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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
6
A devotional excerpt from John 17 verses 11 24 25 26. It quotes Jesus praying to the Father asking for unity protection knowledge and presence with him. The text closes with a plea for divine instruction guidance and teaching.
Mount Olive Sunday school at 10 a.m. Sermon at 11 a.m. Mount Pleasant Virginia Sunday school 2 p.m. Sermon 3 p.m. Senior Christian Endeavor 7 30 p.m. Red Bud Sunday school 2 p.m. Senior Christian Endeavor 7 p.m. Revival services begin 8 p.m. through the week. Sunday night subject The Second Coming of Christ. Everybody welcome.
Stephens City church schedule includes Sunday school at 9 45 a m and 10 a m for Kernstown and Refuge units with preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m. Weeknight preaching is planned each evening.
Reliance U. B. Church invites all to a home coming event at Ridings Chapel with a basket dinner and morning and afternoon services. Sunday school at 10, preaching at 11, dinner on the grounds, and services at 2 30 with Emerett Datra leading singing and local talent performing. Brunk or Gruver expected to preach. sermon at Greenway U. B. Church at 8. Congregations from Reliance and Friendship will attend.
Middletown Methodist Church lists Sunday activities at 9 45 a m Sunday school for all ages 11 a m preaching 7 30 p m Epworth League. Hite s Chapel combines Sunday school and preaching at 2 30 p m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p m. Union Sunday School Convention of Frederick County to be held in Middletown Thursday morning and afternoon. You are invited to attend all services.
The Rev. A. F. Tobler of Lovettsville Virginia will preach at Bethel Lutheran Church at Albin on Sunday evening at o'clock. Tobler is a former Bethel pastor.
Mrs. Katie F. Grubbs widow of William N. Grubbs and longtime Leetown resident died at her home in Jefferson County aged 71 after a long illness. Funeral at Leetown at 11 a.m. Saturday led by Rev C B Kirby with interment in Elmwood Cemetery Shepherdstown. Survived by son Clyde Grubbs Shepherdstown and daughter Mrs N C Farr Leetown. Native of Frederick County Virginia.
Sergeant Alvin York recounted his war exploits and moral transformation at Massanetta Springs. He described founding the Alvin York Agricultural Institute in Jamestown Tennessee now serving 550 mountain students with a focus on agriculture and a planned junior college. He urged renewed family prayer and noted roads named for his efforts to connect Appalachia to markets.
Reverend Dr. B F Wilson introduced Alvin C York to about 1000 attendees at Massanetta Springs as fifty ex veterans sat in honor. York spoke in a humorous, straightforward style praising Christian service and the duty to help those unable to help themselves. He touched on exemption claims and family support considerations.
County Democratic Executive Committee will meet at the county courthouse on Saturday August 17 1929 at o o’clock p m. Full representation requested. A R Rinker Secretary.
Roger Pell is despised by Blackwater men and abhorred by the parson Marling. Veronica Seabroke targets Tom Grenofen with her gaze. Professor Laxton calls the Roman remains a fraud, while he and Grenofen surveil the abbey at midnight. A cloaked digger escapes as Marling is revealed.
In Redelades house at dusk seven men convene with Professor Laxton missing. Pell crashes the secrecy, locks the doors, and declares a grim task, shocking Grenofen and companions as suspicions flare about Pell and the vanished scholar.
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