Christmas Observances For Children In City Churches
The Sunday schools at the Presbyterian and First Baptist churches held Christmas programs last evening with music, readings, and doll and candy gifts for girls and boys. Rev. Dr. Graham spoke, and the event was praised as the best arranged yet with decorations of evergreen and a Star of Bethlehem. Tomorrow, rain or snow foreseen, shops close and holiday observances continue with church services and continued Christmas spirit despite weather.
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Presbyterian Church
First Baptist Church
Star of Bethlehem
George Shretz
E. M. Shore
Sibley
Jas
Ro Graham
Sarah Willis
Rev
Peete
Etre Ee Slon
Ae R Guahaie
Christus
Young Couple Will Not Be Married
A misprint in The Star reported that Miss Emma Campbell and Mr. Hunter Davidson would wed on December 31. The couple clarify the remark referred to unrelated family news. They request the correction to end the embarrassment caused by the rumor.
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Emma Campbell
Hunter Davidson
Miss Campbell
Campbell
Davidson
Entertainment at United Brethren Church Sunday schedule
Tomorrow at ten o clock morning is a program for Sunday School scholars with presents distributed. At seven thirty in the evening an elaborate musical entertainment will be offered with an admission fee of ten cents.
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United Brethren Church
Placing Copper Cornice at Farmers and Merchants Bank
Workmen started installing the copper cornice on the Farmers and Merchants National Bank building at Main Street and Rouss Avenue. The new cornice complements the bank’s architectural style as construction progresses.
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Farmers’ and Merchants’ National Bank
Main Street
Rouss Avenue
Archi
Richmond Girl Held as Thief Sent to Baltimore Home
Efforts led by Rav father H. J. Keety and Mother Superior of the Name of the God Shepherd secure a Catholic home in Baltimore for a halt, non compos mentis white girl held by Richmond police as a thief. Judge Crutchfield started a small fund with $1 to cover the estimated $12 needed for transport and guardianship. The plan aims to save the girl from jail and provide care, guidance, and a permanent guardian arrangement.
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H. J
Keety
Richmond
W. A. McKeefry
Wichhester
God Shepherd
Vtimore
Creed
Harry Wall Receives Coveted Virginia Honor
Harry Wall of Winchester and son of W. W. Wall is among fourteen University of Virginia football players named for the coveted V by the General Athletic Association Advisory Board. Wall earns recognition for services on the gridiron during holidays at the university.
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Winchester
Harry Wall
W. W. Wall
University of Virginia
Wall
General Athletic Association
University
Spates couple to travel Saturday to Rockville
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Spates will leave on Saturday for Rockville Maryland where they will spend some days. Mrs. Spates travels to Maryland due to the illness of her father Jetson G. Fields who has been very ill but is now somewhat better.
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Thomas B. Spates
Rockville
Will Take Up Collection For Library
The Union Sunday School will host a Christmas program for scholars at 6 o clock withChristmas music and addresses by several ministers. Children will receive presents and a collection will be taken to fund a library for the school, which is described as much needed.
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Union
Relief calls surge as winter grips city
The City Council relief fund faces high demand as cold weather arrives. Captain James M. Haymaker leads the Relief Committee to scrutinize each aid application to ensure funds aid only the truly needy, given the limited fund size and pressure from non urgent requests.
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James M. Haymaker
The Newsboy Heralds a New American Press
In a New Year address the speaker lauds the newsboy as the embodiment of progress and liberty. He contrasts feudal lords with a people empowered by knowledge and the printing press, calling the Newsboy a symbol of honest labor and popular enlightenment in America.
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Amity
Congress
Parliament
Turkey
America
Dying From Spinal Meningitis Correspondence Report
Correspondence from The Evening Star notes William Lockhart of near Chestnut Grove Frederick County Virginia suffers a severe cerebro spinal meningitis attack with poor prospects for recovery. Also mentions Carroll Whitacre of Xenia Ohio visiting relatives near Shockeysville Virginia after 18 years away. Philip Shade moves into a new residence. Walter H Faulkner, shipping clerk at National Tubing and Galvanizing Works McKeesport Pennsylvania, returns home for Christmas holidays on North Braddock Street.
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Evening Star
DeHaven
William Lockhart
Robt. Lockhart
Chestnut Grove
Frederick County
Carroll Whitacre
Xenia
Shockeysville
Philip Shade
Walter H. Faulkner
National Tubing and Galvanizing Works
McKeesport
North Braddock Street
Dr Hyde Attends Prof Lorenz Clinic Demonstration
Dr. Fred T. Hyde of Winchester attended Prof Adolph Lorenz's clinic in Boston where Lorenz performed bloodless hip dislocation surgeries on two girls. Hyde, son of Rev J P Hyde, was invited by the Children's Hospital surgical staff to observe the clinical demonstration.
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Adolph Lorenz
Boston
Fred T. Hyde
Winchester
J. P. Hyde
Children’s Hospital
Clarke Man Weds Frederick County Bride
Miss Edith Catlett of Brucetown and Mr. Samuel Lee of Clarke county Virginia were married at 2 30 this afternoon in the United Brethren Church parsonage by Rev D Skelton. The bride is the daughter of Mr Turner Catlett. Miss Ella Mason of Washington is visiting relatives here.
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Edith Catlett
Brucetown
This County
Samuel Lee
Clarke County
The
United Brethren Church
8. D. Skelton
Turner Catlett
Ella Mason
Washington
Special Features of Star Tomorrow
Tuk Even the Star announces an early Christmas edition to be issued tonight and delivered at daylight tomorrow. The issue will feature many local contributions including a Winchester tale A Christmas at Winchester from Yale and poems and stories by Miss Kate McVicar Miss Emma Howard Wight Miss Pauline Verse and Miss Elizabeth Kern among others with dialect pieces and seasonal reading.
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Tuk
Tomorrow's Star
Star
Yale
Winchester
Kate McVicar
Emma Howard Wight
Middletown
Pauline Verse
New York
Elizabeth Kern
Christmas program at First Baptist School marks new walking tree
The Sunday School of the First Baptist Church presented a Christmas program at 7 30 last night. It replaced the traditional tree with a German legend walking tree and featured recitations and songs by Misses Seabright McIntosh Anderson Chapman Mason and others. Gold dollar prizes went to Miss Myrtle McIntosh and Miss Emmett for bringing the most scholars, and candies and gifts followed the program.
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First Baptist Church
Myrtle McIntosh
Miss Emmett
Stella Seabright
Myrtle MclIntosh
Lillian Anderson
Eva Chapman
Helen Seabright
Lula Mason
Resolutions of Elkhart Lodge Honor Deceased Brother
A committee from A G Amsden Lodge No 28 assembled in Elkhart Indiana to draft resolutions on the death of W J Sier who collapsed and died in Elkhart and was laid to rest in Winchester The resolutions express sympathy to the family order that records be updated and the charter be draped for thirty days in memory of the departed brother.
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A. G
W. J. Sier
Last Night At The Auditorium
The R. J. Elwood Company presented at The Auditorium the comedy drama The Danites and drew creditable praise. Between acts strong specialties entertained, with audiences noting the troupe’s growing strength and improved performance from the debut. Tonight the company will perform Power of Gold.
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R. J. Elwood Company
Express Business Rush During Holidays
The Christmas season brings a surge in express business with poultry and gifts flowing to major cities. United States Express uses three wagons daily to cope, and one train delivered 250 gallons of oysters to the city. Mr and Mrs Thomas Beardsworth of Staunton Virginia plan to visit Mrs Beardsworths parents Mr and Mrs T M Banta for the holidays.
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United States Express
Thomas Beardsworth
Staunton, Va
Beardsworth
Mra. T. M. Banta
Will Live In Winchester
Dr. W. A. Swimley of Forest Ohio plans to locate in Winchester in early spring. The Berkeley county native, famous as a physician and pharmacist in the West, seeks Virginians hospitable social life and the high standard of local society.
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Lake View
W. A. Swimley
Forest
Ohio
Wm. Swimley
Swimley
Berkeley County
West
Winchester
Virginia
Friendship Band Open-Air Concert Tomorrow Morning
The Friendship Band will give an open-air concert tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock on the Court House lawn weather permitting. Fountain Pens offered in the advertisement at T. T. Wall's with prices 50c 75c 1 1.60 2 and 2.50.
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Friendship
Court House
T. T. Wall’s
W. E. Brown Fined for Resisting Arrest in Street Fight
In Police Court this morning W. E. Brown was fined the minimum $10 for resisting arrest after a fight with Charles Buckner on Main Street last night. Officer Massie helped subdue the scene and Brown claimed he mistook the officer’s club strike for Buckner’s blow. Brown, a long-time local grocer, faced no appeal.
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W. E. Brown
D. H. Bragonier
Brown
Charles Buckner
South Main Street
John Massie
Buckner
Massie
Walter Henry
Harry R
Surprise donation party for Pastor Bulla at Braddock Street Church
About fifty congregation members surprised Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Bulla at the parsonage last night delivering parcels filled with food from turkey and cranberry sauce to cake and pickles. The guests enjoyed a pleasant evening after the gifts.
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C. D. Bulla
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South
Services at U B Church by Presiding Elder Donovan
Presiding Elder J. D. Donovan of Martinshurz West Virginia will preach at the United Brethren Church in this city on Sunday morning at 11 o clock and at 7 o clock in the evening will conduct communion services.
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J. D. Donovan
Martinshurz
W. Va
United Brethren Church
Munion Earviga
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Clarke
Frederick Bride
Star Tomorrow
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