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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14

At first Christmas was what II
known as a movable feast. just as Eas-
ter is now, and owing to misunder.
standings was celebrated as late 40
tAprilaorSF May. In the fourth century
m ecclesiastical invest CATION was or
dered, and upon the authority Of tho
a1Ables ofllthe censors IN the Roman
archives December Is was agreed up-
onesas the datefof the sayior's enatiY-
ity. Tradition fixed the hour of birth
ct about midnight, and this led to the
celebration Of midnight mass In III
the churches, a second ct dawn and Z
third - the later morning !.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
An Apple Seed Game.

Give all guests anaapple and fruit
knife and tell them to pare their ap-
Piles. trying to take the skin off in one
piece. The best parer gets the prize.
After the one piece skin is off let the
sparer throw the snakelike skin over
her left shoulder. and the initial it
forms when it reaches the ground will
be the first letter Of her married name.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
NELSON PARK

:" NEloON FAHN 3A5gE
%sss SIS = = y = = =
Christmas is drawing near with all
its PREPARATIONS and the naeural CON
sequence is that news is rather
scarce.
S Henry Lofquist made brief trip
to the Rainy River country last week
Julia and Ida Quarnstrom are visit
ing with their sister, Mrs. ]. stroms
mer, of Huss.
Mr.. and Mrs G. Becklund- were bust
ness callers at Warren last week.
The school in the Fir school house
closed last Friday for; four weeks
Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Sjoblom, who has been at the
Warren hospital for an operation is
home again.
A debating society was organized
last Friday evening in the England
school house. The officers elected
are: c. j. Johnson, president; Carrie
Peterson, vice president; and Nellie
stromlund, secretary. The next meet
ing will be held Friday evening in
connection with a shadow social,
when a debate and another short pro-
gram will be rendered. The pro-
ceeds will go to purchasing an organ
for the school.
We are wondering if this is Indian
summer or Just a reflection OF the
other good things that this year has
brought US.
Kodalzs at Farrell's al price that
are from $500 to $4,000. Also all
kinds Of supplies.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
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b 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 homes, 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
a 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 manger in which
the Holy Babe was laid put forth liv-
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.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
a@HoN Thorn.
T Is not SO many centuries
ago since there was that holy

thorn at GlaStOn Dury WQ1cQ
blossomed every Christmas, and. SO
ran the legend, had done eyer 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.
tian 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 Christ-season, just as
their parent. which had grown from
st. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. 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
AhIo lO4SO UOC WOu4u pC1 01oJ LII U1Oo'
soming 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
reyelry, for giving and receiving; it
had been also season for holy OBJ
servances, for they refused to go 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.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
Forest Friends.
nay sound peculiar,

~ uld y SOUTH pecuA2rs
Yet all must agree
Each boy can secure
His appropriate tree.
And they who their woodland
Companions would know
1 May find them set forth
And may read as they 60. II. 4 n
For a wise boy. osage:
For a homesick boy. pine;
For a fisherboy, Eastwood
Of sh .gs1lp ! Ms is fine;
For a much loved boy. poplar;
Fora chilly boys Arr
While a boy at the seashoro
"a beech must prefer. = W VI
For b happy BOY cherry 5
Seems always firstl rate,
And the boy who loyes history II
Yearnst for. q date
While the poor injured boy
Who when sadly distressed
Would bind up his bruises s II
Thinks balsam is best.
Youth's Comps ANTON
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
Game Of Condemnation.

4 Each takes six slips and writes a
word on each These are shufaed, and
each drawing six slips must write q
sentence containing all the words.
Other words may be added or not as
the company decides:
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
GRAND BALL

A masquerade dance will be given
at the Radium hall, Saturday, Dec. 16.
Good music and a good time will be
assured. Everybody come 2t
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
Domino Fortunes,

Darker thesrOOm. burn salt and alc0-
hol ina bowl in the center table,.
around which, are spread dominos. AL
low each one in turn to draw five.s
The ingenious fortune teller makes up
a thrilling tale from the following
significatiOns:
6-5 denotes amusement and success.
Cd denotes early marriage and much
happiness.
6-3 denotes constancy and affection.
6-2 denotes orderliness. industry and
economy
6-1 denotes two marriages and riches in
old age.
6 blank denotes the death Of near
Double s. denotes good luck in every ven-s
5-4 denotes marriage with attendant
poverty
SO denotes ample means and eventual
great wealth.
so denotes an unfortunate love affair.
5-1 denotes an invitation to an enjoyable
affair
blank denotes danger from gambling
or games OF chance
Double denotes (brings) luck to lovers.
farmers and laborers
AS denotes neither riches nor poverty.
AZ denotes a change in circumstances.
Al denotes childlessness. but wealth.
4 blank denotes fame as a writer.
3-2 denotes extensive travel by land and
sea.
81 denotes caution in all undertakings.
3 blank denotes deceit Of sweetheart.
Double , denotes thrift and moderate
riches.
81 denotes life of luxury and single
blessedness
blank denotes poverty and continual
bad luck.
The Chamois.
The chamois is extremely agile. He
can leap over ravines from sixteen to
eighteen feet wide. A wall fourteen
feet high presents no obstacle to him.
and he passes readily up and down
precipices which almost no other four
footed animal could attempt. He is
said to descend obliquely precipices
Of more than twenty feet that are al
most perpendicular. striking his feet
once or twice against the rock as if
to stay or guide his descent and alight-
ing securely often on a narrow ridge
of rock. with his hind feet first and
bringing the fore feet almost into con-
tact with them.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
Wbat Christmas Ifleans.

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,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
sToNER CORNERS

!. $3.50 SIS z 8 9 = s. 8 . : : =
Il Dec. IL Mr.. Warren has been haul aul
ing straw from Mr. Riedles' the past
week.
81 s. r. Rogers bought q fine COW thu
other day Of Mr. Rupert.
John Swanson was hauling lumber
Monday from Thief River Falls.
81 John Johnsonberg has q fine regis u
tered Berkshire hogsat his farm. n
LII. Simonson has been hauling Ole
Haugen's grain to. the elevator
4 II 10 reported the stoner Elevator
viii close for the season about Deem
Der 18th.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
First Christmas Observance.

Christmas gets its name
from the mass celebrated
in the early days Of the
Christian church in honor
of the birth Of Christ, its
first solemnization having
been ordered by Pope
Telesphorus. This was In
or before the year 1873, for
In that year Pope Teles-
nhnmla diod gi.l .3.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14

The best gift you can buy for e
Christmas 4 fine pair Of shoes and
slippers Different styles and prices.
Buy them at Fred Swanson's.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
&eR1@nds Foe Legends.
HERE are several exceeding
" touching legends concern

:. ing bells, which are heard
ringing from buried cities and villages
at this season. One belongs to q vii
lage near Raleigh, in Nottingham.
shire, and the story runs that once.
where there is now but valley, there
was a village which, with, every trace
Of life and habitation, had been swal-
lowed by an earthquake; but ever
since, at Christmas. the bells Of the
buried church are heard to- ring as of
Did. .,.s sss
a similar legend is told Of Preston.
IN Lancashire. and yet another and
more moving one comes from the
Netherlands Itfis said that the city
Of Been was notorious lto,| for It's black
and shameless sins Jig as we'll as re-
nowned for its beauty and magnia-
cence, To the soqll99m Of the middle
ages, came our SaYi0r on one ami
yersary Of bis birth; and went as Z
beggar from door tn 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
:
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
,<}S ssE3Eze7 Hanger

s'.s,a S s s!ss; GO 81
Of wood, and that the stone cradle il!
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 q 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-child lay. It was removed to
Rome in the seventh century, during
the Mohammedan invasion Of the Holy
Land, and there it is preserved in q
strong brazen chest, from which It II
brought forth on Christmas days.
when it is placed on the Grand Altar.
It is mounted upon q 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
magnif Gently to the Church Visible.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14
fE69GA1istn1ds Bells.
.SQ TRADITION says. that the
hour Of the Babes birth
was the hour nf midnight

suOuT ~ Oh the @6aO6S OII0
was the hour Of midnight,
and legend adds that from then until
dawn cocks crow. In Ireland it II
held that whose looks into a mirror on
this eve will see the devil or Judas
1scariot looking over his shoulder,
surely thought sufficient to drive the
hardest soul to a thought Of the inno-
cent Babe. HIS es.e
Another legend tells that, on Christ
mas eve Judas .Iscariots is released
from that ell---.this 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 i'll 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
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14

It is surely a, dandy stock of Xmas mas
goods at Holm's this season
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-12-14

a trace Of Christmas bounty and good
will, and he called 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. Il
is q legend which appears TO tell In
parable that nothing which ever be-
longed to the Christ, and was dedi-
Gated to his service, Is ever wholly LOSE
from him and alienated from service;l
that ever and again something of their.
inherent beauty and compelling sweet
ness rises from the depths through all
seeming ruin. ssss7s
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
Food Not Good

Information was received at the
pure food Office at vermillion that the
following parties have been prosecuted
for violating the food and drug laws:g
~ James Murphy-Harms Supply COM
pany, of Hitchcock, were fined $40 and
costs for selling rotten eggs to GUS
toner. ars #fE
c. III. Longstaff, a druggist of Huron
was fined $40 and costs for selling
illegal stock food.
j. j. Mcbride, a butcher of Vienna,
has been fined $40 in justice court for
selling mixture of tallow and lard as
"1ard. (" F5tFt#fa
Hoberg & Bergg, of Lake Preston
(butchers) were fined SO and costs for
a similar offense. s
H. E. Stein, butcher of Canton,
was fined S. and costs for similar
offense. vn s gdl lia
The butcher shops of one of the
largest cities of the state. were
inspected short time since, with the
result that every shop in the city was
found to be using a poisonous preserva-
tive in sausage. The commissioners
will recommend that all be prosecuted
at an early date.
Commissioner Cook has announced
that his department will keep after the
butchers until every butcher shop in
the state is brought into complete com
pliance with the law Owing to a
defect in the old law, the commissioner
has no authority to compel butcher
shops, slaughter houses and other
places where food is sold to keep clean,
but it is hoped that the legislatureanow
in session. will remedy this defect A
bill to that purpose passed the senate
recently and is now before the house.
This is the most important food bill
that has been before the Legislature
this session. ti a
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
a New Hospital

For several years there has been a
great deal of agitation concerning the
mammoth new hospital to be erected
by the order Of the Benedictine Sisters
on what is known as Mount Marty at
Yankton, but until recently nothing of
a definite plan has been announced. On
Tuesday at the invitation of the Sisters
there gathered at the hospital a large
number of physicians and surgeons
from the surrounding territory to dis
cuss the plans submitted by ST. Paul
architects for the magnificent new
building which will have frontage of
two hundred twenty feet and wings of
eighty feet and win be five stories in
height. The building as designed will
be the best hospital building in the
west and will cost about q quarter
million. In due time the citizens of
Yapkton viii be asked to assist In, the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
Bid For Canal Work

Hilton & Co., of Powell, Wyo., were
the lowest bidders for the construction
of the north canal on the Belle Fourche
irrigation project which the govern
ment is building. This canal runs
twenty. four miles from the Owl creek
dam to the Newell district. The bid
was S146, 325 for the removal of approx
imately $780, $50 cubic yards of earth.
These bids have been forwarded to
Washington and it is expected that the
Hilton company will be awarded the
contract within the next week. The
Owl creek dam is SO per cent completed
and will probably be finished in May,
while the entire project is IS per cent
completed, the canal just bid on being
the last piece of work. The estimated
amount of water which the Owl creek
dam will contain this summer is so, 600
acre feet or sufficient for the needs of
all the land now under water.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
CITY Gazing

At a. m. Thursday without warn
ing slope four in the Homestake gold
mine, under the heart of the business
section Of Lead, caved from the 200
foot level to the street, endangering
the Campbell house and other build
ings and compelling dodgers to flee
in their night clothes. The ground
worked gradually and as the surface
was the last to be affected the occu.
pants of the buildings were given time
to vacate The caved section is about
fifty by one hundred feet on the sur
face of Gold fish. Occupants of all
adjoining buildings have removed, but
there is no fear of any great cave-in.
The hole extends to about the 200-foot
level and is caused by an old untitled
slope giving away The first cave-in
of the mine occurred last fall since
which efforts have been under
way to make fill Slope four is a
portion of the mine abandoned several
years ago and the accident will not
interfere in the least with the opera.
ton of the mine. No person was in
that part of the mine and no fatalities
occurred. The cave-in broke the water
and gas mains and it has been neces-
sary to shut off the supply in that city.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
Burke Won Ont

Representative Burke, of South
Dakota, was warmly congratulated by
his friends Saturday as result of his
success in eliminating from the Indian
appropriation bill the senate amend
ment Withholding 100000 from the
final payment due the Colville Indians,
W hich amount would have been subject
to additional claims filed by so called
lobbying attorneys. Mr.. Burke, by a
practically single handed fight. in the
course of which he declared that the
attempted Colville claim justified the
existence of muckrakers, forced the
senate to back down. At final con-
ference between Mr.. Burke and Messrs
Clapp and McCumber the senators gave
notice that they were ready to recede.
A compromise was effected on the
senate's amendments relating to the
Standing Rock traders and the Uintah
Indian lands in Utah. ....f.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
On the IudpeshiD

A telegram from Washington in Sat
urday's Sioux City Journal said: On
the eve of adjournment of congress
the South Dakota delegation is without
information as to the presidents inten-
tion relative to the appointment of a
federal district Judge in that state. A
vacancy exists by reason of the trans
fer of John E. Garland to the COM
merce court The impression prevails
in the South Dakota colony that James
ID. Elliott has been eliminated from
consideration as the successor of Judge
Garland. The South Dakota senator's
have not made many calls at the white
house of late. They are at odds with
the administration over reciprocity, and
as the president has been absorbed with
many big questions of late they have
felt constrained not to bother him over
the judgeship. The president feels
there is no hurry to nominate Judge,
inasmuch as congress will in all prob
ability meet in special session the mid
die of March Should there be any
development indicating that a special
session will not be necessary a nomi-
nation for the South Dakota judgeship
would doubtless be sent to the senate
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
A Great Producer

Crushing better than 1900 tons of
rock daily, and making shipments of
bullion to the United States assay at
Deadwood, heavier and richer than
at any time in its history, is the record
now being made by the Homestake
Mining,
Up to the first of the year the com.
pany has paid out $26, 22S, $40 in divi-
dends. These are issued on 218,000
shares of stock of par value of $780,
and at the rate of so cents share, the
total amount of dividends in 1910, even
working back to full capacity during
the labor trouble, was $l,092, 900
Within another year when the big
hydro electric power plant is in oper-
alton, the company expects to make an
even better showing.
Charles Barson, of Rockford is open
ing a graphite bed near that place that
is attracting some attention. This bed
is 5000 feet long and has a width of s
feet and shows an almost unlimited
quantity of practically pure graphite.
Preliminary arrangements for the
establishment of large placer dredge
on the old Maybe placer ground on
Rapid Greek by Charles Sherman and
associates, are progressing raHdly.
The Maggie is one of the old placer
grounds of the days when sluicing
brought good returns.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-09
A Tribute to Crawford

1.-THE United States senate is going
down hill, ;" says the Burlington, Iowa,
Gazette. 1t once upon a time was a
sedate sort of an old fellow, a real
patriot, bad brains and knew how to
use them. 1t was eloquent, too, when
it was really necessary to be eloquent,
and its words were worth remembering
**# But today, alas, it is different.
Long ears and red necktie and a loud
waistcoat have the floor. To gain a
column or two on the first page of the
great dailies of today, the senator must
have Marathon lungs, crocodile tears
and the ability to shout My God! at
the beginning of his every sentence. F"