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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
CASE WAS DISMISSED.

The charges against B. r. and w. A.
Garner which were heard before AS
sistant County Attorney c. c. Hern-
don at Tuttle yesterday on the plea
of disp6sing Of mortgaged property
were dismissed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
oRPHEum THEATEH

"The Cow Boy and the Outlaw" a
western drama.
The Light House Keeper" Imp
drama.
Vaudeville.
clicks and Hicks"
Comedy singing, talking and dane
ing.
Tonight is your last chance to see
this high class act
New act tomorrow night.
Steam heat for the cold nights
Prices 5 and 10 cents.
Jerry Holmes Travis pianist.
Matinee Saturday and Sunday at
1880 p. m.
New pictures every night.
Four changes Of vaudeville every
Week.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
AT THE
PLAY HOUSES
-.
THE mAJEsrTC 1nEATER
Program Tonight
MOTION PICTURES.

Cheyenne Days, story of the
Western days.
"Cupid's Pocketbook," big comedy
Vaudeville.
"Schuman and Schuman", comedy
harmony singing and talking. To-
night will be the last chance to see
this popular act
Tomorrow night we have the Thea
tire Duo" in a big novelty act
Theatre always warm and comfort
able.
Prices 5 and 10 cents.
Bette Estes, pianist. Prices and
10 cents.
Doors open and 1880 shows starts
1880.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01

For pains in the side or chest dam
pen piece Of flannel with Chamber
lain's Liniment and bind 1t on over
the seat Of pain. There is nothing
better. For sale by all druggists.
d&w.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
At Christian Church.

The singers in the Christian church
choir are invited to be present at the
church this evening for the regular
practice. The Sunday school lesson
will be studied and the regular choir
dehearsal held. No choir practice can
be held Friday night on account of the
teachers meeting at the church.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
Short Stories
OF The Town
Jubilee Mission Meeting.

There will be no meeting Of the
auxiliary societies in the different
churches this week but all unite in
the jubilee meeting at the Methodist
church Thursday afternoon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01

Only one letter in a million goes
astray. and that one. an exchange
says. never happens to be a bill.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01
Only a Few.

There are only two or three girls
beautiful enough to be slouchy.--At
Gibson Globe
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-01

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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

It's Ills, from the world, and to give
10 common humanity their rightful
sovereignty. He worked with His
hands for His daily bread. He il yet
to dignity and glorify in the thought
OF mankind all honest toll. He hon
ored woman with His sympathetic and
apprecfative regard. He is yet to ~
ueve her from every form OF ser1lom
created by the past ages. He took
little children In His arms and blessed
them. He is yet to make blessed the
child life in every welcoming homo.
He gave His peace to His distracted
disciples. He is yet to make wars
cease unto the end of the earth. He
united His brethren with Himself and
His Father in one unbroken oneness.
He is yet to make every man a broth.
er to his fellow--man and at one With
his Father in Heavan.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
CHRISTMAS IS A PROPHECY
ditions Which Will Fulfill the
Promises of Christ.

Christmas is not only a fact com.
memorating the one sacred festival
in the worlds calendar, but the glor-
ious prophecy of coming day, sur.
passing all the brightest social dreams
that have ever visited the most ad-
vanced human mind. He sprang, on
His human nature side, from kings
and peasants, from saints and sinners.
He is yet to lift every peasant to the
zfngliest throne of character and trans
form the chief OF sinners into the.
holiest of saints. He. allied Himself
with poverty and the common people.
he is yet to baniss poverty with all
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

q part of the mind that the prosaio
and commonplace can never crush
them. Until the youth reaches man
hood and independence, Christmas is
the happiest day of the year. It's gifts
and hearty good cheer impress family
affection, parental thoughtfulness and
brotherly love. The dullest and most
irresponsible of fathers and mothers
are uplifted to vision Of higher life
by the interchanges of souvenirs and
the merry meeting with children and
grandchildren at the table and fire.
side. Few can escape and all enjoy
the meaning of the festival, the les.
sons it conveys and the inspiration
it gives, and we enter upon a brighter
future and fuller appreciation of the
benetcence Of the practice of faith,
hope and charity. The loved ones
who have crossed to the other side,
the loved near and far who are still
with US, the old homestead with it's
precious memories, the old church
whose sacred associations tie togeth-
er childhood, maturity and age, love,
marriage and death; the schoolhouse
where the beginnings Of education
were so painful, and the ever-increas-
ing pleasures Of the pursuit Of learn
ing through the high school, academy
and college are recalled and recfted,
and there is exquisite delight in these
ofttold tales, and new experiences en-.
liven this blessed anniversary.-Les-
hes Weekly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

At first Christmas was what is
known as movable feast, just as Eas-
ter is now, and owing to misunder-
standings was celebrated as late as
April or May. In the fourth century
IN ecclesiastical Investigation was or
dered, and upon the authority Of the
tables of the censors in the Roman
archives December Is was agreed UP
ON as the date of the Savior's nativ-
ity.,, Tradition fixed the hour Of birth
at about midnight, and this led to the
celebration Of a midnight mass IN al
the churches, second at dawn and
third in the later morning.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

TN parallels is the legend of
the Christmas rose, and it
tells how good things, fit for giving,
spring up ready to the hand which
earnestly desires to give to the Child.
It is said that a certain maiden Of
Bethlehem was so poor that she had
nothing to give to the Babe to whom
kings brought wealth from afar, and,
as she stood, longing and mourning,
and angel appeared to her, saying:
Look at thy feet, beneath the snow"
and 10! on obeying the maiden found
that a new flower had miraculously
sprung up and blosscmed at her needs.
Every since then, runs this story, this
exquisite flower, with it's snowy petals
just touched by suggestions Of pinkish
bloom, is to be found at this season;
and, indeed, its half-opened cups are
like chalices of love, and it's fully.
spread petals are like a happy limo
cence, fit symbols for the gifts for the
Babe of spotless innocence, whose
heart was the vessel of love.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22


fake on more CHEEKY tone, and the
spirit of the time seems to throw a
glamour over places and things which
ordinarily are devoid of all beauty.
AS it is with places, so it is with
people. They, too, not only seem to
change, but tho transformation does
take place in millions of hearts to a
greater or less degree The spirit Of
Christmas even affects people who for
the rest of the year are devoid of
sentiment and Of feeling for their fel-
lows. The most interesting stories
of Christmastide are those which will
never appear in print-true stories of
men and women whose thoughts have
been only of their own selfish aims
and pleasures, but have been awak.
ened, if only for q day or two, from
their usual self-complacency, moved
by some force of which they are only
half-conscious to do some act of kind
ness to make the day happier for
someone less fortunate than them
selves in worldly way.-The Chris
tan Herald.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
The Christmas Spirit,

But don't you see that there is 9
Santa Claus! He isn't man in fur
coat, and a reindeer sleigh and all
that, but he is the Spirit of Christmas,
isn't he? They've personified that
and made saint of him and invented
legends about him-for the children,
but when we're no longer children and
don't believe in him, we still have
that Christmas spirit-and it's that
that gives presents and makes us feel
toward one another, and makes Christ
mas what it is.-Harvey J. O'Higgtns.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

AAOA0s ANU OAO00OAAAo Al
q gracious cline, which testify with
subtlety to the depth of the appeal of
the birth of Christ. Here divinely
spiritual symbolism and there sweet
human tenderness and pathos appear,
and, blended, they evidence the worlds
belief that this was both Son Of Man
and Son of God.
An Irish legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve, the Christ Child wanders out
In the darkness and cold, and the
peasants still put lighted candles in
their windows to guide the sacred lit
tie feet, that they may not stumble on
their way to their bones. And in
Hungary the people go yet further in
their tenderness for the Child, they
spread feasts and leave their doors
open that He may enter at His will,
while throughout Christendom there is
belief that no evil can touch any
child who is born on Christmas eve.
The legend which tells how the very
hay which lined the manager in which
the Holy Babe was laid put forth ltv-
Ing red blossoms at midWinter at the
touch Of the Babes body could only
have arisen from belief in the renewal
Of life through the Lord Of Life.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

closely resemble the celebrations OBJ
served of old In honor Of Saturn or
Bacchus.
The Roman Saturnalia, which oc
CURED In the winter solstice, were a
season of great festivity and rejoicing,
honored by many privileges and ex-
emptions. The spirit of gaiety had
free charter, and even quarrels were
suspended, to be resumed after the
holidays.
AS a manifestation of the gratitude
felt at the renewed prospects of the
returning march of the sun, gifts were
exchanged and special hymns were
sung. These latter were really the
Roman representatives OF the modern
carol.
At the Saturnalia the Roman feast
ed, sang and danced, as we do at
Christmas. A ruler or king was ap-
pointed, who enjoyed certain preroga-
tives. He presided over the sports OF
the season. Probably he is the an
cestor of the lord of misrule, who ex-
ercised similar power in more re-
cent times.
Merriment was a matter of general
concern, and the joyous spirit of en-
tire districts ia now narrowed to fam
lily parties.
It is the touch that makes tho
whole world kin, and 1t is a pleasant
reminder that, after all, history re-
peats itself.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
!!EzHkaH0lp Thorn.
T is not so many centuries
ago since there was that holy
thorn at Glastonbury which


Il thorn at Glastonbury which
blossomed every Christmas, and, so
ran the legend, had done ever since
St. Joseph Of Arimathea, having come
as apostle to Britain, and, landing at
Glastonbury, had stuck his staff Of dry
hawthorn into the soil, commanding it
to put forth leaves and blossoms. This
the staff straightway did, and thereby
was the king converted to the Chris
tan faith, the faith which preached
life from death.
The holy thorn of Glastonbury -four
ished during the centuries until the
civil wars. During those it was up
rooted; but several persons had had
trees growing from cuttings from the
original tree, and those continued to
bloom at the Christensen, just as
their parent, which had grown from
st. Joseph's staff, had doomed. And
about the middle of the 18th century
1t was recorded in the Gentleman's
Magazine how the famous holy thorn
would not deign to recognize the new
style calendar, which had then come
into force but would persist in bios
s0ming as of old on old Christmas
day!
In those days the anniversary Of the
advent Of the Babe had certainly
meant more to the common people
than merely a time for feasting and
revelry, for giving and receiving; it
had been also season for holy OBJ
servances, for they refused to 60 to
church on New Christmas day, the
holy thorn not being then in blossom.
So serious became the trouble that the
clergy found it prudent to announce
that Old Christmas day should also
be kept sacred as before. Only an
other story of mems weak, supersti-
tious minds? True, perhaps; but they
are better who evidence some spiritual
weakness than those who wallow in
the wholly material and when we
cease to be careful of the cup and the
platter we become not over careful of
their contents.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
Christmas Customs.

It is interesting to
trace the origin Of
festival customs to
those connected with
Druidical superstitions
of classic ObservanceS,
and it will surprise
many to learn that
nroSonf-6av Sn0rts very
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
Wbat Christmas means,

Christmas means hope and
it's realization. The child
grows eagerly expectant as
the time approaches for the
visit of Santa Claus. While
this fiction remains unques-
toned, the imagination
opens new and wider worlds,
ond i6oo1c hocorno ca much
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
&6MiE9711QS EDe LeQendS.
HERE are several exceeding
t. A@,oh:rr 1oror1c o0noorn.

54gS " touching legends concern
ing bells, which are heard
ringing from buried cities and villages
at this season. One belongs to a VII
lage near Raleigh, in Nottingham
shire, and the story runs that once.
where there is now but a valley, there
was a village which, with every trace
of life and habitation, had been swal
lowed by an earthquakes; but ever
since, at Christmas, the bells of the
buried church are heard to ring as OF
old.
A similar legend is told Of Preston.
in Lancashire, and yet another and
more moving one comes from the
Netherlands. It is said that the city
of Been was notorious for it's black
and shameless sins, as well as re-
nowned for its beauty and magnif.
cence. To the Sodom Of the middle
ages came our Savior on one ami
versary of his birth, and went as a
beggar from door to door, but not one
in all that Christmas keeping city
gave the Master of the abundance. Sin
he saw rampant on every side. but not
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
Not Blessed.

The presents you forget to give to
others who don't forget to give to you
are not so blessed.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
first Christmas Observance,

Christmas gets it's name
from the mass celebrated
in the early days of the
Christian church in honor
of the birth Of Christ, it's
first colonization having
been ordered by Pope
Telesphorus. This was In
or before the year 1873, for
in that year Pope Teles-
nh0rlls died
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22

"a &
Q trace Of Christmas bounty and good
viii, and he caaled to the sea, which,
as Of old, obeyed his voice, and Been
the city Of sin, was buried deep, clean
out Of sight, beneath the waves. But
ever at Christmas up from beneath the
covering waters comes the sweet call.
Ing Of church bells buried in Been. II
is a legend which appears to tell In
parable that nothing which ever be.
ionged to the Christ, and was dedi'
Gated to his service. is ever wholly lost
from him and alienated from service;
that ever and again something Of their
Inherent beauty and compelling sweet.
aess rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
@9S10a Christmas Bells:
NSW Tradition says that the
hour of the Babes birth
~ was the hour Of midnight,

and legend adds that from then until
dawn cocks crow. In ireland it is
held that whose looks into mirror on
this eve will see the devil or Judas
lscariot looking over his shoulder,
surely thought sufficient to drive the
hardest soul to thought of the inno-
cent Babe.
Another legend tells that, on Christ.
mas eve, Judas Iscariot is released
from that he1l-"his own place"-and
is allowed to return to earth that he
may cool himself in icy waters.
Wild and improbable although such
and such legends appear on their
faces, they bear study and repay it,
for we then see that they are full OF
subtle spiritual expression, as it were:
that they are parallels Of certain spir.
itual facts, and it will be ill for US
should the Christmas day ever dawn
on which such flowers of tender faith
and wonder shall appear to us no
more than dry curious specimens from
the dead roots of superstition.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
ere spirit Of GE}ri$tIAtgfHs$;s:.

There is hardly q
festival in the c:!on-
dar which h.s such q
hold on the hearts Ct
old and young alike as
Christmas Day. The
ring of the car bells
and the voices upol
49, L
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
@}2A1|6g2!'q5 IS
9&!93HNid',:,S

LII around the season Of
the Coming of Love as
a little Child there have
sprung legends and be-
liefs. like blossoms in
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
*ASSl @91th9EMdnQer

there was another one
IF wood, and that the stone cradle In
the Chapel Of the Nativity is, indeed,
the outer manger. Splendid is that
humble stone trough now with white
marble, softly rich with costly dra-
peries, and radiant with a silver star,
which is surrounded by 16 lamps, ever
ALT. But yet more glorious is the
wooden manger at Rome, held to be
the veritable manager in which the
Christ-chi1d lay. It was removed to
Rome in the seventh century, during
the Mohammedan invasion of the Holy
Land, and there it is preserved in a
strong braZen chest, from which it is
brought forth on Christmas days,
when it is placed on the Grand Altar.
It is mounted upon stand of silver;
which is inlaid with gold and gems,
and the shrine in which it rests is OF
purest rock crystal. In the days in
which this was accomplished men.
whatsoever may have been their
shortcomings in other directions. gave
magnifcently to the Church Visible.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-12-22
MeM47 &c hHstn1ds Rose.
MOTHER of those spiritual

parallels is the legend of
the Christmas rose. and it
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-22
Paying Taxes.

City and county taxes are com
ing in more rapidly than ever be
fore, according to the assessors
statement, Over one.eighth Of
the entire amount has already
been paid, and as yet all of the
notices have not been mailed from
the assessors office,
A material difference is noticed
in many of the taxpayers bills this
year over that of last. John
Broadbent's taxes last year were
$50, 424 and this year they are
only $4,000. On the other hand,
the Oregon Short Line, which last
year paid only S20,543, this year
has paid $4,000. Most of the
taxpayers appearing to pay on
city property said that their taxes
were tritie larger than last year
Statesman.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-22
Oratorical Contest.

A yearly oratorical contest for
the rural schools Of Ada county,
with suitable gold metals for the
winners, the awards Of prizes to be
based upon the thought, compo.
sition and delivery Of the Grafton,
is assured through a meeting OF
the committee on rules Of the Ada
county oratorical association,
which was held at Star December
18th.
The object Of the association, as
expressed by the rules committee,
is the encouragement Of public
speaking and the promotion Of
efficiency in the use Of the Eng.
lish language.
The schools represented in the
association are:
Eagle, Meridian. ustick, Kuna,
Franklin, Cole and Star,
Each school is to have one rep
resentatiye at each yearly contest,
the school to choooe its own repre-.
sentative by apreliminary contest.
AT the meeting Of the rules COM
mittee a complete set of regula.
tions TO govern each contest was
drawn up, and rules Of precedence
TO maintain in each contest set
forth.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-22

There is announced d complete
change Of time on the Meridian
line, beginning January lst. A
car will leave Meridian at 6.20 in
the morning, going through to
Boise, but cars at 7.35, 905, 1875,
a, m.and 1906, l.35, and 3.05 will
go only to Onwiler.
The 400 car will 60 through to
Boise, but the car leaving at 4.35,
COS, 7.35, and 9,05 p. m. will stub
to Onwiler. The 1905 pm car goes
through, but the 1896, and 1906
will stub. This will give us 1s
cars out of Meridian, instead OF
cars day, as at present.
Cars will leave Boise making
connecting with Meridian, as fol
lows: TOO, 500, $50, 1000, 11.3C
a. M, and LOO, 230, 400, 5.0(
$50, and TOO, $50, 1000, ll.15
ll.3O p. m,
This gives Meridian hourly ser
vice TO and from Boise, ton an ay
erage) and hour-and a. half service
west Of Onwiler.
The car leaving Boise for Mer
idian at 500 p. IN, is always
crowded, but by this change there
will be another car at $50.
The hours given here may bs
altered slightly, when a trial il
made.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-22
Great Eisht-Day Campaign,

The eighth day campaign Of the
Men and Religion Movement will
be held IL Boise February Toto ~,
There will be two days Of The
period known as the Convention
period. These will be Tuesday
and Wednesday. The conference
will take ii all the work of the
movement aud those two days will
be the busiest Of tile eight-day
period The delegates going from
auxiliary towns will have M OPP
portunity to bear all the special.
lists on all Of the subjects during
the convention days.
III connection with the Men and
Religion Forward Movement in.
stitutes are held during the eight
day campaign n the various cities.
These institutes are somewhat
novel in this kind Of work. They
are TO be- compared to a teachers
institute or amy other gathering or
organization which has for It's aim
the intoxicating If knowledge,
The experts on Social Service,
Bible Study, Boys work, etc. who
will hold those institutes, will
bring the very latest, most up to-
date information with respect to
all those subjects Consequently
anyone who is particularly inter
ested in any subject to be consid-
cred will find an opportunity 70
post up, to get his informationnp.
to.date. These experts are bring
ing the wisdom aud experience Of
all the greatest leaders Of the
world to bear upon the problems
and what they have to teach about
work for boys, about social service
questions, etc, will be Of immense
interest to those even who have
never given those subjects any at,
tention. ]