FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1912. 8 ************ *********** W hen You are in T ow n FEED THE HORSE AS WELL AS YOURSELF I he best dinner for the horse can be had at W. W. RYALS’ FEED AND SALES STABLES NORTH MAIN STREET, FOREST GROVE. Rigs and Saddle Horses for Hire. Horses and Mules for Sale. Contract Hauling Solicited, FOREST GROVE ¡Bicycle Shop South Main Street Motor Cycles, Bicycles and Sundries for Sale AGENTS FOR THE HYDRO CARBON LIGHTING SYSYEM WE DO ALL KINDS OF WE HAVE THE G en eral R e p a ir W o rk 1913 Indian Motor Cycle Catalogue... ALL WORK GUARANTEED CALL AND GET ONE Forest Grove Bicycle Shop AMOS LAHAIE; Proprietor It Will Fay You. FARMER, if you have made up your mind to sell and M R. your price is right, IT WILL PAY YOU to list your farm with the OREGON LAND CO. Our record the 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. MR. STRANGER, when you land at Forest Grove, land at our office and we will land you on the right kind of land. Forest Grove, “ the prettiest town in Oregon,” has been going forward by leaps and bounds and the bountiful crops raised each year attest the wonderful quality of our soil. : New Year's Calling 5 --------- : * Carried On j t How It Originated and Is * ***** ********** ********** * 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 * city Increased In size the custom ln- » 4 A CHRISTMAS BANQUET. N 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 .” ************************** L it t l e N e c k C lam s. 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. •*■ ♦ ****•*■ *■ *■ **** * - * ★ Christmas Greetings * * * * * * * * k* 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 Q. C. R ings Are Q uality All Through S /f them. Prove that similar values elsewhere would cost you much more T h e makers’ printed guarantee protects you always, against lost stones (except diamonds). ForestGrove ..Studio.. THE HOME OF Good Portraits G u a r a n te e d R in g s Look fot Q. C. stamp inside each ring. Over 20tk) designs. Call and gel tree birUistone eard. SHEARER & JEWELERS FOREST GROV E. SON OREGON H. Sackrider PROPRIETOR