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The Daily Missoulian., 1909-12-26
st. Francis Xavier.

feature of Christmas day in Mis-
soula was the special music rendered
by the choir of St. Francis Xavier
church. Gounod's beautiful Mass
Soiennelle was sung in all its sweet
ness and power before a congregation
that crowded the church. The church's
choir showed yesterday more than ever
the ability of it's individual members
and the result of careful training on
the organization. The same music will
be repeated today.
The Daily Missoulian., 1909-12-26
JEWISH TABERNACLE
DESTROYED BY FIRE

Des Maines, Dec. s5.-Fire that
broke out here today in the old Jewish
tabernacle at East Fifth street and
Grand avenue, used as n min for a
time, threatened to destroy an entire
block of buildings. The tabernacle and
few other buildings were burned,
causing loss Of Ssn.ean. Thirty men
were overcome in one house. but We're
rescued by companions. As far as
known no on. was hurt
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KILLED BY TRAIN.

Shelburn, Ind, Dec. 25.-In blind
ing snowstorm two Hungarian miners
We're struck and killed by passenger
train on the Evansville & Terre Haute
railroad near here early today. 4
third man was in the party, but can
not be found
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NINE PERSONS CRUSHED.

Pittsburg, Dec. 2S.-Nine persons
We're crushed and mangied late today.
when an interurban electric car struck
the rear end OF another car while
rounding a curve, TWO miles from
Mount Pleasant. of the injured, seven
We're foreigners. Four of the persons
hurt probably will die.
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sarsations:
Ma xiniuin
MAY CAUSE HITCH.

New York. Dec. sa---Genrse +. Shell
don's death may cause hitch in the
proceedings which have heen instituted
10 recover :1aa"s that he is alleged to
have assrarawu ON his salary account
as president of the Phenix. The inquiry
into the company's affairs will be con-
tlnued. however. The hoakS of the At
Iansa and Chicago offices are yet to
he examined and the district attorneys
office here will continue its activity.
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THE WEATHER

Christmas day
Is not supposed
To be complete
without $ n q W.
Last evening the
weather man, ey-
identity realizing
his mistake, be-
gan sending fitful
sia shes of the
flescy. i'm a half
hearted attempt
tn make good a,
the eleventh hour.
The day was not
too cold. The oh
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Prexhxterian.

First Presbyterian church. corner of
Pine and Stevens streets. Rev. j. n.
Maclean. minister. residence. $50
Stevens street Public worship at IL
a. m. and 100 p. m. Subject Of the
sermons will be The Visit of the
Magi," and The Christmas Gosper
respectively. Both sermons and the
music. morning and evening will have
a Christmas character. The music for
the morning service viii include an
anthem entitled. "christian. the Morn
Breaks Sweetly Ger Thee" repeated
by requestl: another anthem entitled.
.Hark. What Mean Those Holy
Voices" and a solo. entitled Nag
areth." by Mr. Sinclair. The even
ing music will be equally full and fit
ting. Sunday school meets at the close
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South Side Methodist.

South Side Methodist church. cor
ner South Sixth street west and Hazel
streets: G. H. Gibbs. pastor: residence.
AIS Ford street. Preaching at IL a. m.
and 7:so p. m. Morning subject. The
Visit of the Shepherds" Evening
subject. The Visit of the Wise Men"
Sunday school at 1a:l0 p. m.
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One of the noteworthy Christmas din
ners was the one Mt which Mr.. and
Mrs. Phil Alloway pre-
AT PILLS sided at the Vienna
BIG FARM farm yesterday after
noon For months
tine fame of the orchard and gar
dens Of this farm has been grow
ing: those who have partaken of the
berries. the green stuff and the fine
vegetables that have come to town
from the Vienna farm have thought
that there could be nothing better;
but those who attended the dinner
yesterday declared last night that
Vienna farm products are best when
they are eaten at the farm. 1t was a
happy crowd that enjoyed the hospi-
tality of the Alloways yesterday and
last night found all of tho guests loud
in their praises of the entertainment
dispensed I'm this delightful farm home.
Ii will be "A long time before they quit
talking about it, as they got such a
fast start last night that they will
have to talk on for some time.
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The weather man tried hard to make
ii n white Christmas. he sent one or
two little spats of snow
A GOOD during the day and in
EFFORT the evening he tried a
bit harder and there
We're few minutes when pools were
selling upon Il white Christmas before
midnight. But the clock hands swung
around past the dividing line and
Christmas passed ont and away with
but the fgintest skim OF white on
streets and sidewalks. In n court that
is particularly technical. 1t might at
IL a'elack have been designated as n
white Christmas, but i'm the generally
accepted sens. Of the term, ii was
far from white. But the weather man
gets credit for good try.
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Arthur f.. Higgins started Christmas
day with a carefully arranged schedule
Of meals: there were
He ATE plenty Of them AM they
PLENTY We're all of good size.
On account of the poor
judgment of dentist. Mr.. Higgins
had been compelled to 60 SO hours
without eating ana when he started
in yesterday morning. he was glad
that IL was Christmas day. as the
food supply would be more likely to
be adequate. His theory demonstrated
its own correctness rs the day wore
on, but IL was only the proverbial
forehandedness of the local caterers
that made 1t possible To meet the d.
mands made by the Higgins appetite
upon the provisions: there were two
or three stewards who looked askance
at their storehouses as the day I'D
yanced: there was Sunday to count
on as well as Christmas and the 80
hour appetite of the starved man had
not figured in their calculations. But
they met the emergency and were in
the clear at night. As for Mr. Hig-
gins. he declared last night that he had
never had a pleasanter Christmas.
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With proper Christmas spirit. the
members OF the cribbage club with
drew the boycott that
ALL is has barred j. Edward
LOVELY Smith from participa-
tion in the club cere-
monies since he returned from the east.
IL was quite the right thing to do on
Christmas day and Acting President
Charles Hart in his speech Of greeting
assured the returned wanderer that
the whole thing had been just a
subterfuge. adopted to keep the mat
ter pending until Christmas day, so
that the reinstatement might be made
something OF a celebration. Mr. Smith
was equally prodigal with the hot air
when he responded: he gave assur-
ance that he bore no grudge against
anybody. but he would like to play q
few rnbbers with the fellows who
thought they could put up the best
game: he didn't care to waste his
time with any second raters; he had
moved in pretty fast company while
he had been away and didn't propose
To lower his rating in the least. Then
he played with all the local champions
until he had taken them all into camp
He beat every one OF them until they
said dinner was ready and they had to
go home. Then j. Edward smiled Tor
the first time in week
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Christian.

Corner Cedar and Washington
streets: Rev. w. II. Bagby. pastor.
Sunday school at la:2O and Christian
Endeavor at $40 p. IN. Regular
church services at IL a. m. and 7:30
p. IN. Morning subject "The Ideal
Christmas: evening subject. 'rhe Life
of Christ" The evening sermon will
be illustrated with fine steroptican
slides, The public is cordially invited
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CHRISTMAS SUNDAY
IN M|SSOU[A
CHURCHES OF GARDEN CITY WILL
OBSERVE TODAY WITH sPE-
ciAL SERVICES.

Today most of the churches of Mis-
soula will celebrate Christmas. Music,
Of course, will be the principal feature
of all the meetings, while all of the
sermons which are to be delivered to-
day deal either with the birth of the
Christ child or with the influence
which His birth has made felt through
the following centuries. Christmas. ex-
Guiding not even Easter. has been the
subject Of more beautiful musical
compositions than any other sacred
event. The beauty and the soiemnity
of the circumstances surrounding the
birth of Jesus. the humble stable. the
three wise men from the east, the
shepherds and the beautiful star are all
themes adapted peculiarly to music,
art and literature and the great COM
posers of the ages have added won-
derfully to the Christmas time with
the beauty OF the music which they
have dedicated to it.
This music will be the principal part
of the services today and under the
direction of the usual number of
talented musicians whom Missoula
may claim each church has prepared
a special musical program. The
Catholic church held its services yes
terday as did the Swedish Lutheran
and Swedish Congregational churches,
but special services will be held in all
of the other congregations this morn
ing.
Baptist.
Special services will be held i'm the
Baptist church this morning at IL
o'clock. The sermon delivered by Rev.
Henry Van Engelen will be THE Story
of Bethlehem" The service viii be as
follows:
Doxology. invocation, hymn 81;
scripture reading; anthem "Bethle-
hem Town"-Moore, by the choir:
prayer; hymn So; announcements; Of
fertory: male quartet. There Shines
Star"-Towner. Messrs. Barratt.
Bisbee. Mcdonald and Bisbee; sermon.
The star of Bethlehem" by the pas
tor; hymn 81: benedition.
In the evening the following service
will be held:
Hymn i09; anthem. How Lovely
Are the gers"-Mendelssohn. by
the choir; scripture: ladies' quartet
selected. Misses Chadwick. Butzerin.
Lewis and Lebkicher: prayer; solo.
Star of ethlehem"--Adams. II. NJ.
Barratt: announcements, offertory:
hymn 5s: sermon. Christ Waiting for
Room: male quartet: hymn So:
benediction.
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Christian Science,

First Church of Christ. Scientist: !:
corner of Pine and Pattee streets.
Services Sunday morning at IL o'clock
Subject of lesson sermon. christian
Science" Sunday school at IL o'clock
noon "Wednesday evening testimonial
at o'clock y. IN, All are cordially
invited
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of the morning service. Young Peo-
pies meeting at $3.50 p. m. Strangers
and visitors win find cordial welcome
To these services.
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The "Frse"-sl a week hugs II. In
sarai five years. arsis Music House
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
The DeIIrious Kind.

H. K. Adair, the detective, was be-
ing complimented in Grand Rapids
about an absconding banker he had
run to earth.
"Oh, the man gave himself away"
said Mr.. Adair He SHE'D too much,
Everything seemed, in his morbid
mind. to point suspicion at him. He
was like the old wildly woman.
''An old wildly woman went to the
undertaker's to order cof1n for her
deceased husband.
He was very, very, very good to
me- she said. And I'll have a coffin
of the best yellow pine
"tYes, madam. That'li bs $14' said
the undertaken. And what kind of
trimmings will you have on the cof-
fn?'
'Trin1min'si' cried the WILDLY
woman. And right we'll We know, We
spalpeen, that I'll have no trimmin's at
all when it was the trimmins that the
poor lad died of. bad luck to 'em,' -
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
Hints About Fieeces.

One and two year old sheep are, as
a rule, the heaviest producers of wool
Look to them at this age for their
maximum yield.
With age coarser wool is produced
by most sheep The young therefore
yield the best quality for the most
part.
Dry, harsh feeces do not meet much
favor with the manufacturer; neither
should sheep that produce them meet
much favor with the grower.
Tag locks and dirt balls cannot be
rated as high class wool. They should
not find their way into the center of
the fleece when it is tied up. Even
the wool buyer will find them and will
dock weight accordingly.
The manufacturer divides the fleece
into six or seven distinct parts after he
gets it. It greatly facilitates his work
Ii the fleece is left intact, SO that he
can tell just where each part lies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
DCN'TS.

Don't let those head lice suck the
blood of your chicks. Just touch their
heads and Threats with lard.
Don't let your chickens suffer for
green food all summer. Their system
demands it.
Don't let droppings rot. in the poultry
house. Spread it on the ground for
good crops.
Don't forget that hen manure is best
for the strawberry patch and pigeon
droppings for flower culture.
Don't let that iron poultry house roof
leak when little putty will end the
trouble.
Don't let the chicks in the brooder
get wet when piece of tar paper will
close the leak.
Don't worry about what the other
fellow does or doesn't. Paddle your
own canoe correctly.
Don't let everybody be familiar with
your bulldog. Your chickens may be
missing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
High Grade of Meat Animals.

1t has been clearly demonstrated by
experience that it pays the farmer to
raise high grade of cattle, sheep and
hogs The farmer who is using scrub
males. whether of cattle, hogs or
sheep, cannot expect to produce the
best grade of meat, no matter how in
diligently he may feed. He has be-
gun wrong.
Let him be particular about the in
aividual merit of the animal. See that
ne has good bone, a strong constitu-
lion and even lines. Be sure that he
strong in the back or loin, short of
aeck and masculine in the head Look
,ut for blockiness of form and short
hess of leg. Inquire of the owner how
he animal has been cared for, and
seek to duplicate the care when he
IS transferred to his new home.
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would be found very profitable and
cost little or nothing in money Or care.
'They are superior to sheep in many
ways, and may be said to take the
place of sheep in most of the direc-
lions which sheep are found to be use
full on the farm. In one respect they
are superior to all other forms of
stock-that is, as scavengers. For
cleaning up weeds, .briars, brushes and
small underground where not wanted
they are superior to any other known
agency. If one has an old pasture
that has become set in bushes of any
kind or q clearing in which thick I'M
dergrowth has come up from roots and
stumps, the easiest and quickest way
TO get rid of it all is by turning in a
flock of Angoras. Two seasons will
usually suffice for clean sweep. All
the brush will be dead.
''This is certainly service that will
be valuable on many farms. But the
Angora is not valuable only as a scav-
enger. It is equally valuable for the
sale of the hair and flesh. And it may
be remarked incidentally that where
there is no brush to be. killed out they
do as well on weeds and grass as on
brush The mohair, as the fleece of the
Angora is called, has wide range OF
prices, and sometimes for an extra fine
sample the price is way beyond the
range of sleeps wool. Its use is main
ly for the production of fine pushes.
for which the demand for use in up
holstering is always going to be great.
TN addition to these it's adaptability
for use in fine carriage robes, couch
covers, sofa pillows and similar artf-
cles may continue to make it sell high.
But even If this demand for the mo-
hair We're necessarily limited the de
mand for the carcasses for mutton and
the very general usefulness of the ami
mails in keeping down brush on farms
are sufficient to keep the price of them
up to a point of satisfactory profit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
COLONY HOUSE.

have been properly weaned from hens
and brooder heat into them, fifteen or
twenty-five il each house. These houses
should be so far apart that broods will
not mix and should be moved often, SO
ground is kept new.
The particular advantages of this sys-
tenn are: Birds are fed more evenly
than in large focks, have more room
night and day for growth, have purer
air, more green food and space for ex.
ercise and less filth and lice and liabil-
ity to disease. while a contagion is
quickly stamped out Chicks grow
quickly to maturity, sexes may be sep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
Best Temperature For Separation.

The warmer the milk the more fluid
like it is 1t is rule adopted by all
creamerymen in operating power ma
chimes that the milk must be separated
at a temperature above So degrees +.
Cold milk is more viscous, or less fluid,
than warm, and the cream will not sep
arate SO readily. If this is true of
power machines, where everything
runs more uniformly than is possible
with a hand machine, it Is certainly
true of the hand machine. 1t is one
of the stock arguments of some sep
arator agents that their machine will
skim cold milk. Probably the state
ment is true. If so it shows wide
range of adaptability for the machine
and that it is SO built that it is difficult
to clog up. Take the argument for
what it is worth, but do not skim cold
milk unless you expect to leave some
butter fat In the skimmilk. The milk
should be separated as quickly as pos
sible after milking. Then the skim
ming will be cleanest, the skimmilk
will be best for the calves, and the
cream will keep better.-Departmen
OF Agriculture Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
NEW VARIETIES OF TOMATOES
For Special Table use-Required by
Large Hotels = Greenhouse
Grown Fruit Most Desirable.


The forcing of tomatoes under glass
has assumed considerable proportions
in the middle and northern states.
and the demand for the green
homegrown crop is steadily in
creasing. This is due to the fact that
tomatoes when grown under glass are
superior to those that are grown in
the extreme southern states and
which must necessarily be picked
partially green and shipped long dis
tances before reaching our markets.
For special table use, such as is de-
manded by large hotels, the green
homegrown fruit will always be in
demand. A number of varieties have
been put on the market for cultiva-
tion under glass. Some of these are
very good, but none has all the char
acteristics which would render it
ideal. The ideal tomato is one with
the following characters combined:
1. A fruit without depression at
the stem end
2. A round fruit without ridges.
3. A fruit with the interior well
formed and compact.
L. A fruit of medium size growing
In large clusters.
S. A plant having the first flowers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
GOOD FARM SUGGESTIONS.

Be very careful about giving the
brood mares heavy loads at this sea
son, but they must have enough gen.
lie exercise to keep them in good
form
Now doth the little louise get in his
work on the chickens Keep going
the whitewash brush, the powder can
and the kerosene sprayer..
The farm well often sends up from
Its cool depths the rankest kind of ty-
phoid germs. See that no foul water
drains into it from the surface or
seeps through from outhouses.
Spread a large sheet under the plum
tree and jar Mr.. Curculio of his perch.
He turns out over one brood a year
and any fruit that shows his sting
should be burned.
A good time to transfer the bees
from old-fashioned wooden hives into
new ones is when the blossoms are
plentiful.
The poultry water vessels should be
given more attention than ever.
Rememberl Do not feed newly
hatehed chicks too soon. They will die
from Indigestion if you do.
DO you know young chicks often die
from regular chills? Well, they do
Keep them dry and warm on damp
chilly days.
Now the calves are coming along
and to start them right means a good
animal, while neglect means a poor
one. Blood counts, of course, but SC
does the feed trough.
1t is a shame to keep a nervous
high-blooded bull shut up in a dark
stall. Give him a small but secure
| lot for exercise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
I&aI

L4sE-&
In the first place, spreading manure
from a wagon Is dirty and disagree
able Job. In the next place, it is ut
terly impossible to distribute the ma
nure evenly by this method.
BY the use of q spreader a man can
get over a great deal more ground and
the manure will go very much farther
because 1t Is evenly distributed.
II you will observe the meadows
where you have distributed manure by
the forkful, you will see that field
presents a spotted appearances, the
grass being rank in those places where
the manure struck the ground, but
scanty and sparse where no manure
reached it.
By the use of wagon man must
stand on the manure while distribut-
ing it, and the starting and stopping of
the team takes time, and altogether
the Job is unsatisfactory.
With a manure spreader all that is
necessary is to back the machine up
next to the back of the barn under
the stable window and empty the ma
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
Alfalfa Harrow.

of alfalfa plants, causing them to de-
velop additional tops; it destroys the
egg deposits and larvae of certain
injurious insects; it destroys weeds;
1t breaks up the slit blanket result
ing from the use of muddy irrigating
water, allowing better penetration of
water and air to the roots of the crop;
it loosens up certain dense soils, and
to some extent it incorporates bene-
fetal sediments and fallen alfalfa
leaves with the soil.-Prof. r. H.
Forbes.
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CELERY FOR HOME AND MARK
Vegetable Loves a Cool Climate and
Light, Fertile, Humus-Laden,
Moist Soil.

Although requiring rather peculiar
climatic and soil conditions, yet eel
cry can be grown both for home use
and market over wider area than
most people think. Almost everybody
is fond of celery, and it is a healthful
vegetable food With a little study
and experience in growing it, celery
might be on the table of ten times
the number of homes that it now is,
and it might be grown for market by
twice the number of gardeners that
already grow 1t.
Celery loves a cool climate. and a
light, fertile, humus-laden, moist soil.
The ideal climatic conditions for the
production of celery are bright sun
shine, pure air, cool nights and a
well distributed rainfall of about
eight inches during the growing Pc.
Rod in the field or garden.
In the production of celery for do
nestle use, a rich, mellow, sandy loan
will give the best results The soil
of the seed bed should contain plenty
of leaf mold and should be passed
through a sieve having not less than
six meshes to the inch. The soil
of the transplanting bed need not be
sifted so fine, and some we'll rotted
bsrnyard manure should replace a
part of the leaf mold; in other re
spects it should be the same as the
seed bed.
| Any fertile, we'll drained soil will
grow celery, but a rich, loose, sandy
loan is preferable. The soil canno
well be made too rich, and the pres
ence of large amount of humus OIL
vegetable mold is an essential fol
large and rapid growth. In the re
| gions where peat Dogs or muck sol
abound the crop may be more easil.
produced on these than on any othel
soils, but the keeping qualities are no
so good, and the flavor is never equa
to that of celery grown on sand,
loan, or even on clay soils. If nothin,
but clay soil is available, it may b,
made to produce good celery by lib
eral application of well rotted ma
nure. On clay soils there is likely t,
be injury caused by the soil becom
ing washed into the hearts of tn,
plants while they are yet small.