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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1936
Page
11
An article discusses red as a cheerful Christmas color and holly as a midwinter decoration. It offers a colorful salad recipe using cranberry gelatin, apples, walnuts, and celery, served on lettuce with mayonnaise, to brighten holiday tables.
Special music by the combined Grafton and Belden Church choirs directed by Mrs. Kenneth Lower opens the Christmas Sunday morning service at 0:30 A M with a sermon by Mr Beebe on A Christmas Gift that Changed the World The Church School hour features Miss Wilhelmine Myers reading Van Dykes The Other Wise Man for Intermediate and Adult Departments The Primary and Junior Departments host their Christmas program and tree A Christmas Drama Service in the evening features The Christmas Voice by Ruth O Proley with cast including Arlene Trenchard Evadine Trenchard Floyd Lang Howard Wise and others BELDEN M E CHURCH and GRAFTON M E CHURCH same listing
The Eston Church of Christ holds a Sunday night program with a play directed by Miss Marion Crowell and the Christmas story The Gifts. The group will sing carols and feature solo numbers including The Birthday of the King by Stanley Hoskins from State University Glee Club. Miss Laverne Lantz leads the music as the White Gift service invites gifts wrapped in white to be laid at the altar and sent to the Cleveland Christian Home on Tuesday. Afterward, children receive candy remembrances downstairs. The Sunday morning service will also observe the day with a Christmas sermon.
The M. E. Church announces an Old Fashioned Christmas Program by the Church School at 11:00 A M on Wednesday evening December 23 with further details to be announced later.
A church announces morning Sunday school offerings benefiting an orphanage and an Indiana Old Folks Home. Fidelis class party is set for Mr. and Mrs Orla Durkee's home with a gift exchange. Christmas Eve carolling to shut-ins is planned, with a brief Sunday night planning meeting.
Discussion questions explore why Christ is the greatest gift, how loving others proves God's indwelling, the necessary knowledge to love as commanded, how to abide in God's love, and Christmas time expressions of love. Clericus quotes link love to being begotten of God and partaking of His nature, ending with a prayer for God’s love to move believers to love and do His will.
A devotional analysis of the epistle to reveal that God is love and true Christian knowledge comes from divine love. It traces how God’s love, shown through Christ, transforms believers, enabling fellowship with God, the Spirit’s dwelling, and a fearless, perfected love guiding judgment and daily life.
Directory lists church entries with pastors and weekly schedules. Suburban Methodist Church pastored by Sheen Hughes holds Sunday School at 10 and morning service. Penfield Junction Baptist Church led by Rev A K Clauser offers Sunday School and multiple services. Henrietta M. Be Church shows 10 am Sunday School and 11 am service with Epworth League in session.
Avon Baptist Church hosts morning worship at 10 18 with Reverend Bantham and Sunday School at 10. Avon church superintendent is Geo Jenkins. In Birmingham M B 8 E Kaetsel, Faster Horning worship noted at 45.
A compiled church directory fragment lists multiple congregations in North Ridgeville Brighton Rochester and surrounding towns. It notes pastors service times Sunday schools and worship hours for St Peter's Massena MEB churches Kipton North Eaton Bethel Temple Lagrange South Ridge Detroit Road Grafton Huntington Brownhelm Evangelical and others with varying morning and afternoon schedules.
A large funeral service for a Wellington American Legion member Myers was held last Saturday afternoon. Rev. Durkey of La Grange and Rev. J G Koonta of Spencer officiated. About thirty-five Wellington Legion members attended, with Spencer department members joining in. Burial followed at Ridgehill Memorial Park, escorted by State Highway Patrol, and he is mourned by family and many friends.
The Pythian Sisters of Liberty Bell Temple held their regular meeting on Tuesday evening with good attendance. After routine business the evening was spent socially celebrating Sisters birth day anniversaries in October November and December. Dainty refreshments were served.
Mrs Henry Reman longtime Spencer resident died at his Ashland home Saturday after a brief stroke illness. The body was brought to Spencer for services at West Homer church and burial in the family plot. The Fidelity Sunday School class of Spencer Baptist Church held its Christmas party and annual chicken dinner with Mrs Simon Rice, spending the day in social time.
Dates for church Christmas programs in Spencer are announced with events at Methodist Episcopal on December 20, Baptist on December 24, and Mt. Zion Lutheran on December 23. The piece lists numerous local callers and visitors, noting deaths and family movements, including the passing of Helen Berry in Norwalk and Henry Redman in Homerville, with community visits interwoven.
A long list of names and journeys fills the week’s social column. Miss Hasel Ensign, student nurse from Glenville Hospital, visited with her parents near New London while teachers, relatives, and townsfolk from Mentor, Akron, Elyria, Berea, Ashland, Wellington and Huntington attend funerals and gather at homes in the area. News covers illness, travel, family visits, and fringe movements among residents and guests, including White, Aukerman, Heilman, and others. The week closes with travel and attendance details from Sunday gatherings.
Carlisle church notes plan a Sunday service on December 20 at 11 15 featuring special music by Mrs Carl G Ludicke of Lakewood singing The Birth of Christ by Hofmeister with Mrs E L Brett on piano. Carol singing precedes the sermon by Rev Thomas Hughes who requests White Gift offerings for Elyria Home for the Aged and Worthington Home.
In December at MB Church Sanday Ree the largest attendance was present as Hughes preached on the theme Shearing With Others or Gets Distributors. Myre H M Gregg delivered a vocal solo Go Walt and Murmur Not. After church a dinner for 108 was served in the church basement by the Ladies Aid. Receipts from the dinner go to fund the recently installed electric stove.
Relatives gathered at the Haven home on East Avenue Sunday to honor Carl Haven on his birthday anniversary. Guests included A. J. Carperster, Effie Haven, Claire Haven, Cleveland relatives, Mrs. Carl Haven, and Newt Haven family. Newt Haven and wife celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary in February. Gift memories were received for Carl Haven.
Miss Emily Brown from Baldwin Wallace visited the Robsons and Calverts in Cleveland and Oak Park guest. Joyce Gregg stayed overnight at the Goodspeed home. Jacob Myers attended a town hall mid winter party. A musical gathering at A P Bailey’s featured Edward Smith and family from Elyria. Visitors included Wesley Johnson and Harley Harrison from La Grange. Additional calls came from Albert Messaros Jr and family and Nancy McCombs and Ralph Knapp from Warren.
William Harley, 23, is recovering at Royal Chest Hospital after surgeons removed dense chalk deposits from his heart. The chalk had constricted major veins and hindered heart function in one of the era's rarest procedures.
Native girls in Honolulu question if local ice cream quality affects their slenderness. The government mandates 14 percent butterfat in ice cream, higher than the 10 percent average elsewhere in the United States.
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