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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
1
A concert tomorrow night at St. John's Lutheran Church features Prof. I H Bartholemew conducting fifty voices from Bethlehem and Catasauqua. The event is under the Senior Luther League and invites town patrons.
The Women's Missionary Society presents two short plays in the Sun day school room at 7 30 p m. Keeping Faith follows a missionary family in China and What Shall I Render portrays life in America. Cast includes society and Girls Guild members. Proceeds aid Indian girls education in Neilsville Wisconsin. A silver offering will be collected.
The Grace Evangelical Congregational church series led by Rev. W. S. Cassel drew rising interest with 160 people on Family Night. Artist George Woodward joined the party printing song depictions, Zion Evangelical from Allentown sending a J.I.M. Circle delegation despite the storm. Miss M. Orpal Huff led daily children's meetings and afternoon wife’s prayer sessions held at homes.
Enlarge Ribbon maker Emeon Company on West Main breaks ground for a major annex 90 feet deep along Mulberry Street to the public alley. The expansion will create many new jobs and broaden production capacity.
Local notes capture stage plans for The Prodigal Son at Sacred Heart, town visitors including Rev W Chester Hill and Emma Laub, Bath Boy Scouts meeting with E J Wilcox, travels to Philadelphia New York Saratoga and Osining, a willow tree blown down, and residents painting homes and hosting guests.
Friends of Luther T. Schlegel and Miss Florence J. Ervin reported their marriage in Elkton Maryland on Monday morning. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Ervin, works as an assistant at the Bath post office. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Schlegel of Sunny Side, is employed at the Pennsylvania-Dixie cement plant. They will reside here.
Henry Ivey of Sunnico Oil reports to Chief State Highway Engineer H Buckins that the new road will follow the original Bath route with hotel sheds. Buckfus welcomes the plan and says work will proceed as soon as blueprints are received.
Governor Fisher sets aside Arbor Day for public schools. Bath schools will observe with exercises led by State Forester Joseph Illick, Lafayette College graduate and forestry expert. 3000 Norway pines will be planted east of the recreation park along the Bath Klecknersville highway, plus 18 large American elms transplanted on the park border, funded by the State Forester and nurseries.
Mrs J A Horner represented Bethlehem Chapter at the thirty eighth Continental Congress in Washington D C with Willard Hotel as headquarters. Local visits include Nazareth Allentown and Bethlehem residents with social events and church activities noted.
Weekly Health Talk reports that while infant life expectancy has risen by about twenty years, the average person over fifty shows no increase. Dr. Theodore B. Appel notes many deaths in adults over fifty could be postponed with changes, highlighting a key aging paradox.
The text argues that an intelligent citizen would follow preventive medicine and modern sanitary practices. It cites Pennsylvania heart disease causing about one fifth of adult deaths, with cancer diabetes and tuberculosis also prominent. It suggests annual physicals, temperate eating and adequate care could reduce risk.
A fragmentary note discusses the idea that preserving essential items or ideas could prevent loss. It posits that developing protective measures may seem costly but could avert greater harm, urging careful consideration of what is kept and why.
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