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iäim Some of tfie School Officers and Teachers of Marion County ÿott that there is à great difference in snow—that is, there is a great dif- fereüeé between country snow and city snow. We may not have snow this Christ mas, but we’ll just suppose we do. Isn’t a good, old lively snowstorm great? Perhaps it Is one of these lazy snowstorms, with the big, white flakes just floating down like feathers and By DOUGLAS MALLOCH slowly turning the roads and roofs to white, like a coat of good white paint. (©, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) Maybe there will be enough of it to |S ONE boy to another— make good coasting on the hills and for I have never gotten g’ood sleighing on the roads. And, by the way, do you know over being one, although I am getting as gray there are boys ip the big cities who as a billy-goat around have never seen a sleigh? Because a ,the ears—I want to give sleigh is getting to he a scarce article it as my opinion that a in the cities. You see, as soon as a Christmas anywhere but little snow comes the street-cleaning in the country is no j department gets busy and sweep» it up, before it gets a chance to melt Christmas at all ! into slush. A city Christmas is a \ In the country the winter wheat 0 make-believe, a hollow j needs it, and the ground takes care of mocKfcu-y, a false alarm, an imitation. It. But in the city it just means slop I have tried both kinds, and so I ¿now. j and slush. So th^y sweep it up and A city Christmas has all-the tin and j carry it away and uncover the ugly tinsel, and that is all. By the time pavement as soon as they can. you get as old and feel as young as j 'But. they let you keep your snow in I am, you find most of the plate worn I the country. When a warm wind Off. j comes along. it. will pack fine, and you Honestly, boys (and girls), .1 don’t j .have; ; your snow-men, and your think Santa Claus himself ever feels I can very much at home except on a rural snow forts, and your snowball battles. route! Hé has a mighty poor job in a (Only please, don’t nse your artillery older folks, or girls, or me.) big town, with flues instead of chim on Or perhaps 'this snowstorm is one neys, and everything. And it is hard ! of the blizzarrly kind, with the wind to see where he gets room to turn a ; sleigh and eight reindeer around, tiny I zipping around the house and piling reindeer though they may be. He’ll be I pretty certain to bump Into a hydrant or tip over on a curb. And with twenty families all using | one flue (and, what is worse, a soft | coal flue at that) how in the world i Is the most experienced Santa going to find which is Brown’s and which is Smith’s, and where the Greens live? Even if he dared rap and ask (which | no Santa Claus is ever supposed to ' .do) nobody could tell him. For per- | haps tire Browns and the Smiths have ! never “met,” and the Greens might live across the hall for a month be fore anybody thought to inquire their name. For that is one thing you don’t get much of in the. city—neighbors. Some times when the woman across the load keeps running in just when your mother is canning, or baking, or treat ing a shirt-bosom kindly but firmly with a flat-iron, your mother may al most wish that they weren’t quite so plentiful in the country—but she wouldn’t. She would miss them, just Snowballs Through Royal Windows. the same as you would mis» having the same boys to play with year after the snow up in the corners—why thai year. For in the city you are always get kind of snow doesn’t seem to come ting a fresh lot of playmates—and down at all, but just goes slanting by sometimes they are a mighty fresh until it runs up against something it lot, too. Of course there are some can’t pass. I remember being on a night train good kids, also ; but it always seems tl'.at just when you get to liking some one time; and when we woke up in fellow up the street or^across the alley, the morning, and the train was run the landlord boosts the rent and his ning over the smooth prairies, a little folks have to move, and you never see girl from a big city in western Penn him again. He may move only from sylvania (I won’t tell you what city one side of the city to the other, hut it was but maybe you can guess) ex it might as well be to another state. claimed as ¿¡he looked oift of the It is five or ten or twenty miles— window: • “Look, Mamma! The snow out here miles of houses, no, miles, of flats, and streetcar tracks, and railroads, and is white!” 1 don’t need to say much about the factories—and you never sée’him again Christmas dinner. But if you have or any of his folks. Christmas dinner in the country, The boys yon know this,, Christmas your probably won’t be around at all next the turkey perhaps is one your folks raised, or that was raised in -the Christmas, If you live in the city. That neighborhood—anyhow, is Pretty is u funny thing, about city folks: likely to be a native, and it not a resi they are always going somewhere and dent of a cold storage plant some never getting anywhere. Why, even Or maybe you’ll have a goos*‘ if the landlofd didn’t raise the rent where. October 1 or May 1 or whenever the or a brace of chickens. Anyway, you’ll know their pedigree, and that they’re lease empires, they might move any fresh and good. way! People who live in flats instead And it will be the same way all of homes are always looking for some down the line—vegetables, and pies thing better and getting something and everything. And booked 1—cooked worse. They have the most wonderful to a turn—just long ^enough—-just collection of rent receipts, but upt a short enough—just right. foot of ground, not a roof or rafter, And you will more than likely have they can call their own. one thing that they \von’t have at the Now. I don't know what you think, Christmas dinner in the city, because but I think that every family ought to yoq know the- cost .of living just now have a house pf its own, a house it *s mighty high, in town, especially, for lives in year after year. That is, of both rich and poor. So you will have course, unless the father has some one thing that the city boy probably sort of job thfft makes it necessary for will not have— Jilin to move to some other town every Enough 1 other year or so. But it is a great So’ I could go on and show you a thing to live in a home, not just â dozen other ways in which a Christ house, and that is about the best place, mas in the country puts it all over a and the only placp, to have a Christ Christmas in the city, but I am going mas, a real, sure-enough, honest-to- to mention Just one thing more: the goodness Christmas. Christmas tree. Most of you boys who live on the Of course they have Christmas trees farm and in the small town have that in the city. In New York trainloads .kind of home, and I wander-if you of them come down every season from know how/lucky you are? Wouldn’t the Adirondacks, and in Chicago boat you hate to wake up Christmas morn loads come from Michigan’s upper ing and look at the ceiling and realize peninsula. You can buy them for fifty that someone else owned It; and then cents or a dollar, and they make very- get up andÆgo out In the front yard good Christmas trees indeed. and realize that someone else owned I don’t know what you think about that, too—why, you’d get so after this either—but I have always thought awhile that, everything you saw, you that things I did myself and for my would wonder who owned it! self were just twice the fun of things I tell you, boys, it’s a great satisfac I bought myself or hired myself. And tion to have a back yard and to know 1 think that especially about a Christ it’s yours, and that you can invite mas tree. If you are lucky enough people into it, or invite people to stay to be ahie to go out and pick your out of it, just as you please. Why, that own tree, and chop it down, and bring is what brought the Pilgrim Fathers it in—well, that’s what I call a real to America—they wanted a spot they Christmas tree! could call their own. I don’t say that Because that is really arid truly it was exactly a back yard they want your Christmas tree. You selected it ed. but what they wanted was some with your; own eye and chopped it place they could play ball and no down with your own axe and brought landlord of a king could come along it home with your own muscle. Tlx and tell them to stop because they Christmas tree—that is your job: might break v some of the royal win Bringing in the Tre«.., dows. You know old King George did F ather gets the turkey. come along and try to make them stop Mother makes the pie— —and you know what happened to the Each one, has a Christmas Jot» To do, and so have I. royal windows. Zarii ! Sister strings the popcorn And then there is this matter of To decorate—but, gee! snow. You know some people (Jon’t I. have got the biggest J o b - think it is much of a Christmas with Bringing in the tree! out snow. Now. I know quite a lot Turkey is important, about snow because I’ve been ac P ie and such are great. quainted with a lot of it. I bave Popcorn strings you have to hav* tramped through it up In the Hudson W hen you decorate. B ut I guess a Christm as Bay country, and I’ve wallowed around Christmas wouldn’t be in It in the summertime on top of the If you didn’t have a boy Rocky mountains. And I want to tell Bringing in the tree! Best Christmas for a Boy D ISTR ICT NO. 15, HUBBARD D ISTR ICT NO. 1,„DONALD Jam es P, F e lle r ........................................................ Aurora, R. 5 J. H. M ille r .................................................... ....H u b b a r d , R. 1 Fred Yergen, C h airm an....................................... Aurora, R. 5 Leona M iller, C lerk ............................ Hubbard, R. 1 M argaret (J. Scollard, Prin. .Salary $135 W oodburn H azel M. Cone, T eacher . . . ............. 120 Donald D ISTRICT NO. 4, SILVERTON Mrs. G race P alm er ................................. G. B. B entson . ................................................ G eorge W. Hubbs, C hairm an............... J. W. H yett, C lerk........................................ B. T. Youel, Su pt.........Salary, yr., $1 H. C. Tschanz, Prin. H. S., m o... Irm a B otsford, T eacher H. S........ Joseph in e H ammond, Tchr. H. S.. Claude N . Freem an, Teacher H. S. H azel K night. T eacher H. S .. . . R u th Straw , Teacher H. £ ............. Clover B. M iller, Prin. G r a d e s .... A va J. D a r b y ........................................ R osella R ichardson .......................... H annah M. O lson .............................. L illie Larson ........................... Sophia M adson ................................. - M argaret D.- H um burg .................... M aybelle S igloh ............................. In a Hubbs, P rincipal P rim ary. 1. Am a J. K endall ...................... .. Edna O lson .................................... .. E th e l F reem an ......... M innie M ascher .................................. A gn es M. Bock ......... .......................... O lga J. Johnson ................................. B la n c h e •H ubbs .................................... 250.00 200.00 133.33 133.33 188.88 130.00 166.66 130.00 115.00 115.00 110.00 120.00 110.00 100.00 140.00 110.00 100.00 100.00 120.00 100.00 100.00 125.00 . Sil verton .S il verton .S ilv erto n .S il verton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton S ilverton D ISTR ICT NO. 11, A UM SVILLE C harles »L. M artin . .. _____ .....................................A u m sville John M ix ...................................................... . . . . . . .A u m sville W. K. W inslow , Chairman ......................................A u m sville E. T. P ierce, Clerk .................................................. A u m sville F. M. M itchell, Principal'. .Salary $ ------- A u m sville P. C. F ulton, T eacher ............. 100.00 A u m sville H a ttie M yers, T ea ch er .................. SO.00 A u m sville £’• B eryl M cLaughlin, T each er. . 100.00 A u m sville D ISTRICT NO. 14, JEFFER SO N All W. F. Klanijpe ................................................. AY. J. Looney, C hairm an............................... H . D. Mars,. C lerk .......................................... Claude N . Dye, P r in c ip a l. . Salary $ G efard Betz, Teacher ............. .. E dith Burch, T eacher ............. .. 105.00 H azel I. Brew er, T each er; ......... . 125.00 F ran ces Byram , T eacher ............. 100.00 100.00 Mrs. E lm er Burt, T ea ch er......... M innie Schaller ............................. 100.00 .J e ffe r so n .J effe rso n .Jefferson, •J efferso n Je ffe r so n Je ffe r so n Je ffe r so n Je ffe r so n J efferso n Je ffe r so n Je ffe r so n P au lson ............................... — ................................... .Hubbard C. M oomaw .............................................................. . Hubbard N. Beck, Chairm an ............................................... .Hubbard S. M iller, C lerk ........................................................ .Hubbard E. S. McCormick, P rin .........Salary $ ------- Hubbard L o ttie Dim ick, T ea ch er......................... 155.00 Hubbard L u cile St. Pierre, T e a c h e r . . . . . . . 150.00 Hubbard H en rietta W olfer, T ea ch er................ 133.33 Hubbard W ilm a A. M acKenzie, T e a c h e r .... 30.00 Hubbard N ora Zehner, T ea ch er............................ 100.00 Hubbard ■- Mrs. R. C: Churchill, T e a c h e r .... ------ Hubbard Alma, H offm an, T eacher ................... 90,00 Hubbard L ois Sim m s, T each er ............................ 120.00 Hubbard B. J. H. E. D IST R IC T NO. 23, A U R O R A (Jo>int> G eorge A tw ood .................................... Aurora Zeno Schw ab .......................................................... . . . . .A urora H, L. B ents, Chairm an ............... .......................... .A urora A llie Zim m erm an, Clerk ' . ...............................................Auror: L o ttie F oster, P r in c ip a l......... Salary $130.00 Aurora Mabel Richm ond, T e a ch er .................... 100.00 Aurora C hristine Johns, T e a c h e r . . . . , ......... 90.00 Aurora L. M adge W alker, T ea ch er .................. I l l 11 Aurora D IST R IC T NO. 38, W H IT E J u liu s A. S ta u ffe r ............................................................. H u b iard P erry M o r g a n ........................ Hubbard A. J. Sm ith, C h airm an............................ ....H u b b a r d Cora K. Sm ith, Clerk ........................................ .H ubbard L loy A. K n lss, T ea ch er................Salary $110 Hubbard J. S. J. R. D IST R IC T NO. 45, S T . P A U L F. D avidson ........................... ...................... .......... St. P aul J. Sm ith ....................... . 7 ....... .'...■............... ............. St. P aul C, M urphy, C h a ir m a n .................................. - . . . S t . P aul E. Kirk, C lerk .................................................. . . . . . S t . P aul S ister M ary Paula, P rin c ip a l.. . Salary 125 St. Paul S ister Mary M argarete T eacher . . . i 25 St. P aul S iste r M ary R ictrude, T eacher ......... 90 St. P aul »0 St. P aul S ister M ary A ugustin a, .T eacher 80 St. P aul S ister M ary Elenaria, T eacher . D ISTRICT NO. 49, W H IS K E Y H IL L (Joint) J. S. F ish e r ............................. ............. ................. Hubbard, R. 2 M. H. H ostetler, Chairman ........................................ Hubbard Cora Sh arp.............. . ................................................... . .H ubbard Grace Burch, Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hubbarl C lem entina Bradford, Teacher .S a la ry $120 Hubbard DISTRICT NO. 57, B U T T E V IL L E J. D. H ite ................................................. ............... .A urora, R. 5 R. J. H ugh es .............................................. .............Aurora, R, 3 L. Glen Yergen, Chairman ..........................................Aurora N apoleon D avis, Clerk ................................................... * <i-o- J. J. M ills, Pri nc i pal . . . . . . . . Salary $125 Mrs. Jennie H icks ................ .............. .. . '0 |A & (C ontinued n e x t w- ; for, clean Oil m** tn a clean e n g in e d Um Crank Cäse ■ Modern,—because w e use Calol Flushing Oil, the new, scientific, Brace up, work up, and stay up! 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