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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1943
Page
6
Local churches list Sunday services across Elgin and surroundings. First Church of Christ Scientist and several denominations including Methodist, Lutheran, United Brethren, and Presbyterian announce services, lessons, and midweek activities with pastors and schedules for Sunday school, worship, and youth groups.
A readout of churches in Corry including Christan and Mennonite Alliance on LK Washington and Maple Ave. Church of the Namrena near W Washington. Tinsted Brethren in Christ at M. Cemter. Baptist Church at Second Ave. Church of Christ at Selantiat Park. Bethudaias, First Presbyterian on Center St. St Elizabeths and St Thomas FR Church. St Paw's Evangelical Cythera and The Salvation Army among others.
Multiple church listings announce schedules at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH and CORNER EAST WASHINGTON, with pastors Reverend Belman Wilmer Heifer and Rev Everett Alfie. Services include Sunday worship at 11:00, sermons The Promise of Heaven and Mephibosheth, youth programs, prayer meetings, and evangelistic services. Also listed are weekly board and prayer meetings and a Seventh Day Adventist service led by Melvin J. Sickler on Saturdays.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church at Somer Smith and North Center streets lists a 418 A.M. Sunday School, 10760-11 M. Music worship with W Shotzbargel leading the opus The Conquerors and offertory Just Fox Talley. Tertius Nobel and Norwood Date organize a Tuesday 6 30 oclock gathering for a green supper. Cory men's Bible class meets Sundays at 2 30 P M at the Salvation Army Citadel on East Washington street with Verl Walker to speak. Walker previously hosted programs on WLET. Everyone is welcome.
SPARTANSBURG GOSPEL TABRENACLE lists Sunday School at 11:00 AM, Morning Worship at 11:00 AM, Evangelistic Service at 8:30 PM, and open air services on Saturdays. SPENCER COMMUNITY CHURCH reports Sunday School at 10:00 AM, Church Service at 4:00 PM, and midweek prayer. WAYNE VALLEY U B CHURCH schedules Sunday School 10:00 AM, Worship 11:00 AM, evening service 8:15 PM, and Wednesday prayer meeting at 3:15 PM with choir rehearsal.
Churches across the city prepare for Red Cross Sunday and a citywide anti war effort starting next week. Pastors will reference the Red Cross campaign and War Fund drive budgeted at $9,000, aiming to surpass previous canvasses. Local parishes list services and activities for the period, with schedules at St Thomas and several churches in the East and Bear Lake area.
Nashville preacher Dr Dewey Whitwell leads revival services at the United Brethren Church with the Kutih Gloria Singers of Lebanon. Attendance increases as nightly programs feature sermons on Your Religion and The Rapture of the Church, plus Sunday schools and family night gifts. A special concert by the Gloria Singers is set for Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
Vlyde W. Schorsninger, secretary of the Colly McA and Northwest District, named acting physics director of the Pennsylvania State YMCA. He will direct the statewide special physical education program while remaining in the city and continue local duties. The role focuses on monthly health education programs and similar statewide efforts.
Corry and nearby areas report mixed activity as spring plans unfold. Retail trends hint at growth with sales up in textiles while real estate transfers occur on Marion and Lemon streets. Community updates include charity contributions to the infantile paralysis fund and local police reporting minor incidents. Northwest Pennsylvania area campaigns and rail traffic statistics are touched on, with missing air hero Willem Berin noted as a local connection. Road crews clear snow, maintain routes, and prepare for warmer weather.
Fragmented wartime OCR notes describe Allied movements around 2000 miles of Australia, Nimitz statements, and Japanese advances. Mentions Burma, Rangoon, and troop actions with scattered references to air and sea operations, though text is garbled and partially unreadable.
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