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WttDAY, ftfcCSMMft mi THE 9UX" PAGE FIVE A warm and friendly Word of Cheer For Christmas and The Coming Year Southern Cotton Oil Co. SfiflSUIIS GfTEETinCrS May this Christmas be one of Qladness and Happiness for you and for those most dear to you, may the dawn of the New Year bring you prosperity. Holland H. Ruff ! — —I. .. - CHRIST WISHINQ you A Jolly, Sunny, Cheery MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Lucky, Healthful and Prosperous New Year L. G. Eskridge Hardware Jolliest Christmas wishes for you and may the New Year bring you joy and happiness. Newberry Ins. & Realty Co. E. B. Purcell, Pres. Miss Maggie Thomasson, Sec-T If a wish could be measured By size or by weight This greeting of mine Would have come by freight Dodge, Plymouth and Bill Smith m k .ill. I 1! 3 7 With Best Wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a New Year full of Happy Days Johnson-McCrackin Co. cans BEST HUSHES Merry Christmas! May Christmas Joy and Peace abide With those about your fireside Pinckney N. Abrams Christmas Chrrr toHlL.1937 May the love that led the Wise Men To Bethlehem’s Open Door Make Bright your Heart And stay with you From this day evermore. W. E. Turner LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS Newberry, S. C. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a snow suit, flash light, Tom Mix book and lots or fruits and nuts. Be good to all the boys and girls this Christmas. I have been very good boy, Santa. Your little friend, Kay Moore Newberry, S. C. Dear Santa: Christmas is nearly here and I have been a very good little girl this year. I wish I was with you at the North Pole and see you in your fur clothes. Santa, I want a tea set and doll, bedroom shoes and a pair of gloves, a trunk for a doll and a piano. I think you are a very gool man and other children think the same. You was very good to me last year, so please be good to me again this year if it doesn’t take up too much of your time. Lots of love from a little six year old girl. Mozel Jackson Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa, I am a little boy in the first grade at O’Neal! School. I want some fruit and a cap pis tol, some gloves, colors and some candy. Is that too much? Your little fiend, Caroll Moore School and am in the first grade. Our house burned down so all my toys got burned to. Will you please bring me a dump truck with lights, some gloves, a cap pistol and some caps? Alsco some fruits. Thank you so much. I love you, Wayne Mmick Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy six years old. Please bring me some rubber boots so I can follow my big brother, when he goes fishinjg. I would like a truck too and some fruits and nuts. Thank you, Wayne Boozer Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, | I am a tiny little girl in the first i grade. I go to UTIeall School. My little sister, Helen Ruth, does to. She is smaller than I am but she can read ’most as well as I. I want a doll and a bed, some nuts and fruits. And I almost forgot. I want some warm gloves, too. Thank you Santa dear. Love, Elizabeth White Prosperity, S. C. Dec. 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, Please bring me a tractor and a truck and anything else you may think I would like for Christmas. I have been a good boy. Don’t for get the other little boys. Your little friend, Lewis Block Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy. I go to O’Neal! Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa, I am a little boy six years old and go to O’Neall school. I like to study so please bring me a bicycle, some crayons and thank you. Love, David Bowers Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl in the first grade. I like to go to school. I can answer second grade lessons sometimes. Will you please bring/ me a stick of candy, some colors, and a doll? Thank you. Your little friend, Helen Parrott C. Newberry, S Dear Santa Claus; I am a little girl five years old. Please bring me a baby doll, trycle, tea set, a little elctric iron, snow suit, and lots of fruits and nuts. Be Sure and remember all the other little children'. Your little friend Fern Lewis 1904 Milligan street. Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa, My name is Sonny but my teacher calls me Samuel. I am in the first grade at O’Neall school. Do you want to know what I want for Christmas? A wagon, a cap pis tol, some fireworks and that’s all. Thank you. I love you, Samuel Bowers IS THERE A SANTA CLAUUS? Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down. The most widely read editorial what would that prove? Nobody sees ever written appeared 36 years ago Santa Claus, but that is no sign that in the New York Sun, has been re printed by the Sun annually at Christmas time ever since, and is quoted in a score of langruages the world over. This world-famous “Santa Claus editorial,” printed be low, was an answer to the following letter: Dear Editor: I am eigt years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth. —Virginia O'Hanlon “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehertsible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect in intellect, as com pared with the boundless world a- bout him, as measured by the in telligence capable of grasping the whole of truth. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were v no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existencp. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal liriit. with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not to believe in a Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chim neys on Christmas Eve to catch there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. You tear apart a baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push a- side that curtain and view the super nal beauty beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, aud lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. VICTIMS OF SUBMARINE REMEMBERED IN SERVICE Memorial services were held Thurs day, December 16th, at Province- town, Mass., when a simple wooden cross was dedicated to the memory of the 40 officers and sailors who lost their lives in the submarine S—4, ten years ago on that date. Among those who were killed or died later of suffocation on the ram med submarine was Buster Harris of Newberry. The submarine was rammed by the coast guard cutter Paulding and sent to the bottom. For over 72 hours feeble taps could be heard from the stricken ship by those attempting rescue but it was not until two years later that the S—4 was raised and she is afloat today. For all JOB PRINTING and OFFICE SUPPLIES—Gome to the office of THE SUN —or—PHONE ONE. HAPPY HOUR CLUB MEETS TAKES LARGE STILL Officers Seize 5000 Gallons Mash Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy in the second grade at O’Neall school I want a cap pistol and five boxes of caps. I want an air rifle too. Also some stick candy. v Thank you. Love, Berley Wessinger l . Prosperity, S. C. December 17, 1937 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy six years old and am in the second grade at school. I am a clown in our Christina operetta. Will you please bring me a wagon, a cap pistol and caps, some candy and fireworks. Thank you sir. Your little friend, Derieux Long UNION SENATOR WANTS EXEMPTION FOR HOMES Senator J. Boyd Lancaster of Un ion has announced that he will intro duce in the coming session of the le gislature a bill to exempt homesteads from taxation to the extent ’ of $500. “I feel," said the Union Sena tor “that a man’s fireside should not be taxed; and believe that if this bill should become a law it would en courage home building in South Caro lina.” The Happy Hour club spent a de lightful afternoon Wednesday at the home of Mrs. J. D. Hamm, with Mrs. L. C. Fellers and Mrs. Hamm as joint hostessses. The hall and living room were at tractively decorated with holly, red candles burning in silver candle sticks and beautiful lighted Christmas tree. As the guests arrived each was as signed a table from which “42” was enjoyed for four progressions. Mrs. R. H. Miller and Miss Lillian Grace Ruff won honors for the afternoon. The hostesses served a delicious sweet course consisting of Ambrosia, served in orange peels artistically cut to serve as saucers, fruit cake dates and beach coffee. The largest steamer still ever to be seized in the county in the past several years was taken Saturday afternoon in the New Hope Zion sec tion by Sheriff Tom Fellers assisted by Deputies Hub Quattlebaum and J. C. Neel, Magistrate W. B. Hatton, ond Constable Ron Koon. The officers found 5000 gallons of mash and from 270 to 300 gallons of whiskey. Twenty-four casas of empty fruit jars were also discovered. We pause at this time to express our appreciation for the fine consideration the people of this section has extended this bank. It has been a pleasure to serve you throughout the past year and we look to the New Year with confidence and a determina tion to serve you in a manner to merit your continued support and confidence. We extend to each of you out very best wishes and hope that all your cherished desires will be fulfilled in the year just ahead. THE SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK