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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
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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
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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.
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