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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1936
Page
5
Lutheran and Methodist Episcopal churches publish Sunday schedules with Lutheran Church Sunday School at 10 a m Divine service 10 30 Genry Tranb Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church Morning Worship 9 30 Sermon Lop-sided Folk Church School 10 30 We invite you to Worship with us Fred Reed Pastor
St Josephs Church lists Masses on Sunday December 6 at 8:00 and 10:00. Tuesday December and the Fast of the Immaculate Conception observed as a holy obligation with Masses at 6:00 and 6:00. Catechism classes held Saturday at 2:30 p m. Pastor Thomas C Harrison.
Union Church outlines 10:00 Sunday School and 11:00 Morning Worship with two Sunday evening groups at 5 and 6:30 pm. The Friendly Class meets with Mrs Mabel Catton on Friday December 4. Christmas events include Women’s Association meeting December 10 at Mrs A S Nicholas home with program leads Mrs C L Hayes and Miss Henrietta Bragg and the annual Christmas offering. Rev David E Todd of Thomson will be candidate speaker next Sunday. Professor J Howell Atwood of Galesburg will speak the following Sunday and Dr George Losh on the 2nd.
The Catholic Daughters of America hold meetings in the chair room of the Community Building on the second and fourth Thursdays each month. Bara Reed serves as Regent and Nellie Carroll is Historian.
The M W A Camp No. 847 meets in the club room of the Community Building on alternate Tuesdays. Camp No. 203 R N A convenes on the first and third Wednesdays in their Community Building club room. The WRC meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays at Cadys hall with officers Eva Clark and Mary Sollenberger.
Ft Ticonderoga lies at the lake Champlain outlet about 100 miles from Albany and 70 miles below Plattsburg. Indigenous tribes used the site as a common battleground and the Iroquois were said to hate the French after clashes there. The French built a fort named Carillon to command the lake passage and called it Fort Ticonderoga, with later expansions recorded in Pathfinder Magazine.
A historical home baking item presents two fruit cake substitutes. Miss Hepler shares an eggless prune cake recipe yielding two loaves with prunes walnuts and spices baked at 325 degrees. Miss Henderson recommends a Viking fruit cake with mixed candied fruits nuts and glacings, baked slowly at 250 degrees for 2.5 to 3 hours.
Basketball schedule lists games with Dunlap, Wyoming, Elmwood, Chillicothe, Glasford, Maquon, and Princeville. Matches alternate home and away venues from December into February, including a Dunlap Tournament on January 27 to 29 and a district game on February 2.
The senior class will stage Wilkie Collins The Moonstone in the new high school auditorium on Friday December 4. The play centers on the theft of a sacred Hindoo diamond and a series of puzzling events. Cast directed by Miss Cora includes Roberta Bowmar as Lady Verinder and Joe Blundy as The Stranger. The piece promises thrills and mind tests for fans of enigma and mystery.
Expenditures of American tourists abroad last year reached 393 million dollars. The United States national organized gambling bill for 1935 totaled over 6.5 billion dollars.
A collection of verse like proverbs offers wry judgments on life and thrift. Some lines advise prudence and moderation while others warn against pride greed and rash decisions. The tone resembles counsel of old moralizers with compact, memorable maxims.
The passage notes that leaders of the French Revolution who survived early executions died by the guillotine as new leaders rose. Those who endured to the century’s end and to Napoleon’s time were mainly second or third rank men who shifted with each phase, including soldiers who avoided politics and, among others such as Talleyrand and Fouche, remained calculating and adaptable.
A fragment discusses prehistoric Liberia and a mythical pygmy differing from a giant hippod. It notes pygmy eyes on the sides of the head, longer legs and tail, larger brain, and a shore dwelling life in dense jungle rather than swimming.
This weekly Washington digest by William Brockart interprets new acts and department orders from Congress and the government. It aims to reveal how national capital actions affect readers beyond routine news reports.
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