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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02

81 4 refnB al it means farewell TO
me tinsi ghtiy bin board. hence
the panic Of the sthedcs-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02
Harrison Store
Sale Draws Well.

Harrison's quitting business
sale which began yesterday prov
ed 70 be one Of the biggest days IN
scored many notable merchandtS.
ing successes. The establishment
was thronged with people all day
a d although It Is possible many
people did mot get waited upon q
$50 customers were sold goods TO
varying quantities.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02
PERSONALS

French Lick, Indiana, has as
guest for a few days. Colonel g.
". Watson OF this city. Mrs. Q.
w. Watson and Miss Lucy Will
drive to Baltimore the first OF the
week.
Earl Maple son of MIR. and Mrs.
N, w. Mapel Is very Ill at Cook
hospital with prospects OF sur
gical operation.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Adams Is
out again after a weeks illness.
Mrs. Margaret Berghaus Is IN
the city for a short time from MT.
Lake Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Scrana6e
are tho proud parents OF son at
MCGEE, Taylor county. Mrs.
Scranage was before her marriage
Miss Dale Bustead of this city.
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Prominent Dentist to Wed

prominent Dentist to Wed
rhe friends of DR.. Fred Hess,
lslsnown dentist, will be sur
ed to learn that DR.. Hess will
Sc in this city in a few days
"a a bride and the couple will
. housekeeping in a cottage, al
II furnished on First street. Or,
left Thursday night for Fin
Ohio, where his bride-to-he
Gertrude Mayer, resides. The
iding VIII take place at Finley
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02

The elephant, turtle, parrot and
carp live an average OF 100 years
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02

RIVEsVILLE INFANT DIES
The infant son OF Mr.. and Mrs:
DenziI Trippett, OF Rivesvtlle, died
this morning at nine o'clock ana
will be buried this evening at Pha'
roah's Run.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02

Japan has doubled her Imports OF
Canadian whiskey since 1914.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02
60 unson CLARKE Here

The Business and Professional
yzomen's club and other interest
"a win have an opportunity TO hear
a Ne WORK prominent speaker on
Sunday afternoon at the Y. M. c.
Miss Kate Upson Clarke will ap-
near at that time and plans are IN
progress for an enjoyable AFTER
noon The Woman's club VIII en-
gertain Mrs. Clarke while she Is
II, tiiis city. The meeting Sunday
viii BE at four o'clock. All women
and girls are invited.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-02

Homo From Mountain Lake
Mr.. and Mrs. Larney T. Carr
VIII remain Q few weeks at their
( nity home after a summer spent
\ n Mountain Lake Park. They will
later, 70 to Atlanta, Ca, Joined by
their daughter, Mrs. ] Burt Mar
TIN and children. After Christmas
+, they expect to go back to Los Ange-
II1gii4Sko4. hrdlu oirdlu aoinunn
les where they spent last winter.
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M and Mrs. Fletcher G. Cross
have gone to Florida for the WIN.
ter. They Will return mere ne4 3IT
spring. While there MT. cross wiz
Sc employed at st. Petersburg
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Mcfarland Chapter TO Meet
The Mcfarland chapter OF the
Westminster Guild will meet in
AID Presbyterian church parlors On
= Monday evening at 1880 after a
long vacation and all members and
their friends are asked to be pres
sent The meeting will be In the
nature OF q get-to-gether affair and
the hostesses will be Mrs. Ralph
Henderson, Miss Amy ingalls,, ami
{ Mrs. A. j. Cash. An especial in
Ydtation Is extended to visitors.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-08

mind. Among modern compositions
may be mentioned, "The Shepherds
Left Their Sheep" by Alfred Hollins.
Mr.. Holllns is blind. but this affliction
has not prevented him from becoming
one Of the finest organists and COM
posers In Britain.
Washington Irving In his famous
sketch Book" introduces us to most
Of the old English customs which have
from time immemorial. attended the
Christmas festival. OF his first night
at Bracebridge Hall he says:
II had scarcely got into bed when
a strain Of music seemed to break
forth In the air just below the win
dow. listened, and found II pro-
ceeded from band, which I conclud-
ed to be the waits from some neigh
boring village. They went around
the house playing under the windows.
drew aside the curtains, to hear
them more distinctly. The moon
beams fell through the upper part Of
the easement. partially lighting up
the antiQuated
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me-that the ou'y Joy can get from Il
Is to use 1t to grant the little wishes
that those i love have wished, or for
things that know they'd love even IL
they haven't actually wished them.
Would you rob me of that. dear? Is'it
fair--when it's Christmas? II you hap
pened to have the money instead of
me, would you want to have the one
Joy Of 1t taken from your
For q long, long moment Nancy was.
silent. Then she looked up with Q
bright smile.
II surrender, Suzanne" she said.
1t was an exquisite gift that shone
up at her from the little white box
Christmas morning-a pink tourma-
line pendant set with pearls. Beneath
was Suzanne's card:
II bought 1t long ago because 1t
looked so like you. Nancy dear. But
1t Is you who are giving me the rell
glft-the Joy Of sending you this"
Nancy lifted II to the light. 1t was
the loveliest thing she had ever had.
but the heart of the joy was that it
meant JOY to Suzanne. too.--Youth's
Companion.
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Chri3tn1aS Joy

= UZANNEi Pleasep
0l II won't do II" Suzanne said
~ very promptly.
But you don't know what 1T
H is." Nancy objected.
"Granted. But I haven't
known you intimately from the
age Of five years and seven months
without learning the Implications OF
your voice. ! repeat IL: I-wil!-not
-do-itw
Nancy's pretty eyes darkened. "Oh,
Suzanne dear, II you knew how much l
want I'll You just couldn't refuse me |
You couldn'tl 1t would make me hap
pier than anything could think Of"
Il suppose l can let you tell me-"
said Suzanne relenting, although l
warn you that know you're just get
ting round me- and I'd be much wiser
to hold to my original position"
"Nancy's face flashed into radiance.
Nancy, happy, was always irresistible.
you will be good and sweet and big
and generous and let me have my way !
oh, I knew you would It's about
Christmas. Suzanne. You see, while
your father has been piling up for
tune my dear dad has been having
hard times, and we are all having to
be very careful. 1t isn't anything
dreadful, you know. so long as we
have one another and the home; but
there isn't much margin for extras. So
l can give only tiny little glft-it
cost me exactly 40 rents in money
and please. please, Please, Suzanne. be
good and do the same to mel You
know It's you I love; not the lovely
gifts you shower upon me. Christmas
isn't money; it's loving"
Suzanne put her hands on Nancy's
shoulders and looked down into the
pleading eyes. ~
II can use your argument, too." she
answered. 'If Christmas is loving, not
glfts-and you know l agree with all
my heart--then why are you making II
a thing Of even exchange In dollars
and centsf Are you doing 1t for my
sake?
"N-no." Nancy faltered. "Only--"
"You know the money Is nothing to
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-08

tender and remote, and, as they grad
uaily died away. my head sank upon
the pillow and / fell asleep"
In Pasquils' "Jests." a book pub
lished in 1904. an amusing story is
told Of knight who gave a Christ
mas feast at which he entertained
his friends and the tenantry.
The host ordered no man at the
table to drink a drop "till he that was
master over his wife should sing .
CAROL" A pause ensued and then one
poor male, more daring than the
others. timidly lifted his lonely voice.
The knight then turned to the ladies.
who sat at table apart, and "bade
her who was master over her hus-
band" sing a carol. The legend says
that forthwith "the women fell all
to singing. that there was never
heard such . catterwalling piece ef
musicke."
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services" during the Christmas sea-
son. This is an excellent movement,
and might profitably be taken up by
churches all over the country. Ger
tainly IL the churches can restore this
old custom 1t will add to the enjoy
ment Of the season.
France is exceptionally rich in
carols. which are often drinking songs
as in many European countries. We
find many French carols translated into
English. no doubt as a result Of the
intercourse which existed between
dwellers on either side of the channel.
In the days when English youths often
pursued their studies in France.
There is great deal of discussion
as to which is the most popular carol.
yVhila fv f.s,-o.
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now passing away,
and Of religious
feelings now su-
perseded by 9TH
ers Of a different
CASTE"
OF late years
6 o m 9 Of the
churches - chiefly
In the larger cit
ies--have h ell d
"Christmas carol
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apartment. Th e
sounds. as they
receded. became
more soft and
aerial, and seemed
to accord with
the quiet and the
moonlight. / lis
tened and listened
they b ca m e
w.ArD a-1 1900
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Probably no Christmas would seem
complete without the well-known and
popular hymn. "Harkl the Herald
Angels Sing"
The word carol, which originally
meant dance, is thought to have
come into our language either from
the Norman French carole or from the
Celtic carol.
In 1922 Davies Gilbert published
some ancient Christmas carols, with
the tunes to which they were former
ly sung in the west OF England" In
his preface he declared himself to be
desirous "of preserving them In their
actual forms, as specimens Of times
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Remember this Christmas day
that love Is the strongest thing
In the world, and that the bles-
sed Life which began In Beth
Ishem Is the image and the
brightness Of the Eternal Love.
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"hhc ~ 10 liiipOS-
sible to name the
favorite, there
can be little doubt
Of the universal
appeal of "God
rest ye. merry
& e n I | @ m e n"
whose plaintive
m ell dy h IS
touched a chord
in the popular
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Out Of everything you get ex-
actIy as you put It into II. II you
feel that Christmas has degen-
Grated into mere commercial
barter Of gifts, seek the cause
In your own self.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-01-08
. Christmas
Eltssinn
BY Rev. DR.. Howard Dufiield

BY Rev. Dr.. Howard Dufiisld
M AY the Blessing
Nl of the Light that
shown at Mid
night come to the
hearts that are shad-
owed and the homes
that are dark.
May the Blessing of
the Song of the Angels
come to the multitudes
who strive and bleed
upon fields of battle,
and to all who wage
the hard warfare of
life.
May the Blessing of
the Good Word to the
Shepherds come to ev-
eryone who is humbly
and honestly laboring
to do a share of their
worlds work.
May the Blessing of
the Manger Cradle
come to that innumer-
able company against
whom the doors of
hope and peace and
rest are shut.
May the blessing of
the Holy Child come
to every one who has
forgotten that Thou,
o God, art his Father,
and that all men arc
brothers.
May the Blessing of
the Guiding Star come
to those who wander
in the night and can
not find the homeward
way.
May the Blessing of
the Stable come upon
all hearts, wakening a
kindly sense of kim
dred with every living
thing that walks the
field and forest, or
wings the air. or pass
es along the paths Of
the seas.
~. ~ - - -.
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Carol Singing
Is Dying Ont
.\HE custom Of carol singing

"\HE custom Of carol singing
out Of doors at Christmas
time seems to be dying out.
This is great pity, for
carols are a branch Of folk music. the
unconscious art of the peasant mind.
q heritage Of inestimable worth.
In many English villages there are
carols peculiar to themselves, to be
jealously guarded and retained for
their use.
The Christmas car,l dates from the
birth Of Christianity itself. the
angels having sung their carols at the
birth Of Jesus Christ.
Among the early Christians carols
were sacred hymns representing
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Christs nativity.
Now the name Is
given to IA variety
of popular met
rical co m p o.
sitions from the
simple record of
the birth of our
Lord to rude was
sail songs and
rhymes Of holiday
--N
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
E. s. CLARK WILL SEEK
 SENATE SEAT FROM C. O.P,

Elias s. Clark has announced his can- didacy for the United States senate, subject to the action of the republican primaries next September.
 He is the first candidate of either party to cast his hat in the senatorial ring.
 MT. Clark's announcement reads as follows:
 At the next general election, the voters of Arizona will elect, among other officers, a United States senator. l am candidate for that office, sub- ject to the action of the republican electors at the 1920 primaries"
 Elias s. Clark is one of the best known republicans in Arizona. He served as attorney general in the kibbey administration and made splendid record in that office. MT. Clark is native of Maine and is 57 years of age. He came to Arizona when young man and studied law at Flagstaff under the late Edward M. Doe. In 1879 he was elected dis trict attorney of Coconino county. Later he removed to Prescott and was elected district attorney of Ya- vapai county in 1903, which posi- tion he held until 1905, when he was appointed attorney general of Ari- zona by Governor Kibbey. He is married and has three sons, one of whom, Neil c. Clark, is now county attorney of Yavapai county.
 MT. Clark is a polished speaker and hard campaigner. He has taken an active part in the councils of the party for more than 20 years.
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
WOMEN WILL NOT TAKE
 HUSBANDS POLITICS

That women will not simply "echo their husbands votes" but will form their own opinions and choose their own political faiths has been dem- onstrated time and again, even though women have but recently be- come actively interested in politics. Mrs. George Hoadley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the latest to choose a different political faith from her hus- band, who is democrat: Mrs. Hoad- ley has accepted appointment as mem Der of the republican state advisory committee, and explains to the cur ious that "a wife can be a republican, and her husband democrat, and they can get along very well. There is no reason why any two persons should fuss about politics. All of us can tol- crate honest differences of opinion, and lose no respect for persons on that account"
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
NEW SAN DIEGO RAILROAD NO
 PLACE FOR MINISTER'S SON

That little old San Diego and Ari- zona railroad, that affords new and somewhat devious route from Phoe- nix to the coast, is no railroad for minister's son, according to Charles R. Howe, member of the state tax commission. He had ride over the road recently and therefore knows whereof he speaks. The great objec- tion to the line, as he sees it, is the Mexican atmosphere that prevails twice for intervals of about three hours each while the train is crawl ing through the canyons of Lower California, and the consequent unre- stricted operation of the buffet right in these prohibition times. Nope! Commissioner Howe says it's no rail road for nice Phoenix man. Too naughty!
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
SHE KNEW HIM NOT

They were very fond of each other, and had been engaged, but they had quarreled, and were too proud to make it up. He called afterward at her house-to see her father on business. She was at the door. "Ah-Miss Blank, believe ?" said he. "Is your father in?" "No, sir" she replied, "father is not, at present. Do you wish to see him personally 2" "Yes," was the bluff response of the visitor, who felt that his former sweetheart was yielding, q wanted to see him on very particular business" and he turned away haughtily. q beg your pardon" she called after him as he reached the last step, "but who shall l say called?"
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
SOUNDED THREATENING

"This stock will make me rich in six months?"
 "If it doesn't, I don't want you to ever speak to me again." replied the glib salesman.
 "Umph!" said the prospective vic tim, "that might be the very thing I'd want to do."
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
OUR WAY

We've lately warned the Mexicans,
 And sternly told lem, darn 'em, That if they do not heed us now,
 Ten further times we'll warn 'em!
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09

with tunnel under him." l never saw mans feet so anxious to get together. Someone must have taken him on the roof of some high build ing and dropped him hard. His legs would make good wreath for the motto: What is Home Without a Mother?" I am sure he don't live in our town, for the streets are not wide enough for him. He must have got wet some place and set on a hogshead near hot stove, and his legs warped that way. pity the girl that marries him. She never can sit on his lap, un- less she swings hammock across it.
 We get so many queries from in formation-seeking subscribers that to answer them all by mail is a burden of work and expense. Therefore, we have decided to reply to such as are fit to print in this colyum:
 C. B. Wilson-What is the meaning of three balls in front of pawn brokers?
 Two to one that the things never will be redeemed.
 Paul Coffin-How can you make a thin boy fat?
 Throw him out of the window apd he will come down plump.
 J. c. Simmons-Why does hen lay an egg?
 Because she can't lay brick.
 o. H. Richardson-What is the best way to keep fish from smelling?
 Cut their noses of.
 Raymond Prochnow-What is the best way to find young lady out?
 Go around to her house when she is not in.
 John Zalaha says the meanest man he ever knew was so lazy that when he wanted a path broken through the snow last month he laid on the lounge and pinched the baby's ears with the nippers, making it howl. The neigh bors, rushing in to see what was the matter, made fine path.
 T. A. Stahl, overhearing this, said he knew man who showed his mean ness in somewhat similar way. He tried to make the dog rock the cradle by tyin' it's tail to the rocker. But he was so everlasting grouchy that he couldn't speak enough kind words to the dog to make 1t wag its tail.
 It was whispered around at the Five Hundred club recently that Joe Wald- haus went home rather late a few nights ago, and was stumbling over some things in the dark hallway, when | his wife called out:
 "What aye you growing about, lear?"
 q am grJwling," he answered in his | deepest bass voice, "to drown the | of my shins."
 Captain J. B. Wright says he can't | see why all this talk about the neces- sity for a new court house here, be- ,ause almost any young lady is public spirited enough to let her home be lsed as court house.
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
FACING A SHORTAGE

An English schoolboy wrote: Eng land has much coal beds when it is finished we shall have to use our brains for fuel, and it will be scarce"
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09

Though Rockefeller's fortune
 Is of vast unmeasured girth, The oil king has rival
 As the richest bird on earth. Out in Oregon a feller
 Owns a hen-the profiteer!- Who has laid three hundred-thirty Eggs within single year. She's member of the family
 Of famed Lady (Hen) MacDuf, So her hard-boiled egg-o-tism
 Is quite logical enough; Keep it up; make her egg-cel it, Egg her on, is our advice: Lay on, Lady Macs descendent,
 Lay on till you break the price!
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09

If the price of oysters keeps going up," remarked MT. Growcher, "It'll be only fair to include at least one pearl in every order."
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
Some more epitaphs:

"Our little Sallie to Heaven did go, Baby life so sweet is,
 She was afflicted with cereDro-
 spinal meningistis. Iris hard to lose our Sallie so, But the reflection sweet is, That she has gone where there is no More cerebro-spinal meningistis. "Eliza, surviving, rears this marble slab, To her dear John, who died of eating
 crab" "Here lies the body of Mary Ann
 Louder, She burst while drinking a seidlitz
 powder; Called from this world to her heav-
 enly rest, She should have waited till it effer-
 vesced."
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09

Asked Bert White for some inside information about a certain man we knew he knows purty well:
 "What do you think of him! Is he an honest man?"
 Bert stroked his chin, and jes' smiled.
 "Would you call him liar?" we re- lentlessly pursued. =,
 "Well, now, l don't know that "a 70 so far as to call him liar, but those that know him best down his way do say that when he wants his pigs to come for their feed he has to get someone else to call 'em."
 We hasten to advise you all that February 29, 1920, will fall on Sun. day, an event that has not occurred since 1880, will not repeat itself until 1948, and will happen only once more during this century, in 1876. In view of the fact that this Sunday is such . rarity, may we not start something by suggesting that you plan to cele- brate this remarkable day in an ap- propriate manner-perhaps by paying one simoleon at The Sun office for copy of the new Flagstaff City Direc- tory and reading it that day?
The Coconino sun., 1920-01-09
C H F ER F U.L CHI IRP S
(Ry "DEL.")

Mostly those intervals when real idea comes along and is grabbed'of