Bethlehem Bethlehem Christmas Eve under fire in holy land
Bethlehem lays under military watch as 80 000 British troops 20 000 police and scattered Arab and Jewish groups fill the city. Amid shelling and searchlights the Nativity ceremony unfolds with Monsignor Barlesina lifting the infant Christ while Sir Issa El Bandak welcomes pilgrims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Holy Land
Dari
Beersheba
Hagana
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Monsignor Barlassina
United States
Grotto of
Herald Angels
Issa el Bandak
Dorcas Aid Elects Officers and Christmas Gatherings
The Dorcas Aid society met to elect officers with Emma Domke as president and Gladys Thomas as vice president. Two new members joined Nelda Schutte and Derryl Leenhart. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid met with Mrs Earl Cooley hosting and Christmas carols sung. New arrival Jane Lucille Hinkle born December 18. Various holiday visits and dinners noted with local families and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorcas
Dorcns Aid Society
Arthur Thomas
Emma Domke
Gladys Thomas
Hazel Gernaud
Nelda Schutte
Derryl Leenhart
Don Shaffer
H. A. Wilke
Earl Cooley
Presbyterian Ladies Aid
James Wilson
Oscar Hunsberger
Otto Herrling
Cooley
C. M. Dibble
Spokane
Wash
Derryl Leonhart
Don Leonhart
Mickey
John Beiderman
Volga City
Robert Clark
Cedar Rapids
Dawson Clark
Nellie Messerli
Detroit
Michigan
Willie Fennell
Waucoma notes Leona Rogers carrier and family visits
Hiness improves from pneumonia. Mrs. Goddard also better. Phyllis Balk underwent an appendectomy at St Josephs New Hampton after visiting home from St Catherine College. Local residents and teachers visit and holiday duties noted. grand jurors named Will Hartson Hugh Lynch and others. Blanche Mitchell elected health association director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiness
Ed Lynch
Farmer
Mary Goddard
Phyllis Balk
College of St. Catherine, St. Paul
Vera Willis
Conrad
Maury Sloan
Decorah
Pearl Jack
Valley City
WN. Dak
Catherine Brannon
Hampton
Lila Baker
Bonna Lou Perry
Hawkeye
Vernita Nodurft
Strawberry Point
Isabel Leitch
West Union
Elizabeth Serry
Lawler
Blanche Mitchell
Waucoma
Eden Township
Fayette County Health Association
Farm Bureau
Fayette
Mrs Archie Musser Elected Again in Auburn Township
Mrs Archie Musser previously of Waucoma and now living in Auburn township was elected to the same office she previously held. Florence McQuilken is noted as the former Waucoma resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Musser
Florence McQuilken
Waucoma
Auburn Township
Christmas Gatherings Mentioned Across Local Families
AMAL correspondent notes Bill Johnson and carrier staff plans as Mary Lou Arthur, a Des Moines business student, spends holidays with her parents Mr and Mrs Vern Arthur. Shirley Butts returns from Cornell College to join her family the Butts and Wegner households for Christmas at the Emil Wegner home in Fayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Arthur
Business
Des Moinés
Vern Arthur
Shirley Butts
Cornell
Cornell College
Walter Butts
Julius Wegner
Emil Wegner
Fayette
Christmas gathering at C. L. Gamm home in Sumner
Mrs. Max Hill corresp reports a Sunday dinner hosted by C. L. Gamm with guests from Waterloo Cedar Rapids Volga City and Waverly. The annual Christmas gathering featured a gift exchange. Dr. Witzigeman was guest preacher at the Methodist church service. Additional visits included gatherings at the Creager and Treloar households with families from Sumner and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Gamm
Bill Emerson
Waterloo
Dewey Echart
Cedar Rapids
Leo Meyer
Max Hill
Emory Creager
Heat Measure and BTU as Energy Unit
The passage explains heat is measured in BTUs, defining one BTU as raising one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit. It notes BTUs are small, with about 100,000 BTU per hour needed to heat a small house.
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Wonder Star
Jerusalem
Star of
St. Catherine
Louis Barlessia
Vela
Bob
Zella Miller
Miller’s Beauty Shop
Morthwesterr
Bell Telephone Company
Wadena
Luther Crandall
LaVerne Thomas
Leona Rogers
Jimmy Smith
Carrier
Amal
Bill Johnnson
Elite Beauty Shop
First National Bank
Oelwein
First National Bank of
C. Hanson
C. B. Chambers
Eastside Grocery
Edgar Buenger
N. Frederick
Hristmas
Freelings
C. D. Proctor
Henry Bartels
Doris Conner
Daily Register
Lew Warren
M. H. Nicol
Shirley Lindstrom
Doris Butler
Dorothy Duncan
Alberta
Ibach
Victor Gallo
Judy Warren
Ronald Nicol
Albert Korenchen
Louis Stasi
John Stasi
John Aversa
C. L. Osher
George Horecka
Coolie Votter
M. G. Simmons
Lloyd Reed
Howard Robertson
Leslie, Olsen
Howard Hoffman
Harry Jones
Robert Hillson
Kenneth West
Ben Jenkins
Dick Knowles
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