The Independent-News, Volume 107, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 December 1981 — Page 13

W?* HAPPY ADS (We reserve the right to limit the wording in the Happy Ads or to adjust the priee for long ones. We want to keep the Happy Ads to the intended use . . . sending a message of happiness to people and groups.) Happiness Is PRAISING GOD FOR LARRY LYNN God Bless You Larry & Candy From MOUSE. SIS Ac MISSY Happy Anniversary SUE & JOHN Today Is For Remembering The Happy Times You Have Known A Day To Share New Hopes & Joys A Day To Call Your Own. DONNA. POLLY & ED KIM (CHRISSY) GOOD LUCK With ANTHONY RON STAN And HAPPY HOLIDAYS Happy Birthday TO RICH & 808 COLE With Love GRANDMA & GRANDPA BEATY MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY Give Them A Registered POODLE PUPPY For Christmas $125.00 CALL DUANE FREEMAN 656-3304 Merry Christmas To The SUGARBUSH KIDS From ARFIE

TO BETTY & LISA CLARK CHULA VISTA. CALIF. Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year Love JUNE P.S. You Too Bob Happiness Is Getting A New Sewing Machine FOR CHRISTMAS CALL Duane Sewing Machine & Sweeper Shop 656-3304 Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year GRANDMA & GRANDPA MANN Love BECKY & JOHN Happiness Is Sticking To Your Diet And Exercise Program During The Holidays B»x>st Your Will Power And Energy Level. Exercise At An Aerobic Conditioning Class Every Wednesday At The Presbyterian Church. Walkerton 1:30 - 2:30 Or 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Fee $2.00 For More Information Call 586-2377 THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HELPED At The Band Boosters Refreshment Stand At Stuntz-Hochstetler Pines. Also To Those Who Donated To The Bake Sale We Have A Few Manor Texas Fruit Cakes In 5 Pound Tins For $23.00. To Order Call Jim Patterson After 5 p.m 586 3334 PS CONGRATULATIONS High School Band & Mr Perry On An Outstanding Concert PLJ NL BAND BOOSTERS

We Would Like To Extend A Big THANKS Mr. & Mrs. Ray Dillon Mr. & Mrs. Bob Beghtel Mr. & Mrs. Richard Allsop Mr. & Mrs. Carl Kaser Mr. and Mrs. John McCaffery Mr. Don Byrd Mr. Harness North Liberty Staff Io The Following People Who Helped Io Make Our Past Dance Such A Huge Success I hanks Again NORTH LIBERTY STUDENT COUNCIL Happiness Is Watching The Readers Theatre Group Os Beaver Wesleyan Youth Perform CHRISTMAS DEVOTIONS SUNDAY. DECEMBER 20 7:00 p.m. AT THE CHURCH 2 Miles East Os North Liberty On Highway 4 Happy Birthday KAY Love DUB & KATHY THANKS Io Everyone Who Helped Make The It Auction A Huge Success Merry Christmas AND Happy New Year NORTH LIBERTY ZETA Pl CHAPTER OF TRI KAPPA WOW! TANYA UHLIG BOWLED A 591 SERIES And We’re Proud Os Her! 180 202 209 Good Job Tanya! PF.AWEA & GINNI OUR RESIDENTS CHRISTMAS PARTY Sunday, Dec. 20 2:00 p.m. Everyone Welcome MILLER’S MERRY MANOR

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TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WE WISH YOU A Merry Christmas ORVILLE & NEVA KLIN EDIN ST Happiness Is HANGING A DOLLAR ON THE TREE FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS At BOB’S BY THE LAKE GIVE A Gift That Keeps On Giving 52 Weeks A Year SEND A Gift Subscription IHE INDEPENDENT NEWS GIVE A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING CONTRIBUTE TO OUR SPECIAL OLYMPICS TREE At BOB’S BY THE LAKE Happy Birthday MARLA Love DAD & MYRNA Happy Birthday GRANDMA PLATZ DECEMBER 21 Love LACEY MARIE excerpts from The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen It was terribly cold; it snowed and was already almost dark, and evening came on, the last evening of the year. In the cold and gloom a poor little girl,

bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along, a picture of misery, poor little girl! The snowflakes covered her long fair hair, which fell in pretty curls over her neck; but she did not think of that now. In all the windows lights were shining, and there was a glorious smell of roast goose, for it was New Year’s Eve. Yes, she thought of that! Her little hands were almost benumbed with the cold. Ah, a match might do her good, if she could only draw one from the bundle and rub it against the wall and warm her hands at it. She drew one out. R-r-atch! how it sputtered and burned! It was a warm, bright flame, like a little candle, when she held her hands over it; it was a wonderful little light! She rubbed another match against the wall; it became bright again, and in the brightness her old grandmother stood clear and shining, mild and lovely. And she hastily rubbed the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to hold her grandmother fast. And the matches burned with such a glow that it became brighter than in the middle of the day; grandmother had never been so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and both flew in brightness and joy above the earth, very very high, and up there was neither cold, nor hunger, nor care—they were with God. iw --v The Legends Os Christmas C hristmas brings to all a sense of wonder and admiration I hese feelings are kept alive through the beautiful legends explaining many holiday traditions. The story of the poinsettia takes place in Mexico in a little town where the custom was to offer Christmas Eve gifts to the Christ ( hild A poor young boy. too shy to go to church without a gift, knell outside the church window and began to pray \K hen he rose to his tect. he noticed a beautiful red flower growing in the spot where he had knelt Suddenlv. he realized the lovely blossom was a gift from heaven to answer his prayers' Quickly, he took the flower inside the church and laid it before ihe altar Io this day, ihe poinsettia is known in Mexico as the ••flower of the Holy Night '

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