Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-12-28
GRANDVIEW
speeial 10 the Republiean

q I -AbAAAtAg SfNhA-A1 was N-AA Aob44AelE
I eve in Grand View and the Grand
{ View people may not have railroad
! and an opera house but they did have
. a community tree and it was located
. just in front of the bridge and at the
I crossing of the East and West road
I It was some twenty feet high and
! adorned with many electric lights.
. Some fifty or sixty people gathered
; around the tree and sang Christmas
. songs for half an hour and then ad-
journed to the hall. As near as your
correspondent could make a count
. there we're 240 people present. Tias
Spang told us how good he was "just
before Christmas" Paula Garsja
. told us of her experience in putting
a piece of cake out for Santa Claus
and ga horrid little mouse came and
; stole the cake" Ruth and Ruby
hung up the stockings for their dolls
and they were nearly large enough
for the much desired cheese factory
we are looking forward to. Carol
Beeman with her wonderful voice for
l a little eight year old sang us al
i Christmas lullaby. The Camp Fire
girls did their song we'll as those
Camp Firers have a habit of doing
things well. Then there was Worth
Forcher ad the three Wilson girls
and Elaine Whitson and Evelyn Mat
thews and Floyd Chamberlain and
through it all those many children
and the grown ups did not get tired
waiting for the coming of Santa
Claus. That coming was arranged |
with shadow pictures to take the
place of moving pictures. Santa,
who was Donald Ertz, was first seen
coming out of his snow igloo way
up near the North Pole. Then we
saw him with his reindeer and sleigh
coming as if long distance away.
Then he got stuck in a chimney and
dropped his sack of presents. Next
we saw him on the desert with a
camel poking his nose in, while from
an Arab tent son of the desert sa-
luted and received his gift. Next he
arrived in Japan and dear little
Japanese maiden served him with
tea in true Jap style. But crossing
the Pacific he was shipwrecked and
the waves at times were higher than
his head. But an S. o. S. radio mes
sage brought help and he was res
cued. Next we saw him coming over
the Owyhee Mountains and before ,
we could get our breath he was right
in our midst with great roar and
threshing of frost bitten hands and
cheeks.
But those sacks of candy, nuts and !
why they were large enough
to hold something less than peck
and every child had one. By the
kindness of one of our people an ex-
ira select apple was there for every p
grown up. So Santa came and went
but the people never stopped to see Z
where he went 1t is to be noted
that no lines were drawn in the at N
tendance or distribution of Stana's T,
gifts between Upper and Lower VAL
ley and North side This spirit of G
interest for all the VAL N
ey is what will make this the won
lerful spot of Idaho sometime.
Santa Claus was preceded by the
tork at the home of Emil Schultz j
md they named him Carrol. He is
lot exactly a Christmas carol but A
lear little baby just the same.
The sermon at the Community CT
hurch was in preparation for Christ
mas and while some. people are trou- 81
Wing themselves about things on
which they differ the minister made
lis outline on the following points:
esus was born in the ful1ness of
ime. 1t was the great opportunity. :.
here was universal peace. A uni -
ersal language. A universal law. !.
'hese things have never existed in u
he worlds history except from thir-
= years before and thirty years af- ''i'
'r Jesus lived. There was the worlds
reatest need. Religion was dead so w.
lr as it had any influence on the 7"
yes of men. In Greek pantheism.
oman mythology and Hebrew for ~
alism. Morals were dead There !,
as general expectation of the WI
'ming of some world leader. Among 70
lie Greeks. The jewellers in the
asst and among the Jewish people. ~
nd now in the dark hour of world -
nditions men who are not professed
own There is no help for w. W.
e world except following Jesus
achings as between nations and in D..
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