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Newspaper
Henry News Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
4
Varna households and neighbors marked Christmas with family dinners, gifts, and church events. Numerous residents from Peoria Lacon Streator and Chicago visited, hosted guests, and shared meals, while civic groups delivered baskets and hosted pageants at the Swedish Lutheran church.
Town people and all farmers are invited to a combined meeting at Varna High School gymnasium for men at 10:00 p m and Luther Hall for women, followed by a 7:30 p m session in the gym. Bring a basket for dinner, committee provides cafeteria meal, coffee cream and sugar. Show community spirit and attend.
The Par ent-Teachers' Association sponsored a community Christmas tree festival in the high school gym on Friday evening December 25. The event opened at 7 15 p m with more than three hundred attendees from all creeds and nationalities. The three local churches and the school provided an excellent program including quieting music by Mrs L H Brown and invocation by Rev Dickerson.
A Christmas Eve pageant at the Methodist church drew a large appreciative audience. Cast included Simeon Wallace Brown Rachel Mary E Rogers Naomi Edith Brown Judah Harold Wright Jackariass priest Israel Loren Koch Nathan Benjamin Walter Martin Frederick Quiram Four Shepherds Dennis Obed Simon Samuel Curley King Joe Meredith Louis Phillips Harold Stoner Three Wise Men Roy May Roy Brown Ozell Stateler Rachael friends Phyllis Martin Dorothy Quiram Thelma Saxton Dorothy Wolcott Annunciator Miriam Dicker son.
Rev. W. Flemming of Chicago, superintendent of the Illinois Civic League, spoke at Swedish Lutheran church on The Bible and the Public School. He argued Bible presence reduces lawlessness and is permissible from hotels to prisons but not in public schools.
An argument favors allowing Bible use in schools to prevent youth from ending in cells, noting oaths on the Bible in courts and other settings. A local offering near forty dollars is mentioned as well.
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