The Mail-Journal, Volume 29, Number 42, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 November 1990 — Page 15
It happened ... in Syracuse
10 YEARS AGO. NOV. 26, 1980 Steve and Wava Finton, 413 South Harrison St., are thrilled to have their grandson, Cadet 2/D Steven Finton of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn., spend the Thanksgiving holidays with them. Young Steve is the son of Captain and Mrs. Patrick D. Finton of Glendale, Ariz. Syracuse is scheduled to have an updated shoe repair shop, if all the plans of Mike Liberti materialize. He has sold the equipment of his shop located at 330 South Main St., and is rapidly replacing it with more modern equipment. He boasts a booming business, citing the high cost of new shoes as the chief reason. Margaret Weybright of Syracuse received the Jean Wiseman Leadership Award for the active leadership role she’s taken in the Elkhart County 4-H program for the past 15 years. She was presented the award at the annual leaders’ recognition banquet on Monday, Nov. 17, in the Greencroft Center Ballroom, Elkhart. The Twilighters’ Bunco Club elected new officers when they met last Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Syracuse. Mrs. Margaret Whitehead was elected president, and Mrs. Donald Niles secretarytreasurer for the upcoming year. Bill Pipp, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Pipp, Syracuse, was promoted to region manager in the new central region of Bristol -Myers. This region includes the states of Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, lowa, and Wisconsin. 20 YEARS AGO, NOV. 25,1970 Tom Tuttle is moving from Indianapolis to the lake and will operate the South Shore Golf Club this summer. Jim Connolly, operator of the club for the past eight years, will continue to work there. Pro Steve Roderick will stay on. , Paul and Lorrain Wiese of Lake Wawasee are the possessors of a souvenir edition of The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal dated June 24, 1915. This issue was found in the bottom of an old barrel full of dishes purchased at a public auction a number of years ago at the Sargeant Hotel, which was located on the north side of
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Lake Wawasee. George O. Snyder was listed as editor and publisher. It is thought all print in the issue was set by hand, and the slick-surfaced paper probably purchased special for the edition. Mrs. Marvolene Schlecht of Fort Wayne spent the weekend with Mrs. Thomas Schlecht at Syracuse. Mrs. Arthur Shannon and daughter, Betty, of r r, Syracuse, returned Saturday from a twoweek visit with their daughter and sister, Mrs. Lee Good and Mr. Good at Oklawaha, Fla. They were accompanied by Mrs. Dorothy Bobeck of Ligonier, who
The history of Christmas —
100 years as a national holiday
This December 25 will mark the 100th year Christmas has been hailed a national holiday by every state in the union. The first state to make Christmas a legal holiday was Alabama in 1836, the same year that is depicted in Conner Prairie’s Village of Prairietown. Indiana legally adopted Christmas in 1875. Celebration of Christmas varied, sometimes on December 6 — St. Nicholas day, or on January 6 — which, for a variety of local customs, was a day for feasting. Legalization in 1890 standardized celebration of the holiday as December 25. The forerunner of Christmas was first celebrated in Rome. It was initiated as a feast of the Western Roman Catholic Church in the late third or fourth century AD. Between 1000 and 1500 AD, Christmas grew in popularity and variety as a feast of the Christian Church, with a great deal of secular festivity built around it. Christmas today is a mixture of many cultural infusions which have melded together, creating traditions such as decorating trees, singing carols, and of course, Santa Claus. Christmas trees are a German tradition seen in America as early as 1810. The Christmas tree was on its way to becoming established as a Christmas tradition by 1860. Trees were decorated with edible and homemade ornaments, popcorn strands, fruits and candles. Caroling also became popular during this time period as several songs alluding to Christ’s birth were written. Songs included “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” and “There Came A Little Child To Earth.” Schools today dismiss for the holiday anywhere from several days to several weeks, and few businesses are open Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The tradition of schools, banks and government offices being closed for the holiday did not take hold - until after the Civil War. The tradition of spreading holiday cheer through Christmas cards in the United States was seen as early as 1851. A line of Christmas cards was introduced in 1875, and afterward sending holiday cards gained in tyCommercialization of Christmas did not take long as local newspapers soon began advertising anything that could be tied to the holiday. For example, raisins were advertised for baking holiday treats and pianos for singing holiday carols. Greatest Change Os all traditions, Santa Claus probably underwent the greatest change. This jolly gift giving character was born of legend and centuries of modification. His most likely predecessor, St. Nicholas, was a fourth century bishop of Myra in Asia Minor. By 1000 AD, Nicholas became an important and beloved saint in Christendom, having become the patron saint of people from pawnbrokers to spinsters. He became especially identified as the patron of children. St. Nicholas first appeared in the New World in 1492 when Columbus named a Haitian bay after him. He did not become widely popular though because America’s mainly puritan Protestant settlers rejected saints and rituals associated with them. Nicholas Legend Celebration based on the Nicholas legend was looked down Wawasee Village 457-4678 Or 457-2585 OPEN HOUSE EVERY SAT. 4 SUN. 1-4 P.M. WAWASEE SPINK CONDOMINIUM Call Us For A FREI Market Analysis!
visited her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bowman at Port Richey, Fla. Evening dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Poyser of Syracuse for Thanksgiving will be Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Poyser of Ligonier and Cindy Felts and Jim Lesley, Claypool. 36 YEARS AGO, NOV. 24,1960 Tickets for the Chamber of Commerce dinner Monday night will be available at the door. Reservations should be made in advance and by Friday. Jack Wells, manager, is planning a steak dinner for this “community
upon by many, so the legend of St. Nicholas was buried until the 19th century. But once the legend of Nicholas appeared again, with the help of story tellers and illustrators, it took the country and the world by storm and stayed to become a universal tradition deeply ingrained in many cultures, and focused on the character, Santa Claus. Washington Irving and Clement Moore were literary pioneers who helped establish Santa Claus through their tales, “Knickerbocker History” and “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” By 1850, Santa Claus appeared on streetcorners and in stores. Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” published in 1843, played a large part in popularizing Christmas into a religious and human holiday theorizing peace and giving. Variations of the American Santa Claus can be found in many cultures. The French gift giver, Papa Noel, found his way to Louisiana by the 1860 s. He brought gifts and had an eye for the ladies. The Krist-Kindl or Christ-Child legend partly evolved due to those Protestant reformers who felt St. Nicholas was too reminiscent of Rome. The Krist-Kindl was portrayed as a cherubic child who travelled by mule bearing gifts. Children would set out baskets of hay for the mule which later would be filled with gifts. This concept was adopted by many Pennsylvania Germans and underwent a name change to Kriss Kringle, but by 1860 the Kriss Kringle role was overtaken by Nicholas. Father Christmas was the English version of a gift giver, although he was not a descendant of St. Nicholas. He was the descendant of a pagan character in a medieval play. He originally was not a gift giver, but evolved into the role. Weinachtsmann, the German secular version of St. Nicholas, was known for travelling on Christmas Eve and bearing gifts, but he also carried sticks for naughty children. He was not seen as the jolly, rolly-polly redcheeked man known as Santa Claus today; instead he was a thin, stooped man. Weinachtsmann and St. Nicholas were joined by Belsnickel, a Santa character of earlier German origin, that had both a country and city version. Country folk might see Belsnickel as a hobgoblin with a long beard and a blackened or false face dressed in old clothes. In the city, Belsnickel often carried an instrument and dressed in a variety of costumes from a clown to an Indian. In one hand Belsnickel would carry a whip or switches for bad children and in the other nuts or candy for good children. It was rumored that Belsnickel always knew a bad child. At the village doctor’s house, they are preparing a Christmas Eve party with plenty of food and singing around the piano. The Curtis family, originally from upstate New York, had heard stories of St. Nicholas. The story will be told to their children after supper and in the morning
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party.” Skaters at Hoosier Skateland can enjoy dancing on Saturday nights, too. There is skating until ten, when the sock hop begins. Skaters’ fee is good for the evening. Those going just for dancing pay 50 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mock and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mock are having Thanksgiving dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harmon in Etna Green. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sheumann of North Manchester will spend Thanksgiving Day with their son and family, Mr.
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GREENERY ON THE MANTLE — In 1836 Indiana, greenery on the mantle was the closest thing settlers had to a Christmas tree. Christmas had yet to become a national holiday and traditions like trees and Santa Claus were still a few years away. Conner Prairie by Candlelight, December 7-23, is an opportunity to tour the 1836 Village of Prairietown at night along candlelit paths. It's Christmas Eve in 1836 and the villagers share their early American holiday traditions, or the lack thereof.
their children might find a surprise of fruit or nuts in their stockings hung on the mantle. The Fentons, ScotchPresbyterians, are seriousminded folks who take their religion earnestly. They have given up telling their neighbors the foolishness of celebrating Christmas and will make no observance of the pagan holiday. The Fentons hope that those who must celebrate the holiday do so quietly and decently. Ninety-minute tours leave every 10 minutes for Prairietown from6:3o-8:20p.m. As a special holiday bonus, those touring Conner Prairie by Candlelight can see the Festival of Gingerbread at no extra cost. This second year of the Festival of Gingerbread competition and exhibition will bring more than 100 totally edible gingerbread homes made by people of all ages and talents from children to professional chefs. Governor Noble’s Eating Place will host a special holiday buffet each evening of Candlelight. The buffet includes sliced roast turkey with dressing, cranberry sauce, chef carved roast beef, chef’s choice of vegetable, candied yams and fruit cobbler. Reservations are required for the tour and buffet and can be made by calling (317) 773-0666. Conner Prairie, an Earlham museum, is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is located six miles north of 1-465 at 13400 Allisonville Road.
and Mrs. Philip Fawley. The Terry McClintics will be in Middlebury for Thanksgiving dinner with her family, Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey Kaufman. In the evening, they will be at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClintic. Jim Searfoss arrived Sunday in Pasadena, Calif., where he will spend several months with his nephew and family, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ed Searfoss. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Talmadge and family will move Friday into their home on North Shore Road, Syracuse Lake, purchased from the Jack Kimpels.
Christmas Eve Belsnickel can be seen during Conner Prairie by Candlelight, as the museum celebrates an 1836 Christmas Eve each evening December 7-23. Take a winter walk on a candlelit path to the Village of Prairietown and experience first-hand how early Indiana settlers celebrated Christmas, if they did celebrate the holiday. The McClures, a farm family from Ohio, will not be celebrating the holiday. Instead, they will spend Christmas Eve stuffing sausage and preparing for winter. Lily family Few people realize the asparagus is a member of the lily family. If allowed to grow, the asparagus tips would throw out tall stalks and crown them with six-petaled flowers, the trademark of the lily.
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NAMED MANAGER — The Lake City Bank board of directors has announced that Melvin Hochstetler, Jr. was named assistant vice president and has accepted the position of manager of the bank's new Columbia City office. Hochstetler holds a BA degree in elementary education from Goshen College and most recently was branch manager for Northeastern R.E.M.C. in Fort Wayne. He is past-president of the Columbia City Rotary Club and is a member of the Optimist board of directors. He and his wife, Eunice, live in Whitley County and are the parents of three children. The new office of Lake City Bank will be located at 507 N. Main St., Columbia City, and will open in late 1990 or early 1991.
‘Gathering of the Eagles’ in Aug. 1991
Airborne soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, who helped shape history on Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia, at Normandy, Bastogne and in Holland during World War 11, and in Vietnam, will have their 46th annual “Gathering of the Eagles” of the 101st Airborne Division Association in Sparks, Nev., near Reno, August 15-17, 1991. John Ascuaga’s Nugget will serve as the headquarters’ hotel, and attendance of 1,200 to 1,500 is expected. Hosts for the reunion are the Northern and Southern California chapters of the association. Reunion chairman is Clark Heggeness of Long Beach, Calif., who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the “Screaming Eagle” Division in World War 11. National headquarters for the 101st Airborne Division Association is 101 E. Morris St., Sweetwater, Tenn. At this location all records of the association and its members are kept. A magazine, “The Screaming Eagle,” is published six times a year and distributed to all members. The 101st Airborne Division Association has more than 5,200 active membeFs from all 50 states and six foreign countries. Many of the members served in the division in World War II and dropped behind the German-held beaches of France, made an airborne assault on southern Holland, held fast at Bastogne to stop the last German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge, continued the offensive into Germany and captured Hitler’s Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden, Austria. A large part of the membership are veterans of the war in Vietnam — men who fought with the “Screaming Eagles” at Ham-
Wed., November 28,1990 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL
1991 calendar available free to Hook’s shoppers
As the holidays draw near, thoughts and plans are underway for the new year as well. The 1991 Hook’s Custom Calendar can help with those plans, and it’s available free to consumers at all Hook’s Drug Stores. The 13-month calendar features photographs taken by Hook’s associates who won in the calendar category of the Hook’s Photo Contest. In addition, each calendar contains money saving coupons. “It’s our way of saying
Serving our country
Graduates at Lackland
Airman Tonya D. Scybert, daughter of Jo A. Scybert, 101 Mall Rd., Logansport, and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Scybert, ,r 2, Milford, has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland Lint cleaner I have another use for those round mascara brushes once you’ve cleaned them. I use one to remove lint from the hard-to-reach places on clothing, like the plackets on shirt fronts, pockets and hems. It slides into these tight little places and pulls the lint right out. Joyce D., Hauppauge, N.Y.
burger Hill, Dak To, in the Tet Offensive, and other important engagements with the North Vietnamese Army. They never lost a. battle. The association also has m number of active duty members, who are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) over 17,000 strong, in Saudi Arabia as part of the multinational task force that makes up Operation Desert Shield. Every individual, who served in the 101st Airborne Division and wore the “Screaming Eagle” airborne shoulder patch, may be a regular member of the association. Those who did not serve in the division but have a special interest in the 101st are associate members. For more information about the 46th annual reunion or membership in the association, write: Ivan Worrell, executive secretary, 101st Airborne Division Association, 101 E. Morris St., Sweetwater, Tenn. 37874, or phone 615-337-4103. Collector A “deltiologist” is one who collects picture postcards.
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