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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!
If you haven't already prepared your
Christmas Gift List, then right 'now is
the time to do it. Chances are you may
not know what to get some members of
the family on your list—That's where -
we come in. •
Visit our store soon and see the many
fine Gift Suggestions we have. You'll be
amazed this year when some things are
scarce. Too, you'll find our prices 'reas-
onable for such fine merchandise.
From time to time we'll have more
suggestions .for you . . . but right now
we urge you to shop while stocks are
complete and selections the best.
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privilege of seeing them in the Mem,
orial Hall here.
Assist At 0,P,P, Launching
Of F,M, Radio Network
A new era in the history of the On-
tario Provincial Police began last week
when the radio • communication system
in District 5 was declared officially in
operation, Inspector T. H, Trimble
is in charge of .communications and ,
Constable ',John Hare, son of Mrs.
Idabel Hare of town, assisted in the
planning 9C-the system. 4
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The Wassail bowl goes around in
Scotland—and elsewhere—at New
Year's time.
The origin of the custom is really
lost in antiquity: Saxon ancestors pro-
bably quaffed their ale from the pol-
ished skulls of defeated enemies, and
the Rowena legend must be classified
as presumably fiction,"
Rowena is reported to have offered
her father's guest—Prince Vortigren—
a bowl of wine with the salutation
"Lord King,. wass-ItaW,," literally, :"To
Your Healte Dramilag, the rowl With
one draught, Vortigren fell in love with
Rowena and they lived happily ever
after.
Anyway, in time the bowl itself be-
came an ornament of graceful design
—decorated with branches of green-
ery which formed a canopy over the
bowl. The mixture within was warm
and included ale, sugar, spices, sweet-
ened wipe was added by hosts who
could afford it, apples floated on top
of the decoction, sometimes called
"lamb's wool" or the "old man's beard."
The poorer classes carried a bowl de-
corated with ribbons around the neigh-
borhood, begging that it be filled, so
they, too, might enjoy the Wassail.
The custom of making short calls
on New Year's Day was in full swing
hroughout America about 1900. News-
papers carried columns of "at home"
notiEeS specifying the 'hours during
during which visitors would be receiv-
ed, A sneeession of "open houses" and ..tt*
punch bowls sometimes minimized the Nif
courtesy accorded to hostesses —re- W
eptions were often "crashed" by bib-
ulous strangers; hence, the publicly an-
financed "open house" custom 'has foll.
OBITUARY
Miss Jessie Warwick
Miss Jessie Warwick, a native of
Scotland, passed • away in Wingham
General Hospital, on Sunday, Novem-
ber 23rd., after a brief illness due to
a heart condition. She was in her 69th
year: Corning to Canada 30 years ago,
she made her honie with her cousin,
the late John Nichol of Wingham. Af-
ter the death of Mrs. Nichol, she lived
with her cousin, 'until his death 3 years
ago, Since then she has spent six mon-
ths of each year with her friend, Mrs.
M. McPherson of Milverton. She was
a faithful member of St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are, one sister, Bessie, of
Cape Town, S. Africa; two brothers,
Robert of Lancashire, England, and
James of the Post Office Department,
London, England, and a nephew with
the British Army in Palestine.
Funeral services were conducted by
her pastor, Rev. A..Nimmo on Wednes-
day, • November 26th, from Currie's
Funeral Home. The pallbearers were:
Bert Holmes, A. Showers, A. M. Peeb-
les, Roy Mundy, Eldon Johnston and
Harry Bateman, Interment was made
in Wingham cemetery. Attending the
funeral from a distance were Mrs. Mc-
Pherson and Bill of Milverton, and a
cousin, Miss Nichol of Toronto.
WHITECHURCH
Mr. Norman Pocock of E. Wawan-
osh, along with other Huron boys who
plowed at the International Plowing
Match at Kingston, was a guest at the
Huron Federation Banquet at Seaforth
last Tuesday evening.
Miss Winnifrd Farrier of Toronto
has been a patient in Western Hospital
in Toronto, following an operation last
week. Her sister, Mrs. Jack Gillespie
DISTRICT ELECTIONS
West Wawanosh
Reeve—Everett Finnigan (336) Gor.
don McPherson (278).
Council (four elected)--john Dtunin
(479), Harold Gaunt (376), Benson
Johnston (298), Thomas Lickson (292)
David McAllisterB
ly(2th86),
peeve—Franklin Bainton. (257), Geo.
McNall (136),
Council (four elected) George Rad-
ford (282), John Watson (271), Win.
Rich (229), Harold Vodden (182),
Herbert Dexter (141).
Culross
Reeve—Lester Falconer (Accl.)
School Board— Alex. Donaldson,
Graham Moffat, Roy Dobson (Acct.)
HURON OLD BOYS
ANNUAL MEETING
The 47th Anatial Meeting of the
Huron Old Boys Association of Tor-
onto, will be held on Thursday, Dec-
ember 11th, at West End Y.M.C.A.,
corner College and Dovercourt Road.
Election of officers will be held at 8.30
and euchre and bridge will commence
at 9 p.m.
Three turkeys will be the prizes, one
for the best euchre player, one for
bridge and a special draw. All former
Huronites will be made welcome. Re-
freshments will be in the old Huron
style.
WASSAIL BOWL FOR
AULD LANG SYNE
and they're a most
welcome Gift for every
member of the family,
from Dad down to
Junior.
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of Huntsville has 'been with her, and
Mr. and Mrs. Carman Farrier of New
Toronto.
Reeve J. D. Beecroft successfully
contested the election for Reeve, in E.
Wawanosh on Monday.
Mrs. Jack Johnston was able to re-
turn to her home here on Friday last.
Mr. V. Roy of Londesboro presented
the pictures of the National Film
Board in the Memorial Hall "bete on
Monday evening. After the Christmas
carols, all were interested in the pic-
tures of the reclamation of land from
the sea in Nova Scotia, and in the
British possessions of Suez Canal,
Malta and Gibraltar, and the thrills of
the skiers on mountain stretches, and
the need of modern education to meet
the needs of a modern world, and
psychiatry, and the one for the Juniors,
Bunny Rabbit. The pictures of the
great synthetic rubber plant, Polymer,
at Sarnia, were a real education to all.
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For the Sunday, December 7th,
broadcast, (CKNX 5;00-6;00 p.m. E. IS.T.) the Ford Theatre goes "all
Canadian" with a one hour drama by
a Canadian writer, a. Canadian Oat and
Canadian orchestra. Ross Anne%
uthor of the famous 'Little Joe, ilig
oe" stories which appear in the Sat-
urday Evening Post, has written a
story for the Ford 'Theatre around his
favorite characters, with the locale as
Southen Alberta. Radio adaptiou has
been done by Tommy Tweed.
Born in Watford, Ontario, Mr, An-
nett was employed in 'his younger years
AS a cub reporter on the old London
Advertiser and during that period of
his life wrote adventury stories *Vet
were well accepted hi American pulp
'magazines.
en into decline Arid, New Year's calls
now being exchanged only by intimat-
es, the Wassail bowl goes 'round in.
private.
CHRISTMAS TREES
CRIBS AND CEPPI
Christmas trees and cribs, within re-
spective spheres of influence, provide]
focal points for observances of the sea-
son,
Various legends claim to tell the
story of the first Christmas tree; act-
ually, evergreen decorations were so
closely associated with pagan cele-
brations that they were banned by
many ecclesiastics of the early church.
According to literature, the first
Christmas tree teas set up at Stras-
bourg, Germany, in 1604; even then,
the cry rose against 'heathen customs
and as late as 1851, the Rev. Henry
Schwan was severely criticized for set-
ting up a Christmas tree in his church
in 'Cleveland, Ohio.
St. Francis of Assisi received special
permission from the pope to present a
tableau of the nativity scene. This first
crib, set up at Greccio, Italy, in 1223,
was an immediate sensation; the re-
naissance endowed the cribs with (mt•
ate pageantry and, modernly, the alb
is to southern Europe and Catholic
countries what the tree is to America
and northern lands.
Eigliteenth century Italians were
fond of a fantastic decoration called
the Ceppo. Pyramidical in construction,
the Ceppi were made on a framework
of lathes with transverse shelves rising
to three or four stories, depending on
the over-all size of the Ceppo.
The whole thing was covered with
colored paper, tufts, tassels, fringes,
tiny pine cones, and little flags; a man-
ger scene was represented on the low-
est shelf, while the upper ones were
coveted with small gifts, etc.; Iva);
ed tapers were -placed along the sides m
and a large gilt cone ornamented the
top. Although the original designer
probably never saw a Christmas tree,
the Ceppo—aided 'by a little imogina-
tion—bridges the gap between Christ.
etas cribs and trees,
WIN( HAM
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