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alt for May oil a vf Ytv GROCERY NEWMARKET POLICE DEPARTMENT A Merry Christmas AND A Happy New Year WATCH FOR CHILDREN ON THE STREET REMEMBER ITS A CHILDRENS HOLIDAY JuHotiiirvily to thank alt hind and and to with Jo V9iy holiday PAINT LINOLEUM Christmas Trees Cribs And Ceppi Christmas trees And cribs with in respective spheres influ ence provide focel points for ob servances of the season Various legends claim to tell he story of the first Christmas tree actually evergreen decor ations were so closely associated with pagan celebrations that they were banned by many ecclesiast ics of the early church Faith And Peace Are Eternal According to literature first Christmas tree was set up at Strasbourg Germany in even then the cry rose against heathen customs and as late as the Rev Henry Schwan was severely criticized for setting up a Christmas tree in his church in Cleveland Ohio St Francis of Assist received special permission from the pope to present a tableau of the nativ ity scene This first crib set up at Grcccio Italy in was an immediate sensation the renais sance endowed the cribs with or nate pageantry and the crib is to southern Europe and Catholic countries what the tree is to America and northern lands Eighteenth century Italians were fond of a fantastic decorat ion called the Ceppo in construction the were made on a framework of lathes with transverse shelves rising to three or four stories depending on the size of the The whole thing was covered will colored paper tufts tassels fringes tiny pine cones and lit tle flags a manger scene was re presented on the lowest shelf while the upper were cov ered with small gifts etc wax tapers were placed along the sides and a large gilt cone ornamented the top Although the original de signer probably never saw a Christmas tree the aid ed by a little Imagination bri dges the gap between Christmas cribs and trees Twenty centuries have passed since the Inn at Bethlehem was overcrowded because of Caesar Augustus and his census The bigwigs who crowded the inn were committed to oblivion by their contemporaries and ex cept for the census and resultant conditions at Bethlehem It wou ldnt matter too much if August us completely vanished from the history books It is generally immaterial that as puppet king of Herod fortified the kingdom and kept it out of the clutches of Cleopatra rebuilt the city of Samaria and endowed several pagan temples long since crumbled Into dust I Few people know and fewer care that his wife and two sons were murdered at his command This sort of a Romanized Jew Is remembered chiefly because of inks of hatred and pre judice and splattered with much blood but cynics had best not rest their argument too confident ly upon the gory records written or provoked by men who cither did not know Christ or openly re jected his commands On the other hand the glad tidings announced to a few she pherds at Bethlehem have inspir ed courage and faith and love such as no earthly decree or pro clamation has ever called forth Faith and Peace are eternal quests and twenty centuries arc mere fleeting moments of Etern ity Page 19 The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday Dee Christmas Rosa Has Heal Significance Legend tells us that young shepherd girl was weeping bit terly as she watched the Wise Men on their way to take gifts to the Christ Child An angel ap peared and after ascertaining why the young girl wok crying she waved her wand and in stantly ground was carpeted with white rases The young girl quickly gathered these Mourns When presented gift the Christ Child united and his fingers touched the white lowers the petals become tinged with pink yule Mean The Wold Yule for j ma from the AngloHax- meaning Dei ember mini it I Newmarket Drug Store Hours For The Christmas Season Christmas Day Tuesday December Closed All Day Boxing Day Wednesday December 26 Closed All Day Hew Years Day Tuesday January Closed All Day PLEASE NOTE CUT OUT FOR REFERENCE For And Other Emergency Needs During The Days We Are Closed Please Phone The Person On Call CHRISTMAS DAY DEC phone CHESTER BEST TW BOXING DAY DEC phone ATKINSON TW NEW YEARS DAY JAN phone HARVEY LANE May We Ask Your CoOperation During These Special Day THANKS l CO IN Mm Ml Ml I- NEWMARKET DRUG STORES D ATKINSON CHESTER BEST HARVEY LANE a his treatment of the Wise Men and because he auth oring the slaughter of the Holy Innocents and even this deed of Incredible cruelty might have been forgotten if the Innocents were not associated with the Ba be of who grew into the Christ and bequeathed a new philosophy of love and peace to all mankind Some men question what has been accomplished during the centuries since Bethlehem True enough some of the re cords have been written with in- Christmas Day On Christmas Day we repeat the old familiar greeting that each year in some mystic way rings fresh and true Merry Christmas Like such words as hello and there really isnt anything else to say that pulls at our heartstrings as do these old dear words And so again we say Merry Christmas In the lilt- lest ones who skip downstairs in the gray dawn to explore their Children of Provence France reverently recite the following prayer before the Christmas cribs in that vicinity Little Jesus of the Crib- Give us the virtues of those who surround you Make us as philosophical as the fisherman Carefree as the drummer Merry for exploring the word as the troubadour Eager for work as the bugler Kind as the ass Patient as the spinner Strong as the ox which keeps yoi warm Give us the sacred leisure of the hunter Give us also the desire of the Shepherd for earthly things The pride of the trade of the knife grinder and the weaver The song of the miller Give us the knowledge of the Magi The cheerfulness of the pigeon The impulsiveness of the cock The discretion of the snail The meekness of the lamb Give us the goodness of bread The tenderness of the wild boor The salt of the haddock The humor of old wine The ardor of the candle The purity of a star Propriety of a few of the met aphors may be disputed never theless nostalgia prompts specu lation regarding a world of hum manity endowed with the virtu es so earnestly and innocently en umerated by the little ones To test your Christmas spirit and knowledge the following questions are given You should answer half of them In order to pass Who wrote The Night Before Christmas What story contains the foll owing a miserly old man 3 Where Is Christmas island Who wrote White Christmas In what country was mistletoe first worn around the neck to prevent sickness What docs the Saxon word had or be in health mean in connection with a Christmas custom An old Christmas superstition starts A warm Christmas means How does it end Who is What plant a thorny one tra ditionally blooms only at Christmas time Until her death what song did Mine SchumannHcink al ways sing on Christmas What is the literal meaning of Christmas 12 Where are the remains of Good SL Nicholas of OUST TO say St GAuHmi AND buried i ANSWKKS stockings and lite wondrous tree and look at Christ mas with the special radiance of youth who lend to the rest of us little glim mers of the real Christmas glam our Merry Christmas to father wholl strain a point any to give us all things we who probably works touch too hard and yet keeps younger mora alert because of the respon sibility of a family and tin of business who mak es the gesture of tut- tolling nil the fuss and fed hers yet brums with affection mid excitement Merry Christmas to mother who really rails the lone for holidays and doe the planning anil pill ling together who flutters ami hustles for weeks ahead and undoubtedly Those who give themselves grow richer The kindly word the spontan eous smile the thoughful deed those arc outward expressions of the goodness inside the hearts and minds of men Those of us in the newspaper business must record the little things make news day by day Often we wish there were less of pettiness In the world and more of he spirit of Christmas scattered throughout the year nut the day that marks the birth of Jesus brings with a rebirth faith hope and realisation that deep down Inside each per son there are Christlike of loyally unit devotion to Hie highest principl es of God and man 1 1 is those which make Christmas the most Joyous season of nil Truly here Is joy the wor ld In abundant evidence of self of hands clasped In friend ship of hearty good wishes How Insignificant ore the little troub lesome things of the world in light of the Christmas spirit pervades the world And so we again join in the gladness of the season to wish all our friends and subscribers A Dr Clement Moore A Christmas Carol In Indian ocean southwest of Java Irving Berlin 5 Sweden Wassail bowl A cold Easter The Aztec Indian god half bird half snake who took the place of Santa in Mexi co in 1030 Christmas cactus Silent Mass of Christ The remains were stolen in by merchants and rein terred at Bart Robert Yates and Staff Edible Manger In Ukraine Rituals thd Ukraine an elaborate Christmas Eve supper breaks a 39day fast during which no meat has been eaten Twelve courses are served for each of the twelve Apostles buck wheat and mushroom soup pan cakes in flax prunes fish bread and nuts ere included in the menu An additional course of honey and porridge is also served call ed Kaulia the dish represents the holy crib the porridge repre sents straw as in the man ner and the Holy Infant is symbolized by honey and fruit the honey is also considered symbolic of spirit and blood of the Saviour VETS TAXI Phone TW 52151 NEWMARKET TAXI Phone TW 54515 WILL BE CLOSED from 1 pm to 5 pm ON BOTH CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEARS has best and hue of all Merry Clirislmas hut- eher the linker the can ileal not mention nil who sold us shoes mid ship ami scaling wax for whal Would be without them through them weve all to our own little hi the wholesome way of by spending Merry far and Hear whove Hireling and gifts most esp ecially do greet ings oven mora than Ihey the rite apJrJt of Christmas Merry drop- who come with holiday their and who none our mi lies or atop by In a alius of extra Jel ly an original privately Invoic ed relish to for that matter Put then wo feel mi well have one for weve put so much work and and loving getting- ready into It of course we all gel out about Ornament Making A Cottage Industry Those colored ornaments we hang on our lives come from iiiiy Czechoslovakia and Poland A number were made in Japan When Die war cot off these glass liners who never bothered with be fore turned part of Ihetr facili ties over to the pretty gewgawii methods were developed Unit could Mow many ornament in hour as a could make In a month Thus modern efficiency amy doom this pliliinsrpie ear lied on In the towns of eastern Europe Ornament making is a typical collage Industry in villages that cling steep mountainsides special tie hi tret lain shapes ami designs patterns that may date back for hundreds of years un changed The father using a burlier carefully blows ho tubing lire de sired shape with the aid of an Iron mold Ills acting as mold hoy removes hot orna ment to a cooling table Next the mother silvers the Inside and finally Ihe daughter It thi W family and the Join In vtth holiday esse STORE STAFF