FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1912.
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past season for sales has been unsurpassed in Washington
county and with extensive advertising and connections in the
East we are looking forward to even a better season next
year.
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at our office and we will land you on the right kind of land.
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going forward by leaps and bounds and the bountiful crops
raised each year attest the wonderful quality of our soil.
: New Year's Calling
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Carried On
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t How It Originated and Is *
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E X T to C h ristm as th e m ost Joy
ous an n u al festival has been
the ad v en t o f th e new year.
T his has been so ever since
th e C h ristian era. As fa r back as the
history of m an can be traced the New
Year day has been an occasion of
feastin g and rejoicing. From the old
est au th en tic record It h as been tra n s
m itted dow n to o u r tim es an d Is still
observed. T he fea st w as In stitu ted by
Numa and w as ded icated to Janus,
who presided over the new y ear Jan
1, 713 B. C.
In th e m iddle ages It w as religiously
observed by th e flow o f w ine and the
eatin g of baked m eats. T he chieftains
of the E uropean tribes appointed It
as th e day of receiving th e ir captains
an d vassals. T h eir chief w as not ad
verse to receiving some token of re
gard from his people to rem ind him of
them during th e rem aining 304 days.
T he people soon learned to consider It
good form as well as good policy to
bring w ith them a su b stan tia l rem em
brance.
Queen Elizabeth m ade New Year’s
day a general co u rt occasion, in which
Commercial associations and j lives the contemplated 15,000
she greeted her loyal su b jects and re similar organizations have been
miles of roadway could be built
ceived th eir gifts. It w as custom ary
to present Queen Bess w ith the finest asked to support a bill to be in and paid for in five years.
raim en t procurable. All the courtiers troduced by Congressman Stan
The bill will also provide for
tried to outdo each oth er In selecting
ton
Warburton
of
Tacoma,
the
use of 14 per cent of this in
the m ost m agnificent te x tu res for th eir
Wash.,
at
the
present
session
come
for the construction of
royal m istress.
Sir W alter Raleigh
one New Y ear’s m orning outstripped of congress. The bill provides like roads in the national parks,
them all by p resenting h er m ajesty
for the creation of a national $200,000 a year to be spent for
w ith a pair of woven silk hose, th e first
military highway, connecting each park for a period of five
ever worn In England.
In northern clim es th e N ew Year has the capital of every state in years.
alw ays been one of the chief gala days
the union with the national’s
Congressman Warburton in
of the season. T he tow n folks alw ays
his bill will urge the immediate
call upon the chief m ag istrate and capital.
drink his health. T he Idea of paying
Though not a state capital, construction of an Atlantic and
New Year calls In th is co untry In a
Chicago,
accordjng to the ten Gulf line from Agusta. Me., to
general way for years w as confined to
New York state, though oth er sta te s tative plans, would be the east Baton Rouge, La., and Talla
adopted It and practiced th e custom to ern terminus of a trunk line con hassee, Fla., and a Pacific coast
a m oderate extent. T he early settlers
necting that city with San Fran line from Olympia, Wash., to
of Jolly old New A m sterdam m ade the
cisco,
via Lincoln, Nebraska, Los Angeles, Calif. Under his
ad v en t day o f th e com ing y ea r th e hap
piest of the annus. In those prim itive Salt Lake City, Utah, and Sac plan the various states will he
tim es everybody knew each other from
ramento, Calif.
! asked to grant the government
one end of M an h attan islan d to the
The bill will provide for a the most feasible roadways, the
other. A fter paying th e ir grav e re
spects to th e governor th ey visited sixteen foot roadway, with heavy exact locations of which will be
each other.
concrete base and hard surface, made by federal engineers.
* W hen the E nglish cam e to New York
“ There is no doubt,’’ says the
they continued the an cien t custom such as asphalt or vitrified brick
which helped to cem ent th e good fel so as to make the roads as near ; congressman, “ about
the a-
lowship th a t has since prevailed be
ly
as
possible
dustless.
The
ex
mount
of
money
that
would
he
tw een th e tw o races. F o r years the
pense
is
estimated
at
from
$20,
received
under
my
proposed
bill.
popularity of New Year ns a day of
feasting becam e so prom inent th a t 000 to $25,000 a mile.
A year ago I had occasion to re
C hristm as w as lost sight of. Year by
In
order
to
raise
the
large
sum
quest
the internal revenue de
year the calling custom grew In favor.
partm
ent
at Washington to
that
will
be
required,
Congress
The young women would try* to out
do each oth er in th e sum ptuousness of man Warburton proposes to re figure out for me the income
th eir table and elegance of th e ir toilets.
store the internal revenue tax of that would have been derived on
In the beginning of th e last century
the young m aidens took pride In the 1879 on tobacco and to set aside tobacco the preceeding year if
fact th a t th e clothes they wore and the the additional income from this the law of 1879 had been in
tables they set w ere the work of their
force.
owu hands. T he gallants would sta rt source as a national road fund.
“ It is a well settled rule that a
out early and go over a list of n score The additional tax so provided,
or more, paying their respects to the he
estimates, would amount tax on luxuries does not decrease
m atrons first an d winding up a t the
to eighty million dollars a year, the amount consumed, though
home of th eir chief attracter. E very
and
with this fund at the dis no great harm would occur if it
body who w as anybody In those days
drank.
Our tax on tobacco is
posal of the government he be- did.
In fact. It w as considered a d uty he
owed to society and to Ills hostess to
drink w henever he was asked and fill
the bum pers up to the brim. As the
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city Increased In size the custom ln- »
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A CHRISTMAS BANQUET.
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A Large List of City Property.
We ren t houses, write insurance in old line companies,
make loans, notary public.
OREGON LAND CO.
“ While the proposed increase
might seem heavy, it will not
even be noticed by the con
sumer. It would raise the tax
on a 10 ceat cigar three-tenths
of 1 cent. The m anufacturer
would decrease the weight of
the tobacco one-thirteenth, and
the consumer could not tell the
difference. The m anufacturer
of smoking tobacco would reduce
the size of the tobacco about a
twelfth. During the Spanish-
Amarican war there was a tax
on tobacco, and not one smoker
in a thousand knew it.
“ The proposed scheme of
roads, I think, is a most impor
tan t one from every point of
view.
It is not necessary to
state the advantages of such a
system; they will appeal to
every one. I cannot imagine
opposition to the proposed law
from any sourse. as there seems
to me there will be a universal
demand for it by the people
when they are advised how easy
it is to acquire the roads, and
how little the public at large will
feel the ta x .”
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o f C e le ry S o u p . C risp e d
C rack ers.
O lives.
R is s o le s o f M e at.
Fish B a k e d o r B o iled . D re s s e d T o
m a to e s .
S a d d le o f V en iso n , C u r r a n t J e lly
S au ce.
B r u s s e ls S p ro u ts . A s p a ra g u s .
R om an Punch.
R o a s t W ild D u c k , O ra n g e S au ce.
L e ttu c e o r C elery .
P lu m P u d d in g O r a n g e P lo m b le re .
N u ts.
R a is in s. F r u its . B o n b o n s.
C r a c k e r s . C h e ese. C a fe N olr.
A p o llin a rts .
C re a m
A Few Good Buys That Have Been
Recently Listed With Us.
18 acres, 5 acres cleared, balance easily cleared, 14 miles
from store, church and school. Price $1,000.00, easy terms.
20acres, two miles out, extra rich soil, old buildings, all
cleared hut two acres timber, family orchard, good roads.
$3,650.00.
40 acres all in high state of cultivation, 5 room house,
fair barn, family orchard, spring and well, 25 acres in clover,
•i miles from town, good roads; the following personal prop
erty with place; hay, feed and seed. Price for all $7,500.00,
half cash.
80 acres, practically all in cultivation, large house, fine
large barn, family orchard, two springs, well, 34 miles from
town on good road, five head of horses, eleven head of stock,
about 12 hogs and pigs, 150 chickens, several hundred bu.
of grain, hay and all farm machinery, wagon and harnesses.
$13,000.00, half cash.
70 acres, 45 acres in cultivation, 10 acres with stumps
blown, 15 acres second growth timber and pasture, fine new
bungalow, Dutch kitchen, fire place, hot and cold water,
bath, good barn. 3 miles from town on two good roads, good
team of horses, yearling colt, four extra good cows, 50 hogs
and pigs, 100 chickens, wagon, harness and all farm ma
chinery, hay and feed. For all $11,000.00,
small. It was reduced in 1873
because the government was
getting more revenue than it
was using. It was decreased
again in 1879 for the same rea
son, and again in 1883. Our tax
on tobacco is not a fourth of
what it was during the war.
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Christmas
Greetings
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FROM THE
A NEW Y E A R 'S CALL, IN O LD NEW Y O R K .
creased In popularity and th e calling
acquaintances of the people lu m agni
tude. T he fair New Yorkers en tered
luto friendly rivalries w ith one an o th
er ns to who should receive the larg est
num ber of callers.
T he "upper cru st" celebrate New
Y'ear at th eir couutry homes. Occa
sionally a solitary caller may be seen
w alking through a fashionable avenue
anxiously looking for a house w here
lie once w as a welcome visitor In or
der to pay his annual resi>ect8, b ut
uothlng greets him but closed doors
and windows.
Because the fad has become passe
w ith th e fashionables It does not fol
low th a t th ere Is no calling done. T he
so called common people keep up th e
ancient custom and look fo rw ard to
it for h alf the year.
In tim es gone by It w as one of th e
p leasan test of custom s, and m any who
condem n It secretly hope th a t It may
yet be revived with the u n p leasan t
featu res left o u t
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