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and informative talk on her work in Japan and showed slides illustrating manypoints of interest.After a visit with friends at Mars, withher children and grandchildren nearPittsburgh, and a few days in the boundsof the WILKINSBURG CONGREGATION, Mrs. C. P. Anderson has returnedto the home of her daughter and familyin East Lansing, Michigan. Mrs. Anderson is always welcome in the home congregation!ALLEGHENY: The annual Thanksgiving Day Worship Service will be inAllegheny Church, Thursday, November25 at 10:30 A.M. The Central-PittsburghCongregation will unite with us in thisservice. Their pastor, the Rev. KennethG. Smith will preach the sermon.The followingattended Grinnell fromour HOT SPRINGS Congregation: elderand Mrs. A. H. Cunningham, Boyd A.and Dr. Edna W. White and Miss KayMitchell. Robert Gross went with theWhite's and helped greatly with the driving. En route, the White's spent the weekend in Stafford, and the Cunningham'sand Kay Mitchell in Kansas City. Following Grinnell the Cunninghams visitedrelatives in Ohio. The White Party returned via Colorado, and visited friendsand relatives in Greeley and Denver overthe week-end. They also visited Covenanter friends in Pueblo, the John McCrory family, Mr. W. S. Dill in Alamosa,and the Dr. John Dale Russells in SantaFe.MORNING SUN: Promotion exercisesheld in October promoted five girls to theYoung People's class taught by Mrs.Honeyman. Other teachers in the SabbathSchool are: Rev. Patterson, Rev. McElroy, Ralph Wilson, Alma Dickson, loneHutcheson, Latha McElhinney, and OliveBaird. Junior S.S. Superintendent is Jessie Hutcheson, and Ellen Armstrong isSuperintendent of S. S.We anticipate a full attendance at theof theannual Thankoffering meetingWILKINSBURG W.M.S. and Y.P.M.S.Dinner is to be served at 6:30, followedby our special guests, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sanderson, of Latakia, Syria.BLOOMINGTON: Our congregationfeels it has been very fortunate in havingDr. and Mrs. Dale Russel of Santa Fe,New Mexico, with us for a month's visitthis fall. Dr. Russell is Executive Secretary of the Financial Board of the StateSupported Institutions of Higher Education in New Mexico. He is an elder inthe congregation at Truth or Consequences. During the time the Russels werehere, Dr. Russell conducted the SabbathSchool class for the senior adults.December 1, 1954MORNING SUN: Mr. J. J. McElroyaccompanied Elizabeth and Sandra McElroy to Topeka. He also visited at Quinter and Waukeeny, Kans. and returnedhere with his daughter Mrs. Reah Mathews of Hemet, Calif.Among our spring and summer visitorsin HOT SPRINGS, were Mr. and Mrs.John Park, and Miss Eleanor Boyd ofMontclair; elder Robert J. Crawford ofPhiladelphia ; Mrs. Mary Everett and herdaughters'families, the Randalls andWallaces. Glenn and Yvonne Wallace returned here from Beaver Falls, and havesince returned to California.GENEVA: Our triplets, Lois, Paul andBoyd Hemphill celebrated their eighthbirthday on November 1. Theychildren of Wendell and Mabelare the(McCready) Hemphill who have recentlymoved to a farm. Their children take anactive part in the Junior band.TheHemphills have two older boys, Richardand David.MORNING SUN: Jimmy Dunn wason a demonstration team at the IowaState Fair that received a Blue Ribbon.Young folks attending college are LloydBaird, Iowa University, Iowa City, whois out for football; Marilyn Todd asophomore at Teachers College, CedarFalls, Iowa, and Gwendolyn Wilsonsophomore at Iowa State College, Ames,Iowa.NEWBURGH: On Sabbath, October10, Rev. Sterrett assisted in Communionat Beaver Falls, Pa.HOT SPRINGS: In late August andearly September Mr. and Mrs. JamesLucas visited relatives in Sterling, Idanaand Winchester. This was their first visitsince coming to Hot Springs nearly tenyears ago. Since Albert Lucas has beentransferred from Chanute Field, 111., toWalker Field, Roswell, N. Mex., he frequently visits his parents.On the eveningof November 8 theWINKINSBURG Y.P.M.S., assisted bythe Blue Banner Club, entertained atthe Home on Perrysville Avenue. Bothparticipants and audience enjoyed a humorous skit, also a musical story reminiscent of the various stages in the life ofthe reader, entitled "Memories." The audience enjoyed joining in the singing ofseveral familiar songs. Then all gatheredabout the small tables to enjoy refreshments of sandwiches, cookies and coffee.The evening activities closed with a devotional time led by our pastor, Dr. T.C. McKnight. It was an evening of goodfellowship with our friends of The Home.MORNING SUN: Mrs. Howard Hensleigh is a regular attender at servicesagain after having spent manymonths inthehospital with a broken arm and leg.Rev. and Mrs. Patterson drove to Orlando, Florida, to live at the home of Mr.Black.ALLEGHENY: The Blue Banner Culbmet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S.Robb on Friday, November 12. The cohostesseswere Mr. and Mrs. R. HowardGeorge.Recent visitors in HOT SPRINGSwere Mr. and Mrs. Howard Boyd of LosAngeles, who brought with them MissLillian McCracken from Phoenix. Theywere present for the fourth Anniversaryof the Dedication of the R. P. WhiteChapel.DENVER: We greatly miss the DarylIkenberry family who have recentlymoved to Colorado Springs. Miss JanetIkenberry has recently come through avery successful operation for appendicitis.Mrs. Lee Rice has just returned to herhome after being in the hospital for thesecond time in a little over three months.She will be confined to her bed for sometime.BLOOMINGTON: The teachers of theSabbath School met with the Superintendent, Mrs. Ray Wampler, and Rev.Roy Blackwood, at the parsonage Monday, November 15, to choose materialfor the Sabbath School for the comingyear. Teachers meetings are being heldperiodically and problems of the SabbathSchool are discussed. The staff and Rev.Blackwood have also been meeting forprayer a few minutes before opening exercises each Sabbath morning. Membersof the congregation and the young people's group have been calling on thoseliving near the Church and extending aninvitation to attend our Sabbath Schooland worship services.NEWBURGH: The semi-annual Sabbath School Teachers meeting was heldat the home of Miss Martha G. Henderson on Friday October 29. Plans weremade for our Christmas Party and forstarting a new S. S. Young Adult Class.This class was started on November 14.Each teacher was given some person inthe Congregation to contact about comingto this class. We trust that those folksspoken to will soon join us, and anyothers who would like to come. There is aclass for all ages and both sexes.MORNING SUN: Clyde McElhinneyrecentlywent to Chicago in his privateplane to see his cattle sell on the market.The Blue Banner group of WILKINSBURG held its November dinner andmeeting in the church dining-room. During the evening the men worked on newtables for the dining-room, while the351