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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
9
The Undertakers' Assistants and Cemetery Employees Union of New South Wales asks the public to refrain holding funerals on a designated day to enable staff to attend a picnic. The notice reflects minimal public tension over working hours.
Gainesboro area churches list Sunday activities including GainesboroCharge M E Church South led by Rev C F Crowe with church school at 10 am and evening services. Wesley Chapel and Redland offer morning worship and church school. Pine Grove and Old Bethel hold 10 am church schools. Timber Ridge Congregational Christian Church led by Rev Robert A Whitten holds Sunday School at 10 am and 7.30 pm worship. Vernon Whitacre oversees.
The article recounts Saul of Tarsus, a persecutor of Christians, being struck blind on the road to Damascus, hearing Jesus speak, and converting to the Christian faith. Ananias restores his sight, he is baptized, joins the disciples, and begins preaching, despite early opposition and danger. Barnabas supports his integrity and work.
Church notices outline ministrations for Stephens City Fairview Kernstown and Salem locations. Reverend Homer Welch and leaders from the Church of the Brethren announce service times for each Sunday with second and fourth Sundays at Jubilee and youth meetings in the evenings.
Winchester U. 3. Charge announces weekly events with OBAUGH minister presiding. Sunday School at Pleasant Valley 10 a.m. Communion 11 a.m. Evangelistic services 7:45 p.m. through the week. Red Bud offers Sunday School 2 p.m. and Communion 3 p.m. W. M. A. meets 7:15 p.m.
The Brucetown Charge M E Church South presents Palm Sunday services at Welltown Crums and Stephenson with baptisms and member receptions. Post Charge Millwood Boyce and White Post hold worships, sermons and a week of special services leading to Easter Sunday.
Wilbur A. Reid's Galilee Church of Christ held Bible School at 10 a.m. led by Charles E. McVay with the largest Adult Bible Class attendance. Communion followed at 11 30 a.m. Eleven new members were added at Romney during a recent revival.
Church timetable lists morning worship and Lord's Supper at 9.30 and 10 a.m. Tuesday Young People's Choir at 7.30 p.m. Friday Good Friday service at 7.30 p.m. Mount Hope Church School at 2 p.m. worship and the Lord's Supper at 2.45 p.m.
Ebenezer Bible School at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Capon Bridge Bible School at 10 a.m. Worship at 7.45 p.m. Communion will be observed at these services.
The Frederick Circuit M. E. Church with Pastor George L. Waters schedules services at Macedonia Carpers Valley Round Hill Relief Paxton and Lamp's. Sunday School times listed for each location followed by preaching and communion where noted.
Ridgeway circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church announces Palm Sunday meditation led by pastor G. H. Fielding. Services are planned at Arden 9:45, Darkesville 11:00, and Rest 7:30. Church, schools, and Young People's devotional service follow their usual hours.
Mr and Mrs Isaac Kerns hosted a birthday dinner at Orchard Glenn farm for Jacob Kerns in his eighties. Guests included Isaac Kerns and family Jacob Kerns Irvin Kerns George Shepard and family and Lucy Leight. The column notes local visits, illnesses, and the season's fruit bloom.
In Wichita Kansas Joseph Schubert 18 carried a homemade blank cartridge in his hip pocket and was burned when it discharged while he lounged by a radiator at school. In Bakersfield California farmers hire aviators to fly planes over fields to scare away birds as the scarecrow era gives way to the machine age.
The Clearbrook Virginia church notes the session meeting at 9 30 a m and observes the sacrament of the Lords supper at 9 45 a m followed by church school in the morning on Sunday April 2 1939 under Pastor T Hi Daffin.
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