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Brief Resume Most Important
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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.
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“ D on ’t (April U n til
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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
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iS
iS
iS
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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
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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.
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