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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1947
Page
2
A compiled list of Christmas services and programs from many churches across La Crosse. It details times for Masses, talks, choir performances, Christmas programs, catechism and Sunday schools at churches including St. Josephs Cathedral, Our Lady Mother, St. John the Baptist, First Congregational, Christ Episco pal, and numerous Lutheran and Methodist parishes.
Christmas services at the English Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity on 16th and Cass will include a Sunday school nativity pageant led by Mrs. F B Lewinski. Festival services occur on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with a junior choir candlelight vesper and a midnight candlelight service at 11:30 p m under E M Saterbak. Mrs Lyle Hansen will play the organ.
A special service at Seventh street Baptist Church at Seventh and Winnebago features a 7 pm youth Christmas program with music and messages. At 7 45 pm John Vanderbeck, pastor M Vanderbeck's son and a North American Baptist Seminary senior in Rochester, N Y, will deliver the message before finishing his studies in May 1948. The Sunday school Christmas program is set for Tuesday at 7 45 pm.
Estelle Jahnel visits Modern Beauty Shop and 507 Main as Goodyear Service at 117 No 6th St Walt's at Third and Mississippi plan Christmas closures. Sam Markos advertises oriental rug values while Cocoanut glasze and pecan glasze are noted. Sheaffer Parker gift items and embroidered linens featured. Barbecued spare ribs listed and Cerise Club mentioned.
Birth brief from Cedar Falls Iowa lists a Dec 8 son for Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stokes of 1121 West Third Street with the father formerly of La Crosse and Caledonia Minnesota, plus a Dec 16 daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bessie. Grandview records a 20 son for Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilton Wisconsin R2 Alma Schindary’s Hospital notes a Dec 18 son for Mr. and Mrs. Clare Schwarz Kendall and a Sept 18 son for Milburn Ziegler Sparta plus Sept 19 son for Leonard J. Atteln Norwalk and Hugh Guy Black River Falls families.
A Sunday school lesson traces the idea of world peace from Isaiah and John to modern efforts for a united world. It notes prophetic visions of an era without war and reflects on the limits of political alliances, urging trust in divine promises and the Kingdom of God. The lesson cites Isa 9 2 7 and Rev 11 15 4 1 to illustrate peace and worship.
The piece recalls the birth of a boy in Bethlehem as the birth of the greatest prophet of peace. It notes the shepherds and wise men, linking the event to Isaiah prophecies about Israel and Judah and the rise and fall of empires like Assyria and Babylon.
A nativity pageant by Jessie Straton directed by John Harlan titled Good Tidings of Great Joy will be presented at the Christmas vesper service Sunday at 4 30 p m in the First Congregational church Sev enth and Main streets The six episode pageant includes choir numbers under C Bernard McGhee with organist Mrs Raymond Plamadore The program features solos and readings by Patricia Jackson and Marie Elizabeth and a series of carols performed by the senior and children's choirs with Solists and readers named. cast includes Lois Hollett Agnes Holley Dr Maurice Graff Mary Mrs William Bender Joseph Blaine Emilson innkeeper Robert Neu hostess Ann Van Zandt angels Nyla Ping Margaret Thompson Shirley Stukins Nancy Ross shepherds Bill Jordan Dexter Olstadt Tom Knudson kings Ted Knudson Charles Pearson John Jenks plus costume makeup and lighting staff.
A 36 car Friendship Train freight train shipped from Le Havre arrived in Paris welcomed by Transport Minister Christian Pineau U S Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and other French and American officials signaling aid to relief efforts.
Marriage licenses show several couples from La Crosse Onalaska West Salem and nearby areas set to wed on December 27 in La Crosse Bangor Onalaska or West Salem. Names include Vernon Michaelson and Viola Niedfeldt Betty Wenzel and Percy Brown Harvey Krause and Joan Kaiser Kenneth Williams and Betty Cassel Roberta Rowe and Joseph Haggerty Genise Grande and Wilber Schueler.
Junior and senior choirs of the church on King Street present their annual candlelight Christmas concert Sunday at 4 p.m. Directed by Mrs. Harry F Worth and Mrs. Eugene Toepel with Mrs. Irene Thatro on organ, the program features carols, hymns, and solos including O Holy Night and Gesu Bambino.
Wesley Methodist Church school presents a Sunday program "Christmas Blessings" at 4 p m in the church auditorium. A complete worship program with pictures songs and stories by Church Craft pictures features color Bible stories from the Old Testament prophecies the birth of Jesus the Wise Men and Christmas meaning. Music by church school children three choirs and soloists.
Berlin officials announced that German prisoners of war repatriations from the Soviet Union have nearly doubled since summer and now average about 9000 per week.
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