Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE WO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, fm *< m m MAS Foremost among our pleasures at this holiday time is the opportunity o> to send greetings to our many friends and customers for a joy-filled season and the Merriest Christmas ever • • # Lominacks Hardware, Inc. i * W. H. Lominack Edward K. Lominack § a Charlie Force J. W. Longshore Ida D. Underwood | 1409 Main St- Telephone 13 g K m m PV 4 - mn \jr ■: . / > tv m. t. ir?S M 'S-m It 'i 1:^ ^ i if ■) Dfl i 4% 4S : ‘ S? :v ; '' \ Ik'M — 1 ^ To each of you, we extend our heartfelt wish that this Christmas season brings you peace and happiness. Florence, Bettie, Betsy, Roy, Ann Wilson Brown, Bill Summer, Eddie Lominack, Billy Martin, Wyman Shealy T. ROY SUMMER, Inc. The Man's Shop faitd* Some folks pick up a box o] Christmas cards and mail them out. Others snap a picture of the children under the tree tc Ulus- trate their Yuletide greetings. But for 25 years, a State Col lege, Pa., couple have been doing it differently, and their friends won't let them stop now. They are David and Madeline Campbell who for the past quar ter of a century have collected zesty little ^ news from mutual friends—wno broke their legs, were married, or had some other dramatic adventure—then boiled the information dawn and flavored it with Campbell poetry for an annual Christmas letter. How did the Christmas letter get started t "Who knows how it got started f n says Madeline. “How do you quit? Our friends won’t 1 et us quit." Campbell is a retired Pennsyl vania State University professor who for nearly SO years taught engineering drawing. Now, he is a once-a-year author and some 500 friends of Dave and Madeline Campbell — in a half dozen foreign countries and most of the United States—refuse to let the dynamic Campbell Christ mas letter give way to a conven tional card. Fire Gan Spoil Happy Holiday Babbs Switch, Caribou and Billings can tell you that a happy Christmas is a safe Christmas. Babbs Switch is a small Okla homa community. On Christmas Eve, 1924, about 150 men, women and children were gathered in the frame schoolhouse for the com munity’s biggest-ever Christmas party. A series of incidents—a Christmas tree branch brushed against a candle, a kerosene lamp knocked off a table, and a stage curtain thrown on the flames—led to a fire which destroyed the schoolhouse, killing 36 persons and injuring 40. In more recent years, church fires occurred in Billings, Mont., and Caribou, Me. In Billings, an attendant light ing candles accidentally set fire to a large velvet curtain behind the altar. Fire spread to a com bustible fibre-board ceiling. In Caribou, Christmas trees placed around an altar in the au ditorium of a church fed a blaze. They were ignited when a small girl knocked over a tree which fell on lighted candles nearby. And in Missouri, Christmas trees placed along the altar rail fed a blaze of undetermined ori gin. Christmas Derision Christmas is always the most important day of the year and one particular Christmas day, in the year me, greatly affected the course of American history. On Christmas day of 1776, the struggle of the new American republic for independence seemed almost hopeless. Tattered, hun gry, riddled with dysentery, the American Army was barely hang ing on, with little left but hope. Along the banks of the Delaware River, some 2400 men huddled, many shoeless, this bleak Christ mas night. In this setting, General George Washington said to his command: “This is it, gentlemen—victory or death. That is our only watch word. “Notwithstanding the discour aging accounts, I am determined to cross the river and make the attack on Trenton in the morn ing.” The rest is history. Washington and his ragged army ignored the snow, ice and sleet to make a dangerous river crossing and an agonizing march to Trenton. Under Washington’s inspired leadership, the Americans hum bled the vaunted Hessian mer cenaries and wrote one of the most glorious pages in the Amer ican history book. Be Sure That Toys You Give Are Safe The anticipation of a visit from Santa Claus makes Christmas an exciting time for youngsters. The wide variety of toys on the mar ket today makes the adult job of shopping for the kids likewise an adventure But a word of cau tion is as timely as the season. Some of the tuyz on the market today—such as miniature rockets, airplanes and automobiles—use kerosene, gasoline, or carbide for fuels. Parents, uncles and aunts should be certain that the toys they buy for children are safe. Electrical toys, or those using fuels and chemicals, are wonder ful gifts, but parents or adults should supervise their use. Frankincense And Myrrh? Gold has always been one of man’s most treasured posses sions; but what about frankin cense and myrrh, the other sub stances which the Wise Men chose to offer as gifts to the infant Jesus? Why were they so highly valued? Frankincense and myrrh are resins taken from trees and shrubs found on the dry rock- strewn hills of Somaliland and southwestern Arabia. Peoples of antiquity used the two substances for a variety of purposes—for em balming and in cosmetics, per fumes, medicines, and incense. Frankincense Somaliland is chief producer of frankincense, although some comes from Arabia. Most frank incense comes from a small shrub-like tree with a stout trunk and pale brown and-yellow baric. Its flowers are grouped in slender clusters and the fragrance of the blossoms is discemable for a considerable distance. The resin flows from natural Assures in the bark of the tree, or from man-made incisions It emerges as a whitish, viscous liquid that turns yellow and clings to the wound in the tree like tears. Every few days the resin is collected and the wound in the tree is freshened. Ancient Arab traders introduced frankincense to many peoples Today, the yellow tears and brown lumps of resin are sent to the seaport of Aden to be shipped to Europe, America, or Bombay. Myrrh From Somaliland Myrrh is obtained from trees of several species and most of it comes from Somaliland. Some of the trees are from ten to thirty feet tall, other myrrh-producing plants are mere bushes. Myrrh flows freely from a break in the bark of the tree or plant and is collected in brownish-yel low or red brown masses that may be as large as a hen’s egg. The ancients used myrrh in em balming; the Egyptians used it in the mummification process and Roman physicians prescribed myrrh in treatment of dropsy, earache, eye diseases, bladder stones, abscesses and broken heads. Frankincense was chiefly used for incense, yet was an early in gredient in prescriptions for chest pain, hemorrhoids, hemorrhages from the mouth and throat, bro ken heads, paralyzed limbs, bruises and ulcers. DICKENS’ STYLE . . . Cos tumed for the part, three carol ers sing Christmas carols dur ing New York City presentation of life-size dioramas illustrating Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Holiday Season Time For Ulcers The holiday season approaches and with it come toys, candy, fun and merriment for children. For adults it usually brings over- indulgence in rich foods and spirits, shopping worries and— alas — bills. While the total effect for children is the happiness- highpoint of the year, for many adults the holiday season means tensions, gastric distress, and debt. It is not coincidental that the incidence of peptic ulcers takes a gradual upturn in October and re- mainf higher than normal through the holiday season. There is little doubt in the minds of many medi cal investigators that the excesses of the winter holidays are con tributing factors in the seasonal bumper crop of ulcers. Hard To Control Many holiday ulcers could be controlled if the victim were to restrict his diet to bland, uninter esting foods—a task most difficult to achieve when the rest of the family is enjoying those huge and spicy Thanksgiving, Christinas and New Year feasts. Another preventive measure would be a slow, relaxed pace—almost an im possibility when Christmas shop ping must be done and bills must be paid. Instead, most ulcer pa tients will turn to medical help. Consequently, doctors will be prescribing more drugs to cure and relieve ulcers in the next four months than at any other time of year. Some of the most useful new drugs in ulcer treatment are tranquilizers to calm people down, nerve-blocking agents which slow the secretion of acid in the sto- mafch, and antacids, to neutralize or deactivate the acid. Although Santa Claus may not oe able to give you a happy, ulcer- free Christmas, it is now possible that your doctor can. m -t S S A coach-full of best wishes for yoifr MERRIEST CHRISTMAS NEWBERRY AUTO SUPPLY Phones 976 - 977 1211 McKibben St. SINGING OUT OUR CHRISTMAS GREETINGS I i i i Mm MI-LADY BEAUTY SALON 1519 Martin Street Newberry, S- C. ith i \i r> j < < tiihh rr ■ IW SUPERVISORY AND OFFICE OF THE The Kendall Company Mollohon Plant Wishes to extend Sincere Christmas Greetings to all our Employees and Friends. W. H. Tedford, Manager T. P. Buzhardt, Office Manager Nell Paysinger, Secretary Sadye J. Schumpert, Secretary J. O. Jenkins, Overseer of Carding G. R- Hawkins, Overseer of Spinning W. D. Kinney, Overseer of Weaving B. A. Moore, Overseer of Cloth Room # C. L. Amick, Overseer of Warehousing and Shipping W. S- Flenniken, Plant Engineer R. F. Barker, Assistant Overseer of Carding Homer Berry, Assistant Overseer of Carding J. H- Westmoreland, Assistant Overseer of Carding W. L. Watts, Assistant Overseer of Spinning J. D. Golden, Assistant Overseer of Spinning Dupre Harmon, Assistant Overseer of Spinning F. A. Brown, Assistant Overseer of Weaving C. L* Miller, Assistant Overseer of Weaving D. C. Hurt, Assistant Overseer pf Weaving O. H, Davis, Assistant Overseer of Weaving R. L. Hazel, Assistant Overseer of Weaving R. J. Willingham, Assistant Overseer of Weaving W. K. Smith, Assistant Overseer of Cloth Room M. E. Clemmer, Shop Foreman E. B. Sims, Shop Foreman Q. L Shealy, Shop Foreman