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Show Christmas Observed In Quiet Manner ObrlstmaB day lu Cedar whs spent in an extraordinary quiet mnunor.-Jt falling.' on vSiindy provonted any celebration, and tbequa,rantiuo being io Btrlot' jiio celebration on J on day wrb allowod. The oitlzons wbu strolled down town on Mnuduy could not bolp but be improssed with tbe quletneea of tho town. -No one' eeeroe'diito dbavo any feeling of. levjty,. .Au c'pcaalodal man was met who hud tried to oiF-vet oiF-vet tbe qnUtneaa with some stimnlant, but those men were few and fer be tweon. Tho day pnt-td in this manner till, oven ing when it wbb found a dance was lu progress for thoee, and only those, wbooonldjsbow a certificate entitling thorn to outer into tbo realms of tbe Ward Hall. Somo 00 gcntlomnn and their Indies wore all that were so f ortunate( ? ). Tbo balance of tbe people wero compelled to either etuy at homo oc visit tbo nolahburs. By the way, mention most bo made of a bor'ee race that rnmn .on" about r,uudown on tho raou truck enat of town, Even tbe horses folt tbe oppressive quietness and didn't run worth t n ooutiuoutal. Wbeu tboy roched the who nt thoout-oomu tboy beld tolr hoads down, and ono could too n look of disgust la their oyea. Evou the boys, who went qut to Bee tbo race (atl but fewV appeared to buvo the enmo feeling. After tbo race evoiybody wno eeen to weud their weary way to town.- Animation had evaporated, und on many feces n look of dujootluu was uotioud wbioh in diouted that tbo owner thought life was uot worth living. Thus wrus patteed Christmas lu Cedar. |