THE NEWBERQ QRAPHIC, I The Southern Pacific officials newspaper publishers to see that announce that a special train their columns do not contain will be put on the Portland- advertising m atter of this class, Eugene run with the time short­ even though they may not have ened to four hours for the 100 any scruples against helping to thus giving Eugene people promote schemes of chance, lest E.B.VD 0 DIU 1 ram ili Flttfcr miles, seven and a half hours in Port­ their publications may be refused land. This is not very swift going, postal delivery on the ground but New berg passengers spend an th at said schemes are regarded hour and twenty minutes on the as lotteries. TO BE GIVEN AWAY. run of twenty-six miles and they A Detroit, Michigan paper of October 19 has this to say: A only have a little more than five little too late, but nevertheless We have a proposition to make hours in the city. in time to have considerable to our readers th at is w orth con­ .force, the local postoffice officials. sidering. We are too busy to The date of the city election is far in the distance and it is take the time to make out state­ not none too early to begin to look ments to mail to our subscribers, the field over to see who are best certain local newspapers th at and as an inducement to all who fitted to serve the interests of copies of their paper containiug stock of Our first carload of advertisement of the Bayley may be in arrears, we are going the people. If a sewer system is the Music House, 29 Grand River spring wagons and Rangos to give away to each of the first to be put in next season a good avenue, e a st relative to a guess- buggies will arrive A limited number of high grade Heaters contest now being conducted, who business administration was ing seventy-five February 10th and imitation cut glass Creamers and will be barred from the mails. Cooking Utensils more needed than it will be The the price will be pay op w hat they owe and a never Sugars, 15C EACH. action is based on the ground in the coming months. The th at the scheme is a lottery and SilTorwaro right Don’t buy year in advance, a pair of tension Graphic has no candidates and the mails, nnderthe law, cannot Saturday Only Etc. until you see them. shears. The shears are eight is only interested in seeing men be used for the furtherance of inches in length, they have an elected who are the best fitted such enterprise. The order does not affect city editions of the adjustable tension spring and for the places to be filled. papers in question, bnt, in ac­ are given out under a five year A jack rabbit becoming tired cordance with the department’s guarantee by the manufacturers. of a quiet country life visited orders, they have cut the adver­ out of their mail edi­ Here is an opportunity to get Newberg recently and was cap­ tisement tions. ' and put in a cage, but com­ The contest, a nice premium and one th at is tured as already told in mitted suicide during the night. The Indicator, consisted w orth while. Tell your friends Did Mr. Jack prefer death to th at ing Mr. Bayley’4 exact in age guess- at a living in Newberg?—Hood who are not subscribers th at the of Glacier. name offer is open to them. River Not exactly. It was a case of BARGAIN DAY OFFER. Don’t delay if you w ant to secure finding Newberg to be larger and We have a larger and more complete assort­ this premium as the supply is busier than the cities of Eastern Subscriptions will be taken at ment of Christmas présents than ever before. limited. Add ten cents if you Oregon, the land from whence he this office for the Evening Tele­ By buying in large quantities we were able came, and thè noise and bustle w ant the shears sent by mail. gram a t $3.50 from now until to secure our goods at a bargain and will of a real live city caused our long J a n . 1 -1 9 1 2 . We will also quote prices to our patrons that will meet visitor to die of nervous furnish the Telegram and the l e t us F ig u r e w it h you There are so many pretty eared with their approVa). Graphic both for the same length things in the shop windows to prostration. of time for $4.50. This is your look a t just now—please excuse opportunity to secure & ( good us from reading the President’s daily and your home paper a t a ’ Dolls at prices unheard of nominal price. Do it now. The Independence is losing no time offer won’t hold long. Buy early and get the benefit of an unbroken line in supplying the long feet w ant for thirst parlors. They must FOOTBALL IS ANCIENT. have been awfully dry in that W nar xne contusions " in uc m |t W u p , . y#d England Long Ba- section of Polk. We are giving away a 42 piece tw o years no one can tell, and to fora Crickat Waa Known, an expensive campaign , Football is one of tbe oldest, if In quaking up your list of' make Dinner Set every Saturday w ithout the outlook being favor- not the oldest, of our sports. Fooir No Emperor—either of a presents for Christmas, neglect ablè for success would be a grave “ ingrained in human natura People or of Finance—can the grown up folks if you must, mistake. The fact is the editor buy better food than we but remember th at a very small of the Graphic, along with hun- The ancients inflated s bladder, expenditure will make glad the dreds of others who stand for 0r foilia, and kicked it about. In sell you, at prices you usu- hearts of the little ones. the enactement of prohibition Greece there was the episkuroe, a ally pay for good things. game played in miich the same way It is all very well to distribute laws, did not look-with favor on as us, only by a large number a few holiday presents among the proposition to call for a vote of with persons. Then the Romans your friends if you like, but keep on the question of prohibition at played a game called h&rpastum J . L . V tfn B la iic o m Near First National Bank in mind the fact th at a friend the last election. We did not with both hands and feet, which regard the time as being oppor­ shows that even then carrying the tune for the effort. In the first ball wu permitted. Here were the w ant you to embarrass yourself of socker and Rugby. in the effort to come through place we did not believe the foundations There can doubt that it LOOK iThrSr&th* majority vote Would be for it, wu passed on be to little with expensive gifts. Great Britain by and secondly our opinion was tbe Romans from harpastum, where, Charles E. Hicks has sold tbe they strove by a “conquering cast” Headquarters for Christmas G oods to throw the follis into each other’s Independence E n t e r p r i s e to goal. Centuries before cricket wu Henry E. Browne who has been born in the south of England foot­ connected with the Silverton Ap­ S. W. POTTER, Jeweler and Optician ball wu common in tbe north. Tra­ peal. Mr. Hicks will now' take dition hu it that one of the early Having newly fitted up his store-room will be better prepared the short cut to gain riches by footballs wu the skull of a Danish than ever before to meet the demands of the Christmas trade. engaging in the real estate busi­ invader kicked about on tbe Roo- He carries the finest lines of silverware. Rogers’ Bros. Best dee at Chester on Shrove Tuesday ness in Independence. arade Com m unity Silver, twenty-five years’ guarantee. Rockford silverware w ith a perpetual guarantee, and all just before Lent. other best frsdes. First class Clocks, Watches, Chains, Fobs, Whole townships engaged in the If Champ Clark hopes to secure Rings, Lockets, Bracelets, Charms, Emblems— in fact every­ game in those days. Sometimes the patronage from President Taft thing kept in a first class Jewelry store. goals were the towns themselves by presenting him with apples, and the game luted all day. “Over Repairing of all kinds promptly and neatly done. he will do well to send toOregon hill es, dales, hedges, ditches, yea A. E. WILSON, the Jeweler for a box of apples th at are and thorow bushes, briars, mires, plashes and rivers whatsoever you world beaters, rather than to •hall sometimes see twenty or thirty depend on the Missouri grown lie struggling together in the water, fruit. Taft has been out here scrambling and scratching for the and he knows the real thing in ball,” says one old writer. the way of fruit when he sees it. As early u 1175 Fitzstephens’ wax so much worse in tw o years “History of London” uys that tbs Those who are interested in the th at the people will be ready to game wu a great Shrove Tuesday sheep business should take notice support statewide prohibition, •port—“football day.” The next ot the announcement of the Mid- but as we said a t the start we tune we see football in history it is Latinised in the law u pila pedina Winter Sheep Show which will think it ill advised to make the and 111., tbe first President open in Portland January 4. bull headed assertion a t this Eliot Edward Still we grow and there is good reason or Butler, is trying to abolish The day before the opening, the early date th at a vote on the it in 1369. Richard H. tried it again for our steady and satisfactory growth. thirteenth annual convention of question will be forced tw o years in 1888. Three other kings, besides Jhe tact th at our business has increased the Oregon Wool Growers’ As­ both the Scotch and Wngfiah par­ more than one hundred thousand do} liaments, attempted the same thing, sociation will be held in Port­ hut it kept its vitality in spite of lars during the last year indicates th at land. Such conventions always GUESSING CONTESTS PRO- alL Indeed, the history of football prove to be both interesting and the public has not lost sight of the essen­ seems to be an endless repetition of profitable to those who attend. 55 . 462.50 tials that make a bank strong and safe. this story of opposition. But in the 3 . 556.95 Since the date of the final end it usually takes root and is more Our cash reserve is 36 percent. Thelaw 3,36671 The editor of the Graphic ac­ crushing out of the old Lousiana tenacious than any other sport— requires only 15 per cent—the additional 102464.68 knowledges the receipt of a letter Lottery by the government, 21 per cent is evidence of our conserva­ $39544536 from Washington, D. C., appris­ those who have a propensity tor Starting a Raw. tism. Study the annexed statement. ing him of tbe fact that he has biting at games of chance have Two little boys vers discussing V),000,Q0 been nominated as a member of had to look elsewhere, and the walking abilities of their re­ We are proud Of it and we appreciate the 14.50652 the Navy League ot the United promoters of various schemes spective fathers. business and confidence of our friends 50.00000 Said one little boy, “My father States, but since the duties of have worried their brains in once 281 . 336.66 which made it possible. all the wey from New the office would no doubt be efforts put forth to catch the York walked to Boston without getting arduous, and besides, the forti­ pennies of this class, by provid­ tired.” fications along the Cbehalem ing voting contests, guessing “Didn’t be fall off?” remarked seem to be ample tor protection contests, raffles and what not, the second. against the invasion of all foes while the postal department has “Fall from w batr askad the first who wee getting real angry. from without, and the battle­ been trimming them down by one, “From frieghts,” replied the ships on the Yamhill and Wil­ prohibiting the advertising by the other little tbe fellow. lamette are in good working use of the mails. That started the fight—Reho- It now becomes necessary for both Sunday Herald. order we beg to be excused. NEWBERQ QRAPHIC