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It is with grateful appreciation of
\our courtesies during the past year
that we take this means of expressing
the compliments of the season. Mis-
^ takes and problems of the last twelve
months are of minor importance at
this y'ad season and we look forward
to the future with every confidence
and anticipation. A very Merry
Christmas to you, and you, and you!
R. A. FEAGLE R. C. FLOYD
Southern Cotton Oil Co.
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should be of three hundred and sixty-five days dura
tion. So, right notv, please accept our sinceresl Best
Wishes for every day of the New Year.
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CYNTHIA MARTEN
the Christmas
definite place
among Christmas
customs and tradi
tion — servihg the
spirit of friendship,
echoing the j>rom-
ise of peace and
good will.
Reputedly, the
first Christmas
card, properly so-
called , was dis
patched in 1845
when W. C. Dob
son, one of Queen
Victoria’s favorite
painters, sent lith
ographed scenes
inscribed with
greetings to his
many friends dur
ing the Christmas season. I
In 1846, John Calcott Horsley, Roy- 1
al Academician, designed a card
for Sir Henry Cole. Thus the cus
tom of sending Christmas cards
seems to have been inaugurated—
although, even as far back as Queen
Anne’s reign, it was customary for
children to write Christmas pieces.
Such "Christmas pieces” were speci
mens of handwriting with elaborate
ly engraved borders designed to rep
resent some current event or subject
studied by the children during the
year, and were sold in shops and at
bazaars until about 1840.
Christmas cards were introduced
into the United States during the
1870s by Marcus Ward and Company
of London and for a short while the
English firm enjoyed a monopoly of
the market.
The name of Louis Prang is out
standing in the history' and develop
ment of the modern Christmas card
industry. Mr. Prang, an exile from
Germany following the revolution of |
1848, introduced the art idea into
American public schools via the
Prang method of education. In 1874,
Prang invaded the Christmas card
field. Prizes were offered for the
best designs and perfected litho
graphic processes.
LET'S BE
CHEERY
The urge to make Christmas
more gracious lies deep-rooted
in the hearts of Americans
everywhere, as they pause to ob
serve the Christmas season.
May happiness be yours to
enjoy this Christmas and may it
and
give you
guidance
the inspiration
to meet the coming
year with a cheerful heart.
Frank Lominack’s Hardware
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W. E. TURNER, Jeweler
Switzerland Kept
Xmas for Refugees
Switzerland "kept” Christmas last
year for the 20,000 refugee children
who were being cared for within her
borders as Europe celebrated its
sixth wartime Christmas.
From France and Belgium, from
Holland, Italy, Hungary, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, and far distant
Greece they had come—many of
them orphans, many children with
out a country—traversing Europe by
circuitous routes. Guided by peas-
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We wish you a most
merry and happy
Christmas and may
the New Year bring
you Peace, Joy and
Prosperity.
Extending our Sincere Wishes for a
CHRISTMAS OF GOOD CHEER
and a
NEW YEAR OF HAPPINESS
Summers Radio & Electric Appliances
1506 Main Street
Phone 259
Toys for refugee tots.
ants, Red Cross workers, Wehr-
macht guards, and older children
they arrived on foot, herded in cattle
cars, traveling in groups,
A fraction of the millions of inno
cent victims of World War II, these
refugee children were supposed to
remain only two or three months
so as to give other youngsters a
chance to recuperate in neutral
Switzerland. But in many cases,
repatriation was delayed—parents
were scattered or dead, battles still
raged in areas whence the children
had come, so they were allowed to
remain and Switzerland, crowding
them to her bosom, welcomed many,
many others.
FENNELLS, Jewelers
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Christmas Jleblep
Christmas was once abolished
by an act of parliament in Eng
land. That was in 1644 when the
Puritans under Oliver Cromwell
governed the realm. The Puri
tans’ disbelief in hoiiday enjoy
ments was so intense that parlia
ment ordered Christmas to be ob
served as a strict fast day. No
roast beef, no plum pudding, no
wassail were permitted.
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Although turkey is the essential
feature of Christmas dinner to
day, the bird was unknown in
England in the 16th century. In
troduced from America, it came
into its present popularity in the
early 1700s.
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In several states of the Union
there is a definite law forbidding
anyone from interfering with a
child’s belief in Santa Claus.
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Some European peoples have a
superstition — dating from an
cient times—that animals take on
the power of speech at Christmas
time.
• • •
Lewis Carroll wrote his famous
book, "Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland,” as a Christmas gift
for a little girl who was the daugh
ter of one of his friends.
Hope is justifiably strong as another Christmas
draws near—that out of the mistakes of the past
will come a better understanding of the prob
lems of others, truly worthy of the sentiments
men voice at ChristVnas.
Greetings to you, one and all
J. B. COWARD
OtJOltS
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And a Prosoerous New Year
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J. DAVE CALDWELL
REAL ESTATE