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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
6
A block of churches lists Sunday services with pastors, sermon subjects, and Sunday school times. First Church and St. Andrew's Presbyterian announce morning and evening worships, while Pearsall Memorial and Harnett Street Mission provide service details and midweek gatherings.
A wartime collage notes anti German sentiment, military marriages, and local social notices. It references a Robert Adger Brown poem, Christmas calendars for sale, a military ball, a Red Cross fundraiser, a wedding report, travel and family updates, and a food conservation tip urging fruit butter from leftover pulp.
Special to The Dispatch Shaston N C describes Gilbert Meaner narrowly surviving a smash at an Atlantic Coast Line crossing near Patter’s Siding where a car was nearly torn by a train. The crossing is blamed for repeated deaths and near misses. A second item reports an elderly woman known as Aunt Rose found dead in northern suburbs from exposure, last seen by workers gathering meat.
St Matthew’s Evangelical at Fourth and Harnett greets worshipers with 11 2.m. and 7 20 p.m. services and studies on The Andient Isa i ah and The Own Thine Need ful. Sunday school at 2 30 p.m. Ladies Aid Society meets Wednesday 2 30 p.m. Luther League 7 45 p.m. All invited. St Paul’s at Market and Sixth streets led by Rev F B Clausen with 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. services Topic of morning sermon The Man of the Hour and Love Your Enemy. Sunday school 3 30 p.m. Junior Missionary Society meets Monday 3 30 p.m. All invited.
Local churches list services for the third Sunday in Advent at St James Good Shepherd St John and St Paul including holy communion morning prayers and Sunday schools. Ascension Mission and Ember Day services noted with evening rituals and choir rehearsals. all seats free and open to worshippers.
Rev J H McCracken will preach at 11 a.m. on Sunday on Qualifications and Discouragements of Stewards and at 7:30 p.m. Bible class and Epworth League activities are listed. Rev J C Self also preaches 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. with Sunday school at 3:20 p.m. Attendances urged. strangers invited.
Washington reports the War and Navy Departments will notify relatives of enlisted men killed wounded or captured. Major J. S. Jones leads Army casualty work with regimental reports sent to Washington. Notifications follow via telegram and written reports as details emerge, with delays expected as lists grow.
Spaniheide at F Seventh Ave and Wooster St hosts Rev. A A Butler from Hertford preaching at 9:45 Sunday school 11 am and 7 20 pm services Calvary led by J A Sullivan worship 10 am and 7 39 pm topics morning The Christian's Need of Truth night No lass Legislation in Heaven Sunday school 9 45 am with J W Holtin Junior B Y P U Beckoning all to attend prayer meetings Wednesday 7 39 pm Senior B Y P U Thursday night and Monday 3 39 pm.
Members of the Society of the Army of the Philippines plan their 18th convention in Boston with honorary members Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft expected to attend. The group, founded in 1900, includes officers and enlisted men who served in the Philippine Islands from 1898 to 1902.
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