Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1943 — Page 13

flmericaiWust® This Um of wishing friends a Merry Christmasbuiontlo which re look forward—year after year. We are grateful to our many friends and it it I* you that this menage it Intended. BEST WISHES TO ALL! ECONOMY store

HELLO!' We're here ogain with our wish for o Merry Christmas to our friends —•’only this year we wont to soy, let's make it— z Z /I Mwidf Am&ucoH CliMtmaL ' * ' * * . ... . - - W * t Baker Plumbing & Heating I UTT'S GIVE A THOUGHT TO Ki it our express purpose to / Mon of happiness on a par / happy occasions of the post./ this.possible by bemp conthose near us and by being g of those for oway Leri npet the heartaches, keeping I Our fitoughts the reunion res. and friends of some to- / When ee express out Season's Greets toga, we ere thinking of you and your STIEFEL GRAIN CO. First Street I Americans Everywhere Maier Hide & Fur Co.

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Guard Duty Lb ■ -• w . h No—this sailor Isn’t sunning for . Kania Claus. In fact, he’s on friendly terms with the old gentleman. He is merely standing guard at the Administration building of the Great Lakes Naval Training station. Poinsettia, Christmas Flower That Thrives in If arm ( '.Hine The poinsettia is a native of Mexico and South America and thrives in the southern United States. The true flower of the poinsettia is not the brilliant red. The flower is the small and inconspicuous center of delicate green buds. Examination will show that the colorful •'flower'’ consists of a few topmost bracts that have turned from green to fed, like autumn leaves. Poinsettia is a four-syllable word. The correct proi.:: nation being poin-SET i-uh. Set Date for Christ's Hirth in Fourth Century Strangely, no one knows the exact date of the birth of Christ. Until some time in the Fourth century, Christmas (Christ's Mass) was variously celebrated on January fl. February 2. March 25. April 19. May 20 and November 17. In 1044. the English parliament passed an act forbidding the observance of Christman. Later Charles 11 revived the Feast, as Christmas then was called. ‘Silent Night' “Silent Night, Holy Nitht! Alt it calm, nil it btinhl: Hound yon lirgin, Mother and Child .. .“ The Chritlmot cared which has ttirred the world by the depth «/ its undemanding, the itrength of itt emotional appeal mid its iimplicity of diction, wat giien Io the world by a priett and the learher in hit pari th. Written for a Chritlmtu fetthal in IdlS by Joteph Mohr and put to mii’ir hr Front Gruber. “Stith ha<ht“ u at finithed tn a little t illage tn Itntria. Heceited with delight by enlhutb attic parirhionert, thi* carol found Ua watt around a World that teemed to be litleninc for jutl ihit echo of the angel tong. Christmas Gifts Unknown In Most European Nations Outside of England and the Teutonic countries, Christmas gifts are unknown in the Old World. In l.atift countries, including France, gifts i arc exchanged un New Year's day. In England, usually on the first weekday after Christmas. ’ Boxing day” Is observed. Packages, small gifts, and gratuities are given to postmen, errand boys, tradesmen, porters, charwomen, etc. Good Example ■E * . ' Proving that flaala Class to patriotic a* well as genrreee. he pUcwa pair of war bonds In this weU-Med »t.H king More and more people are giving war bonds as Christmas presents thus aiding their country’s war efforts as well as .tmpWying their n sic Night Before Christmas Now 1 lay me down tc rest. Angels guard my little nest Like the wee birds in the tree, Heavenly Father, care for me. gg, Nicholas Honda. Minnesota and Pennsylvania have towns named after St NichoUs. the Chnsuuas saint.

Foot Suiters Irk Judge Hollywood, Cal. — (UP) - While psychiatrists were racking their brains as to why soot-suiters acted the way they did, it occurred to Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, a' the inetance of investigator How ard O. Chaffey, that maybe it was merely because they were wearing soot suits. He accordingly charged Jack Lamm, clothing atore proprietor. with violation of the law that regulates the amount of cloth that can be used in making a suit. o Wed and Fulfill Vow Swarthmore, Pa. — (UP) —When Helen Louis Paulson, Swarthmore, and Vabey S. Kupell, Akron, 0.. were married here, they fulfilled a vow made in 1890 by their grandfathers, Steele Leohardes and Sava Blades, respectively, while fellow students at the Armenian seminary, Beirut, that one day two of their descendants would wed. The grandfathers did not live to see their wish come true, because they were killed by Turks at a ministers’ convention in Tarsus in 1908.

4k Christmas Bells Are ' ''y'lME / MMF Ringing BKBk * * * and it is pleasant to remember old friends and to wish them, in a genuine sort of way, all the joys of a Happy k Wk Christmas. Th e Determination to Keep the Spirit of / 7 Christmas a part of American tradition ■RMBIB for our Fighting men to return to is a J r source of happiness we would not readily relinquish. The measure of happiness HBfi I tV/ /'' N we can Kk’ am f rom a at war ’ s not Rreat, indeed... but let us remember the 2 joy that can be derived from doing our 1 .1 job wtl and from helping others. Merry Cl,ristn,as \(l Kraft Cheese Co. Mb a

GkriAimcAs dtSST A MULTITUDE V OF BLESSINGS May peace be with you at and you have been extremely this great season of the year. conMderate in our efforts to ’ We are mindful of the friend- supply your needs, and we are I I nII M »hips and associations that truly gttteful / JII / / e p lIfWM have been ours during the past It Is with these thoughts in AHA IH UIIM year and the splendid volume mind that wo wish you a '' niill of business resulting from it multitude of good thinp at WlllV Yoa have been moat generous this Christmastide. / /I / *) . 1111 l llu J I4w Ljtat JU||| BOB’S CONFECTIONERY WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE | 111 toutb Second St.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943.