Christmas Preparations in a Prairie Town Past
In small prairie towns Christmas went hand in hand with homemade gifts and family routines. Women knit and sew by kerosene light while men avoided the distaff room. The season featured marzipan treats, fruitcakes aged to soggy perfection, and festive window displays in Arnold Bremer and Levinson’s shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears and Roebuck
Santa
Arnold Bremer
Bleriot
English Channel
Levinson
Mr. Levinson
Tangerine Community Church notes and obituaries in Tangerine
The first Fall meeting of the Women's Society of the Tangerine Community Church meets at Grace Johnston home with 28 members present. A December 9 program features Ruth Northlich with Christmas theme. The Tangerine Improvement Society heard agricultural speaker John Jackson. Dedication services honor Marie M Petura and John Irving Hull with gifts to the church. Robert Wilson and Chadbourne visitor Mary Sue Cameron noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Society of the Tangerine Community Church
Grace Johnston
Betty Everatt
Edythe Wright
Johnston
Hollenbeck
Conlon
Jamieson
Mesdames Acree
Adams
Arnold
Bennett
Dickie
Dean
Everett
Ruth Northlich
Tangerine Improvement Society
TIS
John Jackson
Lake County Agriculture Center
Tangerine Community Church
Marie M. Petura
John Irving Hull
Frank Petura
Richard Petura
Marie Petura
John Hull
Yale
Hull
Nathan Hale
Magnolia Circle to Arrange IceHouse Table Flower Display
Mrs James Conway of Magnolia Circle Lakes and Hills Garden Club plans the centerpiece table arrangements for the December 12 opening of IceHouse play My Three Angels at the venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IceHouse
My Three Angels
James Conway
Magnolia Circle of Lakes and Hills Garden Club
Community notes gratitude from Sally H. Christensen
Sally H. Christensen thanks town residents for prayers, cards, and good wishes. She also expresses appreciation for school children who sent letters to the Art League and those who admired her cats. She notes unable to write at this time and asks acceptance of her thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art League
Tme
Sally H. Christensen
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By Carol Platt
Robert Wilson
Indiana
Mary Sue Cameron
Chadbourne
N.C
Elmo Carroll
Mary
Michael
Demotts
Florida
M.F. DeMott
Lake Ola
Frisby’s Gulf Service Station
Gulf
Cor
Alexander
Mount Dor
Turner’s Restaurant
Orlando
First National Bank & Trust CO
Eustis
Nassau—Caribbean
South America
Europe
Orient
Mount Dora
Bank OF Mounne
Dora Lora
Golden Triangle Shopping Center
First National Bank Lobby
North Bay Street
S, Chira
Travel Service
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