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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1943
Page
3
Grace Lutheran, First Baptist, Church of Christ, United Brethren and others publish Sunday plans with worship times sermons by Dr. Harry F. Baughman and Edward T. Clarke. Special White Christmas offering and Week of Prayer services urged with Holy Communion at morning and evening services.
Rev R S Wilson pastor. Sunday School 9 30 a m with Philip N Hunter superintendent and Mary Bittinger associate. Morning Worship 11 a m with Lord s Supper Communion Meditation. 5 p m Vesper Service sermon The God of Human Experience. Church open all day New Year s Day for prayer and meditation.
Sunday school at 3 30 P M with Mr Elwood Willey as superintendent and Mr Lee Rinker as assistant. 7 00 P M Young People Vesper service. 7 30 P M Evening worship with Rev Joseph S Duckwall. Thursday 7 P M Mid week prayer service.
The Methodist church on Montague Avenue lists services led by Rev John Teter with Church School sessions at 1015 Macedonia at 11 a.m. Holy Communion and pastoral meditation at 7 30 p.m. Youth Fellowship led by John Henry Sargent. Greenwood and Montague Avenue also hold afternoon worship and school sessions with confirming sermons and invitations to worship.
Capt. George H. Marshall commands services starting with Sunday School at 10 a.m. Holiness Meeting at 11 a.m. Young People's Meeting at 6 p.m. Salvation Meeting at 6 p.m. Community Praise Service at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday and Mid-week Meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
At Christ Episcopal Church Rev R B Nelson led both Holy Communion services and delivered a sermon titled A New Haven and a New Earth. The weekly prayer urged unity with the United Nations and calls for sacrifice in truth and justice under divine guidance.
Pastor Rev. T. J. Hawkins leads 9.45 A. M. Church School with Roy B. Wickes Jr. as superintendent. 11 A. M. sermon Standing Up to Life. 7.30 P. M. Holy Communion and meditation A Living Sacrifice. Mid week service Wednesday suspended. Members to cooperate in week of Prayer services.
The Congregational Christian Church led by Rev. Robert A. Whitten invites all to Universal Week of Prayer. Sunday School at 9 45 a m with Orville Hoover as superintendent. Divine Worship at 11 a m on The New Year Prize. Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m and Evening Worship at 7 30 p m. Weeknight services Monday to Friday at 7 30 p m in the Episcopal Church. Everyone is invited.
The Centenary Church Evan gelical and Reform led by Pastor L Flickinger DD hosts a morning worship at 11 with sermon by Rev W L Dudley and a morning church school at 9 45 led by Herman Lee superintendent. An evening Children's Hour is set for 6 30.
A list of upcoming worship and Sunday School times for United Brethren in Christ Ridings Chapel Opequon Presbyterian Burnt Church Round Hill Home Mission Tabernacle Gainesboro Methodist and related congregations with details on Sunday services Communion and evening programs across multiple locations.
The Market Street Methodist Church at the corner of Cameron and Cork streets lists services with minister R. W. Vanderberry. Church School at 9:45 a.m. led by A. C. Halvosa as General Superintendent. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. sermon titled Does Your Life Have Quality. Senior Youth Fellow program at 1:00 p.m. sermon titled When God and Man Meet by the pastor.
Rev C H Anderson leads services at The Full Gospel Tabernacle with Sunday School at 9 45 a m Morning Worship at 11 a m Christ Ambassadors at 7 p m Evangelistic Service at 8 p m and Prayer Meeting Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
The article notes U S Navy vessels lacking chaplains use Bible passages on recordings while army and navy chaplains aid troops. It reports Lutheran membership in the United States and Canada reaching 5 116 807 with 3 634 588 confirmed in 15 909 congregations across 17 bodies, led by the United Lutheran Church Synodical Conference and American Lutheran Conference. Pope Pius XII appoints Bernard W Griffin archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Hinsley, with Griffin lauded for youth work and Father Hudson's homes. Dr Ralph E Diffendorfer discusses wartime church activity in Japan and the United States urging unity and race relations observance amid war. Bishop Tucker urges Brotherhood Month and Race Relations Sunday to combat mob violence and discrimination through community effort.
Clarke County Historical Association releases Volume III of its Proceedings. A. MacKay Smith oversees work with historians Richard Griffith Sr. and Curtis Chappelear detailing the George Carter Tract settlement near Boyce and White Post. Portraits, vestry notes 1744 1747, and a slave trial extract are included along with 17 donated works including Clarke Courier bindings.
Mt Carmel Baptist Church on South Braddock Street lists Sunday events with a cook at 10 30 a m morning worship at 11 30 a m and evening worship at 8 30 p m A communion service is noted Reverend E T Johnson will preach A watch meeting is Friday at 10 30 p m A church meeting is Monday January 3 at 8 30 p m The Week of Prayer begins Tuesday January 4 at 8 30 p m
Reverend E. H. Jackson announces church school at 10 a.m. Morning and evening preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. First Sunday of the year is Go To Church Day. all Methodist families are urged to attend.
Morning and evening sermons announced with Sunday School at 10 o'clock Noonday service at 11 o'clock and an 8 o'clock preaching followed by Communion. Thursday night January 6 Mount Zion Methodist Choir from Charlies Town West Virginia will sponsor a program at the church with Rev J L Winters accompanying the singers. You are welcome to these services.
A newspaper item urges readers to make war bond purchases a priority in the new year. The piece stresses national effort and financial support through bond programs, highlighting civic duty and patriotic budgeting.
For sale five or six room heated space in good condition. Call 4064. For sale whippet coach in good running condition with two new tires. Three in fair condition. Cash price fifty dollars. Mrs Paul P Glynn.
For sale a 1937 Ford coach and a 1937 Ford four door deluxe sedan both in A-1 condition. Address inquiries to 27 W Hart St and act quickly.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Sibert of 906 S Cameron Street received a Christmas cablegram from their son Sgt Willour R Sibert stationed in the Pacific area. He stated he was well challenging flu at home. Norwood G O Rourke 22 Signalman 20 US Navy who spent Christmas here with his parents has returned to the West Coast. Signalman O Rourke left Thursday for Washington and was to fly from there to the West Coast.
A fragment notes a man who enlisted in the Navy shortly after an attack on a harbor. It mentions this was his first service since March 1942 and places the event in a wartime harbor context. The exact name and location are unclear from the readable text.
Chicago reports opening prices for wheat oats and rye as the new season starts. Wheat May 1.68 5 8 to 1.69 July 1.66 1 4 to 1 1 2 September 1.65 3 4. Oats May 78 1 2 July 1 to 1 8 September 75 7 8 Rye May 1.27 1 8 to 3 8 July 1.25 7 8 to 3 8 September 1.24 7 8 to 1.264.
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