Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 2

SvMNNNNUUATU MUN TU TH “OMTURUNUOCUUAEUUGEAOAUUUUUAUUO SUAS Eee aes eee CONGRESS BEGINS ITS WORK AGAIN MONDAY Appropriation Bills to Consti- tute Principal Business of Three Months’ Session. The sixty sixth coo gress convened at its third and standing events were Washington.- woo Mouuay final session tr the attendance Monday at the senate session of Pres dent-elect Harding and the presenta tion on Tuesday of President Wilson's annua! message The final session of the present con gress opened with only three months of alloted official life. ending just be fore the inauguration of President Harding, on March 4 and with an extra session soon afterward in pros pect. Appropriation bilis will consti tute the principal business at this Session President-elect Harding rounded immediately by a crowd of senators when he entered, who shook his hand and clapped him on The president-elect welcomed his ad mirers with a broad smile Another peace time estimate of Nearly $5,000,000,000 for the govern ment’s expenses during the fiscal year 1922 faced congress when it reas sembled. The exact figures as trans mitted by Secretary Houston were $4, 653.85 9. an increase of nearly $1 000,000,000 over the appropriations for the current year, but 11,000,000 less | than the estimates su ago. A tentative program of in addition to the expected to be by republican leaders among themselves and with President elect Harding Republican leaders predict gress will be forced to complete the appropriation bills by March 4. In addition, there may be other legislation for relief uf farmers and probably a few other emerg bills. Committees, however were pared to work generally on was sur the back mitted a year legislation nined in cor that con to work steadily y tters to be considered at the extra session EXPLODING SHELLS BOMBARD BROOKLYN New Y the Port | virtually Nehter which ed to the army res Gathering toget fm a belief that tt Fort Lafayette Fort Hamilton. w scores fled their homes @riven to frenzied hast a s of deton ns hear An 0 tal statemer from Fort m™ ad no lives were st and persons Ww sitg jJured The lighter. 900 shells for shipm tern from its moor lence of the first explc en board escaped FREIGHT CAR BROKE AWAY Peculiar Happening Hailed as Some- thing Particularly New in His tory of Railroading. The Erie raflroad has demonstrate? the practicability of a theory freight train may lose a car fro midst and keep to its schedule « its crew in ignorance of their loss. sn Ed Mott. of Goshen. the local histo Fian. is happy. For a generation Mott has been tell- | ing folks of an Erie traip that left Sus | which was | oxygen } tien and exc Tl Mii tT Special discount on all toys and Xmas goods beginning three days before Christmas J. V. BAKER & SON ‘“‘Where Quality and Prices Meet’’ rain without ieav- or other traces nent. Two was found at Shohola » it had held van county, from the ear and crossed the Delaware river on ice. I Albert O. Roberts was art New York last Sun- rain to t West Tuxedo alt to the discovery that The cars had re- rh led to the ng car alongside the track a mile to the north. The the same was missing diser of the mis ident of Sunday wh was exactly h Mott de ago, ex as the one as of sixty-odd yea cept ¢ the m mn form of brake caused the loss of car to be discov- ered more quickly than wus the case in the old days, when the couplings were of sir Jesign and the brakes were operated by hand.—New Haven Union GOOD EXERCISE IS MOTORING Physician aishe=to ‘Have Made Out a Good Case for His Side of Argument. Dr tn Mor motoring for ex: threefold litional. T the inhalatio stimulate t he os uit e exctait nor for me; TU get me a 10 year old dog.” —Exchange ay your taxes at the First! Nat ) Bank 49-3 If r Radiator leaks take it to South & Frick. 14-tf A story book with every $2.00 quebanne in the winter of 1855 with 15] toy or Xmas goods purchased at cars of cattle. ‘was missing. It bad disappeared from At Port Jervis one c8F/ the Hoene Hardware. 43-tf | charms and soothsayers “GOD BLESS YOU'S” MEANING Expression of Solicitude That Can Be Traced Back to the De cline of Athens. The Greeks and Romans had thetr “Long life to you!” Gesundheit! is now verboten. But we still say “Sante” and “God bless you!” after a sneeze. This expression of solicitude can be traced back to the decline of Athens. One of the terrible devastating plagnes which darken the pages of European history was raging in the famous city. The flower of Greece, her foremost writers and s sts, the founders of much of our modern cut ture. were ruthlessly cut down. The dead piled high. and dally Athenian courage was taxed to the fullest. But to every home where lay a victim. the elixir of hope, the rainbow of prom ise. was the sneeze. for it indi to the watchers that the dang passed, that the patient would rec A few centuries later another epi demic assailed Europe. but this time the sneeze, being a symptom of the malady. was a had omen In this age of witches, goblins, med- tcine men and leeches superstition flourished. lectual minds of the time Some of the most intel accredited It was there fore nothing extraordinary for the pope to decree the exclamation “God bless you!” by anyone who heard a sneeze. This was supposed to com bat {ts evil powers and prevent the spread of the disease An “God bless you!” with its kindly human in |} terest has come down through the ages. NEW IN THE ANIMAL WORLD “Okapi” Astonished Explorers, and Only a Few Specimens Have Ever Been Obtained. Some time before 1890, Stanley. the explorer. had the pigmy negroes of a new beast In the Impene trable depths of the virgin which borders the Semliki river in the Belgian Congo. The Wambatt! natives described it as a species of and called it “ 1.” From their fur. ther description, !t be a word from forest seemed to | ley | that 1 anima: or considerapte size. which lived upon leaves. In 1899 Sir Harry Johnston himself sew the pig- mies, who fully confirmed what Sran- ad already told him, but added the strange beast was striped like a zebra In 1901 a Swedish officer, M. Kar! Erikson, obtained a complete skin and two skulls, which he sent to § Johnston, who then believed to be of the giraffe tr! found in a fossil state was, however. prove although o previously previously Greece. It vely that y it was ent Greece. but hot the an 8 altogether. It was sub a new b seque: given the name of kapi.” No more than a dozen spe ens of this wonderful beast have been se cured. Peninsula.” “The People of the Pelup We were floa the beautifel whangdoop hid amongst the along the swamgit (shore), I ordered the pang toward with at tien to tily on the rig dle) until mo; gs te row t by vi were headed had come which, as everyone knows. resembles.—( After the Manr Travel Art L Bishops Will Meet in Portland. tic N. J.—The ise Portland. Or.. May Swedish Minister Dead Wash ‘ @ ‘ay your taxes at the National Bank. MT UU LA == ““Better Prices Than Ever” Is the ruling at our PRE-INVENTORY SALE. The last week has shown that prices are right. It pays to buy for CASH for you can buy for LESS. An extra new lot of specials for Saturday and Monday SLL mm Save 30% to 50% ---Buy at 322 Main Street LEWISTON, IDAHO Wool Union Suits $ 3.50 AUTO COATS $35.00 This coat is worth $55.00 Reversible Leather Overcoats $50.00 Army and Navy Ponchoes. Shelter Tents, Tents, Tar- paulin and Canvas. Leather Jerkin Leggins and Spiral Puttes. U. S. 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