The Independent-News, Volume 94, Number 29, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 December 1968 — Page 4

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THE FIRST TREE ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED IN U.S. One of the most famous hotels that dot the California coast line is the luxurious Hotel del Coronado in California. Few people know that it is the birthplace of tho first electrically-lighted living Christmas tree. The event goes back to 1904, the gaslight era. when electric lights were still an oddity. It was during that year on Christmas Eve that colored electric lights were strung on an evergreen tree growing on the Coronado’s lawn. The occasion was so momentous that none other than Thomas Alva Edison, the father of the electric light, directed the placement and stringing of these first Christmas tree lights. Every Christmastime since that date, with the exception of World War II years when a blackout was imj)osed on the coastal region, that same evergreen is festooned with a multitude of gay Christmas 1918 Frrr Show I or Kidx The Hiult Theatre announ. es th it the. ' Will be a fr< < how fur th. kiddie on Pi.day with a .Mitu."'. The entue staff are d r.ating tb.' lr - i v>. es 1 >i thH ('mitma <mi.' Quality l>airy io Move Into New Quarter*, The Quality lauiry will xm-ve Into their xp.i us new ; next w<« x she mb-rlv! : t :• building which tin- da y par-cha-H'd a.une time a>. . <r<>m Om.'i B.iE and madt ml. <n* f 'he most complete. < unvem* nt and m odern dairies in this part of the states. llurlem Legionnaire* 1 ail To Ap|M*ar. The basketball game between the Harlem Legionnaire* and tne Walkerton Lions which w • to have been played in the W tikerton gym on Sunday atterr. n did not materialize Tile h of the team failed to not;!', tl.- m of the time of day they wer< t< play and the bov> -it x« 1 m S mth Btitd until i n.li.k Todd ( <K ( lone* Walkerton Branch. A M T"dd C'u.. buy. 4 mmt oil. have cl >*ed then .f' . and wim ii.i’.i'- m-re. h m t n cquipmi nt m v.-d to No ' Ju 1- - Lit • have lea • 1 'a buil.img u^ 1 by the T<> 14 (’ and will u-. it f- r ,i w t •‘j a . 1937 ( an Hear Organ JO Mile* \wav There !x an >rgan u . । .n bi heard 20 miles It ; m the I w«T of un Id ca'del it Kufstem, Ki the b >rd«*r b.tw-.n Biv iria ..-. I Au-! n . i vl to Au tr'in .>’da s u iio Ivd .11 the W ild War Christnia* lUooihs a* mi Ofbriug t*» Holy ( laid. On the first (’hrs tm .. j... >4, w!i< i. !!;•• h_. ph. 4 wile •<nt by tm- in ••! : knee! 1 re the Chi' I of p. th|. .. :i , u little . :rl n in- 4 M r!« l n, uh «■ bruter 1 w * a heph» • ' < 1 iW' l them 1 t the im. I: u.‘..n Jie f >und 5 t.’. it the • h 11 .u ht .1 pair o' d v< ii.. ! r t - nd h ne\ t off.-; mg* O' t! " H !y 01.114 fe • a »ham«sl ' •" I ' en p.' - hin l<-4 «nd turned *idly I . k t a . 1 the ;< ! . i* Now, m she wintered weeping Hl the era- . dawn 1 light *hi lie her itMl a radiant figure appeared, the

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lights to commemorate the occasion. As a matter of fact, the lighting of that particular Christmas tree has become a festive Christmas tradition in Southern California, attracting hundreds of people each year. The use of the fir tree as part of the tradition of Christmas dates all the way back to the Bth century, when Boniface, an English missionary, introduced the idea of a Christmas tree to the pagan Germans. Martin Luther is said to have adorned the first

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Christmas tree with lighted candles eight centuries later and German Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, took the idea to Great Britain 300 years later. Boniface suggested decorating the fir in honor of Christ to substitute for sacrifices to Odin’s sacred oak. This came 400 years after the Christian church adopted Dec. 25 as the time for celebrating Christmaa. This date coincided with the Mithraic rite of the birth of the sun, and the Teutonic Yule fenst.

college. H* never vi.it* I । city. He never traveled hundred mile* from the p! u <■ wa* born H* did none *.f th* th-ng ne u-u d y n*- *; with itm w. H.- hu 1 m cr denttal i u". mm**-.;. Hr -a > n!y thlrt'. time* t «• ts f* . puonc opWii n turagainst him Hl* friend awav. He wa tune I over tn en* ml* and wen* thmm h ’ m r ’. kerv of a trial. H* v 1 ■ >4 t > rr »*i between tv t!:- .V' While lie wu dying. ’ .■Xi" u*h ne’ - gambled for !' clothing, the only property ! hid ’>n earth When he w r- d* 1 h<’ laid in a borrowed gm', through the pi’v of a friend. Nku teen c untrie* have .> irr! g me and Uxlav h* I- still ti <entr.il figure o* the human r and the leader of n»nk!n! p-ogre*- All the armies th ever mnrvhed tl! th* mvle* th ever *.illed. ill the parHamer ’ tlmt ever *at. all the king* th eve- reigned put together ha', not affe< ted the H*r of man thi* earth a* that ONE SOL TA RY LIFE