The Monte Vista journal., December 25, 1920, Image 1

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The baby of the manger, overlooked
by the mild-eyed oxen and worshipped by
the wise men with their frankincense and
myrrh, came to establish a new kingdom
—the Kingdom of God.
One other kingdom He established on
this earth to make glad the hearts of all
at this blessed season—The Children's
Kingdom of Christmas.
At midnight the portals which shut
this magic kingdom off from the workaday
world swing silently open. At dawn the
little people of the realm begin to troop in
to it. Little pattering feet, funny little
forms clad in nightclothes swarm through
the open gates of the Kingdom of Christ
mas and take possession for the day.
The horns blow, the rattles sound, the
drums beat, rations of sugar plums and
comfits are served out to the pajama-clad
army. Chariots, carts, donkeys and auto
mobiles speed across the carpeted plains,
and the reign of the children revels itself
out to a sleepy end at nightfall, with dolls
and swords clasped in hands which cling
on after the eyes have fallen shut in sleep.
H. O. G. STOCK SHOW
DATE SET DEFINITELY
The officers of the H. O. G. held
n meeting last Saturday evening at'
the office of C. D. Hyatt, County
Agriculturist for the purpose of set-|
ting the dates and appointing the
various departments of the Fifth
Annual Stock Show to be held at!
Monte Vista. The dates decided for
the Big Show are Feb., 9—10--11,
Location on the Frank Goff place on'
the north end of Adams street where |
extensive comfortable bulldings will
be prepared for exhibits. The fol-f
lowing committees were gelected for
the various departments
Program: Art Webster, chalrman;
W. F. Farren, Roy Hocker, C. D.|
Hyatt, W. E. Kistler. |
Finance Ralph Stitt, Chalrman;!
Jack Nelson, Henry Darrah, C. H.!
Akers, H. E. Lague. |
General Arrangements: Ed. Ab-|
arnathy, George Wright. |
Advertising: 0. E. Linderholm, |
Dr. L. L. Glynn, J. N. Fuller, Willis|
Fassett, Geo. Corlett. {
Superintendents: Horses and l
Mules, Frank Goff. Cattle, Geo. A.|
Wright, Sheep, Olin Perdew. Super-|
intendents for the Poultry and Hog|
departments will ba named later.|
The San Luls Valley Hereford|
Breeders Association and the Sanl
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MONTE VISTA, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1920
The Children’s Kingdom
CHAS. GILKEY DEAD
The death of Chas. Gilkey oc
curred at the Del Norta sanftarium
last Saturday night. Funeral ser
vices were held at the Woods mor
tuary in Monte Vista Monday morn
ing at 11 o'clock and the body was
taken to Arkansas City, Kansas, for
burial that night accompanied by
the widow and two children. The
funeral wag attended by the Mason
and Eastern Star lodges In a body.
Mr. Gllkey was 59 years of age at
the time of his death which was
caused by cancer of the howels, A
few weeks ago he was taken to the
sanitarfum and operated for an ob
struction which gave only tempor
ary relief.
LARGE CHRISTMAS BUSINESS
In response to our (nquiries, the
Journal is informed by our merch
ants that they have enjoyed a very
satigfactory Christmas business—
fully as large as that of a year ago.
One significant thing is apparent—
gift glving has taken the form of
practical use and value,
The postoffice received sixty sacks
of mall this Friday morning in ad
dition to the many large packages
too large for the mafl sacks. This
18 the largest volume of mall ever
received at the local office,
The First National Bank closed
its doors Wednesday as a mark of
respect to Dr. H. H. Abbott, the
first president of the ({nstitution
and to John W. Shaft the late presi
dent.
JOHN SHAFF DIES IN
ARIZONA SUDDENLY
The community was shocked Wed
nesday to learn of the death of John
W. Shaff which occurred that morn
ing at 10:00 o'clock at Phoenix,
Ariz. Mr. Shaff came to the valley]
from Pennsylvania In the spring of
1907 and since then has made a
decided success In business, and {n
April, 1918, was made president of
The First National Bank, which of
fice he held at the time of his death.
Particulars of his death are not
known. E. 8. Mathias, partner of
Mr. SBhaff, wired the bank that his
death was due to heart fallure and.
that the body would be shipped to
his old home In Pennsylvania for!
burial. He leaves three children, |
Helen who {s attending school at|
National Park Seminary, Fred and!
Eleanor who for the past year hnn;
been living with Mr. Shaff's brother
in the east. An unauthenticated
report {s that Mr. Shaff and Mrs. A
L. Bweitzer were married In D«nvori
some two months ago. g
Mrs. Carrie Johnson, mother of
Lou Johnson, died of tub«arculoslu;
at the home of her son east of Mon
te Vista last Saturday morulnx.‘
Funeral services were held at the
Woods mortuary Sunday morning.
Mrs. Johnson 18 survived by six
grown children. |
It is a great day, a day of sweet fool
ishness, a time for the baring of hearts too
long screened from the eyes that long to
look into them and see love enthroned.
Make the most of it, the best of it and
all you can of it. It comes but once a year.
Most people find themselves unable to buy
the presents they would like to buy for
Christmas. Some find the season a time
of unhappiness for that very reason. Try
not to feel thus. It is not the presents
bought or received that makes the day of
xood. It is the love spent and not the
money that counts.
The DAY should break down every
barrier between hearts estranged and bhe
the starting point for better relations and
new aflfections—and above all, it should
be the day of the Children’s Kingdom.
And whenever Christmas is made the
children’s festival—based on LOVE—His
gentle spirit will be in the midst of it.
HANDSOME FLOWER DISPLAY
One tiny green blade of grass—on
'|a bleak December landscape will
attract more attention than a pas
ture in June
1 It's the same with flowers. They
\fure appreciated most when the
_innow is fiying, and Monte Vista's
| bright flowery spot this snowy
| Christmas time iy the Wood's floral
|
THE COMING OF OUR LADY, 1921
| The New Year is close at hand. The cartoonists and pic
ture boys generally will represent 1921 as a baby, but we like
to forecast it as a WOMAN—we don't say a “beautiful” wom
an, because all women are beautiful.
| We would like to see '2l typify WOMANHOOD for good
‘and suflicient reasons. One is that the coming year would
! have no interest whatever in war, or the things of war. This
{old world has had its complete fill of deadly conflict during the
jdecade just closed and if the WOMEN could have their way
| there'd never be another on this footstool of the Lord.
1 If 1921 were a WOMAN, the world would see more relig
| ion and more of the good things that come out of it. The
| eynics and Bolshevists and exploiters of mankind generally
\! may sneers all they like at religion, but God in the form we
| civilized people know Him, or in some other form, has been
| a comfort and a high inspiration to untold billions of people
{in the past and He will be again to untold billions in the
future. The earth needs a great revival of religion in 1921,
| If our New Year is anything like WOMAN, we wili see
| more cooperation in the real things of life and much more
.'gontlenesx and human sympathy and love in 1921 than for a
,‘generation. The vice of hate has encircled the world and in
| flicted its wounds on countless hearts. Only human sympathy,
| kindness and love will heal the deadly hurts that the human
i race has suffered.
We repeat; let's typify the New Year as a WOMAN.
NUMBER 1605
store, where narclssus, hyacinth
and tullp and the many other beau
tiful flowers in basket and pot are
arranged in elegant profusion
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Mr. and Mrs. George Abbott of
Longmont arrived the first of the
week, called here by the death of
Mr. Abbott's’ brother, Dr H H
Abbott,