Christmas on the California Mission Christmas Festivities
A 1829 California Christmas at the San Diego mission contrasted with eastern U S traditions. Albert Robinson recalls the Midnight Mass, a rustic pageant with six shepherdesses two narrators Lucifer and Gabriel a hermit and a lazy vagabond, plus fireworks and carols. The event shows West Coast adaptation amid early San Diego life. Western Newspaper Union.
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New Zungland
Middle States
Turkey
East
Republic
California
Albert Robinson
Boston
Valparaiso
Monterey
San Diego
Robinson
San Francisco
Don Jose Antonio Estudillo
Jose Antonio
Bella
Presidio
Saylor
Lucifer
Burtola
Archangel Gabriel
Satan
Hermit
Buffalo
Western Newspaper Union
Village Neighbors Share Weekend News and Local Happenings
Smicksburg area residents report weekend visits and school activities. Edmunds and Stiteler family ties noted with Pitt and Pittsburgh links. Hunters tally eleven deer and one bear. Clover Farm store opens with T. T. Dodson as manager. Jean Crawford returns from hospital training in Pittsburgh. multiple shoppers visit Indiana and Mercer areas. ongoing illnesses and recoveries cited among local families.
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Elkin Edmunds
Pitt University
Elwood Stiteler
Pittsburgh
Paul Stiteler
Crawford
I. A. Casedy
M. B. Ald Society
Paul Black
Harrisburg
N. I. Black
Thomas Edmunds
Edmunds
David Edmunds
Clover Farm
Our Village
T. T. Dodson
Jean Crawford
Columbia Hospital
Duff Crawford
Butler Crawford
Indiana
Lola Fulton
Mollie Stear
William Daugherty
Mercer Hospital
H. A. Barrett
Preston Marshall
Youngstown
Maurice Stear
Ann Stear
Local social notes and village movements from Elderton area
Mrs. Ella Warner visited her daughter Mrs. Irwin Speedy last week while Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lowry stayed in the Taylor Carnahan home. Deer hunters include Ward Miller and others. Leason Ramer and family moved into Steele Kerr house. Many attended Uncle Tom's Cabin in Elderton and the Thank-offering pageant at Curry Run. The Ladies Missionary Society met at Mrs. Lee Miller’s home. Mildred Ray of Wilkinsburg visits Floyd Ray Co. D. Edwards and others plan mountain trip. Annie Morock returns from Indiana hospital. Frances Wiggins visits home. Mrs. Elmer Kline is ill. Gaynell Miller visited Corinne Douglass. Albert Millie and family with Henry Ramer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Warner
Irwin Speedy
Arthur Lowry
Taylor Carnahan
Elderton
Ward Miller
Toe King
Leason Ramer
Irwin Wood
John Gibson
Clair Miller
H. O. Kimmel
John Sell
Lee
Edward Miller
Annie Morock
Indiana
Frances Wiggins
Elmer Kline
Local Shoppers and Social Visits From Indiana to Punxsutawney
Mrs Bence Folax and Maloney shopped in Indiana on Thursday along with listed locals including Eugene Tate Albert Snyder and several Conrath and Pollock family members. Residents visited O O Napp and hosted a kitchen shower for Norman Kerr and his wife. Other area residents toured Punxsutawney and Glen Campbell with visits to Jacoby and Pollock households, and Rittenhouse returned home after hospital care.
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Carl R. Bence
Folax
Maloney
Indiana
Mildred
Glen Campbell
L. W. Jacoby
Joseph Babco
Clymer
Simco
Kinces
C. Byers
Mrs. Wallace Learn
Youngstown
Mrs. McKee
Barr
Mrs. Laskard
Local notes from Cherry Tree and vicinity
Social items recount visits and calls across Cherry Tree Clearfield and Altoona. Families like Irwins Murray Lytle Bee Beers Sebring Barnes and Walker feature in weekend trips hospital updates and church activities. A Current Events Club meeting and a Salvation Army concert are noted with remarks on China and pacifism.
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Elgin
Waltham, Illinois
Hamilton
R. W. Wehrle & CO
The
House of Quality Diamonds
Phone
Phila
St. Indiana
Indiana Wall Paper & Paint CO
Sporting Goods
Roland Coleman
Jack Holt
Sally Blane
Seth Parker
Radio Fame
Bile Boyd
Robert Armstrong
James Gueason
America Cone
Smicksburg
John Wagner
Punxsutawney
Dodson
Gaynell Miller
Corinne Douglass
Albert Millie
Henry Ramer
Dixonville
Rochester Mills
G. I. Pollock
Walter Pollock
Frank Hork
New Kensington
Lisle Hork
Edgar Work
David Rittenhouse
Punxsutawney Hospital
Edward Neller
Harry Hitl
Ralph Oberlin
Paulh Braughter
Alfred Johnston
Punixsutawney
Ralph Calderwood
Buchheit Bros
Edison
Pathe
Victor
L. Irwin
Chester Irwin
Clearfield
John Murray
Ida Murray
Glenn Campbell
Gertrude Barnes
R. O. Lytle
Altoona
H.R. Bee
Harry Seger
Canoe Ridges
Sheldon Douglass
Warren King
Berringer
D. K. Schneblay
Newcastle
Clara McPherson
M. BE
John Thompson
Spangler Hospital
W. Sebring
Spangler
Edith Kull and Son
Jordan
Messrs
Clyde
Roy Bee
Clair Sebring
Marion Center
F. W. West
Bellefonte
Marion Center Milling Co
Martha Moore
C. J. Walker
Mabel Work
A. Work
Richard Caldwell
EB. P. Caldwell
Indiana Hospital
N. H. Weizel
Bovard
N. Manor Street
Naibor
Mary Simpkins
Edith McFeaters
J. W. Botsford
Salvation Army Band of Indiana
M. E. Church
Wyncoop
New York City
M. B. Wyncoop
Mary Wetzel
China
America
Queen Quality
Wilbur Coon
Matrix Shoes
Nunn Bush
Indiana, Pa
Marion
Patronize Progress
Leama
Penna
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