Happenings
By Carolyn Adriaansen (926.4436)

Grace Blankenberg is presently residing at the DeMay Living Center in Newark.

Dec. 20, 5th and 6th Grade Band Concert at 7 in the Elem. School Auditorium Dec. 22, 5th and 6th Grade chorus at 7 p.m. in the Elem. School Auditorium. Mark your calendars! Please donate; money collected goes for food certificates to needy families during the holiday season. Poinsettias are delivered to shut-ins and patients at nursing homes and hospitals; at Easter we deliver Hyacinths to shut-ins, nursing homes and hospitals.

Charlotte VerPlank is now at St. Ann's Home, 1500 Portland Ave. #244, Rochester, NY 14621

On December 6, the Marion Masterminds traveled to Clyde for the second round of matches. After four rounds, the JV and Varsity remain undefeated and is the only team in the league that is unbeaten. Leading scorers for Marion were Craig Butler with 120 points (he leads the entire league), Cora Walker with 60 points, and Kasey Bliek with 30.

When a farm woman realized the meal she was getting would be late, she set the table before the men came from the barn to the house for dinner. She found it assured the men that the meal would soon be ready. The common belief was that a good cook not only gets appetizing meals, but she also serves them on time.

Stressed - It's Desserts spelled backward.

Dear God,

So far it's been a good day -
I haven't yelled, I haven't spat.
I haven't gossiped or kicked the cat.
I haven't lied & haven't cussed.
I haven't whined or even fussed.
But great the task that lies ahead,
for now I must get out of bed.

Illuminating the Tree

Victorian Christmas lights were not the first lights to illuminate the Christmas tree. Although the earliest American Christmas trees were decorated mainly with edible ornaments, by the 1830s wiring candles onto branches was common. The tree was lit only once, typically on Christmas Day, and buckets of water and sand were kept close at hand to reduce the danger of fire. By the mid-1800s, metal 'candle-pins' - pronged candle tacks - were in use, followed soon thereafter by saucered models to catch wax drippings; later, tin and glass lanterns that encased the open flame, as well as glass oil pots, were available. For an open flame, long counterbalances were attached to candleholders to keep the candles standing upright. These were replaced with spring clips, which remained the most common candle attachment until the 1920s. By that time electric tree lights, commercially available since the early 1900s (and heavily promoted via community trees sponsored by electric company interests), had largely replaced candlelit trees. -Deborah V.R. Harper, associate education curator, Winterhur Museum, Garden & Library

History - December 1882 - Cutters for Sale - J. and B.T. Curtis have for sale a fine lot of new cutters of their own make. They are first class in every respect, and will be sold cheap.

January 1884 - T. G. Yeomans & Sons, of Walworth, have recently received three car loads of imported Holstein cattle.

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