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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950
Ever mindful of your friendship
and good will, we wish
you and yours a most
Happy Holiday Season
C.D.COLEMAN COMPANY
DISTHIRU TOR S
N€W»€NKY. SOMTI CAKOLIBA •
Dudley Griffin Joe Clamp Myra Tresfgar
George Stephens W. B. Ackerman
Marion Carter
PRODUCT
We cherish the happiness our old and new
friends have given us over the year and at
this heart-warming season, we extend our
sincerest wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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May this message of thankful appreciation
for your good will come to you at a time
when you too, are enjoying the pleoearvt
memories of friendships that have Igfted
through many loyal year&
WHITENER LUMBER COMPANY
NEWBERRY, S. C.
O Come Let Us Adore Him
CHRISTMAS EVE IN
OLDTIME
FINLAND
The Christmas Eve bath was quite a tradition in Finland be
fore the advent of modern plumbing.
The oldtime Finnish bath-room was usually a three-room hut;
one room was used for steaming and scrubbing, one for rubbing,
and one for dressing.
The hut was warmed by a stone
oven, heated for hours before the
scheduled bath, and the “bath
room” was really steaming. After
bathing came the rub-down and
the switching of the body with
birch twigs to increase the circula
tion, topped off by a roil in the
•now, supposedly to whet the ap
petite for Christmas Eve supper.
For supper there was usually
stockfish and prune tarts to be en
joyed, plus the traditional barley
porridge in which cream and
sugar and almonds were mixed.
After supper the boys and men
matched their strength: while the
girls—garbed in the men’s work
clothes—blackened their faces and
stole away to visit other homes in
cognito and “see Christmas.” The
girls never spoke nor accepted
food, but went from house to house
merely to watch the festivities.
And when the evening’s festivi
ties were over, the smaller chil
dren made their beds in the clean
straw spread on the floor in com
memoration of the Christ Child.
Indestruefiblt Mistltto*
The flame-thrower and atomic
energy — lethal instruments bor
rowed from modern warfare—are
out to kill that ancient symbol of
peacemaking and love, the Christ
mas mistletoe.
The unusual battle front is Aus
tralia where too many valuable
trees each year have been receiv
ing the kiss of death from the
harmless looking shrub. Despite
mistletoe’s popular reputation as
the Yultetide promoter of romance,
if Is a public-enemy parasite in the
woodlands, killing off the trees
that play it host.
Australian foresters have finally
resorted to the flame-thrower as a
quick executioner for the plant and
are using radio-active tracers,
furnished by the U. S. atomic en
ergy commission, to study how the
mistletoe saps the water and min
eral salts from the trees, starving
them to death.
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American ChrtAtmaA a A Old a A ColumbuA
The celebration of Christmas in
this country has deep and perma
nent roots, although at one time its
observance was nearly extermi
nated.
The first Christmas observance
was shortly after Columbus dis
covered America. The Santa Maria
beached on Christmas Eva and
all Christmas day Columbus and
his men worked to free her. Whan
it was found hopeless, aha was
stripped and as much gear as pos
sible taken to the Nina.
However, the Nina was unabla to
carry all the men, and soma wars
left behind in a fort, that in honor
of the season was called La Navl-
dad, the nativity.
TO EACH OF YOU
W. H. DAVIS & SON
1532 Mam Street
Phone 75
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1322 COLLEGE STREET NEWBERRY, S. C.
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GREETINGS
Here it o little friendly greeting
to eoch of you for tho Chritt-
mot Season.
Main Street Pureoil Station
1525 Main Street Phone 104
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