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The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

When the editor OF The Tribune
asked ME to write a story. recount
of the young folks of Falls City in
the days gone by, he little thought
that he was merely asking me to put
into words the thoughts which SO
often occupy my leisure hours.
| do not know If it is merely the
natural tendency of everyone to
harken back to the springtime of
life, when the fires of love and
ambition burn brightest, before the
drough of midsummer has shriveled
the vendure and hope of youth; when
all is anticipation and no realization,
when all is future and nothing past;
or if it be a fact, that we, at that
time did really have more good times
than any other at any time or place.
In attempting to find accurate data
[ have had 10 a set OF
diaries which ! always started at
,he New Year and a %perusal Of the
record there has furnished me with
many a pleasant hour.
One of the first events | find rec
orded there was Of a farewell ban
quet just after New Years in 1887.
and given in honor of b. Il. Williams,
when he severed his connection with
the Missouri Pacific. 1t was enjoyed
very much and will be remembered
by many older heads than |, more
of which, it is said. were under the
table than over it before the festiy-
tiles closed.
| was not present at that occasion,
but | was a year later at a farewell
party at DR.. Newkirk's, when a
farewell party was rendered Joe on
his departure for California. | re-
call at this time one of the questions
Pete Resterer put to me across the
table. He asked me if | had eYer
noted how well he took at parties.
responded that he always seemed TO
do well enough. He said yes, some
times it is an o%yercoat, but mor
often an umbrella" | also remem-
Der that Frank Reavis Won The prize
offered for the winner OF the most
games played.
When we we're yet in school, we
used to have a good many play part
les, such as all young folks enjoy,
and a good many happenings still
are bright in my mind. One of them
is the first time Ned Towle ever
essayed to accompany a girl home.
His company was accepted and they
started out slightly in advance of
the rest of us, he on one edge of
the walk and she IN the other. As
they progressed, she edged nearer to
him and he nearer to the edge of
the walk until they had not gone
far when she Vas walking on the
walk and he on the grass beside II.
Ned will probably deny this, but If
John Ewalt were here he would sub
stantiate it.
In the later SOS the most fire.
quent amusements were the parties
of the Pleasant Hour Club. How
could one ever forget them? What
a galaxy of pretty and loyable girls
and what a crowd of good natured
and honor respecting boys? | re-
count among the girls, the Kerr,
Maddox, Abbey, Holdbrook, Cain,
zimmerman, Eyerts, Lang, and Boyle
girls, Ethel Minnick, Lillian Faring-
ton, Mayme Giannini, Rose Sullivan,
Nellie Holt, Cornelia Thomas, Mollie
Abel and Myrta Powell. Among the
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17
Some Of the Pleasant Holidays
Spent in Falls City, Nebraska


I latter we're the Farington, Towle,
Reavis, Ewalt, Tanner, Minniek, Kerr,
and Powell boys, DR.. Wiser, Willis
Bell, my brother Bert, Oscar Maddox,
Fred Wertz, Charles Boyle. John
; Wherry, Frank Smith. Grant South
ard, Fred Rising and VIII Dalbey.
Always together, with no pickering,
jealousy or other trouble, and what
is most ~eommendable, no thought of
| discredit or dishonor ever was oc-
casioned by or to a single one OF
them.
One of the most brilliant social
events this crowd ever had was a
reception by the j. o. G. club at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Sandusky,
! who were then living in the Weaver
house. 1t was ON New Years Eve,
81. and simultaneously with this
date occurred the worst blizzard !
have ever experienced. This date
will be fresh in the minds of all the
old timers. 1t was the most brilliant
! social event of all the years | spent
in Falls City.
When the weather was right and
the ice smooth we used TO spend "A
good many of tie evenings during
the holiday season, on tie river or
on Hinton's lake, skating and sled
ding. This was one of the most en-
joyable of our sports and 1t seems n
calamity that the park should have
for youthful recreation and some of
the most remembered days of my life
were spent there. One of them was
on a certain LIST of May. when we
had a May Day picnic. Ii was not
exactly the bathing season, but ow-
ing to the uncertainties of boating
was forced to il. The worst feature
o. it was hat a certain young lady
was also in the boat and had to take
the dueking too.
At other times during the Holidays,
when all the schools were closed and
the out of town students We're at
home, the Kerr, Maddox, Cain Abbey,
Leyda, %Sandusky or homes
would be thrown open to us and we
would make merry till "the wee smae
sleighing party u to Louie Land
farm. where games and dancing and
such amusements would be brought
to a close with a spread such as none
but Mrs. Eyerts knew how to serve.
Thus we spent the happiest hours
most of us can EVER have, and it is
with regret that we think that we
could not have staid the hand of
time and all have remained as and
where We were then. The greatest
sorrow of all is that some of that
company should have been taken from
us forever. Amanda and Nellie
Holt and Cornelia Thomas. three OF
the sweetest and most loyable girls
as eyer lived; Ralph Kerr, as true
a friend as II can have. and John
E~walt-brilliant John Ewalt-there
never was and never will be another
like him. They are all asleep upon
the hillside. May their memories as
well as those of Mrs. Abbey, Mrs.
Sandusky and Mrs. Everts, never
fade from the memories of those
who spent the Holidays in Falls City
twenty years ago.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

The yule clog or log-the great
stick of timber placed in olden times
upon the Christmas fire-was de-
rived from the Saxon feast of Jul
or Yul, at which a similar piece of
timber gave the principal fire and
the principal light. The yule
clog and the superstitions connected
with it are among the most venerable
of Christmas associations.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

Probably even middle-aged people
of the day think the Christmas tree
has been common here for many,
many years; but in reality it is
hardly thirty years since we adopted
this feature of the day. Half a cen
fury ago it was only foreigners that
made use of it, children of Americans
knowing it only as a pleasant myth.
And England in the second quarter
of the last century considered the
ire still a German institution, as
not yet fully belonging to her; today
the English-speaking nations vie with
re Germans in love for the tree.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

Let the key note of our Christmas
be loye-"peace on earth, good will
to men, Let those whom God has
blessed with plenty see to it that
their neigbors and friends have good
cheer and abundance to make their
hearts glad.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17
Mankjnd's Position.

We lie n the lap Of immense ia.ei..
rence which makes us organs of its
activity and receivers of its truth
Emerson.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-17

Great Lakes Tonnage Large.
One-third of all the tonnage under
the American flag is employed on the
great lakes.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q ASToR RIA
JACK AT HOME.

His Habitat is Anywhere on New York
East Side.
Take the East river shore of Manhat-
tan Island, anywhere from the Battery
to Brooklyn bridge, and you may call
that a good sailor neighborhood. Of
course, there are other villages of sailor
folk within the city limits-over in
Brooklyn, down on Staten Island, and on
the Hudson river side-but that one
which clusters about the big stone pillars
of the Manhattan side of ''the bridge" is
first by right of age and tradition. Here,
in rambling old brick houses of two and
three stories, in dingy, narrow streets,
with rotting sidewalks and poisonous
cellars, in dark stairways and alleyways,
seaman have come and gone and rioted
almost since the time the Dutch first
brought over their cargoes of rum,
spices, tobacco and molasses. Today
the cool shadows of the bridge lie ath-
wart the neighborhood and the rumble of
the Brooklyn elevated is heard overhead.
Historians hold Jack responsible for
the first deterioration of the Bowery.
1t once was the 5th av. of the town, but,
beginning on South street from Coenties
slip, up and down the water front, the
dives started to creep in and fill the whole
lower east end of the Manhattan city.
They did not require much law in those
lurid, buXom years, and whatever hap
pened that wasn't right was hidden be-
meath tie fog of navy cut, blown up
from Jacks inevitable clay pipe, and
was drowned beneath the plunkety -plunk
of some yellowed and cracked piano.
Sailormen were more or less of luxury
in the late los, and the police, therefore,
let them alone.
That end of the big city was packed
full of the sea drift of the seven oceans;
Polacks and Swedes from the north rub
bed elbows with chinks from Hongkong,
by way of Frisco, with ,,smoked Irish
men," as the sailors called the blacks
from the Antilles, with Hindoo coolies
who had floated from Suez past Joppa
and Naples across into the lower bay.
Appleton S Magazine.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
MUSIC OF THE LAUNCH.


A fitting shape upon the stream,
A white dot far and far away;
A green shore winding down the stream
Of wooded slope and azure bay;
A ditty on the lips of life,
Far floating on the silver tide;
careless moment, free from strife
In the sweet April countryside:
Pop-pop, it SINGS the launch of white;
Pop-pop, it sings, where autters bright
The flags, the awnings, wind and sea,
And red lips sweet with lays of glee.
Like shuttles shooting to and fro
AS in the web the shuttles fly,
The little launches glide and go
Beneath the warm blue April sky;
The creek is crowded with their CLEAN,
The pop and sputter chimes and sings,
And while upon the shore dream
The music of the motor rings:
Pop-pOp pop-pOp; oh, music sweet,
The fluttering flags, the fitting feet;
The young hearts free from daily care,
The red cheeks in the bright spring air!
Far off, then near, the popping notes,
Some hoarse some sharp, some muff1ed quite;
All hail the little lightheart boats,
With rails of green and hulls of whitei
The clubmen on their porch look out,
The dancing prancing lightsome things
Bob up and down and all about,
And, oh, how sweet their music rings!
Pop-pop! The song is of the sea,
The lovely day, the winds of glee;
The beaches, where in coverts dim
The naked youngsters HE to swim.
Launch time in Maryland! Trim andIneat,
The naphtha and the gasolene;
Sweet travellers in the MONDAY heat
Down the cool creeks Of bordering green;
Late night, and all the old shore still,
| Soft slumber like dew comes down;
Far off, beyond the cove and hill,
pop-pop hustling up to town;
Pop-pop, pop-pop! the light launch goes,
| A bloom upon the stream, rose;
And sweet, oh, sweet oh, sweet it rings
The music that the light launch sings!
Baltimore Sun.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13

bpr p"F'ys' Veterinary Specifics
b,n 'reof diseases Of Horses,
!, '2Heep, Dogs, Poultry.
n ft'ERs, Milk Fever, Lung Fever.
n O''pR AIMS, Lameness. Rheuma rism.
h ''SoRE Throat. Epizootic. Distemper.
h :" WORMS. Bots, Grub,.
h r"'OrGHs, Colds. Influenza.
Ia ~'oLic' Bellyache. Diarrhe..
IA 's'''ents MISCARRIAGE.
Ii h'pNEY and Bladder disorders.
Ia shN DISEASES. Mango Eruptions.
D, "hAb CONDITION. Indigestion.
W. 80 Cents per bottle.
ssls, :, Uure Oil, for Stable or
|sl' Use, 81.
h i ;. druggists, or sent prepaid
eeelpt OF price.
Asot' fage Book on the treat
|aim.,a ana care of Domestic
NJ and Stable Chart to
up mailed free.
" sa sSYS HoMEo. MEDICINE CO.; cosnsr
~an Streets, New York.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
Shake into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot Ease powder. 1t cures pain
full, smarting, nervous feet and ngrowing nails.
and instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery
of the age Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain cure for
sweating, callous, swollen, tired, aching feet
Trv it TODAY Sold by all Druggists and Shoe
Stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Don't
ACCEPT ANY SUBSTITUTE. Trial package FREE
Address Allen S. Omsted LIE Roy N. Y.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
READ THIS.

at is astonishing" remarked well known
authority on Diseases of the skin, chow such a
large number of people, especially ladies', are
by attractively written advertisements induced
to purchase some one of the many so,called
Beauty Creams now on the market, not know
ing of course that they mostly contain oily or
greasy substances that clog the pores of the
skin and are for that reason the very worst
ment of Pimples, Blackheads, Blotches and all
eruptions Of the skin, is as follows and has in
variably proved very successful: Wash the
face carefully every night before retiring with
warm water and a little oatmeal tied up in a
small cloth bag then after driving is:t yell use the
prescription, which can be filled at any Drug
Store. Clearola j o., Ether o., Alcohol I
ozs. Use this mixture on the face as often as
possible during the day, but use night and
morning any way, allowing it to remain on the
face at least ten minutes, then the powdery
film may be wiped off. Do not wash the face
for some little time after using: By following
this simple treatment, you will soon have a
clear and Brilliant Complexion.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
About the Tariff. The Census Bill.
resident Taft.

s.S, All D. c., May 10th. While
/ +oia OF Tariff law-making seems
/, M, W ,lF people, at large, yet it must
MI %5'Si,'rfge how stupendous a task it
s@, y There is not only revenue to
\ iinS but protection to our labor
IFin'1strts While there will be re-
\ M onward in some schedules, yet
MIL J+ "Aen passed will be a most thor
corrective measure. The fact of
M ,',.eF Is that we were never so near
n Universally in favor of protection
ID q'' Today There are Protection
4 g'7 aarties and in every State in
NF n1er these circumstances
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
County Correspondence.
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EAST SEARSMONT

lDeferred.]
EAST SEARSMONT.
Mrs. D. M. Buzzell has gone to Camden
where she has employment .. H. c. Thomas
has returned home from Roxbury, Mass,
where he spent the winter. .. Edwin Head
has gone to Camden to work, after spending a
short time with his mother, Mrs L. Morse.
He attended the Rockland Business College
the past winter.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13
STIPEND WITHHELD.

The State commissioner of agriculture
finds that the charges of gambling on the
grounds of the Topsham fair We're sub
stantiated and as a result withholds the
State stipend. 1t is to be hoped that the
lesson will prove a salutary one. The
agricultural fairs, properly conducted,
fiji useful place in the life of the State.
They afford meeting place for the farm
ers and their families where instruction
in agricultural methods and possibilities
may be combined with recreation. The
fairs, inasmuch as they are attended by
many young and inexperienced men, are
places where gambler may reap har
vest. If the State is to extend financial
aid to the fairs, it is obviously it's duty
to see that the fairs are properly con-
Quoted. In this case, attention to the
evils was first called by President Hyde
of Bowdoin college and in so doing he
rendered service to the community.
The fairs should be encouraged in all
suitable ways; the help given by the
State is not begrudged, but the fairs
should not be allowed to become the
mecca of gamblers and other objection
able characters. Less of the midway
and more OF the fair proper would be a
desirable change. Portland Advertiser.
Many weak, nervous women have been re-
stored to health by Foley's Kidney Remedy as
it stimulates the kidneys SO they will eliminate
the waste matter from the blood. Impurities
depress the nerves, causing nervous exhaus-
ton and other ailments. Commence today and
you will soon be well. Pleasant to take. Sold
by all druggists.
The Republican journal., 1909-05-13

If YOU want to feel we'll, look well and be
well, take Foley's Kidney Remedy. It tones
up the kidneys and bladder, purifes the blood
and restores health and strength. Pleasant to
take and contains no harmful drugs Why not
commence today? Sold by all druggists.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02
Had to Bow to Custom.

The late King Oscar of Sweden was
the least conventional of monarchs,
but he had to courtesy to custom new
ertheless. The king and M. BONNER,
the botanist, met as strangers while
out In search of flowers near Stock.
holm. They were soon the best of
friends, and BONNER suggested lunch
at his inn.
"Come home with me instead" said
the other.
When the way led to the palace
gates BONNER hesitated.
"Pm sorry" said his companion,
"but happen to be the king of this
country, and this is the only place
where l can entertain my friends"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02

6omers Barnett spent Wednesday in
the city, aud Mrs. Barnett spent the
day in Millville. On that evening they
both attended the Tomlin- Baker we'd
ding In VineIand.
You are cordially invited to our Mil
linery Opening beginning Tuesday,
March %, at our Holly Beach store.
Mech & Co. Read u adv. OF PACED.
The Sunday-school of the Holly
wood NJ. e. church will meet as usual
next Sunday afternoon at 2.30. 1t is
the prayer of all that by that time the
island will be free of all contagious
diseases. AT the public service Sun
day morning William Hunter will
sing ''The Palms."
The following winter schedule is in
effect at the Holly Beach post office:
MAILS ARRIVE: MAILS DEPART
$3.50 q. m. TOO q. m.
HOO a. m. lbs p. m.
6.10 p. m. 3.15 p. m.
The office will close at Ills.
The Shaw cottage on Montgomery
avenue is receiving a coat of paint.
The Charles Shaw property on Tay-
Ior avenue, recently sold to John
Spughler, has been improved by the
new owner by putting a brick founda-
ton under it and the application of a
coat of paint.
The degree team of Mayfower lodge
of Odd Fellows from Cape May initia-
ted the members of the new lodge here
On Thursday evening of last week.
Mrs. Barnett provided a fine supper at
the Centre House late IN the evening
to about 100 members and visitors.
Beautiful line of white waists in the
most up-to-date designs SOC to $3.50.
Mech & Co. Read our adv. on page 4.
VIM. Il. Garrison has the contract
for a two story frame house for Mrs.
Kate Keller, corner Hudson and An
drew avenues.
Messrs. H. B. Woolston and E.
Austermuhl, of Camden, were down
on Tuesday.
Samuel Chestnut and son were down
on Wednesday.
John Hallersn is having his house
painted on Young avenue.
Are you a subscriber to the JOUR-
NAL? 1t will pay any person big who
owns a lot or has business interests
on the island to invest a dollar a year
for the paper to visit you weekly and
keep informed of the doings here.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02
Proposals

Public notice is hereby given that the Bor-
ough Council OF the Borough of Holly Beach
City, New Jersey, Will receive bids up and I'M
TUESDAY, APRIL Is, 1909,
at eight o'clock, p. m for the emoval of gar
bage, paper, ashes, glass, tin cans and all
refuse matter from the Borough of Holly
Beach City, New Jersey, including board
walk, for one year.
Plans and specifications or any Information
can be obtained from Rufus Collins, Robert
Wright and VIM. II. Pinker, members of the
sanitary committee of Council.
All bids must be marked proposals for
the Removal of Garbage" n addressed to
the Borough Clerk. Council reserves the
right to reject any or all bids, to the advan-
tage of the above said Borough.
H. s. HEWITT,
Borough Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02
Notice

To Whom 1t May Concern:
Public notice is hereby given that a petition
has been presented to the Borough Council of
the Borough of North Wildwood praying that
ing named streets or avenues of the Borough
of North Wildwood be curbed with cement
curb and cement sidewalks laid or construc-
ted thereon at the cost and expense of the
or owners of the land fronting on said
portions of said streets or avenues, namely:
On both sides of Central avenue from Third
avenue to Tenth avenue in said Borough.
Said work to be done under the supervision
of the Borough Council or such committee
thereof as shall nave the matter in charge,
and to be done in accordance with the grade
to be furnished by the Borough Engineer.
Further take notice that an ordinance has
been introduced in this Council providing for
the laying of a cement curb and Sidewalk on
said portions of said street or avenue above
specified, at the cost and expense of the own
ers of the land fronting on the same, and that
the said ordinance will be passed by this
thereto by the owners of property fronting on
either side of said streets or avenues in front
of the proposed Improvement.
Further a k notice that the Council of this
Borough has fixed
THURSDAY, APRIL l5, 1909,
at seven thirty O'Clock in the evening OF said
day as the time and the borough hall in said
borough as the place for a public hearing,
said Improvement and the passage of said or
dinance will be heard, and that this Council
will then pass said ordinance and order such
improvements to be made on said streets or
avenues If not so objected to.
Dated the 18th day of March, 1908.
w. E.. YOUNG,
Borough Clerk.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02
Public Notice

Public notice is hereby given, that on the
twentieth day of March, A. ID. 1909, The Wild
wood Water Works Company, a corporation
of the State of New Jersey, filed a petition
with The Board of Chosen Freeholders of the
county of Cape May, in the State of New
Jersey, requesting its consent and permission
to lay water mains and pipes beneath the sur
face of certain portions of the County Roads
or Highways in the County of Cape May, for
the purpose of supplying the jewellers along
said roads or highways with water, and over
which said roads or highways the said Board
OF F~reehOlders have control.
The time for which said consent and per
mission is asked is for a period of twenty
years.
The uses in detail for which such consent
and permission is asked is to lay its water
mains and pipes beneath the surface of GER
tain portions OF the County Roads or high
ways, for the purpose of supplying the dwell
lers along said roads or highways with water,
said portions OF the county roads or highways
being as follows: First-From a point known
as Rosss Mill Pond on the road leading from
Rio Grande to Green Greek to a point where
the said road intersects the Main Sea Shore
Road at Rio Grande; Second-From the last
named point along the Main Sea Shore Road
to a point where the Meadow Road from Hol-
ly Beach City intersects said Main Sea Shore
Road; Third-From the last named point
along the said Meadow Road leading to Holly
Beach City to a point where the said road in
tersects the boundary line or borough limits
of Holly Beach City.
The said petition will be considered by The
Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of
Cape May, at the court house, at Cape May
Court House., New Jersey, at the hour of two
SAMUEL TOWNSEND,
nlnRH
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02
Estate OF Howard R. Buck, deceased.

Pursuant to the order of +. Vanaman,
Surrogate of the County of Cape May, made
on the second day of March, A. ID. 1909, on the
application of the subscriber, administrator
of said deceased, notice is hereby given to the
creditors of said deceased to exhibit to the
subscriber under oath or affirmation their
claims and demands against the estate ofsaid
deceased within nine months from the second
day of March, A. ID. 1909 or they will be for
ever barred OF any action against the sub
scriber.
Dated March 2, A. ID. 1905.
SARAH L. BUCK, Administrators
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02

The Gold Tooth-Say, you'll be pulled
If you keep on disturbing the peace.
The Troublesome Molar Hoorayl
I'm just aching to get out of here. you
know.-Puck.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02

There's no phosphorescence in flow
ers to speak of, but they may ligraer
up many a darkened spot In lire
Manchester Union.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02

One may dominate moral sufferings
only by labor. Study saves from dis.
Observation-Disclosures