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THURSDAY, DECEMER 22, 1955 § * - j .}) firtflitmag \Qy& to out frtenbs f- Hr’- Mat the gentle spirit of the Prince of Peace gladden the hearts and of all our many true friends and customers. •. BOYS ARE THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER • m 8 Prosperity Furniture Co. PROSPERITY, S. C. Did you know wood freezes? Green wood does, specially pine, I saw it often as a kid. During the winter days, when there wasn’t much other farm work to do, we would go to the woods and work on next summer's supply of stove wood. We used pine fr that altogether. Back then we didn’t value trees any more than we did air. They were both in such abundance as to give us no thought. And we didn’t cut the cull trees for wood either, as we do now. Just the reverse. We cut the best ones. And I've seen folks cut a trial slab out of the side of a beautiful straight pine just to see if it split good. Tf it didn’t, they’d let the damaged tree stand, cutting only those that split easy. We liked to cut our wood when it was cold. Often the green wood was frozen then, and the chips popped out clean and easy. And if they were not frozen, we’d usually cut off the blocks and let ’em lie there until a cold day came noalg and they did freeze. Then they were a cinch to split. Tou ujst hit ’em with the axe and they popped dear open. That frozen wood looks differ ent. It is sort of glazed and icy looking. Wood cut then did very little drying until spring. And when that from the previous winter ran out, it was rought goin* -in the kitchen. For that was one thing the housewife was fussy about. She let her men-folks know that they must keep plenty of good dry wood in the box if she was to keep good hot food on the table. And we men critters liked to eat too well to let green wood come between us and our chow. LONGEST TEAR Once there was a year which con tained 445 days—or an extra two months. Numa Pompilius supposedly cre ated the Roman calendar in the seventh century B. C. Although re vised several times, the calendar by Julius Ceasar’s time was two months behind the sun. When Ceasar set hjs experts to the task of revising the calendar in the 16th century, they found they had to meet the problem of catch ing up with the sun. So two months were inserted between the months of November and December for the year 46 B. C. r ~\i i r t .?! ** -sialic-*^ yp.’.'.-yyxx- • -. I - " LL ...> .v* - I s—■ - 4 When they saw tb&j if®, star they rejoiced | i \ exceeding great, W- Matthew 2:10 — May wc, too, pofoice io otw praise to Hwn. Let sang these probes every day of the conning year .. L *Hq«*o»eM for the manifold blessings ' '1 'mr bestowed upon. V , THE MARKET BASKET SUPER FOOD STORE THE NEWBERRY SUN -A- SECTION B—PAGE FIVE I R. L Sease Is Railroad Head (From The State, Sunday Dec. 4) Ralph E. Sease, general mana ger of the Central of Georgia rail way at Savannah, Georgia, has been elected president of the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad, effective January first with headquarters in Patterson, N. J. Mr. Sease is married to the for mer Nellie Jones of Dunnellon, Florida and they have two child ren, Mrs. J. J. Shannon, Hamp ton, Va., and John, age 15. Mr. Sease’s mother. Mrs. J. A. Sease, lives in Prosperity and two sisters live in Columbia, Mrs. J. L. Richardson, and Mias Grace Sease. Mr. Sease, a 27-year veteran oi the Central, has been general man ager since April 1955 and was prior to that t Jtime, assistant gen eral manager. He is a native of Prosperity and was graduated irom Clemson college with a civil engineering degree in 1925. He worked with the Alabama State Highway department and the At lantic Coast Line railroad before joining the Central as draftsman in the engineering department No vember 1928. He was promoted to assistant engineer in 1935 and four years later was transferred to the track division. The new railroad president serv ed as track supervisor at Dothan, Alabama and Albany and Colum bus, Georgia, and as supervisor of bridges and buildings, Savannah. His next advancement was train master of the Central’s Atlanta terminals, which was followed by superintendent of the railway’s Columbus division. He came to Savannah in July 1963 to become superintendent of transportation and in J&puary 1954 was elevated to general superintendent of trans iportation. In July of the same year he was promoted to assistant gen eral manager. Once rabbits and hares were regarded as rodents, but they are now classified as lagomorpha. R© dents have two incisors in the up per jaw; lagomorphs have four. Lmost two thousand years ago Three Wise Men found the secret of great happiness as they paid homage to a newborn Babe