-THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1961
rnwrro^HOUSE TO ATTEND
CONFERENCE IN MISSOURI
The Rev Omar Barnhouse will
leave next week for Kansas City
Mo where he will attend a gen
eral conference on evangelism of
the Church of the Nazarene. He
will represent the Idaho-Oregon
district young people’s society.
Mrs Barnhouse and children
will accompany him as far as
Colorado where they will visit
relatives.
A LAW AGAINST IT
state of Massachusetts,
Christmas didn’t become a lawful
holiday until 1856. The Pilgrims
in New England had disapproved
of Christmas celebrations, and a
law prohibiting them was passed
in 1659.
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
Towns Named in Yule
Spirit Get Mail Rush
INTERCOLLEGIATE KNIGHTS
CHOOSE WALKER MEMBER
Novel Ornaments
Adorn Foreign Lands
PAGE THREE
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buxton of
Caldwell visited Sunday after-,
The children’s Christmas party, noon at the home of her brother
sponsored annually by Fraternal and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs.
Order of Eagles, will be staged Mel Beck.
Friday afternoon. Dec. 22. in the
Mr. and Mrs Edward Boydell
basement of Nyssa Eagles hall.
Santa will be on hand to pre attended a bridge club dinner and
sent gifts to children under 12 Christmas party Saturday even
years of age who are sons and ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
daughters of Eagles and auxiliary Kenneth Egbert in Nampa.
members.
CHILDREN S YULE PARTY
SET FRIDAY AT FOE HALL
Frank Walker, son of Mr and
It is customary among the
Among the busiest of Santa’s Mis Don H. Walker, 313 Good
helpers at the Yuletide season are , avenue, Nyssa, was recently tap Czechs and Slovaks, say the edi-
postoffices in towns with Christ ped into Intercollegiate Knights, ' tors of the Encyclopedia Ameri
underclassmen’s honorary at Pa cana. to break a branch off a
mas names.
In Noel. Mo.; Christmas, Fla.; cific university, Forest Grove, cherry tree at the beginning of
Advent, place it in a pot of water
Santa Claus, Ind.; Bethlehem, i Ore.
Ind.; and Bethlehem. Pa., many i Intercollegiate Knights are cho in the kitchen and keep it in the
thousands of packages and cards sen on basis of character, leader warm air. The twig is then sup
are received around Christmas ship and willingness to be of ser posed to burst into blossom at J
LUTHER HELPED CAROLS
time, to be postmarked with the vice. Their main function is to Christmas time and make a fes
ANIMATED CARDS
Martin Luther, the Reformation
Yule town’s name and remailed be of service to the university tive decoration.
Ingenious mechanical devices leader, felt that group singing in
The Christmas festival in China
and community.
to other states and countries.
Walker is a freshman majoring is Sheng Dan Jieh, the Holy Birth were used to animate early! churches was important and did
The towns also play host to
Festival. Paper decorations and Christmas greeting cards, much as much to help spread the custom
many visitors during the Christ in social science.
evergreens adorn churches and they are today. The symbols of of carol singing. He composed a
mas season. In Bethlehem and
Nazareth, Pa., there are perma Jane Walker of Albion, Idaho, homes. The Christmas tree is dec Christmas—Santa Claus, the rob carol, “From Heaven Above I
nent displays and festivals of arrived Dec. 9 to spend Christmas orated with paper flowers, color in, holly, mistletoe and carolers— | Come to You,” and “Away in a
light, emphasizing the religious holidays with her parents, Mr. ed paper chains and cotton snow first became popular on cards of Manger” is sometimes attributed
the Victorian era.
I to him.
flakes.
meaning and beauty of Christmas. and Mrs. Zack Walker.
CHRISTMAS BATH
In Finland, just before Christ
mas day, the whole family must
take a Finnish bath (Sauna). This
is the traditional steam bath tak-
<»n in a hut with a stone oven.
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