The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

8 i i i i m 8 si 5 s3bs5ss2fficffisjffics 5 8- x 8 8 i i 8 8 santa comes stouffville arriving at memorial park at 1030 am 23k bring the whole family to see santa arrive by helicopter ottttttt7tistttttttzstttttts santa will be escorted from the memorial park to the east end and then to the west end of stouffvijle and then back to his chalet on main street alet next to jfflmmlk pf jvlpv4 s 1lli 41 sunta schedule bring your family anytime as shown on schedule tues dec 4 130 pm to 330 pm wed dec 5 130 pm to 330 pm thurs dec 6 130 pm to 330 pm y fri dec 7 130 to 330 pm 730 to 900 pm sat dec 8 10 am to 12 noon 130 to 330 pm tues dec 11 130 pm to 330 pm wed dec 12 130 pm to 330 pm thurs dec 13 130 pm to 330 fri dec sat fri dec sat dec pm 14- 130 to 330 pm 730 to 9 pm 1510 am to 12 noon 1 30 to 330 pim 21 130 to 330 pm 730 to9 pm 22 10 am to 12 noon 130 to 9 pm 20 500 vouchers cash it4 iprmvii on sttttirgttifj jpgjvgmatbttr im hi i 20 clip this coupon 500 lucky draws mptvoulis for iit4 crifkipmwiv fill out your coupon and drop inamk i it into barrel located on addrkss i srouffville main street i near santas chalet voucher redeemable till iter still fkom samta person v comic books v candy canes balloons the children will enjoy ihcir visit with santa article siv history of the old order mennonites t i 8 1 w i t r r s kaunun visiting perhaps he reason that these people do so much visit- ing is because their social ac tivities arc rather limited mar ried peoples main social life is to visit relatives friends and neighbours on sundays after church -or- evn on some occa sions during the week once or so in a lifetime some middle- aged or older couples may travel by train to pennsylvania virginia ohio or indiana where some members of their group also live and are engaged mostly in farming they may spend a month or two visiting there these people have no clubs lodges or institutes of any kind to attend which would break the monotony of their daily routine occasionally some relief work is done by both the men and women of their group sometimes all of the sunday is taken for visiting and ills affords opportunities for the exchange of confidences and harmless bits of homely gossip the men ordinarily talk about their work their livestock and crop programs etc the women will naturally talk about house work and the raising of the children world events federal affairs and other things outside of their interests take care of themselves as far as they are concerned most of them have large families but before their cwh children are old enough to do the farm chores they likely have hired help to look- after them while they visit apart from these sunday visits auc tion sales quillings barn rais ings weddings and even funer als appear tobe the only time when the married people get any diversion from their daily xarm work this may help you to understand why the events named above are such import ant occasions in their lives a quilting the piecing iand quilting ov bed spreads gives another rea son for- a social gathering among the women folks both young and old quilting pro vides more scope than the mak ing of rugs or mats which is also a very common art among these people the quilt designs of these people are very intri cate and patterns are inserted by the stitching also age groups vaiy for these occasions sometimes a bridelobe may invite a number of single girls to one or middleaged women may comprise a group there may be a mixed number of them oi a family group re gardless of ihe ages of the wom en they usually stay all day and are brought there by he falhei s bt others or husbands in buggies or cutters special meals aye served al most as elaborate as their wed ding dinners and of course the ronveisation all day is mostly friendly chatter and harmless gossip ot ihe neighbourhood house keeping naturally domi nates ihe lalk or maybe they hint as to which couples might get mariied that season some body may be sick or another member may have left the church and loinedra more pro gressive mennohite group such loplcs give ample oppor tunities for them to discuss and politics education or oilier current events are hardly with in their scope it the quilling in one where only single girls aie participating their broth ers and boy xriends may come to gel them after supper and all may lake part in a sing ing before ihey gohome singings the main social event of all ihcir young people from ihe lime they leave school until ihey get married is a sunday evening gathering called- a singing this is always held at ihe homes of the different formers in the congregation of a particular church the place of meeting is generally decided the previous sunday night or right after ihe church service ot the same sunday a few of the more prominent or older members of the group make the decision and disagreement seldom arise about this mailer because there are six church es among this group there are several groups of young people with their sunday evening pro grams varying somewhat how ever the general order of activ ities is as follows after supper all the boys visit among their group and the glris do the same next an english hym ns is used and an hour or more is devoled to four part or harmony singing then some games- usually various forms of mixers are played known to them as ring games check ers simple card games such as lost heir may also be played by some groups from forty to sixty young people are ordinari ly present at- a singing one half of them likely having been there- for supper a part rom attending sales weddings barn raisings and quillings these sunday night gatherings com prise all social activities that these young people ever indulge in one of the most exciting events in a afennonite commu nity j barn raising if the barn has been destroyed by are ax unfortunately is sometimes the case neighbours and church members respond immediately to clean up the debris and a new structure is oflen replaced in two or three weeks lime if an extra barn is built or a new mrawshed is erected the rime cheerful and enthusiastic help however is given by ths members barn raising a master carpenter generally called a barn fratner looks after the layout of the barn usually one of their own group selects the necessary timbers and has them cut and fitted ahead of time now all that the helpers have to do on the day of the raising is to fit the part together and set up ihe framework sometime excitement runs high if the men are divided into two sides with experienced captains and each side taking one end of the building a certain part of the frame work is called a bent and these are raised from the ground by a dozen or more men with long pike poles until the vbents stand perpendicular in their proper places the fam iliar yo heave xo heave commands from the captains ring out as the men push up on their pike poles with army pre cision accurate coordination is necessary in this type ot dan gerous work in order to avoid accidents the rafters sheath ing and siding are usually put on the day of the raising jt it is a large barn one hundred or more men may be present about twentyfive or thirty women prepare the food and serve the meals most of the food is donated by other church members in a week or two after the raising the loot is mi- and the stabling and silo almost completed raising a barn and finishing it in such a short period of time is just more evidence oi their cooperative way ot help ing their membeis in need we hate to think ot the icicles that will come with winter the old eavesdroppers no mailer who youre having for dinner tonight makesure theyre warm enough use only safe dependable longer burning blue coal the hard coal lha i is colour marked for your prolection its a warm experience bluecoal stiver bros limited stouffville phone 6403400 ffij