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■ ■ \ ■ t !/■ I- ' / L > / : 1 . i J -^X-’r ' ' THECHRONICLB Stritcs T« Jte N«fri- f«pcr. Complete, Newsj, , t eeA Hclfehlti. •/ . ■■ ::V i ■ If Toe l>OB*t Road THR^CEiiONICIliB Toe Doat Got The News. VOLUME XXXV •\ CLINTON, S; C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12,1935 NUMBER 50 All The Vlforld Loves The Character of Santa Claus SAINT NICK TO' ARRIVE SOON His Coming Each Year An Event of Interest To Millions Everywhere. Clinton Stores ^ Are Filled With Wares That TeU of His Early Approach Miss Lola Boyce Beloved Young \^^Gpan Suc cumbs To Year*s lllii^. Fun eral Sunday Afternom. Miss Lola Boyce, one of Cros^E*^^’® )mOst boloved woanen, died at \her To Spread Joy and Happiness, ibonie last Friday afternoon, after an a decade ago, and here yre are start ing all over again. America will never be tjrrough; it always will be starting all over again —as long as 99 out of 100 women are unsatisfied. Your Beat Yeai^'. . . It may interest you to know at what age you are likely to be at "the five marks the creative peak for' most people. Chemists, do' their .outstand ing Work between twenty-seven and thirty-nine; mathematicians between twenty-eight and thirty-eight; phy sicists between thirty and thirty-four. Inventors strike “twelve at thirty- five, while poetjuachieve their loftiest flights in the brief “breathing spell” nignt befw’t Christmas will soon with the happy event will come Santa | Claus with his load of treasures: In! preparation for this day of days. I many local merchants stores have laid in a supply of delightful and appro- illness of a year. She was thirty-onb be here andl^®®" priate,things that are now being daily i , viewed in the windows by the little ,X j- ,1 , 1 ■ 1 * her to folks who are all excited and wonder ing what Old Santa Claus_w’’*^ leave in their stockings. No ether Christma? symbol ha.s such a hold oh’the y-outh of the world as the character of Santa »Jlau.>i. Probably he originated in Holland and wa.s iransplante<l -to this country by the early Dutch settlers. As» St. Nicholas he is the patron .saint of the children, a portly, jovial person who has found his way into the hearts of the little folks and is cherished lov ingly by them. According to a pop ular myth he is suppo.sed to sweep down from the North Pole dri\;r.g his .sleigh, laden with gilts for good chil dren, to which is hitched reindeer. The pictutp of our modern .Santa C’lai s is i»ro!..iL'ly described in most puiui <-.'que faob o by Cle . -nt Stark Moore’s familiar poem: “He was dressed in fur from head ^ X to foot, • IK And his clothes wei'e all tarnished with ashes and soot*’ Even* the reindeer were named in this ppoular tale of Christmas eve night: \ “Now Dasher, now Dancer, 16, 1904. Miss Boyce was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. She was the only daughter of the late R. A. Boyce, and Bessie Owens Boyce. She spent her life in Cross Hill and her refined personality endeared all who know her. Tuneral services w’ere conducted Sunday afternoon at Liberty Springs church at 3 o’clock, by her pastor. Rev. F. T. McGill and Rev. Jj. -H. Byrd. Interment was in the church cemetery. Besides her naother, Mrs. R. A. Boyce, three ^brothers survive: Mar ion Boyce, Charleston; Martin Boyce, Columbia; and Harvey Boyce, Cross Hill. top of "your efficiency a.s m^sured by the quality of your ’work. Ac-1 cording to Professor Harvey C. Leh-j slowness may be due to the vast dis- man of Ohio State University, thirty-jtances they ai-e compelled to cover. i It takes astronomers'somew'hat long er to get along, but their *apparent I am considerably beyond the dead line of thirty-five, and nothing has been produced so far that seems likely to *rank jrith Mr. Shakespeare’s Hamlet or the brief remarks of| Mr. Lincoln at Gettysburg. This is a sad thought. * On the other hand, if you keep your mind active you can have quite a lot een twenty-two and jtwenty-five.--of fun with it even after it has begun to cool off. Goethe finished his Faust only a few years before his death at eighty-three; Gladstone took up the study of a new language when he was* well past seventy, and Van derbilt increased the mileage of hi.s railroads from 120 to more than 10,- 000 between his seventieth birthday and his death at eighty-three. These tough old codgers may have • been bn the down grade but they kept going, and I take courage from their example. Every njght I give thanks that I still have the desire to work, even though it is now more than ten years, according to the Pro fessor’s figures, since I began to crack. P. C. Debaters Respond To Call Prof. H. T. Swedenberg, director of debating activities at Presbyterian college, has issued a call for deba|ters in anticipation of the coming session. The following debaters i-esponded: M. Wilson, of Brooklyn, N. ^ Y.; E. Stanton, Florence; IL W. Gal- vert, Columbia; Charles Steenbetjf- en. Point Pleasant W. Va.; and Colin Hudson, Greenville. These men are all veteran speakers who, under the direetton of Professor Swedenberg, '’“''^'anticipate a successful year Prancer and Vixen! ; jj, Wilson is the outstanding On Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and (U-bater of the group. In two years of varsity debating he has not lost a single contest. He has among his victories successes over ■Blitzen!” _ The/idea of having- .Santa Claus come down the chimney may he ex plained by an old English custom, “was supposed to bring goo<l luck Furman^ sweep the chimney at that time. In ^^jWinthrop, W’offord, Erskine, .Mercer ^“'and .Southwestern. In recognition of he •-(his unusual debating talent, he was St. Nichola.s is ^ajle<l Bon- year awarded—the., faculty .gold , homme Noel, or Pere Noel, meaning ‘I’ the, first time such a distinction ' - Good Noel or Father Noel. In Ger-,^yj.p went outside the senior class, j, many the name is Kristkindlein or ._jbe team will make two extensive!; Kris Kringle. . “ , , trips, one into the Virginias and ! '-Not only are older persons sccur- j^'^rth Carolina and one into Georgia P ing pretty things for the .children, but land Florida as well as meeting all;! the-Christmas shopping has' begun ^be state teams. _ ' in earnest, and stores are crowded, The question used by the dehatinjfl! teams this year will concern "ttre pjow’* ei\of the supreme court. with persons hurrying here and there in order to secure presents for their families and friends. It, seems prob able that the dlistom of exchanging the desire to follow the example of presents at Christmas time came from the unselfishness of Christ. It is said, however, th^t .^he pagans exchanged gifts at their winter festivals. There was a custom which may be respon sible for modernN Christmas giving. It was known as the Priest’s box. BRUCE BARTON SAYS... Things Women-Want . . . ■ A woman’s ifiagazine recently com-1 pilpd a study of the leisure time and Among the Romans it was customary/interests of some four -thousand for a priest to put a box on all optT- readers. In reply to the question; going boas in which money had^ been “What is your favorite ^evening at placed. Tfhe box was sealed b^brc the home’ entertainment?’’ 71 per cent boat set out to sea. Whew the boat answered reading, 21 per cent sewing returned, the box was/^kept, until »nd 18 per cent radio, \lour out of 'Christm^“WlWh it was opened and (five of th<* women voted\in the last the contents’’distribut^I among the Pleetiqn; thrW* out of five^ make their poor. .Later tl>e Priest’s box was own clothes or hats; nearly three- knoMv-n as the Christmas box and'quartws of them have automobiles. ■ < ► tTibse who^liad not placed anything in Only one in nine has a savant. | it came forward and offered gifts. I Asked: “What would you like to do People sometimes think . that the most ? ’ -^more thaw -half -an.sw’ered, Jrtie significance of Christmas day is “to travel.’’ One woman^ouGof four-! overshadoweil by the stress placet! on teen expressed the desire to go intbj the buying of Chri.«tmas gifts. This,-business. Ami 48 women out of'the, however, is not' a late development.*-neariy 4,000 said they were perfectly i The custom Germany were that so” fond of this satosfied. it became .an obligation The italics are my own, an’d are in- and cases were known where men ac- tended to point the text for today’s tusilly left the couatry at this season j homily. About one American woman in order to escape gift giving. ■+’rom i in a hundred, acedrding to this inter- Germany the cu.stom spread over Eu- esting survey, has everything she rope and to America, uhtil today we | wants. 'Hie other ninety and nine are drifting into the habit much as!are nothing but alluring bundles of the Germans did. Masons Elect - - New Officers look at the financial Campbell Lodge No. 44, A. F.;. M., of this city has elected the following officers to serve for the incoming year: J. D. Boland, W. M.; O. H. Sheely, J. W.; D. "W. DuBois, J. W.; F. M. Bo land, Treas.; V. P. Adair, Secty.; J. M. Livingston, S. O.; Dr. Felder Smith, J. D.; J. M. Fulmer, J. J. Clark, Stewards.; L. T. Ramage, Ty ler. STNGB^ TO aIeET T|)e South lAurens Singing Con vention will meet Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Langston church. All singers and the public are cotv dially invited to attend. I^spective purchases and unfulfilled desires. When you pages of the newspapers you see charts of car-loadings, electric out put, bank deposits, and so forth. You never see a chart marked, “Things American Women Want and Won’t Be Satisfied Until They Get.” Yet such a chart would be more important than all the others combined; it would ibf the chart which would show what makes the wheels' go round. Ten years ago oun family remodel led a house; we put into it every im provement, coftifort, and convenience- gadget we could discover. Now, we are in process of remodeling another house. ^I have been amazed by the jnunvber of new tricks that have ?ome along in the intervening ten years-^ air-conrditioning, radios in the bed rooms, better plumbing fixtures, bet ter lijlbiting, better / floor coverings, and so fortik We thought we were through as bofne-building customers 13 Just In Time For Your Christmas Shopping This Is Saving News For You. A Big Store Loaded With Bargains for This Sale. ” BUY YOUR NEEDS NOW! Here*8 your opportunity to buy lovely Dresses at bix savinxs. All colors and sizes, plain and novelty designs. They must ro now. Every xarment reduced. $6.95 DRESSES ^^ $3.95 DRESSES reduced to...... TnVs reduced to $5.95 DRESSES Jla $2.95 DRESSES^49 mg^ reduced^to reduced to .... ^ $1195 COATS, reduced to ............... $9.95 COATS and SWAGGER SUITS, reduced to $7.69 $7.49 COATS and SWAGGER SUITS, reduced to $5.95 / - Read Every Item and Save Money $1.69 Ladies' and Misses' Dress Oxfords -and Pumps, $1.9K, reduced to - Ludies' and Misses heavy School black and brown, rcRular $1.98, reduced to Oxford.s, $1.83 All I-.adies Dress Ties and Pumps, $2,95, reduced to $249 IV^en's Oxfords, black and tan, $2.95, reduced to Men's $1.98, Dress Oxfords, reduced to all sizes. ('hildren'.s' Shoes and Oxfords, $1.98, reduced to X .l*adies' and Mis.ses’ fast Dresses, all sizes, 98c, - reduced to color f'rini 87’ All sizes 'and colors in Children's Ankle Socka, rexular 25c and IC® * 19c, reduced to Iv L^ies* Twin Sweater Sets, all sizes and colors, rexular $2.95, reduced to . Ladies' Twin Sweater Sets, $1.98, reduced to $2.69 $1.69 Children’s Stockinxs. all .sizes, . rexuhir 25c, i^uced ta 15’ All Sweaters reduced. Men's, I-Adtes’ a^d Children's sizes— $2.95, reduced to , $2.69 $1.98, reduced to r..... $1.69 98c, reduced to : 83c I Reduced $l6.9.'LSutts, redu'(ded to $14.95 Suits, reduced to . $1295 $11.95 Suits, reduced to $9.95 - Rayon Knit Pajamas, ideal ^ xifta. rexular 98c, reduced to 79’ All-wool Flannel Skirts, $1.98, reduced to $1.69 l*adies’ and Children's Cotton Jersey'Bioouters, 19c, now .. 15* tiloofl as.sortment ol^ Curtain MatVriula, 10c, reduced to . . 5’ AlUlress S4Jitinxs in plaids and fancy- ^atterns— • 3.5c yarn!’, r^pced to ‘25c 2.5c yard, reduced to .. 19c Good^Beavy Outinx, reduced to 9’ Outing in extra heavy xrade 1.5c, reduced to, yard 12V2' Men’s Overalls, xood heavy denim, all sizes, reduced to. 69: Children's Angle Socks, all sizes and coloi^s, reduced to, pair 8’ Children's Shoes and Ox fords, $1.49, reduced to $1.29 THE BIG CHRISTMAS STORE FILLED WITH VALUES FOR THIS SALE ‘The Home of Better Valuea” Clinton, S. C. \ '-.X \- v '-.-J' \ * .5 .dd