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Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-27
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE wIGG1LY's PENCIL BOX

Once upon a time, while hopping
through the woods, thinking that II
would soon be cold weather and that
he had better begin to SEQ about a
new fur coat, Uncle Wiggily heard
some voices talking. One voice
said:
.'Wcll there s no use wishing
Nibbler. We might rs well stop
thinking about them.
"Yes,n went on tho other voice,
Il suppose 50. But I'd dearly love
70 have one wouldn't YOU?
Before he thought what he was
doing, Uncle Wiggily called out:
''What is it you want?
Quick as a wink back came the
answer from two voices:
"Nice pencil boxes!'
The rabbit gentleman was very
glad to hear this because, for all he
knew, those voices might have be
longed to some bad chaps, and they
might have answered, after he ask
ed them what they wantcd-thcy
might have said:
We want your ears,
But, instead, the voices had said
''We want nice pencil bOxes.'
Then Uncle Wiggilv looked over
the top of sumach bush and saw
poor little mouse boy and his
sister going to school. Their clothing
was clean, but it was patched in
many places and Uncle Wiggilv
knew the mice to be children of "A
poor but honest worker in a cheese
factory not far away. Mr.. Mouse
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II have a fine pencil box. Come with
rle,'
ooh, we haven T time to 90 far
before school, = objected Nibhler.
You aren't going far-just to
that white birch tree over there,
and the rabbit gentleman pointed to
enc nearby. 81 am going to make
You each a pencil box out of birch
bark,
The eyes of Nibbler and his sister
Squeaker shone with delight as
Uncle Wiggily gnawed off some
strips of the beautiful bark. When
he had several pieces the rabbit
gentleman found some strands of a
sweet smelling grass, which strands
were strong and tough like cords.
With q thorn from bush nearby
Uncle Wiggily pierced holes in the
edges of the birch bark strips and
fastened them together in the shape
Of long pencil boxes. He made covers
that would open and shut for the
birch bark boxes.
How lovely: murmured Squeak
tr.
Pretty kippy, I call them said
Nibbler, who, being boy mouse.
was allowed to use little talk like
that once in while.
son, / haven't finished them
yet!' chuckled Uncle Wiggily.
'They must be decorated!' He
took some red juice from the sum
ach berries and stained parts of the
white bark beautiful color. Then,
indeed, the pencil boxes looked bet
ter, even, than some in the stores.
"Oh, how wonderful!' cried
Squeaker clapping her tiny paws.
And when she and her brother reach
ed the Hollow Stump School all the
other pupils looked at the beautiful
bark pencil boxes and wondered
where they had come from.
"Unclc Wiggily made them!'
said Nibblcr. But the two poor little
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mouse children did not grow proud
q stuck up. No, indeed. And that
il not half the story. For that night
Uncle Wiggily showed poor Mr..
Mouse how TO make pencil boxes out
of birch bark, and the mouse gentle
man stopped work in the cheese fae
tory and sold so many pencil boxes
t,,at soon he was no longer poor, and
Nibbler and Squeaker did not have
TO wear patched clothes. Though, df
course, patched clothes are very jolly,
think. You don't have to worry
about tearing them Or getting mud
on them. So this teaches us that
though peanuts are not very stylish,
still elephants love them. And #
the baby gold fish will keep its
tail dry when il goes swimming the
first time, ii tell YOU next about
Uncle Wiggily S acorn necklace.
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ARMY ECONOMY

Thrift has struck the United States Army. 1t is
going to renovate and dye $500 900 khaki uniforms
that have been kicking around in warehouses since
the war, the newest of them being nine years old.
They described being all of correct cut and not
OUT but "tinged with variegated colors by the
weather" They be rehabilitated at a cost of 25
TO 35 cents garment which is much cheaper than
buying
1t seems little odd to civilians that such economy
should be necessary inasnluch the War Department
has about third of billion dollars year for
penses But that money has to lot of ground,
and what is saved soldiers uniforms is made up
their salaries which though small in comparison with
civil earnings far higher than anywhere else in the
world Fortunately the soldiers far from resentng
this penny-pnching said welcome it because
they proud to wear those uniforms.
Here's good example set to army Of private
citizens, who throw away enough wearabe garments
every year to clothe good-sized nation.
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ANIMAL MUSIC CRITICS

1t was really bright idea to have that Phade
phia orchestra to the and play for the animals
Much may be learned from animals The you
mediate the effects produced the respect you
likely to have for the brute critics Their
of expressing their criticism simple and crude but
effective.
First honors go to the elephant who, chained with
in 80 feet of the orchestra when played Jazz piece
deliberately filled her trunk with muddy water and
blew all the players, driving them off in dis
order
That happened to be an Asiatc elephant Who
can say what African elephant would have done?
Second honors go to the monkeys. They filled
with alarm by the preliminary tuning and excited
by the jazz but when good classical music played
they queted down and gave evidence of thorough
joyment.
They seemed easily to distinguish good compost
tions from foTnless noise. They showed marked diff
ferences in their response to various Instruments The
drum frightened them. The saxophone enraged them.
The violin soothed them When the bass vio play
ed they gazed at each other in bewderment and clung
to their bars and bnked their eyes and scratched their
heads trying in vain to understand. Humans SYM
pathize with that attitude Many of have tried in
vain to understand bass viols
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Market Prices

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.- Fol
lowing are ro6ay1 market quota
tions:
POULTRY
Hens, Leghorns, 3A to 4 lbs,
o1c.
Hens. colored lbs and ur. CSC.
Broilers, IA rbs.. and under
"a, SOC.
Fryers, Leghorns, PA to lbs,
25c.
Fryers, colored. pa to lbs.
81.
Roasters, soft bone, lbs, up 27t
Ducklings, Peking. 3ha 10. up Isl
Geese, 25c
Young Tom turkeys, l3 lbs, an
up, 40c.
Old Tom turkeys, 34c.
Small hen turkeys, under lbs.
l5c.
Hen turkeys, 8 ,bs., up 40c.
Squads, light and heavy, 40c.
Capons, lbs up. 35e.
BUTTER
Wholesale prices 4Sc.
Prices to retailers sic to 52c.
EGGS
Extra Ace. Fresh firsts 40c. Me
dium 33c.
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IMPROVING VULGAR APPETITES

Hotel catering managers in session in Milwaukee
were addressed by chef who complained that Amer-
eat only coarse and vulgar foods They "have no
food which develops fastidious taste. The catering
gentlemen took the warning seriously that they ap
pointed committee to found school for training
chefs to prepare foods which would create fastdious
appetites.'
1t is plain to see that the art known to detitians
as "fussing up food" is on the America is coming
to demand simpler foods simply prepared. There
may not be much profit to the hotel in clear soup,
roast beef, spinach, simple salad and-or fruit
dessert there used to be in long array of courses
mostly consisting of food elaborately prepared and
mysteriousy named But there is more profit to the
who has energy enough lift for other things
than digestion.
There will always be few who the artific-
ial. And many like food adventure in while
But with the strong movement toward eating TO live
instead of living to eat, it looks like uphill work for
the chefs to create and esabsh those fastdious appe
tites.
If they want to follow the line of least resistance
and fattest purses, let them learn not TO overlook
spinach and make really good apple pie
There s merit, after all, in old-fashioned
automobile crank. A man in New Philadep phia o.,
motoring in the country the other day. found when he
got back that he had speared 75pound pig. Yes he
brought home the bacon
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helped make cheese and so got en-
ough for his wife and family to
cat, but il was hard to keep the
two mice children, who were named
Nibbler and Squeaker. in clothes.
"Oh, ho! So YOU want nice pencil
boxes, do you''' asked Uncle Wig
gily, as he smiled at the mouse
brother and sister.
Yes, sir, if you please answer
ed Nibbler.
But we know we can never have
any Ike the otner boys and girls
have because Daddy is too poor II
buy them for u.s." added Squcaker.
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Court Orders
Defaults Filed

Orders to enter defaults in three
divorce cases were filed at the
county clerk 8 office Yesterday,
Judge \. G. Finncy approving two
of the orders while the third has
not been submitted to him as yet.
The cases in which the clerk was
instructed to enter the defaults arc:
Mack Baker against Katherine II.
Baker and Margaret Cooper against
Donald f. Cooper. The other case
was that Of Norris T. Thompson
against Alberta +. Thompson. W
r, North is appearing as attorney
for the plaintiff in the Thompson
case.
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
September 27. 1921

d. R. Russell, who was one of the
earliest engineers working in I'm
perial Valley, and who was for sew
eral years Tith the California De-
vclopment Company, is down from
Los Angeles seeing old friends.
Mrs. B. II. Lien and two daugh-
ters returned from Los Angeles
where they spent the greater part of
the summer.
Miss Sinabel Hart returned to
Brawley after spending the summer
on the coast, and is resuming her
teaching position at the BraWlcy
Outside school.
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TEN YEARS AGO
September 27, 1917

Only "a names are now required
to fill out the third contingent to
leave Imperial Valley for Camp
Lewis. according to an announce
ment made by Clerk G. w. Barton
of the local board. George l..
Fighter was yesterday selected to
command the new contingent.
Fighter has been athletic director
at the high school. Rlue notices or
dering The mcmbers of the group TO
be ready on "a hours notice were
sent out. hut no definite late has
been snt for their departure.
Mrs. Mpt.el Bucknum, after \ two
months vacation spent in Northern
California and Oregon, is back home.
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THE WEATHER

Los ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Wednesday with
moderate temperature. Cloudy "r
foggy in the morning.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:--
Fair tonight and Wednesday with
fog near coast tonight normal tenn
peraturc; gentle variable winds.
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|CAIIFQRN
I ~ KVN ENUDo
CALAVERAS COUNTY

The great number of skulls 10,
the bed of river, led Captain No
aga, leader of the first expediiN
into the great California valleys,
name the stream. Las Calaveras-
'thr skulls. The Indians of tht
section lived entirely upon whs
nature gave and therefore fis
formed a large part of their die
Calaveras river then, (called ga
mon watcr' because of the abun
dance of that fish, was a much dc
sired possession, and many battle
We're fought over it by the rive
tribes. In his diary Moraga state
that in one battle three thousano
were killed and their skeletons left
to whitcn along the shores OF tn,
river. Calaveras county was named
after the river.
How many Californians have serv
ed in the cabinets of L. S. presi
dents!
Just four. Their names and titles
with year of appointment are: Vie.
Tor II. Metcalt, Sectv. of the Navy
1906; Franklin X Lane, Secty. OF
the Interior, 1913; Herbert G. Hoov
or, Secty. of Commerce, 1921, and
Curtis d. Wilbur, Secty. of the Navy
in 1924, who are both members OF
the present cabinet.
Who nan!oi Imperial Valley'
GeGorge Chaffey, engineer and
capitalist, and one of the leaders in
the reclamation of the valley.
What is used as the basis of do
risions in California courtsl
The Common Law OF England
$50 far as it is not rcpugnant to OF
inconsistent with the Constitution OF
the United States or the constitution
or laws of the State of California. .
Questions for Tomorrow e..
When was the State Department
of Agriculture formed!
Are there any historical maga
zines published in California;
Was Ralph Waldo Emerson eve,
in California?
Give the meaning of clos Cat
os, city in Santa Clara counav.
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LIVESTOCK

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27.-Hogs:
Receipts 400, slow; top $500; bulk
$12.75-l3.00.
Cattle: Receipts 500, slow; bulk
steers 5000; bulk she stock 500
700. Bulk calves $8.00-ll.00.
Sheep: Receipts $50, no carly
sales; lambs $l1.50-13.50. Ewes
s5.50-7.00.
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Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of I'm.
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 81, 1907

Earl Haywood and a number of
other boys are organizing the Boys
Athletic club. Boys from II to is
years are invited to join, and it is
hoped to establish a gymnasium.
George A. Carter is in Imperial
again, and this time he admits he is
planning to open national bank in
Ell Centre. He has taken out char
ter for the institution and hopes
to have its doors open by November
1.
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Tho sixth annual Pacific North
west potato show will bc held a
Spokane, November 1918.
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Guy Coninc. Sylvan, Washington
grew a tomato that weighed twd
pounds six ounces.
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The Graham county fair at SAT
ford, Arizona, Oct. 20-2l will hav
no admittance charge.
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Uncle Wiggily thought of the fine
pencil boxes he had seen his own
little rabbits carrying to school. He
knew the other pupils had pretty
eases in which TO carry their pencils.
I ,Icn, as he looked at Nibbler and
Squeaker carrying their pencils tied
around with a string, the rabbit
gentleman said:
"My dcars, YOU arc each going
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Napa county has s9,9o5 acrrs OF
fruit and nut trees.
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So uceesul has Mrs W. H. Pase Of Oklahoma City, Oka bet
1Syearod daughter Ferr
has painting trade Mrs. Pa
for several lived overas starting with rut
business Mother daughter shown above.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-20
BISHOP TO PREACH
At LOCAL Church
Program of Services at
Mount Vernon Place InSti-
. tuition Announced.

Bishop Frank NJ. Bristol will preach
at both services tomorrow at Mount
Vernon Place NJ. E. Church South.
Ninth street and Massachusetts ave-
nue.
Rev. DR.. f. V. REGISTER presiding
elder of the Washington district OF
the Baltimore Conference, will preach
at the church August 2S.
The Seventh Washington Standard
Training School for Sunday School
Workers will he held in this church
September 11-16. The following in
structors and the courses they are to
give follow: Mrs. II. D. Guerrant, At
1anta. Ga, Training Beginners in
Worship; Miss Eta Mai Russell,
elementary superintendent Of the Bal
timore Annual Conference: Training
Primaries in Worship; Mrs. +. l.
Woolf, Roanoke. Va, Junior Pupil;
Miss +. Jane Mcdonald. Columbia. S.
c., Intermediates Psychology"
J.. F. Sensabaugh, director of training
work, General Sunday School Board,
Nashville. Tenn, principles and De-
velopment of Religious Education;
Rev. r. X. hewitt, superintendent
Sunday school work. Baltimore An
nual Conference, Evangelism in the
Sunday school,; Rev. John William
Smith, Roanoke, Va. The Program
Of the Christian Religion
Members Of the church and SUNDAY
school are urged to enroll in this
school,
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RETIRED CHAPLAIN
SPEAKS TOMORROW
Col. Dickson Will Address
Outdoor Services at
Temple Heights.

Temple Heights open-air services to-
morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, under
the direction of Grand Chaplain Rev.
John c. Palmer. will be addressed by
Lieut.. Col Thomas j. Dickson, chap
lain U. s. Army, retired.
The special guests tomorrow will be
the officers and members of the fol
lowing named lodges, with their fam
lilies: The New Jerusalem, No. 3. Sam
uel M. Shawen, master; Joppa, No. 50,
William J. Buelm, master; Trinity
No. Al, John J. P. Mullane. master;
Chevy Chase, No. AZ. Frederick +.
Kunkel, master, and the officers and
members of the following named chap
tiers of the Order of the Eastern Star.
with their families: Unity. No. %. Mrs.
Mary Z. Steiner. matron; Mr.. T. Alvin
Titus, patron: Joppa, No. 81, Mrs. Ida
v. Jones, matron, Josiah L. Carr, pa.
tron; Trinity, No. SO, Miss F. Meta
Todd, matron, Audley A. p. Savage,
patron: Good VIII, No. 36, Mrs. Annie
M. Bohrer, matron, Jesse e. Porter,
patron, and Chevy Chase. No. 80. Miss
Grace K. Chandlee, matron, Frank H.
Myers, patron. All members Of these
fraternities as we'll as the public will
be welcomed. 1t is stated. and ample
seating provision will be made.
The address August % will be de-
livered by Rev. Homer J. Councillor,
of Calvary Baptist Church.
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when the Messiah comes, absorb all
the nations Of the earth.
Davids prayer Of Thanksgiving for
his nations promised future that had
been linked up in the promises made
to David showed his faith in the Lord.
whom he worshiped and whose will
he prayed might be done. He did not
seek this from any selfish purpose, for
he, like all men. live in their sons
He prayed that God would fulfill His
promises so that His name should be
glorified and magnified forever. His
prayer revealed the heart of the great
psalmist King. 1t was inspired by
Gods promise to build for David a
house. He knew from the experience
Of a lifetime that he could trust Jeho-
yah to fulfill His promises. He made
bold and confident appeal to the
character Of the Lord by declaring
Thou art my God, and Thy words be
true. and Thou hast promised" He
sought nothing less than the complete
fulfillment of the covenant. While
his prayer was answered in the estab-
lishment of his dynasty. it was full.
filled especially in the coming Of the
Lord. The establishing Of the spir-
itual kingdom Is greater and surer
than that Of Solomon's.
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b. c. PASTOR QUITS
!. PULP|TFOR SCHOOL
Rev. c. N. Jarrett Will Be
Connected with Lynch
burg College.

Rev. G.. n. Jarrett. pastor of the
Fifteenth Street Christian Church,
Fifteenth street and Kentucky avenue
southeast, has resigned his pastora te
to take up a work for Lynchburg Col.
lege, which is the school of the Dis
ciples for this area.
Rev. Mr.. Jarrett. who is now on n
vacation, will return September II
and preach his last service at the
church He has been pastor of the
local church for six years, during
which time the present edifice was
erected.
Rev. B. L. Smith, who served as
general secretary of the American
Christian Missionary Society before
that organization merged with others
into the United Christian Endeavor
Society, will preach at the church to-
morrow at IL o'clock.
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DR.. SCOTT TO PREACH.
Richmond Minister Will Fill Pull
pit in Washington.

At the West Washington Baptist
church tomorrow, Rev. DR.. Walter
c. Scott Of Richmond, Va, will preach
at II o'clock and Sunday, August
%, at IL.
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LUTHER LEAGUE

The sixth annual convention of the
Luther League of the Maryland Synod
will be held at Grace Lutheran
Church. Baltimore. Md, of which DR..
j. +. Byers, president of the Lutheran
Churches of the Maryland Synod, is
pastor. Miss Edith l.. Menkel, presi-
dent Of the Luther League of Balti-
more and vicinity, is making detailed
arrangements for the entertainment
OF the delegates and visitors to this
convention. William Smith, jr., presi-
dent of the Luther League of the
Maryland Synod. has announced the
following program: The convention
will open September 4. At s pm. the
by Rev. A. J. Traver general secre-
tary OF the Luther League of America.
September s will be business SEES.
sion. followed by group conferences
for delegates and visitors. During the
afternoon boat trip will be made on
Chesapeake Bay. The convention ban
quet, at which Paul l.. Brindle. presi-
dent of the Luther League of the Dis
trict of Columbia, will act as toast.
master. will be held on the evening of
september 5. and will be followed by
pageant by the Baltimore Leaguers.
Odds and ends" of the convention
business VIII ne attended to during the
morning Of September in order to
hold the grand rally and closing SEES.
sion about noon of that day.
Misses Margaret Mcdonald and
Emma HolZer have been appointed
delegates from lions Luther League
to this convention. lions League is
having an active part in the weeks
carnival being held by that church at
New Hampshire avenue and Buchanan
street, August Is to %.
Mrs. Elsie Gottsmann will lead st.
Marks League August "a, in the
consideration of the topic "A Worth.
while Experience"
The annual Observation-Disclosures
Young Peoples Rally will be held at
Central High School October ID,
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A. P. BUCK TO LECTURE.
Glass in Spiritual Development t.
Meet in Unity Auditorium.

Arthur P. Buck will lecture in the
Unity Auditorium, 1926 1 street, on
1.-THE Previous Things Of All Nations
Shall Come" tomorrow, at pm. The
Sunday school and Bible class will
meet at 9:45 am.
A class in Spiritual Development"
by Arthur P. Buck will meet at Sis
pm. and at 6:45 o'clock the Good
Words Club will meet. The speaker
for the week will be Dorothy Fullmer,
on 1.-The Guiding Light
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Harrison Glass Meeting.

The Harrison Mems Bible Glass of
Congress Street Methodist Protestant
Church will hold it's regular weekly
meeting in the auditorium Of the
church tomorrow morning at Gas
o'clock. William \. Payne will adj
dress the class and will take for his
subject Nathan Leads David to Re.
pentance"
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SERVICES FOR LEAGUE.
Rev. Robert Shores to Preach at
st. Margaret's Church.

Members of the Communicates
League and the organized workers
of the parish will make their monthly
corporate communion at the 1870
o'clock service at st. Margaret
Church, Connecticut avenue and Ban
croft place, tomorrow morning.
At II am. there will be morning
prayer with sermon, 1.-THE Great Ad
venture" by Rev. Robert Shores
The Feast of ST. Bartholomew will
be observed Wednesday. and Thurs
day there will be a celebration Of the
holy communion at II am.
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RECTOR BACK FROM TRIP
Rev. Thomas Cooke Announces
Services for Tomorrow,

The rector of the Church Of the
Ascension, Rev. Thomas w. Cooke,
has returned from a vacation trip at
Sheffield, Va, and announces the fol-
lowing services tomorrow: s am,
holy communion; II am, morning
prayer and sermon, subject "a New
Commandment; 1880 pm. evening
service in the chapel. Wednesday,
st. Bartholomew day, celebration,
at 10 am. Thursday, midweek cele.
bration, 10 am.
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GUEST PASTOR TO SPEAK.
Rev. w. o. Darlington breaches
Here Tomorrow.

Rev. w. o. Darlington of New
Rochelle, n. Y, former pastor of the
John Wesley A. NJ. Z. Zion Church,
Fourteenth and Corcoran streets, will
preach there tomorrow morning and
administer holy communion. He will
be assisted by Rev. s. A. Norville,
professor in the theological depart.
ment of Livingstone College, Sails
bury. N. c., who will preach at the
evening service on "Christ's Heroic
Venture
Rev. H. T. Medford, pastor of the
church, is visiting Rev. j. l.. White,
in Harrisburg, Pa.
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RECTOR TO PREACH.
Rev. Clarence Parker to Occupy St
Johns, Bethesda, Pulpit.

The rector, Rev. Clarence Parker.
will occupy the pulpit at st. Johns
P. E. Church. Bethesda, tomorrow.
Communion will be celebrated at 8
am; church school service, 1915 am;
morning prayer at II am. The
Young Peoples Service League meets
in st. Johns Parish Hall at pm.
James Martin will be in charge of the
service and will speak on Hymns Of
the Church"
Feast OF st. Bartholomew will be
observed Monday, at which holy COM
munion will be celebrated at 8 am.