Vacation Bible Schools In Grafton Churches Announce Programs
Grafton churches outline Vacation Bible School offerings with some closing events and others opening next week. St Pauls Lutheran hosts a Sunday climax with a luncheon by the League of Young Adult Lutherans honoring children after services. Art displays from children, motto plaques, and crafts accompany the event. The Rev. Cross emphasizes the value of a Christian family life. The first Presbyterian Day School will hold a 7:30 p.m. Friday sharing session with parents and friends.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
League of Young Adult Lutherans
William Merow
Raymond C. Cross
Congregational
Wanda Robinson
Diape Gerkin
Sarah Ethel Smith Beverly
Knight
Norma Linsbeck
Charles ‘Moran
Benjamin Gerkin
Bible School
First Presbyterian Daily Vacation Church
Blueville Charge Vacation Bible Schools Continue
Vacation Bible schools at Blueville Haymond and Fetterman Methodist churches run for one more week through June 17 per Rev. Charles Huffman. Blueville enrolls 80 with teachers Adrian Fast Ruby Weaver Betty Walls Audry White Alta Moore and Esther Turner directing. Fetterman hosts 38 under Janice McDaniel Betty Ball with teachers Paul McDaniel Herbert Ball Charles Keener Rex Withers Orval Ball W Lawler. Haymond serves 43 with sessions at 7 p m daily. teachers Bertha Montgomery Rose Mary Moats Boyles Lucile Henderson Coffman Lula Satterfield Florence Watkins Elizabeth Watkins.
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Blueville
Haymond
Fetterman Methodist
Charles Huffman
Adrian Fast
Ruby Weaver
Betty Walls
Audry White
Alta
Mse Moore
Esther Turner
Fetterman
Janice McDaniel
Betty Ball
Paul
Coffman
Lula Satterfield
Florence Watkins
Elizabeth Watkins
Successful Bible Class At Brethren Climax
A daily vacation Bible school at First Brothers church near Tygart Lake Park ended with a school picnic. The average attendance was 74, intermediates aged high school counted 29, average 26. A program will be presented at morning services and again at 730 PM Sunday night.
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First Brothers
Tygart Lake Park
Lee Crist
First Baptist School Closes Friday Vacation Ends With Picnic
First Baptist Church vacation church school continues for another week and will climax with a picnic at Tygart Dam Friday afternoon. Children bring lunches. soft drinks and ice cream provided. Other events include the Christian Education convention for the Union Baptist church with Simpson at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Sunday school officers and leaders are asked to attend. Rev. Harry T. Rowe will preach on The Meaning of Church Membership.
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First Baptist Church
Tygart Dam
Union Baptist Church
Simpson
Servic
Harry T. Rowe
Pastor Invests Wife As Master Guide At West Virginia Conference
The wife of the pastor of Grafton Seventh-day Adventist Church was invested this week as a Master Guide the highest honor from the Adventist youth program. The investiture occurred during the 57th Bible Conference for West Virginia Seventh-day Adventists in Parkersburg where the event runs June 2 to June 12. Mrs Woodruff directs the kindergarten department and Pastor Woodruff assists in several other church programs.
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Grafton
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Adventist Church Youth Club
West Virginia
Parkersburg
Woodruff
Wood
Secretary Loses Mayor At Meeting
In Formosa the Chiayi mayor missed the New York conference of mayors after his secretary misread an English invitation as an advertisement and discarded it. The error prevented the mayor from attending the event, a report by the English-language China Post notes.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiayi
Conference of Mayors
New York
China Post
Bats Have Vision Says MSU Zoologist
East Lansing Michigan speaker Donald W Hayne a Michigan State College zoologist notes that bats are not blind as a bat saying bats possess vision. He emphasizes that misperceptions about bat blindness persist in public knowledge.
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East Lansing
Mich
Donald W. Hayne
Michigan State College
Question Is Biggest Hurdle For Grade School Spellers
Berkeley report from the AAAS convention at UC shows the word question as the toughest spelling hurdle for grade school children. Dr. George C. Kyte of USC presented a study with 87 to 276 misspellings per word and 4 to 182 ways words were misspelled, revealing common errors like qustion and question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
American Association For the Advancement of Science
University of California
George C. Kyte
USC
Kyte
Pittsfield man offered car to faster driver
Orlando Froid of Pittsfield charged with speeding at 55 mph offered his car to anyone who could drive it faster than 40. Judge Charles Alberta did not accept the offer but demonstrated the car could reach 55 mph and fined Froid $25.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Orlando Froid
Charles Alberta
Froid
Irish Ancestry Guild Aims to Aid Americans in Ireland
Vincent J. Ryan forms a guild to guide Americans of Irish descent seeking their roots, using Rostork Castle in Clew Bay Mayo as a base. Hostesses with Irish life knowledge will welcome visitors, while maps and lore detail origins of surnames. Guests may live in period surroundings and explore local sites.
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Dublin RA
Ireland
Vincent J. Ryan
America
Clew Bay
County Mayo
Guild
Ryan
Rostork Castle
Clare Island
Grainne O'Malley
Grainne
Tillie Clarkson Taken By Death
Tillie Hamilton Clarkson of Thornton Route died at 8 20 am today at her home after a four year illness and a brief serious period since April Born March 15 1889 she was the daughter of Clark Hamilton and Josephine Conley Hamilton Her husband J V Clarkson died in 1928 She is survived by three children Freeman H Clarkson Victor G Clarkson Thornton Mrs F R Willamson Bridgeport one brother L E Hamilton Tunnelton four sisters Mrs W O Miller Kingwood Mrs P D Zinn Morgan town Mrs Curtis Boice Prunttytown Miss Ruth Hamilton Prunttytown 12 grandchildren and one great grandchild She was a member of Otterbein Chapel and had lived in Pruntytown all her life Arrangements in charge of Bartlett Funeral Home are in complete.
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Tillie Hamilton _ Clarkson
Thornton
Clark
Josephine Conley Hamilton
J. V. Clarkson
Freeman H. Clarkson
Victor G. Clarkson
F. R. Willamson
Bridgeport
L. E. Hamilton
Tunnel
Dorothy Ludwick Funeral Notices at Knottsville Methodist Church
Funeral services for Dorothy Ludwick are set for 2 p m Sunday at Knottsville Methodist Church with Rev J Bernard Dryfield officiating. Interment will follow in Knottsville Cemetery. The body will lie in state from 1 p m Sunday at the church. Pallbearers include Carl Kirkpatrick Smith Shroyer Earl Junker Everett Ludwick Gene Cutright and Benny Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knottsville Methodist Church
J. Bernard Dryfield
Knottsville
Clyde Wiland
Pallbearare
Carl Kirkpatrick
Smith Shroyer
Earl Junker
Everett Ludwick
Gene Cutright
Benny Bryan
Police Station Shelters Partying Couple Overnight
A middle aged couple wandered into the Ironton police station at 3 am seeking refuge from a family dispute. They stayed about 30 minutes while officers watched the radio chatter before deciding to go home. In Buffalo, Mrs June Calkins kept her impounded 1941 coupe after two parking tickets, telling the judge it cost too much to fix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Fugett
Buffalo, N.Y
June Calkins
Arthur J. Cosgrove
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