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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1966
Page
10
Read list of local church members and teachers associated with Christmas Eve services across multiple area congregations. Names span elementary to high school staff and noted families in the Tripoli region.
The St. Johns Lutheran church in Western Douglas hosts a Christmas program on Saturday December 24 at 7:30 p m with organ preludes songs and choral numbers. The program features pastor W H Lindquist and a long list of Sunday School classes and congregational participants performing carols hymns and readings.
The program lists hymns such as Silent Night O Come All Ye Faithful and Angels We Have Heard on High. It features Sunday School groups VI to X with prayers confessions and a distribution of gifts and treats, led by pastors and volunteers including Steven Liddle Elizabeth Johnson and Ronald Banser.
History questions the tale of a spinster hanging a stocking for Saint Nicholas gifts. It notes that knitted stockings did not exist in the fourth century and that people used cloth or rags for feet, with hosiery likely appearing only by the 13th century.
The article notes the stocking frame revolutionized production in the late 1500s and how the poor could finally access stockings. It mentions Pompeian paintings showing early Romans wore stockings before Christ’s era, reflecting legends in historical context.
A brief holiday note from Karla Samuelson listing requested items for Christmas including Baby First Step toy, refrigerator, teddy bear, stuffed elephant, and a Christmas candle.
Maureen Frahm asks for a tan and brown Plymouth boy doll and says she has been good. Scott Chapin requests a self propell combine and a power digger, expressing openness to any gift.
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