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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
6
A consolidated list of Sunday worships and Christmas events across churches in Graniteville Worthenhall and nearby towns. Includes service times Bible school offerings and special programs with parish names and pastors noted. Readers invited to attend all services and programs with emphasis on Christmas observances and concerts.
Woodbury reports show local residents visiting relatives with several guests from Marshfield and Kimore. Christmas exercises planned at a town church with Rev Newell Shaw noted as business visitor in Montpelier. Advertisements promise winter rates for boarding and meals plus a Montpelier music service.
The program lists responsive responses and choirs with titles like Calen on the Listening Bar of Night and See Amid the Winter's Sauer. Included are offertory pieces and a poetude titled White Gift, with performances by Manney White Gift Emissions and a female vocalist.
A Waterbury wedding took place on Thursday evening December 20 as Leah Elizabeth Chapman and Edward Everett Tatro were united in holy matrimony by Rev Verne Smith at the Methodist church. The ceremony featured a bower of evergreen and guests from nearby towns. The bride wore white with veil and carried bridal robes. Lunetta Corline of Swanton was maid of honor, Harold Powers of Waterbury was best man, and Zada Elizabeth Tatro served as ring bearer. Guests from St Albans Stowe Burlington Bolton were noted. a short wedding trip followed, with many gifts of linen and silver. A Christmas program and church services filled the weekend schedule in Waterbury and nearby communities.
Hardwick conductor C H Hines of the Hardwick and Woodbury mountain train had a narrow escape during last Monday’s return trip from the mountain. While moving between cars on rough granite, his foot slipped and he fell between cars but landed across the draw bars, saving his life. Both legs were injured and he is confined to the house as he recovers. Several local notices follow, including visitors, meetings, and church plans for Christmas trees.
Mallard in Connecticut for several days preached on Sunday and attended a Yale lecture by Rev. Charles R Brown. Owing to his absence and cold weather there was no morning service last Sunday. Sunday school at noon and the Christian Endeavor service in the vestry were held. Christmas exercises and a tree are planned for Monday evening. Old Christmas songs rehearsed by children and youths for the occasion. Richard Londrey seriously ill with pneumonia. Mrs Orin Hodge in Fairlee with son Avery whose wife is hospitalized in Hanover since last August. she recently had a leg amputated after tuberculosis trouble. Will Wilson and family living in part of Warren Welch's house. hopes to start the mill soon. Since the annu al fair, inges are rising quickly. Several teams hauling logs to the bobbin shop this week from the Dew lot. Hog killing seems common but there is little bragging about extra life. Ford scarce and high in price.
The Williams Town Congregational and Methodist churches hold a union Christmas service on Sunday at 10 45 with Rev John Iron delivering The Prince of Peace. The Men s chorus and the singing quartet perform The Sunday school meets at the Congregational church. A union evening cantata Star of the East is previewed and proceeds benefit the Y M C A. A grammar school program in Foxville features student dramas songs and gifts with about 40 guests and notable performances by Mildred Labounty Ethel Clark Wilfred Biteneau and others.
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