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9 ■ ri THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, SfC. VfiT <■■ -W > M »l ^ l»j 1 Wl'^R ■ -•*<, *»», ui»u.u^ u. ■** . . ,*. , ‘tKa i-r, <•—* >m»r^w^>aaa3Kjilr»^|fe5i| ■- v, • • \ • ' •' ,. PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING CO. * «• WILSON W. HARRIS ' Editor and Publisher^ Entered ait the Clinton Poat Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year - .... ....$1J>0 Six months ....' 75 Three months . v . — —I .50 Payable in advance * A THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Make all remittances W „ THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. ' ' CLINTON, S. DEC. 16, 1626 16 PAGES TODAY’S PAPER - Following our established custom^ we are today presenting 6ur annual Christmas edition of The Chronicle. It has required lots of hard work, and heavy expense to produce this pa<per, and we hope the efforts of o^r force will be appreciated by our big fam ily of readers. We call your atten tion, with due modesty, to this issue and the many special, attractive and unusual features it contains. There is a, large and varied assort ment of Christmas material consist ing of holiday stories, verses, illus trations, etc., that will appeal to old folks, middle-aged folks and little folks. These articles are of beauti ful thought and sentiment, and are peculiarly appropriate for such an edition. Its news columns contain the general world news of the week, state, county and city activities, the going and coming of Clinton folks, society happenings of the week, and helpful ideas and hints to busy house wives just on the eve of the Christ mas season. Its editorial columns carry Christmas thought and senti ment. In short, today’s issue is a real honest-to-goodness Christmas pa per, an accomplishment out of the ordinary for a paper in a town this size, especially when depressed busi ness conditions exist. Its advertising columns contain in teresting and helpful “store news” from the leading business houses of Die city and county. These advertise ments are carried by the merchants as an investment that will bring pay ing results for the holiday trade. In this day of keen competition, the mer chant who advertises is the one that is most wide awake to your needs, the one best prepared to serve you, and the public doesn’t need to be told this truth. We call your attention to the attractiveness of the advertise ments, their Christmas borders, illus trations and suggestions, the excel lent advertising cot service we place free at the disposal of our merchants, and the clear-cut, attractive mechan ical appearance o f the advertise ments. All of this is a part of the service we are rendering our adver tisers—a service that is unsurpassed by any weekly paper in the state. For these advertisements, we bespeak a most cr, eful consideration at the hands of our readers. They will solve your perplexing problem, “What to Give and Where to Shop”. Clinton is Giftland and it will pay you to trade here. All in all, today’s issue is a real Christmas paper, an effort that could not have been possible except by the co-operation of our advertisers and the faithful and untiring efforts of our own force. We hope this Christmas edition will be enjoyed by all our readers. A HAPPY CHRISTB|)t&^& ALL! As our Christmas greeting to our readers and all other friends, The Chronicle adopts and passes on the beautiful message for tibia season sent out last year to his friends by Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, Texas, who is so well and admiringly'known in the Baptist denomination: \-' “My Friend: “This is sent you, at this recurrent Christmas and Nei| Year Season, to voice again for you and yours, the old-time greeting of friendliness and good will. One swift-passing, earthly life is made roseate by its friendships. No other human treasons can countervail one’s friends. “May this joyful season be the occasion for our most grateful reminiscence, and for our renewed devotion to home and friends and alt the higher claims of life. Let us turn away from the Babel of contentious vqices, to catch again the mcsjMgt of. the angel-choir: •Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth Peace,^Good Will Toward Men’; and let us henceforth seek, with unremitting devotiop, to make this message the universal anthem of mankind. “Since the greatest things are always the summation of the smallest, let us individually and ever strive to enthrone the law of kindness in (he home, courtesy in society, honesty in business, fair ness in work, pity toward the unfortunate, help toward the weak, resistance toward unrighteousness, forgiveness toward the penitent, congratulation toward the fortunate, and reverent love toward God. “As we pause for a monment at this Golden Season, before pasting to the days and duties ahead, let us be highly resolved to forget all that we should not remember, and to remember all that we should not forget. May our coming days be crowned with a finer insight, a saner judgement, a more thoughtful considerate ness, a more pas sionate sincerity, a more granite loyalty,* a more practical serviceable ness. May we know how to meet disappointment without resentment, and to be tolerant without being arrogant or unfaithful, remembering that clear thinking is atrophied by bitterness and intolerance and prejudice. “Let us labor unceasingly to bring all the happiness we can to others, and to bring them no unhappiness, foreseeing that, when we come to life's last earthly hour, it will not be our kindness or patience or benevolence that we shall regret, but our harshness and neglect and unfaith. Likewise, may we know that we do not have to be our rich, or high-placed, or powerful, to be happy and to make others happy, but the secret is in persistent words and deeds of invincible good will; and that it is a paradox of life that by hoarding love and happiness and any and every talent, we lose them, and that only by giving them away can we keep them for ourselves. “In a world torn bV lacerating words and unseemly strifes, let us dedicate ourselves, with whole-hearted and unresting toil, to the task of creating and spreading the spirit of fraternal righteousness and constructive helpfulness, knowing that vicarious love can heal all wounds and bring all people into the glad acknowledgement of brotherhood, and into the mutal service which this acknowledgement implies. “Whether our unfinished journey shall be among dangerous rocks, or in the calm of the open sea, may we gladly choose that He Who came to giVfe us the more abundant life shall decide for us how much of prosperity and happiness we may safely have; and, if He must chaaen us, may He graciously remember how little we can bear alone. May we be utterly unwilling to fortify ourselves with fleeting hap piness, and miss the enduring joys. May we wisely discern that the supreme disaster is to sacrifice the things that endure for the things that perish. May the vision and power of the world eternal attend all the problems and duties of our world temporal. “As we sometimes peer thru the Westward Windows, and think of our passage thru the Sunset Gate, let ns unfearingly trust our selves to Him Who guides the birds j^n their long and uncharted migrations, and Whose purpose in coming to earth, in the long ago, was to be the Way and Truth and Life and Light and Love for our needy world. Thus following Him, we shall arrive, at the Morning Gate, in His good time, to live forever with Him, and with all who are willing to be His friends.” To this The Chronicle can add nothing save the heartfelt wish that all- our readers and other friends may have the happiest of Christmases. ■ City Schools Close Tomorrow The city schools close tomorrow for the regular Christmas holidays and the teachers ore expected to leave for their respective homes for the Yule- tide season. The schools will re-open on Jan. 3rd. *' THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT For Him American Boy, Collier’s Weekly, Sat urday Evening Poat. Far Her Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion. For the Boy or Girl Youths Companion, American Boy. For the CUM Child Life, Little Folks, etc. JAS. W. CALDWELL The Magazine Man CaU 243 at 12:36 RADIATOR ALCOHOL $1.00 per gallon Save Your Radiator f-’ Season • • •• • • ' v ' ROASTS, HAMS, BEEF, OYSTERS, DRESSED TROUT, TENDER, FULL- FLAVORED CUTS THAT WILL MAKE EXCELLENT ROASTS. ^ i: SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION FkMM 377 A 4M Phones 377 * 400 JOIFTS that last J. B. FRONTS JEWELER CLINTON, ft. C. LIFT THE PHONE—WE DELIVER LITTLE S DENSON 5®—Two Phones—54 Clinton, S. C. DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS VIODERN SERVICE SPECIALISTS Ejaa Examined >: Glasses Fitted 15 West Main Street * Phene 10) CLINTON. S. C. Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service CARA NOME Toilet requisites at SMITHS PHARMACY ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DEUVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400 H. D. HENRY F. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company insurance STOCKS • BONDS - REAL ESTATE • « • 7 , . I 1 *• - LOANS NEGOTIATED NEWSPAPER ERRORS The possibility of errors creeping into the column of a newspaper is set forth in a humorous but none the less true manner in the following state ment by Osman C. Harper of the De partment of Ohio State university: In a column of type there are ap proximately 2,060 chances to mak * a mistake. AdB how many words are there in which the. transposition of two letters will make a difference in the meaning. Take the words “mari tal” and “martial.” A husband and wife would no doubt be pleased to have the editor compliment them on their many years of “marital life,” but they would certainly resent it if the type made him speak of their ‘•mar tial life.” Salvia is a beautiful red flower, but saliva is a very different thing. So V’ben the reporter, in an account of a wedding, was made by the type to say that the chancel rail was buried in a mass of chrysanthemums and “sali va,” there were expressions of disgust and .anger on the part of the bride’s mother. ^ „ In an account of a reception where th{ decorations were pink roses, the reporter tried to say so, but in print the statement was that the roses were i.” Iif the next issue there was an effort to correct that hidierous state ment, bat the type again balked, and &e senders qere informed that at the inception the “noses were pink.” THE FIRST CHRISTMAS Over nineteen hundred years ago there lived in the little town of Naz areth, a humble carpenter and his wife, Mary. At this time the ruler of the Roman empire, Augustus Caesar, re quired all persons to pay taxes for the upkeep of the kingdom. Joseph was a descendant of King David. Although he was living in Galilee, the law required him to go Lo Bethlehem in Judea and pay his taxes. When it was time to pay the tribute, Joseph took Mary with him on the journey to Bethlehem. It was a tiresome journey. They were very weary when they reached the little town. Joseph went to the hotel to get a room where they could rest. But poor Joseph was disappointed, for so many other people had come to the little town that day the rooms were all taken. No doubt Joseph and Mary felt lonely and discouraged as night came on. At laat they went to a stable to find a .place to sleep. Here in a manger the Saviour of the world was born. This was a very lowly place indeed for the Prince of Peace to be born.. Prophets had been foretelling his coming for many years. People were expecting him to come, but in some very grand way. Some thought he would make the kings leave their thrones and himself be the ruler. But he came a$ a sweet, dear little babe. Now you wonder how the people heard of his birth, in those long, long ago days when there were no telephones or telegraphs*? Perhaps, you think so important news as this would be announced publicly by the highest officials or the richest people in town and a holiday declared. But not so. The first news of his birth was told to people engaged in a very" humble and lowly work. It must have been a beautiful warm night. Far out on the hills of 00 Judea the shepherds were bearding their sheep. No doubt they were talking together about the big crowd in Bethlehem that evening. Suddenly there appeared in. the sky a bright light. The shepherds were afraid. An angel spoke to them and said, “Be not afraid; I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.” Then he told them that Jesua had been bom iti Bethlehem; that they would find him, a babe, w(ppped in swad- ling clothes lying in a manger with his mother Mary. Suddenly there appeared with the angel a host of o4i6r angels singing “Glory to God in the h : ghest and on earth peace, good will toymen.” After the angels were gone the shepherds talked over the wondrous i news. Then they hurried away to Bethlehem to see if it was true. Sure I enough, there were Mary and Joseph and the little babe, Jesus. They then went out to tell others. God also told the news of his gift to the world by placing a new star in the sky. The wise men saw it and followed ita shining rays until 1 they too, found the “Babe of Bethlehem.” These wise men worshipped! him and gave him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. This was the first Christmas. Good Things For Christmas Throughout the entire year we have strived to sup ply our patrons with the best of everything to eal; ’V _ ’ and at this Christmas season we have put forth our best efforts to be in readiness to supply your every need with good things for the Christmas table and fruits, nuts, etc., for the Christmas stocking. r\ FRUIT CAKES: Clinton Maid Virginia Dare Southern /National Sunshine Nuts Fruits Candies CROSS HILL ITEMS OF INTEREST Mr. J. H. Rasor and Mr. C. D. Nance are on a deer hunt near Charleston. Misses Josie and Helen Griffin, Mrs. Broadus Pinson and little sons spent ' the peek-end with relatives in Augus ta. Little Julia and Mary Ellen Miller of Whitmire, spent seceral days with Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Martin last week. | Mr. Jim Crisp had the misfortune to lose three of his four mplea laat week, they being poisoned from eating smut diseased corn. V Mr. S. A. Leam%n and Charles Hen ry Leaman spent Sunday in Augusta. Mre. J. L. Miller of Whitmire spent Wednesday in the city with relatives. Mrs. S. A. Leaman. returned from Augusta on Sunday, after spending a week with relatives. Mr. R. A. Austin is doing nicely after being in an automobile wreck, his face being badly bruised. Miss Bessie McDonald of Atlanta is visiting her mother, Mrs. S. L. Crisp. Mias Alma Coleman was home for the week-end. Mr. J. A. Guthrie visited relatives in Atlanta last week. Mr. J. H. Nance ia in Columbia this week on business. Mr. J. E. Leaman and Mr. J. L. Carter were recent business visitors in Newberry. : Mr. Fmnk Miller visited in the city on Sunday. Plum Puddings Fig Puddings Fruit Salad Ask to see “Our Special,” a dandy gift for your moth er, grandmother, or aunt Stuffed Apricots Stuffed Figs Stuffed Prunes Layer Figs - Raisins ' (all in 1-lb. pkgs.) 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