Wednesday December 23, 1959 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Page 3 orie.to ‘Dhurch for Corner Carson Drive and Fifth Avenue Rev. E. H. Wallace Thursday, December 24, Christmas Eve 11:30 p.m. Choral Eucharist and Carols Friday, December 25, Christmas Day 9:00 a.m. Holy Communion 11:00 a.m. Family Service, Nursery School Sunday, December 27 8:30 am. Holy Communion 10:00 a.m. Church School 11:00 a.m. Festival of Seven Lessons and .Carols, Nursery School 3:00 p.m. Alexis Creek, Christmas Ser- vice SACRED HEART CHURCH Fouth Avenue at Yorston Redemptorist Fathers Thursday, December 24, Christmas Eve Midnight Mass Friday, December 25, Christmas Day 9:00 a.m. Morning Mass 11:30 a.m. Christmas Service at Lac La Hache. Sunday Masses 9:00 and 10:30 a.m, First Fridays and Holidays of Obligation, Mass at 7230 D-m. Benediction Saturday 7:30 p.m., followed by Confessions. LUTHERAN WORSHIP SERVICES Every second and last Sunday of the month, 7:30 p.m., at United Church. The Lutheran Hour over CFJC, Kamloops, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. + Dhristnas Dervices | ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH 3rd Avenue at Cameron Rev. Thursday, December 24, Christmas Eve 8:00 p.m. Family Carol Service Friday, December 25, Christmas Day 11:30 a.m. Communion Service Sunday, December 27 9:45 a.m. Church School 11:00 a.m. Service of Worship A. Anderson CALVARY PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE Second Avenue North Pastor, Rev. E. P. Funk Sunday, December 27, Sunday School, 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11:15 a.m. Evangelistic Ser- vice 7:30 p.m. KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Fourth Avenue South Friday, December 25, 7:30 p.m., Theocratic, Ministry School. 8:30 p.m., Service Meeting. Sunday, 7 p.m., Bible Study, . CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP Quesnel, B.C. Sunday School and Church Services held 11 a.m. Sundays. Wednesday Testimony Meeting, first Wednesday of each month at 8.p.m. These services held in the Masonic Hall. All cordially invited to attend. Radio program “ How Christ- ian Science Heals,” station CKCQ at 1:05 p.m., first and third Sundays of each month. The men who gave us “Silent The words of that famous carol “Silent Night, Holy Night,” will ring this Christmas in many dif- ferent corners of the earth. In the mountain town of Oberndortf, Austria, however, they will prob- ably ring clearer and more dist- inetly. For it was here, some 141 years ago, that the carol was sung for the first time. The background story of this lie singing of what perhaps, the best loved of Christmas carols. The organ that also figured in tion of the Oberndorf carol. song became traditional the populari famous song besins on 2 sad note |SOS: memorized it, and carried for that night of December 23,/2cross the mountains — and 1818, Father Josepr Mohr, the| ‘?® World. parish priest, and his friend Franz One year after the organ bui. Xavier Gruber=schoolmaster-~and church organist, had made a de- pressing discovery: that mice had eaten away the bellows of the ried it with him from town town and village to village, t) has become | ion wouldn't play The} in the Oberndorf region, but in the year 1830 when an organ builder came to fix the organ he heard the er memorized-the song and car-| died poor and.obscure, perhaps —| that carol was included in a presentat- | GREEK TRADITION Night” Greece is “ Christpsomo "or of a musical f in| Bread of Christ.” Before! all) Leipzig, Germany. baking this holiday treat, the | Great orchestras and great| housewife makes a handprint on jsingers “1 ’ the song and/the surface of the dough and it in the ensuing years it has be-|is come a part of our Christmas heritage. said that the handprint proof of the birth of Christ. za- is Production of Chorus will be “God's Trombone,” a large-scale. musical pro- duction of the Prince George Cariboo Chorus, will be sponsored locally on January 17 by the Williams Lake Players Club and Cariboo Art Society. Five receive citizenship Another five persons who will celebrate Christmas this year as new Canadians received their papers in County Court last Tues- day. The five are Ernest Klausmayer who came from Austria; Ilse Klausmayer, formerly of Ger- many; Karl Scherre also of Ger- many; James William Dickey, from the United States, and Siegfried F. Seibert, formerly of Rumania. Applications for citizenship were made by Helmut Schulz and Julius E. Helin. Alexis Creek news AN ENJOYABLE card party was held December 13 at the home of Mrs, Levitt in honor of Mrs. Jeff Bodman. Co-hostess was Mrs. Pratt. Prize winners were Mrs. Diane noted Cariboo Staged here One of the most. delightful additions to Williams Lake life was the formation in October of the Glee Club under the direc- tion of Mrs. K. Kingwell. Up to this week, they had ap- peared at only one local function (Hospital Auxiliary fashion show) but Tuesday night they delighted shoppers with carol The production is built around|singing at several downtown a new work by the colored poet| spots. James Weldon Johnson, a cousin) The talented group, . which ot Jim Johnson who directs the Cariboo Chorus. The narrative poem is a negro minister’s inter- pretation of Biblical stories, with parts of it handled as individual readings and part set to music. Forming a musical background for the entire production are the members of the Cariboo Chorus, a group of accomplished’ singers who have gained national fame. During the Centennial year the chorus toured the province and now numbers 20, is as follows. Sopranos: Mrs. L. Simons, Mrs. M. Clark, Mrs. F. Van Horlick, Miss M. Bradley, Miss Airdrie Fraser, Mrs Jack Groome, Miss E. Stevenson. Altos: Mrs. GC. Reynolds, Mrs. J. Huckvale, Mrs, L Diminyatz, Mrs John Borkow- ski. Tenors: Rey. A. Anderson, Ken Kingwell, Frank Borkow- ski and Michael O’Donovan. Bass: Herman Lund, Jack Kirk, John Stewart and Tom Mason. Twenty voices now in Glee Club Mrs. F. Clarke is their accom- panist, although Mrs. P. Unrau has been substituting while she Was away recently. Mrs. Kingwell, who is also leader of the senior choir at St. Andrew's United Church, has been in choir work for a numbet of years. She was a member of the United Church choir in Trail, and when they moved to the Arrow Lakes district she be- gan working with school choirs. From this she eventually start- ed the Glee Club there too. From her excetient directing of this group, there is no doubt of her talent and that she enjoys it immensely too. At September 1, 1959, Canada’s Population was estimated at 17,- 550,000, an increase of 266,000 from the start of the year, com- pared to an eight-month increase of 401,000 in 1957. one reviewer said in his opinion, they were the best choir west of Chicago. On Christmas day they will be featured on a program over the Trans-Canada network of the CBC. Between 40 and 50 persons will be in the cast appearing in Wil- liams Lake, travelling here by charter bus. The sponsoring club will charge an admission to the show to cover expenses incurred in bringing the performers. French, and Mrs. THE DANCE held at Pigeon’s Hall recently in aid of the Christ- mas Tree fund was very success- ful. Raffle prizes were won by: William Dick, Albert Lloyd, Gor- don Jakel, Mrs. Haines, Jeff Bod- man, Jack Maindley, Laurie Haines, Mrs. Vera Bonner, Brant Kilbreath. Spot dance prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A traditional preparation in Telford, Mr. and Mrs. Blackstock treated at the Red last week were: Cross Hospital Blroy Jaake, injured side from a hi falling; Jim Webster, hand cut with an axe while chopping wood; Frank Brink of Kleena Kleene, crushed finger. Father Mohr never lived to see the greatness the song would achieve. He died in 1848 and his parishoners had to pay for the | burial of the poor, but dedicated priest. Gruber, the schoolmaster, ld-|lived 15 years longer, but also it to to| perhaps not — the he world would always be for “Silent Night, Holy } aware church organ, and there would be no musi¢ for Christmas services. STORM LIFTS As the two men were making their way through the wind and snow-swept streets of the village, it is said, the storm suddenly lifted and suddenly all was ser- ene. | Father Mohr looked up to} the snowy peaks and clear skies | and muttered to himself, “Silent Night, Holy Night. All is calm, all is bright.” Immediately Gruber repeated the words and both men were struck with the same idea — the beginning of a Christmas carol. The two hurried on to the school- master’s house and there, for the rest of the night, worked d ly on a melody and_ suitable verses. Remembering that there é f would be no organ music,, they ee kept the melody simple, one that could be played easily on a guitar. HOLIDAY MUSIC There was music that Christ- man in Oberndorf,.after all, for Father Mohr and Franz Gruber led the villagers in the first pub- 3 celebrations good friends at holiday time. All good luck, all good cheer, all good things we wish our many Satori guargd- Snyder's Hardware Ltd. in Bethlehem This year, as usual, pilgrims from all over the world will worship in the little town of Bethlehem, the holiest spot of Christendom. Visitors will wor- ship in the grotto where Christ was born and in the towering Basilica of the Nativity, built during the sixth century by Em- peror Justinian, Yet the residents of Bethle- hem, which has a far greater population than it had some 2,000 years ago, will celebrate Christmases, rather than SMeity three one The December Orthodox church keeps 25 holy. The Greek Church keeps the according to the Geor- ulendar, on January 7, e Armenians observe Jan- 19 western uary The Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenians share the Basilica, the Roman Catholics use their own church adjoining —but all three share the grotto where, traditionally, during the early hours of December 25, a tiny statue of Jesus is wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in MIKES M hist te AC Bie Be a A special | \ greeting is coming “ se your way... our LA sincere wishes tor holiday happiness and joy throughout the season EAT MARKET hristmas As the merry Christmas bells echo i far and near, as friends and families gather to celebrate the happiest of holidays, t we wish for everyone the season's best | Management and Staff of FAMOUS BAKERY the- manger y i May May the holidays fimd you at the height of happiness, in the hest of health... rich in friendships, Home Oil Distributors Fred Lord-Agent * Cariboo Home happiness and contentment enter your home to bring you a FROM THE STAFF AT Furnishings Ltd. 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