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A warm and friendly
Word of Cheer
For Christmas and
The Coming Year
Southern Cotton Oil Co.
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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
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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
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With Best Wishes for a
very Merry Christmas
and a New Year
full of Happy Days
Johnson-McCrackin Co.
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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
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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