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16 THE TRIBUNE, DILLON, MONT., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924. * Just a sprig of holly, A kindly message penned, To make your Christmas jolly, To remind you we are friends. Dart Hardware Co. ’Tis Christmas Day and in our hearts Sweet thoughts of you do rest, And wishes that with happiness Thine every hour be blessed. ten n City Shoe Store HEARTIEST GREETING AND BEST WISHES TO YOU FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE COM ING YEAR. Dillon Bottling Works Dillon, Montana Christmas, Historic and r Legendary For several centuries after the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas, our happiest season, was to His followers, one of heroic ordeal. His birthday was first celebrated in the second century, it is said, by order of Telesphorus, seventh Bishop of Rome, who shortly after suffered martyrdom, the observance of the anniversary of Christ’s nativity being one of his offenses. But though the initiator of the observance died, the observance lived through flame and sword. After two hundred years, in the reign of- Diocletian we read of a vast multitude of Christians assembled, of windows and doors barred by the pagan emperor’s order, or torches ap plied to the crowded building, and the burning alive of hun dreds of worshippers assembled to celebrate the birthday of Christ. Six hundred years after the martyrdom of the man who is said to have instituted the Christmas observance, the man to whom tradition assigns the ideas of the Christ mas tree, suffered a like fate at the hands of the pagan tribes of Germany. The legend of St. Boniface and the first Christmas tree has been beautifully told. The scene lives before us: The wintry night, the swelling hillock crowned with the great oak tree, the “thunder oak”, sacred to the pagan god, Thor, the tongues of ruddy flame, the fountains of ruby sparks from the great lire kindled near the altar at its foot, the curved ranks of white-clad warriors, women and children facing the altar, the hoary High Priest and kneeling child— the victim doomed to die by the blow of the hammer, a sac rifice to Thor, the Hammerer. Then the coming of Boniface, the blow from the ham mer turned aside by the cross, the rescue of the boy, the fall of the oak by the mighty blows of the missionary, the story of Jesus simply told and how sin, and not human life, is the thing to be put aside. “And here,” said the missionary, as his eyes fell on a young fir -tree, standing straight and green with its top pointing toward the stars, amid the ruins of the fallen oak, ‘‘here is the living ti'ee, with ho stain of blood upon it, that shall be the sign of your new worship. See how it points to the Sky. Let us call it the tree of the Christ-child. Take it up and carry it to the chieftains’ hall, for this is the birth night of the White Christ. You shall go no more into the shadows of the forest to keep your feasts with secret rites and shame. You shall keen tlifein at home with laughter and song and rites of love.'1 Thus did “the hour of darkness, the power of winter, of sacrifice, and mighty fear”, vanish before the glad radi ance of redeeming love, and the Pagan oak, whose roots were fed with blood, fall before the fir tree which “points to the stars.” REV. ERNEST E. LOFT. Wishing you a Christmas of cheer and a New Year filled with Happiness. Montana Market Philadelphia against swearing. The Henning National Forest near Columbus, Georgia, has just been ad ded to the list of new forest preserves of the United States. r The new for est covers about 78,^00 acres and has an excellent stand of southern pine timber. ern mixed dancing,” he announced. The deepest spot in any ocean has just been sounded in the Pacific about fifty mile? off the Japanese coast. A Japanese warship has reported the lead sank to a depth. of 32,644 feet, more than six and one-fourth miles, without touching bottom. Recently a moose walked into the city of Montreal after wandering down from the Laurentian Mountains north of the city. He entered the thick woods on the slopes of the Riv iere des Prairies, swam the liver, and found himself in the heart of civiliza tion: So far as is'-known, the building which really deserves the^distinction of being the largest building in the world is the eight-storv warehouse of the United States army base in Brooklyn. It contains fiftv-two acres of floor space, nearly twice that of the Equitable Building in New York City. Flooded workings in a Pennsylvania coal mine gave a mule the first oppor tunity to view sunshine that he has had in fifteen years.. He at first re fused to budge from the conveyor that brought him to the sunlight and it required force to get him. to his new lodging place/ where he' was afraid to venture forth for several days. NOTICE, TO WHOM. IT MAY CON CERN. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at Bozeman, Montana, December 3, 1924. Serials No. 016022 and 016025. Notice is hereby given that the State of Montana, acting under the provisions of the acts of Congress of February 22, 1889, and February 28, 1891, has made application for the. selections of the following lands, to-wit : SEH section 13; NWM, N%S%, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, section 14, township 13 South, range 1 West, Principal Mon tana Meridian. A copy of the list of said lands has been conspicuously posted in this of fice for inspection by any person in terested and the public in general. Under Departmental regulations of April 25, 1907, protests or contests against the claim of the State to said lands or any subdivision thereof on the ground that the same is more valuable for mineral than for agricul tural purposes will be received and noted for report to the General Land Office at Washington, D. C. . Failure to protest against the claim of the State to said lands be fore final approval will be considered ’sufficient evidence of its nommineral character and the selections being otherwise free from objections will be recommended for approval. GEO. C. DAVENPORT, Register. Non-coal land. F irst publication December 12, 1924. Last publication January 9, 1925. •¿—Adv. 50-2 You have heard it before, The greeting we send, But somewhere each time The words seem to lend A charm that is bright A hope ever new— So it’s just “Merry Christmas” We’re sending to you. Red Star Garage IS; It costs about $45,000 to build one J The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Dane, pas- mile of the best concrete road, 24: tor of St. Mark's Congregational feet wide. Church in New; York City, has rc- ------------------------ — j signed because “an active minority in General Butler, of the Marines, has j the church insists upon desecrating warned the police traffic squad of the house of God by using it for mod- Over and Over again you’ve heard The wish that is written here, But each repetition adds wealth - to the words, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” WHITE CAFE Ssr ’Tis with pleasure very true This Hearty Wish is sent to you,' “A Merry Christmas.” Dickey’s Cash Grocery
