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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
17
Missionary Geo G Ware announces a three month sermon plan at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm on the 2nd 3rd and 4th Sundays plus 11:00 am on the First Sunday. Sunday School at 10:00 am. Junior Auxiliary groups meet weekly with times listed.
A large children's choir of thirty or more voices will perform two Christmas anthems during the Sunday evening service on December twenty second. The program includes organ voluntary, anthems by the children's choir, invocation, scripture, prayers, notices, offering, and the Christmas sermon with hymns and benediction.
Sabbath school at 10 00 a m and public worship followed by junior and intermediate classes and evening services. The Christmas program includes songs recitations and readings from the Primary department and others with a short address and benediction.
A community page lists multiple church events including Bible school at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 11:00 a.m. at a Methodist church with May dates and speakers such as Frank Allan Woten. Additional nearby churches show Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and worship at 11:00 a.m. with leaders like William Lamon and Olin S. Baker.
Sabbath school and services planned at Mrs Pilkington's residence and at Mr Rich mond on Platte Avenue. Immanuel's Lutheran Church hosts a Christmas festival eve service with German English program and tree, Dec 24 at 7 30 p m. German Christmas day service at 10 30 a m with Rev Lang and invitations to English services Dec 29.
A shipwrecked trio Nan Topsy and Jack greet a bearded Santa Claus figure who arrives by boat delivering gifts and a Christmas feast. The man diverts as Santa while sharing warmth and then guides the children to a cozy island home before sending them back to the mainland.
Local church listings and town notices describe the Immanuel German Evangelical Church corner Yellowstone Ave and 7th St with Sunday school at 7 20 am and alternately German and English services. A German English parochial school runs September through June five days a week under Pastor Titus Lang at 703 Niobrara Ave. Other items report Co E Crowther erecting a new cottage for the family of 8 BK Hollers, cattle shipments by Rn A Cook and Tully McLaughlin Mosler to Chicago, U S Surveyors at the Sixth Standard Parallel, a small store fire at Lakeside Mercantile Co due to a lamp, a successful Thanksgiving masquerade ball by the Modern Woodmen lodge, and a request for a housekeeper by Mrs W H Zehring.
Bright red balloons decorate tables and chairs with holly sprays and diamond dust. Each child gets a red snapping cap attached to a balloon string, weighted with chocolate, and guests chase balloons to reclaim their name cards.
A fragment notes that buying a tree is simple and based on cash. Some buyers obtain trees from grocers, while others travel to yards or markets to select packages. Readers are advised to purchase without digging up or raiding forests.
Cut flowers and potted plants advertised for Friday harvests with orders via Mrs. Zebrupy’s shop. Social notes mention Mrs. Wayne Zediker hosting a dinner for Mrs. Nelk of Lead and her mother Mrs. Daily returning there, plus a Kensington luncheon honoring Miss Alice Carlson with attendees including Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Crampton, and Mrs. Kennedy on December 5.
A poetic vignette describes several women in different cities waking on Christmas morning. Miss May Cadwalinder Rittenhouse in Philadelphia notes the snow and joy of Christmas Day while Miss Rene de Jones in Gotham reacts to a holiday slow day. Miss Arnet Waban Aroezy awakens to a crisp morning and a surprising sight from afar.
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