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Rose Bowl Game
Dates from 1902
Quick now, how many football
bowl games will be piayed during
the holiday season? Rose, Sugar,
Orange, Cotton — can you name
all of the post-season contests?
Probably nqt. Chances are
someone is starting a new bowl
game and the word hasn’t gotten
around yet.
You should know, however
that the “daddy” of all bowl
games is the fabulous Rose Bowl
game, which started as a supple­
ment to the Tournament of Roses,
way back in 1902. On January 1
of that year, barnstorming Michi­
gan overwhelmed Stanford 49 to
0.
This lopsided conquest of the
west representative may or may
not have had anything to do with
it, but the following year chariot
races were substituted for foot­
ball and it was not until 1916 that
collegiate football returned to the
Tournament of Roses via a con­
test in which Washington State
defeated Brown University.
Since that time, the Rose Bowl
has gained in prestige and annu­
ally attracts crowds in excess of
100,000.
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Legend Says Apple Tree
First Used at Yule Time
According to in early legend,
the first Christmas tree was
really an apple tree. And, al­
though the fir tree has long since
supplanted its predecessor for
Christmas use, the popular tin­
sel baubles which bedeck modem
Christmas trees represent the
fruit which for early Christians
symbolized the fall of man in the
Garden of Eden and his reclama­
tion by the birth of the Saviour.
Mistletoe Liked by
Birds for Winter Food
Boys are fond of mistletoe be­
cause of its power to invite a kiss
from a pretty girl. Birds like mis­
tletoe, too, for a different reason.
The white-berried plant serves
as winter food for mockingbirds,
robins and waxwings. These
small birds are responsible for
the spread of the damaging para­
site. After eating the berries, the
birds clean their beaks on the
trees, firmly planting the mistle­
toe seeds they do not eat
The tap root of the seedling
pierces the tenderest portions of
the tree — young branches or
buds — and the tree sap is drawn
into the thick leaves and trans­
lucent berries of the guest plant.
JT/Ti greet you at Christmas with warmest
good wishes fo r a Yule fille d with
good w ill and the spirit o f this H oly tim e.
Vernonia Trading Company
WILBUR AND LILLIAN DAVIS
Swedish Custom
Gets Observance
A Swedish custom of long­
standing is the observance of
Lucia Day on December 13. The
celebration takes its name f. um
St. Lucia, or Lucy, martyred for
her faith and virginity in Syra­
cuse in 304 A.D.
Pretty blonde girls compete for
the honor of being elected a
“Lucia”—with fair hair, good dis­
position and high character being
outstanding recommendations.
Wearing a traditional costume
(long white robes and crowns of
lighted candles) the “Lucia” vi­
sits the sick, leads carnivals, and
attends banquets and balls ac­
companied by her “handmaid-
ens.
The ancient custom coincides
with the winter solstice, when the
sun swings toward the earth once
more and the days begin to
lengthen.
Cranberries on
Traditional List
Cranberries, so much a part of
our holiday dining tradition, was
i-bimini. or “bitter berry” to
the Indians, who pounded the
fruit with meat into a paste called
pemmican; used cranberry poul­
tices on wounds and used the
juice as a red dye.
The Pilgrims, noting the ber­
ries were a favorite food of
cranes, called them craneberries,
and this eventually changed to
cranberries.
Cranberries were harvested
from wild vines until 1816, when
Henry Hall, a veteran of the Rev­
olution, transplanted wild vines
to a swampy site near Dennis,
Massachusetts. Hall had observed
that the choicest wild berries
were usually found in sandy
areas, so he spread sand over
his fields and produced an ex­
cellent crop.
Many other early plantings
failed, in Massachusetts and New
Jersey, before growers learned
that the cranberry would thrive
only under certain conditions.
Cranberry fields today are located
in bog areas with peat soil, the
fields are well-drained and can be
flooded to protect vines from cold
and control insects; sand is plen­
tiful and necessary to slow evapo­
ration, provides a good medium
for root growth, and keep down
weeds.
Birds are welcome visitors to
cranberry bogs. Some bogs are
lined with birdhouses — homes
for swallows, which eat destruc­
tive insects.
And with the birds, are the
bees, who also perform an im­
portant service. Cranberry pollen
is too heavy to be carried by
wind, so bees are necessary to
pollinate the flowers.
An ideal wife is one who has
lamb chops in the broiler when
you come in from fishing.
Hessian Soldiers Used
Trees for Decorations
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says about others.
Demonia Eagle
Undoubtedly, the Christmas
tree, widely popular in Germany,
was brought to this country by
Hessian soldiers m the American
Revolution. They decorated their
Trenton, N.J., winter quarters
with Christmas trees but the cus­
tom was slow in taking hold in
this country. August Imgard of
Wooster, Ohio, trimmed a small
spruce for his nieces and nephews
in 1847. Friends followed suit the
next year, but the practice was
for many years considered “pa­
gan.” As late as 1851, a Cleve­
land, Ohio minister almost lost
his pulpit because he set up a tree
in his church.
Decorations on Packages
Add to Attractiveness
If you have a number of chil­
dren on your Christmas list and
consequently must settle for
small-size toys, you can make
each child’s package more at­
tractive by decorating the outside
of the wrapped package with
bright lollipops and other “treats.”
A Very Merry Christmas
to all the members of the
Cooperative. May you avail
yourselves of the oppor­
tunity to live better —
electrically t h r o u g h the
next year.
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