Nativity Gift Tale Told by One Poor Shepherd
A December feature relays the Nativity story through a practical shepherd Asa who delays gifts yet brings two small tokens from his bag. Wise men from the east arrive bearing gold frankincense and myrrh as the infant is found in a Bethlehem manger, with a holiday calendar of local clubs and meetings accompanying the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Quigg
United Press
City of David
Asa
Bethlehem
Mary
Joseph
Christmas Eve Communion Service at First Church of Christ
The First Church of Christ hosts its annual candlelight communion on Christmas Eve at 7 30. The choir, directed by Glenn Batterfield with Miss Jean Hinkins as organist, will perform Silent Night O Holy Night and I Love to Sing About My Master while C W Hauk sings The Holy City. The service includes the communion invitation by the minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church of Christ
C. W. Hauk
Holy City
Glenn Batterfield
Jean Hinkins
Wendel Union Sunday School Christmas Program Held
The Wendel Union Sunday School held its annual Christmas program at the Union Hall on Tuesday December 18 at 7 20 pm. Silent Night was sung by the group and Devotions led by Rev Harley F Jefferies. Numerous participants including Delores George Imogene Knotts Sharon Mayle Sandra Lou Venguim Junior Jefferies Nina Outright Sarah Jefferies Pauletta Vengrin Déloris George Gene Marteney Norma Outright Terry Vengrin Sharon George Margaret Kerns Imogene Knotts and others. Mrs Wilfred Roling has returned home from Alderson Broaddus hospital where she has been treated for a throat infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendel Union Sunday School
Union Hall
Harley F. Jefferies
Delores George
Imogene Knotts
Sharon Mayle
Sandra Lou Venguim
Junior Jefferies
Nina Outright
Sarah Jefferies
Pauletta Vengrin
Déloris George
Gene Marteney
Norma Outright
Terry Vengrin
Sharon Georg
Kathleen Poling
Margaret Ker
Tommy Rein
Ellen George
Tomy George
Shara George
Norma Cutright
Sharon Jefferies
Sharon George
Margaret Kerns
Wilfred Roling
Alderson- Broaddus Hospital
Infant Loyd McKinney Jr Visits Kinney Family Home
Loyd McKinney Jr infant son of Mr and Mrs Kurkendall visited at Kinney in Painesville Ohio. The family was at the Alder hospital with Rose DeBakron Broadd, the home of Rose DeBakron Broadd.
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Uon
Loyd McKinney, Jr
Kurkendall
Lldyd
Painesville
Kinney
Alder
Rose DeBakr
Pr .Broadd
Christmas visitors and holiday guests listed in personals
Mrs Pearl Pearson of Santa Fe visited with Archie and Martha Bartlett before continuing to Boston to see her son James Pearson. Miss Martha Ford of Charlestown spends Christmas with her father C L Ford. Ira Mooney of Clarksburg and Bess Dorsett host relatives on Maple Ave. H J Griffith and family visit Parkersburg relatives on Thayer St. G E Powell plans winter in Miami. James A Moore and family from New Castle will join Saffel and Moore relatives for Christmas. Parkersburg hosts Nicely and Cole families for the holidays. James Wolfe and family from Pittsburgh visit Walnut St. Walter Thayer family hosts Maybelle Thayer and Virginia Taylor for Christmas in Maple Ave.
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Pearl Pearson
Santa Fe
Archie Bartlett
Boston
James Pearson
Martha Ford
Charleston
C L. Ford
Maple Ave
Ira Mooney
Clarksburg
Bess Dorsett
H. J. Griffith
Parkersburg
Mary G. Hines
Leota Griffith
Thayer St
G. E. Powell
Miami
Fla
James A. Moore
New Castle
J. Moore
Evelyn Saffel
Harry Nicely
B. Cole
Ann
Dorsey Ridenour
Guy Wolfe
Walnut St
James Wolfe
Pittsburgh
James L. Guth
Joseph ¥. Tucker
Washington, D.C
Virginia Taylor
Maybelle Thayer
Walter Thayer
Hospital Admissions and Discharges on December 22 23
Hospital records list admissions on December 22 including Anna May Cline Tunnelton Leona Musgrove Nancy Matéey and others. Discharges on December 22 include Lucy Burke Grace Getz Jo Ann Lambert. December 23 admissions include Ruth Cline Independence Mildred Gar ter Helen Smith and Charles Roby. Discharges on December 23 include Marjjorie Smith Ruth Marteney Ann Shaffer and Anna May Cline.
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Anna ‘May Cline
Tunnelton
Leona ‘Musgrove
W. Boyd St
Nancy Matéey
Front St
Lucy Burke
Grace Getz
Walnut St
Jo Ann Lambert
Ruth Cline
Independence
Mildred Gar‘ter
Thornton
Helen’ Smith
Charles Roby
Washington
Marjjorie Smith
N. Pike
St. Ruth
Christmas Dinner Planned for Grafton Hospital Staff and Patients
Hospital patients and workers at Grafton City Hospital will enjoy a Christmas Day menu featuring roast turkey oyster dressing cranberry sauce green beans fruit salad cake ice cream and coffee. Gil Scout Troop No 1 and the Dolly Club prepared the trays while the Golden Age Group of the Gration Women's Club crafted puppets for hospitalized children.
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Grafton City Hospital
Gil Scout Troop No. 1
Dolly Club
Gration Women’s Club
Golonka Brothers Sell 56.5 Acre Tract Near Buffalo
In suburban New York, brothers Joseph L. and Sigmund Golonka sold a 56.5 acre tract for 170000 to Kennecot Cooper Corp. They had bought it a year earlier for 26250 with plans to rent to junk dealers.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Golonka
Josoh L
Sigmund Golonka
Suit
Kennecot Cooper Corp
Webster WSCS Christmas Meeting At Webster Church
The Webster WSCS devoted its Christmas meeting to a Yale theme with poems music and dialogue at the Webster Methodist Church home of Mrs Tracy Felton. Rev and Mrs Yoak were guests receiving a surprise gifts shower while secret pal exchanges and a January gathering were noted. Overnight guests attended due to a relative’s funeral.
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Ane Rirsy Micas
Garnet Gower
Susan Smith
Wsc.s
Webster Methodist Church
Tracy Felton
Weasel
Nancy Get
Santa Claus
Robert G Yoak
Latta Getz
Rey
Yoak
Gower
Smith
Ima Cooner
Hess
Zell Wolfe
Getz
Vic Fitewater
LaDonna Tucker
Pauline Mewi Tums
St Ester Goodwin
Mildred Mwilliams
Nancy Gel
Mac ‘Wolfe
Pearl Felton
Jackie Hes
Linda McWilliams
Norma Goowin
Arthur G. Bailey
Clarksburg
Ethel Preston
L. Bunner of
Graton
J. H. Willis
J. B. Kincaid
Two Gifts at Bethlehem From a Shepherd’s Heart
In a rural tale Asa offers two gifts to Mary in the manger scene a small shearing toy from his sheep and a tiny cloth bag. The eldest shepherd rebukes the poverty of the gift but Asa explains the purpose was to honor Mary and the memory that she treasured in her heart and not material value.
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Achamed
Asa
Macy
Mary
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Betty Held
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Catherine Poling
Jerusalem Methodist Church
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Simp§no Road
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Grafton
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Odbert Lee Hovattery
Harry Hovatter
St. Pauls Methodist Church
Oakland
Winfield Patterson
Ebert Knotts
Grafton High School
Kasson High School
McCroy'’s Store
Keenin River Motor Co
Bureau ‘of Fisheries
Wendel Union
Webster Wscs
Yale
Ray Keener
Co-Operative
W. Main Bt
John BR. Jenkins
Walnut
Grafton, W. VA
Starford
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Wm.f
Bill
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