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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1938
Page
1
Church listings for Sunday services across numerous denominations, with pastors, church schools, sermon topics, and midweek activities. Includes union services at Baker Park and park events along with parish house meetings and choir canvassing sessions.
The Gideon narrative contrasts small, faithful followers with the illusion of great numbers. Gideon selects 300 disciplined men, arms them with trumpets and lamps, and uses deception to rout the Midianites, proving that faith and strategy outperform overwhelming force. The lesson echoes the watchnote that God and one make a majority.
Mrs. Brooks Mellor of Manhattan Beach visits E M Mellor Sr. Carlton Bazell returns from University Hospital. Rev Karl Mumford hosts Woodbine Lutheran parishioners. Miss Marie Ellen Main visits Miss Dorothy Clarke. Edith Lasseter and family tour Sunnie Holme in the Orchard. Mrs. Warfield sails for Europe returning late August. Engagement announced between Winifred Holt Bloodgood and Samuel Hopkins. Miss Margaret Shipley weekend at Solomon's Island. Frances Ida Elsie Jones and D W Cauthorn visit Baltimore. Howard County Garden Club hosted by Mrs. Norman Warfield. Mrs. Dean Wallace visits Howard County. Charles H. Griffith’s barn struck by lightning. fire crews assist. Mr. and Mrs. James Mann return from New Hampshire. Mrs. William W. Pindell visits Federalsburg. The Matthews family and others visit R Clyde Pindell. Miss Shirley Mosberg visits area. Miss Clare Bell visits Ellicott City. Charles Thompson leaves FLA DeVries to become farm implement dealer. Mrs. Augustus Riggs Sr. back from Rosemont PA. Macy party spends a week in Washington. Various locals and guests listed in travel notes. The C C committee plans a Seaside Park boat outing August 3. Taneytown Sunday school picnic at Big Pipe Creek Park. Rita Clemson and family enjoy Atlantic City trip.
Taneytown notes Miss Harriett Feeser staying with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cratin in Littlestown. St. Joseph's church plans its annual chicken dinner and lawn fete for the last two Saturdays in August. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hesson hosted a Friday dinner in honor of Mr. Hesson's cousin. The text also mentions a school event at 9:30 a.m. with Vespers and an arrival ceremony.
Harney Judy 23 Ruth Stam baugh called on Ruth Snider and brother Samuel on Monday. Mrs. Alice Ebaugh and daughter Mary Alice and friend, and Mrs. Florence Myers of Westminster, called on M. Ruth Snider on Friday. Alma Newcomer of Taneytown visited with Mr. and Mrs Harvey Wants over the weekend. Charles Reck of Manchester and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reinecker visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Reck. Reck spoke at the rededication of the hall. The annual St Pauls Lutheran Sunday school picnic at Null’s Grove is set for July 3 with chicken and ham suppers, music by the Jr. LC.O. band of Taneytown. Russell Conover chairs the picnic committee. Mrs. Luther Fox heads the supper committee. Mrs. Wantz entertained several guests at her home. Dr. Benner and sister Lula were callers in the evening. Earl Welty and family toured to Thurmont to visit Albert Stambaugh’s family. Adeline Hoffman of Westminster business-traveled to Teeter home for 4-H Club work. Frank Beaver, Frank Moser of Taneytown visited Harry Sprenkle’s home Sunday. Clarence Harner of Hanover visited Elizabeth Yealy and Enoch Yealy. Charles Eckenrode of Loy’s spent Monday night with cousins Thomas and Eugene Eckenrode. Ambrose Eckenrode spent days at Roscoe Kerr’s. Mrs. Sentiman Shriver of Barrow spent days with son Walter Shriver and family near this place. The Mason and Dixon Telephone Company held its semiannual meeting at H. J. Wolff’s home Friday evening with attendees listed. Wealthy Chinese of both sexes once wore long finger nails to show they did no work.
Calvin Coolidge warned that liberty without morality is license and morality without liberty is coercion. True freedom is the chance to do what is right, not unrestrained acts. The piece urges righteous aims to deserve greater liberty.
The Young People's Society of the Rocky Springs Union Church holds its monthly gathering Sunday at 7 45 PM. Programs include songs scripture reading prayers vocal selections by Mrs John H Gonso piano solos by Mary Jane Shoemaker and Anna Mae Shoemaker duets by Virginia Kelly and Hattie Michael, readings by Caroline Mort Sperry Storm and Edna Buhrman, guitar solos by Hilda Easterday and other musical numbers and an address by Rev John H Gonso concluding with a benediction.
Sunday evening at seven the Mt Vernon United Brethren church Daysville hosts another open air service led by the Walkersville church young people. The program includes vocal and instrumental numbers and an address by a Frederick County Christian Endeavor worker. If rain, the service is canceled.
Rev. W. Merval Weaver of Sunnyburn Pa has accepted the Frederick Presbyterian church pastorate effective September 1. He will not preach regularly until September 12. Presbytery of Baltimore ratified the election and Weaver was enrolled as a presbyterian member. The ceremony includes an August 14 open air address in Baker Park and an install date to be announced. Weaver trained at Temple University and Princeton Theological Seminary, serving Pine Grove church prior to resignation. Proceedings rearranged Pine Grove vacancy to Baltimore presbytery. Braddock Heights program led by Prof Cassel and the Cumberland Valley Institute of Music. Robert L. Smith to preside.
About 55 people attended Frederick Chapter Order of DeMolay final event during fifteenth anniversary week. An outdoor Braddock Heights picnic supper was prepared by DeMolay Mothers Circle, followed by alumni conferring the DeMolay degree and five new members formally accepted. Hagertown DeMolay members joined attendees.
Charles Willard of 518 Trail Avenue displayed a beet at the News-Post office today. The unusual specimen carried a leg and foot from a china doll, found in the garden by Mrs. Lillian Willard, Charles’s mother.
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