The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1913 Page: 5 of 10
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A Talk About Christmas
By Walt Mason.
CHRISTMAS is th<a one holiday that
appeals to all sorts and conditions of
people. There are tens of thousands
of patriots who insist that the Fourth
of July is the day of days, but. the opin-
ion isn't unanimous. There are tens of
thousand-) who write letters to the
newspaper saying that the Fourth
should be abolished. Groundhog day
has its legions of champion", but even
this great occasion has its disadvant-
ages, for some people hold that the
groundhog comes out of its hole il the
diy is sunny, and the others say it
doesn't come out unless the day is
cloudy, and they get to arguing over
it, and'Virst one man hits his neighbor
with a brick and then the neighbor
knocks him down with a fence board,
and almost before we know it there's
a free fight, and somebody lias made
an un-ightly dent in your skull with a
stove leg, and in the end everybody
gets ten dollars, or ten (lays. 1 hat s
the worst about Groundhog Day.
A Dance
Adler's Music
Good Order-
Will be given in Rector's Hall %
the Night of ♦
December 25 i
Admission, One Dollar-
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A Happy
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■w Year
Old Santa Claus,
The Childrens' Friend,
Whom we doth most wisely recommend,
Is at Our Store;
And he will Invest
In Things that will likely
Suit you best.
J. II. Rector.
Thanksgiving Day is an excellent
day, or would be, only it's hard to con-
vince some people that they have any-
thing to be thankful for. Last year 1 ^ - - • , the
saw old Pumpernickel carrying home a tor it by c >ee p
see., we were both full of the Christ mas
spirit, which is the most beautiful thing
on earth. 1 have no doubt that when 1
went crashing into Orrin he was think-
ing of his innocent childhood, when .e
believed in stove-pip* story, and had
unshaken faith in the reindeer.
On the Fourth of July there was a
big street barade in our town and 1
was standing on the sidewalk trying to
see the doings when Orrin accidentally
knocked my hat off. I took him by
the nose and nearly twisted that orgfn
off, and he kicked me on the shins, and
we were mixing things in a disgraceful
way when the police interrupted us,
and we each had to pay 310 and costs.
That shows the difference between the
Christmas spirit and the lourthof July
spirit.
Speaking of the Christmas spirit, it's
wonderful how the whole world loosens
up when the great day comet*. I oor
people who have to skimp and save tne
whole year round, to keep the wol
from the door, determine upon a great
spread for Christmas. If their own
lives are sad and grey, they're determ-
ined to make the lives of the children
as bright as possible, and so they blow
themselves like locoed millionaires, and
nobody is going to rebuke them. The
poor man who doesn't cut loose tor the
benefit of his children at Christmas de-
serves to be poor, and the poorer he is
the more he deserves it.
Then the old tightwads have a gen
erous streak at Christmas. They thaw
for one day, ever, if they do make up
rest ol
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Come Early. I
Do all Your Christmas Shopping
Early. Read the Advertisements.
real turkey for his Thanksgiving din-
ner, and began to congratulate him,
but he interrupted, saying tho dinner
would be a mere hollow form, a vain
ceremony, got up to please the child-
ren.
"When I see my neighbors skally-
hooting over the landscape in their
motor cars," said he, "while I have to
resort to my legs every time I want to
go joyriding, I feel that I haven tmuch
to be thankful for."
Many people talk that way at the
Thanksgiving season and always find
sympathizers, so many of us have no
automobiles. But that line of compli-
cation wouldn't do at Christmas.
There is no place for the grouch at
Christmas. That's why it's such a
great occasion. Everybody feels gen-
ial then. I remember the night before
Christmas last year. I was going home
carrying 187 packages, tor three
months I had been urging people to do
their Christmas shopping early, but ol
course I didn't do my own. Christmas
shopping until just before the stores
closed on Christmas eve. That's human
nature you will say; and so it is.
Anyhow, 1 was going home with my
187 packages, including roller skates
for my grandmother, and hobbyhorses,
shotguns and tricycles for the children
and my thoughts had wandered away
back a thousand years to my childhood,
when I used to sit up in bed on the
cold nights, listening for Santa Claw,
and I was so full of fond memories that
I was not noticing what 1 was doing,
or where I was going, and the first
thing 1 knew I had a head-on collision
with Orrin Johnson, who was steam-
ing along in the opposite direction car-
rying 234 packages. 1 batted my head
against his, and then we both sat down
so hard that you can see the dents in
the sidewalk to this day. And you
never saw such a shower of packages.
The air was full of them, and it took
us half an hour to get them sorted out
and loaded on our persons again.
Both our heads were ringing and we
saw more stars than you will find men-
tioned in the astronomy books, yet we
never exchanged a harsh word. We
both grinned, perhaps our grins were
sickly, but they were grins, all right,
and entitled to your respect. You
the year. 1 know a venerable tightwad
who has been mourning all hi* days be-
cause he lost a nickel thru a hole in his
pocket when he was a boy. He is so
close that his name is a by-word lor
Miles around. For several years poor
kids in the town had been receiving
mysterious Christmas presentn. No-
body knew who was the giver, until
accident developed the fact that it was
Mr Tightwad. It was a caution how
public bentiment changed when this be-
came known. Before that there were
none so poor to do him reverence, but
since the people learned tdat he had a
heart in his breast, instead ol the tin
savings bank which was supposed to
occupy its place, he is much respected.
Christmas is the time when we give
things, and there is nothing better than
giving. We spend so much time ac-
quiring, so much time i* nmng and
scheming to add a few sestercer to our
bank accounts, that a little exercise in
the other direction is good for mind
and soul. It beats all how the aeart
glows and warms up when you give
something to a friend; not an old hat
that you don't want to wear any more,
but something that costs you money
and meant a little sacrifice. Just try
it once-you'll feel younger and bigger
and better.
And even if you can't afford to give
much, you can afford to be pleasant
and genial, and can make yourself an
asset rather than a liability. You can
wear that Christmas smile which is
reeking with peace on earth and good
will to men and thus contribute to the
general happiness, and assistm spread-
ing the Christmas spirit; and the Christ-
mas spirit means a triumph of all that
is best in human nature; it means gen-
erosity, and kindness, and love.
Stag smoking tobacco in 5
ioc. tins at Marriotts,'—adv.
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Barnard, W. F. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1913, newspaper, December 18, 1913; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107167/m1/5/: accessed May 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.