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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1933
Page
13
Elyria churches announce special Christmas music programs with cantatas carols and White Gift services across United Presbyterian St Marys and affiliated parishes. Services include 9:30 Bible school 10:45 worship 4:00 White Gift service and Christmas Day masses with choirs and children participating led by pastors and organists.
The 1st Congregational Church of Elyria presents the cantata The Coming of the King by Dudley Buck this Sunday at four with soloists Mrs A C Hudnutt Mrs George Tulk Robert Burns Raymond Aston and Arlin Sargent and a full varied choir under Mrs George Tulk. A Christmastide service follows at nine thirty with morning worship including carols anthems hymns and a sermon by Rev William Muir Auld D D.
The Christmas program will be presented during the 10 45 service on Sunday at the second Congregational Church with an organ prelude Doxology invocation and a full musical lineup including solos duets a responsive reading violin and choir numbers plus a sermon by Rev C F Wiseman and a final benediction postlude.
Special 9 30 a m service features organ preludes by P M Schroeder and P M Schroeter. Christmas Anthems include selections from Wendt performed by St John’s choir with Oscar Jaroch baritone and Emma Goodman Ruth Niemeyer Anita Gotto Elaine Schulz. Congregation joins for hymns and offertory. Rev A Schroeder delivers sermon.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church plans a Christmas program featuring a Trumpet quartet and organ recitals at 7 00 PM with the pageant The Adoration of Kings and Shepherds at 7 30 PM The Epworth League service runs 6 00 to 6 30 PM and caroling at 9 00 PM Miss Louise Brown plays organ with Mildred Brevoort on violin Wayne Garland provides special music The event lists many named participants and a candle light procession with choir and angels.
Advent worship at 7:30 for Holy Communion followed by Church school at 9:30. The 10:45 sermon previews the Christmas observance with carols and Handel’s Messiah offertory. Christmas Eve midnight service features carols, violin, and reflections ending with Silent Night and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Christmas Day service at 10:30 with festal hymns and anthems.
Grace Lutheran Church on Princeton avenue invites worshippers to a seven oclock Christmas Matin service featuring a Schubert Prelude choir hymns readings and a sermon by Rev F J Schumm God s Unspeakable Gift and Bethlehem. The Sunday school Christmas program with pantomimes and gift distribution follows Christmas Eve at 6 o clock with class recitations songs and gifts distributed by Arthur Ehlke superintendent.
Members of the Bible school of the Church of Christ present Thy Great Light a Christmas pageant written and directed by Elaine Cole. Sunday at 7 30 p m with a large cast including Caesar Augustus Wayne Burdue Ruth Kaiser Mary Lillian Mallory and many others. Morning service at 10 30 o clock features the pageant continuation.
Emmanuel Lutheran plans five Christmas services featuring talks by Mr. Fowler and a full program of music and Bible school activities. Duets, chorales, and Christmas stories will be performed by D A Baird Paul Wainwright and children under Miss Mildred Cope with the Christian Endeavor Society to follow a candlelight service and caroling.
The First Baptist Church programs a Sunday of special Christmas music and Messiah selections led by Dr. Neighbour. Morning services feature Hark the Herald Angels Sing and other choir numbers with baptism and a 4:00 PM Messiah performance by choir and orchestra. No night service. Next Sunday’s Watch Night gathering runs 7:30 PM to 12:01 AM with a full day of services.
Emmanuel Lutheran Church presents The Adoration on Christmas Eve at 7 30 A M with a choir directed by Roland Faulhaver and soloists Mrs Ward Leppere Miss Jane Storm Alfred O Donnell and Irwin Bates. The church will be festively decorated with candles.
Pilgrim Community Church hosts a 7 00 PM Christmas program titled The Christmas in Parables with a pageant including Shepherd and Prodigal Son roles and Temple Quartet performing Silent Night Regent Square and Oh Holy Night The Sunday schedule shows Good News not Advice sermon at 10 45 AM and Sunday School at 9 30 AM led by Mrs Bauer There is no Christian Endeavor due to the program with a full church welcome to all.
St Pauls Evangelical Church announces a Sunday morning 9 30 Sunday School session and 10 45 church service with a 7 39 Christmas program featuring songs and a pageant Great Joy Which Shall Be To All People. Cast includes Pauline OMillon Rosemae Worthington Mil dred Wagner Betty Kaufman and others. Christmas Day service at 9 30 and a Tuesday 8 pm Christmas party for the Sunday School with music.
A Franklin quote notes that the heaviest debts to repay are those of gratitude when repayment is beyond reach, praising benefactors and the virtue of thankfulness.
West Ridge Carlisle Grange held its annual Christmas dinner and program at the hall on Tuesday evening. A tureen dinner for sixty members and families preceded a program of carols, readings, and performances by Penfound, Eldred, Burns, and others followed by gifts and snacks.
Lester Drusendahl of Ohio State University is expected home Friday for the Christmas vacation with his parents Mr and Mrs EL H Drusendahl. Miss Florence Pope of University of Chicago is expected home Saturday to spend Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs B O Pope. Miss Mabelle Simms of Morenci high school in Michigan returns home Friday evening to spend the holidays with her parents Mr and Mrs Fred Simme.
Mrs. Carl Fowl and children Kenneth and Patricia attended the D. D. club on Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Milton Schlecter on the Edison Highway along with Mrs. Corwin Burrer and her son Junior.
Mrs Harry Lauer and her daughter Marian attended Circle No 4 of St Pauls church Elyria at the church parlors on Tuesday.
Virginia Sipple was detained from school this week due to illness. The report notes she did not attend classes while her condition was being assessed and recovery plans were discussed with her guardians.
Mrs. C. N. Williams hosted a Christmas tureen dinner for the Ladies Aid Society and families, serving fifty guests. A program followed with poems, readings, and discussions on Christmas songs and authors, plus a Santa Claus gift distribution. The 4-H members left for the Sen. 4-H club meeting in Elyria.
A Monday evening miscellaneous shower for Mr and Mrs Stanley Getz drew young friends to their Middle Avenue home in Elyria. Bunco and Cootie provided fun with prizes won by Marian Lauer and Melvin Grills. Refreshments followed for Thelma Manna and Russel of Butternut Ridge Hazel McMullen of Oberlin road and Marian Pallas of Schramm.
Christmas observances fill Amherst churches with services pageants music and recitations. St Peter’s hosts English service and “The Christmas Story” anthem. First Evangelical presents a pageant “Adoration of the Kings and Shepherds” and a chorus of carols. Other churches plan morning talks, German masses, and evening programs with diverse musical offerings.
A Christmas chapel was held at the school Friday morning for juniors and seniors. Miss Dorothy Jones and Miss Hazel Bell led the program with a scripture reading and prayer by Rev. F. E. Eastman. Emma Dreschler and Clara Mae assisted.
Toad, Lillian Eldred, Margaret Pallas, Marian Lauer, Jean Wagner, Philip Sippel, Melvin Grills, Julius Toth of West Ridge and the hosts Mr and Mrs Getz were all presented with many lovely and useful gifts during the event.
A list of local youths and adults who attended the Sen 4-H Club Christmas party at the Y M C A in Elyria on Wednesday evening includes Margaret and Mildred Pallas Dorothy Agnes and Erna Lottman Lillian and Lois Eldred Doris Minnich Marian Lauer Marguerite Strecher Leota Drusendahl Marguerite Mason Zelda Schramm Beatrice Wensink Janet Baus Jessie McCauley Lucile Penfound Robert Mason Chester Sprague Robert Penfound Leroy Gotto and Edward Strickler.
Mrs Eva Bryant and son Hobart with daughter, and Mrs Gar Harris with daughter Nina from Amherst, visited Mrs H H Drusen dahl. Lewis Hall of Elyria called at the Drusendahl home Sunday evening.
Miss Mildred Pallas attended the Lorain Journal Christmas program at the County Home Tuesday evening. Mrs Lecretia Decker and her son Verne along with grandson Cleon attended the Grange Christmas exercises Tuesday evening.
A festive Christmas gathering Friday evening at Earl and Meister’s Fifth Street home in Lorain marked the annual Witte family event. Attendees from Amherst Oberlin and Lorain enjoyed Yuletide decor, a tree, music, games, gifts, and refreshments with extended family including the Witte and Lapp, Cromwell, Rothe, Brown, and Meister households.
Miss Helen Roemer of Axtell Street was surprised Friday evening by associates for her 21st birthday. Michigan and bridge provided entertainment before a luncheon in the dining room. A Christmas season bouquet and a birthday cake with lit tapers adorned the table. Attendees included Ellen and Emma Dreschler Frances Sabiers Edna Hopkins Margaret Edith and Hulda Berger Mr and Mrs Otto Zelinski Frederick Berger and Earl Rockwood.
The teachers listed include Russell Stauffer of Quaker Town Pa Miss Beatrice John stone of Cleveland Miss Charlotte Alderman of Geneva Miss Hazel Bell of Lorain Miss Kathryn Mure ray of Wellington and Miss Harriet Peck of Oberlin.
The annual congregational meeting of the First Evangelical church will be held Sunday morning with the morning worship. At that time the election of Sunday School officers will take place.
Oberlin High faces the local team in a home game at the school gym aiming to avenge last year's defeat by Amherst High. A preliminary features Amherst Junior High versus Norwalk Junior High.
Misses Helen Roemer and Edith Berger were Elyria visitors Friday. Miss Molly Ludwig of Oberlin spent Friday afternoon in Amherst. Charles Sabiers was in Elyria last evening.
In New Oberlin on December 23, Farm Women Club met at the Grange hall with about 75 attendees for a guest day. President Katherine Albright outlined plans for the year as two quills and two Christmas baskets were arranged for the needy.
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