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Hensail Merchants Extend Best Wishes To Their Customers And Friends
Schools In Hensall District
Present Colorful Concerts
SS 1- Tuckersmith, held theirI teacher of the school and Mr.'U.C, Christmas Concert
annual Christmas concert on [Lawrence Wein is music super-, The Sunday School Christmas
'* 1 "'■ ”s.zcr. Iconcert was held in the United
‘___1 iChurch schoolroom on Tuesday
Blake School held their an-[ evening. Rev. C. D. Daniel was
! The program included, recita
tions by Paul Drysdale, Lois
' Simmons, Billy Chipchase and
Bobby Forest, Ricky Buchanan,
Malcolm McEwan, Linda Noakes,
Grant Walker, Teddy Mock, Ann
Mickle, Carolyn Smillie and
Kathy MacLean; solos by Broy1-
na Bell, Lynn Faber, Sharon
Whittaker, Katharine Roszell,
Jack Chipchase, piano solos by
Lome Whittaker, Brenda Smillie,
Nelson McClinchey, duet ’ by
Joyce Whittaker and Marian
Pepper, Suzanne Rannie and
Nancy Kyle, trio by Gary Kyle,
Wayne Bell and John Goddard,
and playlets and exercises.
Nelson McClinchey was ac
companist for the majority of
the numbers. Santa -distributed
from a well-laden tree.
Rebekah Christmas Party
Mrs. Eileen Rannie, N.G. of
Amber Rebekah Lodge, presided
at the meeting on Wednesday
evening when a large number
. were present for the Christmas
s party. Arrangements Were made
i to pack boxes for five shut-in
'members. Greetings were re-
i ceived from the lodges in the
local jurisdiction, also from Sis-
; ter Jessie Little, D.D.P., ’ and
Sister Clara Beattie; assembly
president.
Gifts were presented for the
Children’s Shelter, Goderich.
Mrs. Mary Jacobi was presented
with a bank book for her son by
the Noble Grand, Mrs. Eileen
Rannie.
Following the meeting, a pro
gram was presented consisting
of carol singing, a reading by
Miss M. Ellis, vocal solo by
Mrs. William Brown, a vocal
$luet by Mrs. Hugh McEwen, Jr.,
and Mrs. William Fuss, accom
panied by the pianist, Mrs. H.
C. Bell. •
Santa Claus arrived and dis
tributed the gifts from the beau
tifully decorated tree.
A' shower of cups and saucers
Will be presented at the January
meeting.
Personal Items
Weekend visitors with Mr. and'
Mrs. S. Roobol were MajaRoobol
l and Brenda Wakely, nurses-in-
training at Victoria Hospital,
London. Miss Marilyn Eyre, of
Kippen, was a Sunday visitor.
visor.
Blake School Concert
Ltcmc Qiuuut uvm ciH- j - ■ -;-—<=>• -
nual Christmas concert Tuesday J chairman,
evening with Newell Geiger as
chairman.
The program included opening
and recitation by Ralph Gingerich,
opening number, a recitation recitations by Delores Ginger-
by Mervyn Bell, recitations by icli, Mervyn Erb, Linda Oesch
Jerry Traquair, Larry McLean, and May. Erb, songs, choruses
Tommy Dalrymple, Graham, and skits.
Bell; dialoges; solos by Dorothy | Santa appeared and distribut-,
Parker, Larry McLean; cho- cd gifts,
ruses, and plays. The teacher is Mrs. Margaret
Santa appeared and distribut- Reichert and music supervisor,
ed gifts and treats. I Mrs. Ellen Graham.
Mrs. Orland Reichert is,teach-1 Chiselhurst Concert
er of the school, and Mrs, M.i A Christmas concert was held
MacKinnon of Clinton, music jin Chiselhurst United Church on
supervisor.
S.S 10 Hay Christmas Concert
S.S. TO Hay held their annual [pot luck supper.
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evening, Mr. Harold Bell was > bers" of“ the Sunday School in
chairman for the evening. .The j eluded recitations by ----- ---- —-i-----.r :'-i: Drummond. Paf.riria Harris
Monday afternoon with the par
ents as guests for the occasion.
Ross Forrest was chairman. The
school was decorated with Christ
mas emblems and a decorated
tree.
Numbers on the program in
cluded a welcome song, r”'1
opening number, a
A Christmas concert was held
Wednesday by the congregation
and Sunday School of the church.
The concert was preceded by a
Christmas^ concert, on ^Monday j * A program‘presented by mem-
-it u n.n r. , b
I recitations by Bruce
Drummond, Patricia Harris,
Adeline Chappel, Teddy Stone
man, David Spark, Robert Drum
mond, Ruth Ann Coleman, solo
by Miss Dorothy Parker, piano
solo by Bob Munn;
A special offering taken up
will be donated to the Hungarian
Relief, Rev. C. D. Daniel was
chairman.
program embraced recitations,
choruses, two-part songs, dia
logues and pantomime.
Stephen Elder favoured with
selections on the guitar, and
Wayne Payne, selections on the
violin. Kathryn Gackstetter was
accompanist for both numbers.
A chorus, “Reindeer Bells”,
written by a Denfield girl, was ____ _
one of the highlights of the con-| Mrs. Robert McLean is a pa-
cert. Mrs. Harold Bell was ac-1 tient in Clinton Community
companist for the evening. ’Hospital in the interests of her
Mrs. E. Norminton is the j her health.
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Our sincere good
to you on this happy holiday.
E. L. Mickle & Son
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PHONE 103 HENSALL
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'Wassail Bowl
Toast To Health
On Christmas Day
Among the happy customs of
Christmas is that of drinking a
wish for health and happiness to
the assembled guests—the early
name used was “wassail.”
The name “wassail” is a con
traction of the middle English
“waes hael,” meaning “be thou
well.”
Wassail was usually prepared
in a large wooden bowl. The base
of the drink, which was cider,
'First Yule Tree Erected In 1604
■ Christmas trees and cribs, with-;were fond of'a fantastic decora
in respective spheres of influence, tion called the Ceppo. Pyramidi-
l provide focal points for observ-! cal in construction, the Ceppi
I ances of the season. ! were made on a framework of
I Various legends claim to tell lathes with transverse shelves
of Qf T’ ’,'1 nr-r the story of the first Christmas nsmg to three or four stores, de
al bl, Andrews United Church tree; actually, evergreen decora-'pending on the over-all size of
and was well attended. Rev. I [ions were so closely associated i Ceppo.
Norman Mc.Leod acted as chair-! with pagan celebrations that,,they | ’
man for the evening. '
The program included a wel- tics of the early church. [__A._BI____________
come by . Larry Consitt and] According to literature, the first;flags; a manger scope was rep-
Garry Dietz, recitations by Christmas tree was set up at ""
Donna Whitehouse and Kenneth) Strasbourg, Germany, in 1601;
Jones, Linda Hay, Linda Work-’even then, the cry rose against
man, Nancy Consitt, Gwenneth heathen customs and, as late as
Hendrick, Ray Finkbeiner, Wen-! 1851, the Rev. Henry Schwan was
dy Jones, Gary Anderson, Bobby! severely criticized for .setting up
Gridzak and Al Kyle. a Christmas tree in his church in
Songs were given by Kenneth I Cleveland, Ohio. .
and' Grant Jones, Debby Ander-I St Francis of Assisi received
son, Al Kyle, a quartette, Mrs.! ?peclal Passion from the pope
Bruce McGregor Mrs Wm to Present a tableau of the nativ-
S’„ kS, sensation; the ratals-
sance endowed the cribs with or
nate pageantry and, modernly,
the crib is to Southern Europe
and Catholic countries what the
tree is to America and northern
lands.
i Eighteenth century Italians
Kippen SS
i The annual Sunday School con-
i cert was held Tuesday eveningG ‘ ’ ".". .I ~ p
I and was well attended
. „ ......... . .. __ ! The whole think was covered
[were banned by many ecclesias-1with colored paper, tufts, tassels,
......'■ [fringes, tiny pine cones, and little
[ resented on the' lowest shelf,
while the upper ones were cov
ered with small gifts, etc.; wax
tapers were placed along the
sides and a large gilt cone orna-
I mented the top. Although the or
iginal designer probably never
I saw a Christmas tree, the Ceppo
i—aided by a little imagination—
j bridges the gap between Christ
mas cribs and trees.
Dietz, recitations by' Christmas °tree was set up at
, in 1601;
Hope your holiday* are
as merry as children building a snowman I
violin solo by Keith Anderson, ■
a piano duet by Margaret Elgie.
and Sharon McBdidc, chorus by:
Karen Littleton, Ruth Ann Mc-
Nichol, Joan Sinclair and Marga
ret Jean Broadfoot; a skit and a
rose drill by pupils of SS 2
Tuckersmith a duet by Gary
Deitz and Jim Kyle and a duet
by Mrs. N. McLeod and Mrs.
Ros's Broadfoot.
Joan Sinclair demonstrated
the making of a Christmas cake
and song while mixing it.
Santa made his appearance
and distributed gifts from a dec
orated tree.
Personal Items
Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson Dick-
ert of Clifford visited on Wednes
day with the former’s brother
and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs,
Norman Dickert.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ducharme
of Dashwood were guests of Mrs.
Ducharme’s mother Mrs, Ame
lia McClymont. I
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“Every week can be Safe-
• Driving Week in Canada,” de-
I clares the Canadian Highway
Safety Conference, sponsor of
Canada’s national Safe-Driving
Week, December 1 to 7, “but it
is up to the individual motorist
and pedestrian to do it.”
Fink's Plumbing & Heating
PHONE 36 * HENSALL
Holy Hawthorn
Yuletide Legend
In honor of the Hawthorn,
which legendarily shielded Christ
while he rested in the woods be
fore the crucifixion, Joseph of
Armathaea chose a thorn staff
when he started on his long jour
ney to Britain shortly after the
death of Christ. Arriving, at last
at his new home in Glastonbury,
Joseph stuck his walking stick
into the ground; the staff began
■fo grow and soon acquired the habit of producing flowers each
Christmas Eve.
The first literary mention of the
thorn is contained in Hearne’s
History and Antiquities of Glas
tonbury, published in 1722. . In
this work, Mr. Eyston states:"
“Whether it Sprang from St. Jo
seph of Arimathaea’s dry staff,
I cannot find,'but beyond all dis
pute it sprang up miraculously.”
When Britain adopted the Gre
gorian calendar in 1753, 2,000 per
sons assembled at Glastonbury
on December 25—new style—to
see if the Holy Thorn would bloom
in agreement with the new calen
dar; when it did not, many re
fused to participate in the usual
observances of Christmas. The
evil of changing calendars was
proven when the thorn blossomed
on January 5—Christmas Eve—
old style—and many ministers in
the vicinity of Glastonbury appeased their congregations by an
nouncing that Christmas would be
observed according to the old cal
endar.
A cutting of the Glastonbury
thorn was brought to America in
1900 and planted near St. Alban’s
school in Washington, D.C., by
the late. Right Rev. Henry Gates
Satterlee. The cutting grew into
a tree, blossoming for the first
time in December, 1918; since
then, it has blossomed each year
at Christmastime and attracts
thousands of visitors annually.
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And Employees
ONTARIO 'HENSALL
Phone 32
SEASONS
GREETINGS
At this cheery time of yeir.Awe wish everybody
a good, old-fashioned Merry Christmas, replete
all the joy and contentment of
General Coach Works
HENSALL
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5 TO $1 STORE
Mr. and Mrs. C, Christie
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/rienrfly wish for
A *ry yap/>y Holiday.
W. G.
Thompson
& Son
Hensall
Christmas
We hope your Yule feasting is full of all the good treats
that Christmas brings and that your holiday is a happy
Otte!
Market
to say
Merry
Christmas
and to
your w
Straight from the shoulder,
right from our/heart, we
take time out from the
hustle-bustle of the Holi
day’season to wish every
one a Merry Merry Christ
mas.
BEATON'S BAKERY
Phone 35 Hensall
... to all our friends
old and new. May your
fondest wishes all
come true!
BOB COOK
MOTOR SALES
AND SERVICE
Phone 178 Hensall
It is our fondest
wish that you enjoy1
every happiness!
SPENCER LUMBER
(Planing Mill)
Phone 102-W Hensall
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GREETINGS
Here’s the Holiday Ex
press , < , and it’s bring
ing a full carload of our\
very best holiday wishes
to all our friends and
patrons!
COOK BROS.
MILLING CO.
...JiwulL
Once again as the spirit
of Christmas fills the air,
we take the opportunity
to wish all our friends
and their families a glad
some Noel and the best
New Year ever.
CLARK A FUSS
ELECTRIC
l Phone 124 Hensall
To all our friends and
patrons who have helped
' make our year a prosper
ous one . . . may peace
and good cheer reign in
your household this Holi
day season, and through
out the year!
HENSALL DISTRICT
CO-OP
Phmw ......... Mamall...,.
We hope your Christmas
scene is a picture of joy
and happiness. Our very
best wishes for a holiday
season that’s abounding
with peace and good will.
May ■ the true spirit of
Christmas glow warmly in
your heart and lead you
into a New Year richly
endowed with the bless
ings of peace and happi
ness.
RUDY'S PRODUCE
Egg Grading Station
Phone 190 Hensall
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Bright as a Christmas can
dle, gay as Santa's smile,
our Holiday wishes go out
to you. May the true spirit
of the season long shine
in your heart,
JOHN HENPERSON
Egg Grading Station
Phone 40 .....Hensall
May a full measure of
Holiday cheer be yours
throughout the coming
year. Have the merriest
Christmas ever, chock-full
of life’s blessings.
W. 0. GOODWIN
Dry Goods
Phone 16 Hens*ll