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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 THE NEWBERRY SUN “MAKE IT DO” Scottish Parson Proves Equal To Occasion The following letter was received recently by Mrs. Mae Aull from her son, Sgt. Luther Aull, who has been stationed in England nearly two years: “Dear Mrsi A.— “This should have been written last night, I suppose, what with it being Thanksgiving Day, and all, and I intended writing some letters then. But when I went up to sup per, and after eating went into the tent to dry my mess gear and put it up for the next day, I found two of the other fellows with whom: I share the tent, busily building a frame to prop the tent up. It was about to fail down, or at least it gave the appearance by its looks, particularly the entrance, which has a very decided sag. I didn’t feel like running off and leaving all the work to them alone, so I stayed around to help. We built a frame to prop up the front end and straighten the door, then straightened the stakes and replaced some, so when I finished that it was after nine o’clock. And after a couple of un successful games of solitaire and Idiot's Delight, I went to bed with out having written a single letter. “Speaking of Thanksgiving re minds me of a story that the preach er told at church Sunday morning. It seems that' a certain minister in Glasgow, which among other things is noted for the ferocity of its bliz zards, had the habit of opening his service each Sundav morning with a short praver of Thanksgiving. On this particular Sundav morning there was a blizzard which was even bad for Glasgow, and *he dozen or so of its congregation who had turned out that morning had done so manilv to hear what the preacher could find to be thankful for on such a day. But the old boy was equal to the oc casion. He mounted the pulpit to begin the service, called 1 the slim Congregation to prayer, lifted his voice and heart heavenwards, and offered the following prayer: ‘We thank Thee, O God, that it is not al ways like this.’ Then in the middle of the night, for it was still pitch black at 7:30 a. m., we went to a special Thanksgiving Day service yesterday. It was held at the theater so that the larger crowd could be accomodated. The Chaplain conducted the service, preached a very good sermon (short) and in ad dition, the commanding officer. Ma jor Geseous, made a short talk to the men, the first he has made to them since he became 00. And for dinner we had turkev, but it wasn’t the pound <-f turkey that we had been led to expect we would have by read ing the newsnairers. It was, though, abciu as much (not quite) as is gen erally served et ‘turkev suppers” the price to which is 75c per nlate. ’That was one of the best dinners that our imnressarios of the cuisine as the Mess Sgt. refers to his crew have ever served, except for the pumpkin pie, which was not much to brag about. There was roast pork to help stretch the turkey out. So if you see propaganda in the papers to the effect that all the men in the armed forces everywhere in the world had a pound of turkey for Thanksgiving, don’t pay to much at tention to it. “I told you sometime ago about having received a letter from W. F. Houseal. It is enclosed herewith, as I have just gotten around to answer ing it. It is a little better typed than his usual communications, which you have probably seen com ing to The Sun office. If it hadn’t been, I’m sure I should never have made it out on that V-mail. As it is, it took some little time to de cipher. I might mention that I have already corrected his error as to the dates when Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Aull the Elder died, and what their ages were the time. I asked him in the first letter I wrote him why there was no mention made in the story of his 63rd Wedding Annivers ary of the years when he was in partnership with ‘The Col.’ I figured at the time that Mrs. Counts had probably had something to do with the story, though it is evident that W. P. himself furnished the facts. He is something of a character, and I like to hear from him., “I had a birthday card today from my sister Alice. She had written a short note on the card wanting to know, of course, why I hadn’t writ ten Hortense. I also got a letter from Uncle Wil! today, too, the first in several months. Uncle W. says that Arthur is expecting to come over this way any day now. The menfloks in that family are terrible correspondents. “I cot the birthday letter yester day, Thanksgiving, which was the only mail I had to be thankful for. And I was lucky at that, too, be cause I was one of the very few yesterday. Today there was a lot of mail, all letters. To date I have not received any of the packages that I have been informed were on the way except the one from Mrs. Schumpert, the one from the Stones, the Scruggs, and the book from Mr. Ott. If I haven’t mentioned it before, thank him for me, and tell him that I will drop him a line before so very much longer. I still have in the neighbor hood of ten or a dozen letters to catchup, and have had for too long now. I am trying to keep the cur rent mail answered promptly and citch the others up all along. I have cut in down from 20 in the last two weeks and in another week or two will be entirely caught up, unless something happens to get me be hind again. “And as it is nearly bedtime, t'lere had better be an end put to this, snd that is herewith done. CLEMSON M. WILSON LOSES BROTHER Drayton Ellerbe Wilson, brother of Clemson Wilson, died Sunday af ter a heart attack in Atlanta, Ga. He was depreciation engineer in the general engineering department of the Southern Bell Telephone com pany in Atlanta. He was born in Newberry and graduated from Newberry college in 1915. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Dorothy Wilson; a sister, Mrs. H. H. Hendricks and brother, Clemson Wilson. $146,276.98 PROFIT MADE BY COMPANY Greenwood* Dec. 3.—The seven dir ectors of the Auto Finance company were reelected at a meeting here this week of stockholders who heard a report that their company had realized a profit of $146,276.98, af ter .provision for state, federal and excess profits taxes amounting to $206,729.80, according to a report by Charles A. Young, local attorney, in whose office the meeting was held. NEWBERRIAN’S MOTHER DIES Mrs. Alva Stevenson, mother of Mrs. Charlie Ruff, died at her home in Winnsboro Friday morning after a short illness. She was stricken with a heart attack last Monday night and later developed pneumonia. Funeral services were held at Zion Presbyterian church in Winnsboro, Saturday morning, and burial fol lowed in Lebanon church cemetery in Fairfiend county. RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. John Lindsay returned to her home, 1207 Chapman street last Wednesday, after being a patient in the Providence hospital, Columbia, for 15 days. HOME AFTER TREATMENT Earl C. Taylor, who was a patient in the Columbia hospital last week undergoing treatments was able to return to his home on he cut-off Saturday. NOW REGISTERED NURSE Miss Verna Mae Abrams, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Abrams’ of Helena, was one of the 99 Student Nurses who passed the nursing ex amination and registration at the state board in Columbia Saturday. •Mrs. J. S. Eason of Whitmire, was a business visitor in Newberry Sat urday