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,l* • tqjj*r %4lv^r^^Z\^x^£/ j: V • -• Thursday, December 15,1949 it urn The Junior and Cherub choirs sang a very lovely number for the service Sunday morning, "The Birthday of a King" bv Neidlinger. During this season of the year when children are uppermost in our thinking; it is a great thrill to hear these young folks lift their' voices in song using their talents in worship of God. While we are thinking about children, did you send your contribution to the Woodstock Children's Home? The girls of the F.H.A. deserve our thanks for the time they spent last Saturday tagging. If you didnt get a chance to give yqur gift, send it over to the home, it will help make a Happy New Year for about fifty youngsters. Sunday afternoon at 4:30 our Primary department of the Sunday School will present its annual Christmas program. The youngster! invite you , to be present. come, mothers, futhert and youngsters to the Christmas worship. Let's make this a day to remember, Dec. 25, 1949. ' "See you in Church Sunday. They have « wonderful atory to tell and want you there to hear it ' Some evening daring the week before Christmas the members of the upstairs department will go caroling and afterwards meet at the church for refreshments and a party. The evening and time will be announced next Sunday morning. The newly organised young adult group have chosen to hare a Christmas Eve service. They win furnish the music and other special items. Come out and sing many of your favorite carols and then we will close the evening with a candlelight service, time, 10:30. ..Because Christmas falls on Sunday this year there will be no regular Sunday School that morning but instead we are hoping to make Christmas Sunday, Family I sented a top award of $200 to Sunday, when all our families will Charles M. Hoffer, Joliet, of the FOUR PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY EMPLOYEES AWARDED PRIZES Four employees of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois were awarded prises totaling $4*75 for the best 1949 suggestions submitted under the company's suggestion system at a conference of the utility's officials held last week at the Palmer House, Chicago. The year-end prizes were in addition to previous cash awards totaling I7S0.00 given to the winners. Britton I. Budd, president, precompany's general meter shop in Maywood, for suggesting an easier and time-saving method of checking electric meters tor grounded conditions. Second prize winner was Frank Phillips, Highwood, who was awarded $150 for his suggestion which advanced a more efficient method of immobilizing electric water heater switches without damage. Joseph Ernst, Blue Island, won third place and was awarded $100 for his idea that speeded up exchanges of gas range parts with vendors. A. R. Faford of the utility's electric operating department in Kankakee was giVen a $25.00 award for submitting the largest number of accepted suggestions during the yettf- The utility&=%uggestion system, founded in 1911 and one of the oldest in the country, attracted approximately 1,400 suggestions from employees during 1949. Of this number, 476 were accepted and cash awards approximated $5,000. ColiM Crap Mechanlsatfsa Mechanization of the cotton crop is a step nearer as the result of a unified, across-the-board program of research now in its second year that involves work by engineers and scientists in 15 southern 4 , The Berries flie pfe bakers of America annually use 7,300,000 pounds of strawberries, and 15,000,000 pounds of other berries such as blueberries and blackberries. The bakers also use more than 4,600,000 pounds of coconut and 34,000,000 pounds of cherries in pies each year. 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