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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1921
Page
6
A Christmas letter from Santa Claus to wealthy children lists gift desires like books, toys, coats, and candy and promises he will visit if children stay good. The News shares the letter and notes many young correspondents who wrote to Santa, mentioning dozens of names and towns.
Miss May Hine, native of Jefferson County and missionary to China, and teacher at Gunton Pool Girls' School, will speak Sunday at 7 30 PM at the First Baptist Church. A Hood College graduate, she trained at the Christian Workers' Bible School in Philadelphia and plans further study before returning to China. This will be her first county lecture since returning home, and she is a member of the host church. She has taught for five years at the Poudarlas School in Camteps under the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and is only home on vacation for about a year before resuming her mission work.
The first balsam Christmas tree shipment for Frederick is here, with 206 to 300 trees ranging from 4 to 12 feet. Maine growers supply this widely demanded evergreen, shipped annually to Frederick and nearby counties, as stalls show increasing sales along streets with ever more vendors and decorative greens in demand.
A historicUtica area ecclesiastical notice lists Rev. Robert Lee Bair at Zion Reformed Charlesville with 10:00 a.m. services and 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, plus a Christmas cantata by the Utica unions on Christmas Eve at 7:30 p.m. It covers Utica Lutheran and Reformed Sunday schools, other local charges such as Walkersville and Mt. Vernon, with times for Sunday schools, sermons, and special events including a funeral and a Christmas program.
A cantata titled The Prince of Peace will be performed tomorrow evening at 7 by the regular choir with Mrs. Robert E. Clapp Miss Jose Bire ly and others. Prof George Edward Smith directs. The program includes arias and choruses from Camp The Prince of Peace and Arise Shine with multiple solos and ensembles. The public is warmly invited.
A detailed church notices page lists services across local congregations. Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists and others announce morning worship, Sunday school times, Christmas sermons, vesper services and confirmations. Local pastors, choirs and soloists are named, with event times and locations across St. Barnabas Chapel, St. John, St. Timothy, Church of the Brethren, United Brethren, Evangelical Reformed and more.
Frederick observer details centenarian Uncle Chris Albaugh nearly 90, a lifelong city resident and avid baseball and basketball fan. He criticizes modern dress and cosmetics, warns against cars, motorcycles, and airplanes, recalls cholera and Civil War era, and notes his work cleaning streets at the Armory and Park. He lives at 19 Hart Fifth Street.
Sunday schools and churches are urged to submit Christmas program copy to this office by Thursday evening. A note mentions a "Tea food mixer" in the Carbu Tetor section, reflecting the paper's local notices and brief items.
A fragmented plea suggests giving a YMCA membership as a lasting, pleasing present for family or friends. The text notes a growing membership, enthusiastic support, growing gymnasiums and swimming classes, and strong patronage of the programs.
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