HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1968-12-19, Page 14Heartfelt
thanks for
your • loyalty and
friendly
good
will.
May your
holiday be
blessed
with the
sounds
of joy,
laughter.
HI! MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Ilere vomos. Santa
to brighten
your holiday.
Merry Christmas! And
thanks for your
patronage.
HURON LAUNDRY
Maurice Jean and Steve Maguire
To faithful friends old
and new, hearty thanks for your
' good will and best wishes
for a wonderful holiday season.
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MERRY
CHRISTMAS'
Le+ ,Peace Ring
Out for You
At Christmastime!
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Christmas Traditions
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"I will honor Christmas'
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for:Whoni;ChriStiiips wo.s
• favet'ite topic r--;'so blush SO
that most people, asked to
name someone who wrote
about Christnias, would im-
mediately , answer, "Dick-
ens:" ' °
Not only Dickens, but a-
ii-tost every writer, from tlYe
little-nowrl'td: the famouls,
has been inspired at. son*
time in his career to "honor
Christmas" in prose or po-
etry, For instance
At Christmas 1 710 1110re de-
. sire a rose
Than iris)) a S11011' in May's
new-fanpled mirth,
Bul.)ike of each- thing Oral
in .uyson grows,
Shakespelfte
At Christmas play and make
good cheer,
For ChristmaS comes brit
once a !year,
Thomas Tpsset'
yonoring Christmas,
In Poetry and Prose
dow.t.f•rvyr
So shall we learn to under-
stand .
The simple faith of shep-
herds then,
And clasping .kindly hand
in hand,
Sing, "Peace on earth, good
will to men!"
James- Russell Lowell
-Happy Christmas" to all,
0711 to all a good-night."
Clement Clarke Moore
POr somehow. not only' at
Chris r'rlil.4 limit tlll'1/fe.
"'Toni Veen.' titration,- '
The 'joy Hutt you give to
• others is the joy. that
comes back to you,
John Greenleaf Whit tier
England was merry Eng-
land, wizen
Olci Christmas hrOntthl his
sports again;
Sir Walter Scott , * *
heard the bells on Christ-
mas Day
Their old familiar carols
play,
And soft and sweet the
words repeat;
"God ix not dead, nor cloth
he sleep,"
Henry Wadsworth
Long follow
At Cltristrnkt:„ it ;:peeiai prayer:
May mankind he hieeti with "Peace ott
Earth:" rul a ,,peeing Tay
, your per:-onal ho'a must happy one,
Dien Price and' Staff
CLERE-VU AUTO WRECKERS
HOLMESVILLE — 482.3211
;lust how much Santa Claus
does differs in every family
Always of co urse,
stotkihrgi:`' ' riVSciniet4rnili6S
lie brings'a few toys
In other Jami;lieS':;
all the tOYS..'.1n,,sci,ind'he also
trims the tiee'. • "`I'IOW many
of these things he is supposed
to do is a .question of your
own tradition,
A child S'hould be taught,
even when very little, to thank
the giver. Aunt :4,1ary Grand-
father, etc. 1,1 is not fair to
say that preSents sent from
other people are from Santa
Claus.
• A child's belief in the mir-
acle of Santa Claus can help
him all his life to know that
if he trust and believes hard
enough in something, it will
be a long step toward making
it come true,
K. W. COLQUHOUN
INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE
K. W. "Dan" Colquhoun - H. E. "Hal" Hartley
Mrs. Margaret Corrter
GREETINGS
(iit this crisp and exciting time of year, we are hopeful
that your holiday will be filled with joyous warmth, richly
shared with those you hold dear. And to
you, our customers, we express our thanks and appreciation,
for your continued patronage. Merry Christmas!
PAUL KERRIGAN, AGENT
BP CANADA LTD.
RON SCOTCHMER - BERT ROWDEN - MORRIS TAYLOR
379 VICTORIA STREET 482.9653
"Yes, indeed!
"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected
by the skepticism of a skeptical age—they do not believe except what
they see—they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible
to their little minds,
"All minds, Virginia; whether they be :men's or children's, are. little,
"In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his.
Intellect, as. compared with the boundless world about him, as measured
by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,
"He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty
and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa
Claus!. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There
would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tol-
erable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and
sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would
be extinguished.
"Not believe in Santa Claus! You ,might as well not believe in fairies!
"You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys
on Christmas live to catch Santa Claus, but even -if they did not see
Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa
Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus— the most real
things in the world are those neither children nor men can see.
"Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, bUt
that's no proof that they are not there— nobldy can conceive or imagine
all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.
"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise
inside, but there is a veil covering the u n seen world which not the
strongest man, or even the -united strength of all the strongest men, that
ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love; romance,
can push aside the curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty
of all glory beyond.
"Is it all rear?—Ah Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else
more real and abiding.
"No Santa Claus! Thank Cod! he Ryes, and he lives forever —
a thousand years, from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand ,years from
now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of childhood." •
— Francis II. Church
The, New York Sun
CHRISTMAS
4'13' DINNkRiDaVf
VARItS' I
i.t 1 "1n0 'I47
• '1%11';
The date of the,,big,
mos. dinner varies around the
world; many countries .hae,ci;
it On Christmas Eve,. ibefoiy
or after midnight services. Our
traditional ristthas , turkey
does not appear...o.n.,m a n y
menus. The French reticillon,
a feast .which occurs after mid-
night mass, is opt tofeuture oy-
sters and sausages; in 1 he Longfellow, from whose
F re nchpro n in ce of Brittany, poem, CHRISTMAS-1863,
buckwheat cakes with sour came the refrain, "I Heard The
cream are seiTed, The Nor- Bells On Christmas Day", The
old.fa'iniliar carols play", pen- wegian Christmas dinner lea-
tures a fish Called lutlisk. At ned a Christmas carol pre-
a Polish Christmas Encdinner. served in many anthologies.
the number of courses is fixed
AS far as research can de-
t ermine, George. Wither, a at seven, nine, or eleven; a
Lithuanian Cl?ristmas feast young contempor ary of
must include" twelre Courses, Shakespeare. first coupled the
one for each of .the disciples, words "Merry Cliristmas".
DU ring 'the Ch Pistmas sea- Phillip. Brooks, who. wrote
the verses of the beloved hymn son. Gernians and Rumanians
"0 Little Town of Bethlehem", bake long, thin cakes that sym-
also expressed his sentiments bolize the Christ Child wrapped
in "The Voice of the Christ in swaddling clothes. In the Child" and "Christmas Every-
Ukraifian part of Russia, cat-
where".-
tle are given the first taste of
Robert Frost, Alfred Tenny- the Christmas upper, because
son and Sir Walter Scott, a-re animals were the first to be-
hold Christ. In parts of rural am any many besides Clement
Clark Moore (of "Twas the Germany, this is carried one
Night Before Christmas"fame) step further—cattle and their who have enriched Christmas
owners both fast the day be--
tradition lyrically. A larger fore Christmas,
and eat well number of poets have con-, on Christmas Ere.
tribated carols to the world's
onus//cal treasure,
To all good sports, glad greetings.
gere's hoping you'll have a great Christmas.
And for your patronage, ourkwarin thanks.
MR. AND MRS. ELLWOOD EPPS
AND STAFF AT
ELLWOOD EPPS SPORTS SHOP
80 1Kinn St. CLINTON 48209622
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May we merit your good will for many years.
GREAT
POETS
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As Plum Pudding
For a quarter of a century
people have'been sentimental-
ly dreaming- their way through
a 'White Christmas."
It was in 1941, the black-
clouded war years had already
begun, when Hollywood re-
leased a motion picture en-
titled: "Holiday Inn." The star
of this movie was the ever-
popular crooner, Bing Crosby.
But perhaps the real star of
"Holiday Inn" was the song
written especially for the
movie by Irving Berlin:"White
Christmas."
`White Christmas'
Is Traditional
Through, the ensuing 25.
years, over 100 versions of the
song have been recorded by
almost as many artists, yet
"White Christmas" is synony-
mOus with the name of Bing
Crosby.
The poignant Christmas
message that's found in the
song has made it popular
'round the world. It has been
translated into Italian, French,
Chinese. German, Spanish,
Hungarian, the Scandinavian
languages, several Polynesian
tongues and even Swahili,