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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
5
The Missionary meeting of the Methodist Church will be held Thursday December 20 at 2000 hours at the home of Marjorie Tucker. A pot luck luncheon will follow. Thomas Spencer Pastor.
St Josephs Church holds Mass on Sunday at 8:00. Williamsfield Masses at 10:00 on Christmas Eve and 8:30 on Christmas Day with a 6:00 High Mass and 10:00 Low Mass. Confessions Dec 24 3:30 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p m. Catechism class Dec 22 at 2:30 p m. Father T C Garrison pastor.
A church calendar lists 10 00 Sunday School and 11 00 Morning Worship. The Boy Scouts plan a meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 00.
The C D of A meets in the club room of the Community Building on the second and fourth Thursdays each month. Sara Reed is Regent and Nellie Carroll serves as Historian.
The M. W. A. City No. 47 meets at the club room of the Community Building every other Tuesday evening. V. C., Rudolph Savage, H. B. Bowman, Clerk.
Camp No 203 R N A meets on the third Wednesday afternoon each month in the Community Building. Oracle Eva Clark serves as Recorder Cassie Archer is listed with the Women’s Relief Corps affiliation.
The WRC will meet on the second and fourth Wednesday afternoons each month in Cucy’s ball. Stella Keiley serves as secretary and Alma Ellig is noted in the notice.
The calendar lists parade of dates and places with Dunlap on December 21 and January 4 in Princeville January 8 Maquon January 18 Yates City February 6 Gilson February 8 Elmwood and February 16 Cuba marked as meeting sites.
Sunday services in Christian Science churches highlighted God as the preserver of all. Texts cited Psalm 145 20 and Psalms 86 5 7 with passages from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. The lesson affirmed divine guidance sustains man and beast and that God provides food and clothing.
A Western Newspaper Union piece notes that Christian children in Jerusalem and traveling with families will find little snow in Palestine as temperatures seldom drop below 38 degrees. Snowflakes melt on ground. most locals are Muslims or Jews, with few Christians. Some Christmas trees and gifts exist among observers, but no street decorations or early shopping. The Holy Sepulchre and Bethlehem’s six miles away host the season’s quiet reverence.
A family huddles in the pantry amid last minute shopping for Uncle Harry. Rip gifts a salad bowl with a wooden spoon, a misfit but cherished token after a rushed holiday scramble, while Horrigan Carter’s arrival and a festive tree upend the living room scene.
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