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With grateful thanks to our friends \ for the pleasure and privilege of serving you. EARL WALLACE PORT PERRY, ONTARIO real pleasure to say and wish you the happiest of holidays. . John Ballard Lumber Co. Lid. Port Perry thank you" = At Christmastime. we raise our voices toy . wish you all every happiness, and 3 express our sincere gratitude for your kind patronage and good will. d Pagan Feasts Are Source Of Customs Most of the customs now as- sociated with Christmas were originally pagan or non-Chris- tian, according to The Eney- clopedia Americana. Saturna- lia, a Roman feast celebrated in mid-December, provided the model for many of the merry- making customs of Christmas. From this celebration, for ex- ample, were derived the elab- orate feasting, the giving of gifts and the burning of candles. Lights also played an impor- tant part in most winter sol- stice festivals. An obscure fig- ure in the early mythologies of the East emerged as a sun god. From the 1st century . B.C. this figure, Mithras, was | adopted by an increasing number of Roman soldiers and others, Mithras' greatest fes- tival was that of the winter solstice, the time when the god began to return to his wor- shippers. In the 5th century the West- ern church ordered a feast celebrating the birth of the Savior to be observed on the day of the Mithraic rites of the birth- of -the-sun-and at the . close of the Saturnalia. Among the German and Celtic tribes the winter sol- stice was considered an im- portant point of the year and to commemorate the return of the sun they held their chief festival of Yule, which, like other pagan celebrations, be- came adapted to Christmas. The Teutonic Yule feast also provided customs for the "Christmas festivities, such as the Yule log and wassail bowl. PORT PERRY OLD-FASHIONED Christmas sent you with sincere gratitude for your kind patronage. - | 'Bob Archer Motors Lid. § Rae " y iments coming to i" tmas Prayer At Christmastime, we lift our hearts in a prayer for the blessing of § asting peace ( A Chris on earth. As Christmas comes to Ie you this year, we warmly wish : that it may bring a holy meaning ever-deeper, hopes ever brighter, and joyous blessings ever richer. Flamingo Restaurant KEN JACKSON Ry o bar xe, | [I LR +) a