The Cedarville Herald, Volume 34, Numbers 27-52

HOLIDAY NEWS Ju s t six weeks un til Christina** th e busiest wesks in th e y ea r for the mer­ chant, so we urge you to shop early to avoid the final rush. This year we are b e tte r prepared th an ever to supply your demands for- tas ty , p re tty a rti­ cles for gifts and personal use. pu r. lines in many cases are exclusive* shown only a t our store and in all cases'selected with great care. Among the great variety of p re tty thing* we have a large selection of , Painted China, Ladies’ Shopping Bags, Leather Bonds for Gen­ tlemen Plastic Ware, Poun^ tian Pens, Sectiopal Bookcases, Brass Bovelties. and many o ther nice p re tty articles. Make our shop your headquarters when in th e city. EVERYBODY’S .. BOK STORE, 21 and 23 W. 5th St., Dayton, Ohio. ChristmasBagsMadeofRibbons 100 9x12 Seamless Brussels Rugs $11.50. Regular Price $ 13.50 100 9x12 Seamless Brussels Rugs $14.50. '' * - • • * Regular Price $17 .50 TlieP.M.HarmanCo. 30-32 N, MainlSt., Dayton, 0. / -=s=te Medium Weight Clothing for Fall and Winter A m ed ium w e ig h t su it fo r ' f a l l | orjgw in ter is d em an d ed a t th is se a so n 'o f th e y e a r . W e h a v e se lec ted o u r p a tte rn s ] w i th g th i s in v iew . O u r lin e of c o r re c t "shades (and* co lo ring s in fine se rges , c a ss im e rea , tweeds]] for su its , an d th e b e s t a n d l a te s t fab r ic s for ove rcoats is n o t su rp a s s ed in th e coun ty . W e fit and fa sh io n y o u r s u i t [o r ov e rcoa t so th a t it g ives d is tin c tiv e s ty le , [co rrec t ■ f it a n d shape . GIVE US A CALL. KANY, The Tailor, Xenia, - - Ohio Palace Meat Market FRESH &SMOKED MEATS FRUIT & GROCERIES Truesdale & Rohler SUCCESSORS TO C. C. WEilMER, Ctdarvilfe Ohio. If Athena revisits her proteges, the spinners and -weavers, the divinity must rejoice a t the products of. their looms. Even a goddess might wonder at the beauty and splendor of ribbons. In them the colorist indulges his dain­ tiest and moat gorgeous fancies. This allows their use In dress accessories, giving to the toilette a touch of that “splendor dear to women.1’ JuBt now the vogue of the fancy hand bag (nearly all of them made of brilliant ribbons) helps solve the prob­ lem of selecting a Christmas gift. Bags are always a good choice, bu t never so popular as now. Six new oneB are shown here, made of various kinds of ribbon No. 1 I s 'a vivid roBe-colored confection made of brocaded and plain satin ribbon.. Two panels of brocade are set together with a putt of the plain ribbons. The ribbon is rounded at the top and. the edges and seams finished with tiny, blue glass beads,, strung on a thread wire. A casing is run in about the top and narrow satin. •ribbons serve to close and suspend the bag. It is finished with two Httte head tasselB at the sides. No. 2 is a bag of black moire lined- with deep purple faille ribbon. I t is •decorated with tiny rosea made - of ribbon in purpie and old gold and fo­ liage In dull green; sewed flat to the bag. Small black silk' tassels finish the bag. It is suspended with narrow D ISTR IBUTE GIFTS Some Novel Ways That Will Please the Recipients and Add to,the Occasion. 'Should one wish something more original than Christmas gifts awk­ wardly thrust Into one’s hands by the giver; Bhould the time-honored stock­ ing pall, here are several new ways that may cause excitement in present distribution. . Some member of tho family or ohe of the maids can enter the breakfast room, where the table Is prettily dec­ orated- with greens, but no gifts ore displayed. She should he heavily veil­ ed, dre; seel In a long rain coat and carry two or three cotton Umbrellas, furled. • Her appearance will excite surprlso, particularly if the sun shines. She will insist that it is going to rain and try to get her umbrellas raised. Some of the children Will offer to assist and from the umbrella will fall the packages, gaily tied and clearly addressed. Anything that may suffer from a tumble should be tied to the ribs. • • t In one household the large family has decided that each person shall hunt up some novel way of gift pre­ sentation, No one will know what tho other has -selected, but the element of surprjsC will be emphasized, , A mother who wishes to avoid ,con­ fusion at the breakfast table has de­ cided that no presentation should be made then. The family will be asked to put their various.presents in. a cer­ tain room on Christmas eve. All are neatly tied and addressed. No ohe but purple Batin - ribbon terminating in little rosettes of loops. No. 3 pictures a brilliant flame-col­ ored bag made of four strips of satin ribbon and four of- gold gauze ribbon. Narrow satin ribbon suspends the bag terminating in' ends' finished with a rosette a t each side. A' tassel made of the narrow, ribbon finishes the bot­ tom. The bag Ik drawn up by an elas­ tic cord run in a casing about the top. No. 4, This lovely handbag is made of brocaded faille ribbon showing d irk ted and purple roses and dull green Milage, on a mack ground. It is lined with dark, red .and bound-with old gold braid. A loop on the flap fastens over a button covered With the gold braid. Gold thread ,tassels and a gold cord finish the bag, ‘ No, 6. This new ’’aeroplane" hand­ kerchief bag. is made of pink Dresden ribbon, with printed flowers. It con­ stats Of six lengths shirred over sup­ porting wires. I t is tied with narrow pink satin rlbhcm and suspended by this with rosettes •' of loops finishing the ends. No,.6. A bag ■Of brocaded satin is lined with dark natler blue faille rib­ bon and finished with many loops and ends at the sides, of narrow blue satin ribbon. I t Is drawn up at the top by -a casing through which the narrow ribbon Is run. Jplla Bottomley. mother knows what is to become of them. At close of breakfast the next morn Ing—-Christmas—the door hell rings and a maid brings in an Immediate de­ livery letter. TH b is gaily decorated with the season’s stamps and seals. When opened. It is found to be a letter from Santa Claus, saying his pack was too heavy, so he has for­ warded by express ail his gifts. In a few minutes a huge box is delivered in the kitchen which when opened is found to contain packages -addressed to each one. Another easier way 1 b to pass a tray covered with a number of small keys with red ribbon and a Christmas tag attached. On the tag Is written the child's name and the Information that somewhere in the house Is con­ cealed a bag the key will Open. Then begins a hunt into all-sorts of out-of-the-way places to find great hags of turkey red muslin, draped with greens and fast .ted At the top with a padlock. Each bag holds the gifts for one member of the family. Stocking* For ChHstmaifOnly. The Christmas stocking as generally known is one taken from the bureau supply tor daily wear. In certain parts of the country, however, the Christ­ mas stocking is novsr in use except to be “hung from the chimney with care,” The New England stocking of this kind IS usually long in the leg and knitted from woolen yarn. There are stockings on Cape Cod which have been used by four generations Of chil­ dren, Once emptied Of their treasure on Christmas morning they are roiled up and marked and laid away for the next year1* festivities. INSURANCE l Andrew Jackson . R e p re s e n ts a lin e of good c om p an ie s F I R E - U F E - A U T O M O B IL E T O R N A D O - A C C ID E N T - S U R E T Y B O N D S MONET TO LOAN Early Writing. Writing is an art with a history ts complete as that of the arts of sculpture a n j paintiRg, The mate­ rial used fcjrthe early Ramans was Wax spread upon tablets. The let­ ters were iomed on tho ,soft smooth surface with the pointed »ad of the stylus. The other end of the in­ strument was flat, and this was nsed to smooth over the .surfaces- where errors were found and prepare it for the correct writing. From thin use the stylus has given the ntwio '"style” to the writer’s manner of composing. Raal Balm pf Gilead, The real balm of Gilead is thp dried juice of a low shrub, it U said, which grows in Syria, I t is very valuable and scarce, for the, amount of balm yielded by one shrub never exceeded sixty drops a day. Ac­ cording to Josephus, the Balm or balsam of Gilead was one of the presents given by the queen of Sheba to King Solomon. ^The an­ cient Jewish physicians prescribed it,evidentJy for dyspepsia and mel­ ancholia, • , A Saver* Condition., ■ “What did Naighbob say when you told him you wanted to marry his daughter ?” “He didn’t absolutely refuse, but he imposed a very severe condi­ tion.” :“Whnt was it?” “He said he would see me hanged first.” ■ Needed More Flavor. Customer—Look here, waiter, is that the stnIT you’ve got the cheek h» call, oxtail soup? Waiter—That’s it, sir. Customer—Well,, you’d better take it out and have the ox dip his tail in it two or three times more.—London Opinion. Stumped. “You know that grocer of oui-s?” exclaimed a lady excitedly last Sat­ urday night. • ‘fYea,” answered her husband. “What about him ?” “He ‘gave me short weight this, evening!” *‘Why didn’t yon call -him .down for it?” "‘T didn’t notice it until after I had paid him a plugged half dollar, and then whafecOuld l do?”-—Cleve­ land MainBealer, Th* World’s Population. Dr. Boiler, the eminent statis­ tician of Stuttgart, estimates the population of the globe-at 1,500,- 000,000, Of these he nets down as Christiana 534,940,000. Mohammed­ ans are said to number 175,890,- OOG and the Jews 10,060,000. Ip Asia there are said to be 300,000,* 000 disciples of ‘Confucius, The followers of Brahma are giycn at 84,000,000, and there arc 121,000,- 000 Buddhists.—London Clobe. U S E F U L X HOLIDAY GIFTS LeatherGoods&Trunks D a y to n 's P o p u la r a n d O n ly E x c lu s iv e L e a th e r S to re . Q U A L ITY B E S T P R IC E S L O W E S T P re se n t* L a id Aside* o n a Sm a ll D e p o s its JOHN G STORCH* 43 W . 5 t h S t., - - - D a y to n , O h io . R epav ing »nd S am p le W o rk , H o ra e P h o n e 12535 O h e S q u a re West o f P o s t Office. EREDITH’S USI C S TORE PA T R O N IZ E - DAY TON ’S - B E S T S e c o n d L a r g e s t C la s s ic StocK in th e S ta te 131 S. Ludlow St., « Dayton, O. f 1 r r, l - ANNOUNCEM EN T 1 have purchased th e blacksm ith tools and business of A rthu r Townsley and I have con­ solidated th* same w ith my harness business and am now located op South Main Street, Cedarville, where an ijnvitation is extended to all. friends t e call, j I am prepared to do fiisfc class blacksmithing, wood work,-harness funking and repairing neatly done And a t, reasonable prices. All work guaranteed to please. I am also prepared to build cement columns fo r porches and. o rn a n a n ta l work a s well as cement building bloek^. Friends and former pa tron s are urged to call when in need of work ]aiong our line. Respectfully, R. ELTOWNSLEY. South Main S t„ 2 Cedarville ,phio . Wren’s Springfield’s Greatest Hol­ iday Stocks Are Ready Every th ing for Everybody, both old and young. Every day new shipments are arriving. Immense purchases made months ago enable us to no t only maintain our prestige of low prices bu t to give you b e tte r values th an eyer before. Do Your ChristmasShopping Now and a t WREN ’S B IG STORE-—*76 Big D epartm en t “ loaded” with -thsjworld's best merchandise. The. question of Christmas gifts is quite an im po rtan t one and *ometiines a difficult question to solve satisfactor­ ily. We have worked ou t this perplexing problem for you. Our large co rp so f buyers assisted by our resident New York buyers have furnished th is g rea t store with the most complete line of merchan­ dise shovm in Ohio marked at'unapproachab le prices. , DO YOU REAL IZE HOW NEAR I S C H R IST M A S ? ' . . ' ' * < ; • ■- THANKSGIVING l-W h a t ab o u t your tab le lihens for Thanksgiving day? Our e x tra special sale o ilm en s begins Sa turday . Savings of a quarter, a third , a half. Come in and see. We pay carfare to a ll po in t* within <40 miles of Springfield on purchase* of $15 or over. ; ■■. * 9§'*PwwW wW 9wW W < Hi I *M* »PF ^ V 1) . the i s . ¥ $ •W ■ che; h i M ; «pet IS' P« C ' M, ■. Ind . 1 : . M- - * Tuet 1 $ 3 ket^» Wx <M - J lull m Mr C? t I A al w bus. \ M j - Wol Mi . the j Mr v conn s —y 1ut1 m » th e l —...... . , Mn guet> Sprn . - < • Crac Mr the after X- F to 8c St., 6 Mr. Tuetn Mr, K ■ F n ew l town. Hof-e■ M rs,.. oyert Made - . inova O i ’‘/i ho after;- — - • F i n d r - • .... or Teicj.'.u .iC-j Mr. playe Xenh have the li --W urda; Met Olein medi< in th (), 8 . Mr. day 1 E ich i Greet They B. Be ger o' ■ville. Mr. llayt* look!' Bidgv drug jUsfch of the store 1 s % N t $ M i H 1 1