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It happened ... in North Webster

16 YEARS AGO, DEC. 22. ISIS Robert B. Miller and son of North Webster were recently named members of the DeKalb Yieldmasters club for producing 180.54 bushels of corn per acre in 1976. lvalue Turner has been named Woman of the Year/' by the ladies at North Webster United Methodist church. Mrs. Turner was honored and recognized for her many hours of service to the church and United Methodist women’s organization. A “cookie bake” was held December 19 by junior high youth at North Webster Church of God. On December 22 the young people will go Christmas caroling and distribute the cookies to shut-ins. Theme for the North Webster Church of the Brethren Christmas program was “The Three Families.” The program was held December 12. 2® YEARS AGO. DEC. 21,1966 An L-shaped educational annex to the North Webster Methodist church is in progress but construction has been slow due to the hazardous weather. The $90,000 addition will provide five classrooms, nursery and a pastors office and study. The building will be of masonry with brick and stone veneer. The pastor of the church is Rev. D. D. Clark. The regular meeting of the Tranter announces promotions Jim Tranter, president of Tranter Graphics. Inc.. Syracuse, has announced the promotions of Pat Snyder. Kevin Walker. June Brown and Stu Walker with in the company's operation Mrs. Snyder has been promoted to manager of preproduction services. She has been with the company for four years and resides in Syracuse with her husband. Dan Kevin Walker, has been promoted to foreman of textile and plastics products which is located on the east side of SR 13 across from Tranter Graphics, Inc., main offices. June Brown has been promoted to office manager and has been with the company for 16 months She resides in Syracuse Stu Walker, plant superinten dent, will coordinate all activities of the three Tranter Graphics division. Tranter Graphics is one of the leading textile, plastic and paper converters in the Advertising Specialty Industry. Products from Tranter Graphics are sold and shipped to all 50 states. Canada. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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North Webster Volunteer Firemen’s Ladies Auxiliary was held at the fire station last Monday night with nine members in attendance. Mrs. Leßoy Spry, president, opened the meeting in the regular form with the flag salute and Mrs. Dick Mitchell read the prayer. The Tippecanoe township homemakers extension club met last Wednesday night at a restaurant near North Webster for their annual Christmas dinner. Twenty-one members and two guests were present. New officers were installed by Mrs. Carl Shields. They were Mrs. R. A. Ferguson, president; Mrs. Mildred Brady, vice-president; Mrs. Tom Reynolds, secretary; Mrs. Harold Baker, treasurer; Mrs. Russell Mickley, song leader.

The art of the hammer

By DAVID McLAUGHLIN Guest Feature Writer In the past year, I have availed myself of the opportunity to learn many new and strange things about tools and their relatives through the simple process of building a house. 1 did not actually build the house, but I took great pleasure in watching the proceedings and helping out in many ways until the builder drove me away by waving his hammer in a threatening manner and promising to leave himself if 1 ever came back before the house was finished. I took this as a hint that my skill with tools was distracting his people and decided to share my insights with you instead. So here we are. Many interesting tools are available without a prescription or a chain hoist, but none finds so many uses or supports so many myths as the ordinary household hammer. To illustrate, I recount a story 1 once heard describing a man who could hammer nails all day long without bending a single one, or even stopping occasionally to admire his work. Os course, 1 did not believe this. Any person who could perform this magic would be forced by human nature to step back every 10 minutes or so and marvel at what he had done (and point it out to whoever happened to be around as well). Furthermore. my personal ex perience with nails has shown me that three out of four are so poorly made these days that they will bend when hit with an ordinary hammer and will have to be returned to the hardware store. So. you can't believe everything you read about hammers. But. of course, you can believe me if you want to. Historically, the earliest ham mers doubled as weapons and

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5» YEARS AGO. DEC. 24,1936 The North Webster High School Trojans have added two more victories to their 1936-1937 basket ball record, making eight wins in ten tries by defeating Syracuse last Friday night by a score of 32 to 21 and trouncing the LaPaz Five at LaPaz Saturday, by a score of 30 to 14. In the game between Syracuse and Norf Webster was one of the best exhibitions of basketball witnessed on the North Webster Court this season. At the end of the quarter North Webster was out in front by a score of 5 to 4 but at the half Syracuse had the upper hand with the count 14 to 13. At the end of the third period, following a remarkable exhibition of scoring the Trojans were ahead by a score of 22 to 17.

tripled as kitchen utensils. A skilled user with a quality instrument could lay out a garage, a couple of hostile neighbors, and his lunch without returning to the tool box. Civilization has not remained content with this primitive approach, and our tools, like our doctors and lawyers, have gotten more specialized with each passing century. So have the required skills. 1 don't know a single soul who can still take his trusty Craftsman and use it to repair the porch, settle a domestic misunderstanding, and tenderize an armadillo for dinner. I doubt if you do either This specialization has taken hammers from crude, blunt instruments of stone and wood to precise creations of gleaming steel and fiberglass perfectly suited to hitting nails, screwdriver handles, and pieces of wood that must be shaped quickly without benefit of saw. Os course, the primary purpose of the hammer is to hit the nail on the head. (Someone made up a famous saying about this process that is often quoted and which led directly to the invention of the nail.) Regardless of their uses, modern hammers come in more different forms than you can imagine. These include the 12 ounce tack hammer, the 16 ounce claw hammer, and the nine pound sledge hammer. Do you see the beauty of this arrangement ? Cer tainly you do. This means that any time the hammer you planned to use does not seem adequate to the task, you can almost always get your hands on a larger one. The art of the hammer can be learned in a few simple sessions. Grasp your weapon firmly with your fingers wrapped around the end of the handle opposite the head Use whichever hand you choose, as long as it's one of your own. (If you have access to other hands, keep them around; we ll get to their uses in a minute.) Now you want to hit something with the flattened end of the ham mer head 1 have noticed people whom 1 will not name trying to hit things with the other end but they were almost always enraged at something when they tried this technique and did not get very «ood results Most of the time, after the early thrill of hitting anything within reach has worn down a bit. you will be trying to hit nails. One end of each nail will be larger than the other, and good carpentry requires you to hit the larger end. This will make sense once you try pounding on the sharpened end and ae? how much it slows you down. The science of nail-driving has two distinct parts; Starting and

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Syracuse was unable to overcome this wide margin in the final stanza. In the preliminary game Syracuse defeated the Webster second string by 18 to 11, At LaPaz, the Webster team waltzed right through the defense of their opponents and made an early bid for supremacy. At the quarter the count was 8 to 4 in favor of Webster. At the half the score board showed Webster leading 12 to 8 and at the end of the third period the score was 22 to 10. In the final stage of the contest Webster made a number of substitutions and LaPaz gained four more points. Webster’s second team downed the LaPaz reserves by a score of 18 to 16 in the preliminary.

pounding. Most nails will not stand up by themselves on the wood and wait for you to hit them. Something, or someone, must hold the nail at the right spot while it is hammered a few times to start it into the wood. Fingers often do this job. They suffer for it. The possibility that the hammer will not swing in a straight arc (many of them don’t) makes the likelihood of damaged fingers enormous. Get someone else’s fingers to hold the nails when possible. I say when possible because the number of people who will do this for you is surprisingly small. The second and more exciting part of hammers and nails is the actual pounding of the nail into the wood. Usually the harder you pound, the more fun you have, the more nails you bend, and the more wood you destroy. This is a Law of Nature and should not be fooled with. You've got to pay for fun. Once you get the hang of it. or perhaps the swing of it. one or two well executed strokes can drive even a large nail as deeply as you want it. and the sheer joy of hammering will possess you and keep you at it till all hours of the day and night. Then you will be ready for the advanced stuff Beyond basic pounding a whole world sits. You will learn to split wood, break screwdriver handles, crack masonry, punch holes in drywall, and crumble panelling All of these things can be learned at home and on your own time. 1 know that because I can modestly claim to have done them all. When you lack inspiration and need a light to aim at. remember the Rule of the Hammer. There is nothing so big that it will not break if it is hit with a big enough hammer Tree cake For that special Christmas party or just to surprise the family, how about making a different kind of cake? Bake one 13"x9" cake; cool. Then cut the cake in two triangles. Mark the sloping sides into four equal parts; cut in about one inch at each mark and out diagonally to meet the second mark for the tree branches. Use these pieces for the trunk. Spread icing between these pieces to hold them together One special frosting is made from four cups of a non-dairy whipped topping adding green food coloring and »? teaspoon peppermint extract. Swirl the icing on. Trim the tree cake with colorful candies.

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