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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
6
Moravian Church led by Rev Paul Meinert lists Whit Sunday services Holy Communion and youth activities. St John’s Evangelical Reformed and Human Evangelical share June programs including Sundays, weddings, Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and choir rehearsals with a June 15 ice cream festival on the church lawn.
Belfast Evangelical Church led by Rev. Wm H Brong holds Sunday school at 9 15 with Gerald L Meyer as superintendent and Mrs Calvin Babo as Primary superintendent. Worship follows with sermon on The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Church of today and a West station broadcast Friday June 10 in the morning.
Sunday school begins at 9:15 a.m. for Schoeneck Moravian led by Rev. James F. Gross with a 10:30 a.m. Whit Sunday liturgy and preparatory service. IAF Brethren schedule includes Sunday school at 9:00 a.m. preaching by Rev. H. B. Musselman at 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. prayer, Bible League Friday at 8:00 p.m.
A devotional note on Mark 14 3 11 and Mary’s costly anointing. It contrasts concern for the poor with personal devotion, urging readers to express gratitude to God and loved ones before opportunities pass, emphasizing individual tribute over generic charity.
Kate Walter and Hattie Kocher of Bushkill Park with Mrs. Alice Blake of Altoona and others visited Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Mr. Oberly on Monday. Memorial Day services at Dryland Church drew large crowds with graves decorated for 123 soldiers from various wars. Lower Nazareth’s Four-Clothing Club elected officers. Hecktown correspondents headed on a fishing trip to Cap May. Numerous locals spent Sunday at the home of Fred Waldbelser and Anna Lahr, and with many more from Wilson Borough to Cranford and Philadelphia.
The Mason Dixon Line, surveyed in 1767, remains visible from the air as a straight cut through forests. The boundary, once disputed by Penn and Baltimore heirs, now attracts travelers along the Lincoln Highway with stops at McConnelsburg Monterey Pen Mar and Greencastle.
Elmer Miller 60, of Nazareth, died Friday after six months illness at 219 South Broad Ave. Survived by son Floyd, daughter Mrs Edward Singher, brother Howard, and mother in law Mrs Laura Kirkendall. Services 2 pm Tuesday at home. burial Hope Cemetery Hecktown. Johanna Koch died Thursday at 11 pm after illness. Survived by husband Edward, two sons William and Conrad, daughter Theodora, father Frank Lechner, sisters Mrs Paul Schuck and Ella Lechner Nagareth, and Sister M Decetato. Funeral Monday 6:30 am Solemn Requiem at Holy Family Church. interment Holy Family Cemetery.
Peter D Dech aged 91 of Allentown and Bethlehem and formerly of Bath died Monday evening at his daughter’s Bethlehem home. He was born in Bath to Jesse and Elizabeth Deck and spent most of his life farming near Bath. Surviving are his daughters Mrs Krause Nazareth Mrs Frank Marks Nazareth and Mrs Lottie Wright Allentown son Jacob Dech Allentown and Roscoe Dech Northampton along with thirteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Interment will be in the St Peter Reformed Church Seemsville cemetery after private family services Friday at 2 p m officiated by Rev George Laubach.
Herman Drovich and Augusta Yeska of Nazareth were married at the Mennonite Brethren in Christ parsonage on May 31 by Pastor H. K. Kratz. Diana Sutherland, daughter of, was involved in the ceremony.
Mrs. and Mr. Sutherland tied the knot at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in a ring ceremony. The bride and groom, Nazareth High School and NC State College graduates, will live with the groom's mother as he works as a chemist in Easton. A second wedding at Chapman Quarries saw Winifred Chapman wed Melvin Jones with a full church ceremony and reception, the couple planning to reside in town. A birthday party for Mrs Rampulla drew many relatives from Phillipsburg and Town.
By George King Elwood Richline of Bethlehem spent a few days with Mr and Mrs Charles King. Miss Lizzie Koch of Bethlehem was Sunday guest of Mrs Agnes Koch. Mr and Mrs Walter Scheirer of Nazareth visited Mr and Mrs Marcius Fehner and family. Mrs Flora Edelman and Mrs Sonia Kreicher spent the weekend visiting.
The cold weather slows garden vegetable growth in the area. David Fox and family of Stone Church plan to move into the remodeled schoolhouse this week. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jackson of Devon Connecticut visit relatives locally. Beers the merchant recently added a traveling store. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dyer of Dover New Jersey and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin...
Readers report social calls in the village by Easton residents Willard Kline and Geo Kline, with James Depue assisting and a construction worker family relocating. Tax matters note Wy ton Township school tax levied at a certain rate, and A Bitz of Anta manville cited in district notices.
The report notes attendance at Decoration exercises held Sunday. Visitors listed include Mr and Mrs Charles Soblemy at Plainfield, Mrs Bertha Gunn and son Base and Miss Margaret Acker at Bina Park, and Norman Bath and family from Bag on visiting Belfast Nazareth.
Timothy Davidson from Buea Township and Murray 4 Mative of England, now in New York, visited at the Mack home with Rev. and Mrs. Bevidson and children Vida Sterling and Dean. Ellen E. Hoodmaker of Bethlehem joined David T. Mack family at Edelman Herbert Bauer and Nace residents. John J. Roth recovered from illness and expected to be about again.
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