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. r r Tfic ncwp.nccono' T ' The WMU of the Bapttat .,0' , Church Held ite annual Christmas' j'jL''' arty Dae, 7 at tfce horn" of Mn. Ltf 'l ILee Fowler. The ladies enter- 'itN'-talned' their husband .'with a ' chicken nipper, after which they beW their regular meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Barwell have gone to Chicago to s?end Christmas with their daughters. . The Friendship Club held its -annual Christmas party at the high school lunchroom Dec. 14. " The ladies of the club served a delicious turkey dinner and their husbands were all invited to attend- Other inviited guests in d eluded Rev. and Mrs. Calvin Met- , oalf, Mr. Joe Tilson, Dr. and Mrs. Milling, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wake field, and Miss Eula Fowler, t Mrs. Mary Jones and daughter of Clyde visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul McFall Sunday. Mr. end Mrs. Floyd Russell and children of Atlanta, Ga., vds . dted Mr. and Mrs. Torn Russell iaat week. , The regular meeting' of the Heme Demonstration Club was held ai the home of Mrs. Eliza Buokner Dec. 13. Gifts were ex changed and a social hour was enjoyed by all. t Mir. and Mrs. Sydney Dzlar of Chattanooga, Tenn., spent hwt weekend with their mothers, Mrs. Mildred Izltar and Mrs. Myrtle Burgfa. Terry and Susan, children of Mr. and Mrs. John Louis Moore, have been very sick lately. We re glad they are improving. We are very sorry to hear that Mr. and Mm. Edward Bllenburg are moving soon to Mississippi. Mr. EHenburg is the forest rang er here. THAT CRAZY STOVE Berlin Radio engineers are amazed that a "perfectly normal" electric kitchen stove plays radio 'programs while its owner, a West Berlin housewife, cooks the fam ily meals on it Mrs. Meta Sem ler's stove, which is several years old, began recently to play radio programs. She called the engin eers, who could find no secret de vices and decided the nearby re- fae:.zig:.cup HAS LEAST HEADACHES A recent survey shows that medical students have more head aches than any other group of citizens in the United States. Running medical students a close second are the business execu tives. Medical students, the survey showed, are found to have head aches in a percentage ratio of approximately eighty per cent. Thus, four out of five medical students suffer from recurring headaches. Business executives run them a close second, and it is estimated that seventy-seven per cent of all business executives suffer from headaches. Total figures are that over fifty per cent of the general population have headaches. If you are wondernig which group has the fewest headaches, it is the farmer group. ( Only one out ol every two iarmers, or m ty per cent, are thought to suffer from headaches. Manual laborers do pretty well ,and only fifty-five of them suffer from headaches. Salesmen suffer at a ratio of about fifty-eight per cent, and 68 per cent of all clerks are found to suffer from headaches. Seventy per cent of the house wives surveyed suffer from recur ring headaches and professional persons are just one point higher. No one need interpret these fig ures. It is obvious that the ten sion of modern life, especially for those in the tension-filled occu pations, is putting a severe load on our nervous systems. These figures help explain the increas ing number of heart attacks, and strokes, suffered by Americans, as contrasted to lesser percentage occurrences of these . attacks among the people of other coun tries of the world. One Was Popmlmr TQted is wescome Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Hufif and family to ihair borne recently purchased on Rating Mas with a knife la con- .' the binik sabool ridare. trary to Emily Post and doatn't Mrs, "Roy vWtoll leaves the lat- seem to have much qualiflcatlon for observance as a Christmas tradition, but for more Jian 29 years coeds at Pennsylvania State University partook of a fork-less meal each Yule season. The traditional medieval dinner, complete with everything from costume'd lords and ladies to the legendary boar's head, dated back to 1919. Anally had to be cancelled when coed ranks swelled to almost 1,000. The affair. spons6red by the Women's Student Government As sociation, began with a formal procession through the dining hall. Lord and Lady McAllister the dinner was held in McAllister Hall led the throng, which included noble lords and ladies, heralds, a poet, a cardinal, pages, and two jesters bearing the boar's head. All these girls were appropriate ly costumed and sat upon a raised dais in the center of the holly bedecked room, which was illum inated by candlelight. . tort part, of this week for Bir ( minghami Ala., to spend Christ ! mas with her son, Albert, , and family. I Miss Carolyn Anderson arrived Sunday from Sanford, Fla., where : she is a teacher this year. Miss ; Sara Anderson, her sister,, who is a teacher at Quantico, Va is ' expected the latter part of this week. Miss Daisy Anderson is home for the holidays from Bristol : where she is librarian at Sullins College. Miss Mary Alice Hutff arrived , Monday from Boone to spend thr . holidays here with her parents, j Mr. and Mrs. Ray N. Jarvis i and family are expected Satur 1 day for a week's visit with home folks. j Mrs. Brooke Mehaffev and two i little daughters of Charlotte are A choir furnished Christmas j here for a holiday visit with heri kissing Under u , gesture of ; 4 fc. - 3 C' : a.; Vt ' Uka so many oCr Crlstaaaa customs, me origin of the troa tradition It not definitely known. One theory holds that tna laV century missionary Bonlfaoe par. suaded the Teutons to transfer their worship of Odin's sacred oak to an evergreen decorated in honor of the Christ Child. Popular legend has It that the first Christmas tree originated in Egypt where the first trees used were palm trees. Another story says that Martin Luther decorated a tree with candles to simulate an evergreen shimmering with star lit snow. We do know the Germans did much to popularize the use of Christmas trees, introducing them into both England and America. The German Prince Albert, con sort of Queen Victoria, started the custom in England when he had a tree for his young daughter. The tradition crossed the Atlantic with Hessian mercenaries during the American Revolution. Early Saxons named the curious berried tree parasite used as a Yule-time decoration "Mistletoe", meaning a shoot of a tree. Early Nordics dedicated mistletoe to their goddess of love and started lay tower of a radio station just happened to hit a wave length in the metal parts of the stove, turn ing it into a primitive receiving set. . .. a . i i music, ana me poei enienamcu the guests by reading Old English poetry from a scrolL In accord ance with medieval custom, no forks or napkins' were allowed, although guests sometimes secret ed them in their pockets. The menu consisted of roast pork, mashed potatoes, peas, and a very rich plum pudding. Today's students eat a special Christmas dinner before going home for vacation but it's served "sissy" style. They're allowed a full complement of table utensils. I The tallest Christmas tree on record was a 212 foot Douglas flr set up in 1950 in Northgate, a sub urb of Seattle, Washington. It dis played 3,500 colored lights. Baltimore, -Md. - Following closely behind a panel truck, load ed with bee Mves full of bees, Randolph Fentwn, 22, suddenly was attacked by a swarm of the insects wfcich escaped from one of the hives. Fenton drove to Union Memorial Hospital where he was treated for stings on the face, head, neck, hands and arms. mother, Mrs. K. B. Murray, Local young people away in col lege who are returning for the holidays include: Miss Hannah BlackweN, from Wake Forest; Miss Barbara Gail Anderson, from WOC, Cullowhee; Misses Jane Wells and Lorena Lee from W1CUNC, Greensboro; Miss Flor ence Metcalf, Tommy Edwards and Charles Robinson from Chap el Hill; Justus Amnions and Leon ard Tilson, from State College, Raleigh; Roy Yates Amnions, ETTC, Johnson City, Tenn.; and Grove Robinson, from Art School of Columbia University, New York. Doug Robinson Jr., is ex pected home from New York for a few days over the weekend. Miss Alma Freeman, who has been teaching in Lumberton since Thanksgiving, is to return this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Wood spent last weekend with their son, Lee, and family in Johnson City. Prepare to live tomorrow living every minute of today. by friendship and love. 'f At Laurel Hi... It "was announced here that a; "'.I "Ham-Turkey Shoot" will be held " w AM UiM WhM1 at iMurtl V I Saturday. ' December 22. At The event will 'last all day To keep his head up successf ully a man must keep his feet on sol id ground. The more a man knows about himself, the less he says about. It ten. Easy street and the straight and narrow do not intersect. Mrs. Sallie Payne Passes Monday; Rites Today Funeral services for Mrs. Sal- lie Lavada Payne, 81, of Walnut, who died Monday night, December 17, 1956, at 7:00 o'clock in an Asheville nursing home after a long illness, were conducted this (Thursday) morning at 10 o'clock in the chapel of the Bowman- Rector Funeral Home. The Rev. Ralph Hogan officiated and buri al was in the Payne Cemetery on Anderson Branch. She was a native of Madison County., She is survived by her husband, Jlames Payne; two sons, 5 daugh ters', two brothers and two sis- May the spirit of Christmas tiptoe into this day and become a lasting memory. MARSHALL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION Ammunition will be furnished J it ft, i ' Everybody is invited to parties pate. ' People who refuse to look facts I .viiareiy in the face cannot, ex- , pi'ct t" Mi l an argument. Outdoor, Decorations Began in Small Towns Today nearly every community in the land has some kind of out door Christmas decorations and In nearly every big city you can find two or three spectacular displays. It was a small town that first came up with the idea of lighting up the outdoors at Christmas time, but no one is quite sure which town gets credit for the idea. Four communities are believed to have thought of it about tna same time, as early at IMS. Two of mam, McDonald and Gerntaa town. are in Pennsylvania. Salem, Ore., decorated a Sitka sprue and Riverside, Calif., illuminated a large evergreen, an Aracurla. t The little metal trumpets deco rating Christmas trees data fcam early Danish custom of blowing In the Tula with four hymns repre senting the four corners at use world. I T7fTYf.1 X sm r -J ; Wild's Radio & Television Service . MARSHALL, Nq. ' k Si , ; t' V k f i IWeace f u Ucea arsel tWiaycfautawa wai sac S96 From all of us here McKinney, slirtcei- b3ot wishes to you f Arid a Good iyb7 Louise , ' Clara Belle Paye Ted ;r CCo i7i!l be dcztd December 25 fend 26,ylC, ' - - - - . J - k ' r - - r, 1 t f m ASI0JN0 Pf ACt AMD YULETICS JWI w,liwinini WISH FCMt all k OF GO0O WLL. 1050 . 0 Marshall Personnel J. J. Ramsey C. L. Rudisill Jr. W. T. McKinney Mrs. Blanche 'M. Navy Mrs.Rosalene M. Tugman Mrs. Tacoma R. (McElroy Miss Marie Hunter i - Weaverville Personnel A. S. Kennett Mrs. Izola D. Taylor C t4" k v 1 - I S i 1 r Li . .a-A, J-.L 1 r 1 : i. f 1 H f ' IK" 1 T
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