The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-12-29

docA D -obtEr was mp Irou Ellis
last week.
Another dance in chalIis next Fri
day night
-Axel Oleson. of Shelley, Idaho, ar
rived in challis last Saturday.
The l. A. West Furniture company
of Pocatello has gone into bankruptcy.
Miss Clara Golfer and James a.
Marker, of Bayhorse, spent Xmas in
this city.
Sixty persons were roasted to death
in railroad wreck at Dawson, Pa. on
the 2srd inst
The Sunday School children of
Challis gave an interesting Christmas
program at the church last Sunday
evening. consisting of singing and
recitations
&C. C. Chapman has sold his mining
interests in Loon creek for consider
alton of 81, 900 70 Chicago purchasers.
and the money has been paid over. Ca
the 2Ist inst he departed for his home
in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Arthur W. Gayle and Felix Paul,
students at the Idaho State Academy,
Pocatello, arrived in Challis Thursday
to spend the Holidays at home They
will return to school next Friday.
They speak very highly of the Aezd-
lemy, and think there is no one like
Prof. J. W. Faris-
From the Silver creek opal mines
near Challis, will be exhibited at the
Worlds Fair 200. coo opals. These will
J be shown in all stages--just as they
are taken out of the mines, and later
J N every stage of cutting and polish.
ing. The newly discovered opal mines
on Silver creek are said to be the rich
est yet discovered in the world
w. E Hanna. E G. Dodge, Geo. L.
McGowan and Henry McGowan re-
turned from Omaha last week where
they took shipment of cattle. The
beef steers owned by the MeGowan es-
tate brought the best price, and were
sold at price that netted about $50
per head. The other cattle were
smaller animals and did not bring as
large figure.
Christmas was not celebrated in
ChalIis to an elaborate display, but
: Christmas is one the happiest days in
the year Just the same 1t matters not
if ali our reverence for the Aanger-
Bed and The Child is erusted over with
. forms and ceremonies of ancient peop-
, les and heather beliefs These are but
; emblems of the conquering power em-
bodied in that lowly birth and pure
life. Just as the frost, glittering on
the trees in Christmas weather, is the
work of the silent night and its mys-
terious darkness, so these poetic forms
of the past glitter in this hour and
glorify the season that commentaries
the light of the dawniug of new and
t wonderous thought in Bethlehem 1900
4 years ago. The vision then given TO
q the souls of men has spread its might
E and its light, until the dark gropings
of human thought have been brought
10 an end and lost to memory exceps
for these shadowy forms and eeremon-
les of the past that live TO proclaim
their own conquest Why is Christmas
: tide 50 dear TO all of us +? Because in
its simple elements it touches the heart
of all of rs, particularly those who are
, poor in this worlds goods, or who
: suffer distresses, or who are confused
!. at the b2ffetings of an unkind world.
: There is the mother, sheltered no bet
1 ter than an outeast might be, resting
o more peacefully among the lcwly
= creatures of the stable than could she
' ia the noisy inn Surrounded By the
dumb sympathy of the brutes whC
' groan aad travail in mans service, she
Y faced her anguish, soon 70 be turned
{ to joy. There is The Child, helpless a.
t the humblest child that was ever born
e dependent upon the mother and this
: few willing but awkward hands thai
S@~N
o in Its weakness speaks TO every heart
K that loves child, and His later growth
!. in stature and in favor with God ana
il man hold forth before those who lov'
It children the promise of what q perfeci
l. childhood can be as it moves forward
i. from simplicity to knowledge and
Il from knowledge to power. In Christ
n mas, therefore, we joyously eommem-
E crate birth that has changed tn
: world aud changed its ideals; and tha
II ia its simple. majestic power is bounS
i to move forward year By year, bring
is ing more order out of chaos, NOR
, peace among men, more good will
e more intention in great hearts to speai
y glad tidings of great joy to those wis
# have narrow, fearsome thought o
God the Father. Christmas brings JOY
le therefore, because it speaks of tn