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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 20, 1940

Page

3

Union Rites Planned by Two Valley Churches

Attend Church Sunday Two churches unite for annual Christmas service at Valley U B and Little Mountain churches though repairs delay at Valley U B. Mrs Crim and Mrs Smith lead the program with an offering for A B Quincy Home. Also set is a winter schedule for Little Mountain and White Hall churches inviting worship and study.

Plot Valley U. B Little Mountain Church Pleasant Valley U. B Clark Little, Mountain Church Ww. H A. B. Quincy United Brethren Church

Sharing the Shepherds' Joy Christmas Lesson

The article reflects on the Christmas birth story from Luke 2 8 20 and the Golden Text Luke 2 14. It references Caesar Augustus taxation Mary and Joseph Bethlehem the manger and the shepherds receiving the angelic message. It urges Christians to follow Christ's teachings for global peace and goodwill.

Caesar Augustus Joseph Galilee Nazareth Judaea David Bethlehem Mary St. Luke Christ the Lord Luke Shepherds Atures Syndicate. Inc

Trinity Church Sunday Services Include Sermon

Trinity schedule lists Sunday morning services at 9.45 and 11 o'clock with a sermon titled The Unwanted Christ Child. No prayer service this week. All are welcome to attend.

Trinity

Christmas Programs and Services At Local Churches

Montague Avenue and Round Hill churches announce upcoming Christmas programs. The Methodist church under Rev. Harry Balthis will host a Sunday service with church school at 2:30 p m and a Christmas program planned for the latter part of next week under Mrs. May Carper. Macedonia chapel holds services at 10:15 a m church school and 7:30 p m Epworth League with Monday evening program and treat. Montague Avenue offers 10 a m church school 11 a m morning service 7:30 p m pageant Up Your Voices and Monday Christmas entertainment with treat. Round Hill schedules 2:30 p m Christmas program and treat with a short message from the pastor. A cordial invitation is extended to all.

Montague Avenue the Methodist Church Harry Balthis Greenwood May Carper Macedonia Epworth League Church School Sage the Pen Round Hill

Cedar Cliff Presbyterian Church Christmas Schedule

Cedar Cliff Presbyterian Church announces Sunday School at 9 30 a m followed by evening worship and a 7 30 p m Christmas service with special music by the Young People’s Choir. Thursday 7 30 p m church school Christmas program. Friday 7 45 p m Young People of the Church. Cedar Creek offers 2 p m church school and 2 45 p m afternoon worship. Mount Hope holds 10 a m church school and 5 p m Christmas service with choir. Nineveh conducts 10 30 a m church school and 11 a m morning worship.

Cedar Cliff Nineveh

Church Schedules for Salem and Stephens City

The Jubilee service at Salem with L R Dettra and pastors Cephas Fahnestock and W L Riggleman lists Sunday School at 10 a m and preaching on the second and fourth Sundays at 11 a m. Stephens City shows Sunday School at 10 a m and preaching on the first and third Sundays at 11 a m. The Stephens City Methodist charge with Rev Homer Welch sets services across four Sundays at various times and locations including Stephens City, Fairview, Kernstown, and Refuge.

Church OF the Brethren Salem L. R. Dettra Cephas Fahnestock W L. Riggleman Jubilee Royal Pike Star Stephens City Stephens Methodist Church Homer Welch Stephens City Fairview Kernstown Refuge

Middletown Charge Methodist Church Services

Reverend J T Brown presides over Grace Relief and Epworth groups with Sunday school at 9:45 a m and 2 p m for Epworth. Evening worship at 7 30 p m on Sunday and a Christmas program scheduled for Christmas night. Relief church holds services at 10 a m and 11 a m with a 7 30 p m sermon and a Christmas program set for Monday night December 23.

Middletown Methodist Church J. T. Brown Grace Epworth League Epworth

Gravel Springs Luther An Parish Pastor Smith Services

Bethel Sunday School at 10 a m and Christmas service. St Johns Sunday School at 10 a m. Gravel Springs Sunday school at 10 a m and sermon at 11. St James Sunday school at 2 p m and sermon at 3.

Gravel Springs EB. B. Smith Bethel St. Johns St. James

Christmas entertainments planned in Brucetown area

Brucetown Circuit schedules Sunday school at 10 a m and sermons at 11 a m in Brucetown. Carpers Valley holds Sunday school at 2 p m and a 3 p m sermon. Burnt Factory hosts Sunday school at 10 a m. An 8 p m annual Christmas entertainment is set. Additional events: Stephenson December 23 5:30 p m Crums December 23 7:30 p m Brucetown December 25 7 20 p m Welltown December 26 7:30 p m Carpers Valley December 27 7:30 p m. Public invited to all.

Brucetown Carpers Valley Burnt Factory Stephenson Crums

Mount Pleasant Christmas Program Plans Mentioned

Mount Pleasant United Brethren Church schedules a Christmas service at 8 p.m. with Mrs. Shirley Abshire and Mrs. Aldus Cooper leading the committee. Quincy Home and Orphanage offering expected. Multiple area churches list Christmas programs and worship times across Cedarville Rockland Boyce Millwood White Post Pleasant Valley Red Bud with offerings for Quincy Springs Orphanage.

Shirley Abshire Aldus Cooper Mount Pleasant United

Ridgeway Circuit Methodist Church Schedule Notes

Church school times listed for Arden Darkes Gerrardstown Paynes Rest and Epworth League services. Christmas service at Rest on the 24th and at Paynes on the 25th.

Ridgeway Circuit G. H Fielding Arden Darkesville Epworth Gerrardstown Paynes Rest

Atlantic City Transient Population Questioned

A queried estimate places Atlantic City's transient population at 12 million annually, a figure attributed to E B H A. The source notes uncertainty and calls for verification of this large estimate.

Atlantic City

Prominent Broker Burden Charged in Major Stock Swindle

Joseph Warren Burden a socially prominent stock broker is held on 5000 bond on grand larceny charges. He is accused of swindling friends and their servants out of more than 333000 dollars. The New York district attorney calls the case the largest stock scandal since the Whitney affair.

Joseph Warren Burden New York District Attorney’s Office Whitney

Richmond man asks police help to find missing son

G A Fertig of Richmond appeals for aid to locate his son Oscar Fertig 24 who may suffer memory loss after an apparent boating accident November 14 near South Hill Virginia. Oscar drove into a broken bridge span on the Meherrin River and vanishes with a companion Miss Lessie Deel escaping to shore. The car was later found but Oscar's body has never been recovered.

Richmond G. A. Fertig Oscar Fertig Virginia Electric and Power Company Meherrin River South Hill Lessie Deel Young Feitig North Carolina Lunenburg Feitig

Christmas Carol Service Attracts Large Crowds

An enthusiastic audience greeted the young people's Christmas carol service at Rest Church on Wednesday night. The Ridgeway and Bunker Hill churches shared the program with pantomime lighting and carols. A children’s choir quartet men’s trio soloists and a 45-voice chorus framed the Christmas story. The program repeated at Bunker Hill later and at Gerrardstown North Church tonight at 7 45.

Rest Church Ace Ridgeway Bunker Hill Charges Bunker Hill Methodist Church Gerrardstown

Christmas Scene Presented To Club

A Christmas scene showing the Holy Family was presented to the Recreation Club on North Loudoun Street by fifth graders from Handley School. The clay figures portray the manger scene with shepherds and wise men, with the stable built by Frederick White and Ralph McClure.

Recreation Club Loudoun Street Handley School Jesus God Frederick White Ralph McClure

Suffolk To Have Peanut Festival

Suffolk announces a National Peanut Festival during national peanut week from January 23 to 31. The two day celebration includes a 15 unit military parade and a national known movie star among distinguished guests. Festival officials say Governor Price was consulted in Richmond and the Suffolk Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event.

Suffolk South Festival Association Richmond Price

Treasury Receipts and Debt Update December 18

The Treasury reports receipts of 61.64 million dollars and expenditures of 46.30 million dollars for December 18. Gross debt stands at 44.993 billion dollars, with an increase of 538.55 million dollars from the previous day.

Wshington The Treasury

Golden Rulers To Hear A Quartet

A special music program will be held at Braddock Street M Church Sunday at 9 with a quartet including Henry Keller Eugene Snapp Robert Snapp and Floyd. Amos Shryock will teach the lesson. All members are urged to attend.

Braddock Street Henry Keller Eugene Robert Snapp Floyd Amos Shryock

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