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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
2
Bath Town Council votes to enter a WPA project to improve public alleys within the borough. Other approved or pending projects include reprinting and indexing old council minute books, building an ice skating rink in the Borough Meadow, and an $18 000 grant for completing curbs gutters and shoulders with right of way.
Sponsoring organizations with a $25 gift from the Eckley E Patch Post American Legion Bath support annual outings. Troop 33 and Troop 43 list numerous Scouts and leaders including Wm Benninger Clayton Biery Arthur Diehl and others. Bath Scouts led by Benn Frantz attended the camp amid a noted church picnic with rain halting activities but ending in a successful bake sale and concert by the Bath Band.
A large Bath group of Boy Scouts travels to Camp Minsi in Tobyhanna for a week of camping and instruction under trained leaders. Troop No 33 is sponsored by the Bath Lions Club and Troop No 43 by the Holy Name Society of the Sacred Heart Church, continuing a long tradition.
The committee to arrange the annual Sunday School picnic and coordinate with other town schools is Miss Rebecca Abel and Arthur Lapp. The Ladies Aid Society held its annual picnic at Indiana Trail Park yesterday afternoon. The Mens Brotherhood picnic is set for Moser's Grove at Delps Station on Friday evening July 14. A committee is in charge. A variety shower was held. Sunday School classes taught by Isabelle Shiffer Annie Miller and Mrs. Wm Teel formerly Anna Bes were noted.
Enhofer delivered a variety shower for Mrs Teel at her Bridgeport home on Thursday evening. Many gifts were given and a social hour followed with attendees including Gwendolyn Pike Arlene Fogel Doris Fogel Elsie Reis singer Mildred Keefer Doris Hoover Marion Frey Louise Frey Geraldine Landis Gloria Landis Harriet Newton Eva Haupt Isabelle Shiffer Ethel Kunkel Charlotte Anangst Dorothy Eberly Janet Fehnel Romain Kline Katherine Shotwell Mary Besenhofer Annie Miller and several others. Mr and Mrs Teel hosted with Mrs Teel’s guests from Bridgeport Connecticut and surrounding areas.
The 33rd Lambert family reunion is set for Saturday August 5 at Saucon Park with an all day program rain or shine. The Executive committee met at Victor Helman’s Bethlehem West Side home last week and the final prep meeting will be Thursday evening at President Arthur B. Lambert’s East Main Street Bath home starting at 8:00.
The Bath Lions Club met at the Bath Hotel for a baked ham dinner served by Lion H A Gilbert and wife. The club voted to donate 25 toward the annual camp fund aiding Bath Boys to Camp Minsi for a week. Retirement remarks honored Rev R H Helfferich as president and introduced successor Dr H L Cunin who led the meeting.
The piece discusses summer adjustment for students changing from structured school life to自由 time. It encourages seeking new activities and earning spare money, with a tip to act as a local guide for tourists visiting the World's Fair. The tone is practical and motivational.
Elwood Kemmerer was honored Friday evening with a birthday gathering at his parents’ home on South New 8&1. Attendees from town and near areas included Wes ley Garr Edelmans Miss Annabelle Wink Kutztown Bud Wilhelm Reading and Nazareth residents and many local relatives and friends.
The Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church and auxiliaries will send at least five delegates to the Summer Missionary Conference at Ursinus College July 22 28. Delegates represent church organizations and will have expenses paid. Catherine Hahn Ursinus student home for summer acted as superintendent of the Sunday School. Attendance for the first half of 1939 set a record with an average of 216 per Sunday, up 14 6 percent from 1938. Evan Guth and family of Wilson Borough visited friends here Sunday. Hutchison sisters hosted relatives at their Washington Street home over the weekend. Mr and Mrs J Franklin Motson of Fox Chase Philadelphia weekend visitors at Geo W Kreidler home.
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