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GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER, GANESVILLE, TEXAS.
Christmas
The public is invited to attend
May your Christmas be filled
■Prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30
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America Remains at
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We welcome the opportunity the holi-
day season offers to express our appre-
ciation of your patronage and good will.
If you have a bounteous New
year with material blessings
and peace and contentment of
mind and body. We are anx-
ious to serve you at all times.
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and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Williamsand
daughter, Susan, of Bay City, will
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ST. JAMES Q M. E. CHURCH
Leon W. Mitchell. Pastor
That you may have all
the joys and fun of the .
holiday season and that
the New Year will hold
happiness and success
for you is the wish we
have for you on this
Christmas. May we have
the joy of serving you in
1940.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Commerce Street
Willis Kreager, Minister
Bible classes. 9:45.
Morning worship, 10:45.
Evening worship, 7:15.
Yours For Happier
Baking
Thrasher’s Grocery
Jack Thrasher and Employes
Jeffrey Lynn
Eddie Albert
May Robson • Frank
McHugh Dick Fora
Henry ONein
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May this Christmas not
only be one of mirth and joy
but may the blessings and benedic-
tions of peace be felt in your heart that you
may understand the true meaning
of Christmas. May your bur-
dens be made light and
contentment be yours.
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METHODIST CHURCH
Clinton L Bowen, Pastor
Church school at 9:45 a. m.
Regular preaching services at 11
a. m. and 7 p. m. conducted by the
pastor.
Other services at the usual hour.
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is Christmas and we want to remind
you we are wishing all good things
for you.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis
And Personnel
John Kemplin
The Feed Man
By JOHN SCHWER
Pastor, St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church
Beneath the joy of Christmas is
mystery we cannot fathom. What
can our poor human wit make, of
singing skies, wandering stars and
light shining from a Manger in
which the hope of the world lies
cradled? Something deep within
us recognizes that here is poetry
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
A. L. Jordan, Pastor
Sunday:
9:30, Sunday school. Ray Win-
der, superintendent.
10:50, Morning worship. Sermon
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To all gardeners everywhere,
the Maggie House Garden Club
Wishes you a Merry Christmas
A Happy New Year
And a beautiful garden for
1940.
one aim is to make peace between
man and God and consequently, be-
tween man and man.
We are.thankful at this Christ-
mas season that we are a land of
peace, that bursting shells do not
destroy us and that our kindred
are not at some battle front We
can lustily, yet worshipfully, sing
our Christmas carols. With joy-
ous. thankful hearts we can attend
our places of worship and pay our
homage to Him who is the First in
Christmas.
By JOHN P BRADY
Pastor. St. Mary’s Catholic Church
The holy time of Christmas is at
hand which bids us to commemo-
rate again the coming of Jesus
Christ on earth. To redeem, to
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
E. L Prestage, Minister
Preaching each Lord's day.
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Priscilla Lane
Bible study. 10 a., m.
Preaching, 11 a. m.
Communion, 11:45 a m
Evening services. 6:30.
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tice.
Wednesday night prayer meet-
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•by the pastor.
6:00, Training Union meets. Mrs.
John Brooks, director.
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CHURCH
Rev. John W. Schwer, Rector
There will be no services at the
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East Texas to spend Christmas.
Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Davenport
will spend Christmas in Wichita
Falls.
Miss Violet Garrish of Dallas is
spending Christmas here with rela-
tives. ,
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Rudolph "will
spend Christmas in Dallas.
Mrs. E. L. Tibbals will have as
her guests for Christmas Mr. and
Mrs. Lyle Tibbals and daughter,
Katherine, Wichita Falls, and Mr.
and Mrs. L. M. Tibbals, Denison.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lawrence
and daughter, Betty, will visit in
Dallas during Christmas.
Dr. and Mrs. Rankin Hardy will
go to Jacksonville to spend Christ-
mas with Mrs. Hardy's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Armstrong
be no mid-week service Wednesday
night. 1
thought of Christmas!
It is enough to appreciate where
we cannot hope to understand.
Who can explain the joy of friend-
ship or those luminous hours when
Nature speaks to our innermost
needs? So Christmas comes and
blesses us, though its deeper mean-
ing can never be put into words.
God becomes real to us and the
world transfigured as we see it
through the eyes of good will. -
May God bless you and yours
this Christmastide with the best
your heart can desire! May the
greatest gift of all be yours—the
assurance that love is stronger
than hate; that this poor humanity
of ours is touched with Divinity;
that ideals are worth striving for.
Therefore, let us rejoice and join
with the music of the heavenly
choirs, "Glory be to God in the
highest and on earth peace among
men of good will."
Throckmorton and Scott Streets
Sunday school. 9:45 a. m. Mil-
ium Young superintendent
Morning services. 11 o’clock.
Night services, 7:30 o'clock.
Epworth League, 6 p m., Mrs.
Marie Davis, president.
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CHURCH OF CHRIST
Broadway and Taylor Streets
C. A. Buchanan, Minister
Bible school, 9: 45.
Church worship begins at 10:45.
Morning sermon: "God's Great
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LAST TIMES TODAY
“Stranger From Texas”"
of Christ
Jesus did not wait for great oc-
casions to do his mighty works.
He did most of his notable works,
“As he passed by.” The chance
meeting of* each day offered the
Master his greatest opportunities.
Most of what is recorded for us in
the gospel happened, "As he passed
by.”
We cannot come in close touch
with men without coming in touch
with their needs. It is the direct
personal contacts with their needs
that opens the way to the heart
and soul. Jesus always saw the
needs of folks, “As he passed by.”
One who is hungry must first be
fed before he can appreciate food
for the soul. He who is cold and
naked cannot be warmed by mere
statements of gospel truth and
love, but the warmth of love can
be demonstrated by fuel and cloth-
ing.
As we pass by, may we let love
rule and allow the principles of the
Golden Rule to govern our lives,
that all may have a joyous Christ-
mas and a happy New Year.
Christian college, will preach. All'
invited to the services.
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Mrs. A. Lindsay, and Miss Sue
McWhirter, all of Hall county,
were visitors Saturday morning of
Miss Mary Graham, en route to
By J. CALVIN DENNIS
Pastor, Taylor Street Baptist
Church
The peoples of Christian lands
are reminded again of the birth of
the greatest personality and ge-
nius of all time. I consider it a
highly fortunate circumstance that
we, as a nation, have been able
to stay out of any evolvement in
European wars and remain at
peace with the world as we cele-
brate the birth of the Prince of
Peace.
And now, as this year passes,
Taylor Street Baptist church. In-
vokes on the citizenship of Gaines-
ville and Cooke county the richest
benedictions of the Prince of Peace
Since we as a nation still believe
the Bible; let us hope that the
months that are ahead may bring
greater happiness and prosperity.
We invite you to come and worship
with us.
We appreciate you and the patronage you
have given us during the past. We strive to
be worthy at all times of your loyalty.
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Richard Dickerman and Personnel
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By ARTHUR L. JORDAN
Pastor, First Baptist Church
Christmas is here and hearts
are made glad again because of the
Prince of Peace. Those shepherds
who heard the songs of the angels
and went to see the Christ-child
were under the oppression of
Rome. Today, the notes of war and
oppression are in the air. Yet, in
the midst of it all we take time to
worship the Prince of Peace, whose
Divine. Only God could
and small son, Jerry, of Palestine, Gifts to Man.”
are the guests of relatives and Evening service at 7 o’clock.
friends here. Sermon: "Behold the Laub of
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Miller left God.”
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EourWives
Presented by WARNER BROS wich
Claude Rains
parents of six children, two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Ab Cook of Gainesville,
and Mrs. George Milner of Dallas;
four sons, Roy, city, Fred, of
Akron, Ohio, and Grady of Sher-
man. Dayton, another son, passed
away in 1924.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard have 12
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.. Mrs. Ballard is a
sister of Judge Dayton B. Steed of •
Sherman.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard enjoy good
health, and busy themselves about
their home place.
brought dissensions, unhappiness
and suffering to the world. Man
adhering to the Divine message of
Bethlehem, and the Divine teach-
ings of Christ could restore true
peace and happiness to the world
which has forfeited both.
If nations and individuals will
recover from the evils which now
afflict them they too must listen
to Bethlehem’s message and
Christs gospel. They must make
room in their hearts for Him for
whom the inn-keepers of Bethle-
hem had no room.
The wise men of, the East
come to worship the Christ
Child and bring their most
precious posessions. The best
was none too good for their
king. The best » none too
good for our customers so we
wish for them the best Christ-
mas they have ever known
and a New Year filled with
the best things of life.
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purpose of His coming. Without Withthe joyous spirit of Christ,
such an understanding we fail to pringing peace, joy and comfort,
form a proper appreciation of the to all your household. May your
real significance of His feast. new year, be filled with blessings.
His coming brought a message both spiritual and temporal, with
of hope to. the world as well as a happiness, peace and good fellow-
guarantee of the fulfillment of that ship. May the Father’s blessings
hope His message was a message be upon you throughdttt the year,
of Divine love and peace--“peace I . _ ’
on earth to men of good will.’’ Man Jesus Saw Needs
left to his own counsels had
Gainesville Couple
. United in Marriage
in Whitesboro in 1880
tin; Mrs. Uselton, Mr. and Mrs.
Gebbard Thomas. Alice, Texas:
and Mr. and Mrs. Walker Jordan.
McKinney.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Peel and
children, Tommie and Billy. and
Mrs. Virginia Pond, of Corpus
Christi, arrived Friday for a holi-
day visit with Mrs. Peel’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Stevens.
Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Chapman of
Sanger will spend Christmas with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Chapman.
Hull-Daisetta, Texas, high
school won 43 straight football
games, but was defeated this year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Capers will
spend Christmas with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Jimmie Jeffries, in Ft.
' Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Townsend
and children leave Monday to visit
his parents in Italy, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Parkhill will
leave Tuesday for a short visit in
Amarillo.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Lucas are
spending this week with his par-
ents in Leo.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stamps and
Roy. Jr., will visit in Ft. Worth
during the holidays.
Guests of Mr.' and Mrs. C. C.
Gettys’ for Christmas will be Mrs.
H. L. Dooley and Mr. and Mrs.
Robert H. Copeland, of Olney; Miss
Esther Dooley of Dallas; Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Thompson of Alvarado,
Dr. P. L. Gettys of College Station
and Dr. and Mrs. A C. Gettys of
Belton.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Murphy of
Denton will arrive Sunday to visit
relatives and friends for Christ-
mas.
Henry Barlow, student at
NTSTC, is here for the holidays.
Niles Manahan left Saturday
morning for his home in Houston
after a visit here this week with
his mother, Mrs. Anna Manahan,
and other relatives..
Mrs. Ed McWhirter, Mr-. and
Mrs. C. A. Butterfield of Grand
Rapids, Mich., is here to spend
Christmas with her daughter, Mrs.
William Temples and family.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Woodruff wiH
have as their guests for Christmas
Mrs. John Paul Jones, San An-
tonio; Mrs. Jesse Cammer, Cam-
eron, Mr. and Mrs. H. Woodruff,
Fort Worth, Mrs. Dug Campbell,
and Frank Miller, all of Fort
Worth. ~
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Farr and fam-1
ily will visit Mr. and Mrs. Frank l
Doughtery in Denison, Christmas
Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Fairless
have, as their Christmas guests,
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Fairless. Aus-
visit her parents, Mrs and Mrs. morning ho ur Christmas eve serv-
George J. Carroll,’during the honi- ieswibeheld Sundayevening at
davs 17.0 CIoCK in charge of the rector.
Mrs. Pearl Grierson and Mrs. I Crmmunion service wil be ob-
George Myers went to Fort Worth ter ' The public is invited to at-
Saturday to spend Christmas with
Mr. and Mrs E. R. Ballard are
quietly celebrating their 59th
wedding anniversary today at
their home, 416 North Taylor
street.
Miss Theodosia Steed and Ed-
Ward R. Ballard were married at
the home of the bride in Whites-
boro, December 23. 1880. Rev. Ely
Witt read the ceremony. After
their wedding the young couple
went to their home at Custer City,
near Callisburg, northeast of
Gainesville. Mr. Ballard was en-
Raged in farming, which occupa-
tion he continued until he retired
and moved to the city in Novem-
ber, 1924.
Mrs Ballard was born March 17,
1858, in Whitesboro. She was a
daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs.
Stokeley Steed. Mr. Steed was a
Baptist minister and helped to or-
ganize the First Baptist church
here.
Mr. Ballard was born in Clay
county, Alabama, December 24.
1859, the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs John W Ballard. He came
to Wood county, Texas, in 1870. On
January 1, 1871, Mr. Ballard came
to Cooke county, where he has
since made his home.
Was County Commissipser
Mr. Ballard is the only living
man whe was serving as a county
commisipner, when the present
courthose was built and has a
number of pictures of the laying
of the cornerstone, at which the
Honorable Joseph W. Bailey was
principal speaker. Mr. Ballard re-
called those serving with him on
the court at the time were Judge
C. R. Pearman. John Thurman,
Jimmie Clack, and Lee McCollum,
father of Sheriff Luther McCol-
lum.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballard are : the
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Saturday for Dallas to spend -_____
Christmas with Mrs. Miller’s DIXON STREET CHRISTIAN
mother. CHURCH .
daughter. Mrs. Morris Strong, and Chalmers, superintendent.
. tro g. Morning worship, 10:45.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross P. Reagan Carols "The st”,,
have gone to Electra to spend. bv arois The , Christmas-Tide,
Christmas with relatives. ‛seri .... . c. . .
George Frasher of Asheville, N. acierm on.:subject for.
C., who had planned to come to pcar $ the Prince, the Price of
Gainesville for a Christmas visit EiAninc c.... _i
with his sisters, Misses Minnie and losvenung Christmas program, 7
Willie Frasher, is seriously ill of: A ________ . .
influenza, according to a message . Ehi . pageant in story
received late Friday from his bed- and-song.by young people of the
side. Mr. Frasher formerly lived in chu unior High Choral
Gainesville and is known to a num-
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SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
E. H. Moseley, Minister
Subject. 11a.m. sermon. “The
Light of the World.”
Subject, 7 p. m. sermon. “The
Voice of the Earth.”
Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Wednesday evening at 7:15. H.! ject ’ I ChristHad Not Come
A. Lynch, Jr.,, student at Abilene; Noservices Sunday evening.
— - 1 ! Wednesday: Mid-week prayer
service at 7. p. m. Led by Rev.
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FIRST METHODIST GHURCH
Elmer C. C arter, Pastor
Church School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 a. m. Ser-
mon: The Meaning of Christmas
in 1939.
Young People's League, 6:15
p. m.
Evening worship, 7:00 o’clock.
. “Candles, Carols and a King."
An old custom is being revived.
: Lighted candles should appear in,
the windows of your homes Christ-|
mas Eve. It is the ancient symbol I
of joy, of friendship, and of good'
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At the evening hour, there will
be a Candle Lighting service which
know will be remembered through-
; out the entire year. Do you love to
i sing the good, old Christmas
I hymns? Do you love to hear them
sung ? In either case, come and
join us in this beautiful and unique
service.
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Iowa's football men are growing
■Oft. When Iowa beat Notre
Dame in 1921 ten men played all
* through. This year eight played
all the way.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Clyde J. Kennedy, Minister
9:15 a. m., Prayer circle. Offi-
cers and teachers.
9:30 a. m., Sunday school.
10:00 a. m.. Assembly of entire
Sunday school in Tyler Hall for
Christmas tree and program.
11 a. m., Morning worship. Ser-
mon by Rev. James Rayburn. Sub-
GRAND AVENUE BAPTIST
CHURCH
O. J. Robinson, Pastor
9:45 a. m. Sunday school will
meet by departments. W. G. Do-
zier, superintendent.
11:00 a. m. The pastor will
preach on “The Nativity of
Christ." ._
6:30 p. m. The Training Unions
will meet by departments. Ray-1
mond Howard, director.
7:30 p. m. The pastor's theme
will be: “The Death of Christ."
Wednesday evening: 7:30 p. m.,
' the mid-week prayer and praise
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1 pastor for a brief devotional, after
which we will hear two assign-
ments of our regular Biblestudy
course.
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As He Passed By’
By WILLIS KREAGER
Minister, Commerce Street Church
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