December 24, 1909: County Commissioner Jose Ortiz Pino is up from Galisteo to accompany home his daughter who is a student at Loretto Academy and will spend the holidays with relatives at Galisteo. Mr. Pino says it was 20 below at Galisteo on Sunday morning.

Ex-Gov. L. Bradford Prince returned last evening from a rather strenuous trip to El Rito, Rio Arriba County, where he attended a meeting of the board of regents of the Spanish-American Normal School of which he is president.

Someone who didn't identify himself called The New Mexican today to ask if there was a 'big fire' in Santa Fe this morning. He said someone in Los Alamos had told him he saw 'a lot of smoke down this way.' When told there had been no reports of any big fire, the caller sighed and said his source of information was a 'heavy drinker, anyway.'

December 24, 1959: No one really knows exactly the origin, or even the meaning, of the Yule log. We know, however, that it is of pre-Christian origin. The ancient Druids blessed it with great ceremony to celebrate the beginning of the winter season. It was kept burning throughout the Christmas season and a part of it had to be kept to start the fire for the next year. Another custom that came to us from pre-Christian times is kissing under the mistletoe. In Norse mythology an arrow made from the mistletoe was to be used to kill the Sun God but higher powers intervened. The custom of giving a kiss of love or peace beneath the mistletoe is an assurance that it will never again be used as an instrument of evil.