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THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1949
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Happy New Year
To All Our Friends And Patrons
Howard ftager Coal Yard
North Main Street at A. C. & Y. Railroad
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To the Firs
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TO THE FIRST BABY
in the Bluffton 1950 Baby Derby
We Will Contribute
$5.00 in Cash
for His First Bank Account!
Our Congratulations to the
Happy Parents!
To All Our Friends
and Patrons!
to the MOTHER and
family of the
FIRST 1950 BABY
in Bluffton’s Baby Derby
we will give a
Table Dressed Turkey
CHARLES KINSINGER
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Your Patronage
Electric Baby Bottle
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Ellenberger Bros
HOTPOINT SALES AND SE
General Electric Appliances Radios
105 South Main Phone 255-T
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TO OUR MANY FRIENDS
A HAPPY NEW YE
On this important occasion we wish
most sincerely for your generous patro
Year
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year and we pledge a continuance of our established
regular service,
To the Father
of the
First 1950 Baby
We are happy to' present
with our compliments, an
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KOONTZ AND HAUTER
Friendly Service
MOBIL GAS and OILS
JACK and TONY
303 N. Main (Corner Main & Jefferson) Bluffton, Ohio
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PERPETUAL
In 1918 in a high school class
room, a 15-year old sophomore,
confused by discussion of the cal
endar, asked his teacher: ‘‘Didn’t
the Caesars mess up the calendar?”
snapped back:
you
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think
one?”
The
home
six calendars, one of which he con
sidered superior to any he knew.
One of them was up for discussion
by Congress. It was presented
to and received favorably by dele
gates at the world security confer
ence at San Francisco. Edwards
sees a possibility that his per
petual calendar soon may be the
international calendar.
could make a better
Willard Edwards, went
night and thought up
boy,
that
Edwards, a navy veteran of
action in the Pacific, outlined
his plans for the calendar. It
would simplify the present sys
tem by a switch that would
involve a change in only two
days.
In the Edwards perpetual calen
dar, the year would have 364 days
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The Stable of Bethlehem did not
in any way resemble the airy por
ticos complete with plaster of
paris animals and adoring shep
herds so dear to the heart of
modern Christendom.
With comfort increasing through
out the western world, the poverty
of the Nativity scene simultaneous
ly startles and fascinates us as
perhaps Matthew, the publican,
was impressed by the story of the
Wise Men and St. Luke, who had
been a ship’s doctor and probably
knew very little about
was charmed by the
abiding in the field.
shepherds,
shepherds
in the inn
There was no room
that night, so Jesus was born in a
stable, a place of shelter hewn
into a rocky ledge of the Judean
countryside. It _waS™Cpld and dark
and damp, and Judean travelers—
frequently ‘put up’ in such caves—
welcomed rather than disdained
joint tenancy with beasts because
the breath of the cattle and the
heat of their bodies provided a
little warmth, while the guests in
side the inn had no heat at all.
The cave, which was the birth
place of the Saviour, is now a
grotto beneath Bethlehem’s Church
of the Nativity and though fasci
nated by the simplicity of the origi
nal Nativity scene, Christianity has
been unwilling to maintain its pov
erty and has covered the entire
surface with costly ornamentation.
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111 Church St., Bluffton
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THE BLUFFTON NEWS, BLUFFTON, OHIO
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plus New Year’s day completely
apart from any month or week. It
would be followed by Monday, the
first day of the year. There would
be 12 months, falling into a regu
larly rhythmical pattern of 30, 30,
31 days.
Monday, which psychologically
is regarded as the first day of the
week, would actually be first in the
proposed calendar.
Leap Year day, like New
Year’s day, would be an inter
national holiday, completely
apart from any month. It would
come following Sunday, June
31.
Labor Day and Christmas, for
instance, would always be on Mon
day. With the possibility of a fixed
Easter, there would be six three
day holidays. This, Edwards con
tends, would be of great advantage
in planning vacations, transporta
tion schedules, school terms, and
especially to business concerns.
And for those of superstitious per
suasion, there would be no Friday
the 13th to worry about.
While the claim may cause the
rest of America to bristle, New
Yorkers insist that Santa Claus is
peculiarly New York’s own. Not
only did he land in Manhattan with
the Dutch settlers, they point out,
but for almost two hundred years
he never took his activities or pres
ents out of New York state.
The New Yorkers advance some
interesting points to bolster their
contentions. They declare that in
the genial company of Washington
Irving, James Kirke Paulding and
Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus
gradually lost the grim, stern as
spect he wore when he arrived with
the Dutch settlefs lo the bulging,
benevolent mien he now offers.
It was in New York, too, they
assert, that Santa acquired his
reindeer sleigh and his habit of
arriving on Christmas instead
of on the Dutch St. Nicholas
eve (December 5). And thus, in
his New York panoply, he fin
ally found his way to all parts
of the United States, England
and even Australia and India.
Indeed, as the New Yorkers will
tell you, New York, as New Ams
terdam in the beginning, was dedi
cated to Santa Claus, or St. Nich
olas, by its Dutch founders. For
Santa Claus—or Sinterklaas, as it
is sometimes written in Holland—
is of course only the centuries-old
pot name which Dutch children
gave to their patron and gift bring
er, the good Bishop St. Nicholas.
And it is said that the ship which
brought the first Dutch children to
Manhattan island bore his face as
figurehead.
From the first, too, his special
day of December 6, was set aside
with Christmas, New Year’s,
Easter and Whitsuntide, as one of
the five chief holidays of the new
colony, just at it had been in Hol
land.
So, year after year, as regularly
as St. Nicholas eve came around in
New Amsterdam, in Breuckelen
(Brooklyn), in Fort Orange (Al
bany) and many other hamlets
above the icy Hudson, the children
in every good Dutch family gath
ered in expectant circle. For weeks
beforehand they had learned their
lessons and helped with the milking
and churning in an agony of good
behavior. And now, all ready, they
sang their song to Santa Claus.
In the midst of the song would
come a knocking at the door
and in would stride Santa Claus,
himself—not round and jolly,
but solemn and majestic in
trailing robes. In one hand he
might have a basket of presents
or a purse, but in the other was
sure to be a birch rod—an awful
warning to a naughty boy.
Santa questioned each child in
turn about his behavior in the year
just past and gave him a pat of
approval or a warning shake of the
head, as the record indicated. Then,
bidding them all look for presents
in the morning, the good saint sud
denly flung a handful of lollipops
into the room and, in the ensuing
scramble, vanished into the night.
Then the children set out their
sabots, or later the great blue yarn
stockings made for the purpose.
However he did it—and the tale
varies in many lands—Santa Claus
got about, for in the morning over
the hearth steaming with waffles
and sausages and other good Dutch
fare, were the blue stockings bulg
ing with apples, balls, dolls and
tops.
News Want Ads Bring Results.
MEASURED TIME
The ancient Egyptians were
among the first people to figure
out any so-called ‘exact’ measure
ment of time: Their calendar of
365 days was divided into 12 periods
of 30 days each, with the remaining
five days tacked on to the last
period or month without any pro
vision for leap years.
Actually, the solar year consists
of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes,
and 46 seconds. Consequently, a
well-ordered system of Leap Years
is necessary to keep the calendar
and the solar equinoxes congruent.
The Gregorian calendar, devised
and presented to the world in 1582
by Pope Gregory XIII, provides
that years divisible by four-ex
clusive of the years numbering the
centuries—shall have 366 days, and
the century marking years shall be
leap years only if they are divisible
by four after the ciphers have been
removed.
This system guarantees the ac
curacy of the Gregorian calendar
until, at least, 2500 AD.
And if this accuracy is unique,
the Moslem calendar is unique be
cause of its inaccuracy—or rather,
its regressive accuracy.
The 12 lunar months which com
prise the Mohammedan year begin
with the approximate new moon
without any intercalation to keep
the months geared to the solar equi
noxes. Thus, the months retrogress
through the entire solar year in
about 33’.2 years.
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The First Baby
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New Year—
Welcome
FIRST 1950
will receive
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
HAPPY
the Old Year Expires We Express Our Sincere
Gratitude for Your Patronage.
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To the First 1950 Baby
$2.00 in Cash
1. Stauffer
To All Our Friends and Patrons!
TO THE FIRST BABY BORN IN
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WE WILL GIVE A
$ 3.00 JOHNSON BABY GIFT BOX
with Our Compliments!
A. tiaucnstcin & fen
The Comer Drug Store
Bluffton, Ohio
To The
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Baby 1950”
We Will Give A
TELELARM JR
Electric Alarm
CLOCK
with Our Compliments
and Best Wishes
NEW YEAR
Many Thanks to Our Customers for Your Steady
Support During the Past Year, and Sincere Wishes
of the Season to All
Appliances
489 Cherry Street Phone 409-T
Welcome Baby!
We are happy to present
this gift to the parents
of
Bluffton’s
FIRST 1950 BABY
A JVICE-O-MAT JUICE EX
TRACTOR to provide a quick
and easy way for preparing
fresh' fruit juice for the new
NEW YfcAR TO ALL!
MARSHALL & BIXEL
HOME APPLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
144 North Main (next to town hall) Phone 139-W
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