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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
6
The article traces Boxing Day gifts for public servants from Roman Saturnalia to Christ Mass origins. It notes priests receiving boxes during Mass, apprentices delivering carols, Pepys and Swift references, and the bell man as a forerunner of the postman delivering poems urging year end recognition.
Old legends describe the Yule Log with mystery and superstition. The log must be touched with clean hands and certain people avoid it while burning to prevent bad luck if the fire dies out. Tyroleans decorate the log with paper flowers ribbons and wine is poured by the youngest child with a prayer for warmth food rest and divine blessing.
Negro families in Virginia kept a unique Christmas gift exchange. On Christmas Eve a sheet covered the dining room table, with slips of paper bearing names placed under the sheet for each person. Notes were slipped under names, even for the youngest child, and eggnog and breakfast were shared as visitors arrived.
Fragmentary notice describes the Yule log tradition in a home Christmas setting. It notes an ash log as a favored fuel and mentions a figure Babe Wan once washed and dressed by his mother, gleaned from a local legend.
School notes from Buffalo Center summarize classroom events as first graders plan a Christmas party with gift exchanges and decorating activities, second graders prepare a Thursday party with plays and carols, and a long list of fifth grade spelling honorees. Senior high updates include typing progress and intramural team rosters with recent game results.
George Albers a long time Good Thunder resident and former Buffalo Center resident was laid to rest Saturday in Good Thunder Cemetery Minnesota He died at a Mankato hospital on Wednesday after about three years of ill health He was born October 7 1884 in Ramsay Township Kossuth County Iowa Baptized and raised there until his youth
On September 15, 1915 he married Nellie Van Dyke in Buffalo Center Iowa and the couple lived there until 1930 when they moved to a farm near Good Thunder Minnesota. He farmed until ill health forced retirement and had resided in Good Thunder since March 1945. He died at 62 years 1 month 13 days. He was a member of St John's Lutheran church with funeral by Rev P J Seltz. Survived by wife six sisters and two brothers: Mrs John Lamping Thompson IA Mrs George Smith Mrs Harm Boekholt Mrs Lambert Boekelman Mrs JHio Loats Mrs August Jutting Theodore all of Buffalo Center IA and Henry Albers of Woden IA. Out-of-town relatives attending the funeral were: Mrs Jessie Boekholt Wilbert Mr and Mrs L Boekelman and Vernard Mrs Annie Albers Mrs Henry Krull Mr and Mrs Edwin Albers Mr and Mrs Ted Albers Mr and Mrs Fred Albers Mr and Mrs Edo Frerichs Nanne Etta and Carl Mr and Mrs Fred Frerichs Mr and Mrs Albert Frerichs all of Buffalo Center IA Mr and Mrs Walter Yahnke and Mr and Mrs Fred Frerichs of Elmore MN Mr and Mrs Albert Yahnke of Garden City MN Mr and Mrs John Denvail of St James MN Mr and Mrs Herbert Gotham and sons Verne Jail of Mankato MN Mr and Mrs Nelmer Matson of Forest City IA Mr and Mrs Roy Berhow Mr and Mrs L Olson of Thompson IA Good Thunder Newspaper
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