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E STAR: | L it was a crool gonk they played on the agent, says junior offis boy, THE SEATT BIG SENSATION IN KRISS KRINGLE LAND! DOLL FACTORY IS BURGLARIZED Staff Correspondent of The Star Reports yes Stolen From All the Christmas Dolls—Jack Frost, Famous Detective, Working on the Case, Tass Tatler 71.80. your 6438, ONE YEAR AGO J. 1B. Chitberg refuses to run for mayor, JOSH WISE SAYS: “Doo Pestle, our local pharma cist, says he isn't after Doo Wiley’s old job under th’ new administra tion. At leaat, not until he's sold out hie lettover stock o' patent Hig suspension bridge over which the pipe line of the olty wat works crosses the Cedar river, com pleted FIVE YEARS AGO Forty union men quit work on building at Becond and Pike SMILE—DOGGONE IT, SMILE! If you are naturally a sour-faced grouch, start prac- ticing a real good, healthy smile, and keep on practicing it until December 25—then let it out, and let it out good ‘ ’ | It isn’t what you give or get on Christmas the rea dicines.” Pa Ag tire hick siven or taken. Give some- Chiet of police takes copa off medic eine, eat tas tol a epirit is the spirit in which it is given gates at Union depot . ” 90" e poo ‘ene agen had sald thing which cannot be bought with money. Maggio Cline, “the trie Thre’ about yr “ : ¥ . that had | ep bon me : now sings ragtime! Her song a crool goak played on bim cena y tr Smile and the world smiles with you. , last seanon was “Nobody's Got Any- aren he thought for several hours that | 4 A good spread of the mouth—upwards, not a droop-- thing On Me!” ‘This season she's he was going to be a milyenair . thes 6 teueae Hy a 1 ething. And there is ninging “Ritchie Koo!” and “Wait/| DAY’S BEST STORY then he had to wake 1 wl caffa cller eked iam ity fp catching. It's bound to start something. ‘And Mere | ing for the Robert E. Lee Ine wants to lick a cert ol Raped i A they where “don’t start anything you can’t finish” doesn't fit The harp that once through Tara's por man which was a fr of hi 1 ash = Aine has the iy art a plea I i incidentally a pleasant halle I've foutid a new use for those] jut aint no more “tos He him to let them I you start a pleasant smile, and incidenta pleasa Its soul of muste shed, gramophone records you house} the press agent was setting at his h r; 1 t feeling, it's a good thing; and the wise man says: “Pass a Has canned “MoClosky,” and, alas! |jast week and which cost such &/aeek when bis telafone rung and), < uff Office a a ” fe Twangs coon songs now instead! tot of money,” said hin wife. here was the newspaper guy on the |taiat : S at all when hy good thing along oa : “In the first place,” she beZAD,| oinor ond ‘. «J hy was Io an offigy “ A smile once on the way—you can’t stop it-—it's going Adrianople is forced to eat foe “I hold a agen pr a ohh ap hello, sam, he says, this is bill ie sta here he coal wp > . £, c i stow! . Ue one end « @ wool on al 4, ‘ e offies of th ww # doing, neg to keep going. You've heard that saying about “a fair Imagine finding a tag in your ste’ ~ey mass ‘the ‘reel b= the gramo- et afoot oye diag ag ts 1 se mug exchange FOR NEW YORK’S 400 phone pin and then start the M@|5 nifiyen dollers | Soule i where’ “hrist , “That plump little Widow Fiit| chine. The wool is wound up in no]” Yai said he would ike it pretty} ___ Society Note There's your chance to give everybody a Christmas pres ters, who ts just going by, 1s quite | ime.” well, but he didn't have time to be y tow brands of face pdwiep ent, and a smile is about as cheap a present in price as an accomplished woman, isn't she?’| ‘The fond husband gasped Im 94-|iaiing to crazey newspaper guys| ” “* €°04 ** they smell inquired the picture enlarger, who| mtration over the telafone | Slow’ long h you can give E was fairly well acquainted with the; “But that is not all,” she con crazey nuthing, says bill, Mssen | san ion oS oe live? BR Nobody, then, is too poor to hand the real spirit JACK FROST STARTING QUT TO CAUTCH THE THIEF. eae sccohal” titemphantly. rela litte bathetrich on one end ot 2. me now, 1 was out on a storey |an ancient’ fam ty steed at ~ i ee sill . a pleasant face than NOTE TO CHILDREN—The Star has sent a reporter to ou on | 7 7 ° yesterday and 1 run‘acrost an old|poseed her dist. birth ef Christma There is more feeling in a pleasant fac Kriss Kringle Land, where Santa Claus fives, to get the ver plied the landlord of the tavern at] the records, start the gramophone,| inventor down on the east wide |! 7 diet Dirteeae ® dozen gifts; and if you give a smile, it's a cinch you latest news for its little readers, Every day, from now until Polkville, Ark. “She's caused four/and clean the knive he bas perfeckted a thingumajigg From the meneseall ; + will print one of his dispatches, sent by men to be shot within the past two] He is still gasping. Me Waid aoe aie one the pereta rom the | »politan tower cage years—smart a woman as there is - f verlook the entire eity Ke cos. These news dispatehes are for YOU, and grownup : ‘th ‘ you are talking to at the other end , And one has to Go ahead—try your luck on making everybody people have no business reading them UNLESS they read them in town! Be an ornament to 1 A girl who is too delicateto |or the telafone a 5004 donb in i meet make you feel cheerful. That's the effect it has. ALOUD to you. This ie the first time that any newspaper hae Four Hundred of New York, walk five squares in the open there's milyens in it, and we can lew 7 a printed the REAL CHRISTMAS NEWS this way.—-EDITOR. reckon. air to get a new dishpan for [go partners with him if we can wl ‘ feeling you give them will reflect back on you Special from Santa, by Wireless. lee how wany friends you) ma™, cA# dance 25 miles In @ | scrape up 1000 dollers aplece Wits écod ae If you don’t meet anybody—gosh, get a looking glass. KRISS KRINGLE LAND, Dee, '22—The Santa Claus doll factory] Ever notice how many friends y hot hati and holler for more. fine, says sam, but 1 dont be-| a 4 moet all her Christmas yj bave when they need you. leave a durn word of {t * bill, { gess 1 can con ® " ee * was robbed last night. The burglars stole the whole stock of dolls You can't Jose dut anyway you put it. You're playing on @/ eyes, and it looks now as if all the Christmas dolls would be blind, sure thin Jack Frost, the famous detective, is at work on the case, Jack ed spa : : borrowed a beard from one of the Brownies and used it as a disguise, |'0ne enough tn = peta a | to pe |tive minutes afterwards, From the|shins on my telafone right no Every y ought to be willing to take a chance once |He wanted mine, but I was afraid he'd lose it and I'd be arrested on orien, Amerionsiond, ot —- mmo.| ftyine pan to the fire isn’t so farjand { can tell you what you are . Where the Cow Is the Hew And then—when you fin ut how it orks on Christ-| Christmas eve as a burglar, Jack was sorry he couldn't get a real mus-|* eo, = when you hurry. doing n India the cow i sacred. In a en you find out he ing tache, for he sald all the detectives in the Christmas books have ‘em. ment. Then, see to engage him — you are holding the reseaver with |this country it is the hen—Toleds ‘Oh, yes, last month. Now started to buy « few things” Tt is possible to obtain a divorce} well, « " an Thé waiter, a young Hebrew Poti, Michigan and be married within| vinse you, ive got one of the inven | mas—well, New Year's coming, and there's a bully chance The tracks the thieves made were sowed over, so Jack sald he'd aie ren ct Strange to say, alcobol was dis-|your left hand and youve got a for one of your resolutions trall ‘em with dogs. All we had was toy dogs, and they wouldn't be bad we om Sheen ecvered by a chemist who blund-|cigerret in youre right mitt | , - ¥ eae aber % if they didn’t have to be hauled along on their wheels, Jack came| The walter ery a per tiie 2red on ft 700 years ago, while] by golly, that's right, hollers| New Yor vressman Weare ap Anyhow, smile—doggone it, SMILE after a time for a toy automobile, but he had to get out every nine| ent & moment and then wa | seeking an “elixir of life.” sain, tell me what 1 am doing now | overcoat at $20,000, If = en foot and wind it up, so he went fo the dogs again, Ho was accom- with typical gestures you are standing wp on your|has to hock xt spring be “I'm sorry, lady,” he replied. “Vo! anout the only thing a man lones|chair, with one foot on your desk, |to get at least $20 on it, panied by a d@achment of tin soldiers. r Mi COMING BY THOUSANDS In theory is that the dolls’ eyes were taken by Doc Cook, who| 40n’t keep tt by being punctual is an hour or so| says bill onatoe Tight hi come back for proof that be really was North after all rT waiting for the other fellow to| gee whiz, says sam, tf you can se] It takes a good dinner to disso | We folks up here are mad at Cook and Peary both, One of them car| The husky gent you often #€6) show up. me doing that from the guff ofice,!an ordinary grouch, Iried away the North Pole, and now we can't tell where north changes| shooting the ball with such vim is to south. Anyway, they @idn’t say in thelr reports that they saw/|down severa) miles bowling alley Those who claim to be well informed predict that, with 4 fn two years after opening of the Panama canal, approx-|ganta Claus’ house, and that made all the children mad. per night is the slowest mortal on imately 100,000 immigrants from southern Europe will have The latest wirel reports of the robbery will be {n tomorrow's — aes it comes to rassling " with the furnace. landed on the Pacific coast. The problem as to what is to ‘ i re We. Gloss ANTON o& ONDON 0 a seas eee . | [ y Become of them is a mighty one, since their sudden influx|~ ; One New York woman Iterally 7 j r q / SURE THING 7 fo Bhe wears! Tuesday at 4 May easily become a calamity. BOOKDEALER IS bas hands on ber foot. 5: a ere y ees ad OBOEFS a wateh in her slipper buckle, 9 Sha Conditions on the Pacific side of our country differ HEAD OF H p. m. Sharp ly f h h , z ee WHERE YOU WAKE UP “awe rom those on the Atlantic side. Back East the CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Hoboes Ataem clocks that will wake you Shop Early “The Economy Store’ eigner contributes to labor as follows Seven-te 5 of the world, under the official up in time at the jewelry stére.— c 8 even-tenths inj Sls ot tha Intereationsl Pandora Times Second Ave., Between Spring and Seneca—Phone Main 6035 fron and steel industries, three-fourths in the meat packing,| Brotherhood Welfare Assn. seven-tenths in the coal mines, seven-cights in the wool and| of the Unemployed, founded by James Eads How, claiming to WISE HAS PLUOK | Mr. Wilbur Pluck gommenced | i Worsted manufactures, ffine-tenths in cotton goods manu-| represent from one to one mil working for Vera Wise thie week—| . factures, eight twentieths in the making of clothing, one lion unemployed in Pa ng nt | Northwest Garhan Cor. Fayette Re half in shoe making, four-fifths in furniture making, eightcen- lenges Sel yahoo wr _ pe St Ses twenticths in the sugar making. In short. there ; lac: bookdealer, Davis was inform- Public pests > s . there are places 4 : sa . 5 ed of his election by mail to- Late Christmas ahoppers. for the immigrant in the East that do not exist on the| day, together with the an. Book agents. Will be made the biggest day of the year at this store. Saturday was a busy day, tax- fh Pacific slope nouncement that the annual The “Masher 4 baat convention of itirerent workers — ing our capacity to the utmost, and the nervous strain on some of our overanxions However, the immigrant, as a rule, is an agricultural-| would meet in New Orleans fst or a horticulturalist, whether te 3 ae January 28 to February 2 Gi tank 3 r Z he lands in New York When seen at bis bookshop Or in Seattle sn't it about time for somebody on the] today Jeff Davis said he was as Coast to gsi busy, since the Ce ‘ proud of his election as nation- . sy, § ast ha p ast has not the manufac-| 91 head of the hobo woclety as Victorias and handsome horees are again becoming the fashion, In| New York. That's it! Just get a twocylinder auto, warranted to kill anything from a lame gosling to : ies in whi immi milch cow, and fashion will go bac tories in which the immigPant hordes can earn their way?| be would have been bad be @ |to horses, burros or other things hos = a wns e “Do the Browns do much for oat you can't buy with a second SEE {o it that iather does ’ : Sey | charity?" mortgage fo eS} ful blow to Hearst, Ryan and] thought he could do more good “Well they board. most of thetr salespeople in their efforts to wait on our patrons during the rush hours has wholly im capacitated them for business and has compelled us to put on more untrained help their stead. We ask your indulgence with them, assuring you we will do all we cant make your buying easy. STOCKS STILL COMPLETE Kaocking, but! iy SE ae cS ; work among the hoboes ‘ ‘ ‘ ; si his Christmas shopping early.) Murphy. emia ae Tete tanec country relatives all winter: en es ee Perrysburg Jour Our Holiday stocks were selected with such care, in regard to quantities, om the ; ee THUG NOT OREGON MAN. A Jar for Jim nal got out » fine Christmas edition |B best selling articles, that our assortments are still in good condition in nearly every @& 4 THAT ence may be prolonged be- Cause the veaceniakers are so hot at cach other. of his paper leat week While in Reinback Monday Jas. | Milled with hol ads. and shows! @ partment. kan peace confer- y Sutt SANT. N ‘ ec, 23.—Ti BARONESS von Suttner, ANTA ANA, Cal., I 23 he} commendable Mony that there. are seven Steamer, baroness? Incarna-| body. | ment. kerehiefs for 19 cents an hour after The Editor’s Mail thug attacked Myrtle Huff, 14, and/| Black had the misfortune to jar his | Se™men“ap Re : bers, bh . in her next incarnation, Wh mag Mente nigga gs * PROF. Louis Blan’s testi- D. Matlock, who examined the|given a Job in the military depart-|¥¢ sold out all those 60-cent hand @ il t i e th ; the tale opened this motaing. Tou Toile equisites students in New York high tion is a long way over, = ° pe ri mS thing else?” ¢ | is what will bring yon out= | educators sing low. Hopkins, of Los Angeles, of Germany deciares that she| was kill | a a led by & posse after he had/ radiator loose--Grundy (14. vortising h onoe a year TUESD. (ele) hopes she'll be an American| killed one and wounded four of its| publican. Maumee Advance Bra. i SHOP . AY FORENOON, 9 TILL 12 eae, And avoid the afternoon and evening crowds and get the following BARGAINS: y| Joe Matlock of Bugene, Or, is am-| Speaking of the dogs of war,| The saddest words of tongue or not take a trans-Atlantic |#ured today by Matlock’s father, J.|Follx Frankfurter has just been| pen these days are; “No, madam, oughta seén the jam. Well, we * —- * in Al schools who can’t add 1 and may have more, but I doubt i, Any. TT T Bg — ae Br 1 ought to make New York] HUH! County Assessor gd t ¥ VA. a i 200 Cl Jim Was Well Chapero: Re Hit . 200 Christmas boxes, C08 ; Jim Elite! nded the fat Mock H Al ql taining — doesn’t know much. Declared show Iast month in charge of a) y One bottle of Perfume, One : . . . edit 1 fo ¢ > t » Hersher of \ ‘ot WILSON says his cabinet - Far BeAr Editor The Star; George Cressey| Editor The Star: A certain prod-| yearting colt for Albert arener ¢ 4 i cake of Soap and one bot 5 : pees int Ungede of 80 is right. A minimum wage law is/ "ee company in Beattle that sends Misr, Genter, The oS nagectes i Talcum Powder, all madeand qwill be of men he needs most|ciety women and society rose jout its weekly quotations headed, | arth. put up by Jas. S. Kirk & Oo what we want. ‘“ : dat “We will pay you the followin; ee br of good men selected to]as one woman to tell him. it's} The railroads are paying white| prices this week,” ought to be In All Delays Avoided : ! a ae a preserve party har:nony. The}not lingerie but silk tights|men, American citizens with fam-| cluded in the Western Avenue Com-| Charles Myers last week Visited P buy the complete fe aa + Be ites, the sum of $1.35 a day for all | bine and name changed to “The |an uncle at Hudson who is suffer outft re, Bnnoun cement must be an aw-|they wear. um ¢ . Big Boven.” ing from asthma and is expecting it for only Second Floor. Limit one box to a custom Regular $3.00, full length silk Kimonos from our regular stock. Garments that are cut extra full and finished with satin facing down the front and around collar and sleeves; also silk piping on the )} yoke, both back and front. Beautiful floral pat- terns of every description. Rich shades of wine, cardinal, old rose, Copenhagen, navy blue, laven- der, reseda green, dark green, tan and other colors. All sizes, A $3.00 Kimono 1 89 In @VETY WAY Bt ....ccccceercenceesneanes ’ kinds of track work. The pay has | I sent death at any time. He has his cof. not been more than $2 a day since cooking Poe arg en od — = fin at"home ready and has selected the Great Northern rafiroad started | go to 86¢, and six boxes of pears, | his grave in the cemetery. —Ame- limporting Japanese labor to the quoted at 76e to $1.25. I stamped jden Cor, Edgerton Earth. coast. The minimum wage scale their address and my own on each 7 EM would make {t unprofitable to bring box. After waiting some time, I Modern Life in foreign Inbor in order to lower wrote them two letters, and re| One by one our children leave |the wages already on a starvation|celved no answer to either. My bd | base. father called and was finally given One by one they wed, alack! Here is an opportunity for the $5.65. My father, moreover, stated| One by one divorces grieve us; |progressives elected to the legisia-/that it was the dirtiest place of One by one they wander back. fture to fulfill a promise made on/| business he ever saw. Ww HER LIMITATIONS A teacher asked her pupils to draw a picture of that which the: wished to be when they grew up. The pupils went to work, some drawing pictures of soldiers, sailors, policemen, fine ladies, etc. They all handed in the result of their work, except one little girl who sat quietly, her pad in front of her and her pencil in her band. | “Well, Sarah, don’t you know what you want to be when you grow up?” asked teacher. “Yes, | know,” answered Sarah, with a worried look, “but I don't in Toyland. This little fellow has not sold'as well as we thought he would when .we bought him. He has cloth body and will take Per van ast yes 2 lad i |their platform before election. | G. MULLINS. Isn't there somebody to take the any Pome ot “What is it you want that you can’t draw?” STAR READE) a ; ongresi i s want him to, He has “] want to be married.” iidicdiligeailiaaieal at at Abt: it oon ee ere is Hand Knit Wool Slippers an unbreakable head Shoe Department, “Economy Basement.” All have lamb's wool soles and are in such colors as blue, pink, gray, cardinal and bla All at the uniform and is a fine looking Boy, but we bought too many, The large size sold at $1.00, AT THE MOVING| Pak ch hana PICTURE HOUSES You'll Find Interesting Features at the Theatres Listed Below Children’s sizes, medium size at 69c. v price of Take any size you Misses’ sizes. 49c a Pair want, and all you TU 30 Ladies’ sizes. Limit one pair to each | “8S a THAT SGN) Wil SURE LT THER ATTENTION. customer, 9 till 12 Tuesday forenoon, A BARGAIN PRESENTATION FOR MEN Checker Boards | About 800°Christmas boxes containing one Silk Rear Balcony Bee mill- The Race charm and _ “The Dead MELBOURNE : “Home of Glass Curtain” ¥ by Maseatic i ‘ Tie, one Scarf Pin and a Tie Holder to match, and | Our morning B " » the Checker iano Ae ailibert_ Shaw, organ we have sold 200 of them at 75c a set. Tuesday | Boards took so well that we have decided to give breathing art. The Gregorya — Bieaterpiece in the these compiete eatn, per set, at \ © J ana 200. Tuesday, 9 til! 12 ny: Men's Furnishing I tion and Whistling, Lewis partment Limit one to a customer : Bdand Cherry With all Kinds of fun, “Th ew photo dramas Serer te ateat Sunday Opening Program: "Pi ers lenor Lopez,” an Ame i 4 ‘ ! RS nerican creation % CIRCUIT # i Ail-Day Bargains for TUESDAY @dand Madison one of tt rn w in the Dust,” ry , : y pm | tho ; mysteries, Ladies’ Hand Bags for Gifts $1.80 a Dozen Fancy Cups and A Modern Moving Picture Hou. ak Saucers 55c Set a Always e fr fiwaye good pieturds: Ladten ‘a Are very hard to surpass. See our “Economy Basement.” Se treat f2aneyired pt courte extra fine novelties in real Morocco. Egg shell China Japanese C and Saue vines AT ene bi at rat Ave, t ve and Seal Hand Rags, fitted with ere; pretty figure designe; recular Siam ° John Cou ” et eae Parisian Ivory) Mirror, Comb and dena cata: & 11 while Union Theatre 33, kane. Se a NE denen ralve: « eon spec, “a Comedy: “p jon, of Matr, Soll irr on these from $11.60 ; “ 49c Whied Av. at Willow, near P. 0, Karteniig"al: On Donovan's Division, Eine ped down to .... $3.50 70c All-Wire Doll Go-Carts . x ata Medium size Hand Purse in black, Basement Toyien Indestructible all-wire Buggy that outwears them all day, while they last : ng Skates $1.59 mounting in various designs, 95 aes Winslow, Union or Rollfast; $2.50 values, specially priced at, each ....80G Tuesday, all day, if they last, at, a palt blue, brown and red leather, fitted with small coin purse, See our new line of black satin Hand Bags with heavy metal City Theatre — prswowronse =| —] \rmy LATEST PHOTOPLAYS 1206 Second Av. pone Wass DAUGHTER OF THE SPY—A 5c--Crown--5c Two-Reel Feature Special Photo. First Av. Bet, Madison and Spring Play by the Cines Company.