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Messenger, Thursday, December 6, 1990
The Mountain Messenger's
Weekly Church Salute
Helen W. Searle
Fairview Christian Church, located near Keenan on Central Church Road (Route 11) was organized in 1905
by several families who had moved to Monroe County from Craig County, Virginia. The name was selected
because of the church s sweeping view of a large valley bounded to the southeast by Peters Mountain.
Augustus C. Givens donated property for the church building and cemetery. Timber for the sanctuary was
cut on adjacent property owned by Mr Givens brother Oscar. John T. Watson was the first pastor. Roy E.
Hall Jr has been minister of the congregation since 1977.
Antiques and
Collecting
bv Ralph & Terry Kovel
This Week In History
A collection of tin no~ makers
won the mostdnteresting-collection
contest in "Kovels' Page-a-day Col-
lectibles Calendar" (Workman Pub-
lishing, $8.95, available in
bookstores). Most of the pre-1980
noisemakers were made by Ameri-
can companies, Kirkhof of Newark,
NJ., made Life of the Party brand;
U.S. Metal Toy Manufacturing Com-
pany of New York made similar
noisemakers; other brands are Bugle
Toy and T. Cohn Inc.
We are looking for information
about these companies and the
lithographed party favors that they
made. The noisemakers were prob-
ably made from the 1920s to the
1940s, and similar tin rattles are now
being made in Taiwan and Hong
Kong. The early noisemakers had
pressed metal or wooden ball clap-
pets and some even had wooden
handles. Please ~te us in care of
this newspaper if you know anything
about the companies or their pro-
duets
Q. We found a metal lamp in my
aunt's new home. The glass shade
was marked with a paper label
that says "Miller Lamps". The
bent glass of the shade is painted
with a leaf pattern that has worn
off. Is the lamp old?
A. Edward Miller and Company of
Meriden, Conn., made oil lamps in
the 1890s. At the turn of the century,
they started making electric lamps.
They were often made with pierced
metal and bent glass shades. The
fhTn was still working in the 1920s.
q, When were the first Buddy
"L" trucks made?
A. The first Buddy "L" trucks were
the number 200 Express body trucks
made from 1921 to 1929.
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TIP: One moth can lay 300
eggs. Each egg will batch a larva
that eats 15 times its body weight
in wool. If you see a single flying
moth, you probably have a family.
Look under the rugs regularly for
signs of damase,~t~xtneis or tufts
of wool. Have all your rugs
cleaned. Remove any ruined pad-
ding. Spray baseboards and
moldings for insect, Have all of
your woolen elotheb dry cleaned.
Do all of this at the\same time to
be sure to find all of the larvae or
eggs.
For a copy of the Kovels'
leaflet "How to Refinish and
Date a Trunk," send $1 and a
double-stamped, long, self-
addressed envelope to Koveis'
P.O. Box 22900, Beachwood, Ohio
44122.
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On December 4, 1783, George
Washington bade farewell to his
officers at Fraunces Tavern in New
York City ... December 6, 1790,
Congress met in Philadelphia, the
new temporary Capital ... December
4, 1867, the Grange was organized
to protect farmer interests ...
December 8, 1886, the American
Federation of Labor was f rmed by
25 craft unions ... December 7,
1915, President Wilson asked for a
military fund increase ... December
5, 1933, Prohibition ended in the
U.S. as the 36th state ratified the 21st
Amendment ... December 7, 1941,
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
at 7:55 ~m .... December 8, 1941,
the U.S. declared war o1~ Japan ...
December 8, 1950, the U.S. banned
shipments to Communist China and
Jeremy Morgan
Born November 1
to Asiatac ports trading with it ...
December 5, 1955, the merger of Addison and Patricia Morgan of
America's two largest labor organi- Ronceverte to announce the arri-
val of their son, Jeremy Wade, on
zations was effected under the
November 1. Jeremy weighed 6
name'AmericanFederati°n°fLalmr Ibs, 13-1/2 oz. and was 19-1/2
and Congress of Indus~lal Organize- inches long. Grandparents are
t!ons. The merged AFt~CIO had a Bill and Neva Boggs of Frankford
membership ~d at 15 million and Palmer Morgan of Second
... December 6, 1973, Gerald R. Creek and the late Janet Morgan.
Ford was officially sworn in as Vice Great grandparents are Mr and
President, replacbtg Spiro Agnew, Mrs Ray Morgan of Ronceverte
who resigned in October ... Decem- and Lonnie Miles of Frankford.
ber 8, 1980, former Beetle John
Lennon was shot and killed outside
his apartment building in New York
City by Mark David Chapman, a
former psychiatric patient. 647"5724
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Saint Abraham of Kratia
The ancient city of Emesa,
now called Horns, is a large silk
manufacturing enter in Syria,
located on the Orontes River
about 100 miles northeast of
Heirut, Lebanon, Abraham,
whose name means "father of
the multitude." was born here in
474 AD.
Abraham became a monk in a
near-by coinmunit~¢ of Emesa
but constant raids on this com-
Illuniiy lorced him to leave the
area. He traveled to Constantin-
ople where he became the ad-
ininistrator of a monastery. At
the age of 26 he was named the
abbot of a monastery at Kratia.
Ten years later. Abraham de-
cided to leave this position to
seek a life of contemplation and
solitude in the mountains of Pal-
teSlille. This dream did not last
very long. His bishop soon forced
him to return to Kratia. Soon af-
terwards this bishop died and
Abraham, much to his disap-
pointment, was chosen Bishop of
Kratia.
For 13 years, Abraham faith-
fully served Kratia as their
Bishop. He never lost sight of his
dream and one day again fled to
Palestine in his quest for soli-
tude. This time there was no one
to call him back. He lived in a
monastery In Palestine until his
death at the age of 84 in 558. He
is remembered on December 6.
Timothy Wayne Dent
Wayne & Kim
Have Third
Mr and Mrs Wayne
is the former Klm
nounce the birth of their
Timothy Wayne. The
member of their ly
November 4. Timothy
lbs. 9.2 ozs. and was
inches long.
brothers, Travis and
is the grandson of
Bettie Masters of Organ
Mae Long
Mrs Mae Long Of Greenville
Her 90th Birthday
Mrs Mae Long of Greenville
celebrated her 90th birthday Oc-
tober 28. Her family hosted a sit
down dinner. Family members
attending the dinner were Otis
and Vivian Long; Sandra Dowdy;
Dave and T. J.; Sonny Long.
TrLxie, Johnnie and Tammy. Or-
ville and Reba Long; Steve and
Vera Long; Janena. Stephanie.
and John. Vicki Francis,
Nathan. Josh and Erin. Linda
Dixon, Dickie, Clint and Lance.
Also attending: sister Zola
McDaniel from Forest Hill and
daughter Norma Jean Young,
sister Felicia Caldwell from
Charltorr Heights and two other
guests.
Mrs Long's birthday party was
a surprise and she said "I have
so many friends and I love every
one of them. Thank each of you
who were there to help me enjoy
this special event."
Three -Day
At Holiness
Reverend Terry Kirk
more, Maryland, will
guest evangelist in
ices at the Pentecostal
Church, 18 lngleside
White Sulphur sprin~
dates of the meeting are
ber 10, 11 and 12.
gin at 7 p.m.
ministry has taken him
the world. He has
South America and
cently in the Soviet
1983 he began a new
Baltimore. Central
sembly, located in tt
Marsh area of the city,
rienced tremendous
physically and
end Kirk's message is
powerful and timely.
music will be
A supervised nursery
available.
Reverend Mike Edds
pastor. For more
call 536-2555.
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