Announce Prize Winners In Decorating Contests • * • • * • • • •
• • • Jordan Heating, TMAS Ed Portz Take | ©tor %\t East Jordan Church Services Yuletide Spirit Shown By First Awards D a a Caroli,lg I ''Park Tf&mtt 8 The Jordan Heating and Re• Announced For The Holiday CChurch?T, schoof Tl Hand clu^lb Christmas parties, city- frigeration walked off the first % By Marshall place with their window display There are at least six former • J widChurche yuletid, schooe decorationsl and clu,b ChristmaChristmass shopper parties s and in the third annual State Bank East Jordan Red Devils who now elude the Christmas worship at holiday songs pointed out this week that all East News-Herald retail Christmas Crippled Youth Methodist 1 p.m. Christmas morning. window decorating contest. They are head coaches around Michi• The church decorations for Jordan is ready for Christmas. won with their manger scene and gan. That's five in addition to May See Free Rev. Robert H. Moore, Pastor this service were made under the Local college students are home, and the local with the theme, "Put Christ back our own coach Gayle Saxton. _ Mrs. William Lyon, noted tele• direction of Carleton Bowen and school sent children home Wednesday noon for into Christmas." The others are Raymond "Chirp" Circus At G. R. vision artist, will be guest solo• Edward Weldy, and the altar Judging was done Monday Swafford whose Central Lake ist at the Methodist Christmas decorations were under the dir• the holidays. • , night. high school basketball outfit has The Shrine Circus is sponsor• worship Christmas morning. ection of Miss Mabel Hudkins, ing a show free for crippled chil• This traditional worship be• , Busy with Christmas work are the ladies of the Second place went to the compiled a four win and one * * * Dress & Gift Shoppe with third dren in Grand Rapids, January gins at 11:30 p.m. Christmas A short communion service American Legion Auxiliary, unit 227, as they pre• going to Streeter's Shoe Store. loss record so far. He came out 23rd. Children from East Jor• Eve and the public is cordially will be held at 4 n.m. Christmas pare gift baskets for the needy of the area. The windows were judged up• of East Jordan and graduated dan wishing to go are required invited. day for those unable to attend on neatness originality and'gen• from Western Michigan. He took to transport themselves to Tra• * * * the midnight service. In addition to the Christmas music that can be eral attractiveness. verse City to leave by train at The Methodist Church will be over at Central Lake this year 7:15 a.m. on January 23rd. * * • heard every day from atop the bank building, In the homeowners' division of after being out of coaching for host to all people who wish to the contest, Ed Portz was given The trip from Traverse City, honor Christ on his birthday. A there has been caroling around the city at night. several years. He was formerly first award with his array of lunch and dinner, the show and carol community service will be Lutheran —— — A view of East Jordan at Christmas lights, Santa Claus. at Mecosta. Others are: Frank the trip back to Traverse City is conducted from 11:30 p.m., De• Rev. Dale M. Larson, Pastor Christmastime may be seen Fri• The judges felt that the Portz Crowell Jr., now coaching at Av- provided free by the Shrine Cir• cember 24th, together with spec• A Christmas Eve service with day night at 7 p.m. over televis• home was most attractive among ondale; Charles Saxton at Van- cus. The children will return to ial organ meditations until mid• Holy Communion will be held ion station WWTV, Cadillac Traverse at 9:45 the following night. all others and that much attent• Dyke; Dale Clark is at Reed City December 24th at 8 p.m: The Hey, Kids! when East Jordan movies will be ion was paid to detail work. morning. At midnight beginning the choir, under the direction of where he had made a name for shown. Harry Saxton was given sec• In order to go the children 25th of December, the date that Fred Stecker, will sing several ond award with his decorated himself. Bill Saxton is coaching must have a statement from for centuries the Christians have selections. Santa's A program sponsored by front norch. Saxton's lighting at Briton. their doctor authorizing the trip*- worshipped Christ's birth, the * * * Top O' Michigan Rural Elec• They must be mobile patients, pastor will give a brief Christ• Christmas Day morning wor• tric Company, will show the arrangement was visible from a * * * long distance aifd its general at- not a bed or stretcher case. And mas message. ship will be at 10:30 o'clock. decorations at the Ed Portz's : tractiveness caught the eyes of Death has claimed a well- if they are in a wheel chair, the This will be followed by spec• Please note the change of time. Coming home. Portz won first in the all three judges. known sports writer from chair must be collapsible so that ial music sung by the choir un• There will be no Sunday News-Herald - State Bank Boyne City. He's Lendy Davis, it may be put on the train. der the direction of Mrs. Walter School on Christmas Day. Calling all kids! Santa is home decorating contest. Third place went to Lawrence Those wishing to go are re• Fowler. Mrs. William Lyon will ready to come to East Jordan Hayes whose soft blue lights a graduate of Boyne City high Sunday School will resume ag• school and a former friend quested to call Keith Annear, sing a special Christmas hymn. ain on-January 1st, New Year's tomorrow afternoon (Friday) Other places to be shown are with their feeling of warmth and of many a northern Michigan principal of East Jordan High The traditional short form of Day. at 2 p.m. The Dress & Gift Shoppe win• friendliness found favor among School and make reservations. Christmas Eucharist will con- dow - deaorations, the community the judges. athlete. Lendy worked on the * * * He will bring his reindeer Times-News at Mt. Pleasant, A New Year's Eve "Wake Christmas tree, Kiley Bader's In order to enter the homeow• later moving over to Grand and hundreds of boxes of good Christmas decorated mail box ners' contest it was necessary to Service" will be held December Christmas candy for all the and carolers at Bill Malpass'. Rapids as assistant sports ed• 31st at 8 p.m.. The earlier part good little boys and girls. make application. Ten homes itor where on the Press many of the evening will be spent play• Movies were also taken of the were entered. Judges felt that years he wrote the sports col• ing games and refreshments will Creche at the Methodist Church. a number of other homes, not Tell mother and dad that s umn, Rummaging Around." be served. you want to be at the post of• Auxiliary baskets will be dis• entered, were highly attractive At midnight a short service tributed Friday and Saturday by and felt sure more residents fice building 2 p.m. Friday; will take place in the church and that they will have to keep Ted Kotowich and Ray Dubas. should take part next year. Ron Bai'ey of WWTV Cadil• sanctuary to welcome in the New Each family who receives a bas• The judges gathered at the you in line so Santa can give ket has been thoroughly investi• lac has been in the city to taxe Year. candy to all the kiddies. Jordan Inn for a 6:30 dinner be• movies of local Christmas activi• The public is cordially invited gated by Legion members before fore the contest was run off. ties. It was reported this week to attend these services. He will arrive in his sleigh the baskets are delivered. They were: Mrs. Gladys Mills, that the film would be shown on * * * pulled by reindeer, just like * * * secretary, Boyne City Chamber WWTV 7 p.m. Friday. Keith the old fashioned days. of Commerce; Dr. W. F. Hoff• Dressel has been lining up vari• SCHOOL children made their man, a Charlevoix dentist and ous spots for movie taking and Presbyterian Santa is coming at the req• donation to the auxiliary at their annual Christmas program. They Earl Young, Charlevoix realtor. the Top O' Michigan REA is the Edward O. DeHaven, Pastor uest of the East Jordan Busi• William Grauel, represented program sponsor. nessmen's association. Sher• were received by Auxiliary Pres• The following Christmas acti• ident Mary Lou Breakey. the State Bank at the dinner and * * * vities will be observed in the man Thomas and Fred Vogel Marshall Sayles represented the Presbyterian Church this week: made the arrangements to get Donations of money and mat• News-Herald. Ray Barnes in his Monday him here!. erial have been made by various page in the Grand Rapids The Kindergarten - Primary organizations and individuals in East Jordan received many departments will hold their an• comments from the judges on Press published a drawing of Don't forget, 2 o'clock Fri• East Jordan. Work of packing Howard Porter some time ago. nual Christmas party in the day afternoon at the post of• and distributing has been car• the downtown street decorations Church Thursday afternoon be• and the community tree. They Last Monday Barnes showed a fice. Santa will be seeing you ried by the ladies of the Auxili• drawing of Donald Porter, of ginning at 2:00 p.m. there! ary and the American Legion, also felt the lighted tree in The Christmas Program will front of Mount Clemens Metal Grand Rapids, with the news A complete list of contribut• that Donald had become a be held in the church, Friday ors will be published in next Products Company did much to evening, December 23rd begin• brighten that section of the city. grandfather. Barnes says Don• week's issue. ald always has two or three ning at 8:00 p.m. The entire BASKETBALL Winners of the contests will Sunday Church School will be receive the following: First prize community services jobs at a clip. He's Howard's brother represented in this ,program. $25.00: spcond $15 and third, On Christmas Day, Sunday, $10. The State Bank said checks and a well-known Grand Rap• Red Devils PTC Dance ids civic worker. there will be no Church School. would be mailed out this week. There will be- a Christmas The annual Parent Teachers Total is $100. Worship Service in the Church Club dance will be held from Consumers Power Company is at 10:00 a.m. in the nlace of the Rest Over 8:30 to 12:30 at the high school, gathering information about lo• usual 11:00 o'clock service. Let Wednesday, December 28th. The cal industrial sites to include in us worship together on this day dance is open to the public with Department the company's advertising. Con• the birth of our Lord Jesus Holidays parents and children invited. Re• sumers has long advertised this Christ. The East Jordan High School freshments will be served and section of Michigan as a good Red Devils wound up their pre- music will be furnished by the Reviews '56 territory for industrial plants to holiday basketball competition Acitelli orchestra. locate. Many of these advertise• United Missionarywit h a convincing 67 to 44 tri• ments appear in national maga• umph over the Harbor Springs Activities zines. C. W. Thompson, Pastor High School Rams here last Fri• Christmas falls on Sunday this day evening. Recreation, always a key fac• year making it an extra special Get Your tor in conservation uolicies, took Several people who contri• day. It affords God's people the It was the second win in a row on even more importance during buted to the sportsmen's club privilege of attending church for for the locals, who had started 2955 as the people of Michigan recent dinner at the American o!
Oolley and ; brother Harry at Boyne City. (Mrs. Mary McKinnon was very pleasantly surprised Tues• day night, When she received a , Mrs. Leona Wilhelm and Mrs. television set from her children Lawerence Sweet of Flint were as a Christmas gift. guests last week of their par• ents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kaake. If you, want to sell property, * • *•' *- list it with Clarence Healey. Ph. LE 6-7210. Mrs. lone Detloff is a surgi• cal patient at the Little Tra• verse Hospital. Her two sons Ro• bert of Chicago and Floyd of Girl Scouts Washington are here to be near their mother. Decorate Tree
Franklin Rusnel returned to At Grandvue Camp Gordon, Georgia Friday, The Girl Scouts of Troop 6 where he is located. He has spent bought and decorated a Christ• the past 14 days with his par• mas tree for Grandvue hospital ents, Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Rus• December 17th. They took cran• LADIES' nel. berries and popcorn, which the Samsonite Luggage, A Wonderful Gift patient helped to string, and oth• SLIPPERS Mrs. Ida Pinney is now at the er. decorations. home of her daughter and son- The girls who helped decorate in-law at Grand Rapids for the the tree were Kathy Penfold, Ladies Jewelry . . . $1.00. winter months. Sue Stinchcomb, Mary Porter, $2.98 - $3.98 Donelda Scott, Annette Reed, Virginia Donaldson' and Dawn Mr. and Mrs. William J. Shaw Sayles. of Ypsilanti are the happy par• Shields Jewelry, Tie Clips, Cuff Links ents of a daughter born Decem• ber 18th. She weighed 8 lbs. 4 WE oit> MEN'S o.zs., and has been named Ann or Set... $1.50 to $3.50 Elizabeth. Mrs. Shaw was the TIMER. former Iris Petrie daughter of SLIPPERS Mr. and Mrs. Rodney- Petrie. $1.98 - $4.49 Ladies Purses . . . . . $1.98 - $4.98
«*No family should have less Quick. Meals than three children, so there will be two to support the genius!" BLOUSES - SWEATERS. - SKIRTS
Including production of sand and gravel, Michigan has mineral Bobbie Brooks Sweaters industries in all but 4 of its 83 counties.. BLOUSES $1.98 to $3.98 EAST JORDAN NEWS-HERALD SKIRTS $4.98 to $5.95 MACARONI-AND-CHEESE ESTABLISHED 1896 MARSHALL F. SAYLES^ TIES! Editor & Publisher ALL WOOL with Kraft Dinner is a LEnox 6-2371 All New Patterns timesaver and a Entered as second class matter KRAFT menu-maker! Stock at the Post Office at East Jor• Jackets-Skirts to Match 3 RATED up today —it costs dan, Mich. And Colors ;or that fhrough- only pennies. So Published weekly at 206 Main Street, East Jordan,' Mich. PLAID JACKETS $14.95 aad-th rough handy for school Subscription Rates — (in ad• $1.00 - $1.50 cheese flavor lunches, emergency vance) $2.50 per year; $3.50 per meals. And good year outside Northern Michigan. PLAID SKIRTS $10.95 "eatin* always! Bowties - $1.00
VAN HEUSEN White Shirts $2.95 - $3.95 HUDSON MEN'S SPORT SHIRTS $1.98 • $3.98 HOSE BOYS' SPORT SHIRTS '1.98 • 2.98 Stretch Sheers 3 pr. in gift box IF GIFT > Men's HOSE Wrapping Stretch Nylons Cottons, All Wool 49c - $1.95 pair Want Ad Rates STRICTLY BUSINESS byMcFeatters Board of Education Meeting Regular meeting of the board of education held at the high school CASH RATE: 2½ cents per word, minimum, 65 cents. If ad offices oil Monday evening December 12, 195:5 at 9:00 o'clock. is not paid by Saturday noon after last insertion, it will be considered charged. If ad runns three consecutive times you Members present: Klooster, Porter, Healey and Boswell, Absent get three ads for the price of two. Darbee. Card of Thanks — $1 Professional Directory— $2 per mo. . Minutes of previous meeting read and approved as read. Moved by Healey, supported by Porter that Russell McClure be Page 4 * East Jordan News-Herald * Thursday, December 22, 1955 given six months, after written notice from the board of education, to remove the educational building from the fairground property. For Sale For Sale Carried. FOR SALE — African Violets DEKALB CHIX—Lay more eggs Moved by Boswell, supportedly Healey that the treasurer transfer sufficient funds from the Building and Site Fund to the Detroit and green potted plants. North• and make more profits. See your "What's the matter, Pop? western Specialty Co., Elk Rap• DeKalb dealer or write "DeKalb Wabeek Bank and Trust Co., Detroit, Michigan, to pay such interest You WERE expecting him, charges as may be due and payable January 1, 1956 on the new ele• ids. 48-4 Associate Hatchery, Box 66, Ka- weren't you?" leva, Michigan. 50x7 mentary building bond issue. Carried. FOR SALE — Used Refrigera• Moved by Porter, supported by Healey that the bills be allowed and tors, Electric Ranges, Washers, FOR SALE—Aqua formal, size Legals paid. Carried. Oil Water Heaters. — SHER• 10. Mint green formal, size 16. DECEMBER 12, 1955 MANS. 22tf Both worn once. Call LU 8-2344. STATE OF MICHIGAN Martha Annear .. ; 70.00 50x3 Bader's Standard Service 40.00 WOOD FOR SALE —- All dry The Probate Court for the Allyn and Bacon, Inc. .... 2.71 hardwood either chunk or buzz FOR SALE—Sow with litter of County of Charlevoix. Norman Bartlett 16.50 wood. $4.50 per cord, delivered. pigs, 6 weeks old. George Stanek, In the Matter of the Estate of Chas. A. Bennett Co., Inc. ..—. 12.62 Also dry elm furnace wood, $4.00 Route 1, East Jordan. 51x3 Hedwig B. Zaier, deceased. C. C. Birchard Co. ..— 1.15 a cord, delivered. See William Tro- As a session of said Court, held Robert A.. Campbell Agency ~ 18.00 on December 2, 1955. Mercer Carey . . 36.75 janek, Route 1 or call Lewis Tro- For Rent Charlevoix County Road Commission 2.64 janek, LE 6-2380. 40x3 FOR RENT—Small house on Present, Honorable Floyd A. F. W. Dilworth & Sons 6.42 FOR SALE — Werner upright State Street. See Rex Gibbard at Supp, Judge of Probate. Door Hardware Service 18J5 Doubleday Bros. & Co. ...L - 1.84 piano, recently tuned. Terms if Gibbard's Standard Station, Pet• Notice is Hereby Given That Drama Guild Publishers — :—_ 6:62 desired. Call LE 6-2943 for ap• oskey. DI 7-2877. 50-3 the petition of William T. Downs, East Jordan Cooperative ..... 440.10 pointment. 49-3 'Officer, will you see that I get home safely?' Gambles „.„... 1 3.14 FOR RENT—Four room house. the administrator of said estate, praying that his final account be Gidley's Drug Store 30.12 FOR SALE —- Two rabbit dogs, Call Estella Farmer. LE 6-2237. Ginn & Co. .. . 16.09 By d'Alessio allowed and the residue of said beagues, male and female. $10 51x1 THESE WOMEN! estate assigned to the persons en• Grand Stage Lighting Co. 2.54 2.00 and $1)5. Mansel F. Cone, LE 6- titled thereto, will be heard at the Grandvue Hospital . 2233. 49-3 FOR RENT OR FOR SALE — 6 D. C. Heath & Co . 22.36 room house, basement, hot air fur• Probate Court on 28th of Decem• Hillsdale School Supply « 24.95 FOR SALE — Model A Ford, nace, bath. 206 Nicholls Street. ber, 1955, at 10 A. M.; Interstate Printers & Publishers 17.67 1930, good condition. Call LE 6- Phone-Floyd Scott, East Jordan. It is Ordered, that notice there• Fochtman Motor Co., Inc. 303.23 2322. 49-3 49-3 of be given by publication of a Jordan Frozen Food Locker Co. 5.86 copy hereof for three weeks con• Jorgensen Electric Supply Co. __ 37.11 L. B. Karr 105.00 Wanted secutively previous to said day of Ernest Kopkau 9.94 FOR SALE hearing, in the East Jordan News- WANTED — Clean cotton rags, Literary Cavalcade . 26.50 Millwood, mixed as it comes Herald, and that the petitioner Locke Films, Inc. . . 217.70 must be at least 15 inches square. cause a copy of this notice to be Martin & Murray Co., Inc. . 77.80 off the mill, $10.00 per load No buttons, n,o hooks. 15c per All wood -— cash on delivery served upon each known party in Michigan Bell Telephone Co. .. 34.30 pound. East Jordan News- Her• 339.78 ATKINSON LUMBER interest at his last known address Michigan School Service, Inc. .. ald. by registered mail, return receipt Houghton Mifflin Co. 16.82 LE 6-2657 demanded, at least fourteen (14) A. C. McClurg & Co. 4.11 WANTED — Clean cotton rags, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 16.11 must be at least 15 inches square. days prior to such hearing, or by 11.61 personal service at least five (5) McKnight & McKnight Publishing Co. _ No buttons, no hooks. 15c per lb. Northern Auto Parts Co 8.08 FOR SALE — Chippewa potatoes, days prior to such hearing. positively no blight. Good for ma• Jordan Valley Cooperative Crea• Northern Michigan Supt's Round Table 5.00 50.42 mery. 51-1 Olson's Hardware r . shing or baking. No. 1, $1.50.. No. 1.39 2 or pickouts 50c per bushel. Floyd A. Supp Pemberton Sales & Service ~ . WANTED—Responsible party to Practical English 86.45 William Shepard. Judge of Probate 48x6 assume payments of $22.85 .on Public Affairs Committee . 2.97 new spinet piano. No down pay• Pyramid Paper Co. . 99.26 CHRISTMAS TREES for sale. William T. Downs Science Research Associates 7.95 Red Pine and black spruce, 7 and ment necessary; Box 304, Petos• Attorney for Estate Scott, Foresman & Co. ..: ,. 7.57 key, Michigan. - 51x1 8 ft. tall. Cut them yourself, $1.00 139 Main Street Senior Scholastic _ 14.30 Delivered, $2.00. Call JU 2-7618, East Jordan, Michigan 49-3 Standard School Co. . 43.7» J. H. Bricker, Boyne City. 50-2 Donald Stormer 79.15 WANTED Strehl's Garage 3.95 SEPARATOR — Table model in TIMBER — LOGS STATE OF MICHIGAN Al Thorsen Lumber Co. 95.67 E. M. Thrun . 1256.66 good condition. 14 qt size, $10.00 We are buying standing saw 7 tine spring steel spear, special The Probate Court for the Upper Peninsula Office Supply Co. 139.40 timber or logs. Van Every County of Charlevoix. Maurice Vance : 17.60 made, weight and balanced per• Bros. PO Box 326 Petoskey or fect, $10.00. Special violin and "That's odd! I drained practically all the water out In the Matter of, the Estate of E. E. Wade 17.98 contact Waldo B. Van Every 5.00 casme, $45.00. John Bradley, so it WOULDN'T boil over!" Clyde Prevo, deceased. Allen Walton . or Clarence Greenier at Green- As a session of said Court, held Webster Publishing Co. _.. 3.37 Boyne City. JU 2-6266. 50-3 25.12 ier Saw Mill, Harbor Springs. Services Real Estate on December 1, 1955. Whiteford's 5 & 10c Store After 6 p.m. call Petoskey DI Howard Ruff 13.00 East Jordan, 9 rooms and bath, Julius Roberts .. 12.00 7-4590. 13tf GENERAL TRUCKING — Local Present, Honorable Floyd A. 18.33 furnace, garage and work shop, Otto Reinhardt Loua Theatre and out of town. Phone LE 6- Supp, Judge of Probate. W. M. Welch Mfg. Co. 7.07 7161 Lyle Smith Mill street, East $5,000. Hanna Music . 3.50 5 rooms and bath, Lenox oil fur- Notice is Hereby Given That 18.50 Services Jordan. 13tf the petition of Ann M. Prevo, Harry Simmons Mancelona, Michigan • nac.e, partly furnished, $4,500. Antrim County Treasurer 13.30 WIRING SUPPLIES — Complete 5 rooms and bath $3,200. praying that the administration of Consumer Power Company 286.81 assortment on hand including 4 acres, city Water and paved road, saidestate be granted to William Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. 4.80 Friday & Saturday, Dec 23-24 metal and porcelain switch and $350. T. Downs or to some other suita• Kenneth Slough 7.50 ble person; and that the heirs of 'The Girl 'Rush" outlet boxes, duplex receptacle Jeep Year around homes on Lake Char• Requisition by Superintendent Wade for three sections of risers at —pull chain and keyless types levoix and lake lots. said deceased be determined, will a cost of $279.60 approved. Rosalind Russell F, Lamas be heard at the Probate Court on Motion to adjourn. VistaVision — Technicolor —SHERMAN'S FIRESTONE. Sales - Service Keith Dressel, Broker NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S Post Office Bldg. LE 6-2200 28th of December at 10 A.M.; "Apache Ambush" It is Ordered, That notice there• ^ Signed W. G. Boswell, Secretary Bill Williams INGEST DEALER IN For the perfect gift . . . 4 WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES 100 acres, modern house, good of be given by publication of a Sunday & Monday, Dec. 25-26 barn, a real bargain at $7000. copy hereof for three weeks con• "Rebel Without A All shapes and sizes New - Used . Terms. secutively previous to said day of Bargains Every Week On of lazy back foam rub• 3 acres, 5 room house, close in, hearing, in the East Jordan News- Cause" Herald and that the petitioner James Dean Natalie Wood ber pillows in exquisite JEEPS - TRUCKS - STATION WAGONS $2200. CinemaScope —? Warnercolor 80 acres in Echo Township, $1700. cause a copy of this notice to be This Page .zipper covers. / JACK'S AUTO SALES Clarence Healey, Broker served upon each known party in Tues., Wed., Thurs., 27-28-29 interest at his last known address ONLY $3.95 Boyne City . /< «12-6511 LE 6-7210 East Jordan "Davy Crockett" ; by registered mail, return receipt Fess Parker Buddy Ebson Regularly, $5.95 TAX NOTICE demanded, at least fourteen (14) Technicolor WE REMOVE To the taxpayers of Jordan days prior to such hearing, or by "Arizona Sheepdog" HESS FURNITURE Township: I will be at the City personal service at least five (5) days prior to such hearing. Technicolor Charlevoix Dead or Disabled Hall in East Jordan to collect tax• NOTICE! es on Saturday, December 17th Horses and Cattle and Saturday, December 24th Floyd A. Supp from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. And Other Farm Judge of Probate Frank Kotalik If there is no answer at Animals ^ Businessmen's Directory Jordan Township Treas. William T. Downs FOR PROMPT SERVICE Attorney for Estate ROMAINE PLUMBING AND HEATING LE 6-7349 East Jordan ROMAINE PLUMBING & PHONE GAYLORD 6231 r~\ on? R & R TELEVISION HEATING SERVICE 139 Main Street (LE 6-2581) Authorized Service Dealer Complete Plumbing Service VALLEY CHEMICAL East Jordan, Michigan 49-3 Sales and Service Gen. Elec. Steam and Hot Water Heating from Friday, December 23rd to Thursday, Dec• Antenna Installations Zenith LE 6-2581 126 Main Company Electrical Contracting R. G. WATSON HESS FURNITURE ember 29th. ECHO Funeral Director "A kiss that'speaks volumes: Electrical Enterprise Phone LE 6-7031 READ THE WANT ADS! is probably not a first edition!" Charlevoix LE 6-7260 109 Mill MONUMENTS Lennox Furnaces JOHN C. SCHMITTDIEL Record of the Council is open every evening JORDAN HEATING & Chiropractor until nine today thru Call LE-6-2249 REFRIGERATION CO. Thursday open 'til noon Regular meeting of the City Council held at 7:00 December 19, Furnace Cleaning and Repair !Mon., Wed., Fri. 9-12, 2-5, 7-9 1955. Friday. for service Refrigerator Repair Tues., Sat., 9-12, 2-5 . Meeting called to order by Mayor Whiteford. Clarence Lord Glenn Campau Bank Building, Boyne City Roll Call: Present: Mayor Whiteford. Aldermen Annear, Malpass, LE 6-2272 Dial JU 2-6292 Saturday, Christmas Rebec, Lilak and Sturgell. Lawyer Downs. Assessor R. F. Barnett. Eve, until 6 p.m. ROMAINE PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICE WILLIAM T. DOWNS JAKE'S SHOE REPAIR The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Attorney at Law Underwood's Shoe Store Bills amounting to $1,963.84 were presented to the Council for Income Tax Counselor Boyne City payment. LE 6-7358 139 Main St. Fix them while you wait Motion made by Alderman Rebec and supported by Alderman Hours: 9-12 and 1-5:30 Look at your heels too, every• Lilak that the bills be allowed and paid. Motion carried all ayes. body else does. Motion made by Alderman Sturgell and supported by Alderman Monday through Saturday Lilak that the Mayor and City Clerk be authorized to transfer $1,800. For Best In Gas ' Service C. BLAIR & SON from the Sewer Receiving Fund to the Sewer Operation and Main• Use Cabinet and Mill Work tenance Fund. Motion carried all ayes. RUBBER STAMPS PETGAS Furniture Repair Motion made by Alderman Lilak and supported by Alderman Stur• Boyne City Gas Co. Phone LE 6-7304 gell that the Mavor and City Clerk be authorized to transfer $500.00 Your Petgas Dealer One Block West of 66 on 32 from the Sewer Receiving Fund to the Sewer Repair and Replacement Fund. Motion carried all ayes. Industrial & Residential Sales —• Service Motion made by Alderman Sturgell and supported by Alderman PAINT CONTRACTING Michigan Bottled Gas Lilak that the City Rent lot from R. Klimkiewicz for the purpose of PAINT SALES & SERVICE SHERMAN FIRESTONE dumping snow. Motion carried all ayes. Steeple Jack Service Washing Machine and Sewing Motion made by Alderman Sturgell and supported by Alderman Jim Munson Machine Service Malpass that the City pay $674.00 to the State Bank of East Jordan, STOCK STAMPS & DATERS 134 West Lincoln, Boyne City 229 Main LE 6-2961 their share of-sidewalk and street improvement by the new bank buil•
JU 2-6593 LE 6-2922 a ding. Motion carried all ayes. Motion made by Alderman Malpass and supported by Alderman CHROME MOUNTED J. H. SAVORY, M. D. J. VAN DELLEN, M. D. Annear that the City designate the Nettleton corner hill and from' East Jordan, Mich. 2 to 5 p.m. Daily Main to Josephine on Mary Street as a coasting hill. Motion carried Except Thursday and Sunday all ayes. MADE TO YOUR ORDER Hours: 2 to 5 p.m. 7 to 9 p.m. Wed. and Sat. Motion made by Alderman Sturgell and supported by Alderman Daily except Wed. & Sun. Sunday by appointment or Rebec that the City pay Lawyer Downs car mileage and expense for 7:30 to 9 p.m., Tues. & Sat in case of emergency representing the City on the Bucholtz case. Motion carried all ayes. Phones: Office LE 6-7231 'A Hearing was held on the Special Assessment made by the as• Office LE 6-2511 Res. Ellsworth LU 8-2644 sessor for the purpose of defraying that part of the cost which the Residence LE 6-2313 Tues. and Sat. 9-12, 2-5 council decided should be paid and borne by special .assessment for Call LE 6-2371 the construction of a sewer on State street, between Third street and ,* AUCTIONEERS CALL LE 6-7377 Maple street in the City of East Jordan. Several property owners Jim & Sam Brannan were heard and the City Council and Assessor went over the assess• Our Services Don't Cost For complete beauty service ment as spread. EAST JORDAN NEWS-HERALD THEY PAY Motion made by Alderman Rebec and supported by Alderman Mal• Graduates of Reisch School FLOY'S BEAUTY SHOP pass that the meeting be adjourned. Motion carried all ayes. of Auctioneering. JU 2-7613 110 Echo Street, East Jordan CITY OF EAST JORDAN Alberta Nowland, City Clerk "5¾
automobile and that many high school students drive to school in TELEVISION Rotary Article No. 4 their own cars. When Herr Bon• ani added that some schools Soften Her Heart Bad Godesberg, Germany — ca?" left me answerless. For• "even have parking lots for stu• "Do Indians still shoot with bows tunately Rector Bonani came dents' cars," the students wig• Cadillac- Traverse City and arrows?" Is everyone who to the rescue with a satisfying, gled and buzzed unable to con• With A Wolverine lives in Los Angeles a movie if somewhat evasive, answer: tain their astonished wonder. star?" "How high is the Empire "Thirty-five times larger than State Building?" Germany!" Hollywood, New York's Thursday, December 22, 1955 * East Jordan News-Herald * Page 5 For 90 minutes one morning skyscrapers, and cowboys and this week in St. Michael's Schule After the first inquiry had Indians bad particularly cap• WATER SOFTENER warmed the students to their op• tured ther young imaginat• WPBN-TV 7:30 Coke Time in Bad Godesberg 36 inquisitive THURSDAY 7:45 News Caravan 14-year did German school chil• portunity, the questions burst ions. With Hollywood probab• forth like logs breaking loose ly his primary source of in• 2:40 Health & Happiness 8:00 The Christmas Carol dren bombarded me with these 8:30 Life of Riley and a hundred other questions from a long pent-up log jam. formation one student asked 2:45 Shopping Tips Asked a blond,haired, freckle quite seriously if it were safe 3:00 NBC Matinee Theatre 9:00 Big Story about America. Herr Mathias 9:30 Star Sage • Free Analysis of Your Water Bonani, my landlord and princi• faced German boy, "Do all Am• to drive with the car windows 4:00 A Date With Life ericans always wear loud, many- down in Chicago because of 4:15 First Love 10:00 Cavalcade of Sports pal of this Catholic VolksschuJe 10:45 Organ Moods (grade school), thought it would colored ties?" the gangsters roaming the 4:30 World of Mr. Sweeney • FHA Approved "Yes," explained a classmate streets. , »4:45 Bobo the Hobo 11:00 Final Edition be a treat for his eighth grade 11:10 Weather class to meet his American room• before I had a chance to res• 5:00 Deputy Don pond, "because, Americans ha>re Another students hearing that 5:30 Candid Camera 11:15 Million Dollar Movie • Mineral by Dow Chemical er. * * * It turned out to be a treat for to compensate in some way for I had dined atop the Empire 6:00 News their drab landscape." State Building and having read 6:15 Sports Today SATURDAY me. 6:25 Weather 3:30 U of M TV Hour Although these students daily "That's not true," corrected that the world's tallest building • Call LI-7-2751 for Free Water Test the boy sitting across the table. sways slightly with" the- wind, 6:30 Bundy Mt. jamboree 4:30 Childrens Hour rub shoulders with.. Americans 7:00 Michigan Outdoors 5:00 The Christophers coming and going from Ameri• "In fact," he continued, "you asked if, when the wind was name it; America's got it. She strong, soup slopped over the 7:30 Dinah Shore 5:30 This Is The Life • No Obligation ca's diplomatic colony of 3,000 7:45 News Caravan 6:00 Christmas Music on the southwest side of Bad has mountains to match the Alps, bowls like on ships in a rolling rivers wider and longer than the sea. 8:00 You Bet Your Life 6:30 It's A Great Life Godesberg. the busy and mainly 8:30 The Peoples Choice 7:00 Mayor of The Town non-German sp°aking diplomats Rhine, beaches as inviting as the Though there were many of Riviera, the snow of Norway and these amusing queries, others 9:00 Dragnet 7:30 Big Surprise MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW and their, families have little 9:30 Ford Theatre 8:00 Perry Como Show contact with their German neigh• the warm sunshine of Spain. Am• were fresh and pentrating and erica," he sighed wistfully, "she reflected so keen a curiousity 10:00 Lux Video -Theatre 9:00 Spectacular YEAR TO ALL OUR FRIENDS bors; and the students pounced 11:00 Final Edition 10:30 Your Hit Parade upon me as though I were a man has everything!" about America that it was some• what evasively that I answered 11:10 Weather 11:00 Final Edition from Mars. * * * 11:15 Chicago Wrestling 11:10 Weather "YES," ADDED ANOTHER, the lad who asked, "Are Am• 11:15 Christmas Carol Herr Bonani introduced me "and her farms are so large that ericans as anxious to learn about FRIDAY 2:55 Health & Happiness 12:00 Midnight Mass from St. STEPHENS IMPLEMENT CO. as "an American straight from on some of them you cannot see Germany as we are to learn ab• Patricks the United States who knows from one end to the other." out America?" 3:00 Matinee Theater all about America." I thought More "Oohs and Aahs" was 4:00 A Date With Life * * * Charlevoix I did until the question^ start• the response when in answer to Taking a tip from Robert 4:15 First Love WWTV ed. But the first one, "How a question I said that virtually Burns who wrote "Aye for 4:30 World of Mr. Sweeney THURSDAY many square miles in Ameri• every American family owns an the gift to see ourselves as 4:50 Santa Claus Program 11:30 Party Line others see us," I asked the 5:00 Deputy Don 12:00 Valiant Ladv class to answer one of my 5:30 Mr. Wizard 12:15 Love of Life questions. "What did they like 6:00 News 12:30 Search for Tomorrow best and what did they like 6:15 Sports Today 12:45 The Guiding Light least about America The an• 6:25 Weather 1:00 News & Weather swers, coming from children 6:30 Limelight 1:15 Air Force Digest who are refreshingly, yet de- 6:45 Movie Museum 1:30 Love Story vastatingly frank, were an ed• 7:00 Great Gildersleeve 2:00 Today's Movieland ucation. 3:00 Mitch & The Missus 3:30 What 1 Person Can Do "America dropped the atom "American scientists are going 3:45 Military Mailbag bomb on Hiroshima . . . the way to fly to the moon. America can 4:00 The Brighter Day negroes are treated . . . we Ger• do anything. That's what I like." 4:15 The Secret Storm mans can no longer find a new "My father says Americans 4:30 On Your Account life in the land of the free be• 5:00 Kids Corner like Germans. That's what I 6:10 Weather cause of unreasonable immigra• like." tion laws . . . the high divorce 6:15 Popular Science rate . . . the number of automo• Herr Bonani interrupted to 6:30 Wild Bill Hickok bile accidents . . . the high num• point out that the class was al• 6:45 Industry on Parade ber of women club meetings JO ready one-half hour overtime 7:00 Michigan Outdoors that the men have to get up in and there was time for only one 7:30 Disneyland the morning and make break• more brief answer. 8:30 MGM Parade fast." These were what the stu• A pudgy blond German boy 9:00 Liberace dents didn't like. with sparkling blue eyes, who 9:30 . Abbie Neal 10:00 Hockey Mostly the students tended to had been waving his hand fran• tically, finally received recog• 11:00 Weather criticize what they felt to be 11:05 13th Hour America's over-emphasis on the nition. He scrambled to his feet, material. One student expressed and grinning broadly, exclaimed, FRIDAY it pictorially: "In America great "Mike Ike!" 10:00 Garry Moore buildings dwarf small churches; "Jawohl! Jawohl!" shouted his 10:15 Service Salutes in Germany great churches classmates. And my morning 10:30 Facts Forum dwarf small buildings," with German school children had 10:45 Man To Man 11:00 The Christophers What the students liked rang• ended. * * * 11:30 Party Line ed from the sublime to the ridi• 12:00 Valiant Lady culous. Many and varied were STEPPING OUT of the class• room and making my way down 12:15 Love of Life the answers. 12:30 Search for Tomorrow MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone! the corridor, I was still seeing "The girls can come to school my homeland through the almost 12:45 The Guiding Light in slacks. That's what I like best unbelieving . eyes of German 1:00 News Weather SWAN CITY about America." school children. I had seen Am• 1:15 Air Force Digest "America's atoms for peace erica with her faults, her sup• 1:30 Love Story AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY Al Thorsen Lumber Company program which could revolution• erficialities, her humorous 2:00 Just Travelin' ize the whole world is what I shortcomings. But most of the 2:30 Random Reels like." time I had looked at America 3:00 Double Feature through the wide-eyed wonder 3:30 Service Salutes and undisguised fascination of 3:45 Bob Crosby children for.whom America is a 4:00 The Brighter Day Ne'er Ne'er land where life's 4:15 The Secret Storm most fantastic dreams are every• 4:30 On Your Account day realities. 5:00 Kids Corner There was a bounce in my step 6:00 News and my head was held a little 6:15 Weather higher than usual as I walked out 6:20 Sports into the fresh air. I was proud 6:30 The Little Match iGrl to be a citizen.of the strongest, 6:45 Greatest Dramas richest, greatest nation of all 7:00 What Goes On Here history. As never before I was 7:30 Rin Tin Tin thankful for the matchless privi• 8:00 D. Fairbanks Presents - lege of being able to say, "I am 8:30 Crossroads an American!" 9:00 The Crusaders 9:30 I Led Three Lives 10:00 Lineup 10:30" Pro Football Hilite 11:00 Weather AIR LINE THIS WEEK 11:05 Movie COMPANIES Saturday 11:30 JSlectricity At Work AT 11:45 Michigan Report 12:00 Big Top 1:00 Western Time GRANDVUE 2:00 Just Travelin 2:30 Random Reels 3:00 U. of M. TV Hour The Christmas trees at Grand• 4:00 Wrestling Just a light hearted greeting to vue are all up . and decorated." 5:00 Grand Ole Opry The downstairs tree was donated 6:00 Gabby Hayes wish our friends and patrons a and decorated this year, as it is 7:00 Lawrence Welk To wish you, every one, every year, by the American Le• 8:00 Stage Show Merry Christmas and a Holiday gion Auxiliary Unit 227 of East 8:30 The Honeymooners Season that's cheery and bright, A MERRY. MERRY CHRISTMAS Jordan. 9:00 Two For The Money Each year a Christmas tree 9:30 Ford, Star Jubilee decorated with wrapped quarters 11:00 Premiere Playhouse is given to purchase something WILLSON'S FURNITURE for the patient by the Charlevoix R & R Television and APPLIANCE STORE County Home Demonstration group. Quote! Bev, Ray and Sons Boyne City St. Ann's Altar Society brought out individually wrap• "If you can't think of any ped packages of Christmas cook• other way to flatter a woman, ies and candies for the patients. tell her she's the" kind of woman Monday night the Boyne City who can't be flattered." — Vin• Rotary Club held their annual cent Lopez. Christmas party at Grandvue. * » * They brought individual gifts - "The good old days are prob• and ice cream for the patients. ably those when you were nei• There has been no change in ther."—Franklin P. Jones the patients' listing this week. * * * "The trouble with matrimony is* not in 'the institution. It's in the personnel." — Martha Scott. Christmas * * * "The happiest miser on earth is the one who saves friends."— Doc Robinson. FLOWERS * * * "The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue will tell your about it, or spend your time de• nouncing it, but to lay a straight greeting best stick alongside of it." — Dwight L. Moody. Poinsettias Begonias Pom Poms
Variety of Santa Clans Novelties For Christmas Arrangements
Nice Red Tomatoes for Your Christmas Salad Conrad Klooster Implement Store EDWARDS, Florists "The man who said that taxes ,OU GARDNER Member Little Traverse Florist Association keep us half-way broke was sure a ooor judge of distance!" and ASSOCIATES ? Conservation Report For 55 MERRY CHRISTMAS! (From Page 1) ing the year boosted the total In game work, wildlife areas est cuttings for deer food and number of fishing sites to 642. were increased by completion of the use of herbicides and con• LES BINGAMAN Lake and stream improvement the Martin y Lake flooding pro• trolled burning. projects were increased through• ject — creating 1420 acres of marshland for waterfowl and Deer, pheasants, rabbits Page 6 * East Jordan News-Herald *. Thursday, December 22, 1955 out the state. and waterfowl offered excel• Fish research programs were furbearers — and establishment of the Shiawassee Flats wildlife lent hunting during 1955. An Now that the smoke of battle pected of our first two draft stepped-up, including the con• army of 420,000 firearm deer has cleared and; the Lions are choices, Ohio State's Hopalong version of the state hatchery at area, a 3i-square mile farm, hunters bagged 68,000 bucks marsh and river-bottom project looking up at the rest of the Cassady and Southern Method• Hastings to warm-water fish re• —9,000 more than in 1954. league from the very bottom— ist's Don Mclllhenny. Cassady's search. Some 1,300,000 trout near Saginaw. Wildlife was be• Some 130,000 waterfowl hun• nefited by other flooding pro• an indignity that hasn't befallen exploits are widely known, of were planted in streams and the ters enjoyed a 70-day season, them in a long time—perhaps course, and Mcllhenny has done first experimental plantings of jects, plantings of trees and 15 days longer than 1954. shrubs for food and cover, for- this-is the occasion to take a peek a superb job in the SMU back- muskies were made. Pheasants and rabbits were es• at the future in winding up field, particularly on pass inter• pecially abundant for the this Middle Guard series. ceptions, a Lion weakness this state's 750,000 small game Not since 1948 have our lac• season. hunters. erated Lions finished in the base• A BRIGHTER FUTURE Forestry projects were em• ment. It was most unexpected. Two years from top to bottom! Moreover, Parker expects to phasized, too, as Michigan con• acquire several other top pros• tinued-to step up its forest use First crushed for the world's championship and now shorn ev• pects at the completion of the operations. Use of marginal spe• college draft in January, and cies, such as aspen, for pulp con• en of the Western Division title and shoved in the mud. with the nucleaus of fine players tinued to grow. An accelerated we already have, the Lions un• planting program was instituted It's quite a come-down and maybe a little hard to take, but doubtedly will start the long and about 6,500 acres of state road back. land were planted. By 1959, this nobody's crying. Buddy Parker annual planting will be up to and Bobby Layne and Joe However, this is not to say 20,000 acres'. Present long-range Schmidt and Lou Creekmur and we'll take any championships HAPPY NEW YEAR! plans call for 200 million trees the whole gang are made of next year. From bottom to top• to be planted on 250,000 public sterner stuff. is much harder to achieve than acres. In addition, ; trees suffi• Everybody's looking to next top to bottom. The rebuilding TEMPLE THEATRE cient to plant 15,000 acres were year. We all feel we'll move up. process takes time, and no one distributed by the Conservation After all, there's no place to go ever can predict how a highly- Department for planting on pri• but up. touted All American will do in WATCH FOR OUR vate lands. the pro ranks. We could get TRIO COMING BACK some "bursts," although this REOPENING ANNOUNCEMENT Michigan's public received al• None of the Lions brass is seems unlikely. most $600,000 from sales of overlooking the fine material we timber on state lands during the are expecting next year, some In any event, with Leon Hart 1954-55 fiscal year — another draft choices from the colleges, showing great potential as a ethers former Lions returning harddriving fullback, Layne's increase from previous years. soulder expected to be strength• Forest fire losses during 1955 from the service. True, we'll miss the great ened over the winter, service re• were the third lowest in history, turnees and newcomers of great with damage of only 7,204 acres. Doak Walker and others who un• doubtedly will soon announce promise, we'll start moving up The record was even more sig• there, wait and see. nificant in view of the hot, dry their retirement, but we are ea• gerly looking forward to the re• Next season I expect to be re• summer. Public cooperation and porting on a resurging Lion foot• modern fire-fighting techniaues turn next season of Gene Ged~ man, Yale Lary and Ollie Spen• ball team and I hope you'll be were cited for their contribut• with me again. It was fun doing ions. cer from military duty. Gedman is a powerful runner this weekly column and the Enforcement of conservation who piled up a lot of yardage broadcasts and telecasts with laws received a boost with nlans for the Lions as a halfback. Lary Van Patrick, and thanks for all for a 40-man increase in conser• is a defensive specialist who your kind messages. vation officer ranks. Recruits to snares a lot of enemy passes and, be trained during 1956 will man, how we could have used bring the total force to 200 men. him this season! Spencer is a Since 1949 more men than * * * rugged tackle who can make any- women have died of cancer an• IN EDUCATION. Conserva• . body's team. nually, American Cancer Society tion Department film loans to In addition, big things are ex• statistics show. schools, sportsmen's groups and *dt?'< ' % ^ir others almost doubled 1954 loans More than 2.400 Michigan teach• The Serviceman's Letter ers received conservation in• struction at the** Department's Higgins Lake training school — a 15 percent increase from last year's enrollment. The theme And in keeping with the Christmas spirit we for the Department magazine was "land use" and articles on G. I. NEWS the subject will be collected in extend our wishes to one and all —for the book form for' use in schools of Dear Editor, couple of days it has gotten up the state. I wish to express my apprecia• to 25 degrees above. We have best of everythingl -y tion for receiving the home town very little snow. We're only hav• State land purchases and paper. ing a little over 5 hours of day sales consolidated public hold• I would also like to inform you light now. ings while keeping the total of of my promotion to Airman first Sincerely, state-administered lands near• class. A-lc Loren B. Willson Northern Auto Co. ly constant at about 4,200,000 This past weekend here in the AF 16 431 690 -acres. Anchorage (Alaska) area we had Box W-34 Boyne City varying temperatures of 25 to 6981st Radio Sqdn. Conservation Department geo• 35 degrees below zero. It has (Mobile) APO 942 logists opened cooperative work warmed up again now. The last Seattle, Washington with the U. S. Geological Survey in a long-range study of ground water reserves in the upper pen• insula, a valuable survey for the economic and residential devel• opment of the north country. Wise Men Other geology projects included a study of off-shore oil and gas drillings in Lake St. Clair and a study which led to conversion of Still many wells in the Northville oil field to natural gas production. Come Jordan \ alley Church News Cooperative Creamery (From Page 1) will again render Christmas car• ols in four voices. Masses New Year day same as on Sunday — 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. New Years eve there will be a Holy Hour devotion at 7:30. This annual devotion is in thanksgiving for all the graces and blessings received in the past year, also a petition for continual blessings upon the in• dividuals, families and our be• loved country.
Christmas in Russia? Behind the Iron Curtain it's Grandfath• er Frost who delights the child• ren. Grandfather Frost (really an actor from the Moscow stage) was revived by the Russians two years ago. Through most of the HARLEVOIX HUDSON month of January thousands of Russians children dance around Sales and Service a fir tree in St. George's Hall and -may shake hands with Charlevoix Grandfather Frost, the Russian Santa Claus. Grandfather Frost entertains the children with the aid of sing• ers, dancers and variety artists from the theaters. Last year for the first time American corres• pondents were admitted to the Kremlin to see one of the gather• ings. Once there was a year which cordially invites you to worship contained 445. days—or an extra on two months. Numa Pompilius supposedly created the Roman calendar in the seventh century B. C. Altho revised several times, the cal• 11 P.M. endar by Julius Ceasar's time was two months behind the sun. When Ceasar set his experts The beautiful, traditional Candlelight Service . . . to which to the task pf revising the cal• Northerners flock from many miles around. endar in the 16th century, they ,U like to set asi de the problem* found they had to meet the pro• and on blem of catching up with the >f tke business world and turn sun. So two months were insert• ed between the months of Nov• again to our age- <*U customs. M<*4 ember and December for the Christmas Day year 46 B. C. we greet 40U/ our friends THE GIRL'S AT WHITEFORD'S 5c TO $1.00 STORE One short evening's work is all that's required to create this home's holiday decorating theme. THE GAMBLE STORE Ready made lighted plastic candles, 58 inches tall, a clus ter of lighted bells and a string of outdoor multi-colored lights were all of the equipment needed to decorate this newly built home for its first LEON & JEAN PETERSON holidays. Greeting Card Egyptians Are Christmas Tree Idea Created Pioneers In Industry Aids By Englishman Study Of Time Forestry Program $0£t Greeting cards are an English The Egyptians were probably That beautiful Christmas tree contribution to the Christmas the first to develop any "exact" you've purchased for your living May all the happiness of observance. method of calculating time ••— room this Christmas needn't This simple idea of wishing about 4,000 B.C. they devised a cause any qualms of conscience this joyous season bless your friends a Merry Christmas "calendar." if you're the type who worries was originated in 1846 by Henry The Christian era begins on about the effect of the Christ• your home and all who Cole, a middle class Englishman January 1, in the middle of the mas tree business on our forests. and the idea brought Cole great fourth year of the 194th Olym• The fact that yours is one of enter it at Christmas! honor as well as knighthood. pian, the 753rd year of the buil• 31 million trees used for holiday Cole's original cards depicted ding of Rome and in the 4714th decorations this year makes it a Victorian family gathered at year of the Julian period. seem that our forests are in the festive board and he had a The Jewish calendar reads great peril, but such is not the thousand of them struck off by 5717 in relation to 1956 A.D.. case. In fact, at least half of lithograph. Although the' cards these trees are coming from since according to,Jewish dogma sources that did not harm or ac• Gidley's Drug Store met with immediate popularity and tradition the Creation ante• and brought fame to Sir Henry tually improved the forest land dated the birth of Christ ap• they occupied when cut. Cole, it was two decades before proximately 3,761 years. The Christmas cards were sold gen• Jewish calendar was adopted Foresters who grow saw log erally. during the 15th century. trees- generally divide cut over "JOY TO THE WORLD..." Today the demand for cards is Use of the notation A.D. land into four classes and Christ• so great that many companies (year of our Lord1* was inaugur• mas tree land is the lowest class• spend the full year designing and ated in 897 by Charles III of ification. It won't grow good producing only Christmas greet• Germany. forests, but is ideal for Christ• Here's our cheery carol for you —> ing cards. — mas trees since it barely sup• While today's mass-produced ports tree life. The tree, in its May all the joys of the Holiday Season cards are quite superior to the Early Saxons' named the cur• struggle to exist, throws out original cards produced by Hen• ious berried tree parasite used quick and frequent branches. be yours on Christmas Day! ry Cole, neither time nor poets as a yule-time decoration, "Mis• On such land are the Christ• have been able to improve on tletoe," meaning a shoot of a mas tree farms, such as one op• the classical message the En• tree. Early Nordics dedicated erated at Tacoma, Washington, American Legion Post 227 and glishman penned on the first mistletoe to their goddess of by Paul Kirk, the "Christmas Christmas greeting card: "A love and started kissing under it tree king." Kirk distributes 4 Merry Christmas and a Happy of* a gesture of friendship and to 5 million trees a year and Auxiliary Unit 227 New Year to you." love. keeps several times that num• ber growing. The- last two or three week*. bafore Christmas are about the busiest of the year for Paul Kirk, for his carefully grown trees must arrive at their des• tinations on 'time. It isn't unus• ual for him to tour dozens of cities checking on shipments be• fore he gets home-at the last mo• ment to gather with his family Mtxxf around the Kirk's huge white Cftrtetma sprayed tree. Rose Bowl History To all our friends for ; Best wishes for a joyous After Michigan routed Stan• a happy holiday season. ford 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl holiday from our staff. football game, January 1, 1902, there was no football game sup• plement to the Tournament of Ellsworth Farmer's Your A & P Store Roses until 1916. Chariot races were substituted for the gridiron spectacle in 1903, proved popu• lar for several years and then Exchange Employees lost in favor until 1916 when collegiate football returned as Washington State defeated Brown University. St. Nicholas was born, lived and became a legend 1600 years ago in Southern Turkey where snow and reindeer are never seen, and swimming on Christ• mas day is common. Galmore's Standard Service American To all our loyal friends Elgy's Auto and customers. May this Club joyous season be filled with ROMAINE Body Shop c Jentment and happiness. PLUMBING & HEATING Norm & Sherry Sylvia & Cecil Root Max Bauer's Creamery LOOKING BACKWARDS 10 Years Of Christmas Time News Around East Jordan DECEMBER 21, 1945 East Jordan was going thru hall M. N. McDaniel was asked the News-Herald and the State a mild epidemic of scarlet fever. to be chairman, Albert Sinclair, * * * Bank of East Jordan. vice-chairman; and Marshall * * * The Protestant ministers of Sayles, secretary. East Jordan formed a minister• • * * * DECEMBER 23, 1954 ial association with the following Santa Claus made two visits officers: President, Rev. C. W. Leslie Gibbard passed away to give candy to the children in Sidebotham; Vice President, El• at the wheel of his truck Sunday East Jordan. der Ole" Olson; Secretary, Rev. morning. B. M. Dirks; Treasurer, Rev. * * * Myrtie Hart, 81, passed away Winners in Leon Peterson's Gamble Store deer hunting contest Howard Moore. DECEMBER 24, 1953 at her home on Second Street. were awarded $7.00 each in trade certificates. From left in above Miss Sharon Brock was chosen photo are Raleigh Rusnell, Bob Howard and store owner~Leon Pet• * * * NOEL Community Chest Chairman Miss Merry Christmas at the an• The Dress and Gift Shoppe erson. Not shown is Leona Graham, who also won. Prize had to be nual Christmas dance at Bellaire split three ways since each showed up with deer having 11 point*. ed away in her 88th year. won first prize in the window The contest was for the person having a deer with most points. decorating contest. * * * * • * * * * * The Christmas Bell rings out glad Peterson sold about 300 deer hunting licenses at his store. Those The Mineva Restaurant in Leslie Sheridan was named purchasing a license there were entitled to enter the contest. Pat Gilpin was chosen Miss tidings to all our loyal friends and Charlevoix was completely des• chairman of' the Charlevoix Merry Christmas at the Bellaire (Photo by Rogers) troyed by fire. County Farm Bureau. Christmas dance. customers: wishing you a happy holiday. * * * * * * 70 PERCENT CURABLE More than 20 sparkling blue DECEMBER 20, 1946 Chris's Men's Wear won first Only 15 per cent of rectal can• lakes can be seen at a glance John P. Seiler was installed prize in the first annual window SHOP EAST JORDAN cers are cured today. Early diag• from the twin observation tow• Worshipful Master of East Jor• decorating contest sponsored by nosis and prompt treatment ers of the Irish Hills near De• dan'Lodge No. 379 F. and A.M. DAN'S SERVICE could increase cures to 70 per troit. » * * cent, the American Cancer So• Mrs. Matilda Mathews passed away at the home of her niece. Wava and Dan ciety says. Giving to the Cancer Wayne University in Detroit Crusade can help make this pos• was named after General An• * * * sible. thony Wayne. Charles L. Brown officially announced his candidacy for the office of Circuit Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District of Michigan. * * * DECEMBER 26, 1947 Miss Evelyn Thomas became the bride of Charles Hazard. * * * The East Jordan chapter of the OES sponsored a Christmas Dance in the high school gym, December 18th. * * * The East Jordan Civic Chorus gave a very fine program Decem• ber 17th in the high school gym. * * * DECEMBER 24, 1948 Mr. and Mrs. C. W; Freese celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary. * «• * The entire community gather• ed at the high school gym Dec• ember 20th to help pack Christ• mas boxes. Groups represented at the community project were the Rotary Club, the churches, the high school, the lodges, the Legion and Auxiliary. And there was a large donation from the community fund. * * * DECEMBER 23, 1949 Marie Thomas became the bride of Ellis C. VanDeventer of Detroit. * # * Sharon Moore, 12 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore passed away. * * * The Legion Auxiliary Unit 227 held their first meeting in their new home Tuesday, Dec• ember 13th. * * • DECEMBER 22, 19S0 TO OUR Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Flora cele• brated their 60th wedding anni• versary. * * * FRIENDS Mrs. Joseph Rebec died at the age of 76. * # * First Lt. Frances J. Lenosky will report Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver January 17 sue: for active duty in the United States Army. * * * DECEMBER 21, 1951 Boyne chest drive went over the top. Bill Grauel announced that the chest drive went over the top. * * * Cleaners Kay Sinclair and Russell Hughes were united in marriage /#11 • I • -^J at the University of Michigan MERRY chapel in Ann Arbor. * * * We're wishing you Andrew LaLonde, 84, passed away. a very Merry ChristmasI * * * DECEMBER 25, 1952 RAINBOW BAR January 8th was set for a Mike, Spike and Harold town wide meeting of all busi• nessmen to help complete the Boyne City structure of a merchant's or• BADER'S STANDAR ganization. At a first caucus SERVICE held at the American Legion The age-old story takes new meaning each year as again we wish all our friends and customers: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY To All Friends And Customers • • • The Dilworth Hotel Top O' Michigan CHARLEVOIX COUNTY RURAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Aimer And Emily Poole Boyne City Boyne City STATE BANK Take A Tip From A Contest Winner When Planning Your Outdoor Holiday Decorations !!!!!:!:• 11 .Him": lllii"!! 1 Before you start putting up crepe paper. Old carpet rolls, Ten 150-watt projector flood• [your outdoor Christmas lights, given a coat of dime-store gold lights and four spotlights ana take a minute to study this pic• (paint, were used to create a outdoor Christmas lights com• ture of a prize winning Miss• handsome organ in one of the pleted this unusual holiday de• ouri home. upstairs windows. Choir boys, sign. It was a top prize winner in cut out pf cardboard by the fa- Imagination can play a great Wright's West Side Service its own city's locally sponsored imily, added the final point of part in every homeowner's Out• holiday ligncmg contest and fin- interest. door lighting design. iaily, top winner in General El• ectric .Lamp Division's nation• wide Cnriatmas lighting contest. Proof that originality, artistic merit, ingenuity and lighting technique can pay cash dividends is evidenced by the $1,000 this ihomeowner won for their effort. Unocal sponsoring organizations •received similar cash awards. You don't need a house as 'large as the first prize winner's 'to borrow some of his interesting ideas for your own home. Although he's been putting up To our many friends • • • we want to decorations for eight years, this Kansas City homeowner .actually spent only $25 for new outdoor express our sincere appreciation for iwhristmas decorations last year. OUR GOOD your favors; it has been a privilege and While the value of his decor• ations is, of course, many times pleasure to serve you • . • that, this wise homeowner shops WISHES... at surplus and other stores Merry Christinas, everyone! throughout, the year for his un• usual display. For the holidays, all windows were transformed into colorful "stained glass" with inexpensive The little metal trumpets de• corating Christmas trees date from early Danish custom of blowing in the Yule with four Bea and Al Sinclair hymns representing the four corners of the world. * * * A. R. Sinclair Sales Mistletoe, the most popular The Sunny side Restaurant New Year's and Christmas green, Boyne City East Jordan has been an emblem of purity, friendship and goodwill since Boyne City ancient' Greek times. Ancient Britons reserved it as a symbol Ken Diller Lumber Co. of protection from evil spirits. With reverent hearts we pay tribute to Him on this Christmas and hope that His teachings of Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men will find expression throughout the world. May your family enjoy th "many rich blessings of Christmas! PAUL REED, INC. IDEAL DAIRY CHARLEVOIX BOYNE CITY TRAVERSE CITY The Christmas Spirit "I don't know that I can answer your question, son, but I'll try. "The Christmas spirit . . . well, it's something you can't touch as yon can the tree or feel as you do the cold and -the wind and snow. It's greater than the distance to a star or the silence of the night, more wonderful even than Santa Glaus . . . "Oh, yes, Christmas trees and snow, presents and things, they'r° all part of the Christmas spirit. But these are things that we could have the whole year round without the Christmas spirit. It's only at 41* Christmastime that they ... "Why? Well, it's because the Christmas spirit sort of changes the way we look at things and the way we feel. Little, everyday things, usually so important, go off somewhere and are lost among th Jordan Inn Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Wallace (iMstraas Christmas gives us an In the spirit of friendliness and good cheer opportunity to express our * . . we thank you for your many favors and sincerely wish to each of you the blessings of appreciation of your kind oeace... good will... good health and happiness friendship and loyal — at Christmas time! patronage; we extend our thanks to our many friends and patrons and hope that the Christmas Season will be memorable. East Jordan Cooperative Company til » Once you-have your outdoor Christmas lights up and your house in its Christmas dress, get 1M cut your camera and take a pic• ture of it. Many amateur box camera fans have -taken excellent shots of their lighted decorations by following a few simple tips from General Electric photographic specialists. For best results, be sure to follow these suggestions carefully. First and most important, use a tripod—a good heavy one. Pic• tures of this sort are almost al• ways disappointing if snapshot shutter speeds are used. If your tripod is not rigid, slight camera To our customers: motion might result during the time exposure. for the Holidays Using Super XX or any of the fast films, experts suggest a time exposure of about ten seconds. Our wish that Joy and If you start shooting just after DRESS & GIFT SHOPPE sundown, you will get a consider• able amount of detail of build• Minnie —> Shirley — Rachel ings and surroundings with the decorative lights lit. gladness will fill A half hour after sundown you will still have .some glow in the sky and your biulding will be silhouetted against the sky show• ing its outline, although there each passing moment of will be quite a bit less detail in the front of the structure. It is not necessary to quit Working up until. the time it, is actually dark, except that each your Christmas Holiday* time it gets perceptibly darker, double and then re-double the lenerth of your exposure. This exposure information is based on the use of a box camera or a camera with a diaphragm adjustment set at F-16 or even F-22. Whenever you are in doubt as to the correct exposure for a CAMPBELL picture of this sort, always per- fer to make the exposure too lone rather than too short. INSURANCE If vour camera is firmly an• chored on a trinod or resting on All of us —staff and management — extend to you -om? heavy obie^t such as a our wishes that every joy and blessing will be yours AGENCY s+one fence, your pi~tur°s will b° <*harp and clear. Avoid taking in the cheery holiday season — and, that its many picture of outdoor lighting pleasures will thrill your household. - As this year comes to a Many Languages ~j* close, we want to express our Join Together thanks for your loyal patronage In Holy Praise As the angels sang on that first Christmas night, so will and our wish that your Christmas there be singing in the village of Bethlehem in this year of, will be the most joyous yon 1955. Bethlehem caroling is in many languages. An Arab choir will have ever known.. • join with the voices of tourists and pilgrims in a simple outdoor service. In a grotto which mignt Jordan Heating have been the sheepfold for the watching shepherds, the Christ• and Refrigeration mas story will be read from the Gospel of St. Luke. The stone buildings and chur• ches of Bethlehem will be filled with thousands of pilgrims who have journeyed here for a Ponti• fical Mass at midnight in St. Catherine's Chapel and the pro• cession which later leads down a flight of stone stairs to the grotto beneath the Church of the Nativity. According to tradition, nearly 2,000 years old, the grotto is the site of the stable where Jesus was born when Joseph and Mary could find no room at the inn. During the ceremony an in• fant figure of Christ is placed first on a silver star, then in a manger in a wooden crib where it will remain until the feast of Epiphany. On both sides of the Isreal- Jordan border, a short distance from Bethlehem, tent cities are set up to facilitate border cross• ing formalities for almost 2,000 Christmas living in Isreal and temporary Christian residents of Isreal traveling to Bethlehem for Christmas. The ,• formalities do not take much time. In one tent, pilgrims get stamps for their permits; in another their luggage is checked; finally their money is changed. Then they cross the border, Bethlehem-bound, just as wes Season's Greetii Mary and Joseph on a similar night long, long &po, and just a? Almost two thousand years ago Three Wise From all of us here to all of you — we send are fervent travelers from all warm friendly wishes that this Joyous Christmas parts of the world in this year of 1955. men found the secret of great happiness as they Season may set the scene for many happy days to come! Outdoor Lights paid homage to a newborn Babe in a manger. Started In And today, as then, the message of Peace and HITE DRUG CO. Small Towns Good Will shines from the eyes of men;and Today nearly every commun• ity in the land has some kind of warms their hearts as Christmas approaches. Its outdoor Christmas decorations and in nearly every big city you can find two or three spectacular blessings and hopes are for all mankind. May displays. It was a small town that first came up with the idea of lighting they also be yours this Christmas. up the outdoors at Christmas time, but no one is quite sure which towri gets credit for the idea. Four communities are believed to have thought of it about the same time, as early as 1913. Two of them, McDonald and German- Jordan Frozen Food Locker Co. town, are in Pennsylvania. Salem Oregon decorated a Sitka spruce and Riverside, California illumi• THRIFT SUPER MARKET nated a large evergreen, an Ar- acuria. On A Silent Night . . . Medieval Dinner It was December 23, 1818 in a tiny mountain village in Austria. Was Popular The night was cold and clear and a heavenly canopy of stars stretched over a peaceful earth as far as the eye could see. Custom For Coeds Father Joseph Mohr, a young parish priest, had just administered the last rites to a dying woman. Walking thoughtfully homeward, he Eating peas with a knife is looked down at the twinkling lights of the village and the bright stars contrary to Emily Post and does FOR CHRISTMAS above. A soul was about to depart from this world, to sleep forever not seem to have much qualifi• in heavenly peace. Tomorrow at midnight the village and the Christ• cations for observance as a ian world would reverently observe the greatest birth—the Nativity Christmas tradition, but for Some old song, but always new — that took place that holy night so long ago. more than 25 years coeds at Pennsylvania State University Merry Christmas — to oil of you! How sad, the young priest thought, that the church organ was partook of a fork-less meal each broken and the musical program for the holiday services had been Yule season. cancelled. Franz Gruber the organist, had suggested they find a sim• The traditional medieval din• ple melody that could be sung to the accompaniment of a guitar. Give ner, complete with everything him the words, he'd said, and he would compose the music. Give from costumed lords and ladies him the words . . . and there would be music. to the legendary boar's head, da• As he thought of birth and life and death and looked down upon ted back to 1919, finally had to the sleepy, starlit village below, Father Mohr found these words. be cancelled when coed ranks They sing the praises of the Holy infant born to the world, and we swelled to almost 1,000. wonder if they do not als.o ask for the departed soul "rest in peace." The affair, sponsored by the Thus came the famous "Silent Night, Holy Night." Franz Gruber, Women's Student Government true to his word, put Father Mohr's words to music that will endure Association, began with a for• till the end' of time. mal procession through the din• ing hall. Lord and Lady McAl• lister—the dinner was held in McAllister Hall—led the throng, which included noble lords and ladies, heralds, a poet, a cardi• Kit Carson nal, pages, and two jesters bear• ing the boards head. All these girls were appropri• ately- costumed and sat upon a Lumber Co. raised dais in the center of the holly bedecked room which was Charlevoix illuminated by candlelight. A choir furnished Christmas music, and the poet entertained the guests by reading Old En• "f"o our mamj frienJs: we wish glish poetry from a scroll. In ac• cordance with medieval custom, }—|oliJtfH| &• no forks or napkins were allow• qou the |-|appiest ed although guests sometimes se• creted them in their pockets. The tke Merest G««s^nw/ ever menu consisted of roast pork, mashed potatoes, peas, and a —thanks for ijour patronage! very rich plum pudding. Today's students eat a spec• ial Christmas dinner before go• ing home for vacation—but it's served "sissy" style. They're al• lowed a full complement of ta• TIDINGS OF ble utensils. Rouse Oil Company CHEAT JOY Charles Wesley, a Methodist Boyne City minister in England, wrote "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" on a Christmas morning. The Distributors of Leonard Super brother of John Wesley, found• X-Tane Gasolines GUY C. CONKLE, Jr. er of Methodism, was inspired by the pealing of church bells when May mie happiness HARVEY C. VARNUM he penned the famous carol. bt yours at The tallest Christmas tree on Wright's West Side Service Chfiffliwtiflig, Boyne City record was a 212 foot Douglas fir set up in 1950 in Northgate, East Jordan Dealer a suburb of Seattle, Washington. It displayed 3,500 colored lights. R.G. &H. E. Watson Courier Products May the Spirit of Christmas Division of Model Engineering bless yoa and yours and bring you the Joys of the Season* and Manufacturing, Inc. Boyne City Gas Company Boyne City Howe's Leather Co., Inc. Boyne City ASON ETING JACK'S AUTO SALES Boyne City A Precious Gift Make Your Own Decorations-Wrappings It was Christmas in the village of Trenton. Snow-covered rooftops; Make your holiday decorations gleamed white in the pale moonlight and the night echoed with the and you will not only save mon• cards, ribbons, seals and other ey, you'll have fun. Small pieces, of aluminum foil boisterous song of Hessian Mercenaries celebrating the season of package decorations can add up or shelf paper from the end of peace on earth—celebrating with greater spirit than-wisdom. Christ• A kissing ring for a doorway to quite a sum. the roll are excellent for wrap• mas trees, first to be seen in America, dangled tinsel and toys. The can be made by covering two ping smaller packages. Or, if cobbled streets were alive with laughter. By using a little imagination, efbroidery hoops with ribbon or these costs can be kept at a min• you. have a young child who fin- Across the Delaware things were not so merry. Especially did this tinsel. Place them at right angels imum. gerpaints, why not wrap gifts in holiday season of 1776 find little merriment among the soldiers of to each other and add a bell, bail some of his paintings. •he Continental Army/under command of George Washington, spen• crnament or sprig of mistletoe Ends of wallpaper rolls, whe• inside. Attach a bow at the bot• ther left over from your own For seals, cut out colored pic• ding the icy Christmas on the frozen hills of Pennsylvania overlook• tures from magazines, old ing the Delaware. tom if you wish. Instead of em• walls or bought as odd stock at broidery hoops, you may use your local paint store, are espec• Christmas cards or even small In almost constant retreat since his loss to Lord Howe in the battl can rings painted with gilt or ially pretty for large packages. bits of wrapping paper and j-f Long Island, Washington was in a desperate situation. Supplier tempera paints. Even newspapers can be used to paste them on the package. Or -.vere almost gone. The new year would end the enlistment period wrap large packages and' the you can paste them on a small for many of his tattered soldiers. England had already promised to Evergreen branches can be used in many ways. Have you want ad section is more attract• piece of folded construction pap• pardon all who had taken up arms against the Crown if they would ive than the other pages. er to make an enclosure card. return peaceably to their homes. Washington knew he must taste ever tried covering the wood victory now or never. moulding abo.ut a door with them? Or bending a wire coat By lantern light, he loaded 2,400 men, 18 cannon, ammunition, hanger into a circle and attach• and horses into flat-bottom boats. With lanterns extinguished, the ing greens to it to form a boats began to make slow progress,, across the river that was clogged wreath? You can add ball orna-- with floating ice blocks. ments or bright cranberries to When the church clock at Trenton struck 7 a.m. a young Ameri brighten it a bit. can officer named Alexander Hamilton looked down upon the town Then how about decorating -i'om a high hill where he had managed to set up his artillery. Wash• your windows and mirrors? Cot• TO ALL OCR FRIENDS ington gave the signal and the rumble of the cannon echoed through ton, white' spray paint or white the silent streets of Trenton. papor snowflakes always look Caught completely by surprise, the Hessian soldiers flung away pretty. their guns and swords and fled for their lives. As the Hessian com• With so many gifts to wrap mander lay dying from a bullet wound, he directed an aide to read AND CUSTOMERS a message he had received the night before but had not opened. It this time of the year, paper.. warned him of Washington's impending attack. The village of Trenton and 1,000 prisoners were Washington's prizes. He probably could not forsee at the time that he had given his nation a great Christmas present. His daring attack and surpris• ing victory laid the foundation of independence upon which the na• tion still grows and prospers. Christmas Bells. The progress of Christianity — and our civilization as well — ha~ been accompanied by the far-reaching message of the bells — bellr that call the reverent to worship, that herald the approach of a holi• WARMEST day or commemorate a great or blessed event. YULETIDE But. particularly at Christmastime is the message of the bells most effective. From the echoing ring of the bell in a small mission church to the resounding peal that comes forth from massive cathe• WISHES! dral towers, the bells tell of joy and peace and call to the world to come and adore. Older themselves than the story they tell at Christmas, bells were first used to sound the alarm in fire or tumult. Rich burghers jeal• ously guarded their bells 'and used them to rally their followers /1 chappy when danger threatened. Bishop Palinas of^Nola in southern Italy is commonly credited with introducing the first church bells about 431 A. D. when he put up a huge cooper kettle on the roof of his church and struck it with a hammer. Before that, a crier had announced services by running through the streets ringing a hand bell. From Italy, the idea spread to France and thence to England. NV to- you! until the 11th Century did bells appear in the towers of German and Swiss churches. Competition among bell casters developed the bell? in size, quality of tone and beauty. A founder had to be a metalurgist As another year rolls around designer and musician as well. The race for bigger and better bell? went on until a bell was cast in Russia that proved to be too heavy we express our thanks for your past for machinery to lift into place. . Cast in* 1773, in Moscow, it is the Csar Kolokol." It weighs 180 patronage and wish you all tons, measures 20 feet, in height, 22 feet in diameter and is 23 inche- thick. Many costly but futile attempts were made to hoist it into place. China, the mother of many things cast the first great bell in BAKER'S MERRY CHRISTMAS! 1408. Weighing 53 tons, it hangs in the Big Bell Temple in Peking. Another large bell, 15 tons, is suspended in the ancient Buddhisf J. Van Dellen, M. D. temple in Japan. The chimes of St. Michael's in Charleston, S. C. are probably the most traveled bells, having crossed the Atlantic CAFE seven times because of ownership changes or to be recast. They Underwood's Shoe Store last crossed the Atlantic in 1865. Zella, Pete, Betty Boyne City and Pat Grace Walker, John C. Roberts, and Christmas Customs . . . Red Goose Shoes Many Christmas legends and customs are part of the folklore of our ancestors in all parts of the world. Many of them, too, are a mixture of early Christian and pagan observances which time and Chrktisnity have given new meaning. Santa Claus, our American giver of gifts, is little known elsewher' ':-\ the w^rld. In Eastern and Southern Europe, it is the Wis-e Ye' h-'-"ly-rr m-ifv3/ in Hunsr?ry the »:ft? com" from th" .A"" -Tcls. In Poland from the stars, in Greece St. Basil is the gift-bsar- $> n 'Tfn saint.. Popular tradition has it that the candle we ^1¾-^ in our "vi~fW" . tnn~ is a cus+om originated by early Christians to whom th a idle represented the star that guided the Wise M*n *o. thp st-'b7 • '". B-thl h"m. One interesting legend tells of a shoemaker who, th' "00;% always placed a candle.in his window at nijht to ju'de wear* "v] rr. "nd o in-sp'red the villagers that soon each window co" d - !i",h--,.d candle. best wishes ."Th:, holly bush long- associated with Christmas, and with many gends was on^e .'^1] d th° ho1:'-bush b:cause in its natural sts he borries rip'n at Christmas time. for the Holidays The Wassail bowl which today is Christmas punch, is said to hav or? • to us from th.o ancient Saxons. Wassail was a word of greetir v'-ich meant literally, "What Hails?", or "How fare you?/' At Christmas time, traditions of the Old World live again Pinatitas, doves and festive straw chains from South Europe; wheat -.heaves paper and carved wood from Scandinavian countries; q'ngf' stars, Czeehoslovakian bells and gold German stars are all bits of Old World chrm that we re-create in our homes. Lincoln's Proclamation David C. Pray, D. D. S. On' New Year's day, 1863, ginia. Tennessee was excepted resident Lincoln issued a procla• from the proclamation, although mation freeing the slaves in the Union armies were far from succeeding in their task of bring• states and parts of states where ing it under government con• the people were in rebellion. trol. - The areas designated were The Emancipation Proclamat• Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Al• ion did not abolish slavery. That abama, Florida, Georgia, South was accomplished by the thir• Carolina, North Carolina and teenth amendment which went large parts of Louisiana and Vir• into effect December 18, 1865. TO OUR FRIENDS MERRY YUIETID* The brightest fight of the Christmas season is the opportunity to express our thanks tor your confidence and loyalty and to wish to each of you the many joys of a Merry, Merry Christmas ... G. W. Bechtold, D. D. S. Jos. F. Bugai State Bank of East Jordan Ellsworth Lumber Co. Ready-Made Decorations Christmas Give Us Quick Results Trees Are Big Business OUR SINCERE WISH While the sale of Christmas trees to the consumer is conduc• ted entirely in the few weeks just prior to Christmas, the har• vesting, processing and shipping IS of the trees may begin as much as three months before Christ• mas. Approximately 25% of the re• THAT YOU MAY tail price of a Christmas tree is the stumpage price; trees retail• ing for about 25 cents per lin• eal foot will be worth about 6 ENJOY A VERY cents on the stump and could wholesale for from 10 cents to 15 cents per lineal foot. Total number of trees 1 distributed in the United States is about 30,- MERRY CHRISTMAS Our entire staff wishes you all the 000,000. There are at least 10 import• s£2 blessings of this holy season and joy and ant Christmas tree associations and groups representing the in• AND A HAPPY dustry in the United States and happiness in the years to come . • • approximately 5,000 individuals and firms are registered as re• tailers and wholesalers of Christ• NEW YEAR If you ever feel just too rush• mas trees in the United States. ed to put up your outdoor holi• Streeter's Shoe Store day decorations, here's a tip that True Origin Of can save valuable time. - Our Christmas .... AND ESPECIALLY General Electric holiday light• ing specialists suggest that when Christmas Tree the time is short, merely con• Greens Follow centrate your decorating on a Is Not Known Ancient Custom THE BEST OF large window area and the door• Like so many other Christmas way of your home. The evergreen bough, mistle• Today's wide selection of customs, the origin of the tree tradition is not definitely known. toe and holly used as Christmas readymade lighted devices com• decorations have been associa• bined with a few strings of out• One theory holds that the 8th HEALTH AND HAPPINESS century missionary Boniface ted with ceremony and curious door lights and greens, can give custom for thousands of years. your house that special holiday persuaded the Teutons to trans• look in minutes. fer their worship of Odin's sa• Ancient Romans raised an ev• First step in this last minute cred oak to an evergreen decor• ergreen branch at the December TO EVERYONE decorating plan is to place your ated in honor of the Christ child. festival of Saturnalia, honoring indoor tree in the center of your Popular legend has it that the the god of sowing. window, if possible. This will first Christmas tree originated Long before the Christian era, give your outdoor arrangement in Egypt where the first trees Teutons and Scandinavians he^d additional interest and color. used were palm trees. Another the mistletoe sacred and hung it Then, as shown in the picture story says that Martin Luther over their doorways as charm?. above, place a lighted Santa and decorated a tree with candles to They also worshipped the oak snowman or other lighted fig• simulate an evergreen shimmer• and their priestly Druids brought ure on the ground beneath the ing with starlit snow. in a great Yule log at the feast window. These ready-wired, wea• We do know the Germans did of the winter solstice and light• ther-proof plastic decorations much to popularize the use of ed it from a brand of the log can be plugged into extension Christmas trees, introducing of the year before. From sockets and lighted in a matter them into both England and Am• In parts of Europe the first of minutes. Regular household- erica. The German Prince Al• trees used for Christmas decora• Louie — Jack — Sherm type bulbs inside the figures bert, consort of Queen Victoria, tions were dormant branches of give them a colorful glowing life started the custom in England fruit trees. They were brought like appearance. when he had a tree for his young indoors several weeks before and Peg Finish off your design with daughter. The tradition crossed Christmas and forced into bloom several strings of outdoor 0-9½ the Atlantic with Hessian mer• by Christmas time. Holly, the Christmas lights woven through cenaries during the American subject of many superstitions, shrubbery and in evergreen rop• Revolution. was also used because its prick• ing above and belo,w the window ly leaves were thought to repre• and around your doorway. TREATMENTS TESTED sent the Saviour's crown and its If you are spending your first Hormones, secretions of duct• red berries drops of blood. holiday in a newly-built home less glands such as the adrenals, In parts of Sicily an olive tree that you have not yet landscaped pituitary and sex glands, are use• is decorated today with oranges. substitute evergreen branches ful tools for treating specific In some countries flowers are Sherm's Pure Service! for permanent shrubbery. types of cancer, says the Ameri• used instead of evergreens, in Drive a few short stakes firm• can Cancer Society, now conduc• keeping with a story told all ly in the ground and wire the ting its annual campaign for over medieval Europe that on RUBY & IVAR funds. the night of the Nativity the branches to them. Then, attach trees of the forest, though cloak• your outdoor lights just as you ed in ice and snow, burst into would on growing ?hrubbery. SHOP EAST JORDAN bloom and bore, fruit ur wish for you, — flertp may all the blessings of this Holy Day be yours. Dr. John G. Schmittdiel CHARLEVOIX COUNTY Boyne City FARM BUREAU I Ml* ,_. •„ TO OUR FRIENDS: We hope your Christmas is a merry one 1* a* • ..dngind at ,el Chock-full of cheer and lots of fun! fce seaso„n foto i Sg« »U SEASON'S GREETINGS the joys o* Ul TO ALL OUR FRIENDS PARSELS GARAGE Your Oldsmobile Dealer Sommerville's Grocery Golden Rule Service Charlevoix Dorothy and Leo Ed and Martha Kamradt With each passing year we come to a fuller appreciation of the bonds of friendship that have been forged by our pleasant associations. Now, at Christmastime, we would like to say thank you and may you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! MOUN T CLEME] ]N S METAL PRODUCTS COMPANY East Jordan Division FlRED G. RICHARDSON, Sr., President