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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1964)
Weather Forces D elay of Party Gaines Add to H oliday Fun Everyone's a child at Christmas time, and that’s why there's nothing as much fun when family and friends gather as game-playing. Since Christ mas groups usually include both children and adults, games that both can enjoy are best. The following games can be played with no special equipment, other than that on hand. CHARADES Christmas charades is a lively game that the whole family will en joy Divide the group into two teams. Individual members of teams are then called upon to act out a word, character, phrase, scene or situation- -and since it’s Christmas, all the charades should have Christmas ov ertones. Subjects are supplied on a slip of paper by the opposing team and then passed on to the “actor.” From here on it’s his job to see how quickly he can get his teammates to guess what he is acting out. “T h e Night Before Christmas,” "Jingle Bells,” " ‘A Partridge in a Pear Tree,” and “Filling the Christ mas Stocking” are just some of the many, many subjects that can be used. WORD PLAY A popular pencil-and-paper game is called “word play.” The object of the game is to see how many words can be made from a phrase such as "Merry ChristmM to All." A time limit is set, and the rule is that no letter can be used in any word more often than it appears in the phrase. In other words, words made from “Merry Christmas to All” can in clude no more than one ,“e ” “I” or “o,” while they could contain as many as two “m ’s” or three “r ’s.” Since word play involves compe tition among its players, it’s advis able to allow the children to compete against one another, while the adults battle it out among themselves. SANTA’S SLEIGH “Santa’s Packing His Sleigh” is a quiet Christmas game that provides fun and hearty laughter. It starts simply enough with one member of the group saying, “Santa’s packing his sleigh, and he’s bringing a toy dog.” Then each person repeats the sen tence, adding another gift to Santa’s sleigh. The object of the game is to repeat correctly, in order, the com plete list of gifts in Santa’s sleigh- and its harder than it sounds. As the list gets longer and longer, more and more players just can’t seem to remember the whole list and its order, so consequently they drop out, until only one is left. When you are worried about this month or year, stop and think what your problems were 20 years ago— or will be 20 years from now. Custom Started B y St. Nicholas Santa Claus, envisioned today as a jolly, cheerful man with an affinity for children, was a romanticist too, according to legend. The first Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, started the custom of hanging stock ings by the chimney when his roman tic heart was touched, and he gifted a bankrupt merchant’s three marri ageable daughters with gold for their dowries. Desiring anonymity, he tossed the three bags of gold through the win dow, or, as some tell it, down the chimney. One of the bags landed in a stocking which had been hung up to dry on the mantlepiece. Hanging up stockings thus became part of the holiday ritual. NATAL - PITTSBURG — Due to the weather Natal Grange postponed its Christmas party fanned for last Saturday. Mr and Mrs. W. R. Wolff enjoyed playing cards at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. McCrone Sunday ev ening. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan McLeod and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orin Davis Monday even ing, helping Mrs. Davis celebrate her birthday. Mr. and Mrs. DeeVeere Hershey called on Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dun lap Sunday evening. Scott Cook of San Jose, California is spending Christmas here with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ekhoff. Callers last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Lindsay were Mr. and Mrs. Noble Dunlap and Richard Peterson. Fire completely destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Powell Sunday afternoon while they were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hemeon at Mist. Lel s Gel Acquainted! Oernonia Eagfe Do you know this man? THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1964_______7 Born January 19, 1922 at Soda Springs, Idaho. Married in 1958 at Santa Rosa, Cali fornia. Has two children. Came to Vernonia quite recently and is employed in a business in which part of his work is quite a grind. This week he might have been ac- cussed of watering the stock. He could easily be classed as a ha bitual cut-up. This week he’s been giving people the bird. While he works in town he lives in the country. (Information supplied by J. W. Ni chols.) Answer to last weeks quiz: Edgar Hartzell. MERRY CHRISTMAS Phone HA 9-3462 NEHALEM VALLEY MOTOR FREIGHT