The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Just Kant to that youre wished the best holiday seasons Thank you for your patronage past SHEAS GARAGE NORVAL ihis jitt of traditions to and greet friends old and new a pleasure to wish you the happiest of seasons FROM THE FOLKS AT DELREX SMOKE SHOP GEORGETOWN During this wonderful season of the year we welcome the oppor tunity to extend our very best wishes to you along with a big Thank you for your patronage ROBERT GOUGEON HOUSEHOLD FURNISHING AND STAFF Page THE HERALD Wednesday December mi A LOOK RACK TO THE 1870n A STORY BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER Cdatoated Birthday Christmas was coming The little log house was almost buried in snow Great drifts were banked against the walla and win dows and in the morning when Pa opened the door there was a wall of snow- as high as Lauras head A paragraph from Laura beloved Little Books true accounts of the pioneer life that the writer exper ienced from her to 18th years in the 1870s and her restless father moved his family from a Wisconsin forest to Indian Territory to Min nesota and finally to the Dakota Territoij The books ere pub lished between and 1943 The family endured many hardships bit tercold winters as well as stifling summer heat They lived first in a tog cabin later in a dugout by the creek then later in shacks wherever fate and Father moved them They went through cy clones droughts plagues of cicadas yet the family shared love and faith in each other and they always celebrated the birthday of the Christ Child For a Christmas in the big woods when the house was blanketed with snow Ma baked bread beans cookies distilled vine gar and baked dried apple pics Truly a doughty soul They entertained relatives Aunt Eliza and Uncle Peter and the cousins who arrived on Christmas Eve on their big bobsled sleigh bells ringing Some other Ma and Pa would have thrown up their hands at the sight of them maybe got the shotgun off the cabin wall and picked them off from a window but not the Ingalls They shared their good things the chil dren slept in a row on the door the grownups wherever they could find space Christmas Eve found them aglow with antici pation in a circle of love In the morning the chil dren found gifts in their stockings a pair of bright red knitted mittens and a stick of redaiid white striped mint candy Guess who the Christmas Fairy was She must have earn ed her reward in heaven but that Christmas Day received all the reward she wanted in the sur prise and happiness ex pressed by every child For Laura the smallest child there was also a homemade rag doll with black button eyes black yarn hair and a dress of pink and blue calico a doll so beautiful that Laura could not say a word On other there were no presents The family were lucky to have their Uvea However Ma had saved a bundle of Youths Com panions that had been sent them by longdelayed mail or via a passerby While the light lasted they read the stories Pa even managed to buy the stores last two cans of oysters so their Christ mas dinner had a festive quality All the Little Books tales are fascinating and you can be sure that the adults who gave them to children made a point to read them first The stor ies have an ageless time less appeal They contain the essence of Christmas selflessness apprecia tion of the simple joys and love of family life In the Ingalls family the little Christ Child dwelled not only on His birthday but every day of the Treasures of the Magi Was Once as Valuable As Diamonds Development of a major Myrrh was regarded commerce in frankincense highly by the ancients as and myrrh turned South an unguent and a known as Arabia fume It was used for Fehx into a bustling trade cense in temples and for center about 1200 fumigation Camel Caravans Wrapped in sheepskins f or goatskins the gum res ins were carried in to pound bundles on camel caravans to factories in Egypt and other markets in the north The Jews used frankincense to per fume their temples Used as Medicine Frankincense was used as an incense and partic ularly on funeral pyres It also was considered val uable as a medicine No longer used in med icine frankincense re mains valued today as a base for perfumes Christmas Music I do not know a grander effect of music on the moral feelings than to hear the full and the pealing organ performing a Christmas anthem in a cathedral and filling every part of the vast pile with triumphant har mony Washington Irving Pliny wrote that frank incense was so valuable that workmen at the fac tory in Alexandria where it was processed were forced to strip for inspec tion at the end of each days work just as workers in todays South African diamond mines The valuable resins were taken north by the sea So was gold from the LOG mines of the Queen of whose monarchy was based at Manb site of current diggings to the east of here Come bring ith a metric botjes ThcChrhtmaslogtothc Robert Christmas Blessings Its always a pleasure to wish our friends happiness to our many friends patrons BARBER AND HENLEY LTD INSURANCE AGENCY KEN NASH PLUMBING AND HEATING Ethel Sophia Jody Kathleen Garland Joan John R and Murray With Grateful Thanks To Our Friends for the Pleasure and Privilege of Serving You Kids whisper to Santa Claus that they want dolls sleds and games for Christmas Although older kids dont get to tell Santa what they want Its no secret that many of them want a new hand held hair dryer For todays generation thats the greatest gift to keep hair looking well- styled and controlled A convenient feature of having your own hair dryer Is that you can shampoo and style your hair on short notice and style it the way you want it to look Two popular dryers are the Zoom Plus dryer and Zoom n Groom power dryer from General Electric Theyre favorites under the Christ mas tree because they have high airflow for fast drying Zoom has the added feature of a de- tangling accessory to comb out tangles In wet hair Zoom Plus also has a styling brush regular comb and wide tooth comb at tachments providing styl ing versatility Zoom Groom dryer has a wide tooth comb for wet regular comb for drying and a styling brush Both dryers have a choice of heat and airflow settings These are two Klfts you can be sure will be eagerly accepted Just beautiful for gifting a cm lur lll Times may have changed but one thing is still the same sending holiday greetings to friends old and new Its a pleasure to wish you happy holidays From Management Staff MOTOR SALES Street East Georgetown May the true glory of Christmas be with you and your loved ones at this time From Your Dealer Murt Allison Equipment SALES SERVICE GEORGETOWN HOLIDAY CHEER Here hoping that you and will know every happiness this season From The Management And Staff Of ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS LTD 33 N Ii- Imir Ivllnc On ml urn Hair Willi ilmi i hold ila for iliffrrrnt lli lirruiiio in Irvcr In I tow lirnxli irflim ill rudiment Tin jnmrr ntilrr III- Ileal many observe Christs birthday How few his precepts tis easier to keep holidays than commandments Benjamin Franklin CHRISTS BIRTHDAY 0 To all our wonderful friends and patrons we extend best wishes GS TELEVISION GEORGETOWN