* Selma Festive
With Parlies
by
Mrs.
Ph.
Frita
"hiiit. !>••«-. 21 in a reremony in tin
Selma Baptist church. The Leary:
will make their home in Astoria
Ore. where he is stationed
the navy.
Kraus*
True Christmas Spirit
Is Found in Sharing
Mlegorical Parades
Selma 621
SELMA—A
capacity
crowd
viewed the Selma school’s Christ­
mas program, Saturday night, Dee.
20, which was held at the church.
Close to 100 pupils from the six
grades performed for their parents
and friends. Santa made his ap­
pearance, distributing candy and
nuts to all the children.
The Selma Baptist church choir
of around 20 members presented
a Christmas cantata at a special
service Sunday morning, and 103
persons attended the Sunday
school program earlier that morn­
ing.
Annabelle Brewer became the
bride of "Bud” Leary Monday
vlark Mexican Yule
-THE
PEOPLE m
ln Mexico built,
•pnr. rtuPLE
• ed
ahmat a fl.-gnt.
elaboiate
floats f.-
for allegorica
aarades during the holiday season
For eight evenings before Christ
mas there is a religious procession
at the head of which the figures oi
Joseph and Mary are borne.
On the ninth evening entrance is
permitted and a religious ceremons
conducted about the stiaw-fMlec
mar.ger of the Babe.
•PHIS MAY BE the post office’s
* biggest Christmas. The postmas­
ter general estimates that more
Christmas mail — packages and
cards—will be handled in 1952 than
in any previous year. With this in
mind, the post office department
has hired extra employees and ar­
ranged for use of extra trucks for
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the holiday period.
The post office is Santa Claus’
Bulla* Travel to California
good right arm. It delivers gifts and
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bulla am. greetings throughout the world, and
daughter Betty left Saturday foi it will do its best to get them there
Burbank, Calif., to visit friends by December 25—if they are mailed
and relatives.
on time.
Much Christmas mail going over­
seas is handled in cooperation with
the postal systems of other nations.
But in the JJnited States and its pos­
sessions, in U.S.-trusteed islands in
the Pacific and among U.S. service­
men in all parts of the world, de­
livery of holiday greetings is strict­
ly a United States affair.
The army takes over, through its
army post office, for troops serving
outside the United States, be they in
2 MILES SOUTH OF O BRIEN
Germany, Korea, or somewhere on
AT FORMER ELK CREEK LODGE
the way The navy handles mail for
its men on ships at sea and at naval
stations anywhere on the globe.
Best known special Christmas
business done by any post office is
that of Santa Claus, Indiana.
Friday, December 26, 1952
Help the ILLINOIS
Illinois Valley Newt
VALLEY
MEDICAL
E*OR A REALLY satisfying • nd
* meaningful Christmas, s h are
»ours with the old and feeble, the
11 and shut-in, the bereaved whose
sorrows you might lighten.
Unfortunately, all the flurry and
^reparation associated with Christ­
mas are apt to make parents as
*ell as children overlook the real
iignificance of the coming birthday
of Christ.
jfcoóonó
Free Dancing
EVERY NIGHT
Managed by J. M. Hovanski
/Way the glad cheer of
Christmas with its
spirit of wonderful warmth
remain as a precious
token for all our friends,
hUed
/11 ay y°0'
H°'
me <*«'
throughout
as
Once more it is a pleasure to extend
to our many friends and patrons
our very best wishes for a Christmas
bright with happiness and good cheer.
the New Year.
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e
nd *e'c°n
packa¿e
Christi
.indiné
BETTY and BILL
Carl and Helen Spielh
DEAL’S
HOLY GLASS . . . This stained
window is in the church of Obern­
dorf. Germany, «here the belnveil
Christmas carol, “Silent Night, Holy
Night,” was first sung.
SPIETH’S REAL ESTATE
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Sant/s smiling countenance
lights up the world on tin.
'
g.iy and festive Holiday. We
join Santa in wishing one and all a
Very Merry Christinas and a Happy New Year!
Holland Store
Lucille and Harry Floyd
Over the
years, we've
found no
other way of
saying the old
wish more
warmly than just
Merry Christmas
To All Our Friends.
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