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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.
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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