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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1934
Page
2
A dense, OCR heavy church notices page lists numerous area congregations and pastors. It details morning and evening services across multiple denominations with Christmas themes, cantatas, pageants, Sunday schools, and youth activities. Names include Rev. Wiliam Z. Cline, Rev. D. D. Benton, Rev. O. G. Smith, and Rev. J. Gat.
Local churches list multiple daily services with sermons and subjects. Notable items include Rev. KP Speraw at First Church with 7:30 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. services, Rev. Ferdinand Masera at Catholic Meers near Vire Street, and Rev. Cuthbee at St Planete Street presenting evening sermons. Additional schedules cover Sunday school, Evangelical services, and special cantatas or pageants across several denominations in Kanawha City.
Newtown High School students in New York seek $400 to finish a monument for Clement Clarke Moore. The PWA budgeted funds for a stone tribute in the Long Island cemetery, but money ran out. Dimes from lunch money and small contributions from neighbors aim to complete the memorial honoring the poet of St. Nicholas.
The text notes a marker designating the place where Moore, son of Columbia University’s first president, lived when writing his poem. The corner stone of a vast apartment building now stands where the Moore home once stood, and Monday night hundreds of apartments will echo with Christmas laughter. If Moore were alive today he could not write of this place.
In Livingston Montana a bison auction draws attention as Leo Cremer, rancher and rodeo director, sells five head for 100 dollars each, highlighting the animal's fading status amid market demand. The piece blends holiday verse with a note on wildlife decline and a local sale.
The census bureau has named enumerators for Kanawha and Logan counties for the 1935 agricultural census in the fifth and fourth districts. Twelve are chosen for Kanawha and six for Logan, with aims to complete all 11 counties by early January. Data collected will be used for statistics only and not for tax assessments.
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