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DECEMBER 26, 1914 The best show at the Gem tonight. Watch for a blue mark on your paper. Good farm for sale, inquire at this office. Little Marvin Lewis quite sick this week. Mrs. O. L. West has been on the sick list. Mrs. Butler was a Dallas visitor this week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wren, Monday, a girl. Burt Seymour is home from Sheridan for the holidays. Death to headaches, glasses fitted by Drs. Lowe & Turner. 25% Discount on all Holiday goods at Thompson's. Read his ad. Wm. Finley and daughter, Lucile were shopping in Dallas Saturday. For P. & O. plows for stubble and sod, call at N. A. Lunde's blacksmith shop. G. D. Treat and family went to Monmouth Thursday to spend the holidays with Michigan friends. Irene Dodd, who is in Chicago reports that the weather is very cold and that there is much suffering. Mr. Isadore Selig of Vancouver, Wash., is spending the holidays with his brother, N. Selig and family. Mrs. D. D. Finley of Portland came Wednesday to visit her son, Wm. Finley and family during the holidays. Mrs. George Sutherland left for Salem Wednesday morning to spend Christmas. Mr. Sutherland went Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George Miller left Wednesday morning for Wilsonvale to visit their daughter. They will also visit at Portland and Oregon City. Herbert Jackson of Toledo has been spending a few days with C. E. McDonald is thinking of locating here. Mr. McDonald is a nephew of the editor of the Lincoln Sentinel. The Falls City Lumber Company's saw mill closed down Thursday night for the holidays. It will be worth your while to see the picture of the German 42 Centimeter shell at the News office. It measures 40 inches in length and over 16 inches through. We also have pictures of the havoc wrought by these death dealing missiles. I. J. Lucas came over from Monroe to spend the holidays with Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, his niece, and Mrs. A. H. Dodd his daughter. The teachers are busy getting ready for their well earned week's vacation. HOW WE GET THE NEWS Day before yesterday a perfectly nice lady called us up and with tears in her voice reproved us for not mentioning the fact that she had a friend visiting her last week. We told her that she had not let us know anything about it and therefore we did not know that she had a visitor. Then she said, "Well you should have known. I thought you were running a newspaper." Now wouldn't that rattle your slats? Some people think that an editor ought to be a cross between Argus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem to think that our five senses are augmented by a sixth that lets us know everything that happens, even if we see, hear, feel, taste or smell it not. Dear lady, editors are only human or at least, nearly human. If you have a friend visiting you, if you are going away, or have returned from a visit out of town, if Johnnie falls and breaks his arm, if your husband chops his toe instead of a stick of wood, if anything happens that makes you glad, or sad, or mad, call us up. Tell us about it. That's the way to get it in the paper. WHEN SHAD IS PLENTIFUL Shad is one of our most popular food dishes, and now that it is in season those who are fond of it are enjoying it in every style. SHAD TIMBALES - Free the fish from the skin and bones, chop as fine as possible and pound to a pulp. Press this pulp through a fine sieve. To each cupful add half a teaspoonful of salt, a little cayenne, the raw white of one egg and a little thick cream. Beat until blended and smooth, putting in the cream at the last. Have ready timbale molds, well buttered, fill even full with the mixture, place in a deep pan, pour around the molds some boiling water, cover molds with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven. COOKED IN SALTED WATER BOILED SHAD - For this purpose the fish need not be scaled, but simply cleaned and washed. Put into boiling salted water and boil slowly for three quarters of an hour. Drain and serve on a napkin garnished with sliced lemon and parsley. SPICED SHAD - When the shad has been washed and dried place it in a large baking pan with pepper, salt and butter and bake slowly for twenty minutes. Then sprinkle with one teaspoonful of cloves, cinnamon and all spice and a dash of cayenne and pour over this one cupful of vinegar and bake half an hour more. WITH A HAM DRESSING BAKED SHAD - Keep on the head and fins. Make a dressing of grated bread crumbs, cold boiled ham or bacon minced fine, sweet marjoram, red pepper and a little powdered mace or clove. Moisten it with beaten yolks of eggs. Stuff the inside of the fish with it, reserving a little to rub over the outside, having first rubbed the fish all over with yolk of egg. PLANKED SHAD - Select a firm, good sized fish and cut off the head and tail and detach the spinal bone. Season inside and out with salt and pepper and roll in flour. Now fry in butter or olive oil for five minutes. The plank, which is preferable when made of oak, should be well oiled with olive oil. Place the fish on the plank skin side down and bake in an oven for twenty minutes. Garnish the fish with lemon and parsley and serve on the plank. SUSTAINS A BROKEN LEG S. Crocker who recently purchased the Bell place, had the misfortune to get a leg broken Thursday about noon. Mr. Crocker was leading a cow to a place to picket her. The cow became frightened and ran dragging him after her, throwing him over a log and breaking the left leg above the ankle in two places. Dr. Officer was summoned and set the injured member. BENEFIT SHOW WELL PATRONIZED The benefit show held at the Gem Theatre Wednesday night was well attended and great loads of presents were piled up at the door. There was toys, but the bulk of the donations appeared to be substantial gifts in the way of provisions. A sack containing two chickens was brought in and some one will enjoy a chicken dinner on Christmas who otherwise would have abstained from this delicacy. The committee to distribute will endeavor to give to the most needy and deserving. This plan is much better than giving money as the "kids" are more apt to get their share when it is in something to eat. CHRISTIAN CHURCH Service on next Lord's Day at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Bible School at 10 a.m. Junior Endeavor at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Theme - Morning Service: "God's great Christmas gift to the world." Theme - Evening Service: "Sowing and Reaping." A cordial inviataion to everyone. Strangers made welcome. B. L. HICKS, Pastor. M. E. CHURCH Tomorrow Professor Matthews of Willamette University, Salem will speak at both the morning and evening services. He is a man who becomes a favorite at the first hearing and I confidently recommend him, and urge you to be present at both services. A big Epworth League Social and watchnight service will be held at the League room Thursday night. Don't forget the trip in the elevator at the last social and come prepared for a jollier time than that (if possible). "Everyone is invited to wake up at midnight and see the Old Year out and the New Year in," Signed, Mr. Church Bell and family. This announcement is important please read it again. M. A. MARCY, Pastor. BILLS FOR NOVEMBER Allowed By The City Council W. L. Tooze, salary---$25.00 W. L. Tooze, livery hire and carfare---$5.70 Falls City Electric Co., lights---$86.05 Water Dept., water rent---$225.00 W. P. Lewis, salary water Superintendent---$30.00 W. P. Lewis, salary city marshal---$30.00 Polk Co. Observer printing 41 Imp. bonds---$27.00 R. A. Titus, drayage---$1.25 Portland Daily Abstract advertising---$10.80 G. W. Brentner, time check---$13.00 H. G. Strayer, salary---$25.20 News, advertising and rent---$8.10 News, advertising---$12.45 W. B. Stevens, street work---$199.00 W. B. Stevens, street work---$601.39 W. B. Stevens, discount on warrants---$83.46 Till Bell, hauling---$1.20 C. W. Lee, expenses in checking up his accounts---$8.00 LOST Key ring and keys, on Monday Dec. 14. Return to owner and receive liberal reward. Inquire 368 News office. GOOSE DINNER The Ladies Aid of the Christian Church will serve a goose and chicken dinner New Year's day from 11:30 to 2:00 in the basement of the church. 35 cents for adults 20 cents for children under 12 years. For service - Registered Duroc Jersey Boar. Registry No. 131473. Registered name, Wester. Owned by W. A. Teal. For fear that some of our delinquent subscribers are color blind, we will state that the marks that you have seen on your papers for the past few weeks was a BLUE mark, and intended to call your attention to the fact that your subscription was in a precarious condition and needed attention. WANTED: A YOUNGER SANTA CLAUS "Please appoint a younger Santa Claus," wrote an eight-year old Illinois girl to Postmaster General Burleson. "Grandpa says he used to come to his house when he was a little boy, so he must be pretty old by this time, and I'm afraid he's too old to come to my house." Mr. Burleson wrote to her that a personal representative of Santa Claus would attend to her wants. LATEST NEWS FROM TOYLAND Special Dispatch From Santa Claus Country ARCTIC REGIONS, Dec. 6 - The center of the giant glacier has been hollowed out into a monster cave and is serving as a factory for making tree ornaments. It is being run on a very much better system than it was last year, having two shifts of workers, with 10,000 gnomes in each shift. The day workers come on at 6 a.m. and stay until 6 p.m. One band of tollers sleeps while the other works. Each of the workers sits squat upon the floor in front of a blazing fire, over which is suspended a huge black caldron. Each little fellow has a long stemmed pipe with which he blows bubbles of the substance which sizzles and boils in the huge pot before him. The boiling substance is a liquid made of melted precious stones. Millions of dollars worth of priceless jewels are being imported into the north pole regions for this purpose. Each caldron boils a different jewel. The melted rubies make blood red bubbles that gleam like flames. The Diamonds make white ones, bright and shining like great round stars. Sapphires turn into deep blue spheres, turquoises make pale blue balls that look like the summer sky, and so on. As the bubbles grow to the desired size the workmen shake them gently off their pipes on the ice floor. Here they are allowed to rest until they are frozen into hard, round, shiny, wonderfully colored bright balls to hang on kiddies Christmas trees. It is estimated that one man can make 500 finished ornaments in a day. MINES GIVE OUTPUT OF GOLD TO MAKE TINSEL The great Klondike gold mines are being worked day and night to supply the demands of another room of the great glacier, where thousands of workers sit stringing strips of shredded gold on threads to make tinsel trimmings for the trees. They wear great spectacles on the ends of their little round noses, for this work is a great strain on the eyes. Each string is one mile long, and each gnome completes three of these a day. Silver tinsel is also made in the same way. The fasion in tree trimming demands the lavish use of this gorgeous adornment. NO STOREROOMS FOR SANTA CLAUS Santa has no need for storerooms in which to stack his finished toys and tree decorations. The demand is so great and so immediate that directly things are finished they are packed, loaded on to immense sleighs and shipped to special stations which he has situated in every city all over the world and usually in such places as department stores or toy and candy shops. Sometimes when all those places are filled he even hides them in odd corners of people's houses. That is how it comes that one often accidentally will find things tucked away in the most unusual places. Years ago he would use his reindeer to carry the loaded sleighs to stations, and often they were so worn out by overwork that they were unfit for driving on Christmas eve. But now it is quite different. Since motor trucks have come into use Santa has bought 328 to do this heavy work for him. Something ought to be told the kiddies of the character and habits of the little tollers who make their toys. They are an entirely different kind of creatures from any which we, who do not live at the north pole, have ever seen. They are very small of stature, with large heads and queer elfin faces. We would call them gnomes or elves, but Santa calls them tollers. The have bright mischievious eyes which dance with delight over their pretty handiwork, the merriest laughs and sweetest little voices which keep up a constant accompaniment to their tasks. New York Evening World A CHRISTMAS CAROL By Josiah Gilbert Holland There's a song in the air There's a star in the sky There's a mother's deep prayer And a baby's low cry And the star rains its fire While the beautiful sing For the manger of Bethlehem Cradles a King There's a tumult of joy O'er the wonderful birth For the Virgin's sweet boy Is the Lord of the earth Aye, the star rains its fire And the beautiful sing For the manger of Bethlehem Cradles a King In the light of that star Lie the ages empearled And that song from afar Has swept over the world Every hearth is aflame And the beautiful sing In the homes of the nations That Jesus is King We rejoice in the light And we echo the song That comes down through the night From the heavenly throng Aye, we shout to the lovely evangel they bring And we greet in his cradle Our Saviour and King. ENFORCE THE LAW A story has been going the rounds that Falls City is the only town within a radius of many, many miles where the State law prohibiting minors playing pool is enforced. Dallas, Independence and Salem were held up as exhibits A, B and C where the minor might solace himself with a game of pool. In fact one might almost imagine that he could see the boy in knickerbockers with his mother's kiss yet moist upon his cheek tiptoeing and speeding the ivories across the velvet. But alack, and alas, there is a rude awakening. Independence has donned her puritanical robes and has landed upon the keeper who walked not aright. The Enterprise says: "A complaint was filed Tuesday by City Marshal Tupper against the Smith Pool Hall for violation of the state law in permitting minors to play pool. The case was heard in Squire Henkle's Court where the defendants entered a plea of guilty and paid a fine of $25 and costs. NEW GAME LAW A new game law that should be passed at the next meeting of the legislature would contain the following: Book agents may be shot between October 1 and September 1 Spring Poets from March 1 to June 1 Automobile Speed Demons from January 1 to January 1 Road Hogs from April 15 to April 15 Amateur Hunters from September 1 to February 1 War Talkers no closed season Any man who accepts a paper for two years and then, when the bill is presented, says, "I never ordered it," may be killed on sight and shall be burried face downward in quicklime so as to destroy the germs and prevent the spread of the infection. It is claimed that a bullet in the brain is not always fatal. But our curiosity has never prompted us to try the experiment. It's awfully good of you to write me about that company in your town wanting a good man of my trade. But honestly, Bill, I don't want the job. Of course they want good men - for prohibition has driven all the competent men out of the town. There isn't a beer saloon in the place. You work and sleep - that's your daily programme. May suit you, Bill, but I like to get out and talk things over with the boys once in a while. I want some place to go after a hard day's work where I can get a glass of beer if I want one. I know you can get a drink down there when you feel like it. But, that isn't the point. The saloon is my club. You sneak into the back door of some blind pig or speak easy and pay good money for stuff not fit to drink. No sneaking for mine, Bill. I'm a Temperance man, a real temperance man. That's why I'm going to stay right here where I can drink beer moderately and above board. Those speak-easies get you, Bill, sooner or later. They've made drunkards of a lot of good men right in your township. I'd rather stay where my personal liberty isn't interfered with. Thanks for your interest in me. Yours truly, John. E. D. Ulrich, Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Oregon. The wise man puts his best foot forward. The fool stands still on both. The hand of success is extended to everyone. But only a few grasp it. In Siam there are no old maids. But Siam is a long ways from here, girls. There is yet a week in which to compile that set of New Year's resolutions you have no intention of keeping.


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