The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 10, 1943, Image 6
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