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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1925
Page
3
Australian soldier poet Tom Skeyhill, a popular lecturer, will present a program at Handley School Auditorium next Monday. He has spent a decade traveling the world and will share experiences from his national service as an Anzac and his observations on life and war.
A WWI veteran, blinded by a shell in 1915, regained sight in Washington and became a famed war speaker. He attended the Paris peace conference, studied Bolshevism in Russia, toured Europe, and presented The New Renaissance in Europe urging youth to reject war mongers. Handley lectures draw crowds but income lags.
A Stephens City community league grew from a village effort led by Mrs. C. O. Watson to support the local school. Parents and teachers raised funds for library books, yard improvements, and shade installations. The group funds janitorial salary, stage decorations, and festival costs, while planning an iron fence and shrubbery around the schoolyard. Evening services cite a sermon theme, "A Christian's Life: Hidden in God."
Church of Christ holds services with Bible school at 9 45 a m and preaching at 11 am followed by communion. Evening services at 6 45 pm and 7 30 pm feature sermons on The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard and The Conversion of Simon. Prayer service at 9 pm Wednesday with song practice. Minister Dudley invites all.
Market Street M E Church invites worshippers to a morning service tomorrow at 1 o clock led by Rev J Luther Ae preaching on Life s Blood Ide. Junior congregation for children accompanies the service with a youth program.
Relatives and rescuers gathered at the City Coal Company's mine shaft as rescue crews worked amid debris after a disaster. Officials say 34 bodies have been recovered with many more miners unaccounted for in the shaft area. Local authorities coordinate efforts as the tragedy unfolds.
Special invitation extended to all men to attend the Golden Rule Bible Class at Braddock Street M B Church at 9 30 am. Includes good music by orchestra, singing by the class, and an instructive talk by Rev. B V Switzer. Be on time.
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