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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
3
The Braddock Street Methodist Church presents a Candlelight Carol Service Sunday at 7 30 p m with four choirs totaling about seventy five voices. The service includes familiar carols, a Christmas scripture reading, offertory, benediction, and postlude.
In Posadena California a desperate individual planned to jump from the Colorado Street Bridge. A patrolman found him at the span’s highest point with wire clippers and persuaded him to abandon the suicide plan and return home.
Rest Methodist Church hosts a Christmas Eve pageant Let Us Adore Him at 8 p m featuring scripture readings carols and pageantry about the birth of Christ. Members of the church perform each part and invite the public to attend and worship.
The Greenway A B Church will hold its Christmas service on Sunday December 23 at 8 p m. The event invites the community to attend the holiday observance at the church.
A roster of Christmas programs and worship schedules is published for multiple churches in Stephens City, Front Royal, Winchester, and surrounding areas. It lists Sunday School times, morning and evening services, candlelight events, and special Christmas programs inviting all to attend.
Macedonia church led by Rev John Teter holds church school at 10:00 a.m. and a 7:30 p.m. Christmas program with E E Hal as general superintendent. Round Hill offers Christmas services at 10:00 a.m. and church school at 11:00 a.m. Miss Myra Payne listed as general superintendent. Greenwood reports no services.
Dorothy Koe reports on a new Toy Guidance Council formed to help gift givers choose appropriate toys for children from infancy to age eight. Recommendations cover infants with sensory toys, toddlers with push and pull items, preschoolers with role play and simple building sets, and older children with active or construction oriented toys.
The article recommends elaborate dolls and sewing sets for girls eight to twelve. It then notes toys should develop special hobbies, with sports equipment, books, chemistry sets, and musical instruments appropriate depending on the child’s talents.
Edgar Purcell Brown a 73 year old Reynolds Store section resident and retired farmer died Wednesday at his home after a year of illness. Survived by his widow Lela Heironimus and six children Hilda Switzer Linda O'Brien Juanita Brown Ralph and Linwood Brown. Funeral Sunday 11 AM meeting at home then Hebron United Brethren Church with Rev. Johnson. burial Stone Chapel Cemetery Greenspring. Pallbearers listed. Body to be moved from Griffin Funeral Home Capon Bridge. Saturday service at 2 PM.
Springfield reports that Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett said about 50,000 motorists requested the first 10,000 license plate numbers. The most popular choices were seven and eleven, with drivers avoiding the number 13.
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