Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 22, 1H49
BLESSED EVENT
BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Larick on December 21 at 9
a. m., in Dr. Versteeg's office
io Cave Junction, a boy, 5 lbs.
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Subacribe to the News.
LOST WOMAN REPORTED
IN SAN FRANCISCO
Chuck and Pete Wagner, of
Berkeley, are spending the holi-
days with their parents, Colonel
anj Mrs. Charles Hubbard o f,
Qgve Junction. Both young men
are in their final year at the Uni-
versity of California.
A hurried trip from San Fran-1
cisco to Kerby was made last week I
end by the son of Mrs. Naomi Mor-1
ton, who has disappeared since the
loss by fire of her home recently
and Grants Paas officials have so
far been unable to locate her.
Last Saturday evening KUIN
carried an announcement urging
anyone knowing her whereabouts
to call persons for whom phone
numbers were given
In today’s
Courier it was reported Mrs. Mor­
ton had gone to San Francisco
where she will make her home with
her son.
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Mormons raised a monument at
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for an end to a grasshopper
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HAPPIEST SEASON OF
THE YEAR.
HERALD ANGELS . . . Rehears­
ing for the annual Christmas
candlelight service, the children
choristers of the Crawford Meth­
odist Memorial church in the
Bronx, New York, make an Im­
pressive picture w h e n viewed
through a Christmas wreath In the
foreground.
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Legend not only has identified
the Wise Men as Gaspar, Melchior
and Balthasar, it has crowned
them and given them the king­
doms of Tarsus, Arabia and
Ethiopia. It has symbolized their
gifts as symbolic of what Jesus
was to become—gold for a king,
frankincense for a high priest and
myrrh for a great physician.
The Gospel text's specific wise
men from the east logically identi­
fies them with Zoroastrianism—an
ancient monotheistic religion of
Persia. Zoroastrian priests were
called Magi; they were powerful
in public and private life since they,
and they alone, possessed the
priestly mysteries involved in the
worship of Mazda—who repre­
sented the Zoroastrian power for
j good.
1 The Magi may or may not have
j been fabulously wealthy; St. Mat-
j thew does not elaborate their
I treasures nor the amount of gold,
frankincense and myrrh which
they presented to the Christ Child.
The gifts may have been mere
1 I tokens of their treasures, or the
sum and substance thereof.
And if they were soothsayen,
mystics and possibly clairvoyants
they were also truly wise—in as
much as they did not return to
Herod, but departed into their own
country by a different route.
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May every sound of the
Christmas carols strike a
happy note in your heart
and home. This is our
wish to each and every
one.
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Footballs and Basketballs,
Scooters and Wagons.
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In the same cheery manner
the uorJs “Merry Christ­
mas” come to you with our
hope that all the season’s
happiness and joy he yours.
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MR AND MRS. HARRY HOLMES
Cave Junction
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Puritan disapproval of Christmas
celebrations disembarked from the
Mayflower with the Pilgrims in
1621 and, accordingly. Governor
Bradford issued a statement pub­
licly rebuking certain young men
who declined to work on December
25, "ye day called Christmas.'’
This first New England Christ­
mas —or non-observance thereof—
| should not be credited as the first
Christmas on American soil, since
Leif Eriksen spent a winter or two
on the North American continent
around the turn of the 11th century.
Leif was a Christian, and it is
likely that members of his crew
were Christians, too; although it
is quite possible that some had ac­
cepted the faith without remodel­
ing their pagan natures, since King
Olafs methods were ruthless and
his command "Be baptized, or
else!" left them little dhoice.
Undoubtedly, flagons of crude,
raw w i n e fermented from the
grapes of Leifs Vinland were
passed around and the celebration
may have been rather boisterous,
but in all fairness to Leif—who, ac­
cording to excellent testimony, was
a sincere convert—it la reasonable
to assume that there was a trace
of religious observance.
Perhaps Leif remembered the
few words of Latin prayer he
learned at the time of hia conver­
sion and recited them in honor of
the birthday of the Redeemer he
had accepted. . . . Thua, the first
Christmas in America waa ob­
served.
The first Chrismas card waa de­
signed in 1845.
Poinsett.as which have come to
be a "must" for Christmas decora­
tions owe their name and popularity
to an early American diplomat,
botanist and scholar—Joel Roberta
Poinsett
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