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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1921
Page
1
New York report shows shoppers treating Christmas as a sober occasion. Women buy utilitarian gifts like electric dishwashers and cigarette holders approach to health. Toy makers shift to realistic dolls, banks see rising deposits for Christmas funds.
Vroome and Co butter and cheese merchants in New York City say they keep RAT-SNAP in their cellar to control rats. Farmers use RAT-SNAP because rats avoid regular food after treated. Three sizes priced 75c 65c and 1.25. Sold and guaranteed by T. J. Lindley Doherty Drug Store and Basil Holmes.
The Christmas program at St Luke's features Sunday School lessons at 9 30 a m with white gifts for the Orphans Home, a 10 45 a m sermon The Christmas Spirit, 7 30 p m carol music, and a Christmas Communion next Sunday The church decorates in white and green and hosts a Christmas festival Monday night and a mothers cradle roll party Wednesday at 2 30 p m The annual meeting and officer election occur January 1 at 2 30 p m
A St. Luke's Christmas program features organ preludes and anthems by the choir under Mrs. J. E. Worrell and Dale. Soloists include Mrs. Worrell and Mr. George Groher with congregational hymns and readings. remarks by the pastor and benediction.
The International Bible Students will present a Sunday evening lecture at 8 o clock over the First National Bank building at Spring and Market Streets New Albany. Public invited to attend.
Wall Street M E Church led by John T Soull offers a special Christmas program replacing regular services. The 10:00 morning program titled White Gifts for the King fills the main auditorium. Epworth League at 6:30 presents The Light of a Christmas Candle and 7:30 sermon The Unspeakable Gift. Admission by ticket. Mr Allen Zimmer to play offertory. All welcome.
Bible School starts at 9 30 a m with preaching at 10 30 a m. A Christmas message will be delivered.
Rev. F. J. Mallett presides over Christmas Day Holy Communion and sermon "God's Best Gift" at 8:30 am followed by Sunday School at 9:30 am. A Christmas tree and program are planned for Monday at 7:30 pm.
A devotional verse proclaims hope for peace and restoration as the holy baby is imagined to be born on Christmas. The poem envisions a future without war and suffering and a world marked by blessed grain fields and bright stars guiding the faithful.
Sunrise Prayer Meeting at 6 30 a m Sunday School at 4 30 a m Adult Classes at 9 45 a m Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m A Christmas Message in Song and Sermon at 10 30 a m theme The Power of a Name with Allegro The Beginning Star and other numbers postlude Lemmens A Christmas Song Service at 7 30 p m featuring Holy Night The Shepherds Vision and Arise Shine with Grace Swartz and Chor Nevin Mrs W T Fox Mrs A J Howard and choir
All drug stores will close Monday afternoon to observe a CAvistanas holiday. Druggists gain a holiday break as shops suspend operations briefly in the midafternoon.
The Ahedia Club of St Luke’s hosted a Christmas party at the home of president Mrs Willian Davis on Illinois Avenue after a brief meeting. Refreshments were served, musical numbers performed, and attendees included Mesdames Miller Roederer Deiro w Malone Gilaser Crandall Benson and Miss Neff Hass Weidner Ritter Abel among others.
The Literary Digest notes a moving platform dining concept not new but once used by Clark County Sheriff Hawes. His round table with a raised center carried dishes on a pivot and could swing meals toward each eater. Hawes credited another source and found it handy for serving.
A Christmas message urges readers to spread daily love as the true gift of Christ. It laments historic violence by nations and calls for peace, highlighting Washington's role in the Christian world and the hope for a Christlike spirit this season.
A violent night storm battered the city and surrounding area with heavy rain hail and high winds. Flooding overwhelmed Franklin Square flooding forced pumps to run and trains were disrupted with tracks flooded and service halted north of the city.
Dispatch reports big washouts north with the Pennsylvania and Interstate lines in trouble. A Marshfield washout forces rerouting over the B&O. repairs planned. No further washouts yet north of Marshfield. No northbound trains had arrived by 9 am, while the 6 pm southbound train was expected.
The Consistory has nominated elders Geo Nanz John Weiss Jacob Woehrle and for deacon Ernest Andres William V Schimpf Gus A Schimpf George Hempel Ott Keller with John Binder and John Williams as trustees. Mrs J C Wolf and son Joseph Carl of Louisville visited. Ecker in an auto accident at Thirtieth and Broadway left hospital unconscious. Payton’s great nephew news from hospital. Swartz at Mobile visiting daughter Arlie Hyndman family. Alec Mitchell improving after illness. Bert Bell of Pekin guest of E E Bel. Mrs Howard Chney Alberta Hume to Indianapolis. Mrs Lansett of Pocahontas visiting. Mrs William Foster returned from Martinsville for treatment and is improving.
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