Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1958 5? ★ EsBB ]^||< 4> r%'A' ;*r. o * ♦ * * To our customers: Our wish that joy and gladness will fill each passing moment of your Christmas Holiday! I Maxwell Brothers & Lindsay FURNITURE 1313 Main Street NEWBERRY, S. C. /*■ IP v m s*. S Sr^-i ##’1 <5 V Just Coining Around to Say— «Have a Gay Holiday...!” B. C. MOORE AND SONS “BUY FROM MOORE AND SAVE MORE” y y y y y y y y y y Calendar Dates From 1882; Will Last Until 2500 Despite efforts from time to time :o set up a new method of marking Jme, the Gregorian calendar, in- itituted by Pope Gregory in the year 1582 appears unlikely to be replaced for some time to come . . . probably until at least 2500 A. D Mathematicians guarantee that the calendar will be accurate until that time. The Gregorian calendar still doesn’t please everybody. But this, is not unusual. People like to be fussy about time. Once a year in many areas of the United States there is the annual squabble about the use of “daylight saving time”. Periodically, residents in one area who live in the edge of another time zone attempt to get the zones changed. Kentucky, for example, was the scene of such activity re cently when residents of several cities of that state, tiring of switch ing each summer to “daylight sav ing time” attempted to get their clocks moved up an hour all year round by having the Eastern Time Zone extended further westward. Our current method of keeping time takes into consideration the solar year -which actually consists of 865 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. Because of the extra hours, minutes and seconds, it is required that the Gregorian calendar contain a well-ordered system of Leap Years to keep the calendar and the solar equinoxes congruent. The Gregorian Calendar provides that years divisible by four, exclu sive of the years numbering the centuries—shall have 366 days, and the cenutry-marking years shall be leap years only if they are divis ible by four after the ciphers have been removed. Rose Bowl Game Was Not Always Main Attraction Of Tournament Of Roses The Rose Bowl football game . egan as a supplement to the Tournament of Roses in 1902. Suc cess of the California classic brought about the many “bowl” games that are played today. Sur prisingly, the Rose Bowl football game did not catch the immediate r ancy of the public. After the 1902 Tame, in which Michigan defeated Stanford, chariot races were sub stituted and collegiate football was not a part of the Tournament oi Roses again until 1916. But the “daddy” of the bowl games has been going great guns ever since. Year 46 B. C. Contained Over Four Hundred Days The year we now refer to as 46 B. C., was the longest year hi cal endar history. It contained 445 days, and for a very good reason. Numa Pompilius supposedly cre ated the Roman calendar in the seventh century B. C. Despite the fact that it was revised several times, this calendar was some two months behind the sun by the time of Julius Ceasar. Ceasar put his experts to work revising the calendar. The experts came up with a calendar, but were somewhat undecided as to what should be done about the two months needed to catch up with the sun. They solved the problem by in serting the two months between the months of November and Decem ber, thus giving the year 46 B. C. a total of 445 days. French Celebrate New Year With Religious Ceremonies Just as it is everywhere else In the world, January 1 is a day of celebration, visiting and toasting of health in France. But, la jour de la bonne annee, as the French call it, has a more serious side. Churches are generally crowded on New Year’s Eve, which is also the Vigil of St. Sylvester, an early pontiff and father of the Church. In rural communities cattle are driven to the door of the village church where they are blessed by the priest who also says Mass for their prbtection during the year. It is French custom to remember the dead as well as the living on New Year’s Day and most families visit the graves of departed mem bers. In ancient Rome, the priests •ailed the people together on the first day of the month, known as the Calends, and announced the sacred days and festivals to be observed during the month. & y & Making New Year resolutions Is i good idea if the right spirit at tends the making. Resolutions should be made with careful thought and with consideration for it is better to make no resolutions at all than to make a number of resolves which we know will be impossible to accomplish. 1 THE NEWBERRY SUN Yule Was Not Always Celebrated On Dec. 25 Li!:e East°r. Christmas was once i movable ;'e at, celebrated on a different data each year. In 3"7 A. D. St. Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, with the permission of Po^ Junius I, appointed a commis- .ion to determine, if possible, the orecise date of Christ’s nativity. The theologians finally agreed ipon December 25, and since the year 351 this date has been cele Twelfth Night “Twelfth Night,” which many towns celebrate by a community burning of Christmas trees, is de rived from the custom of early Christians who celebrated the feast of the Nativity of Christ for 12 days, placing special emphar-is on the last or twelfth da.y. The ‘Twelfth Night” tree burning is also said to commemorate the light of the Star of Bethlehem. O. HOLY NIGHT.. When Bethlehem’s Star suone e’r so bright Both Kings and Shepherds knelt at the sight Knowing it as Herald of Our Savior’s Birth, Signifying the deliverance of Peace On Earth. hi DIRECTORS JOHN F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER G. K. DOMINICK avijvgs and Loan Association NSURfCjj > A S AV I N-G S INST ITU T I O N ' A F O^U N DEO I 0 3 5 1223 COLLEGE STHEET, NEWBERRY, S. C. DIRECTORS • J. K. WILLINGHAM E. B. PURCELL W. C. HUFFMAN