The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 24, 1953, Image 13
THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1953
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
Pre-Red Russia
Observed New Years
Before the revolution. New
Year's was a gay and happy time
in Russia.
In some cities the streets were
decorated with flags and lanterns
and thronged with merry-makers.
The year was ushered in with a
hundred, shotg fired from cannon.
One New Year’s Day the Win
ter Palace was opened to society.
Festivity reified throughout the
city, hospitality and charity were
the watchwords from palace to
cottage.
The mythical Ovsen was sup
posed to be around about this
time. He was usually depicted
astride a boar, symbolically as
sociated with the pork served for
New Year dinner and the symbol
ism of Aryan descent.
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TO OUR FRIENDS
AT CHRISTMAS
As we glance backward over
the path we have followed
the past year, there Is a warm
pleasure in the memory of the
favors you have shown us.
We extend a hearty hand
clasp of gopd fellowship.
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Y^OUNG Mrs. Frank Sanderson
hung up the telephone receiver
and stared bleakly at the beauti
fully set dining table. The Santa
Claus sleigh centerpiece filled with
red and white striped candy canes,
the sprig of holly at each place
setting, the gleaming silver—was
it all to be for nothing?
“I’m so terribly sorry,” her
mother had just said over the
phone. “We simply aren’t going to
be able to make it for Christmas
dinner. The roads are just a sheet
of ice—”
“Oh, Mother!” Eva had ex
claimed. “It won’t seem like
Christmas at all without you here.
And Frank and I were so excited
about it being our first time to
have the family.”
“I knew how disappointed you’d
be, Eva,” Mother answered. “But
Dad says it’s just impossible.”
“Oh, Frank!” Eva was close to
tears. “It’s going to seem so queer
without Mom and Dad.”
“I know how you feel, honey,”
Frank put an arm around her
comfortingly. “And what’s more,
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“I know how you feel, honey.”
# Frank put an arm around her
comfortingly.
what about all that food sitting
around in the kitchen?”
“We’ll just have to find some-
oody to eat with us.” Eva wiped
aer eyes and looked thoughtful.
“Let’s see, can you think of any
)f our friends here in town who
hadn’t planned anything special for
today?”
“Well,” Frank said, “the Spring
ers are eating with his folks, fhe
Albrights , left by train yesterday
for Detroit, the McCalls—oh, you
know as well as I do that every
body’s dated up. You just don’t
leave Christmas dinner to
chance.”
“Frank! What about the Aaron-
gaards? You know that fisherman
and his family who live in the
cottage down by the docks?”
“You mean that tall, quiet guy
with three or four tow-headed
kids?”
“Yes; and I heard someone in
the post office yesterday saying
they’ve been having a struggle'late
ly—the river’s been so ice-blocked
that he can’t get his boat out to
the lake, and there’s nothing com
ing in for them.”
“Honey, that’s a swell idea!”
Frank a gr e e d heartily. “But
what’ll we tell them?”
“Why, just the plain truth, that
our folks couldn’t make it at the
last minute and we’d be so glad
if they’d substitute for them.”
“Maybe they won’t believe it,”
Frank said. “They’ve got their
pride you know, people like that
don’t want charity.”
“Just try anyway, Frank,” Eva
pleaded. “Go ahead and phone him
right now.”
“O.K., here goes.” And Frank
went to the phone.
A minute or two later Frank
hung up the receiver and shook
his head. “Just what I was afraid
of,” he sighed. “When I first start
ed to talk, and wished him Merry
Christmas he seemed tickled to
death that we’d thought of them,
but the minute I mentioned the in
vitation he froze up and said very
politely that they had their own
plans. He just didn’t believe the
story.”
Eva looked crestfallen. But after
a moment’s silence she suddenly
said, “Let me have that phone,”
and hastily dialed a number.
“Mr. Aarongaard, this is Mrs.
Sanderson. We’re so sorry you
can’t come to dinner here, it
would have meant a lot to us. But
I’m calling this 'time to ask a
favor of you.
“I understand that you go in
land to Brinkville every week or so
to deliver some fish orders. I just
wonder if, the next time you go,
you’d be kind enough to take my
family’s gifts to them—their farm
is right on your way.
“—Yes, all their things are un
der the tree here. We naturally ex
pected them to pick them up when
they came to dinner, but—”
Eva began to smile as she
listened, and then said cordially,
“Oh, fine, we’ll expect all of you
at about three o’clock. Good-bye
’til then.” And she hung up the
receiver.
“They guess they’ll come after
all, if we don’t mind their changing
their minds,” she reported hap
pily.
“You’re a smart little wife if I
do say it myself,” Frank grinned.
“Come on, let’s shove that bird in
the oven.”
In order to be even an average
wing shot you’ve got to practice
with a shotgun just as you have to
practice with a golf club or ten
nis racket to be any good. You
can’t expect to pick up a gun that
you haven’t had in your hands
since last year and start knock
ing off birds right and left. It
simply can’t be done. It takes
practice, and the more the bet
ter.
The answer is flying targets—
trap or skeet shooting, or both.
There are plenty of gun clubs for
hunters living in or around the
larger cities; it’s those living in
less populated areas who have the
big problem. The solution isn’t as
tough as you might think. Ac
cording to an article by Shep
Shepherd in Sports Afield maga
zine, gun clubs are not so hard to
come by. The hardest hurdle is lo
cation.
But before you look for that,
you’ll have rounded up a group
of shooters who are willing to
lay out a little effort and funds
to have a club. There should be
12 or more; you can build a club
costing anywhere from $250 to
$10,000. '
Here are the factors to be con
sidered: First you want a loca
tion where shooters face north or
northeast. Next you must be at
least 300 yards in every direction
from the nearest building—and
half mile is beter. The location
must have access to a fair road
and there should be water;
electricity also, but this isn’t a
must. The land should be level so
that no expensive ground-leveling
operations are needed.
When all these conditions have
been met, you are going to have
to consider noise. Talk td the
folks living nearby to get their
reactions. Get agreements if pos
sible—perhaps they could be in
vited to use the club facilities
when ready.
Once the site has been chosen
get a permit from your county
authorities. The charge for this
is small. Next you should incor
porate the club. Incorporation is
important in protecting individual
members in the event of injury or
accident even from start of build
ing operations. After the club is in
operation you must take out lia
bility insurance which will cover
injury to members or bystanders.
Complete detailed plans for all
the buildings needed, plus gra
phic drawings for the field lay
out are available simply by writ
ing to either Western Cartridge
Co., East Alton, 111., or Reming
ton Arms Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn.
They will also send descriptions
and price lists for alx model traps.
On a year-around basis, farmers
and their families do more than
three forths of all farm work in
the U. S. while hired help does
less than a forth.
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E. B. PURCELL, President
TROXELLE H. SENN
SARA B. FRANKLIN
71* Measures of ihe Christmas Season
are enhanced greatly by the
knowledge that, here, m this community,
are the finest people on earth.
We are grateful for the privilege ;
of serving you and we trust we may continue to
merit your thoughtfulness,
filerry Christmas to you, our loyal frien