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LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 1905
NO. 12
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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
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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.