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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1938
Page
4
A dense list of church events for Moravian Church and St John’s Lutheran led by Rev Paul S Meinert and Rev H C Snyder. Weekly services, catechetical classes, choirs, youth groups, and meetings for bands, girl scouts, and Ladies Aid are noted with times from 4 P M to 9 30 P M and topics including The Purchase Price and Christ's Last Week.
The notice lists St John’s Evangelical Reformed Church service times led by Rev. Diehl, with Sunday School at 9:30 and worship at 10:30, evening service at 7:30 on sermons about Christian faith through the centuries and Calvary. Activities include Christian Endeavor, Boy Scouts, Ladies Aid, Lenten services, missionary society, choirs, and catechetical class.
Church schedules list Sunday School at 9:00 and prayers at 10:00 at Mennonite Brethren in Christ led by Pastor H. K. Kratz. Schoeneck Moravian details include services by Rev. James F. Gross and mission pictures by Rev. Douglas Schattschneider of Bethel Alaska with multiple midweek events and choir practices.
Rev William H Brong leads Sunday school at 915 am with Gerald L Meyer as superintendent and the lesson Feeding the Hungry. The pastor will discuss baptism with his catechetical class during the session. A musical program The Voice in the Old Village Chon follows at 1015 am directed by organist Mrs Albert Roth. Union Lenten services are held Thursday evenings at 745 pm.
A Sunday School lesson on Mark 6 30 44 and the Golden Text Mark 6 37 discusses the feeding of the five thousand as a miracle shared by Jesus and his disciples. It notes interpretations from rational explanations to symbolizing the Lord's Supper and stresses the hunger problem in the Orient and the United States.
The Jackson School community thanks Paul Lahr Unger Carl Seyfried Betty Hahn Irene Langbach Ruth Gower Armand Tavienni and Robert Walton for helping the program succeed. Jackson School children were weighed on Friday. Newton Moyer stayed home from school Friday due to a sore throat. The February winning row was the and row.
February spelling perfection earns recognition for Paulime Kern Betty Seyfried and Betty Kern in rural schools.
The seed contest ended on February 28 with prizes handed out the following day in an assembly. Warrior boys led by selling the most seeds among participants.
The column records visits by Mr and Mrs Edward Waller and son Carl of Allentown to Mr and Mrs Mackey. Titus Kline called on his mother Mrs Charles Kline employed in Easton. The text notes visits by John Davis and Paul Fisher with daughter Doris from Telford, and the 35th wedding anniversary of Depue and Mrs Smith of Easton. Ethel Bowers returns to school after absence.
Students plan to raise money from seed sales to buy soap for art class and playground equipment. Mr Darling presented a safety film on street behavior and a spark plug lesson. Grades performed George Washington plays and the fifth grade sang four songs. Speakers Mr Coleman on 4 H work and Mr Frackenthal spoke on March 11.
Evelyn Arndt celebrates her sixth birthday on March 4. Esther Hahn turns sixteen tomorrow. Pauline Michalgyk was absent from school on Monday. Marilyn Miller filed the report. Multiple readers and visits are noted with neighbors in Palmer, Bushkill, and Phillipsburg areas. Several students earn March poetry gold stars. Samuel Fisher is absent due to illness.
Deputy and daughter Carol plus many families from Freeland Palmerton Nazareth Easton and Nazareth R 2 share news of new pupil Daniel Buts from Upper Masoreth Trip and a week of illness returns for Lester Zipé and Dolores Memmerer. Center School Girls Chorus sings at Plainfield Christian Endeavor. A 4 H Club forms for girls. boys start pig and sweet corn club. Field Day planned for April 27 1938 at West Bangor School.
Mrs Rudolph Kresh Middletown and Mr Ralph Mansfield with son Bobby Stroudsburg visited Mr and Mrs William Mackey Friday. Mrs Charles Kline hosted the club at home. Mr Walter Groner Easton visited Mr and Mrs Fred Berger Sunday. Laura Winters spent weekend with parents and a farewell party for Mrs Edward Winters. Alfred Levi to Aberdeen Dakota after trip to New Jersey.
The Junior Choir will render a few musical numbers at the Jehovah Church Bushkill Center on Sunday evening March 13. Local families including Mr and Mrs Russell Becker and others hosted and visited neighbors over the past week. Partygoers from Bethlehem and nearby towns shared weekend visits with Emma Hess and Delphine Trinkle era residents.
A Bethlehem area page records multiple visits among families including the Mabus, Smith, Groner, Boyer, Milheim, Roth, Wagner, Laubach, Koehler, Butts, and Jones households. The school held March drawings and residents spent Sundays visiting relatives in the region.
Sunday School was held at 9 a.m. followed by Reformed Church services at 10 a.m. conducted by Rev. H. Clauss. Mrs. Howard Reese was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bensing and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Werner visited friends at Bethlehem. Funeral services for Mrs. Welty were held Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hall and were largely attended.
Five year old child accompanies Mr and Mrs Howard Remaley and family on a several day visit to NASA reth to see relatives and tour facilities.
Mrs Mary A Welty aged 95 died at her son in law and daughter Harry W Hall Bath Route 1 Moorestown at 11 am Thursday. She leaves four children Mrs Paul Gapp Mrs Eva Venter George H Welty and Mrs Hall seven grandchildren seven great grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral service was held at 2 pm Sunday at the Hall home with burial in Fairview Cemetery Moorestown officiated by Revs H D Clauss and A R Appel.
Harrisburg notes Forefathers Day in April to mark the 300th anniversary of the Swedish colonial landing on the Delaware and the origin of New Sweden within Pennsylvania. The 300th Anniversary Commission urges schools, historical and civic groups to plan suitable observances.
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