By Dave Ellis
The Treasure Mountain Festival is over for another year.
Autumn (fall) starts this Saturday; good-bye summer. The grass cutting is coming to an end, but the leaves will start falling from the trees.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins – Mary Mitchell, Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Ruby Propst, Alice Johnson, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Hazel Simmons, Vestyl Bible, Mary Alice Simmons, Reva Hartman, Sandy Washburn, Sandra Vandevander, Jean Landes and Larry Moyers; prayer list – Richard Campbell, Tristan Hartman, Joshua Shirk, Ava George, Roberta Bennett, Olin Hoover, Kenny Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Debbie Horst, Myrtle Hammer, Jimmie Bennett, Pam Rexrode, Nancy George, Abby Sites, Margaret Wimer, Harry Allen Warner, Sherman Bennett, Wendell Nelson, Pete Keplinger, Donald Burns, Neal Eye, David Bowers, Vada Bible, Keith George, Ruby Gail Roberson and Gary Hess.
Prayer thought: “When we feel distraught from God’s love, we can run back to His arm to be assured that even in our pain, He’s with us, protecting and caring for us.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for Sept. 11 through Sept. 17, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: Sept. 11 – 79°, 58°, .01” (75°, 61°, .04”); Sept. 12 – 81°, 53°, .18” (74°, 60°, .43”); Sept. 13 – 77°, 56° (73°, 56°); Sept. 14 – 73°, 48° (72°, 45°); Sept. 15 – 75°, 43° (75°, 47°); Sept. 16 – 80°, 42° (76°, 50°) and Sept. 17 – 58°, 53°, .95” (77°, 54°).