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Show Let's Go Back By Phyllis YVittaker The following are excerpts from the files of the Beaver County News and its predecessors. pre-decessors. FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 22, 1916 Charge of The Skirt Brigade Half an inch, half an inch, Half an inch shorter! Whether the skirts are for Mother or daughter! Briefer the dresses grow, Fuller the ripples flow, While whisking glimpses show More than they oughter! Forward the dress parade! Is there a man dismayed? No! from the sight displayed None could be sundereed. There's not a make remark; Clergyman, clubman, clerk -Gaping from noon till dark At the four hundred. a larger place than the holy event which the day commemorate:. commem-orate:. The sending of Christmas gifts may be traced back to ancient Rome. This custom is by no means universal, however, how-ever, and is almost unknown in the Holy Land and among Asiatic Christians generally. Children of the Orient have no Santa Clauis. FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Derember 24, 1926 Elbert Reese suffered a broken brok-en wrist in Wednesday njght's basketball game played in Milford Mil-ford gym, between the local team and the school team from Panaca, Nev. At the same time the Milford boys suffered a heart-breaking defeat, the score being 28 to 45 in favor of the visitors. The wedding of Miss Albea-na Albea-na Edwards, daughter of Nephi Edwards and Leonard Muir, was solemnized Monday evening eve-ning at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Otto Melcher, in the presence of relatives and close friends. The Freshmen gave their program pro-gram Friday. The program was as follows: Reading, Mildred Nichols; song, "Blue Bonnet," in costume, Mabel Bradfield; jokes, Fern Jennings; one-act-play, cast, Clark Kesler, Clyde Tanner Mable Bradfield and Stanley Voorhee. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 24, 1936 Although the birth of Christ is the event which is supposed to be celebrated on Christmas, we are more and more inclined as a recent writer suggests, to celebrate Santa Claus on December De-cember 25th. Certainly in the minds of most persons the giving giv-ing and receiving of gifts holds |