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Panama City pilot., 1908-09-10

Philip West was a Dothan visitor
over Sunday.
T. F. Rogers, of Elenor, Fla, was
a Panama City visitor the first of the
week.
Zeb Porter has the frame of his
building up, and will soon have it en-
closed.
There is a constant demand for
houses At least ten are needed here
right now.
Rev Buckley, wife, and children,
have been stopping ut the Gulf View
Inn some days this week.
ID. w. Gardner and family re urned
to their home in Chipley this week
after stay here Of several months.
E. /. Mathews was a caller here
this week, taking the train on Tues
day evening for Dothan on business
trip.
n. b. Crawford, of Dothan, has sold
his cottage on First street to a Mr.
Wallace. Possession will be given at
once.
About q hundred came in from Do
than last evening on excursion rates,
the tickets being good to return until
Friday.
G. B. Thompson left on Friday
evenings train for 2 visit TO points on
the railroad, possibly going TO Pen
sacOla.
Fishermen report enormous schools
of blue fish on this coast at the pres
ent time. Spanish mackerel are also
quite abundant.
G. III. Purvis, of the A. & st A. b.
r. r. was a passenger in on the
Manteo, leaving on Tuesday evenings
train for Atlanta.
Mrs III. w. Johnson and children
returned on Saturday evening from d
visit of several days with relatives at
Chipley and Marianne.
Contractor Powell has the residence
of Charles Thompson, on Magnolia
avenue, we'll under way, and it will
soon be ready to occupy.
There have been some heavy rains
this week, with cool nOrtherly winds.
The steady heat of the Summer APP
pears to have been broken.
The fishing smack5 Bonito, and
SEEM. brought fish 10 the Panama
Ice plant yesterday. The Nancy Lee
also brought them Il catch of red
snappers.
Mrs S. j. Baker, of Mariana, ac-
companied by her two daughters,
Mrs f. NJ. GolsOn, and Miss Lizzie
Baker, are the guests Of Mrs II. W.
Johnson this week.
The steamer j. p. Williams, so well
known to our bay people, is now,
after having been rebuilt, in service
between Pensacola and points on the
Blackwater river
The railroad company have Install
ed a Fairbanks < Morse gasoline
engine pump at the water tank, also
driven three wells which connected
up furnish the water supply.
John Milton, III, the accOmmOda-
ting assistant cashier at the bank,
made home folks at Marianne visit
the first of the week, Labor Day
giving him an extra holiday.
Green & Hogeboom have been
clearing off their lots at the cement
plant this week, preparatory TO com
menciug the erection of large two
story cement block store building.
Efforts are being made 70 secure
first class teacher for our school, and
TO begin the sessions at once. 1t Is
hoped that we can have at least SIX
months school this year, and possibly
eight.
Bay citizens visiting the stores here
state that there never was a larger or
nicer stock Of groceries &c. brought
to this section of the country. Ifyou
wish anything in this line give our
merchants a call.
Panama City pilot., 1908-09-10

WANTED-Boarders at Galloway,
Fla, quiet place, good fare, terms
reasonable. Addres Box2, Galloway,
Fla.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
"HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR A CAKE"

for holding the supply of cakes and
the other dainties which were some
times added. Each house where milk
was left helped fill the bushel basket.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning
the men began to make their calls aft
er making the most elaborate toilet of
the year. A previous acquaintance
calls. 1t was the one day of the year
when every home was open to every
body without regard to birth or posi-
ton. The last day of the old year
was spent by the women of the family
in preparing dainty CONNECTIONS, solid,
rich cake, and in the morning the
choicest old wine was brought up from
the cellar. and hot rum toddy was
made. rum toddy being the official New
Years drink in the Mohawk valley.
The Dutch partook sparingly of the
wine and toddy at each house. and, al
though nearly all the men were mel
low by the time the festivities ended
at midnight, no one was drunk. There
was one exception to this rule The
farm hands were usually dead to the
world by noon and so out of the way
of their betters.
But all this charming hospitality and
the delightful customs were made i'm
possible a generation or more ago by
the outsiders of other nationalities than
Dutch. who focked to the larger towns
Of the valley and turned the day Of
hospitality into day Of drunkenness.
New York Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Watching the Year Out.

Throughout the world the practice Of
watching the old year out and the
new come in has been common OBJ
servance for many centuries. In the
monasteries and converts of various
religious orders it has always pre-
vailed, and several Protestant demon
nations observe it as a beneficial in
stitution, promoting, as it does, piety
and the formation Of good resolutions.
Resolves for the future are not limited
to our own time, for nearly 1900 years
ago Pliny, the scrapbook maker, noted
in his quaint fashion the return of the
Saturnalia; made memorandum that
during the coming year he must make
sacrifices to certain gods whom he had
neglected and that in other ways he
must amend his life. There is no rec
ord that he did, so his New Year
resolutions were probably forgotten
as quickly as those made nowadays
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
New Years In the Alps.

Among the many time honored GUS
toms of the Alps none is more interest
ing than that of New Year. The vii
lage pastor delivers his sermon. which
is listened to by people who have come
distance of many miles over snow
frequently thirty feet deep. When
midnight comes the bells ring out
upon the frosty Alpine air, and as they
re-echo far and wide over the hills and
valleys there are mountain villages
where the melody Of other village
church bells chords in harmony, pro-
ducing concert no city could afford.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
"Duckinu the Drunkard,"

In Herzegovina "ducking the drunk
ard" is a New Years practice by the
common people, and if no drunken man
can be found prisoner from the near
est Jail is borrowed, then ducked,
soundly kicked and set at liberty. In
Oman it was until lately the custom
to celebrate all marriages on the first
day; hence during the last month Of
the year business was good with the
go-betweens. In Dalmatia any man
whose conduct had not been what it
should was expected to go before the
priest of the neighborhood and put
good resolutions in writing, a certified
copy being given to his wife, or, if I'M
married, to his mother. Boston Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
THE CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY.
In China New Years Is the Little
Ones Great Festival.

Except at the Chinese New Year,
which comes in February, it is very
hard to catch a glimpse Of children in
China. Little beggars will run beside
you for miles to earn 1 cash, a
copper coin with a square hole in the
middle of it, worth the twentieth Of a
cent, but children who have parents
to care for them seem to be kept in
doors all the time or only allowed to
play in walled yards and gardens. We
used to say to each other: "Why, where
are the children? Haven't they got
any" But at New Years we found
out that they had. This is the great
holiday of all the year in China, when
everybody hangs out flags and colored
lanterns and sets off firecrackers eve
borrowed our custom of firecrackers
for the Fourth of July from China's
New Years. All the people put on
their best clothes and the children the
best of ALL jackets and trousers Of
bright blue or green or yellow or pur-
pie, the boys and the girls so much
alike that you can only tell them apart
by their hair The boys of course is
braided in a pigtail, and the girls is
done up on her head with silver pins
or, if she's very grand little girl, with
gold or jade. Thus decked out, the
children go walking with their proud
papas and mammas and often go to
the theater, which is rare treat for
them
PerhaDS Chinese children have ron1r
ing plays together, but they always
look as if they were born grown up
st. Nicholas
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01

BEHOLD HIS AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT.
Still making progress with the times,
a dandy with cane,
Tall hat, tight waist and ruffled shirt,
He made his bow again.
Twas only one short year ago
We heard rush and jar.
In dust and smoke before US stopped
A scarlet motor car.
Forth stepped chauffeur clad in furs
And, mid the mingled din
Of horns and bells, invited us
To take tweIvemonth's spin.
But now above the chimes, behold,
We listen in the night
To hear the whirIing fans that bear
His aeropIane in flight!
-Minna Irving in New York Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
A NEW YEAR INJUSTICE.
The Barkeeper Complains of the Good
Resolution Habit.


Resolution Habit.
"John, I'll have to lay you or for the
first two weeks of the new year. You,
Harry, will have to lay off week"
The speaker. a lean man, stood in a
splendid and spacious beer saloon. a
place of polished mahogany. onyx col
umns, great mirrors and large paint
ings Of beautiful women. Ropes and
wreaths of evergreen twined about the
pillars and the electroliers, and on the
massive bar stood a bowl of free
punch. for it was New Years day.
Eyes, boys" said the lean man,
you'll have to 60"
"What for, boss" asked the young
er of the two bartenders. Mechanic
ally with his wooden bar cloth he pol
ished the bar till it shone again, and
anxiously he gazed in his employers
face
"Why, John, you ought to know
what for
The saloon keeper spoke impatiently
A fat man entered from the street, APP
preached the bar with reluctant steps,
then all of a sudden turned hurriedly
and departed.
"WeIl, I'll be danged!' said Bartender
John That's the fourth fellow has
done that this mornin'. What's it mean
anyway"
you ought to know what it means,
John" repeated the saloon keeper
Its meaning is the cause of your sus-
pension"
Eyes, John" the man resumed; your
suspension is caused by the New
Years swear off of that fellow and
thousands like him. All over the broad
land, John, countless numbers of men
swear off drinking for year on New
Years day Half of them stick to
their swear off for a week, and the
other half, with just few exceptions,
stick to 1t for two weeks. Those
two weeks of January, John, are al
ways the two poorest weeks on the
publican's calendar. He can't pay ex-
penses; hence he retrenches; hence he
lays off prudent, Industrious young
chaps like you-chaps with a bit put
by, so that they can stand little idle
ness without prfvation."
"All right But" said John sulkily-
"but I amt got nothing put by, and I
think it's shame that my poor wife
and innocent babe have got to suffer
at this joyous holiday season through
the swear off Of a lot of foolish,
thoughtless men. It don't seem right
nor just" -Philadelphi Bulletin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
A DUTCH new YEAR.
Old Time Hospitality In the Mo-
hawk Valley.
CAKES BY BUsHEL BASKET.
Honest Graft For the Matutinal Milk
man-Rum Teddy the Official Drink.
Festive Day For the Faithful Farm
Hand-Open House Everywhere.

There was no day of the year so gen
orally, particularly and joyously cele-
DRAFTED in the Mohawk valley by the
early Dutch settlers and by their de
scendants as New Years, and when
Jan and Barent met Bjbertje and En-
gletje early on a bright, frosty New
Years morning the religious and some
what formal greeting was when put
into English
Il wish you a happy New Year
Long may you live. Much may you
give and happy may you die and in
herit the kingdom of heaven by and
by"
The preparations for the New Years
Inequalities were begun by the moth
ers and their daughters frequently as
soon as the first frost and snow made
their appearance, for there was much
to be done to be ready on the joyous
day. New Years cakes, rich and de-
the early Dutch housekeepers make
them now, using the same recipe and
the same ancient dies and stamps that
their -grandmothers used and
about the size and shape of a mans
hand and less than half as thick, were
made by the bushel literal
ly. 1t was not unusual for the hos
p1table Dutch housewife to give from
five to six hundred cakes to the chill
dren who called before the noon hour
The early rising by the boys and girls,
which proper observance of the day
demanded, is equaled In our day by the
early rising on the Fourth of July.
There was one old mansion in the
Mohawk valley that was particularly
notable for it's hospitality (not only on
New Years day, but upon all occa-
sions) and good times. 1t stood and is
still standing on the estate of Alexan-
der Lindsey Glen and was named by
him in 1859 Scotia in memory of the
land of his birth. The children started
on their rounds at sunrise and went
from house to house Justify pounding
with the great iron or brass Knockers
The littlest ones shouted, Happy New
Year for a cake!' but the older ones
RETAINED from so far giving them
selves away by leaving off the last
three words. 1t was not at all an I'M
usual occurrence for three or four
hundred cakes to be given to the boys
and girls before breakfast from the
Glen mansion.
Coming down to more recent days
in the Mohawk valley, the custom of
giving cakes was extended to the milk
men. Each milkman always purchas-
ed new bushel basket to carry about
on New Years morning in his wagon
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Where New Years Lasts a Month.

The celebration of New Years is
carried on more extensively in Japan
than in any other country. The reason
for this can only be accounted for by
the fact that the custom has been
handed down to succeeding genera
lions for centuries. The time the oc-
casion involves is quite lengthy, last
ing from the 18th of December G<oto
Hajime-viz, beginning of things to
the 10th of January (Hokonin no yabu-
irD, which is apprentices holiday. On
both of the occasions a sort of stew
is eaten, composed of red beans, rice,
sliced fish and konnyaka root.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Why We Call It January.

The Romans called the first month of
the year January in honor of the god
Janus. At dawn of the year the people,
robed in white, sacrificed elaborate of
ferings to their gods. especially to
Janus. Fraternal greetings, benevolent
gifts and exchanges of costly presents
marked the day. All evil speaking.
quarrels or excesses were for one day
laid aside, and the ideals of a nobler
future were brought to mind by para
bles enacted in public places The SOL
diers renewed their vows of loyalty to
Caesar and put on new uniforms.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
ANY
PERSON

who ever saw or knew Dad
lsham would say at once that
he was not a Ladies Man. At
the same time / wish to say
one word in favor of the ladies
from business point of view,
viz; [ never granted credit to
a woman in all my life but
what she kept her word and
paid up promptly. AS | look
over my old ledger [ find that
| have sold lumber to many
different ladies and that every
one has paid a 100 cents on tn
dollar.
am ready to bet that if all
the balance of my outstanding
accounts were charged to wo-
men that | would GO into the
New Year with clean balance
sheet. Gentlemen, please sit
up and take notice.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
I'm A BAD WAY. ("
Many a Redwood Falls Reader VIII Fe
Grateful for This Information.

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Byron Green, living at 400 Mapl
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These organs were very irregular in
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For sale by all dealers. Price so
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Remember the name-Doan' s.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Every Little Bit HELMS.

"You say you encouraged our friend
to make another New Years resolu-
tion?"
81 did," answered the man whose
heart is all right.
"But don't you know he'll break it
at the end Of six weeks at the least
calculations"
81 hope not. And even if he does
he'll be six weeks ahead of the game"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Scotch Kisses.

A highly popular custom of the young
Scots of past years was for young men
to go about the streets ringing door
bells, and theirs was the right to kiss
the girl who answered the ring. In
case the girl proved elderly or unat-
tractive there was no evading the ex-
pected salute, however much 1t might
60 against the grain Of the bell ringer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
Revised Version.

I remember. I remember,
The house where I was born
And also the janitor, bellboy, butcher boy,
baker boy, bootblack. elevator man,
grocer's boy
And newsboy Christmas morn.
New York Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
a Persuader.

"Did you make any New Years reso-
lution?" asked Miss Miami Brown
NO" answered Mr.. Erastus Pink
flower to make one After | got thoo
with him at de las parlor social he
was willin' to promise dat he'd stop
tryin' to pick 'sturbances fohever an
ever"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
For Sale, Rent or Trade.

A good five-room house with barn..
located on Chestnut St., east of
Catholic church, Inquire of owner,
Mrs. Gull, or j. B. Robinson &
Co. 19.3t
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-01
AIRSHIP AH0Y! WHAT is YOUR
CARGO?

When first the New Year came to towr
Appeared baby boy
In nothing but pair of wings
And smiles of dimpIed joy.
But growing fast, the next decade
He wore wig with curIs
And rode fiery prancing steed
And courted all the girls.
He next arrived in coach and four,
A squire in coat of blue
And snowy stock and buc<Ied shoes
And neatly ribboned cue.
The Washington herald., 1908-06-14
DEEDS OF TRUST.

Square 792-Frnnk 2. Lippincott et ux. 10 B.
Francis Saul and James F. Shea. 70 secure
Home Savings Bank. $500 years. per cent,
semiannuaIly lots . and q
PadSworth-Charles 5. Salin 20 5. Percy Thompson
and Herbert + Shannon. 10 secure Harry B.
Wilson and Harry WarIman. 8 go. monthly
notes per cent semi-annually. lot 90
DObbins Addition % Washugt0n-Karl E. Parks et
uN- 10 \ Percy Thompson and Herber, T. shan
non. 20 secure Harry W8rdman and Thomas L.
Bones. SIS. monthly payments pcr cent semi
annually lot s.. square ca Cornelius W. Failing
ct ux 70 same. to secure same $3.50 monthly
payments per cent. lot 49, square 81
Square 677-Harry T. Barton. trustee. e. al 10
Charles b. Cayvood and Madison Whipple 70
secue Susan Cooper. a.4oO. 5 years. per cent
semiannually lot 81.
Square CIV. Wallace Chswen and Harry A Kite
to B. Francis Ssul and James F. shea. 70 Sc
cure Harry VI. Ellis. SlS000 years PER cent
semi-annualiy. lots 80 20 lss trusts 0f 500
each. On each lot.
Square loA-Yirgnia l. kaufman 10 Milton Z
Allies and William J. Flathcr 20 secure John NJ
Jones. $3.50. years per cent. scm!-annually
lots H. p. and l3.
Square 5l3-James II. Ellis ct ux 10 Jesse l. Heis-
kel and John T. McLcran. TO secure William T.
H. Merritt. $500 years. per cent. semi an
nualy. lot So
Square Madam Ehlshlaeer ct ux TO George NJ
Emmeuch and Douglass s. MackaT 70 secure
Washington Six Per Cent Permanent Building
Association $500, lots Il and IS
Addition % kenilworth-Jacob J. Miller 10 Chaplin
Brown and Henry II. Berernann. % secure
Oriental Building Association No g. $3.50 lots
l3. Il. and IS. block l. and lots p and 2
blocks
Square 553-Mary F. p Bruce ct vir Sandy 70
Fred c. Coldren and Frederick A. Feunirg 70
secure Lewis k. Brown. 81 400. years. per
cent. semi-annually. part lot 20. Same 10 Thomas
Walker and George f. Collins. 60 secure James
A. Francis $1,000. years. per cent, semi-an-
rually. part iot 50
Square G3-Dayid and Nina Oppenheimer to Chaplin
Brown and Henry II. Bergman. 70 secure Oriental
Building Association No. g. SO01. part original
lot l.
Square 59G-Lucy V. Beale to Charles c. Mubum
and William d. Sullivan. 20 secure Thyrza V.
Mcilhenny. $1,000, years. per cent. scni-an-
nually. lot l.
Square south Of square 9l5-Helena Kirchner %
Chaplin Brown and Henry H. Bergman. 10 Sc
cure Oriental Building Association No. g. H,6oO
lot l8
Square l4i-Charles H. Harris 20 Walter R. Wilcox
and George L. Hane. TO secure Aqua r.
Yeakle. $500 ! 70 30 months. per cent. part
original lot :.
Meridian Hnl-Mary l. May 10 George ". F.
Swartzell and Alexander 7. Heusey to secure
Harry T. Domer. 5000. per cent, seni-an-
nually lot 40 square 2564