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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1934
Page
7
A benefit dance is held at St. John's Halls on Lincoln Street with Lou Kelly and His Kittens providing the music. The event starts at 8 o'clock, includes an intermission, and special prizes will be awarded. All are cordial invited.
Representative Daniel J. Honan hails a report urging deepening and widening Shirley Gut. The Harbors and Public Lands committee inspected the site last spring, leading to a study by the Department of Public Works and a recommendations report due to the next legislature.
A Young Women’s Guild meeting at St. John’s Episcopal Church on December 11 at 529 Pleasant Street near Mrs. Gladys Lightbown and Mrs. Sneath. About 30 members attended. reports from secretary Dawn Hagman and treasurer highlighted magazine deliveries and fair profits. A Christmas party is planned at Dawn Hagman’s home with a ten cent gift exchange for members and guests.
The last weekly meeting at Miss Gladys Egan's home on December 1, 1934, lacked business due to absent members. Arthur Cotter and James Doherty entertained with a magical refreshment disappearance act. A skating session the prior week showcased Bernice's skill. next meeting set for Temi Guidi's home on December 17, 1934.
The Friendly Church at the Beach led by Clement B. Yinger announces a 10 45 morning service on The Radicalism Inherent In Our Faith with a vested choir and a 7 30 evening concert featuring Ruth Whitham soprano and Frank Larson tenor. A brief sermon on Bourkinds of People closes a busy Christmassy program.
The Winthrop Unemployment Committee asks citizens to help provide Christmas baskets. It plans to coordinate with organizations to avoid duplication, invites needy families to apply, excludes welfare cases, and seeks volunteers and cash donations to fund about $3 per basket, with contact through Preston Churchill at Winthrop Savings Bank.
The Winthrop Unit No 24 Massachusetts State Guard Veterans will hold its annual meeting Monday evening December 17 at 8 p m in the United Spanish War Veterans Hall on Jefferson Street Winthrop Centre next to Winthrop Theatre. Report of nominating committee election of officers and refreshments. A good attendance is desired. Chas P Floyd Commander AS Piling Adit
An oratorio is a sacred story set to music requiring soloists chorus and full orchestra and unlike opera it dispenses with costumes and acting.
A 1930s library appeal argues readers seek knowledge to combat the Great Depression. Eugene P Avalittier urges citizens to question capitalism and seek understanding, offering the library as a treasure house of ideas to illuminate a changing, fearful era.
The Orient Palace offers a December week with Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard in Were Not Dressing, Edmund Loewe and Victor McLaglen in No More Women, Ann Sothern in Blind Date, and Richard Arlen with Sally Eilers in She Made Her Bed. Also vaudeville Friday nights and 25 cent admission with top sound and seating.
The Alaska Territory has four sub divisions each with a court for justice and officials. It taxes neither real nor personal property though municipalities do for local purposes. It has no funded debt and operates revenues from licensing businesses, while major improvements are funded by the United States treasury.
Under John Henry the Christmas Basket Fund Festival of the Winthrop Employment Committee at the Elks Hall promises a large program. Tickets cost 25 cents, capacity 600, with vaudeville boxing wrestling fencing and a strong musical program led by the Legion Band. Notable acts include Norma Patrick Elmer Woods and Co Kirby Brothers Trio and Hans Kleeman. Proceeds fund baskets. volunteers contribute time and services.
The Winthrop Unemployment Committee seeks a coal stove or kitchen range and asks citizens with a usable second-hand stove to donate it. Call Ocean L741-R to arrange pickup if one is available.
Sunday morning services at 4 45 a m. Sunday School for ages up to 20 at 10 45 a m. Testimonial meeting Wednesday at 8 p m. Free public reading room daily 2 to 5 p m and Saturday 7 to 9 p m. Lesson Sermon subject God the Preserver of Man includes Bible verses Psalm 145 20 and Psalm 121 1 4 and excerpts from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
The Church in Fhre-Town invites all to a 9:30 a.m. service with the Rev. L. W. Williamson preaching Can We Be Sure of God. Sunday School at 12:10 p.m. and classes for all ages. Evening worship at 7:30 p.m. Lifes with a Capital L. Midweek prayer Friday at 7:45 p.m. A cordial welcome awaits.
Rev. C. Oscar Ford presides at 9:45 a.m. church school with all departments and ages. 11:00 a.m. worship features a sermon Preparation for Christmas. 6:30 p.m. Christmas pageant The Nativity by all departments of the church. School and women invite the public.
Cor Bowdoin and Buchanan Streets announces rector Ralph M Harper leads 8:00 a m Holy Communion and 9:30 a m Grammar Junior and Senior High services. 10:46 a m Kindergarten and Primary. 5 a m Morning Service and cenas by Rev Walworth Tyng Hankow China 7:00 p m Young People's Fellowship.
Winthrop police seek the thief or thieves who entered Mrs. Goldie Marcus's home at 18 Sea Foam Avenue and took her newly purchased piano. Marcus reported a front door left open on return from Boston and a $25 piano sale. nearby residents recall no truck or van. In a separate break in, Mrs. Esther Fineberg's home at 24 Ocean Avenue lost $20 from a strong box.
The calendar designates Sunday as the first day of the week, a practice tied to the Anglo-Saxon term sun nandaeg meaning day of the sun. This naming reflects ancient pagan traditions dedicating the week’s start to the sun.
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