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FRIDAY, XpCEMBER 25, 1942
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In the excitement of a busy holiday season,
we trust that you will stop long enough to accept
our GREETINGS OF THE SEASON. Our own
Christmas would be incomplete if we did not rake
advantage of the opportunity to wish you all the
good things we can think of. You have been con
siderate of us in the past, and we trust that we
may continue to merit your patronage in the
future.
Johnson Hagood Clary
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"SHOULD AULD
ACQUAINTANCE BE
FORGOT?”
Definitely not! When friend-
etiipe mean at much to others as they do to us, we assure you that we
want to remember them always.
Coma what may—war, unrest, uncertainty, disappointments,—.
there is one thing American people con foil buck upon without reser
vation—friends.
Christmas gives us that opportunity to renew these friendships,
to pledge anew oiir allegiance to them. May you hove every wish
come true, is our Christmas wish.
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AMERICA
WELCOMES Another year has
passed . . . Whether
CHRISTMAS it has brought you
happiness and pros
perity, or disappointment and loss, your life
should be the richer because of the experience
you have gained ... A New Year is Ahead ...
It offers every kind of opportunity. During
the coming year )ou can increase those treas
ures of life—friends, happiness, and success.
You have always had our very best wishes,
and now at the Christmas Season we want to
give expression to those wishes. May you be
very happy on this occasion.
Stokes’ Drug Store
Dr. J. Edwin Stokes
Mrs. J. Edwin Stokes
Dr. J. Miller Wessinger
Miss Katie Rushton
CHRISTMAS STORIES
REVEALED IN
HISTORY
Fortunately, the “idea” in the
minds of some to tell the truth to
the kiddies—that there isn’t a San
ta Claus—isn’t catching on as well
as they hoped.
Everybody—and this includes the
kids—enjoys a good story, especial
ly around the Christmas season.
Down through the years have come
many beautiful stories, jammed with
the kindness of the best an humanity.
It is from such stories that many of
our Christmas customs have come.
For the observance of such customs
the United States is indebted to
many lands. Palestine, Egypt, Tur
key, Italy, Germany, England and
Holland all have done their bit to
contribute to our added enjoyment of
Christmas customs and traditions.
To the Holy Land, mere than any
other, all civilization is indebted for
the matchless history of the Christ
child.
One writer who has investigated
the observance of the birth of the
Christ Child has noticed one cur-
ous fact. That is, Christmas was
not among the earliest festivals of
the church. Irenaeus and Tertullian,
early church fathers, omitted it from
the list of feasts. According to what
Origen noticed in the Bible, only sin
ners, not saints, celebrated their
birthday.
It was in the year 200 A. D. that
evidence of the feast of Christmas
was first noted. This was in Egypt.
And it wasn’t until years afterwards
that December 25 was decided upon
as being the date for the celebra
tion of Christ’s birthday. During
that time Christmas was celebrated
on various days, one of the dates be
ing as late as May 20. Eight hund
red years after the first feast of
Christmas, church authorities used
the term Christes Maessi, from
which comes the English word
Christmas. This was in 1038.
DECORATE CHRISTMAS TREE
1,300 FEET UNDER GROUND
About ten years ago, in Isbpe-
ming, Mich., timber haulers were on
their way to a mine to put up some
trussing, found a small Christmas
tree on the side of the road which
had probably fallen from a truck.
One of the men picked up the tree
and threw it on top of the timber.
At the mine the tree was sent down
1,300 feet into the mine. One of the
miners picked it up, put it on the
side of the passageway. At lunch
time some of the miners decorated
the tree with bits of paper from
their lunch kits.
“Let’s do this every year,” one
of them suggested.
Since then a small Christmas tree
is set up in that Michigan mine pas
sageway. And not only the miners,
but their guests, gather ’round the
tree at 6 a. m., exchange gifts and
indulge in small talk for about a
half hour before starting their shift.
AMERICAN SPIRIT IS NOTED
IN TOTS’ HOMEMADE TOYS
With a typical American wartime
spirit, the people of the nation have
started to manufacture many of
their own Christmas toys.
For instance, in those shops where
bits of wood are left from repair
work, such lumber remnants can be
used for the building of toys.
Smoothly sawed off pieces make fine
building blocks.
Spools and wooden cigar boxes
come in for use as toys, too. The
boxes can be made into trains, and
spools can be used as wheels for
them. Spools can even be strung to
gether for beads, or lined up for im-
mrtation trains to be drawn along
the floor by th e baby.
TREE OF THE CHRIST-CHILD
The Christmas tree has many leg
endary origins. One of these legends
has it that when St. Boniface was
converting the Germanic tribes from
their heathen worship of Thor to
Christianity, he turned their atten
tion from the fallen Thunder Oak,
under which the human sacrifices de
manded by their barbarous religion
had been made, and singled out a
young fir tree.
Here was a new symbol: a tree
dedicated to love and good deeds.
With no stain of blood upon it, its
tip pointing towards the undying
stars, it should be a sign of the new
faith: the tree of the Christ-child.
No longer was the emblem of faith
to be a thing of dread, but set up in
the halls of the ..hieftain and sur
rounding with friendship and feast
ing.
In the homes of the tribesmen, the
new tree of the Christ-Child honored
the birthday of the Saviour and
children played beneath it. It be
came the symbol of love and sim
plicity: for
“Unless ye become as little Chil
dren, ye cannot enter the Kingdom
of God.”
In America, families gather
around the Christmas tree in the
home, throughout the land commun
ity trees are lighted and the old
carols ar e sung; symbols of the
spirit of the Christ-Child — the
brotherhood of men.
Blessed are the terracemakers for
they shall be called the saviors of
the soil.
The French proverb—“No one has
a good market for bad merchandise’’
-is true of farm products as well
as_of other things for sale.
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Letters to Santa
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a baby doll, a big
tri-cycle with three wheels and an
electric train. Please Santa, bring
Ross what he wants, too. Santa, I
guess you know me. I am the little
girl you were so good to last year.
My name is Joan Elrod, route 3,
Newberry, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus,
Please bring me a pretty doll and
some pretty clothes for my doll. I
am a good little girl. I help my
mother.
Your friend,
Gloria Parks.
Dear Santa Claus,
I am a little girl eight years old.
Will you please bring me a little
piano and a little bank and some
nuts and candy and fruits.
Yours truly,
Martha Kyzer.
1400 Poplar St., Newberry, S. C.
Dear Santa,
I want you to get me a bake set.
I am ten years old. I like to read
books and a bag of fruit and a bag
of nuts and candy and I want a pair
of skates. See, I have to work for
mother. I hope you don’t get cold up
there. If you do, let me know and
you can come and see me.
With love from your friend,
Olive Jean.
Dear Santa,
I am a good little girl three years
old.
Santa, please bring me a toy re
frigerator, stove, some toy pots and
pans and a doll, candy, fruit and
nuts, and remember all the little
boys and girls everywhere. Thank
you very much, Santa. Love,
Dell Darby.
Dear Santa, ,
I am a little boy 8 years old. I
try to be very good. I am in the
second grade, and I make the honor
roll.
Please, Santa, bring me an air
rifle, some shot, a game, some candy
fruit and nuts. And please remem
ber all the boys and girls and please
remember the men in the army,
Thank you Santa, and love,
Dewey Darby.
QUOTABLES FROM NOTABLES
What Leaders Say About Agriculture
and Rural Life
“All would go hungry if farmers
made no plans till June.”—Robert
Quillen.
“In my opinion, quotas are good
business, sound in principle, and ef
fective in practice.”—-Senator John
H. Bankhead of Alabama.
“If you wish to be happy for an
hour, get intoxicated; if you wish to
he happy for eight days, kill a pig
and eat it; but if you wish to be
happy forever, become a gardener.”
—Ohinese proverb.
“Your activities in producing, pre
serving, and preparing food; in mak
ing clothing; and your other prac
tical experiences in farming and
homemaking have prepared you for
many tasks important- in peacetime
and indispensable in wartime. No
other group of rural young people
anywhere else in the world has so
much worth defending, or is better
prepared to help defend what it has.”
President F. D. Roosevelt, to 4-H
club members.
Long before Christianity came to
the Anglo-Saxons, December 24 was
called Modrenecht, or “Mother
night."
IN A CORNER OF
THE WORLD
Where the guiding light of F’eace still is the
hope of its people, we pause and look back with
pride to new friendships formed and old ones
grown stronger. And as we face the future, we
are grateful for the folks who have been our in
spiration in the past, helping us to strive toward even
greater service from year to year.
This is our pledge to maintain these efforts that we
may continue to enjoy your confidence. ^
Buddy’s Gulf Service
College Street
Phone 3
TH€ GLOWING
CANDLES • OF
CHRISTMAS....
Typify the Peace and
Contentment of Christmas
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We sincerely hope that you will receive a
large share of contentment and happiness from
the Yuletide activities. May you enjoy the as
sociations of those dear to you, and may these
associations result in the most glorious Christmas
that has ever come your way.
Newberry Lumber Co
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IT S CHRISTMAS
Let's lay aside the problems of everyday life—th« cares
and adversities that occupy our minds throughout the Other
days of the year. Let's celebrate Christmas with a full real
ization of the true meaning of the occasion. Let s be happy!
Let's be thankful!
As you enjoy the spirit of the occasion, please find a place
for our good wishes May you spend o most enjoyable season,
and moy the New Year be one of happiness and success for you
ond yours.
Scott’s Auto Supply
EARL SCOTT
C. V. MATHEWS