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Going Out of Jewelry Business
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Santa Claus is Carrying Things Out in Bags,
Baskets and Boxes.
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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
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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).
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Tiie itincipal aest.vai JJ
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forever. I!i! ill
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may smile a little
n tlit-i 'i .if of r.
.'in i (if i roe of life
I hi . ii.l- of little
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Chicago
Kansas City
Denver
and Intermediate Cities
VIA THE
The Road that Joins the West avnd
East with a Boulevard of Steel
FROM
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Adst Cerd Freight A Passenger Agent
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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.
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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. Moravl.'in Missionary In
Labrador ami Alaska, iu New York
Evening 'iin.
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job as a skilled man does
the work.
Our Cash System enables us
to beat city prices.
There is hardly anything" we
cannot do.
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