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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, Dec. 23rd, 1965 4 s our homes resound with the joys of the holiday, let us give thanks for all our many blessings. > RISTHIAS £8 i N---- 3 oO L Wa Xt SNe JR ad. To one and all, Wer, extend our greetings for a holiday filled with joy and merriment. Dowson's Red & White , aR 9 / J Chri mag so we're taking this joyous time to wish our fine customers all the best of the holiday and to express thanks for your patronage. BEST WISHES FROM HELEN and JIM BOWER MERSCO Sc to $1.00 STORE Manchester News (Too late for last week) On Thursday December 9th the U.C.W. met at the home of Mrs. Annie Toombs. The re- creation room was beautifully decorated and a glowing fire in the spacious fire place made things very cheery. Hymn "Silent Night" was sung and Annie told the story of the hymn and its writer. In - place of the usual topic Annie read a number "The beast who had. little to say". The minutes of November meeting were adopted as read. Nineteen members answered the roll, and Pres. Mrs. Croxall warmly welcomed the following guests: Mrs. Wright, Port Perry Mrs. Steckley, Stouffville, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Medland, Brook- lin. Correspondence and business was discussed. The January meeting will be at Mrs. Ethel Franklins'. At the close of the meeting Annie showed movies of some of their summer acti- vities, including some taken at Port Pery fair. She concluded with a film "A Christmas Dream". much appreciated. Gifts were exchanged and the mystery sisters discovered. All then sat down to a table laden with platters of meats, salads and all good things. The host- ess had made favors and hats for all and much of the decor was created by her. The after- noon was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Due to icy roads there was a all attendance at Church on Sun Mrs. Art Vandervoort receiv- ed word ox Sunday of the very serious illn of her mother in Holland. Joyce with her little daughter, got a Might out of Malton Sunday evening and would arrive in Holland on Monday. \ ~ ~ f 3 bY \ Peace on Earth, Good Will PEEL RAMBLER ha Sales & Service These movies were - Unique Holiday Message Begins Greeting Cards It was the "Golden Age of Christmas." The personal ex- change of good wishes, visiting homes to toast a friends good health, carol-singing, bringing in the Yule log and great fam- ily dinners were all in vogue. Fz A new book was published .| | that year. It told of Christmas goose and plum pudding, of happy family parties. It pre- sented, and made immortal, Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratch- it and Tiny Tim. The book was Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol," and the year was 1843. Appropriately, during this "Golden Age of Christmas," custom of sending Christmas greeting cards began, The very first card, authori- ties now agree, is the cele- brated Cole - Horsley, designed and printed in London in 1843. Only a dozen of the original 1,000 copies are known to ex- ist, and two of these, including the only unsigned and un- posted specimen, are part of the Hallmark Historical Col- lection. seums and similar institutions, the collection is filed in a spe- cially constructed vault at Hall- mark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri. Sir Henry Cole, a wealthy London gentleman, and founder of the Victoria and Albert Mus- eum, asked his friend, John C Horsley, noted artist and mem- ber of the Royal Academy, to design the now-famous card as an unusual means of expressing his kind wishes to friends at the" holiday season. At this Christmastide, we gratefully wish for all our dear friends the season's many blessings. DeNURE BUS LINES Limited Woes sot on ditay in me 1] 0 flight So A Christmas Prayer With all the happy peacefulness of a child's prayer, we greet you during this holy season. CHALET FARMS ° Kod TT TY ®e : oh 3 / AXP HIT ' "A °, * Let us yemember especially the gift of love, to make this Christmas a joyous time for all. PARRY BROS. Concrete Products ou » 7