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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1941
Page
5
Readable fragments show weekend services at Pentecostal Mission on Braddock Street with morning and evening worships and a Thursday prayer service. Winchester Tabernacle led by Rev. C Anderson lists Sunday School at 9.45 and evangelistic service at 8 p.m. Congregational Christ Church led by Rev. R N includes divine worship and Christian Endeavor with prayer Wednesday evening.
Glutheran Church cases list multiple services including sermons The Binless Saviour and The Hunger of God in Lent Plus a 4 p m Lenten concert with Elizabeth Grim organist Dorothy Larrick and Gilbert Tillitson Next Montague Avenue Church hosts morning worship missionary Charlotte McMurray and union service at Macedonia with transport details Also activities at Highland Avenue Chapel and Little Mountain Church noted with schedules and prayer hour
Reverend T. M. Swann leads a full day at Brad Metho Dist Rev with services at 9.45 a.m. Church School led by Walter M. Shade, 11 a.m. sermon on The Supreme Challenge. Evening services and an Educational Institute by Francis Asbury Union begin Monday at 7.30 p.m. with a prayer service Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. all are invited.
Rev L G Bridges leads Sunday Bible class at 9 45 Walter Anderson convenes morning worship at 11 Robert Bridgers delivers sermon son of E Meeting at 6 30 led by Winifred Punk Senior C at 6 45 Mrs H M Linkous Evening Worship at 7 30 pastor preaches Evangelistic services nightly at 7 30 Rev C W Tinsman from Inwood West Virginia will do the preaching
Sunday worship at 10 a m and 11 a m features Women in Church History. At 3 30 p m missionaries invited to attend a service by Mrs Anthony Poles. A C E League at 7 and at 8 30 p m the annual Woman's Day Service with local and out of town talent led by Mrs Sue Takes Butler. All are invited.
The Right Rev Henry St Tucker of Richmond marks the twenty ninth anniversary this week in New York. He was chosen to head the Kyoto Japan missionary district on March 25 1912 at Feast of the Annunciation, after eleven years as Kyoto bishop. He then served as bishop of Virginia and joined the Virginia Theological Seminary faculty in Alexandria.
Cork Street CoHA at Home Funk pastor Bess School 9 45 worship 11 00 sermon How We Know About It Christian Endeavor 6 30 groups for Junior Intermediate Young People Evening Worship 7 30 sermon I Believe In The Church Wednesday 7 30 Leadership Class First Baptist Church E T Clark D D Pastor Sunday School 9 45 Morning Worship 11 00 Mr Garland Quarles will speak Vespers 5 15 Rev Garland Mason will Supper and Open for Young People 6 to 8 00 All welcome Winchester Presbyterian Church Rev Ron Wilson 28 Wilson Pastor 9 30 Sunday School Mr J H Moling Jr Superintendent 11 00 Morning Worship sermon Life s Great Ques 1 30 Young People’s Meeting Wednesday 7 30 Mid week Hour of Prayer
The notice lists services and events at Christ Episcopal Church led by Rev. R. B. Nelson and others. Includes Holy Communion at 9 am, Mission Study at 3.30 pm, Evening Service at 5 pm with Rev. Fremont N. Hinkle, St. Joan's Guild at 7.30 pm, midweek talks, and Friday Prayer at 5 pm with a prayer invoking faith to sustain the church.
Norman H. Uphouse pastor at Berryville Avenue church announces morning worship at 9 30 a m and evening evangelistic service at 7 30 p m A missions Bible School at 10 30 a m supervised by A C Frye Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m and a School of the Bible Monday at 7 30 am plus a talk by Miss Wilhelmina Kennedy Sankey about Africa
A Lenten recital at Grace Lutheran Church is set for 4 p m on Sunday with Miss Elizabeth Grim of the Baptist Church at the console and Miss Dorothy Larrick as soloist. Larrick, a Shenandoah College student home on spring vacation, duets with Gilbert Talbotson of Mt Airy North Carolina. The program includes works by Dubois Liddle Beethoven Hansel and Gretel Hauperdinck Rath Schubert Nevin and Dubois. A Palm Sunday recital follows with Miss Helen Woore on organ and Jay H Lowden singing. On Holy Wednesday April 9 the Grace Lutheran choir with invited community singers performs the sacred cantata Olivet to Calvary directed by Mr Lowden.
Cross Junction residents host guests including Mr and Mrs George Sibert and Mr and Mrs Jacob Sibert of Edinburg. Local families visit S Braitwaite and Braithwaite households. Whitacre from Shepherds College stays with parents. Fort Meade called Lionel DeHaven for service and Harry McKeever attends a meeting in Washington.
The United States Senate ratified a new treaty with Cuba in 1936 that superseded the 1903 agreement and abandoned the right to intervene in Cuba's internal affairs under the Platt Amendment, altering U S control over Cuba.
Pastor J Lloyd Garrison leads 10 am Church School and 11 am Morning worship with a sermon titled Pilate the Stubborn and Coward. No evening service. Pastor and members attend St Paul AME Church. Women's Society of Christian Service meets Friday night at Bettie Jackson's 106 South Cameron Street.
The second grade rehearses f ons for the Music Festival with two dramatizations We Ducky Daddies and Marching Star Enrollment shows strong attendance Fourth and Fifth Grades build a museum with natural and social science sections The natural side collects rocks the social side items include a Civil War sword a musket bayonets bullets canteens and holders A museum committee lists William Adams Melvyn Boyd Harold Lamp Wayne Jones Louis Dorsey and Beverley Rogers coordinating efforts to add items
The 8 C A Club of Miller School met in the eighth grade room on March 28 1941. The secretary read last meeting minutes and a treasurer report was not given due to Bobby Dick’s absence. Activities included Bible reading poem jokes song and quiz contest with Anna Moomaw prominent in many items. Next meeting scheduled for Good Friday April 11 1941.
A breezy notes page records spring fever in households with children at play softball and greened playgrounds. It lists favorite radio programs and performers including Gordon Laing, Jane Metz, Mary Russell, Ruth Chapman, and Gene Autry among others.
February attendance roster lists Frances Bageant Dorothy Brewer Rena Carter Betty Cochran Dorothy Fahnestock Llewelyn Garrett Helen Grubbs Rudolph Hepner Anna Kerns Gordon Laing Dora Lamp Caroline Lewis Eloise Lowery Cora Lupton Jane Metz Anna Moomaw Hattie Payne Mary Russell Willard Slonaker Linden Unger Eleanor White Floyd Painter Carolyn Courtney.
Paul Amos Dove born February 15 1922 in Winchester Virginia is the son of Lace Francis Dove. Dorothy Lee Brewer born December 23 1924 in Gore Virginia is the daughter of Floyd W Brewer and attends Mt Pleasant United Brethren Church. Both pursued ambitions in art and nursing respectively.
A letter notes a resident of the town who has attended the Methodist Church for six years and completed schooling. She works as a telephone operator and is wished ongoing success in all endeavors.
The Federal Power Commission invited the governors of West Virginia and North Carolina to submit comments on protecting state interests in licensing the New River plant of the Appalachian Electric Power Company. The request follows a Supreme Court decision recognizing the New River as interstate water power, subject to federal licensing. Comments were due by April 7, 1941.
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