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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1905)
J LEXINGTON GROWS WITHOUT WATCHING i VOL. I LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 1905 NO. 12 CHAFF FROM THE STRAW STACK ha 1 fj ni i 7 ' r f. , y f r 7 J ctlJj Your choice I disc phonograph, like cut, 1 56 peice decorated tea set, worth $7.50. 1 42 piece decorated dinner set. We will give absolutely free with $25. purchases, your choice of above, the phonograph, which would cost $ 1 2. at any music store, which we guarantee to reproduce with clearness equal to any $50 or $75 phonograph on the market. J HOW TO EARN A PH OGRPH, TEA OR DINNER SET Buy from us $25.00 worth o? goods, for cash, and we will give you tickets for your cash purchases, small or large, and when you have procured tickts to the amount of $25.00 bring them to us and take your choice, either the Phonograph, the 42 piece dinner set or the 56 piece tea set. FOR OUR THIRTY DAY CUSTOMERS When you pay your bill as soon as you receive your statement at the first of each month, we will give you tickets to the amount of your entire purchasefrom the date you paid last, just the same as if you paid cash every day. Bill that are not paid by the 8th of the month following date of purchase will not be en titled to the cash tickets. This offer commences December 1st. Commence at once to secure one of these prizes. Sugar, Flour, Salt, Wire, Harness and Agricultural Implements are excluded in this offer, and we i t reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time by giving 30 days notice. . SATURDAY DECEMBER 23, At 2:30 we will give away the. following prizes: To the girls over 1 2 years of age, First prize a handsome set of Furs valued at$7.50. Second prize a nice Album valued at $2.50. For the girls under 12 years, 4 nice neatly dressed Dollies for 1 st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th prizes. For the bnys under 1 2 years of age, 1 st prize 1 Ex press wagon, 2nd prize, 1 Mechanical Train on Track, 3rd . prize, 1 good Pocket Knife, 4th prize, 1 Pop Gun. OUR PROPOSITION We will have three boxes for tickets, one for the girls over 12 years old, one for the girls under 12 Jears old and one for the boys under 12 years old. Any one purchasing Christmas goods for cash is entitled to one ticket for each 25 cent purchase and can write any name they choose on each ticket, and drop them in their respective boxes, if for the boys in the boys box, and so on. On Saturday, December 23rd, at our store, at 2:30, Santa Claus will conduct the drawing which will be conducted on the square, by any little girl the children .may choose, and if the lucky one should not be present the present will be sent to them. Every boy or girl attending this drawing will be presented with a sack of jcandy and nuts and a big red apple. So all come out and see Santa Claus. This offer only applies on the purchase of Christmas goods and you get j'our tickets on the Phonograph just the same. Only one prize will be allowed to one person. The more tickets dropped in the boxes for one person the more chance he or she has of winning a prize. - LEXINGTON, OREGON A good round steak makes a square meal. It isn't hard for a borrowed umbrella to keep lent. People who go to sea are not always shown. The model husband is not the mod ern one. " A St. Paul paper says the turkey is like a trust he is a gobbler. The largest workman's wages in Berlin are paid to masons $1.90 to $2. 1 4 a day for piece work. The noise of digging on the Panama canal is not loud enough to drown the talk of how and how not to dig it. Half honesty won't answer, you must be honest all the way through, or your little tricks will be accepted as downright dishonesty. One of our citizens was complaining of rheumatism There is no excuse for you being afflicted, said a friend. "I. used to have rheumatism and when it would' strike me I would go home and have my wife throw her arms a round my neck and give me a massage treatment. It helped me every time. You ought to try it." "I will," said the man, "when will I find your wife at home." As we have seen it stated, man's business requires haste. The average man eat in a hurry and gets appoplexy. He talks in a hurry and says too much. He does business tn a hurry and goes broke. - He reads in a hurry and Is ' superficial. He votes in a hurry and produces corruption. He marries in a hurry and gets a divorce. He trains his children in a hurry and hurries them into evil ways. He get religion in a hurry and forgets it in a hurry. He makes his will in a hurry and leaves a legal contest. He dies In a hurry and goes to the devil, and his tribe increases. SOME MEDICAL ADVICE (By One Who Knows) The best thing for. an appetite is something to eat. By practicing sleeping an average of eight hours a night for a week or two insomnia can be quickly cured. People who are given to worrying will find that If they don't worry, that they won't worry. To reduce superflous flesh rub well for two hours before retiring with very hard sand paper. To gain weight eat freely of "sink ers." To remove dirt take a bath. Many people who cannot see well will be able to see double by drinking a quart of whiskey. Too free perspiring can be remedied by living in a refrigerator. Sleep on the left side and you'll not sleep on the right side. You will never suffer from indiges tion if you never eat on an empty stomach. It is also bad to.eat hearti ly when your stomach Is already load ed to its full capacity. To live to an old age live on your relatives. No one who ever did this has been known to die young. To keep In good health be careful nof to get sick; also dont pay your doctor. If you are troubled with gas on the stomach, swallow a lighted match and burn it up. To take life easy chloroform will te. found efficient.