The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-21

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injury Mr.. Webber's sight.
Please your wife. Give her nice
Christmas present. Something for the
home-a nice pair of lace curtains,
portieres, or rug. Either one adds to
the appearance of the room-it pleases
her. We have made special prerara-
tions in these lines for the holidays.
Can give you what you mostly want, land
can save you money.-A. NJ. Williams
& Co.
Il Some of our crosswalks are in q terri
be condition, compelling pedestrians to
go blocks in the endeayor to get across
the streets. These be the cases wherein
the longest way round is notSthe short
est way home,'' especially when ladies'
are doing their morning. marketing.
However. if you can't get across the
walk in your own ghborhood, go down
| to that of the courthouse, where John
Fitzgerald keeps his walks so that he is
not com PEELED to put pown his coat for
the ladies to walk on.
How strange it seems to be basking IN
the sunshine with everything around US
calculated to make us believe it is sum-
mer, and in front of US broad expanse
of ice. While the blockade is weaken
ing considerably, yet it has made no
perceptible move toward going down
stream. However, we are informed
| that below Crates Point the river is
clear. It cannot break up too soon to
suit the D. P. & A. N. Co. which is only
waiting for the slightest opportunity,
| when their boats will start on their
| regular run.
1T would not be amiss were residents
to see that the chicken coops -aEe~well
/ locked these night. Not that there is
| to be a ministerial convention in the
city, or anything of that sort, but that
there is in our midst a class of
people who are just chicken hearted
enough to be afraid to tackle any
thing more difficult TO obtain than few
poorly housed fowls, and therefore pay
a visit to their roosts and go away with
the rooster" Night before last they
invaded the quiet of a hen party on the
hill, and after taking the chickens under
tSeir wings, kindly left light SO that
the owner might gee clearly the loss he
sustained.
Of course we meant all the time to OBJ
serve Monday as holiday and were only
waiting for some one like Joe Bonn to
call around and invite US to say so,which
he did this morning, and practically ev-
cry business man in the town WAS ready
to close his doors and stay at home
with the children. Besides, those who
have such long stockings tor SantaClaus
to fill could never get them emptied and
at the same time go to church on Sun
day. Therefore, they were more than
willing to take another day to the job,
wearing last years pair on Christmas
DAY. Americans need have no fear OF
getting too many holidays, for there'n
be plenty of time left in which to do the
amount of rushing we seem to deem it
necessary to do. We take too few leisure
hours at any rate, and would do well to
Eprofit more by the example of our Eng
lish cousins, who take life easy.
d Christmas this year is to be generally
observed by the different Sunday schools
J and preparations are being made by the
officers and teachers to make it the
/ happIest time of all the year to the
children. At the Episcopalisn church
; Saturday evening a Christmas Festiva
: will be held. when appropriate exercises
will take place; on the same evening a
the Congregational church a ire,
, will be in evidence and the general gooC
, time which follows such an exercise b,
| had. Also at the Christian church
, tree will be the principal feature of tina
evening. On Saturday afternoon Mis-
Randall, superintendent of the JUNO
> League, is to have a tree for the mem
bers of the League. in the basement c
. the M. E. church. The exercises fo
: this Sunday school will be held on tn
: Friday night before New Years day
!. Christmas night appropriate exercise
= and tree will be had at the Luthera
church. For several years the Catholi
: church has failed to hold midnight mass
hut this wear il will be observed as i