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may the world rejoice again in peace on earth coodm to men j franks shell service centre stouffviue ont christmas qyur irish that peace and understanding prevail throughout j the icorld bringing men lasting hope and love f g alsop insurance agency stouffviue ont gtomi let us rememher especially the gift of love to make ibis christmas a joyous time for all rennie transport stouffviue ont all of you we send our greetings and best wishes for a merry i oldfashioned holiday season the management and staff sales and service stouffviue ont sanders i stouffville 5t to 100 store rev t fleetham pres mt zion mens club balsam mt zion the annual meeting of the mens club was held here last week rev t h fleetham was elected president the vicepresident is murray jones and the secre tarytreasurer percy jones the active service class met last wednesday night for the christmas meeting at the home of mrs lome jones following the worship on christmas mrs wm harbron played an instrumental and mrs glen manderson gave the topic on stories behind famous carols and ended with a quizz on carols it was decided to give 6000 to the missionary and maintenance fund the meet- with christmas j ing closed party the young people went carol ing sunday night to the homes of the sr citizens mr keith jones visited sun day with mr and mrs don fiett at hamilton the brooklin jr farmers held their christmas dance in the mt zion community centre mr and mrs duncan martin moved last week from whitby to mr geo picketts new house in glen major next sunday dec 26 there will be a special combined service at 130 pjn silent night oldest of christmas carols list honour students at st marks school stouffville the follow- ing students obtained above a 75 average at st marks sep arate school in stouffville their names are listed on the honour roll for the first term g egberts p hulshof m moran s smith m corcoran m raes p foulds d chamberlain c viscardi j hulshof w egberts c colburn d kamps j mc- dermott m kamps b moran c mcdermctt k oconnor s foulds s viscardi t mann m hulshof r boss k foulds d garrett m kamps l stangret m vanderburgt j malasic m hudson physical education now that we are able to use our beautiful gymnatorium our regular physical education pro gramme is underway each class holds phys ed periods twice weekly immediately after com pletion of the christmas holi days our boys and girls house league basketball will get un derway it is also hoped that an altstar team will be chosen from the house league teams and will represent our school in competition with other schools student council meetings a meeting of the st marks student council was held last thursday and this was the final regular meeting before the new year the treasurers report showed that the council has a total of s160s in their account president gerry egberts opened an account at the bank last fri day council members voted unanimously to purchase a dixie cup of ice cream for each pupil in the school the ice cream was distributed at the class parties on tuesday afternoon council also voted unanimously to use some of their funds to purchase a christmas present for our caretaker and bus driver mr weaks school newspaper the second edition of the st marks chronicle was issued on wednesday afternoon once again the members of the paper did an excellent job in preparing this issue naturally the major ity of articles are related in some way to the christmas sea son next issue is due out to wards the end of february elections of trustees on wednesday dec 29 at 8 pm nominations and elections for the new combined roman catholic school board will be held in the auditorium of st marks school christmas caroling is almost as old as christmas itself though not in the form we know it an early historian wrote that in the second century the bish op of rome urged his people to sing in celebration of our lord christmas hymns go back to the fifth century- when most of them were written in latin st francis of assisi is regard ed as the father of caroling as we know it accruing to world book encyclopedia in 1223 st francis placed a creche minia ture nativity scene in a herm itage in grecchio italy after this many churches be gan displaying a nativity scene at christmas and soon the peo ple began acting out the christ mas story the actors composed carols to sing witt their nativ ity plays and after the plays they would stroll down the street singing in that way street caroling was born joseph mohr a pastor in oberndorf austria composed stille nacht or silent night on christmas eve isis franz gruber the local schoolmaster and organist composed the mu sic the same day and the hymn was sung for the first time at midnight mass that night charles wesley brother of john wesley wrote hark the herald angels sing in 1739 phillips brooks a noted boston i clergyman wrote o little town of bethlehem in 1s6s aft er visiting bethlehem though not a carol handels noble messiah is a christmas tradition it first was performed in dublin in 1742 joy to the world written in the early igth century by isaac watts was set to the music of a segment of the messiah while shepherds watched their flocks by night written in 1703 by nah- um tate was set to music tak en from siroe an opera by handel no one knows who wrote the first noel it first ap peared in print in 1s33 in a book called christmas carols anci ent and modern and is believed to be very old the author of god rest ye merry gentlemen- also is un known but he lived before shakespeare so if you should go caroling this christmas season think of other carolers of years gone by of the people of charles dickens time in their beaver hats and cutaway coats of english vil lagers in hose and jerkin of good st francis and of the priests of the time of the chris tian roman empire who before caroling as we know it existed sang in celebration of our lord the stoutfv1ue tribune twfy pty 196s pjge j send the tribune for christ mas theres still time notice by rcsoitriion of markham township council monday december 27th 1965 is declared a civic holiday in observance of boxing day it c t crisp clerk township of markham table rite grade a specially selected young turkeys 20 lbs and up a c 6 lo 14 lbs av 43 ib 49 lb festive fixins ocean sprat wui or jellied is oz cranberry sauce 25c m fit i17t70 iga stuffed 12 oz jar ff mti uli ho pp manzanilla 30- fpj cofma89c citi717017 bijuk diamond mild co il- jhjjjaml 12 oz wedge dd itj hospitality family size uide daluin rindless sliced 1 lb flat lb 0d itangersnesali m peas niblfiss 49c 1 wasfasapbsaagsasattgcbgigasgfpbi prices effective dec 21222324 delicious applessiot-s- 39c fdanjou pears sn 5 m m del monte fancy 28 oz tin storeys fruit cocktail 45c peas k 3 l0 49c iga plus deposit mised mustard- yumyum ginger ale 4 49c pickles ssv 29c christmas store hours open dec 21 22 23 til 9 pm open dec 24 hi 6 pm closed christmas day dec 25 boxing day dec 27 y ratcliffs iga foodliner stouffville memj dfhritma jp christmas is made of snowflakcs and church bells and laughter and dreams may all of yours come irue have a merry christmas stouffville floral co ltd alice herb cossey and staff merry fmlslms tis the season for joy thoughtfulness ond thank yous so vero taking time to say fust that ond wish you a very happy holiday the management and staff chas richards sons ltd seasons greetings from the management and staff gordon page motors ltd stouffviue ont