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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1966
Page
8
Home baked delicacies offer thoughtful gifts for Christmastide with fruit cakes cookies jams and breads. Suggestions include stollen pralines cheese sticks oat cake and chewey noels, plus wrap ideas using cellophane banners and decorative cans.
The Quail Friendship Club held its annual Christmas dinner on December 10 in the Quail school homemaking cottage, honoring all members and their husbands with candlelit tables, a buffet, and gifts from under the tree, with Tom Crabtree giving the invocation and a social committee organizing games and passes. The Wellington Garden Club also held a Christmas party on December 7 at Mrs. Joe Thompson’s home, featuring decorated rooms, a group collect, a devotional, gift exchanges, and refreshments hosted by Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Crawford.
Members of St Josephs Hospital Auxiliary will provide baskets for needy families at Christmas. Mrs Edd Howard leads the effort and urges all members and interested people to bring gifts of food toys or clothing for small children to the staff room by Friday Dec 23.
Recipe notes suggest dusting with confectioners sugar and optionally writing Noel across the top in white frosting. Makes 18 cookies.
Members of the Lilie Home Demonstration Club held their annual Christmas party on December 8 in the Green Belt Electric Co operative Inc directors room. Co hosts were Mrs John Alf Thomas and Mrs Ralph Tennison with a program on The Teaching of Jesus and Why We Celebrate Christmas by Mrs Tennison. Group singing and games followed with holiday refreshments and a decorated table.
The Danish Christmas Eve dinner features rice porridge with a hidden almond described as magical. The finder receives good luck, a tradition that adds excitement to the meal and carries festive meaning across families.
The Ohio Company consolidated in Boston at Batch of Grapes Tavern to launch its first coordinated push westward, signaling a new phase in expansion and settlement efforts.
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