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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
Post-ofice Open on Christmas

The post-of1ce will be open from
eight to nine, and from five to six
Oh Christmas Day, just as it is on
Sundays. There will be one delivery,
which will be made in the morning,
and the carriers on the rural routes
will go out as usual. All parcel
post packages will be delivered be-
fore noon, and two extra helpers will
be employed for this purpose.
Postmaster Hope states that less
large packages have gone thru the
Office this year than usual, but that
the number Of cards and small pack
ages has been very great. He feels
that there will be no congestion.
however, and states that everything
has been going very smoothly, up to
date.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
Is 90 Years Old

Mrs. Mary Butterfield and Mrs.
e. J. Jones were hostesses as an in
formal eat Home" given at Mrs.
Jones' home on Tuesday afternoon,
December IA. It was the birthday
anniversary Of Mrs. Butterfeld who
was ninety-three years old. Many
friends Of Mrs. Butterfield came in to
wish her a happy birthday, and to
bring remembrances appropriate to
the occasion.
Light refreshment swere served at
small tables all during the after
noon, . 5.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
Post: Elects Officers

At meeting of Walter Trip Post
No. 29 in the Commercial Club rooms
on Friday night, the following Off
GERS were elected for the coming
year: DR.. c. R. Christensen, COM
monder, Louis Vinje, vice command
er, Ted Klippstein, adjutant and
finance officer, A. o. Clave, insurance
officer, and Earl Eames, sergeant at
arms. After the business meeting
the men remained for a smoker.
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Memberships
Totals
1914 $1616.75

No canvass has been made in some
Of the townships, and it is possible
that this may be done next month.
Both Mr.. Clave and the members
of the county executive committee
express great satisfaction with the
work that was done, and commend
the workers who so willingly and
cheerfully helped in the campaign,
which was particularly hard one,
due to unusual financial conditions.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
Raise Pastors Salary

At the annual meeting of the mem
bers of the English Lutheran church
on Monday evening, it was voted to
raise Rev. A. Bredesen's salary $3.50
a year, and to pay him that amount
as back salary for last year.
e. C. Gilbert was reelected secre-
tary, o. c.. Hanson, treasurer, and
Peter Peterson, trustee. Thirty new
members were accepted into the
church.
The treasurer's report showed 9
balance of $4O0. In the treasury. ns
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
James Kirbv Dies

James Kirby died in Morris on
Wednesday, December Is, of par
alysis. He was born in Northfleld,
Tennessee on September 1857. He
has lived in Morris for sixteen years.
Funeral services took place on Fri
day, December II, and interment in
the Summit cemetery. >g
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24

Irene and Leonard and Helen, like
many grown-ups, ask for a reward
for past virtue, and write:
st. Mary's School,
Dec. 16, 1920.
Dear Santa Claus,
I have been a very good little
galel. and 1 know that you wont
forget me I wont big doll and a
bugg and a books of dimones and
if you cand bring me ball you
will find my stocking ready when
you come.
Much Love,
Irene Rowles.
st. Mary's School,
Dec. 16, 1920.
Dear Santa Claus,
I have been very good little
boys and little girls. and know that
you want forget me. Now I am go
ing to tell you what would like you
to bring me. I want a pair black
size one shOse. I want a box Of
dominoes my sister want a pair Of
bedroomslipper. my brother want a
gun my two little sister want a two
dolls. you will find my stocking
ready when you come
Much Love
Leonard Kill.
st. Mary's School,
Dec 16, 1920.
Dear Santa.
Claus, have been very good little
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24
ROLL CALL CHAIRMAN
REPORTS RECENT DRIVE
Over $1,000 Collected by Workers in
Red Gross Drive; 1914 Members
in Stevens County

The report of the Red Cross Fourth
Roll Call as submitted by A. 0.
Clave, chairman of the drive to Mrs.
F. A. Hancock, chairman of the
Stevens County Red Cross chapter,
shows a total of 1914 memberships
and $1616.75 in money. ~
Memberships and money were dis
tributed among the various units as
follows:
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Royal Neighbors to Meet

The Royal Neighbors will hold their
regular meeting on Tuesday eve
ming, December %, in their hall
over vinje's store. Election Of OH
GERS will take place, and all MEM
bers are urged to be present.
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girl and I know that you won't forget
me Now an going to tell you what
would like you to bring 1 want a
dole buggy, steel pence neccktie,
book she coveralls, gun you will find
my stocking ready when you come
Much Love
Helen Hughes.
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Helen Hughes.

my stocking ready when you come
Much Love
Helen Hughes.
Here's a little girl that wants a
doll-and wants it bad, and her
brother wants a horse-also bad.
Dear Santa
want big doll for Christmas
please bring me beg doll want it
so bad. Dear Santa And Harold
wants a little horse with casters
under it he wants it so bad And he
wants train. Good by old Santa.
Martha Evefs.
And another Every good little girl"
writes:
st. Mary's School,
Dec. 16, 1920.
Dear Santo Claus,
l have been a very good little
girl, and I know that you wont
forget me Now l am going to tell
you what I would like you to bring
me I want a doll buggy Claus, and
a book and steel pencil want a
tablet I want a pncil you will find
my stocking
Madeline Reilly.
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cluded in club work. Club work is
also good in preventing the boys and
girls from leaving the farm. Club
work makes better boys and girls
and incidentally better live stock ond
better homes
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1920-12-24

Dear santa.
Claus, I have been very good little
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-03
Magic of Law
Puts Millions
in 9 Pockets

Nine attorneys presented him with Il
new one in court.
For more than Il year the only rela-
tives Mr.. Hoy could locate We're the
Stillwell boys. Judson Phelps, and
Mrs. Shadboldt
A few months ago one of the Sax
ton boys. Walter. read Il newspaper
article which referred to Mr.. Cowan's
death and his estate. \ few days
later the Saxton claim was entered.
The SaXtonS claimed to be the chill.
llren of two daughters of Peter Cowan,
Cayuga county. n. Y. the grandfather
of William +. Cowan.
Their claim was established by Il
marriage license. census reports. old
tintypes. and testimony. One of the
twins saw Mr.. Cowan when he was
three years old. Another SaNtOn said
he was born in the Cowan home. But
further than that they had no person
al recollection of their wealthy rela-
tive.
Views on Liquor.
Walter and William Saxton are in
terested in airplaneS. hut they don't
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Niqht Club Fever Sets in as
Gay Life Is Re-
sumed.
ENGLISH LEARN TO DANCE
Shortage Of Eligible Young Men Puts
crimp in Dancing Aspirations Of
Many English cirls-Resort
to "Paid Escort"

Misunderstanding Il night Of 1t" be-
came almos: II lost art in England
during the late war. The owl and the
Briton were scarcely on speaking
terms.
In the first place. it wasn't patriotic
to "stay out ut night Then there
was the absence If lights, the shortage
of taxis. the ban on dancing and-the
Gothns. So nights were spent In bed.
and the only time a I.onl"ner saw the
sun rise was when he got up early to
work in his allotment.
London. once the gayeSt of cities.
became II silent tomb Of sOmber grays
and deep shadows after nine o'clock
at night. can remember when 1t
was actually penal offense to strike
Il match in the street. But those who
only saw it in wartime wouldn't know
the old place now!
The grays are puppies now and the
lights are bright and red and In Pic
cadilly Circus they have four electric
signs that fash on and of.
London has acquired the night club
fever. From II p. m. to 3 a. m. has
become the recognized space Of time
for worShiping Mt the shrine of Terp.
sichOre.
How the Night Is Spent.
"Are YOU dancing tonight?' no long
| er means are you going to spend the
hours between dinner time and mid
night Mt n hall or club. 1t means are
you going to Rector's, to the Grafton
galleries or to Brett's, picking up your
party somewhere about midnight and
never thinking Of going home until the
milkman's horse has got his second
wind and the pink finish of London
dawn cOlOrs the cold night mists
Then, and not till then. does one turn
homeward In a private car, II one has
one. or taxi, If one can get one
with perhaps brief halt Mt the near
est coffee stall for cup of muddy
fluid which tastes like nectar Mt tina,
hour, but which, taken six hours later
would spoil ones whole day. But sucf
is night life in a big city!
The night clubs of London are {
peace product. They range from tn,
ultra.exclusive ones Of Bond street I,
the frankly democratic and even NOR,
so ones of Leicester square and Char
ing Cross rOad-clubs to suit the fast,
and deplete the pocketbOok Of ever!
one.
London has it's closing hour. an,
that Is ten o'clock. At none of tn
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believe they will spend much of their
fortune on the aircraft.
You can get a drink Of red eye or
an airplane ride for $o5," said Wal
ter. II believe the airplane ride would
be the best. You can get the same
results from either one. They'll both
kill YOU
Walter and Mr.. Hart have been sex
tons in different cemeteries ever since
they can remember.
1--WE been buryin' 'em fast as they'd
die" said Mr.. Hart. But reckon
Wen retire now. Maybe not though"
Mrs. Colby isn't sure what she'll do
with her money. Neither is Mrs.
Charles Saxton sure what she will do
with her husbands. hut Elsie. Mich.
is going to have some thrills. she said.
II guess we could all go in the NOV
ing picture business" said Mrs. Caro-
line Hart. (She doesn't like to be
called Carrie.) But maybe Wen all
retire now"
Pretty hard to quit work." said
William SaXton. "we've been working
so long Gee. I'm kinda glad we heard
about it, though. No. amt got no
daughters for any one to marry"
Mrs. Charles Saxton said she had
two daughters. but thought they could
take care of themselves.
Meantime IL lawyers, who have
been in the litigation. were comforting
in the judges chambers on tomb
stone to be erected over Mr.. Cowan'>
grave.
II hope them lawyers leaves us
some Of the money" said Walter.
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&2A7D 1WXON'

| loggers like to argue that this sudden
draining of the inland sea caused a
slight shifting of the earth's center
Of gravity and that this shiftin;
caused the flood about which Noah had
| received advance information"
Los Angeles, says Mr.. Larsen, Is the
site of ancient Jerusalem.
Sodom and Gomorrah We're IN Utah.
Mount Whitney, he says, is undoubt'
eddy Mt. Sinai, and Moses is buried
at it's base. Mount Whitney Is IN
Tulare county and marks the eastern
boundary of the proposed Roosevelt
national park. to be created out OF a
greatly enlarged Sequoia national park.
SO Roosevelt national park will be a
double memorial.
Arizona is where the 1sraelites So
journed while awaiting the return OF
Moses. They had their headquarters
either in the Grand canyon or ut Casa
Grande. Grand canyon is now a ma
tional park and Casa Grande (Great
| Ruilding) is national monument.
Mr.. Larsen shows that lsraers
twelve tribes occupied practically all
the Pacific coast from the Mexican
border to the Canadian line.
The tribe of Simeon lived around
San Diego, it seems. splitting down into
Mexico and the Gulf Of Lower Califor-
MIA. Judah occupied the domain from
Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Levi
made headquarters mt Bakersfield. and
BENJAMIN tlourished near San Fran
cisco. Ephraim's territory extended NJ
we'll toward Eureka. and Ruben and
Cad spread out over the regions OF
Nevada and the eastern border Of Cali
fornia, while Asher. Issachar, Zebulun
Manasseh and Napttali and Dan lived
in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, re
spectively. There seems to have beer
two Dams, for we find one occupying
the coast just west of Bakersfield
about where Paso Robes is now 10
Gated.
The writer also clears up moo
question, in that he has fixed definitely
the ground covered in that lime-hOn
ored phrase, from Dan to Beersheba
He says it represents the distance on {
crows line from Occur dAlcne, Idaho
to the Colorado river.
Notwithstanding the fact that L. r
Larsen, author and theologian, lives II
Portland. Ore. and should therefore b.
more interested in Crater Lake ant
Mount Rainier Nationa! parks than II
SeQuOia and Grand Canyon Nationa
parks, Californians will doubles
hasten to deny that his book is 'jus
some more Southern California litera
ture," cOncocted with the idea Of in
, creasing the tourist traffic. To this de
NAL other parts of the country will pre-
Sumably say. ''lia. ha." for the In
genuity and persistence Of the Colder
state booster is Il household word Il
America.
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land, Ore, author and theologian,
throws all this interesting past into
the discard as modern and unimpor-
tant. OF the Cabrllo national monu-
ment he says pooh. pooh,' and of the
clitf-dwellings tut. tut
This American Southwest. says l..
b. Larsen of Portland, Ore, author
and theologian-and he doesn't care
| who knows it's the Biblical land of
! the Children of Israel. and the history
Of the Old Testament took place right
there.
Portland. Ore has written book to
furnish proof that what he says is the
truth. The title Of the book is THE
Key tn the Bible and Heaven"
Mr.. Larsen says, by way of starter.
that Adam and Eve were the original
Argonauts and the progenitors of the
Native Sons and Daughters of the
Golden West. The Garden of Eden
was in the present State of Missouri.
Noah. says Mr.. Larsen. landed on
a California mountain, after the flood.
Strangely enough he makes no men.
ton of the mighty Paul Bunyun. OF
course, it is possible that he never
heard of him. being an author and
theologan. and not lumberjack.
Now, this boss logger of all boss log
gers, Paul Bunyun. is the very fellow
who got out the timbers for NOah's
ark. Maybe he caused the flood. A
writer in the Saturday Evening Post
used Paul To bolster up piece of
fiction only the other day, and spoke
of him thus:
THE contract, as everyone knows
called for the delivery of gopher wood
But old Bunyun was something of a
shipbuilder himself and he knew
gopher timbers would never do. Sc
he searched the whole world over and
finally decided that Oregon fir was
best suited for NOah's purpose.
AT thar time, as you will remember
the Cascade mountains and the Sierra
Nevadas formed the unbroken western
shore Of an inland sea that extended
eastward to the Rockies. Bunyun dis
covered that the level c. this inlant
sea was much higher than the love
| of the Pacific ocean. so he set the Biz
Swede to work digging ditch through
the Cascades. The Big Swede, as log
gers know. is Bunyun's foreman an(
has charge of all the log drives.
when the ditch was finished-to
day folks call it the Columbia river
Bunyun was ready with his logs.
took the best Of his whitewater boy!
to handle that drive. for the rush O
water from the inland sea carried tn,
logs out to the ocean in great hurr,
and created such tide that they hat
hardly time to gather the logs into
raft before they found themselves il
Noahs home port.
"Some Of the scientifically incline,
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THEY ARE JAZZ
MAD IN LONDON

clubs or dance halls Is any form of ill.,
toxicating liquor sold openly. OstenSi-
bly, one does it on pink lemonade and
cider cup-unless one has large hip
pocket or knows the proprietor.
Every place in London which dis
penses jazz music and French pastry
during the wee sma' hours is a "club.'
In most of them membership consists
merely of filling in form Mt the door.
Many, however. are sure enough clubs.
where only members and their guests
may dance. OF the former class, Rec.
tors, on Tottenllam court road, is un-
duestionably the most popular. Need
less to say. it has an American Orches-
ira: all the dance clubs have bands
that are either American or good imi-
tatiOns of American musicians.
Rector's draws the theatrical crowd.
folks from behind the footlights as
we'll as those who have been tn Il
"show" and are out to make Il night of
it. 1t charges s. ticket, or $3.50
for couple. which includes light.
very light. buffet supper"
London is jazz mad: they are learn
ing to dance over here, and when an
Englishman dances he likes to get
plenty of exercise. Woe to the slow
or tender Of foot when the band
strikes up fast One-step.
The shortage of eligible young men
has. of course, put severe crimp In
the dancing aspirations of many Eng
fish girls. This has led to the paid
escort" usually an amiable youth with
enchanted feet and suave ballroom
manners and rented dress suit.
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TOWNS FIRST FREE SCHOOL

rated was built in 1915, it having been
voted by the citizens assembled in
town meetings that sufficient taxes be
raised to establish the school. There
has been free public instruction in
Dedham ever since.
So fundamental and all-important is
this early step of the Puritan fathers
considered that the anniversaries are
ever kept uppermost in the thoughts
Of educators and other patriotic citi.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-03

Gems. In 1898 the commonwealth
erected tablet on the spot where
this first school was located. In 1898.
the two hundred and fiftieth anniver.
sary Of the school, big public cele-
bration took place. with prominent
men present. And 1t is expected that
the same will occur in 1915. he three
hundredth anniversary. - Christian
Science Monitor.
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pedham, Mass. Very Properly cele
brates Its Founding Nearly
Three Centuries Ago.

In celebration Of the two hundred
and seventy-fifth anniversary OF the
starting Of a free public school in Ded.
ham, Mass. held by many to have been
the tirst one on the continent. the
schools Of the town held special exer-
ciaes. The free school c0mnsemo.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-03
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

IL. the world seems to
be turning topsy-turvy.
Just as if the great war
had not made changes
enough to satisfy the
most pronounced feeling
OF what we call "ui-
rest" all sorts of people
are breaking into the
limelight with all sorts OF
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-09-03

limelight With all sorts OF
iconoclasmS. Hardly 4 day passes
without some conoclaSt getting on the
first page.
For example. there's that German
astronomer and scientist Prof. Albert
Einstein. with his theory OF "relativi-
w. This "relativity" theory Is SO
wonderful that only twelve men in all
the world are able to understand it.
il Is stated. No wonder, it knocks all
established theories into a cooked hat.
The professor holds. it is generally
understood, that our ideas of time and
space are all wrong and that Newton
should turn over in his grave and
guess again at the law of gravitation.
Then there's Marconi, the Italian
who is so busy in the world of Wire
less telegraphy. He come forward
with the statement that Mars or Venus
or some other planet is running in
signals on his wireless and is trying
to say Hello, Earth. Let's have a
little talk
And now jumps into the spotlight
l.. r. Larsen Of Portland. Ore. author
and theologian, who says-well. any
way, his discoveries are calculated TO
shake our faith in the Bible. which
nowadays is about the only thing a
man can really tie to. But first few
facts by way of preliminary, rs sor,
Of shock-absorber.
!: In the State of California, on the
Pacific, is the Cabrillo national monu-
ment. 1t was created October IA, 1913.
by proclamation of President Wilson.
under the act for the preservation of
American antiquities approved June 8,
1906. All regular, YOU see; here's
something. moreover. on which the
president and congress agree.
Cabrillo national monument was ded-
icated by the United States to the
people because it is believed to be on
the identical spot first sighted by Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo September %. 1912.
on his voyage of discovery of the Pa
citic coast. Vasco Nunez de Balboa,
first of Europeans to see the Pacific,
gazed on it from a high peak Of the
lsthlnus Of Panama in 1913. Cabrillo
was the first of Europeans to see Cali
fornia from that same Pacific. To be
sure, fernando de Alcaron explored
the mouth Of the Colorado in 1910 or
thereabouts and Francisco Vasluez de
Coronado was exploring Arizona and
New Mexico about the same time-he
may even have got as far as Kansas
but Cabrillo national monument is a
sort Of Pacific ocean Columbus Wat
ling island.
This American Southwest had its
own civilization long before the Span
lard discovered" it-so long before
that the prehistoric people who lived
IN its clitf-dwellings and pueblos had
vanished before his arrival. Nobody
knows who they were. where they
came from or what became of them.
Excavations in Mesa Verde national
park in Colorado, in Bandelier nation
al monument in New Mexico and in
other regions Astounding in prehistoric
ruins, have so far failed to solve the
mystery. That they had progressed
quite way on the way to civilization
Is evident. They made clay utensils
wove cloth, constructed stone build
ings. had ceremonial structures. prac.
ticed irrigation. used cold-air refrige'
rators and lived under community
organization.
And now this L. B. Larsen of Port
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Never carry away a plate from the
table on which are two knives nor 4
saucer with two spoons.
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Some of the squad Of London wom-
en- motorcycle police starting of, on
duty. These pOlicewOmen did such fine
work that the machines. which they
run themselves, were given them 50
they might do greater work.
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GAS TANK EXPLoDEs

Camden, n. j.. April 1.-Two
men were killed and another serl'
cusly injured when a gas tank IN the
Neel Cadillac garage exploded hers
yesterday.
The dead are: William Broddock
Linden Void, N. j.; George Ian
denbergcr, 80. Philadelphia. John Nc
Caffrey, %, Stratford, n. j., was
injured.
The explosion occurred while
.andenberger. assisted by two ga
rage employees was mending leak
in the tank. Broddock's head was
blown off. Landenberger, whose LETT
arm was blown eff, and Mccartney
were blown more than ten feet by
the rush of air.