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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1976
Page
2
AP interview profiles Jeannie C Riley describing her rise to fame and disillusionment with the Harper Valley persona. She recalls a Texas cemetery moment as life transforming, leading to renewed faith, family reunion, a Nashville farm life, and renewed happiness.
Sunday church services feature sermons by Rev. Cottrill Weber Keeny Ward Lodwick Lee Scheufler Remick and Evans among others at Christ United Methodist First Baptist Faith United Methodist First United Presbyterian Mt Olivet United Presbyterian St Pauls United Church of Christ St Luke United Presbyterian Pleasant Ridge United Methodist First Christian Zion Lutherans and Zion Lutheran with services start times from 8:15 to 10:45 a.m. church schools at 9:15 to 9:30 a.m. special programs include student recognition day and Christmas film screenings plus a light breakfast and carols at Zion Lutheran. AP notes a Health Insurance Institute statistic: about one doctor per 630 people in US and Canada.
In Dyersburg Tennessee an elderly man asked a local minister for help finding needy children and provided new clothes and food, but the Santa figure paid with checks drawn on a nonexistent account. The 76-year-old Erroll Shirer of Archbold Ohio is jailed in Fulton County Ohio on bad check charges.
The First Church of God at 11th Avenue and Lincoln Street will host its annual Sunday School program this Sunday at 6 30 p m with refreshments after. A separate note covers a welfare aided case where a man named Shirer helped a 12 year old girl and her two younger brothers with shoes clothes groceries and a dinner worth about 115 dollars before leaving a motel and writing an apologetic note. The case was handled by Rev Mr Cook and the county welfare office and authorities later learned of the arrest.
Special New Year’s Eve services will be conducted at Evangel Fellowship Parkway Church of Christ and Trenton Mennonite next Friday. Evangel Fellowship holds a 10 p.m. Watchnight Communion with a film and refreshments. Parkway Church of Christ hosts an 8 30 p.m. to midnight watch with a taped sermon Five Minutes After Death and shows United We Must Stand. Trenton Mennonite offers a 9 p.m. watch with food and games, then a midnight prayer service in the sanctuary.
Six area Roman Catholic churches celebrate Christmas with varied Mass times. Holy Trinity Middletown offers 4 30 p m and 12 a m today and 9 30 a m and 11 30 a m tomorrow. St Marys Middletown lists 5 30, 7 30 p m today and 7 a m, 8 15 a m, 9 30 a m, 11 a m and 12 noon tomorrow. St Johns Middletown has 5 p m and 12 a m today, 11 15 p m carol precedes midnight mass, and 7 30 a m, 9 30 a m and 11 30 a m tomorrow. Holy Name Trenton offers 12 a m today, and 8 a m and 10 30 a m tomorrow. St Marys Franklin holds 7 30 a m and 11 15 a m. Seven Dolors Monroe schedules 7 30 p m Advent closing today, with Mass 8 p m tomorrow, 8 30 a m and 10 30 a m.
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