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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
6
In the Nazareth to Easton region a Philadelphia express timetable shows multiple buses operating with 7 10 departure, 0 45 arrival, two vans scheduled at 1 45. Extra buses on Saturdays and Sundays noted.
Daily and weekly worship times plus Sunday School, youth and scout activities across multiple churches. Observances include Children’s Day next Sunday, Holy Communion, evening services, and summer schedule adjustments with festival and program dates noted for St John Lutheran and Evangelical Reformed Church.
The notice lists services for Ennonite Brethren and Scroeneck Moravian churches with Daylight Saving Time observances, Sunday School times, pastor sermons, prayer services on Tue and Thu, Bible League meeting, Whitsunday liturgy, Holy Communion, youth programs, vesper services, and a community bake sale and cream team event at the church lawn.
International Sunday School Lesson for June 9 reviews the Holy Spirit's roles as call, regeneration, reconciliation, and sanctification. It cites scriptures from Romans, John, Acts, and Corinthians to explain the Spirit's work and how believers should cooperate, keeping focus on faith, conversion, and the two aspects of the Spirit.
The Stockertown Parent-Teachers Association held the season’s final meeting led by president Mrs. Foster W. Smith. New officers were introduced including president J. Asher Meixsell and vice presidents Clarence Hoppel and Mrs. Lawrence Papa. Committees were named to coordinate with the school board for summer grounds use. A fire department committee planned a chicken and waffle dinner for October 16. Various social events and memorial observances followed, with members and friends noted in attendance.
Harrisburg reports that high school boys and girls who study motion picture appreciation now say they go to a movie rather than go to the movies, reflecting a shift in everyday language and attitude toward cinema.
The text discusses that Jesus' ascension does not mean God's departure, and that Christian life, empowered by the Spirit, is fearless. It notes the Spirit’s role in our inheritance and worship, then prompts reflection on stewardship and cheerful giving in Christian practice. It invites readers to read the Scripture lesson and consider how Christians they know practice stewardship and how they can become more generous.
Mr and Mrs Albert Jones and daughter along with Mr and Mrs Grant Kocher and family and Russell Derhammer were guests of Mr and Mrs Ralph Kocher and family on Sunday. Mrs Albert Reinsmith visited Victor Lillys family Sunday afternoon. Wilkes Barre visitors Mr George Eckert joined the Lillys and Mrs Ellen Lilly Saturday. Marion Leigh and family and Herbert Bow and family plus Percia Louchner and Herbert Barrall were guests of Floyd Barrall on Sunday. Garret Kauffman and family visited Albert Reinsmith and family Sunday evening.
Reformed Church held Sunday services and Sunday School at 9 20 with a Children's Day program. Memorial Day exercises followed at 2 00 p m under J K Taylor Post 182 G A R and allied groups with addresses by Gordon Handling and Hon William M McKeen, hymns, prayers, and graveside decorations by American Legion and Sons of Union Veterans units with Boy Scouts and Company K salute.
Community notices from Emmanuelsville list Sunday services at 9:00 a m and 10:00 a m led by Rev. Floyd Shupp, with Children’s Day services on Sunday evening June 16 and a strawberry and ice cream festival on Saturday June 29. Local residents, visits among Beersville Catasauqua Pelmerton Bethlehem Moorestown and Bethlehem are noted, along with Ladies Aid meeting rescheduled to Wednesday.
Residents and visitors named include Rev Samuel Gaskell of Chapman Quarries George Mabus and Althea of Nazareth Edward Broad of Katellen Frank Seibold of Nazareth Jacob Mack host for Ladies Aid at his home June 4 and veterans talk of Civil War pension. Farmers complain pheasants devastate corn. Subscriptions urged with credits for longer payments.
A large crowd attended the Bushkill Centre Grove picnic hosted Saturday by Camp 315 of the Patriotic Order of Americans. Refreshments, radio entertainment, a bingo styled game, a shooting gallery, and a cake walk with thirty eight winners were highlights. Nazareth Band provided music and Carl W. Peters oversaw amplification. Achenbach's Grove will host a July 13 picnic, with a third Bushkill Centre event planned later in the season.
Harribsurg reports the Federal State Crop Reporting Service and the Post Office Department have asked about 21 000 Pennsylvania farmers to participate in the annual spring livestock survey. Car ds left in mail boxes by rural carriers request numbers for hogs milk and lambs. The survey, conducted in twelve years, collects twenty two questions and similar surveys run nationwide before the final report is shared with interested farmers.
Darwin D Heyer 29 of 37 South Main Nazareth died Friday at St Luke s Hospital from septicemia. He belonged to St John s Reformed Church Sunday School. Survived by wife parents Mr and Mrs David Heyer two sisters Mrs Paul Messinger Belfast and Mrs Earl Jones Nazareth R D 3 two brothers Wilmer and Leon. Funeral from parental home Nazareth RD 3 then at St John s Reformed Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery.
The Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for senior medical technician at $2 000 yearly and medical technician at $1 620 yearly. Optional subjects include Bacteriology Roentgenology and combined. Requires specific experience. Full details from the Secretary at the post office in Nazareth.
At St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church Northampton Rev Sidney Smith officiated. Mary A Danner daughter of Frank and Mrs Danner of Northampton and William M Sobers son of Jacob Sobers of 56 Cedar Street Nazareth were wed. Miss Danner a Northampton High School 1932 graduate styled crepe dress ashes of roses. Groom employed at Nazareth Waist Company. Sister Aramintha Schaffer attended. They jetted to Philadelphia then will live on Cedar Street Nazareth.
The Game Commission approved the purchase of 2318 acres of State Game Lands pending title clearance. The holdings include 245 acres in Butler for Game Lands 95, 50 in Fulton for Game Lands 53, 535 and 802 in Huntingdon for Lands 99 and a larger block, 324 in Lackawanna, 62 in Northumberland and Montour, and 300 acres not part of the larger tract. Also noted are Mr and Mrs George Smith visiting their bungalow at Pecks Pond, Pike County.
The text covers a wedding between the Rickert and Sosensky families, noting Miss Rickert’s birthday on her wedding day and both graduates of Rothville High School. It mentions the couple will live in Akron, Pa, and that Miss Rickert previously trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. The remainder lists Scout activities and local visits, including a doggie roast, an overnight hike to Easton, church attendance, and various residents visiting or hosting at homes and bungalows in the area, with plans for a Hoch reunion at Schoenersville Grove in June.
Dr Ade steps in as head of the state education system guiding the Pennsylvan ia State College and fourteen state teachers colleges including Bloomsburg California Cheyney Clarion East Stroudsburg Edinboro Indiana Kutztown Lock Haven Mansfield Shippensburg Slippery Rock West Chester and the Soldiers Orphan School at Scotland The Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School at Lancaster Home for Training in Speech for Deaf Philadelphia and the State Oral School for the Deaf Scranton are under the board oversight He serves on the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the State Board of Censors is administrated through the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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