Happenings
By Carolyn Adriaansen (926.4436)  

Before 1900, the idea of eating cornflakes for breakfast would not have occurred to the average American, for the simple reason that dry cereal had not been invented yet. The person responsible for this relatively young American tradition was a vegetarian health faddist named John Harvey Kellogg. In the 1890's Kellogg, a physician and a Seventh-Day Adventist, was a medical superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a Michigan clinic that had been founded by his sect in 1860 as the Western Health Reform Institute. For his sickly, carnivorous clientele, Kellogg devised a meatless, low-dairy regimen which he called the 'Battle Creek Idea.' Included in it were a battery of dried and flaked cereals and what we today call granola.

The Women's Guild, at the United Church, will meet for their luncheon at Norma Camp's home on January 15.

Chaplain Doug Schwaderer, of the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry, will deliver the message at the United Church on Sunday, January 13.

January 11 - Shoeshine Johnny's Student Coffeehouse - 7:30-10 p.m. at the Scarlet Thread Student Center in Sodus - $5 donation at the door.

January 16, 1958: Marion shared in the distribution of $1,266.50 in award prizes for safety and production recommendations at Garlock Packing Co. in Palmyra. Floyd Ameele of Marion received the top award for December, a check for $600.

Mark your calendars for the Martin Luther King Day ham dinner, January 21, 4:30-7, at the Second Reformed Church.

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