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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
3
Christmas spirit filled churches with carols sermons and varied music. Special programs including cantatas and choir performances highlighted morning and evening services while Sunday schools contributed festive offerings across multiple congregations.
Fragmentary OCR notes list names and events in a local notices column. Several lines hint at marriages and deaths with scattered proper nouns, but critical details are missing, making exact pairings or dates unclear. The readable fragments suggest a personal announcements section typical of small-town papers.
Sermons delivered last evening across Washington churches included titles and speakers such as Political Leper by Rev James Schultz at Memorial Church, Jeans of Nazareth by Rev J Hen ning Nelma, Numbering Our Days and Applying Our Hearts Unto Wisdom by Rev J Howard Wells at Church of the Ascension, Time Is Fleeting by Rev BM Roys Fishburn at Mount Vernon Place M H Church, Rome Thoughts for the New Year by Bishop Oliver Lapin at Mount Pleasant Congregational, The Heart of a Little Child by Rev Walter G McNell at Evangelical Christian Science Church, If Christ Had Not Come What by Rev Joseph Dewcon at Wesley Chapel M E Church, Why Jeans Was Born by Rev John Compton Ball at Cavalry M K E Church, This Grace Also by Rev F W Johnson and Grace Baptist Church, among others.
English clergyman Dr William Spurgeon says the Welsh revival united people and fed social reform. He notes 100000 converts in Wales, 9 percent remaining firm, with debts paid and saloons closed in parts of the movement. Campbell White of Lasmen Missionary Movement to speak at Masonic Auditorium.
Congregation at People's Church held after morning service at Python Temple to plan ongoing work started by the late Rev Alexander Kent. A committee will secure supply until a new pastor is chosen, with groups named for music, ways and means, and a committee to publish or select Dr Kent’s works. The service was conducted by Dr Themis Lb Wil.
The last meet of the year began at 3 clock yesterday afternoon and an 8 o'clock evening service featured a Sung of the New Kingdom led by the League rabies. A sermon was delivered by Pastor Robert M Moore. Sunday school entertainment is set for tomorrow at 8 in the evening in the Sunday School room. Jewelry valued at HH was stolen from Mrs Ely Patterson, formerly Miss Heimitt of St Louis, police have one arrest in connection with the case.
An old advertisement touts Dr Ailes Anti Pain Pills for neuralgia and headaches. It claims rapid nerve soothing effects, offers 26 doses for five cents, and promises money back if the first package is unsatisfactory. The ad features Mrs Those Aidlaw from Liles Center Kansas endorsing the product.
Philadelphia dated report previews the murder case of Mrs Florence Erb and her sister Mrs Catharine Beisel, charged with killing Capt J Clayton Erb at Red Gables Village Green. The case centers on marital strife, alleged threats by the coachman Eugene Poulson, and a self defense claim by Mrs Beisel. Proceedings begin Tuesday with Judge Johnson presiding and Assistant District Attorney Tallman assisting.
The Rev Dr John Lee Allizon preached a Christmas sermon at Gunton Memorial Presbyterian Church, noting no literature outruns the message of Jesus birth. He described the cradle as center of love and thought, angels’ message as timeless, and Christ as king of a kingdom in the heart offering peace and hope to humanity.
The Rev John Van Schaick preached on Christmas Charity and the Spirit of Democracy urging daily Christian charity, true brotherhood, and service beyond a single season. He urged restitution, just laws, and character development over grand gifts, noting housing, sanitation, and environment shape but do not create virtue.
Grace luden a city resident aged about 20 faces a district court injunction barring contact with Leroy Bell a 60 year old farmer. Relatives allege she wields strong influence over Bell and has caused him to spend hundreds on her including diamonds and clothes. Bell is reportedly firm in a property disposition matter tied to a $10 900 stake. The woman, a former schoolteacher, is said to ignore the injunction and pursue the relationship.
The piece notes urging passage of a rivers and harbors bill during the current Congress session to fund tariff and harbor improvements. It reports Treasury deficits and pressure to justify new projects including a deep waterway from Chicago to the Gulf, with an expected total appropriation around 2.5 million dollars plus future plans.
Ohio outlines a peace carnival and dugtiril exhibition for 1913 to mark Commodore Perry’s 1813 victory on Lake Erie. A governor appointed commission seeks legislative appropriation for a multiweek International Peace Centennial event on Put in Bay Island, centering on shared ideals of peace harmony and progress.
Lawrence W Peters shot Miss Jenyles Beaudette then killed himself Saturday night. Physicians planned to remove a bullet from his head today. Peters’ body, from Providence Rhode Island, lies at Willam McGowan’s home. Beaudette remains at James Posey’s residence as police probe the case.
Delegates and many white residents attended the funeral service for Herbert P Tanell, the colored barber, at First Baptist Church. Pastor Algrander Truatt officiated while James R Caton delivered the eulogy, praising Tanell’s character and cross-racial respect. Burial followed at Bethel Cemetery as tributes from prominent citizens arrived. Attendance reflected community regard across races.
Carpenter Grover died at St Franck Hospital from inhalation of ammonia after a pipe burst in a closed Swift & Co packing room. Three other carpenters escaped, but minutes elapsed before rescuers could reach Grover. The incident prompted a plant investigation. Also reported an attempted assassination on farmer George Kiger near Wickwire. A shot grazed his hat, narrowly missing him as two men carried a girl in a box nearby.
Special to The Washington Poet Baltimore reports the death of Charles Edward Phelps a former Baltimore Supreme Bench judge civil war general Medal of Honor recipient and ex congressman. He died of heart failure at his Walbrook home with wife and children present. Funeral arrangements to be announced with Maryland lawyers among pallbearers.
In Fawmont West Virginia on December 27 Oscar Hare and four companions, all youths from Belleview, were burned and injured when a cigarette stump and a bottle filled with mine power ignited. Oscar Hare 16 suffered severe facial burns. Jonn Laughlin 18 and Elmore Sidnet 18 were badly burned. Benping Smth 16 and Jesse Wilson 11 sustained serious injuries. Six doctors treated the group and ferried the most seriously hurt to hospitals.
In Hagerstown Maryland Justice Hartle presided as Samuel W Hause was found guilty of beating his wife Annie on Christmas day. The scene drew many of Hause’s twenty children to the criminal court, with Mrs Hause recounting the births including twins. The family had moved years earlier from Dikus W Virginia to Middletown Frederick County.
Samuel Mansfield Mansfeld, 21, apparently shot himself with buckshot in a neighbor’s residence on State Street, Norfolk. He was found alive and died at Mt. Vincent's Hospital shortly after arrival. Coroner Kight ruled death by own action. Mansfield was in poor health and son of a Captain George W. Mansfeld, a prominent local figure.
Delegates from Maine to Colorado converge as 100 Sigma Kappa members reach Union Station for the national convention opening at George Washington University. Zeta Chapter hosts receptions, tea, and an informal gathering at Mrs George Otis Smith home. Notables include charter member Mrs G W Hall and officers Sarah Mathews Helen Smail Emma Kinne Ethel F Kimball.
Theodore W Johnston travels from New York to Trinidad Lower California in response to urgent appeals to assist William G Morse, son of telegraph pioneer F B Morse, arrested on a charge tied to a Mexican killing. Morse, a Yale alumnus in Taft's era, had visited the Campbell ranch for health. Little is known of the trouble. New York friends fear for Morse.
Paris dispatch reports Wilbur Wright will travel to Rome to instruct three Italian pilots in his aeroplane. In Rome the aviators Messia Wright Far man Delagrange, Bleriot, and Esnault-Polterie have promised to compete in the Brescia international aviation races in August 1999.
In a Manchester NH dispatch today Post 1 clarifies Byron Chandler of Manchester is not son or relative of former Senator Chandler. He is son of the late George B Chandler of Amoskeag National Bank. Ex-Senator Chandler’s youngest son Mike asks correction to erroneous claim of marriage to an actress.
Grafton Munroe former postmaster of Annapolis and longtime Navy store employee died at his home on Prince George Street from paralysis. His wife Miss Goodwin of Annapolis had died years ago. He leaves a daughter Mrs William L Marcy of Annapolis and a son Mr Charles A Munroe of the U S Army. He was in his seventy first year.
Lafayette Elza, released after thirty years in the West Virginia penitentiary, is visiting relatives near Hendricks West Virginia. He served a life sentence for murder and had previously spent thirteen years for another murder.
Frank J Wells, a Bethesda resident, was jailed on arson charges after a barn fire on John W Hoffman's farm near Bethesda on November 2. Wells’s former employer Matthew Griffin, tied to the case, is believed to be in New York. Griffin reportedly married Hoffman's daughter and lived on the Harrington estate. Wells later entered a Washington hospital following the fire and remained under care until today.
An article notes that baking beans at 200 degrees in a home oven yields only 100 degrees at the center, insufficient to break down fibre and separate atoms, making the resulting food heavy and hard to digest.
Wells told Deputy Sheriff Aaron Hewitt that Griffin admitted involvement and warned of killing if he did not guard during the firing. He said Griffin held a grudge against his father in law for not lending a team. Wells also stated Griffin burned WW Connor’s dwelling and a stable owned by Martha Newman a few nights after the Hoffman fire.
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