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SECTION B—PAGE TWO
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1959
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May the Star of Bethlehem
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season and bring you peace
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Joy to our friends,
Peace to our Nation,
Good Will to all.
LOCAL FINANCE COMPANY
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Newberry, South Carolina
Two Men Gave
’Silent Night'
To the World
The words of that famous carol,
“Silent Night, Holy Night,” will
ring this Christmas in many dif
ferent corners of the earth. In the
mountain town of Oberndorf, Aus
tria, however, they will probably
ring clearer and more distinctly.
For it was here, some 141 years
ago, that the carol was sung for
the first time.
The background story of this
famous song begins on a sad note,
for that night of December 23,
1881, Father Joseph Mohr, the
parish priest, and his friend Franz
Xavier Gruber, schoolmaster and
church organist, had made a de
pressing discovery: that mice had
eaten away the bellows of the
church organ, and there would I»e
no music for Christmas services.
Storm Lifts
As the two men were making
their way through the wind and
snow-swept streets of the village,
it is said, the storm suddenly lifted
and suddenly all was serene. Fa
ther Mohr looked up to the snowy
peaks and clear skies and mut
tered to himself, “Silent Night,
Holy Night. All is calm, all is
bright.”
Immediately Gruber repeated
the words, and both men were
struck with the same idea—the
beginnirg of a Christmas caroL
The two hurried on to the school
master’s house and there, for the
rest of night, worked diligently on
a melody and suitable verses. Re
membering that there would be
no organ music, they kept the
melody simple, one that could be
played easily on a guitar.
Holiday Music
There was music that Christ
mas in Oberndorf, after all, for
Father Mohr and Franz Gruber
led the villagers in the first pub
lic singing of what has become
perhaps the best-loved of all
Christmas Carols.
The organ that wouldn’t play
also figured in the popularization
of the Oberndorf carol. The song
became traditional in the Obern
dorf region, but in the year 1830
when an organ builder came to fix
the organ he heard the song, me
morized it, and carried it across
the mountains—and to the world.
One year after the organ build
er memorized the song and car
ried it with him from town to town
and village to village, the carol
was included in presentation of a
musical festival in Leipzig, Ger
many.
Great orchestras and great
singers “discovered” the song and
in the ensuing years it has become
a part of our Christmas heritage.
Father Mohr never lived to see
the greatness the song would
achieve. He died in 1848 and his
parishoners tad to pay for the
burial of the poor, but dedicated
priest. Gruber, the schoolmaster,
lived 15 years longer, but also died
poor and obscure, perhaps—per
haps not—aware that the world
would always be thankful for
“Silent Night, Holy Night.”
T HE Christmas season is a mag
ical time of year. Children
make impossible wishes, and the
dreams they dream delight even
the angels. My sister Kathy, at the
age of seven, was possessed of ore
such dream. She credited it to her
‘Christmas Star.’
I was twelve at the time, and
looked upon Santa Claus and such
things with the tolerant eye of an
adult.
“Do you know what I dreamed
last night, mommy?" asked Kath'
this particular Christmas Eve.
My mother looked up from the
dressing she was making. “That
you were a princess in a far-off
castle?” she asked.
“Oh mother! I dreamed THAT
last summer. Last night I dream
ed that Santa Claus came to visit
me, and he brought a lot of fridhds
with him, and each of his friends
had a present for me, and—”
“Oh brother, has this kid got
the ‘gimmees’,” I cut in. "You’d
think she was the only one on
Santa Claus’ list ”
“Shut up! Make him shut up
mommy. If I ask my Christmas
Star it will happen—just like ir
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“Goody! goody!” cried Kathy.
She scooted for the stairs.
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Numerous indeed ^are the hearts to which
Christmas brings a season of peace. But it is
into those hearts where overflowing goodness
continually goes out to others that Christmas
brings a full measure ... and a sharing of the
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joy they experience at all seasons of the year.
May you be among those who enjoy Christmas
the year round ... for the spirit of Christmas
is a part of our lives now and ever.
renting#
TOM M. FELLERS
Sheriff
BURKE M. WISE
Clerk of Court
RALPH B. BLACK
Auditor
J. RAY DAWKINS
Treasurer
E. MAXCY STONE
Probate Judge
GEORGE R. SUMMER
Coroner
JAMES D. BROWN
Supt. of Education
S. W. SHEALY
Supervisor
CARMAN BOUKNiGHT
Commissioner Dist. 1
L. ROSS GEORGE
Commissioner Dist. 2
BEN F. DAWKINS
Magistrate Dist. 2
R. AUBREY HARLEY
Senator
JESSE FRANK HAWKINS
Representative
T. WILLIAM HUNTER
Representative