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2 A SUNDAY. DECEMBER 25. 1960 HEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. The holiday season holds many pleasures, and among the nicest is the warm feeling that comes trom a rnenaiy i uienae greeung. Here, many of your friends, who serve you throughout the year, take this opportunity to say "Merry Christmas to you. Farmhouse Means Home for Christmas to the Hartleys By JOE COWLEY Mall Tribune Stall Wrll.r Home for Christmas! These are magic words lor a magic time. The old staunch farmhouse on the Centennial Hanley farm near Jackson ville has meant home for Christmas to generations of' the Hanley family. The leisurely, gracious hos pitality of the southern tradi tion has also welcomed many friends and prominent people into the spacious sitting room properly decorated for the season. Since Michael Hanley, MR. & MRS. JOHN CAIRO Jacksonville take this opportunity to wish all their neighbors, friends and associates a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEARI SEASON'S GREETINGS! We wish to thank Everyone for their Patronage during the past year! BOB & HELEN McCOMMON PHOENIX RICHFIELD SERVICE grandfather of the Hanley sis ters now living on the farm, certain traditions have been carried down through the present day. The only addi tion to the farm made by the Misses Claire, Mary and Mar tha Hanley has been the addi tion of new furniture. Too Commercial "We don't believe in rush ing into town to buy a lot of gifts for Christmas. Christmas is too commercial these days. We have certain customs we have carried on each season," Claire Hanley explained. "We hang ivy from the wall high up next to the ceiling. And because some members of the family insist on It, we have a small Christmas tree on the table in the living room." One of these customs for "Christmas on the old farm" is a large breakfast Christmas morning. Then the family and guests gather around the large round walnut kitchen table covered with a snowy linen cloth. The stove has been fired up with large chunks of alder earlier that morning. Although the most modern automatic electric kitchen range has ben Installed across from the wood stove, the sis ters often prefer the wood stove for certain types of cooking. Cooks Pancakes One of the Items cooked on the wood stove is pancakes. For this, Claire Hanley uses a flat, oval soapstone about the same thickness as an iron frying pan. After it is sizzling hot she pours out blobs of the foamy pancake dough. Deftly she flipped the pan cakes over as they turned a rich brown, then onto our plate as she gave us a demon stration of the typical Christ mas breakfast last week. Next she mixed some flour and wa ter over a special brand of 8 m o k e d sausage, country style. The Hanley family is very particular about their smoked sausage. Claire Hanley re members when the family smoked their own pork as many as five hogs a day in the smokehouse on. the farm. Now they use the product of a new enterprise near Jacksonville. A Jacksonville citizen has started his own smokehouse and his products are gaining popularity in the Jacksonville area, Hand-Rubbed Meat "Good smoked meat should be hand-rubbed with salt, then brown sugar," Claire Hanloy told us. "We always added pepper to keep the flies off. And we always did our smoking just about this time of year when there were few files and the cold weather made It comfortable to work around the smokehouse. Wil low and alder are best for smoking meat." Martha added another old custom to the list. Baking fruit cake. However, In the early Jacksonville days this wasn't Just a Christmas cus tom. When a daughter was a year old the women in the family would bake 20 pound fruit cakes in large tin milk pans of the day. A round tin can would be placed in the center to make a hole. f let us not forget, in the enjoy ment of Christmas fun and fes tivities, the true and lasting meaning of this Holy Season. Let us pause and give worshipful thanks for our many blessings. And we will add to our prayers, hope that . happiness will be yours for years to come. KOGAP LUMBER INDUSTRIES 1 . JfT jf:.-if V. I Fi II . J .' A ;xl i . 1 itv ' i n f , VI vi . if , to?C Kflai v 1 (A sil ansa J .1 - m ; I..- J r m 1 Out fc i . 21 I II After the baking a tinsmith would be hired to seal the cake in its tin, and it would be laid away until the girl's wedding day. Then the wine- soaked cake would be opened for the wedding guests. Groom's Cak. The groom's cake, which is still traditional at weddings, comes from this tradition. This is a fruit-cake carved into small pieces and wrapped in fancy paper and ribbon. Girls who receive these wrapped pieces are told to put them under their pillow, and the man they dream of that night Is the man they will marry. Another old Jacksonville recipe long in the family Is one for white butter cake with fruit In the filling. This is one of the recipes like the one for the featherlight pan cakes we ate. Just add a little of this and that and it always works out. When we were there at the old farmhouse, Martha Han ley had just baked some deli cately decorated Christmas cookies and breadpans of fruit cake. We had a liberal sampling of each. -Hitching Rail Talking to the sisters it isn t hard to picture the "Beau Brummels" riding up the cir cular drive at the farmhouse, tying their horses or teams of horses to the hitching rail and dropping in on the family on New Year's day. For that was the custom then The punchbowl was kept filled with its spicy beverage and platters of cookies, sweet meats and cakes were always at hand. Sometimes when the punch proved a little over powering or the weather too foggy to ride home the guests stayed several days. The farm house cellar was always full of supplies and another bed could always be made up. Hospitality then, as now, was the rule of the day at the Hanley farm and particularly during the holidays. Gymnasiums To Be Open for Use By Children Six school gymnasiums will be open in Medford during the Christmas holidays for use by school-age children. Super vision, but not instruction, will be provided at all of the gyms. The gymnasium activities will include basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, trampo line and tumbling. The gyms and the times for which they will be open are: Medford High school -Open Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 for boys only. Times are from 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m., both days. Hedrick - Open Dec. 29 and Dec. 30 for boys only from 1 to 3 p.m., both days. Jackson - Open Dec. 27 through Dec. 30 from 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m., all four days. Girls will be able to use It in the mornings and boys in the afternoon. Hoover - Open Dec. 27 through Dec, 29, from 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m., all three days. Girls will be able to use It In the mornings and boys in the afternoon. Howard - Open Dec. 27 through Dec. 30, from 10 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 3 p.m. Boys and girls will be permitted to use the gym jointly during the hours which it is open. Wilson - Open under the same conditions as the gym at Jackson school. CHRISTIAN 1 SCIENCE J gHEALS Station K-BOY Sundays -9:45 A.M. It's Christmas time, and joy and cheer are everywhere. To you we send the warmest greetings of the season, with a sincere "Thank You" for your patronage and good will, OREGON CALIFORNIA THEATRES May the magic of Christ mas fill your heart with serenity and happiness. May your holidays be joyful and your New Year rewarding. HAM UN MOTOR CO. Eighth and Front Streets Robertson SCHOOL of BUSINESS 40-42 No. Riverside . I DRUG CEMTRF J FIRST J J NosoObX : "i W III ' ) V. ::::::.:::: t t t :-:-:v:vt .,,, i i i May the Christmas angel bring tidings of peace and good will to you and your loved ones, and great joy fill your hearts. CAL-ORE Machinery Co. 1105 Court St. 9 iVUMq We want to be among the first to wish you the best of everything! MORTON Milling Co. BACK IN BUSINESS AGAIN AT 500 ROSS LANE Greetings . . . From the JAY ALLEN Staff Jay Allen Monty Wray Jerry Cleaves Bill Graham Rudy Bohnet Bub Crosby JAY ALLEN CO. 1078 Court Street May your gifts include all the best life has to offer . . . good health, good for tune . . . true friends and real happiness. FLOOR COVER SHOP 709 South Riverside We wish to extend holiday wishes to all for a Yuletide filled with the best things of life: good health, good fellow ship and high happiness. - o FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Ass'n of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Christmas is here once more to gladden our hearts with Its inspiring message of love and hope. We extend best wishes of the season to you and yours, M. C. LININGER & SONS Ready Mix, Concrete Pipe, Sand and Gravel FROM ALL OF US AT 1230 On Your Dial-KYJC y
