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sm S’ otws I Fill W H EAT CH O P IN B R IE F . Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. J (Eljrtottiuui Ottifto n f a (C n ttu ri; A u u In a New York nrv tpaper of | 1814 Ckrtslino* gifts were **■ veriissd a« follows: "An assortment of Books, ' well calculated for the amuse- | meal and instr uct.on of Young i Persons, among which are— Burton’s Lectures on Female 1 Education and Manners; Fos I lee’s Essays on curious sub te d s ; Rassclas Chatechlsm of j Nature, an excellent little book, price 3s.; Hunter's Vil lage Sermons; Mrs. Ckapane s | Letters on the Improvement of j the Mind." "A. T. Goodrich. No. f< 4 ' Broadway, com er of Cedar | street, has fust received an ex tensive assortment of fancy ar- J tides. Books, Prints, Medal- ] lions. Landscapes and small j books for children, that are , well adapted for purchase or j gift, at this season of compli mentary presents. "By the last arrival from Europe, were also received several of the latest and best Novels, Poems and Miscella neous W orks; "Fine letterpaper; visiting cards; Ladles’ and Gentlemen's 1 Pocket B ooks; IVallets and \ Memorandum Books; Fine Pen knives; Cases of Best Stiver ' Eyed Needles; Opera Glasses and Fnuff Bores." Corvallis attorneys have made ar rangements to fake turn about being j at the courthouse four hours a day every day, in order to give their serv ices to the registrants who want Acreage Sown Reported Largest assistance in answering the govern in History of Country. ment’s questionnaire. I M “ D on ’t (April U n til (iljr U tfn u u ir ------------- My Love hath sent a gift to me. But though that gift I long lo see, The packet's label says me nay— "Don't open until Christmas day." Oregon lays claim to having the first Till Christmas day- how long 100 per cent Red Cross state house in lo wail the Union. At a meeting Monday And pine, yet hold Intiolal* noon, presided over by Governor The 6a», loo slrict for Adam's Withycombe, in the house o f repre sentatives, every official and employe clay, "Don't open »»III Christmas in the statehouse affiliated with the Department Forecasts Crop o f 540,000,- day I" Brents o f Noted People. Government« American Red Cross. Bushels Bad Weather Partly Ac EL D. Handy, ofC ottage Grove, re and PaeMc Northwest and Other On Christmas day shall I be ports the trapping of four mink at ex counts for Poor Showing. H AT an interest centered in here Thine* Worth Knowing. actly the same spot. Mink are very that babe, wrapped in swad To foy 1« that which now seldom trapped in this section, and were deart dling clothes, lying in a man these four were caught at the edge of And must I heed these runes ger at Bethlehem! Prophets were the city limits. The mink is a wary Washington, D. C. — Government The administration bill to increase that say, interested, angels were interested, animal, and seldom more than one is plans for a billion-bushel wheat crop the number o f cadets at the Annapolis "Don't open until Christmas trapped at the same spot. the ages have been most deeply in Naval academy was passed late Mon dayf" next year to help the United States terested since. The shepherds had The senior class o f the Tillamook feed its allies, have received a setback. day by the house without debate, and Should Time, Ike churl, Hava |>erhaps some premonition. 1 lie High School staged a vaudeville per now goes to the senate. power to hold formance Thursday evening. The re It was disclosed Thursday by the De seventy weeks o f Darnel's prophecy In check each word, each German naval forces have made a ceipts will be applied toward paying cember crop report o f the department were about fulfilled. It may he at deed of old I foray into the North Sea and surprised the class debt, including the printing o f Agriculture that while winter wheat Through this decree of drear that very time they were talking of a convoy of merchant ships, sinking o f the High School Annual. The per was planted on the largest acreage ev delay, the coining o f Christ. one British and five neutral vessels formance was a great success. About "Don't open until Christmas and^four mine sweepers. er sown to that cereal, its condition on Suddenly their attention was ar {60 was realized from the show. day." rested by a strange sight in tin December 1 was the lowest on record The period of virtual inactivity con Out of 439 accidents reported to the heavens. It grew brighter and took tinues in France and Belgium, except For there be hearts—and Industrial Accident commission for the for that date. the form of an angel, and then they for reciprocal bombardments on var A winter crop o f 540,000,000 bush purees, too— week ending December 13, four were ious sectors and here and there smal heard a voice announcing the birth Locked fast to Love the long fatal, according to the report just is els was forecast by the bureau o f crop ler operations by reconnoitering par of Christ as glad tidings for all jh ( o - j year through sued. The fatalities were L. H. estimates. The actual production will ties. By that same word, which pie, not to the Jews only. Then Fletcher, Linnton; C. J. DeFore, be greater or less than that quantity, a S iS iS iS iS iS iS iS iS iS .s .ii fools obey, Mrs. Jean Kellet o f North Yakima, Wauna, and Sam Payne, Westport, all suddenly the air was filled with an-J "Don't open until Christmas Wash., has received a telegram from sawmill employes, arid Robert Foster, according as conditions hereafter are gels singing as if they had come j Halifax, N. S., saying that all mem Portland, engaged on construction better or worse than average. Though day." right out from the air. S bers o f the family o f her sister, Mrs. work. a great spring crop is hoped to bring We know not their wonderful | .4k, Love, the sages all allow J. B. Hillis, were killed in the recent the year’s total to somewhere near the Interest in plans for the standard song, but part came to mortal ears, The lime for any ley is now / disaster there. ization o f the potato crop in Lane billion mark. “ Glory to God in the highest,’ ’ etc. Then charge me n -.e r more, The second court-martial o f enlisted county is to be promoted by the £u- An area o f more than 47,000,000 Wo know not who those angels were | I pray, men o f the 24th Infantry, negroes, gene-Springfield Potato association acres was the mark set by the govern but we fancy they were the redeem 1st "Don't open unfit Christmas growing out o f the riot and mutiny o f formed at a meeting held in Eugene ment for farmers to plant to winter d a y r •' *' > Adam was there ; Eve was j HERE was pears os the lone Ju ed. members of that regiment at Houston, Saturday. The purpose o f the associ wheat this fall, but the December can there. Eve, who in her maternal | dean hills. — Arthur Ouiterman in Life. the night of August 23 last, was begun ation is to establish in the minds of vass shows that 42,170,000 acres were Tuesday at Fort Sam Houston. And the shepherds watched earnestness declared at the birth of buyers from other sections o f the sown. The farmers did their best, de partment o f Agricultural officials say, her firstborn, " I have got a man their /locks by night, country a confidence in the Willamette No restrictions upon the price or but conditions were against them. When there came from the silent, star from the Lord,” honing that that distribution o f lead are deemed neces Valley potato. The very dry weather in most o f the ry sky was he who should bruise the ser 1 sary at this time by the war industries Superintendent of Banks Sargent A burst of glory, a daszling light. board. This was announced Tuesday Saturday completed a statement show winter wheat belt was a serious draw pent's head. Now, in the fullness after a conference between the board ing the condition o f all banks and trust back, while late harvest o f other crop* And the angel choir from far away of time she had come to witness the j Sang "Peace on earth, good will lo and the principal lead producers of the companies of the state at the close of and shortage o f farm help were con birth of tl)c babe who was to lie the; tributing causes for the failure. men," country. business November 20. The statement And we hear the song o'er lapse of Saviour o f her race. David, Elijah, | Miss Hariet A. Varney, a nurse o f shows deposits aggregating $198,958,- Moses, the patriarchs, we believe,! years West Upton, Mass., was found not 775.40, or an increase o f $34,361,- R E L I E F D R I V E S T A R T S SOON were with the heavenly host. Ae it echoes in our hearts again. guilty o f the murder of Mrs. Pauline 794.66 over November 17, 1916, an This song reveals three things: Keyes, the 10-months bride o f George increase o f {17,708,210.26 over Sep Portland Ad Club to Solicit Funds for They sang in notes of heavenly fo y ; T JNDER the far blue Syrian sky First.— The glorification of God | 1 / H. Keyes, a Boston real estate man, tember 11, 1917. They brought a message from Ood to «. i t bgm the i'onqueror of Suffering Armenian Youth. through the incarnation. God ha* I by a jury in the Norfolk county Super men, Death, Warden Murphy, o f the penitentiary, A big drive for funds for the relief For the Prince of Peace had come to glory through his vast work in na- H’ko bore cridentists from on high ior court. will send seven prisoners and a fore o f the starving children in Armenia ture, his providence building up and earth In Bethlehem and Nazareth. Unidentified^bodies o f 200 victims man to Gold Hill, where preliminary and Syria will be staged soon by the And a c h i l d casting down nations, etc. Then came the new and better times; o f the explosion at the Halifax, N. S., work will be started on opening the Oregon Branch o f the American Com One lone star signaled far and wide. In the incarnation there was spe disaster were buried Monday after lime deposits in that vicinity. The mittee for Armenian and Syrian Re was bom at public funeral services conducted by work will be confined to getting the lief, and everyone is going to be asked Bethlehem. cial glory. It was glory to God in And now we ring melodious chimes To mark the holy Christmastide. Protestant and Catholic clergymen. new tramway installed and in opera- to contribute to the relief of the inno \ 'he Christ had the highest— highest, in that it wan came, th e M a o o fn u l la k e - ~**H k » J * * » » ' cent victims or crussiamsm. Nearly 100 of the bodies were charred E u u i above all other glory, in that it ex 1 K i n g o f w ju n a recognition. on the lime deposits until the prelimi The committee in charge has sent tended to all time and in that it Come young and old from every side; kings, Come rosy maid and gentle swain. The official text of the armistice be nary work has been completed. the following statement concerning the That we might wrought such wondrous good. It is the holy tween the Russians and the Teutonic O od i n hi e In order that the work on the new Armenian Christmas, which falls on Second.— The great results to the j Christmas- allies confirms the unofficial reports January 19, 1918, in that country: beauty see Ewaua box factory at Klamath Falls, earth. It would result in pence, j tide that it is to run from December 17 to And hearts be light in blessed hope “ Instead o f sending Christmas gifts, which is to be built in the early Strifes, thorns and thistles were I T h a t joyously January 14. The compact embraces That death should be swallowed in spring, shall not be delayed, concrete this year, we are devoting the money abounding. The earth was torn and all the fighting fronts where Russian we m e e t victory. piers to the number of 120 are now they would have cost to the relief of again. bleeding by constant contention.! troops have been engaged and also ex being set. The main building will be the hungry little children and heart The holly hangs tends to the naval forces of the con approximately 80x120 feet. Contracts broken women o f Armenia and Syria. And they left their Hocks and hasten With Christ came peace. The result! tracting parties. upon th e ed on would be universal {«ace. “ Will you not join us in a prayer for the new plant have been let tenta door. To the city of David to see the babe. President Felix Galonder, in the tively and will be finally decided upon that it may bring a ray o f happiness Third.— The effect on the individ It is no lime for and hope into some stricken life, in the The Saviour of men and the Son of ual man. “ Good will toward men," first public speech he has delivered within a week or ten days. \ work or woe. Ood, land o f the Christ Child. As our since his recent election, said at Gene The humble child in a manger laid, from one another, from God. Out Now jollify commands the floor. The first home guard for Grant thoughts turn at this Christmas time va, Tuesday, that the Swiss people of this good will would finally spring And joy comes u>ilk the mistletoe. were ready to pour out their blood county was organized at Prairie City to the Manger in Bethlehem, we re And they marvel at that which had peace on earth and glory to God in Bring in the Yule log's ancient flame. come to pass against anyone who might attempt to last week, with 52 citizens on the member that He said, “ Inasmuch as And return with glory and praise lo the highest.— Dr. Matthew Simpson. The soused boar's head, a rich re invade their country. Switzerland, muster roll, which will be left open ; ye have done it unto one o f the least Ood, past. , declared the President, would defend for additional names until the first o f o f these my brethren, ye have done it While the chorus echoes within their | Let sorrow go the way it came; the year. The signers were sworn in unto me. her neutrality to the end. hearts l-et care be to oblirton cast. as deputy sheriffs by Sheriff W. W. To Make a True Christmas. “ Money which reaches Mr. Ben Sel A mob o f more than 100 men storm Howell. Rev. E. O. Clay, pastor of As back to the lonely hills they plod. The sweet clear voices sound tritho ling, treasurer, Portland, by January Don’t forget the lonely, the suffering, ed the county jail at Billings, Mont., the Mtethodist church, who has had Hackbuts and shawm make whoI 1st, will reach Armenia in time for A m the shepherds of old, let us hasten tho poor, on Christmas. Remember Tuesday night, apparently in an effort military training, will act as captain. some glee. their celebration o f Christmas which that tho first and greatest Christmas on to seize-Juan Juarra, a Mexican sec Twined is the boar's head round abou in their country comes on January The Buenher Lumber company has j This Christmas day to Bethlehem gift was sent not to the rich und pow- tion hand, who shot and killed Patrol Wllk garlands rich and rosemary, j 19th.” erful, but to the poor and needy. Give town. man Enos Nelson. A fter battering asked the North Bend city council to Candy for themselves or food and to those who are near and dear to yon, To be with him down the front door o f the jail the mob vacate a strip o f the waterfront road shelter for other little boys and girls And now the foaming wassail bowl through t h e but somewhere, somehow. In your ordi was held by Sheriff Stone Matlock and 10 feet wide by 2183 feet long, to p e r -; is the decision which the children of Shall bring us comfort and delight. whole o f nary life find some one who la near his deputies until police officers ar mit the company to install a sidetrack This is the sea the United States are making at this and dear to no one else and make to the Southern Pacific system, con rived and dispersed it. life, s o n of the Christmas. The Sunday School War To bear t h e Christmas for him or her. necting the main line with a new plan soul, The residence o f John D. Rockefel- Council, representing all Evangelical cross and to ing mill, dry sheds and drying kilns. ler in the suburbs o f Cleveland was F r o m golden denominations, has asked for {1,000,- gain the An electric crane is also to be in totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. The morn to star 000 at this Christmas, to supply the crown. rapid spread o f the flames led to the stalled. ry night. need o f 400,000 destitute orphans in No more shall belief that the fire was o f incendiary Naught care we Reporting Thursday the result o f in- j Bible lands. This would amount to but we find him a origin. Mr. Rockefeller is now living vestigation o f food conditions in Bak {2.50 each and is to be supplemented for the pierc & a m e (CljrtBtmaa %jt lowly child. at his winter home in Tarry town, N. er, requested by the state food admin by a fund o f $30,000,000 raised by the ing cold, But there forever uAth Ood above Y ., and the estate at Cleveland was in istration, Mayor C. L. Palmer de American Committee for Armenian The d r i f t e d tr ijr n iifl V He scotches and guides our feeble steps charge o f a caretaker. The house con clared that the sale o f ham, bacon, i and Syrian Relief. Reports received snow or rag TUI he bears us home with his 4n- tained many valuablejpaintings, tapes wheat and sugar in Baker shows a de at the State headquarters, 613 Stock ing blast, flnite love. There is a Bosnian legend ^ tries and bronzes. crease of 26 to 50 per cent compared Exchange, Portland, by Secretary J. that the eun leaps in Ike hcav- \p For Christmas never shall grow old From eons new or centuries past. Another payment o f {25,000,000 to with sales a few months ago. He J. Handsaker, indicate that Sunday How sweetly, how gladly to all the ens and the stars dance around ffg Italy Thursday, the first for many found that the supplies o f corn and rye schools all over the state are celebrat world it. A great peace comes steal weeks, brought the total actually paid flour are running short anS that some ing the White Christmas, and in al There comet a message of hope (Juaint mummers mingle in the scene ing down over mountain and to that government from the {500,- dealers are entirely out o f these sub- most every case the actions has been today, ll’kcre pudding mates with C»rl*f- forest. The rotten stumps stand 000,000 credit allowed up to {320,000,- sttutes for wheat flour and unable to 1 taken by unanimous vote of the chil For Christ is born and man Is free mas pis. straight and green on the kill- dren and not their elders. 000. get more. And pain and sorrow must pass The rooms are thick with evergreen. side. The grass is beflowered away. And happiness lights every eye. with blossoms, and the birds Western railroad lines were ordered Luther J. Goldman, biological assist Lose 17 Vessels in Week. How sweetly and silently into the Let Fortunatus turn his horn sing on the mountain tops in by the Railroad War board Thursday ant and predatory animal inspector o f heart Of basket loads to famished need. London— Fourteen British merchant thanks to God. In Poland the to send 100 locomotives to aid in re Idaho, is to make Pendleton his head The Christ Child comes this blessed For on this day the One. was bom heavens open and Jacob’s lad- men o f more than 1600 tons and three lieving traffic congestion. quarters. night Who knew no mark of class or creed. der is set up between earth and under that tonnage were sunk by mine The Bolsheviki have dispersed the Because o f the many enlistments at or submarine during the last week, ac To make us noble and good and true. sky. In Austria the candles are For the light of the world is a won- senate, the highest Russian court, and Merrill, ranchers are alarmed as to cording to the admiralty statement set in the window that the Then welcome, merry Christ mastide. drous light. all the other courts at Petrograd, in how to handle their crops in the fu Thursday. One fishing vessel also was Christ Child may not stumble Another hour before we go. keeping with the recent decree o f the ture. It is feared that many o f the when he comes to bless the The rosy g i r l sunk. Dear Christ, may ice follow with will people’s commissaries, substituting dairymen will be compelled to sell home. In north Germany the 1 close at our ing hearts new revolutionary tribunals. The only their herds. Residents in the Merrill tables are spread and the lights side The shipping losses by mine or sub The path of duty, where thou hast opposition met was at the congress of district declare more labor must be se left burning for the incoming We ll kiss be marine in the past week are slightly led. county judges, who refused to be dis cured if they are to maintain their of the Virgin Mary and her at neath the mis under those of the previous week, That sin and shame may have an end persed. They were arrested. normal production. tending angel. tletoe. when 14 vessels o f more than 1600 And that joy The English superstition is ! Deep, m e l l o w tons and seven under that tonnage may fill our Bishop Paul Jones, o f the diocese of Twenty-five recruits for the navy , admirably voiced by the myriad b e l l s salute were destroyed. t o u l e in Utah, o f the Protestant Episcopal within 10 days is the record for the minded Bhakespeare in "Ham- , the air stead. church, Thursday appeared before a Pendleton recruiting office. let": From With benir~"~ {100.000 Left Barber. And on this thy committee o f three bishops which early morning Thursday Recn ’ting sent far glorious natal Astoria, Or.—To be suddenly trans ’ Some say that *v«r ’gainst that met in St. Louis, to consider charges Officer Schwart found his hands full, wide. f aeason comes day formed from a barber, at 18 per week, Wherein our Lord’s birth Is csl- o f disloyalty that have been made with men on the waiting list. The Good will and foy go everywhere to a man of wealth, was the experience Wr shall catch J ebrated, men are hurrying to avoid the draft. against him. Upon the golden Christmastide. The bird of dawning slngeth all the Bound as o f A. S. Haddix, employed in a local F night long. —Joel Benton. the glad bells William Fraker, Pendleton’s oldest shop. News o f his good fortune came Havana— The house o f representa And then they aay no spirit can / walk abroad. ring tives Thursday night adopted resolu pioneer, Tuesday celebrated his ninety- in a telegram which said he was heir The nights are wholeeom*. Then tion declaring a state o f war to exist first birthday. He crossed the plains to an estate of {100,000, left by an Till we hear thy summons to come T no planeta «trike, The Sweetest of All. No fairy takes, nor witch hath away between Austria-Hungary and the Re by ox team in 1852 and lived nineteen uncle who died Tuesday at Houston, power to charm, And in heaven above thy praises Christmas Is a Jolly day, but let B o hallowed and ao gracious la public o f Cuba. The action was taken years in the Willamette valley before Tex. Haddix, who is a cousin o f Dep sing. the time. not forget that It la Christ's blrthd following the reading o f a message moving to Pendleton. He brought the uty Collector Haddix, has been here and that to make someone else ba( from President Menocal recommending first organ and sewing machine to that but three weeks, and will leave for —Rev. Norman Van Pelt Levis in Phil adelphia Public Ledger. Texas to administer the estate. Is the sweetest tk’ug of all. city. such a declaration. COMPILED FOR YOU FARMERS DID NOBLY W J Che Christmas Story % 7 % & I Che Golden Cbnstmastid®