock in the forenoon thereof, at the county court room in the county court "house at Pallas, Oregon, has been appointed by said court us the time and place for the hearing of objections to the said linal account and the settlement there of and the closing of said estate. Inettie Rich, Administratrix of the Estate of Gsorge A. Rich, deceased. B. F. Swope, Attorney. Dated and first published December 1st. lHlti. Last publication Dec. 2i). rt Tiie itincipal aest.vai JJ Turitl. in. i' bines they to iln ;t!i Vnu grown H-ii 1st I'll !l 1,. sco iimtK-e fa i n in forever. I!i! ill ti-ui .s luit ha i- may smile a little n tlit-i 'i .if of r. .'in i (if i roe of life I hi . ii.l- of little Imys and i;irls the better. 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L, HUDSON Adst Cerd Freight A Passenger Agent 716 Second Aveoue SEATTLE t'hiisi inns in AurIo Saxon iln.vs In EiiKland was eelelinited as the pilnel pal festival of Hie year, the AiiIo-Shi-on forefiulii'is (le!ii:lil1n( iu the festlvl. ties of the holy month, as they called the month of December At these times the Anglo-Saxon and afterward the Danish kings of England lived in state and were surrounded with all the great men of their kingdom, wh were sumptuously entertained. There was also an outflow of geuerotis hospitality toward the poor. During the reign of Alfred the Great law wns pastel with relatioi to holidays by virtue of which the twelve days lifter l'ie Nativity ere set a'urt for the celebration of the Christmas festival It Is said that lull for Al fred's strht observance of the "full twelve holy days" he would not have been defeated by the Panes. () () (iir) () ( (ifi () Ail Eskimo Vule A SI!A captain once said that when l, ml was creating the world he inicw nil waste uiaienai asiue 111 a heap, and that was Ijibrador liod ncvcrlnte'iilei! it to be inhabited, maybe. But it s 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 ! : I ; ! . and into that waste of ice clad cliffs and c rags Moravian missionaries have penetrated so thut ninid the desolation of Labrador snow the Christmas festival Is celebrated. As service time dra ws nigh all, old and young, the men on one side, the women on the other, are waiting In eager expectation, Hy 4 o'clock it Is quite dark, and the bell rings. All come trooping In. lad In the best clothes they can muster. I say all, for not one will he wanting, unless kept at home by serious Illness. Even those who are" ill. If not too sick, will be brought on sleds and carried into the church, and those who really can not come weep at home. l'or the little children the happiest part of the service comes Inter, w hen each child receives a lighted candle symbolizing the light of the world. Each i-andie stands I'l a white turnip, whi'-h has boon saved from the hard won liaive-t wrung troin that inhos pitable soil A hole is ciil into t lie turnip and th.- caail'e insetted, so that It sci'ics as 11 l aiiillof i. k. Ill former years, when deer limiting was more successful, the Kskimos lirouglit the deer tallow t the missionaries, who nnole the candles out of il Then aft er th" si r ii the children hud not only the turnip to cat. lint also the rest of the candle v hi. Ii had been brought lion o uniMusiiiued. Hut now imported inndles are used, and they are not (It to cat. so the children have only the J"i ,,l seeing t hem burn. liev. Adolf Sti" her. 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