Wishes its Many Customers a
Merry Xmas
and Extends Thanks for Past
and Future Patronage
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CHRISTMAS BOOKS
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Girls’ Books
Boys’ Books
His Books
Her Books
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for Everybody
THE PRICE BOOK & NEWS CO
Newport, Ark
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CHRISTMAS DINNER
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Something of the First Yule
tide Dinner in the
National Capitol
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An exchange says the first
Christmas dinner given in the
White Mouse was in the year
1800, when John Adams was
President and thrifty Abigail,
his wife sat at the head of the
j table as hostess. It was not a
comfortable meal, although a
V splendid haunch of venison,
tin- gift of Mrs. Washington,
graced the board, and the
country people of what Mrs.
Adams called “the City in the
i wilderness" had generously
j contributed gifts of all sorts to
make the least as toothsome as
! one could well wish.
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I he reception after dinner
took place in the oval room,
which is now the library, and
was at that time barely habit
able, though furnished, as Mrs.
Adams wrote, in “warm crim
son." The view from the win
dows on the first Christmas
day would have disclosed what
John Cotton Smith describes as
“a deep morass, covered with
bushes.”
The sidewalks were laid
with chips from the stones
with which the capitol was built
A wooden bridge spanned
Black Tiber Creek, and low
houses, also built of wood were
residences of the congressmen.
The only brick dwellings
were those that stood in Penn
sylvania avenue, between
Twenty-first and Twenty-sec
ond streets, six in number and
built with money derived from
the sale of lottery tickets.
These were the surroundings
of the first Christmsa day of
the Chief Executive of the
young nation “whose policy in
gvernmenot has been more
Christ-like than any other
nation on the face of the earth
which keeps the holiday.”
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CLIQUES AND FACTIONS
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Country towns might be di
vided into three types.
1 :—Those that are dead
from the ground up.
2 :—Those that are wide
awake and which go ahead
do things.
dThose that have bright
and wide awake people, but
which spend so much time in
personal and factional bicker
ings that they have no energy
to push community projects.
The first class of towns is
hopeless, the second will go
ahead alright, but the third
class represents many regret
table instances of possible de
velopment stopped.
Sometimes it seems as if a
own had too many clever and
capable people. Too many of
them want to be bosses. They
line up into cliques and fact
ions, and if one party takes up
some idea the others will sit
back and criticise. As it takes
a union of all resources in a
country town to accomplish
results the partj that takes
up the new project can not put
it over, owing to the under
tone of opposition.
They become discouraged,
and reach the conclusion that
1 the town is dead and it i ; no use
j trying to accomplish anything.
That puts a damper on improv
ment projects for some time
before anyone has the courage
to go ahead and try am thing
! new.
There is in most towns some
little tendency in that direct
ion that needs to be checked.
People incline to line up in
cliques and factions. Then if
some one starts some kind of
new movement, people are in
fluenced by their factiional
differences.
All of us who want to see
our home town go ahead i
should welcome signs of pro-1
gr< ss whenever they appear,
and if anyone takes hold of a!
good idea, he should get the!
most hearty encouragement,'
whether he belongs to our
cl >wd or not. The progress
ive country town is too broad
minded for cliques and fac
tions.
A CHRISTMAS SERMON
TO HE honest, to be kind —
to earn a little and spend a
little less, to make upon the
w hole a family happier for his
presence, to renounce when
that shall be necessary and not
be embittered, to keep a few
j friends but those without capi
tulation—above all, on the
tame grim condition, to keep
friends with himself—here is
a task for all that a man has of
for titude and delicacy. He has
an ambitious soul who would
ask more; he has a hopeful
spirit who should look on such
an enterprise to be successful.)
There is indeed one element in ‘
human destiny that not blind
ness itself can convert; what
ever else we are intended to do
we are not intended to suc
ceed; failure is the fate allot
ed. It is so in every art and
study, it is so above all the con
tinent art of living well. Here
is a pleasant thought for the
year’s end or for the end of
life. Only self deception will
be satisfied, and there need be
no despair for the despairer.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Mutual Obligations.
“Husbands should be frank and t< ", j
their wives everything.” says a woman
writer. Yes. and wives should be gen
erous and believe It.
Newport Creamery Co.
Manufacturers and Distributors of
WHITE RIVER BRAND
ICE CREAM and CREAMERY BUTTER
We especially solicit the funni
er to ship us his butter fat.
We pay highest market price
for butter fat, send check and
return empty cans same day
received.
Our butter is made from se
lected cream and pastuerized
and churned scientifically. Sold Fv€stl
Guaranteed to
Give Satisfaction
Ask YOUR GROCER for it
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WARD & WADE
BATESVILLE, ARK
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JOHNSON-CLOYES HARDWARE CO
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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BRING THE CHILDREN
WE HAVE the most
complete and best assorted stocks
of TOYS to be found anywhere at
the lowest prices and we will be
pleased to have our Santy show you
through. Take advantage of this
and visit our store and use our rest
room on our second floor and re
member that we are the biggest and
best hardware and furniture people
in this section of the State. Any of
your wants in these lines at the
lowest possible prices.
BRING IN THE CHILDREN