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Newmarket Largest Circulation The loading County Paper well as the Oldest No soul out of North York unlosa paid in advance NEWMARKET CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS MOTHER Irons CnJltHtV I nJ Foil Tonal Sail and LliliU Rowlands Hardware THE PAINT STOW Arc you going abroad this year If so wo suggest you carry a Letter of Credit is tho moat satisfactory method of providing your needs in foreign currencies It acts as an in traduction to bankers in all parts of the world and then your funds arc drawn from your own Bank only as you draw on the Letter of Credit IMPERIAL BANK You Travel YOUR OLD ROOFS NOW Before the Bad Winter Weather Comes PAINT THEM WITH A COAT OF AMERICAN LIQUID ROOF CEMENT Fill Up Tiny In Any Kind of Roof THIS LIQUID CEMENT WILL SEAL All and make a waterproof sheet through hi NO MOI8TURE Can Penetrate GIVES YEARS OF COMPLETE PROTECTION MADE IN CANADA Qet More Particulars from F Ave Newmarket Phone 173 Doom West of Pot Office tlie ancient Scandi navians centuries before tlie birth of be Christ Child In far off Later when Christianity flourished in England these customs were copied and used as part of tin Christmas celebrations The first enrols were sung in con Christmas about tb Probably the most popular of all ancient carols tlie one beginning God rest merry It was written more than five tired years ago but the to which It Is sung is said to be practically same as tbat used the ancient Yule celebrations long before the day of Christianity The oldest carol known is at oil for it is sung in In ling Health to ply tfns tie a to Christmas Carol of Wassail or Your health It was the custom of our Saxon forefathers and had grown into an Institution long before the eleventh century when a wassail bowl was car- from house to house for the purpose of drinking to the masters health mid incidentally to gather the pence for so doing The wassail 111 Ill I 1 this paper A enrol nowadays means written for Christmas and i tive of the Nativity originally meant a occasion which made appeal people In genera who shop of Rome in A inaugurated tlie custom of celebrating the Nativity carols or spiritual folk songs and us Christ inns took its the affections of the people about any the the ii l- I the Bank feliapp season foe bring liappfness ESTABLISHED 1 ay Swwwll We promise you a full weight ton of good clean coal at the right price and we will e that you get it plus our best of cour teous treat ment fined to occasions was the Angels Hie first of nil Christmas carols God In the highest a lie theme of the holly I red as any blood sweet Jesus To do poor sinners good Chris trims was in the olden time an especially favoured da the nobility who paid singer Chris trims Carols In tin began the custom of Christ about on Christmas day singing from Carols arc usually associated in tin minds of Canadians with the custom of older countries of Europe con the translation of the firs Christmas Carol sung in Ontario aroused a great dent of interest This translation was made by I J the wellknown Ci writer who is also a and enthusiastic mriBiclan He tells us that Father Jean the Jesuit Missionary I Huron Indians wrote carols ft who were prepared to mOrcthan ft two days journey dcr to sing hymns In honour new born Child One of these was written In the Huron Ian by Father In under the name of Jesous Abatonbia preserved by tribal later i o old carols e line la as follows Jesous Aha Men take courage The tune used sixteenth century ititlcdUne conjunction with Mr t ran Ion a accompaniment to the tune has been arranged by D of Toronto and already been sung in many parts Ontario Tin Coming of the Shepherds The songs about tjie and the Advent of the Holy Babe usually composed around legends that were as well known as the Bible story rtself as for example the legend the cherry that bowed down so Virgin might gather its fruit As Joseph was an old man an and His in the morning the Bat fable the of which appealed to th folk as bo natural that the added their own details the story An old Austria bat guided to the Christ Chi mistletoe which was symbol of Ail heal was laid on the altar at of Christmas festivals Church and the ivy both ami light the our Lord Christmas Eve Dream little child The shadows fall Over the land the mystic veil That hides the morrow from our eyes Is swaying in the starlight pale Dream little child Tls Christmas eve Dream while the magic hours glide by wind that blows the wild Is laden with sweet mystery Mr George assistant teacher at the H has sent in his resig nation with regret to the Hoard The Altar At the residence of the brides father by Elder H Dec Miss Stephens to Starr both of Whit church At the residence of Peter Milne uncle of the bride Dec by Rev John Brown Miss Jennie Milne to George Walton of East On Christmas Day In by Reeves Miss Harriett Hogg of Gears of Scott On Dec by Rev C H at the residence of the brides father Miss Hannah of Sharon to Crawford Macklem of Whitchurch On Dec at the Congregational Church Newmarket by Iter J Williams Miss Elizabeth Thompson of Newmarket to Hugh Ed Taylor of Whitchurch The Tomb In Newmarket Dec Cook in his year Deceased was a prominent Liberal justice of the peace and a member of the village Council for IP years During this the first fire engine Was purchased r At Lloyd town Dec Anthony Eastwood merchant and postmaster aged years In Mason Mich Dec 2nd Ellen wife of Ed A Barnes and daughter of the late George Vernon of Whit church in her year In Newmarket Dec Thos Warner a native of Cambridgeshire England in his year Years Ago it Era December ragged robe of rabbit skin Enwrapped His beauty round org far before Him knelt fox and beaver pelt kneel before the radia of them in our Church tat the Nativity hymns strong appeal Flocks by Night Awake Salute the Happy Morn John Wain Came Upon the Midnight Dream little child The glowing coals Are painting pictures on the wall Out from the quivering shadows there You almost hear the thrilling call Of Merry Christmas little maid 1 I hope Ive brought your hearts desire And Santas shadow just above Grows lifelike by the leaping fire Dream little child I The Christmas air Is glowing with your visions bright And all the joys tomorrow holds Are shining on the page of night Dream little child I And may the years To you their richest treasures leave And may all happy dreams prove real That come to you this Christmas eve MR MORGAN BAKER Christmas i ved the world Ural through al He Ilia only left to stumble WIe heaven i oka IcdlSe- i WOe J His mat Ibis gift doom that sin and find ours life- hat reaches ally loves that He Father dearest and I years in the Council la a candidate again for of He will be elected without opposition a County Commissioner In 1024 has been a member of the Committee of the County the past two years being of tho Committee of a body the member of the Egyptian Economic Xing- Canada and the Untied States William Is In Toronto to carry on his study of eco nomic conditions Speigel stated that great had Palistine resettlement of the by Jews of Central Europe Balfour Declaration is sue- very well More than 50- come into the country and the country and the Dead Sea will he made to yield its riches on the near future There are enough minerals in that body of f1 tir Baker then longest standing men and Ids since Whitchurch his father Mr You would bend nlo the the all I next decade The British is spending large sums of Investigation and will carry tensive campaign of develop- the Dead Sea the power plant I surplus of 9839 after meeting of operation and off ihe debenture debt set ting aside for depreciation rebating to the Tows ell was spent on capi tal account without issuing a dollar of Large family ge of Miss of over Christmas 3rd Miss Crumb of spend the winter Miss Jessie Mir Christmas Mr and Mrs Moi Lloyd John Fred Lloyd and bride Dakota is old friends in North York Miss Gertie Millard was the of a present from her S S class Mrs Hill of who came of Mrs Codys death Mr and for Lewis the funeral of he ixercises which Bert Bar surplus of hurch in iris Dec son f the late Donald pupils of the Model School had Friday and Cleo and Cody II Mitchell Of of Kin