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ZURICH ClTIZONS NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963
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D uring this beautiful time o£ the year, we
send you and yours glad Christmas greetings
and wish you all the blessings of the season.
Vernon Schatz General Store
DASHWOOD
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our peace on earth, and all that gifts among themselves. Instead
Ieach was to choose a toy to be
remains for us now is to prat- distributed among Indian Oil-
.01tice a bit more of the second dren. I am sure there are many
part of that statement—good other examples 1 haven't heard
will toward men. If we do, of,but as long as we have young
the chances aren't half bad that pople around like that, Christ -
our children too will avoid mas hasn't lost out completely
e marching off to war.
is to commercialism.
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A people celebrate on Christmas,
i not knowing whether it will be
,s their last, Viet -Nam is a prime
example, Israel is another. In
many other parts of the world
the joy of Christmas is tem-
pered by events of the past
year. • Look at Czechoslovakia,
look at Nigeria, and look even
at the United States, where over
15,000 homes have lost a loved
one in Viet -Nam.
Finally, what about those in
our own country who are not
so fortunate. We tend to for-
get that we could really do a
great deal here to make Christ-
mas meaningful for Canadians
who for some reason have no
cause to believe that the season
even exists.
There seems to be something
about every Christmas that
makes it a bit different from
the last one. I note this year,
for example, that there are
Q , 1 very few war toys for sale any
place. and even fewer adver-
tised on TV or other news
media. You may be interested
to know this has been the case
in Russia for years. It all
started with Krushchev, of all
people, who believed that if the
Russians were going to be
peace -loving people, war toys
had no place in their children's
lives. I'm glad to see that this
thinking is finally catching on
in North America.
I hope 1 will remember this
Christmas, too, as the year when
peace started to return to Viet -
Nam. The chances are better
than they have been for some
time, and if the powers con-
cerned can only show a bit of
that "good will toward men"
that people so often talk about,
we may even have a full-fleged
peace there before Christmas,
1969.
Finally I will remember this
Christmas as the time when I
was not let down in my convic-
tion that there is as much good
will among young people as
there is any place else. Just
before I started writing this, I
read that students of a senior
opportunity class in Brampton
spent about three months earn-
ing $200 so that they could do
something for Indians living in
hardship in Northern Ontario.
In the same town a Brownie
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friends . , . may the
peace and fay of
this beautiful season
always be yours.
DASHWOOD HOTEL
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List Bingo Winners
Father Stephen Eckert Coun-
cil No, 5289, Knights of Colum-
bus, of Seaforth and district,
held their annual turkey bingo
at the Legion Hall, Thursday,
December 5. Following are the
winners of regular games: Mrs.
S. Habkirk, Charles Wood, Dora
Taylor, Mrs. F. Maloney, Mrs, J.
Longstaff, Jim Kelly, Seaforth;
John Paul Rau, Patrick Flana-
gan, Mrs. J. Regier, Gerald
Regier, Zurich; Mrs. W. D. Wil-
son, Brian Wilson; Dennis Den -
ammo, Toronto; Mrs. C. Looby,
Dublin.
Share the wealth winners
were: Mary Desch, Varna; Ferg
Kelly, Dublin; Dora Taylor,
Winnie Nott, Mrs, M. Melanson,
Seaforth; Joanne Rau, Mrs. P.
Durand, Lloyd Denomme, Zur-
ich; Mrs, N. Baird, Brucefield.
Door prize winners were:
Hazel McGonigle, Jim Watson,
Seaforth,
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Send In Your
Farm Record Book
It is farm record book analysis
time again. Anyone who may
wish to have their 1968 farm
record book summarized should
forward it to the agricultural
office, Clinton, during January.
As before, the completed farm
record book will not be leaving
our office. The checking of the
book will be done by local agri-
cultural office staff, Clinton,
and a summary card forwarded
to the computer at the Univers-
ity of Guelph for analysis.
The book may be brought to
the agricultural office or mailed
in. Anyone who would like as-
sistance on completing their
record book may call the agri-
cultural office for an appoint-
ment. Every, farmer in Huron
County who lists completed an
Ontario farm record book in
1968 is welcome to make use
of this "no -fee" analysis service.
For those who wish, a clinic
in this connection will be held
at the agricultural office board
room, Clinton, January 15, 2-4
p.m. For further information,
please call the agricultural of-
fice, Clinton.
Deck Your Hails
With Christmas
Greenery
The use of greenery at Christ-
mas to deck our holiday halls
is a custom dating back to pa-
gan practices of centuries ago.
Evergreen boughs and berries
were originally used to brighten
up the home during the other-
wise gloomy winter season.
The Romans decorated their
homes and temples with boughs
and garlands of flowers during
the winter feast, and they be-
lieved that if they exchanged
green branches during this feast
they would receive good for-
tune for the remainder of the
year.
The use of holly in North
American homes was introduced
by English settlers. Recently,
plants with thick waxy leaves
such as laurels, rododendrons
and boxwood have added to the
decoration of Canadian homes
during the happiest holiday of
the year.
In England, garlands were
hung outside inns as an expres
sion of festivity, hospitality and
good fellowship.
It is a British tradition to
place a sprig of holly in each
beehive during the holidays
This custom was adapted from
a legend which claimed tha
when Christ was born the bee
sang a song in his honor and
to this day they are still hum
ming it.
In some European countries
it is customary for a quarreling
couple to settle their differences
beneath the branch of a holly
tree.
In Austria a large wreath is
hung from the ceiling in the
parlor or largest room. The
Austrians believe that Sylvester
an ancient and ugly man with
a flaxen beard and a wreath of
mistletoe on his head, lurks in
a dark corner of the' room in
which the wreath has been
hung. Whenever someone
passes beneath the wreath, Syl
vester jumps out and gives them
rough kisses and a hug.
At midnight, Sylvester is
driven from the house, symbol
izing the end of the old year.
An ancient custom in Czecho
slovakia, Poland and parts of
Germany is the practice of urg
ing the blossoms of the cherry
tree to bloom for Christmas. At
the beginning of A d v e n t, a
branch is cut from the tree and
placed in a container of water
in the kitchen. It is a sign of
good fortune if the branch
blossoms on Christmas Eve, and
the maid who cut it and cared
for it is sure to find a husband
within the year, the tradition
goes.
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happy greetings and
heartfelt gratitude in a song of
Christmas cheer to good .friends and
customers.
GRAND BEND CLEANERS
Thelma and Jack Waldron and Staff
MERRY
this
merry season,
we are pleased to
greet and thank
all our loyal
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loved ones, may great joy 61l your
home, and peace fill your heart.
V. L. BECKER & SONS
"Your International Harvester Dealer"
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"is Yuletide carolers herald
the Season of Joy and Happiness, may
we chime in with a note of gratitude for
the loyal patronage of our many friends.
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Dashwood
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