Church Notices
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
The Rev. JE. F. Troutman.
pastor.
Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.
Worship at 11:00 a. m. g
* Sermon ' topic: "From the
Crib to the Cross."
Rev. Gerald S. Troutman,
Pastor o I Reformation- Luther
an Church, Greeneville, Tenn.,
_ will be the guest speaker to the
. Luther League at 6:00 p. m.
? Come and Rejoice
ZION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
? CHURCH
Services will be held the 4th
: Saturday and Sunday of every
J month at the Zion Primitive
Baptist Church on Beech Creek.
i MT. CALVARY BAPTIST
CHJJ^CJJ ? Banner Elk
Rev. Glenn Gentry, pastor
j Sunday School at 10:00 ajn.
? Service at 11:00 a.m.
Training Union at 7:00 p.m.
Choir practice at 7:30 p.m. on
' Wednesday.
j MWS 1st Thursday evening,
! 7:30 p.m. ,
I Visitors welcome.
I
! ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL
j CHURCH
J The Rev. W. Todd Ferney
hough, priest-in-charge.
Holy Communion at 8 a.m.
First and third Sundays, Holy
Communion at 10:30 a.m.
Second, fourth and fifth Sun
days, morning prayer at 10:30
a.m.
Bible Study, 9:15 a.m.
< Church School, 10:30 a.m.
Evening prayer and Canter
bury meeting at 6 p.m.
; Fridays, Holy Communion at
5 p. m.
Saints' Days, Holy Communion
' at 5 p.m.
FIHST BAPTIST CHURCH
? Blowing Bock
The Rev. George D. Hyler,
pastor.
Sunday ? Worship Service at
' 0:09 a.m.; Sunday School at
; 10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship at
j 11:00 ajn.; Training Union at
! 6:30 p.m.; Evening Worship at
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday ? Mid-week Ser
j vice at 7:30 p.m.; Choir Rehcar
. sal at 8:00 p.m.
WATAUGA METHODIST
. CHARGE
! William H. Key, Minister
Piney GroVe, First Sun.,*9:5&
; a. m.; Third Sunday, 2:30.
Valle Crucis, 11:00 a. m. first
! and third Sundays.
< Liberty, 2:30 p. m., First
; Sunday, 9:45, third Sunday.
' Mable, 9:45 a. m., second and
: fourth Sundays.
! Henson's Chapel, 11:00 a. m.,
second and fourth Sundays.
: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
The Rev. J. Boyce Brooks,
: pastor.
9:40 ? Sunday School.
J 11:00 ? Morning Worship,
j 6:00 ? Evening Worship.
) 6:55 ? Training Union.
Prayer service Wednesday
evening at 7:15 o'clock.
ST. ELISABETH'S
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass at 9:00 a.m.
Newman Club meets at 10 a.m.
BETHANY LUTHERAN
CHURCH? Big Hill Road
| Rev. William E. Smith, Pastor
Sunday School: 10:00 a. m.
each Sunday
Worship Service: 11:00 a. m
'2nd and 4th Sunday: 7:30 p. m.
'1st and 3rd Sunday.
; Luther League: 6:30 p. m.
?each Sunday.
; Visitors Welcomed.
HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN
! CHURCH? Deep Gap
| Rev. William E. Smith, Pastor
Sunday School: 10:00 a. m.
each Sunday
j Worship Service: 11:00 a. m.
list and 3rd Sunday.
j Visitors Welcomed.
: RUMPLE MEMORIAL
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
? Blowing Rock
The Rev. A. Blake Brisker
hoff, pastor.
Sunday:
9:30? Men's Class Coffee Hour.
10:00 ? Church School.
; 11:00 ? Morning Worship.
8:00 ? Youth Fellowship Pro
j gnm.
Wenesday:
? 3: IS ? Choi i- practice,
i 7:30 ? Prayer and study meet
: ing.
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GREENWAY BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. C. O. Vance, pastor
Sunday School at #:*# ?.m.
John B. Robinson, superintend
ent.
Worship Serr'ees 11:00 a.m.
j Training Union 6:30.
Worship Service 7:^0.
Family Night? Wednewta*
7:00.
BOONE METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Preston Hughes, Jr., pastor
Sunday:
9:00 ? Early Worship
8:43 ? Church school
11:00? Worship
5:00 ? Wesley Foundation sup
per and program
8:30 ? Junior and senior high
youth fellowship
BOONE METHODIST CIRCUIT
The Rev. R. H. Ballard, pastor
First Sunday ? 11:00 a.m. ?
Bethelview.
First Sunday ? 2:30 a.m. ?
Pleasant Valley.
First Sunday ? 7:30 p.m. ?
Hopewell
Second Sunday ? 11:00 ajn. ?
Friendship.
Second Sunday night? Bethel
view.
Third Sunday ? 10:00 a.m. ?
Pleasant Valley.
Third Sunday ? 11:00 a.m. ?
Hopewell.
Fourth Sunday ? 11:00 ajn.?
Friendship
Fourth Sunday ? 7:30 p.m. ?
Bethelview.
STONY FORK BAPTIST
CHURCH
The Rev. Raymond Hendri*,
pastor.
Harlan Greene, Sunday school
iuperintendent.
Sunday ? Sunday School at
10:00 a.m.; preaching first and
second Sundays at 11:00 a.m.;
Training Union at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday night prayer meet
ing at 7:00 o'clock.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. J. K. Parker, Jr.,
pastor.
Sunday School at 9:'45 a.m.;
Honing Worship at 11:00 a.m.
A nursery is kept for small
children during the worship
service.
Westminster Fellowship at
3:45 p.m.; Youth Fellowship at
6:00 p.m.; Pioneer Fellowship at
6:00 p.m.
Circles of the women of the
church meet the first Monday of
each month; general meeting
each third Monday.
Presbyterian prayer service
dial AM 4-2213.
ClfURCH OF CHRIST ? Boone
Sunday meetings ? 10:00
12:00 a. m. Bible study, wor
ship, preaching. Lord's supper
each Lord's day. 7:30 p. m.
evening meeting.
Thursday? 7:30 p. m. Bible
studv.
ADVENT CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
The Bev. Floyd N. Boston,
pastor.
Sunday School ? 9:43 a.m.
llorning Worship? 10:45 a.m.
Vouth Fellowship? 6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship ? 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday:
Prayer Meeting ? 7:30 p.m.
STONY FORK BAPTIST
CHURCH
The Bev. Baymond Hendrix,
pastor.
Harlan Greene, Sunday School
superintendent.
Sunday ? Sunday School at
10 a. m.; preaching second and
fourth Sundays at 11 a. m.;
Training Union at 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday night prayer meet
ing at 7 o'clock.
PROFFITTS grove
BAPTIST CHURCH
Herbert McCoy, pastor.
Sunday School each Sunday at
10:00 a.m.
Worship each first and third
Sunday at 11 o'clock: Confer
ence Saturday night before 3rd
Sunday.
Frankie South, superinten
dent of Sunday School.
ANTIOCH MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
Elder Carl Wilson, Pastor
Preaching service every first
Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.
m. and every third Sunday
night.,
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Prayer meeting each Thurs
day night.
Howard Cable, superinten
dent; Dwight Cable, choir lead
er.
Everybody welcome.
PERKINS V1LLE BAPTIST
CHURCH
K. Maurice Cooper, pastor.
Sunday School? 10:00 a.m.
, Worship Service ? 11:00 a.m.
Training Union ? 6:30 p.m.
Evening Worship ? 7:30 p.m.
Prayer Service ? Wednesday
evening, 7:30 p.m.
Although it has no direct
control over other agencies
that serve the visually handi
capped. the American Founda
tion for the Blind provides
them jritfc professional advice
and assistance on request. Last
year it made its resources avail
able to over 490 agencies in
work for the blind throughout
the United States.
Christmas Observance Was Once Illegal
Gem? Of Thought
NEW YEAR
Celebration of Christmas ?
the most widely observed reli
gious holiday of the modern
world ? was at one time illegal
in early American history.
Colonial New England did
not celebrate Christmas, ac
cording to researchers at Corap
ton's Pictured Encyclopedia, be
cause the stern Puritan colon
ists believed that such activi
ties were wholly pagan and
forbade them by law. Christ
mas came to the American col
onies while it was the subject
of strenuous controversy in
England. English Puritans con
demned it as "popish" and the
secular celebration as a "wan
ton Bacchanalian feast."
Opposition of the English
Puritans to festivals culminat
ed in an act of Parliament in '
1647 which abolished the ot> |
serv^nce of Christmas, Easter'
and Whitsuntide. This was
echoed in the American colon
ies In W59 when Puritans enaef
ed a law in the general court at
Massachusetts to punish those
who "kept Christmas."
The law re|d "Whosoever
shall be found observing any
si^ch day as Christmas or ihe
like, erther by fore bearing of
labor, feasting, or in any other
way . . . shall be subject to a
fine or five shillings."
The law was repealed in 1681
but many of the Puritans were
not reconciled to this action.
Secular reveling at Christmas ,
had often interfered with reli
gious devotions and offended
the Puritans' moral sense. This
intensified their sectarian hosti
lity to the religious observance
of Christmas ? an attitude thWy
maintained for the beter part
of two centuries in parts of
New England
The fun-loving Dutch colon
ists of New Amsterdam, how
ever, celebrated Christmas as
their chief holiday. They
brought the old customs from
their homeland, especially the
Christmas stocking and obser
vance of the feast day of St.
Nicholas.
In the Southern colonies, the
planters celebrated the yule
tide with feasting, singing, and
dancing. On many plantations
slaves were given a holiday as
long as the great yule log burn
ed.
The latter half of the eigh
teenth century saw a swing of
attention to the Tealm-tJf eeo*
nomics and poliics and religious
controversies became of leas
importance. The fact that Eng
lish and Hessian troops cele
brated Christmas during the
Revolutionary War may have
added a patriotic note to the
denominational .controversy.
General Washington 'crossed
the Delaware River on the
night of December 25, 1776, tq
surprise and defeat the Hessian
troops stationed at Trenton. N.
J. In the opinion of one writer,
Washington's bold venture suc
ceeded because the Heapians
were enjoying their customary
Christmas revels and failed to
maintain the usual watch and
patrols.
However, denominational op
position to the ecclesiastic ob
servance of Christmas continu
ed into the second half of the
nineteenth century. An account
ip the New York Daily Times
for December 28, 1850 read:
"The churches of the Presby
terians, Baptists, and Metho
dists were not open on Dec. 25
except where some Mission
Schools had ? celebration. They
do not ; ccept the day as a
Holy One, but the Episcopalian,
Catholic and German Churches
were all open, inside they were
decked with evergreens."
In the twentieth century, all
denominations have embraced
Christmas widely both as a
religious and as a social cele
bration. Today, men, women
and children in every Christian
land crowd into chuq&ef to,
give their thanks. More thpn
one fourth of the world's popu
lation ? about 800 million peo
ple profess some form of Christ
ian faith.
The jj>lendor ?m) beauty of
Christ mft observance* Is very
dtftircal froty the humble
stable in Bethlehem wKere
Christ was born; but the mes
sage He brought to the world is
the saqie ? "Glory be to Gqd in
the highest; ant) on earth peace,
(pod will toward jpeiu"
Letter To The Editor
Dear Mr. Editor:
I am neither surprised nor
shunned, by the recent attack
against our very efficient UN
secretary, Mr. Adlai Stevenson.
After all, |ras not our country
founded for freedom of speech?
Does that freedom not also ap
ply to Adlai Stevenson?
In my opinion, Adlai Steven
son's dignity, intelligence, hu
manitarian qualities are the
marks of a true fighter of com
munism, and if not given a
chance America and the rest of
the free world will be the loser.
I am an ardent subscriber of
the good old Watauga Democrat.
J. C. CHURCH
72 Johnson Ave.
Uniontown, Pa.
With each returning y?r,
higher Joys, holier aims, a pur
er peace and diviner energy,
atatuld freshen the fragrance of
being.? Mary Baker Eddy.
The new U but the old coqne
true, Each sunrise sees a new
year born. ? H^len Hunt Jack
aon.l;S
The best preparation for the
future, is the present well seen
to, and the last duty done.?
George Macdonald
Thing naught a trifle, though
it small appear;
Small tands the mountain,
moments make the year.
? Edward Young
Each year, one vicious habit
rooted out in time ought to
make the worst man good. ?
Benjamin Franklin.
FALLS 92 FEET
Vero Beach, Fla. ? It was a
long way down for Roger Oil
man, 23, who fell 92 feet to
the ground from the side of
the city water tank. He suffer
ed a dislocated knee.
Ohman's fall was broken when
he hit some protruding rods on
the way down. He was helping
remove scaffolding from the side
of the tank, which had been
cleaned and painted.
PAUL WESTON STUDIO
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2? ARTIST HIDE AWAY? Overlooking Blue Ridge Park
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3? FOUR BEDROOMS, bath, good old country home with
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4? GOOD, 3 BEDROOM, bath. Lot 129x200. Just out of
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18? GOOD 2 BEDROOM HOUSE, carport, completely furn
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21?15 ACRES LAND? 2-10 tobacco base, good barn. Lo
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25? LARGE RANCH TYPE BRICK? 3 bedrooms, family
room, fire-place, double garage, full basement.
$25,000.00.
2ft? FORTY ACRE FARM- -You could look for ten years
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motel. Located on Highway 321, adjoining the Catho
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carport, full basement. Down payment $2700. Monthly
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cated just one block from college. $1500 down. Monthly
payments $71.00.
8 ? LARGE 3 BEDROOM, ltt baths, fireplace, large living
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from campus. GOOD FINANCING.
9 ? OVERLOOKING BOONE GOLF COURSE, 3 bedroom,
garage, full basement with apartment Priced for
quick sale.
10?2 BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT completely furn
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11? FIVE ACRES LEVEL LAND, new 3 bedroom brick?
full basement. Located 6 miles out on bard surface
road. Price $16,500.
12? COMMERCIAL BUILDING with 200-foot highway front
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for store or restaurant. Can be financed.
18? 15-ROOM HOUSE, 3 baths, 1 acre land, located about
one mile out of town on highway. Price: $7,300.
14? NEW BUSINESS BUILDING AND LOT located in
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15?190 ACRE FARM, good 6 room house; good tenant
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16? HAVE CLIENT that would like to trade, 4 bedroom,
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adjoining the U. S. Parkway on bard surface road.
Will sell any size lot you want Ideal for year around
home.
19 ? STORAGE BUILDING 30 x 50. Block building. Price
$5,000.00.
20 ? 300-FT. ROAD FRONTAGE located at entrance of col
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22? GOOD GOING BUSINESS? WELL ESTABLISHED.
Confidential listing? will quote only to responsible
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28? WOODED LOTS ALONG MOUNTAIN STREAM.
Price $250.00 and up. Ideal for summer Cottages.
24 ? OWNER MOVING out of town, new 3 bedroom, 2 baths,
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27? SUMMER COTTAGES? New 1-2-3 bedroom cottages on
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28?75 ACRES IN GOOD PASTURE with 1,000 feet road
frontage, located in Cove Creek section. Price: $12,000.
> Good terms.
2?? 6,000 SQ. FOOT WAREHOUSE, 300-ft highway front
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80? LARGE 5-BEDROOM HOUSE? 2 baths, storm windows,
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NICE WOOD LOTS, with water located X miles out
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one mile from Golf Course. Price $5,000.00.
ONE BLOCK FROM CAMPUS? 8 bed room, hot air heat.
Prict $9,500.00.
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