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Show Ben Lomond Beacon Page 4 holiday tales recounted Old-tim- e "Christmas gift." "Christmas gift! In the early days in Utah, the Yuletide custom of OGDEN - children was much like a Halloween "trick or treat," and as they said Christmas gift to other members of the family, friends or neighbors, the one who called ' "Christmas first, gift received a piece of homeor made molasses, hard-tacstick candy. Christmas day in Weber k countys pioneer towns usually was spent in homes with the mothers preparing dinner. Often the Sunday School gave a dance for the children in the afternoon, and another dance in the evening for grown-upChristm as ca me for Pioneers in little cabins made of logs Christmas came in those early days to little cabins made of logs with two rooms, 1, kitchen and dining room, 2, parlor and bedroom. In the center of the first room was a Thursday, December 2, 1976 huge fireplace which served and both for heating cookstove, and also furnished light at night. Furniture included a cupboard that looked like a packing box, and a table, wash bench and some stools. In the corners of beds the parlor were built-imade of ropes or bows and blankets, and boxes served as e dressers to hold calico skirts and buckskin outfits. Church records show that Christmas Day in 1848 was mild in Ogden and Salt Lake where Mormon Ctiy President Brigham Young invited scores to celebrate with singing and dancing. Files show that molasses from the sugar cane was made into candies for the children, and some children enjoyed candy canes of honey taffy. Cookies were made of sweetened dough and cut into all sorts of animal shapes and little gingerbread men with dried currant eyes. Some children also enjoyed fluffy n old-tim- popcorn balls. Several serenaders struments happiness companies with brass inadded to the of Christmas. Many of the early day cabins had Christmas trees in the jolly old Santa even found his way to call on the pioneer children with rag dolls and worsted stitched balls made from old stocking ravelings. Visiting was the chief amusement of the day and fiddlers led the music for the singers and dancers. OGDENS FIRST XMAS DESCRIBED BY TRAPPER Osborne Russell, trapper, tells of Ogdens it was agreed by the party to prepare a Christmas dinner, but I shall first endeavor to describe the party and then the dinner. The inmates of the next lodge to ours were a halfbreed Iowa, a Nez .perce wife and two children, his wifes brother and another halfbreed; next lodge was a halfbreed Cree, his wife (a Nez Perce) and two children and a Sanek Indian. The inmates of the third lodge was a halfbreed Snake (a Nez Perce) and two children. The reaminder were five lodges of Snake Indians. "About 10 oclock we sat down to dinner in the lodge where I stayed, which was most spacious, being about 36 feet in circumference at the base, with a fire built in the center. Around this sat on 1840, of first on December 25, 1840. An entry in the journal of this Frenchman, tells how Christmas he and his Flathead Indian wife and child, plus several families of halfbreed Indians and 15 lodges of Snake Indians participated in a Yuletide feast on the banks of the Weber river, where Ogden now stands. His entry reads: "Dec. 25, . clean blankets with legs crossed in true Turkish style, and now for the dinner. First Christmas dinner made of stewed elk meat Fnee$&i Stock Up! Fine Fu$en 0 Tater Treats Strawberries Bel air Potatoes ir Jfta feast, shared, and neighbors were invited to partake. "There was no selfishness, no envy, no bigotry. People STREET candle (upper left) on the old Central Building, and a giant lighted star with four (center) of streamers gay colored globes, and on the right had a huge Christmas green-globe- did not hold themselves aloof from others. There was social equality, and a regard for one another that was sincere. Children did not have every whim satisfied; they were pleased with any little d tree the on First Security Bank building. Notice the double set of street the car tracks and those old and plaything, seen among time automobiles. The dissatisfaction the young people today was Central Building was absent from the home and was razed to make way for school. There manifested a joy of living, Grant's store, and later and when they prayed they ZCMI used this site felt Gods watchful care, Photo courtesy of Glen when they worked they of His Perrins. 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The next Dinner being over, the dish was similar to the first, tobacco pipes were filled and heaped up with boiled deer lighted, while the squaws and meat. The third and fourth children cleared away the dishes were equal to the remains of the feast to one first, containing flout pud- side of the lodge, where they ding, prepared with dried held a sociable over fruit, accompanied by four the fragments. quarts of sauce made of the After the pipes were exjuice of sour berries and tinguished all agreed to have sugar. a frolic shooting at a mark, "Then came the cakes, which the occupied followed by about six gallons reaminder of the day. Thus of strong coffee ready ended Ogdens first Christsweetened, with tin cups and mas. pans to drink out of, large Of early Utah Christmases, In those chips or pieces of bark educator wrote: of supplying the places e days the children plates. were taught to appreciate On being ready, the any little gift. There was no butcher knives were drawn store full of toys as we have and the eating commenced at them today. The gift was the word given by the lanalways an expression of the dlady. As all dinners are ac- great love of the giver. Children would hang up companied by conversation, this was not deficient in that their stockings and get an respect. The principal topic apple or may be some candy which was discussed was the in it. Sometimes a man gave Canned Spaghetti House Refried Beans Town For a Change PRICES sarr mer o pric Pace EFFECTIVE will TODAY pric Jumbo Reprints each! &)C YRIGHT 1! i |