The Independent-News, Volume 92, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 December 1966 — Page 6

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- THE INDEPENDENT NEWS - DEC. 15, 1966

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Kfr an! Ms Clifton Snyder were wet k ei. i guests of Mr and Mrs (krald bnydei . nd family m J Xs> n lit. S.nuidax mht s .ppcr guests </ Mr an I Mis. J.>hn B< r n and family wen M: . i Willard )Nujagon and family. Mi. and Mi - 1* an Shu* visited in Mainn (li over the week <nd 5,r and Mr James Shi ui <al i-d i i t 1 • tamily sirs. Janies Workman and (laui ht r of Sha i p<vi!b wm recent guest of Mr and Mrs. /rank Sims The N<»r i Liberty i ux'F attenchxi the h> win-; f The RcM)es> Ones as the Col. ax Theauc, Sunday .''t'm-in Thirty-five youth and lands attended. Mr. and Mis. Walter Taylor visaed Mr. ..nd Mrs. Russell Z<x>k > Union, Michigan on Sunday. Mr. Zook is in poor health and will enter the Bluffton clinic ,-oon. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. nd Mrs. John Benin and family Were Mi and Mrs. Glen Beron .md dau liter of South B> nd. Mr. and Mrs Ed Beron and Mr. and Mrs Jo n Holmes were evening ethers.

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I' ib Naragon is a patient in Mi m -rial hospital. Mr. and Mrs H< rt Kudynski and Mr- S'di: Ulrich visited Mr. and Mrs K< nneth Ulrich in South B« nd on Sunday. Mr ini Mrs Victor (kismian and d u L’eis (ailed on Mr. and Mr.- Larry M<ik'l and sons in \> lk<'t n Sunday ift moon. Ms Cl 11 Rare Mrs Russell Carr. Mrs. L Uis Jackson, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred DeCoudres spent last Thursday sight-seeing and shopping In Chicago. Mrs Jeanette Fullmer and daughters of Mishawaka, called on Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fullmer and Mr and Mrs. Raymond Naragon Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Mamerow and Junior were Tuesday evening supper guests of Mr, and Mrs. William Heck and family in Tippecanoe. Liberty-Lincoln Farm Bureau The Liberty-Lincoln Township Farm Bureau held their annual ham supper at the North Liberty Community Building. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Willard Knepp and

Mr. and Mrs. Ruy Freeman. Clifford Hively led the ,i loop singing, accompanied by Betty McC rmick. Devotions were given by Rev. John McCormick of the Idne Creek Church of Brethren. Each family wes represented on the Christmas program. Some parts had been planned, others were »alb d on impromptu, by Mrs. Freeman. Willard Stump presented the chairman's notebook to the 1967 chair...an. Ellsworth Stone. £t. Joseph County chairman. John Dirksen, spoke of the need to work against watt r pollution in the county. He also gave a report of the Slate Convention, saving that only 18 per cent of the American income dollar is n«'eded for food. He said the future of farming looked good, changes will come and farmers should plan for them. The History Os Christinas Carols Called noels in France. Ie pastorah in Italy, and Weihnachlslleder in Germany, carols are everywhere the welcome sound of Christmas. But few of those who hear and sing them know their surprising history- a tale well worth giving ear to. When was the first carol sung? Scholars think caroling probably began in the early church when Nativity plays, accompanied by songs of joy, told the story of Christ's birth. One of the earliest choruses of praise, gloria in cxelsis doo (glory to God in the highest i is still sung by carolers at Christmas time. Early Latin-speaking worshipper must have shouted it forth with a magna vox (also Latin, for "great voice"). Th -.4u many people don't realize it, carets were originally connected not only with song but with dance: The Old word carole nu-ant "a ring dance accompanied by song.” An English carol dating from 1350 has a refrain which refers to a round dance: "Hormd i y honnd we schulle ous take and joye and blis.se schulle we make.'' Early carol composers didn't confine themselves to Christmas themes -a collection of Carollef Newly Imprint cd <15501 contained more Crucifixion than Nativity carols! On the other hand, quite a few re-uls of this time were not sacted tn mood, but to feasting and toasting. The Boar’s Head carol, a big hit in 16th century England and still sung annually by the students of Queen's College, Oxford, actually celebrates the course of a Christmas dinner, in these words: The boar's head in hand bear I

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Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary And 1 pray you masters, be merry . . . ’ The custom of outdoor carol singing is many hundreds of years ol I. It seems tn have started in the Middle Ages when groups of people went from house Lo house to sing by torchlight. Yet despite these joyous beginnings. the Christmas carol eventally ran into some rough weather. As the Puritan influence grew strong, can h became gloomy and grim; finally the Puritans made it a crime even to print them or sing them publicly! After Puritanism waned m England. carols made a comeback - but in the 17th and 1 Sth centuries were considered a rustic, s<»ci illy inferior form of s< ng’ By 1882, a writer named William Hone was predicting that car Js were dying out and in a few years' time would be heard no mor. Rome «sithorities think that “The Twelve Dais of Christmas" originally belonged not to Christmas, but to the turn of the year; its roots may go far back into pagan times. "Good King Wenceslaus ", a British favorite, was borrowed from n Rv.-<iish songbook of 1582. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,'' may also date back to the 16th century. Some say "Ade te Fideles” was composed by St. Bonaventure before 1274 - but the earliest surviving manuscript Is dated 1790 and signed by John Francis Wade, a music dealer in Franco. "Joy to the World" was taken from a hymn written in 1719 by

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Isaac Watts; its current music was adapted from Handel'^ Messiah. John Wesley wrote "Hark the Herald Angles Sing" in 1737; its musical accompaniment was adapted in 1855 from one of Mendelssohn's works. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is less than 100 years old; it was written in 1868 by Phillips Brooks. The most beloved carol rs all - Silent Night - has an intei eating st ,ry behind it. According to information supplied by Magna vox researchers, it was hastily written in 1818 by an Austrian parish priest, Joseph Mohr, as a surprise for his parishioners, Mohr feared they would be disappointed when they learned that the church organ had hr «k« n down! He took the poem to his friend, church organist Franz Gruber, who completed the famous melody in a few h >ur.i At midnight mass that evening, the two of them sang the masterpiece - to a guitar accompaniment. Some of the most popular Christmas music of all times has been composed in the 20th century, The greatest seller of any phonograph record to date is Irvin Be 1n • "White Chnstmas"; first recorded In 1942. it had sold 4U.000.0G0 copies as of December 31st. 1963 - and is still going strong. "The Little Drummer B >y" is another recent record best seller that promises to become a Christmas classic. Ancient and traditional or up-to-the-minute modern, Christman songs play a vital role in setting the mood of the season. For after all, " ‘Tia the season to be jolly.”