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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1936
Page
5
A poignant column reflects on a missed Christmas reunion, urging letters and travel home to comfort aging parents. The piece contrasts a family’s longing with the distant soldier’s absence, emphasizing the emotional weight of choosing to stay away during the holidays.
Mrs Roosevelt extension style note introduces a report on a Friday afternoon viewing of the local National Youth Administration project at the high school. Under Mrs Foster the girls unit has operated since March, producing remarkably valuable work with needle training areas noted and impressed observers.
Providence notes new residents Mr and Mrs Jeff Sutton and Mr and Mrs Landers moving in. Social visits include Mattie Jean Martin staying with Lucille Gaines and a Helen Hazzard party. Agnes Gaines visits La Vem Purtle. Morton and Hazzard families hosted. J M Watsons and children with Gaines parents. Ted Purtle visits Nelson Purtle family. Breach of promise suits barred in German courts under new Nazi family laws.
A witness recounts Edward VIII as a sensitive boy shaped by war and loneliness. The future king sought American friends in Paris and Oxford, driven by duty and care for others. His unwavering will and reluctance to bend honor the portrait of a ruler guided by empathy and resolve.
Sunday school meets at 5 45 p m with preaching at 7 30 p m both sermons by the pastor. Prayer meeting is Tuesday at 7 30 p m Bible study Friday at 7 30 p m. All are invited and urged to bring someone. The young people class grows under Lacie Rowe with plans for a Young People's Gleaners class. 59 members helping to make it a success.
Pastor M A Stumbaugh invites worshippers to Sunday school at 9 45 morning worship at 11 Junior N Y PS 6 and evening service at 7 30 with an interesting message for both sessions. Cordial invitation to attend.
Bert Webb of Hope Gospel Tabernacle tells his son to step into his office amid prayers for better attendance as bad weather affects Sunday school and worship. The narrative recalls royal anecdotes about crowns, cabinet dicta, and a young king’s moment of defiance amid a tale of friendship from an American woman following Queen Alexandra’s death.
Vernon Simpson and Miss Carlene Bruner won top spots in Hempstead county events at city hall on Friday night. They will receive radio and screen tests at Lit-He Rock and represent Hempstead county in a state wide contest. Frances Joy Ramsay won first in the Shirley Temple parade. An amateur art beauty show, directed by La Delle Obtara of Hope, featured the Hope Boys band auxiliary. Simpson also won the amateur contest by piano playing while blindfolded.
A church bulletin invites attendance this Sunday with a nine forty-five arrival time and an eleven o clock communion observance. The pastor will preach on that subject and urge personal reflection for a time of refreshing. Children’s Church and Christ’s Ambassadors meet at 6 30 with a 7 30 Sunday night service featuring hymns and an organ accompaniment. Saint Marks Episcopal Church lists Holy Eucharist at 7 30 a m and 1 a m sermons with church school at 10 a m on Sunday December 13 1996.
Fred R. Warrison pastor leads a 945 a m Sunday school and 10 55 a m worship with sermon on Why Believe in Angels. 5 00 p m Candlelight Vesper features Christmas music by the Friday Music Club. Public invited. Edgeworth David noted as Welsh explorer who discovered the seventh magnetic pole.
The W O W lodge of Hope elected new officers for the coming year. John W. Ridgdill announced the lineup Saturday: J. J. Crosby as consul commander Oliver Simpson as advisor lieutenant W. B. Boyett as banker John Ridgdill as clerk Leo Erwin as escort J. R. Will Harms as watchman Earl Bourden as sentry W A Sullivan T B Bryant S. W Kennedy as auditors.
The narrative traces the Duke of York stepping into royal duties, representing the King at weddings and a coronation, and his Africa trip in 1925 with hunting and a ceremonial equator crossing. It covers the 1927 Canberra opening trip, a shipboard fire, and 1929 1930 duties including Church of Scotland convocation Oslo wedding and domestic life anecdotes highlighting his humor and public service.
Popeye returns to the Saenger on Sunday in a full color cartoon feature. The program also presents the comedy Pennies from Heaven with Bing Crosby and Madge Evans leading a cast including Edith Fellows and John Gallaudet along with Louise Armstrong and his swing band performing period standards.
General Sing Cheh-yuan, ruler of North China, bans buildings over two stories to preserve Peiping’s skyline dominated by the American Embassy radio sweet, the high palace gateways, and dragon-topped structures. A separate note mentions Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles housing the world’s largest imitation moon, 38 feet in diameter.
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