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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1948
Page
10
Readable church listings cover many denominations including First Baptist on West Pleasant Street and several others in Corry. The schedule notes Sunday worship times, Bible programs, and special observances with pastor names and available youth activities.
This newspaper prints the names of sponsors supporting church activities and Sunday sermons. The list includes Pauls Men's Wear, Wittmann & Teab Inc, Model Dairy Co, Frank E, Graft Ins, Agency E, Guignon Ajax Tron Works, E Phillips Bracken Keating Co, Voradora Flower Shop, Damon's Sunoco Service, Komas Motors of Corry Inc, Sterling Milk, Davison Fogle Lumber Co, Corry Jamestown Mig Co, Hammond Elevator Co, Corry Bakery, Western Auto Store, Rex Theatre R, Lawrence Davison, House of Flowers, and Rowe Flower Shop.
Corry area churches list January services with multiple congregations including Corry Evangelical United Brethren First Methodist Church Blue Eye Wesleyan Methodist Nazarene Emmanuel Episcopal Cllymer Findley Lake Evangelical. Entries cite pastors, service times, Sunday School, youth groups, weekly prayer meetings, and special observances within a single church calendar. Names include H Jay Harris James McIntosh Rev Joseph Clair Rev R R Merrimen Rev J L Strong and Louis Scarem.
Evangelical United Brethren Church hosts a 9 PM Watch Night with three program sections. Rev. Charles Gatty of Houghton College will speak. a candlelight Communion ends the event at midnight. Salvation Army lists clashes of services and schedules. Seventh Day Adventist and Elgin Methodist churches share Saturday and evening activities. pastors and Sunday schools listed.
A Watch Night program at First Baptist Church Friday night hosts a film produced by the Protestant Film Commission titled Beyond Our Own. The event includes a farewell for Rev and Mrs Richard Miller and their four children, returning to Liberia to continue missionary work.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 102 West Pleasant street Rev Herman Yost pastor Mrs Herman BE Yost superintendent. There are ages for all. Come and help us reach our goal of 100 14:00 p m Morning Worship 7 48 p m Evangelistic Service Wednesday 7 44 p m Bible study and prayer meeting Thursday pm Young People's Service Our church invites you to attend his services We preach and live the old fashioned gospel Ye shall know the Witch and She shall set you free.
The Yangel male quartet from Theological Seminary Wilmore Kentucky will present a Watch Night program at the Methodist Church. The trio of young men preparing for Christian ministry plus a student at Asbury for missionary work in China will perform. The event begins at 10 p.m. with a fellowship period, membership cards issued, and a 1 p.m. worship service led by the quartet ahead of Holy Communion at midnight. The order is open to the public and includes a brief intermission and silent communion with candles.
A Friday morning program at the Christian and Missionary Al Ugnee Church begins at 9 o clock on December 1. Students from Bible schools will attend and local talent will perform musical and vocal selections. Participants include Wylie, Willi Scott, Joyce Clifford, Mary Saker, Hula Lindsey, Dorothy Huntley, and many Canfield and Mather family members.
The Salvation Army plans two New Year’s Eve services at 8 and 10 48 pm with Captain Katherine Wells of New York City as guest speaker and leader. Wells, formerly Jon Corry, has led Salvation Army work in New York City’s metropolitan area for five years. She will be assisted by Marjorie Mille of Corry, studying at The Salvation Army Training College in New York. The public is invited to worship in the chapel.
The New Year Watch Night Service at the Pentecostal Church features Lyle Bemis as speaker. Rev. Herman B Yost leads a program with congregational singing, special numbers, and prayer as the year begins. Bemis, from Clymer, NY, recently served as Sunday School superintendent and is in Minnesota for Bible study. Members are urged to attend and friends invited.
Fragmentary text lists multiple personal names and ages in a garbled OCR line. Readable items include Agnes, Maxine, and other proper nouns with associated numbers, but the overall meaning and context are missing.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a jacket and personal names including Donne 1D, Mary W, Talbot and Bushee appears amid unreadable phrases. No clear event or outcome is evident from the readable text.
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