VOL. 99 NUMBER 52
MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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8 CHURCH DECORATED - This scene at First Presbyterian
{| Church is repeated by most churches in the community this
season.A Christmas tree decked with the Christian symbols
of Christmas are at either side of the altar. Candlelight ser-
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CORRIE ALLEN IS 101 - Saturday was Corrie Bell Allen’s
101st birthday and she celebrated at Kings Mountain Con-
valescent Center. Pictured with her ar her daughter, Mrs.
Grathel Lail, left of Grover, and Mrs. Lail’s daughter, Mrs.
Wade Tyner.
LISTEN UP SANTA - Marylee Dilling, four-year-old daughter of Danny and Mary
Dilling, whispers in Santa’s ear her wishes for Christmas and Santa assured her he
would be to see her Christmas Eve night. The familiar visitor from the North Pole was in
Kings Mountain for a pre-Christmas visit and will return with his annual visit to all boys
and girls Wednesday night.
Photo by Lib Stewart
vices will be held at five churches Wednesday with 11 p.m.
’ St. Matthews, and Resurrec-
By LIB STEWART
News Editor
Christmas memories for
Corrie Bell Allen, 101 on
Suvarday, are of a house fill-
ed with la
her in a bugg th
tended un with her
parents, Monroe and Nicie
Ann Randle Bell, at Grover
Baptist, now First Baptist
Church of Grover.
Spending her first
Chrimstas at Kings Mountain
Convalescent Center after
breaking her ankle in April,
Mrs. Allen smiled from her
wheelchair and looked at the
Christmas tree and talked of
Christmases past.
Christmas
Services Slated
Christmas Eve services will highlight the Christmas obser-
vance in Kings Mountain.
First Presbyterian Church, St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church
and Resurrection Lutheran Church have planned traditional
candlelight 11 p.m. services. Boyce Memorial ARP Church
will hold a 7:30 p.m. candlelight service and Trinity
Episcopal Church will hold a 6:45 p.m. service.
At First Presbyterian Church the Choirs, under direction of
Mrs. Darrell Austin, will sing Christmas anthems and Dr.
Eric Faust will lead worshippers in the Sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper. The church sanctuary is decorated with two
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Mrs. Allen, 101 Years Old,
Remembers Past Christmases
Her cousin, Mamie Harris,
had come to the Allen home
on Christmas Eve to spend
the night with her. Christmas
morning they dressed for
church services, Mrs. Allen
in a dress she had made for
oge ; uggy
After services and lunch, the
two couples eloped and were
married in a double
ceremony by Justice of the
Peace Mullinax at his home
in Grover. After the wedding,
Corrie and Ben Allen moved
into the house he was born in
with his father, Dave Allen.
The Allens lived in the house
in the Allen Memorial Baptist
Church community near
Grover until Mr. Allen died in
Santa Claus Gets
Operation Santa Claus was
getting assistance from
numerous civic and
charitable organizations this
week in the form of toys, cash
and warm blankets.
Kings Mountain firemen,
readying to begin their an-
nual toy distribution to the
needy, said they had received
names of more than 300
children and that more
names of kids and families
are expected to be added
before Santa makes his
rounds on Christmas Eve.
Santa firemen will be
distgributing the toys from a
huge Santa headquarters in
the fire department today,
tuesday and Christmas Eve.
Eve
February 1957 and Mrs. Allen
moved in with her daughter,
Mrs. Grathel Lail, for 28
years.
Although this holiday is
quite different from
hristmases past, Mrs. Allen
ister: ay ! :
Grover, 88, and Annie Fulton
of Spartanburg, S.C., 86, join-
ed Mrs. Allen, along with all
family members, on Satur-
day for a joint birthday party
honoring Mrs. Allen and her
daughter.
The eldest of seven
children adn mother of five,
Mrs. Bell recalled that
Assist
In addition, Kings Moun-
tain Jaycees purchased 75
bicycles for firemen to
Charges Are Dismissed
Charges against Willard
Pete Johnson, owner of
Pete’s Gulf Station on King
Street, on liquor violations
were dismissed in Cleveland
County District Court Tues-
ay.
District Judge Leonard
Van Koppan dismissed
charges of possession and
sale of alcoholic beverages
without a permit and posses-
sion of alcohol on unauthoriz-
ed premises.
St. Luke’s Christmas Story
And it came to pass in those days, that
there went out a decree
Augustus that all the world should be taxed;
And this taxing was first made when
Cyrenius was governor of Syria. .
And all went to be taxed, every one into his
own city.
from Caesar
shall be to all
them and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, fear not, for
behold I bring you tidings of great joy which
people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of
David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out
of the city of Nazareth, unto Judea, unto the
city of David, which is called Bethlehem;
because he was of the house and lineage of
David.
To be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife,
being great with child.
And so it was that while they were there,
the days were accomplished that she should
be delivered;
And she brought forth her first born son,
and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and
laid him in a manger because there was no
room for them in the inn.
And there were in the same country
shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping
watch over their flocks by night;
And the angel of the Lord came upon them
and the glory of the Lord shone round about
find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes
and lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of heavenly hosts, praising God
and saying ‘‘Glory To God In The Highest and
on Earth Peace Good Will Toward Men.”
And it came to pass as the angels were gone
away from them into heaven, the shepherds
said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem and see this thing which the Lord
has made known unto us.
And they came with haste and found Mary,
Joseph and the Babe lying in a manger.
And when they had seen it they made
known abroad the sayings which were told to
them concerning this child. ‘
And all that heard it wondered at those
things which were told them by the
shepherds,