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This being our last issue of T!ie News-Jour^
-ich f« to our patrons and friends our deepest
to ^^XSty^support given ns since we
^enconraganent thrt yon toe
wnds to express. As we have stated once
we believe that a county newspaper is, m a measur^ ^
p^ ttiat it serves a^ we h^e done ^hat wp rouW
to rendS^ldnd of service tm we think you are ^tiM to.
we have made mistakes and hope that we will^be m^ng them a
taiZd ^ from now, but pur aim is to'm^ « few as
Ue. Our patrons have been most generous tow^ u^ however,
.«iid we awweeiateit. so muA, in f^, t^t it
detennination to strive all the time to give you an ever improvr
'****^ 1^^*h!0inng that 1930 will bring to you those tjdngs that
tout strive for and that a year hence the relations bftwe^ ^
and us will be as cordial and frii^y as we feel that they
• now are.
chiach, and ihti yatoMten nil^
thdr towns (dnto'to jMn days tte
chnich dontoatad'oi^i
Holy ItoiocwK3 l)ay, Iioce^ *8.
In sonw paits ofiSeirmaiiy the
BiEhsi oeiemony aetitet^d tmtSi 1799.
•.ttt to'Stagland Henry. VTII fM-
•’htd 154i. OWfwn Mary
^ored to to 1662 aad Elisabeth abol-
rhed to .hnally a few" years later.
The fimvtoies Wbiiih bad been a
art of BL Nkholaa Xtoy then began,
to be tnaisferred Christraasi
thonghi, th^ was a tioae when
Chriibntos^ celehraitiong were fi^d-
den in England. -Thalb was to 1644,
when iCSioiiiw6U*8 'Puritan Parliament
passi^ an act forbidding any mcrriT*
Santa Claus is American
tnfito yp adtotomg ueifieea afc.Ch^hfc*
Sito S^Stotod tlurt to
Chitotolto seniated among jha
tan tottien of Now Engtond doyn to
'tba'^'”ntollieeoilr' oentnry. . A-vr/. ■
of gifts tor IfTown-
s Day « a very
iSlndeed.
WUOW. il^W wto^ , theto :
come from; they 5S,
to the; goed “San
tliear’’fitoddngs secretly^ w mg^
Ycthajw the W^rld was hsPltor when
C'rttohtoiB giving was less of an
obitggtion and more of a jw r.u^
htite ones fitai bO*'-jd to to ''es
and Santa Cia. a.
A|ff5/ Carry ^
Re^tratian Carts
J3HN JOSEPH GAINED M.P
A BLESSING
English Children Know Him Only as Father
Christmas; German Kiddies as Kriss Kringle.
French and Italian Youngsters Get.No Gifts.
Hemoiy of Andeni Bishop of Myra Peipetnated in Custom of
Puttmg Eiesents in StodsUigs at Christmas TiiDe.^i^
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By CALEB JifflNSON
All over the world on the 26th
Pnendier Christians of all creem
and sects celebrate the birth of the
Messiah wil^ the festival of Chx^-
mas—the Mara of Christ. But ovdy
is countries whose traditions and cul-
tore derive from Teutwiic tourcra do
folk celdirate the dagf. by
yaasentB.
lost - a small, glittering,
edged fragment of- cold steeL Twr©
is tbe hint of creeptoees at its rnem
mmition; it is such a stem little
t>»i«g after all; its Inisiimss » to
malcA wounds--mp8t feared of all,
wonnids upon the bodies of our dmr
ones; wostods upoiv and within the
bodies of the onw we ;SyJ®Phtto»
with moah—the ones atricken, with
death just around the bend ahead . .
The one that mother is praying over
to the Uttte room where nobody can
hear but God . • ' Ah, this litels
sharp fragment of steel called mer
ciless to the unthtoking—what a
blessing!
Yes—it's the surgeon’s knife that
il am tralking lahoto. And so few
speak of it as a Messing: some
orate from tbS hbi^-tops that it is
a villian—^a murderer! They try to
iTiflkTnA us against this little bene
factor, too often for their own per
sonal foiancial ends.
No incantation, mesmerical hocus-
pocus, or sleight-of-hand juggling on
the surface ever removed; a deadly
lartrf alone there were at one time a
thousand church of St Nicholas, and
he was established as the p^ron
Bftint- of ..Russia away back in the
Middle Agea
Pictures of ^ Nikolas usually
show him standing ■in‘“'a tub with
three boys. The legend back of this
giving is that he miraculously restored to
life three youths who had been ^dllad
tumor from the suffering woman--
never did—^never can. Thousands of
tovMids put their trust in these sub*
terlhges until it is too late, beeanse
they dread “the knife.” do not
the poor, timid creatures—
they are not to be blamed. Urey
are to be pitied in their mental tor
ture—thrir snff^dng unrest land in-
rtppiiann; they do not- know. 'Hiey
Wiiil e^iise any measure that prom
ises t^ef-^y measure accept that
little idiarp, glittering figment of
st^
A deep^ated foous of deadly poi
son involving a vital unit within the
human structUT^ii can’t be dianned
out. rubbed out, rnedicined out, diet
ed 6ub-it will kill—kill! The Uttfe
silvery-looktog inece of cold s^l—
quick! There may be d®eth. to de
lay*. •
Y^, the surgeon’s knife is a bless
ing, one of toe very greaitest, used
in tinte, by competent hands.' I do
not mean the butcher’s knifo—nor,
no* I refer to toe one that has
given my dear ones back to me,
tound and well!
Catch the community spirit. Every dollar spent
at home means something^tojyou directly m tlw
In Italy. France, Spain, the nations by an innkeeper and ^toeir disn.em
si Soutii America and other coun- bered bodies ^
tries where the Latin culture pre- But toe story of St. Ifetoola^wluto
w«n«, fniriatmaff is cefebrated aa a asso^tea his name W^. secret gifts
ai^ dmrdi festoart'but nobody is that he learned of a poor mai?
of invingjjyMily a present with three daugltftys, wto i^erc an-*
Day able to get Me-.they
• 0{f4 tiine. j had no dowries. Ibcir father . urns
*. « n.1-in all tliA coun- planning to kill the daughters and
bSf when St. Nicholas slipped
^0 toe Teirta^ dmot py night and filled
.tobdeh indndes Norw^, Swedcii an£ . stockiiigs o.^ the daughtera with
Beamark. Austria, Switierland, Hoi- ^ uaugnwr-, wjm*
Bdgium, England and the Brit- KoM* , .v • r* cu*
toDoSntons and toe United States, I Sr.. Nicholas Day is Decern^ 6th,
r^Tiatmiui has become toe great gift- and for a thoas.ind years tiie fcve
^irnip flAgaow of the year, espe- of St, Nicholas, Itecetober 6to, _wa3
eallv toe tone for giring presents the date for filling the stwkmgs.
tTcnildren. ‘ iChrdstmaa was not fixed on Decem-
Santa Ctaus himsrll, however, is her 26 until the Christian church
an Amm^»»"i nearly 600 years old. In some
The diildren of England have nev-'p^s toe church it was edebrat-
«r heard rf Santa \Jaus, unless tbey'ed on Jnr.ua^’ Oth, els|wh‘i?*i on
read Aineriean stories. The joBy old Match ^th^ ^ ^
chap vtoSi white whiskers who AUk record of the date of toe birth o.
toe secretly on Christmaa the Savior. But toe Angles, the
Eve IS known to toe Uttle en.-s of ancient German people whose blood
toe British Empirt as “Father Chri-t- and traditions still rule tto English-
, I as the anmversary of the greatest
Orman childte.i call the btocki»\g-' spealdiig world as well as toe Gm-
illcr "Kriss Kringle,” and by vhat roan
,nauBt be is known in some p'lrts of cember 25, JdWran^t or kfeto-
toe United Stales i and ei«itwheT«. ers’ Nigh^ when their New
"Kiisa Kringle”' is a corruptio.i b^an, and in the course of ceirtUTies
the German “ChristiindVcin,’’ the th^ festival came to be celebrated
Christ Child. The poaMut folk of event to tte life of. to© greatest
Germany have come to believe that Mother of all tune, Mary, the Moth-
toe j^vvag of Christmas prese-:» is er of Jesus.
sypkoljc of toe bnniring of lo ' Christmas was still, however, dis-
toe manger at Bdthlehem by the tinctly a religious festival. St.
Wise Men of the East. But that is Nioholaa remained the day
■at toe Booroe from which Christ- when the dmdren luad theit innings.
AMtp giving originated. ' until toe rixteento century. On St.
Seetet gifts to children are a tri- Nicholas Day it was the custom to
Irate to the memory of St. Nicholas, elect a Boy Bishop, who appointed
just as the name ‘j^ta Claus” . is other boys to the offices of the
on Americanizat&oji' of the Dutch
Ion?* run.
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N. Cv—Witji » viewjte
aototmeoue
Will be reqi^edAfter toe first of ^
to emnri^ with ^ l®w
ing toem' to eamfy t^ir
regiatmtion cB^vwito
Ini to Cabtsil^Iee^P- rax^t,
diioetor ^toe stete hi^way pate^
Twenty-foug cars were fewj^
Btotei to toe theft bi^ ot ^
revenue department one day r^ntiy,
toe majority being within a tfi-mMe
radius of Bali^h where here ms
been dnto an increase in -the nuraiW
of OOP stPfcm that office»
an teisai^S^g is at work. Thefte
usoraliv show'Aa incSsaSe, howevtf,
between Thawlpigiying,. and tlm TOdx
die of January Md Iceland S. Harris,
head of Hie theft, brou,
owners to • securely i lock ^ their
leaving
‘whilRb •
of all can ftovHI .bF
.Ini^nray patrol for ^ rasMa
.be: requited to show
carii, and fauuze to do qe wui -rc
suit in the caa's befeg stor^‘ uht
toe card is psocoyed. sl^fiilair actio
being taken 'now' when ahtemor
Uc^ platea u
Nbt Kily. >iWill dnvdrs be ii|
to carry toeir relation cards
toe first of toe ,year, 1^
be penidined if ;jhey do ^
reW licenae,
January 1,
ing taken friMdU the comn ^
■’•evenue, the ..antherity to grant
extension usuallf granted by exp
ly prohibiting^ such an extension
■T see Goldbaum had a
nigi^” . :
“Vril, he’a a mce
scryea .it" , .
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rir PATS TO Al
Merry Xinas
With another mile-post in right,
a New Year bedsondng to us
with its hopes and opportuni
ties, we pau^ to reflect upon
the pleasant business relations
that we have enjoyed among
our many custon.ers during the
ycfir about to close, and we tak-j
note of tbe good friends about
us with a feeling of .gratitude.
Thus doing, we wish you and
' yours a Merry Christmas and a
New Vear fiUeid with happinesu
and success.
Baucoin’s Gash. Store
Established 1908
Raefoi'd, N. C.
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To All Our
season'sgreet'
ings and wish for yem a
New Year
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of that good old father of the
fhorob- “San Niklaas” as the early
Dutch settlers of New York called
the patron saint of children, schol
ars, merchants and sailors, sounded
like “Santa ClauiT to the ears of
liipgliBh children, who learned of him
from their Dutch playmates, , And
Santo Glaus be has bden ever^ since
to generations of American children,
theugb up ,to fifty or sixty years
■go it,was not considered' dignifieil
i.y the" grown-ups to refer to him
except by bis full name, Sr. Sich-
Mas. -
"Hie figure of St. Nicholai as a
iiUle tat man in a fur trimmed
coat, ridiqg in a sleigh drawn by
reoMeer, and slipping dow.i chiii-
iieya with a pack on his bick, to fill
-^“dangs which, hiing from the
of the open fir^Iaoe, was
riven its present fixed form by
Gkooieitt C. Moore, whose poem be-
gjniiing "’Twas the night before
Gbristoias” was written nearly a
hundred years ago. Mr., Moore did
loot call him Santa Clau^ but tiitltied
bit poem, “A Vfeit from St, Nich-
W)o was the real fiamt Nicholas:
"Why is he associated with the giving
of presents to
Nobody knows ^'•'•ly much 'ibout
Nhw. like some of the other lead-
erii of the eariy ChrlitiMne, a noisa
of l^re^ and myth has grown up
abd^ his name, but the records are
' raragely silent,
l^toat is known definitely is that
he'^ts tbe Bishop 4tf Myra, a t
Minor, (bom. Ihiee hi
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Happy New Year!
a- -m
Kesolvc tb turn over a new leaf by having us insi
your car OFTEN. i
This will be one resolution that will be easier tj
keep as time goes on and yill make the hew year haj
pier and more prosperous for you. .
Have our expert mechanics inspect and l^t you]
car REGULARLY. This will make it worth more. •
t Let US jUSare for YOUR^ Car.
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