Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 41, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1943 — Page 5

MhHSDAY, DECEMBER 23,1943.

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I Merry Happy I Christmas New Year I — — I It’s Christmas Again And A 5 Pleasure To Remember Friend* I Dick’s Diner | COURT STREET II * * sg In War or in Peace we wish you all ■ a Real American Christmas. I Fritz Ellsworth Garage ■ N. Second St. The Happiest Christmas of All is our wish to all our customers and friends. I HAPPY NEW YEAR, TOO! I Knapp Service Second and Jackson We’ve Appreciated Your Goodf* will and Friendship and Say to i Everyone— I MERRY CHRISTMAS I Haugk Coal Yard Merry Christmas - and a sincere, good wish that the New Year be overflowing with happiness I Style Shop Madison St. Downstairs I meRRy I May Ihib c hr “ 4ma ‘' Br '” K I You Much Jo> and Happi ‘ I £ W ness and a New > ear I Peace and Good Health. I WwsTnwtf i D. F. TEEPLE Truckers

° n ® undress It merely to "Mary A. No; the prefix "Mi**" , bO uM be uw*d even for a young girl. Q to ft cuatomary for a bride to buy a prevent for the groom on their wedding day? A ■¥«•; R he ahould give him «ome gift so rhln personal mo. — ", o - About 3S percent of the nation s lumber cornea from states in the Pacific northwest.

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Even Santa Claus Is smiling at the i general hilarity oc< asioned by his visit t<> a naval training station. The recruits in front of the barracks may be many miles from home, but they're still celebrating Christmas | with as ranch enthusiasm as ever. Family Reunions Are Yule Custom Christmas is a homey time. Family dinner parties and reunions are a traditional part of the holiday seaj son in America, and this year more . than ever we will be celebrating Christmas at home. You can add a festive note t these family get-together j by torr ! them into Christmas parties D ' plan anything elaborate just th up some simple invitation* ano game or two. Regular Chrlatma decorations will provide the setting For the invitations cut out papet snow balls. Santa Clauses or Christ mas trees and write or print the in ■ itation in ink of a contrasting color Or buy sr all candy canes and nt tach a red paper tag with the invitation in white ink. If you're ambitious you might try writing a verse (or these invitations. From ordinary paper bags you can make party hats and head bands for the guests Turn the top edge of the bag hack in a roll until the "hat" is the right height. Paint or paste a Christmas design on these hats and they will be ready and waiting for the party For the headbands cut strips of piper bag 2H inches wide and decorate with gold stars, paper Christmas trees, holly, poinsettias. or cotton snowmen. {lames. Christmas Toy Introductions. When the members of the group are not acquainted with each other, this game will work out very nicely. G«ve each person a small tag on which has been written the name of some I toy or object or subject of Christmas. On the back of each of these tags arc written commands such as •’lntroduce yourself to Teddy Bear." I 'See that the train meets the wag- | on." "Discuss the price of eggs i with the top.” These cards must be i prepared beforehand and arranged I so that everyone keeps moving about introducing and being introduced to each other. • Tip."—An English Gama used at Christmas Time. Have nuts, candies. popcorn balls, etc., piled in center of table. One player leaves the room and the others select an object as "Tip " The absent player is called into liw room and selects an object. He must avoid “Tip" and may have anything be gets. M "Tip" is choeen he loses his turn and must forfeit anything he has already won. A new "Tip" is cho--1 sen each time a player leavv-s. A Popcorn Relay—This IS lots of fun. Divide contestants into two groups. At one end of the room are fastened the ends of two long strings of very strong linen thrond with a i needle on each of the other ends, I stuck un a stationary cork lying on a table beside two bowls of popcorn I with exactly the same number of I kernels in each. Each player threads a kernel of com on the string and runs with it to the other end of i the room. The contest continues until one bow) is emptied by a team. Greeting Contest. Write out the well-known poem, "The Night Be fore Christinas." on slips of paper ime to a slip. Separate the odd lines from the even lutes, and give the odd slips to the men and the even ones to the women. Read the , poem and announce that each player is to find the person holding the I ime that rhymes with his. The part ners are then given pencil and paper and told to write as many forms ft 1 Christmas greetings as they can in •He minutes. The winning couple receives a peppnrir.int candy cane. Some of these suggestions for I Christmas fun have been taken from The Christmas Book, by Marguerite I Ickis. a compilation of background materials and suggestions for celei brating Christmas. The material to- ! eludes interesting facts about ChristI mas customs in other lands, ideas ' for parties and social activities, mu ‘ » • drama, decorations, and refresh ments The book is available for J» cents from the National Recreation Association. 315 Fourth Avenue. New York City. CenvcrsatienalM And then there’s the barber who talked himself hearse uuxunmg his i Christmas tree.

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Sales of chewing ffuta to the U. 8. are estimated to be to excess of 360 million a year. To AH Our Friends and Customers, a very, very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR JoAnn Beauty Shop Mrs. Hicks

X ~ ~ A I- < K OL ■ C’-.i v • x ,WLMr vflL*. y* r - Mr Christmas wr CALLS YOU TO CHURCH ... ENJOY the richest fulfillment of Christ- Your church is the bulwark of democmas ... by attending the church of your ra{, y« There does freedom exist and choice when Christmas morning breaks. flourish. The church is the spiritual . . - . . .. • c*u counselor, the source of salvation. By Obtain freedom from the worries of the , , , e A regular attendance at church we can present... gain new hope for the future. , ai .... .. 4 . e better mobilize our spiritual forces Pray for our troops overseas and for agajnst Axjg (|enja|s of faith ( . )nle |o those of our allies, pray Shat our country church Christmas morning and every will conduct itself honorably in war and Sunday thereafter. “For what is a man in the coming peace. Pray for a peace profited if he shall gain the whole world that will know no end. Pray that the and lose his soul.” “God is our refuge darkened countries will see the light of and strength, a very present help in American justice and freedom. Medi- trouble. Let the word of God penetrate fate in prayerful silence as the notes of your consciousness anew, guide us in the the organ float from the chancel. Hear dark and troublesome days ahead. For the Christmas story retold and go back who can be so wise as to answer the in your thoughts to that first Christmas weighty questions which will arise as our in Bethlehem, so many years ago. Re- foes are overcome and we are laced with joice again in the glory of the Nativity new problems in the administration ol and lift your voice in song, joining your just government.’ Divine guidance will friends and neighbors in the singing of lead us out of these troublous ways ... the old traditional Christmas carols. even as it smooths our present paths. Decatur Daily Democrat YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER 111 ■ll ■ll ■mm mMßif Yg~rßyirirrirrm'ffiwya*y w =* aß «* W] * e * <e * e * e * gi *

It s (hristmas Again and a \ a We cheriah your friend- , pleasure to remember friends shjp and it h whh onr who have remembered w. sinwe w|gh tha( we Merry Christmas merry CHRISTMAS. o ROY H. ANDRESS MILLER’S GROCERY N. Second St. W. Adam* St. Chiropractor

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