Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - September 30, 1939, Moberly, Missouri SEPTEMBER 30 Moberly Churches Will Observe National Loyalty Day Sunday AND DEMOCRAT MOBERLY MO Every member present or counted for is the slogan for national loyalty day which will be observed in Moberly churches tomorrow The movement has been given the warm approval of President Roosevelt and is being sponsored locally by the terial Alliance Loyalty today and morrow are being observed throughout the country in the synagogues and churches of the nation at the call of the al Committee for Religious and Welfare Recovery The goal of the occasion Every citizen in a House of Worship every week for tion prayer adjustment worship and Charley V Vickrey executive chairman of the committee goal tests Had the above reached or more closely in recent been probably will be no n or war clouds over the rest df the world He Loyalty Days are a tion of the spiritual forces to of world peace and good will contrasted with mobilization of military forces of Europe in in- strife The gj soldiers now Europe are given option to in answering daily so every church member sense of loyalty to hi religious vows taken when joined the church or was con- firmed should recognize the sol in these days o d stress and peril to acknowledge in formal church service as well as in private worship the fatherhood of God who made of one blood all tions of men President Roosevelt's letter to the committee The White House Washington My dear Dr There never has been a time in our tory when there was deeper need for calling our people to faith in religion than the present moment In the contemporary conflict between nations and races and their philosophies of human society we must keep undimmed our perspective of spiritual values Within our own nation we are pressed by problems tional and international which call for divine guidance and As we seek continued er y we need more and more to realize that our search will vain unless we meet with ual forces the materialism which has such disastrous effect our national and international life I am gratified to learn that the Call is again going forth the observance Loyalty Day by our synagogues September and October first to minds and hearts of jr to consciousness of the hood of God the brotherhood of man and the sanctions of ion in services of worship and rededication to these ideals World Communion Day Observance by The Presbyterians er ery we of our civilization rest in secur itv and confidence Very sincerely yours Franklin D Roosevelt At 11 o'clock tomorrow morning the Coates Street Presbyterian Church joins with their church brethren around the world in brating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in what is to be known as World Wide Communion of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A The central place given to the Communion Table at this service should encourage each member of the congregation to make a special effort tot be present The session will meet at the close of Sunday School to receive those who would unite with the church If a spiritual awakening comes to America it must begin first in the lives of Christians and through them the Holy Spirit can and will work for the redemption of the nation arid of the world The Sunday School meets at a m The Christian will be- gin their series of fall meetings this Sunday at with a Trip to the Mountain Heights with Kenneth Haynes as conductor Miss Bette Kastle will give a talk and Miss Elizabeth Burrell will a special piano number All the young people are invited to attend The morning music as ed by Mrs Burnam Smith and Mrs W F Wigginton I Love Thee Lord Most High An Offertory Trio Adagio Godard played by Mr and Mrs C J and Mrs ginton Evening A Reverie The evening service is at National Day is a time when every available seat should be taken Church Is First Line of Defense officers teachers and friends of the Rev church should make as first line of defense in any country where right justice and truth are the principles of the people is the church of against which the gates aga eVall says the Oxford as the second of productions Robert Donat as Dr Andrew Mansell and Rosalind Russell as Christine his wife are splendid The rest of the players including Ralph Richardson Rex Harrison and Emlyn Williams are Brit- and merely adequate No exact adaptation of the novel the movie is more of a variation by Director King dor upon a theme by Cronin The variation is to say the least liberal Health Program Monday Night at East Park School A feature of the East Park meeting at o'clock Monday night at the school will be the showing of two motion pictures furnished by the state board of health Saving Sight and Prevention of Blindness and Man Against Microbes The latter film deals with the fight against i These films will be explained by Dr William J Sullivan of Kirksville head of District 10 of the state board of health and Miss Ruth district 10 health nurse Grade seven will also take part Mn the program their con- dealing with health AH interested persons are invited to this meeting CHARITON SCHOOL ASSOCIATION HEADED BY MENDON MAN tnr Bay and Bert LaJ In version of the fantasy at the fort on this day to be present for e Sunday School and worship The 11 o'clock worship service m Grace and he says We are living in a scientific age Men are searching for un- Whence go philosopher he tells to within There are hidden sources which all of us have not realized If we go to the psychologist he will tell us that we are using only a small part of our a small part of our resources are being put into use In the religious realm we are told by the average iv dav off in the sky we shall have sufficient life here m the present tense In the ere and now Grace is a spiritual force It is not imaginary it is real is not in heaven alone V Powell pastor of Methodist church on his subject for w morrow The First of De- The Rev Mr Powell con- David Livingston proved to the world that the Spirit of Christ m man is the greatest sword and helmet that an individual or a nation can possess Where the Christian brotherhood has not been broken the Christian faith has not been shattered the Christian Spirit has not been dis- carded the nation needs defense It is encouraging unto the brotherhood of Christians to read the statement of the President concerning Loyalty Day in the churches In part he wrote I am gratified to learn that the call is going forth for the wide observance of Loyalty Day bv our churches and synagogues 30 and October 1 to Sunday School a m a m day evening services at 8 o'clock The Reading Room in the foyer of the Church is open to the lic Saturdays from 2 to 5 p m and before and after the evening services A cordial invitation is ed to the public to attend our services and to make free use of our Reading Room Unreality is the subject ot the in all Churches of Christ Scientist tomorrow Golden Proverbs There is that maketh himself rich yet hath there is that maketh himself poor yet hath great riches Among the citations which com- prise the is the following from the rrand next week GRAND A generation ago a PAGE S Among other officers selected were Mrs A G Stuart Paris re- cording and corresponding tary and Mrs Joe Mathews son literature secretary Ite LAST TIMES TONIGHT Frankie Darro In Irish Luck Also 7 Keys to Baldpate SUNDAY MON TUBS Ladies you must be here to get the Large Hair bour not to be cease from color to date perman L Frank Baum sat down one day to write a story about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who was blown away by a clone to the wonderful Land of Oz Since then that story and others written by Baum and his successors have become part of many a child's life and many a grownup's toog A year ago set out to prove what Paramount with Alice in Wonderland had failed to do that fantasy can be scribed to the screen The result is Baum's first story The ard of all over again plus music and something with all his imagination never dreamed of the most colorful It here on- the earth It is within the reach of all His Grace is sufficient in building character and the church that realizes such a spiritual force is a great tor in the building up of His kingdom The pastor will have for his o'clock sermon topic Christ and the Lost He comments The church should give more time to the consideration of spreading the gospel to the un- is inspiration In giving the necessary truth to those who are seeking will bring inspiration The church v should always be busy in building the kingdom A united effort should be manifested to show that the church is interested in the mass of people who are desiring un- about the question of salvation Christ is ever ready to be lifted up through the chan nels of his church to save all who are Regular meeting of the tian Endeavor will be at o'clock and mid- week prayer vices are conducted each night at 7 The pastor home and assures that his can be of help He attendance for National Church day Since tomorrow is the first Sunday in October and the spirit of a revival is in all churches and denominations the Second Baptist church cannot afford to be behind the onward movement to Christ says the pastor the Rev W Hill Tomorrow morning's services will start at with cration services by the deacons deaconesses At 11 the Choir will furnish special bring the minds and hearts of men back to consciousness of the Fatherhood of God the hood of man and the sanctions of religion in services of worship and rededication to these ideals Upon them alone can the ture of our civilization rest in security and confidence It is up to the loyal tians of this country to see and to make sure that our first line of defense holds Other countries let go Their second line of defense raging on in its tion Our country needs us to make strong our first line of de- fense now The Holy Communion will be observed in keeping with the gram of the national Day program The evening service sermon sub- is Having Ears and Hear Not The Church School will observe Rally Day tomorrow with a cial program beginning at 10 o'clock Classes will meet from to 10.00 New Testaments will be given unto each attendant at the Church School tomorrow Epworth League meets at o'clock Music for tomorrow as ed by Mrs Hartley ter and Mrs Lee Reynolds will anthem The Heart of God Choir prelude Prelude in C offertory Romanza Postlude evening special Huntsville Quartette Calvary Walter Harlan Victor Ellis W Wilhite T O Gunn Prelude Melody in G offertory Twi- light in Autumn lude thine own wisdom Bat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye neither desire thou his dainty For as he thinketh in his heart so is Buy the truth and sell it not also dom and instruction and un- Prov 3 6 7 to The also in- cludes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the by Mary er Everything good or worthy God made Whatever is valueless and baneful Pie did not its unreality All the evidence of physical sense and all the knowledge obtained from physical sense must yield to ence to the immortal truth of all Church Services Regular services will be con- ducted tomorrow at the bly of God Tabernacle at 516 Hagood street by the pastor the Rev Ola Miller He will preach at both 11 o'clock and at in the evening Sunday School will convene at o'clock Ladies Prayer Circle will meet Tuesday night with Mrs Iva 1120 Quinn street services will bo at the church Thursday night be- ginning at The public is in- to all services It is a big and exciting piece of entertainment that the Grand will show for four days next week starting tomorrow Not even such Baum inventions as the ing Monkeys and the magic Poppy Fields stumped cians Judy Garland is Dorothy By virtue of tricky make-up Ray Bolger is the Scarecrow Jack Haley is the Tin Woodman and Bert Lahr is the Cowardly Lion Also in the cast are Frank gan Billie Burke Margaret ilton Charley and the Singer Midgets As you certainly ought to know the four Dorothy the Scarecrow the Tin Woodman and the ardly Lion set out to find the Wizard of Oz each for a pose The Cowardly Lion wants to become brave The Woodman a heart The Scarecrow wants brains And Dorothy wants to get home to Kansas Their greatest difficulty -is the ard's secret there is no such person as the Wizard of Oz Included in the musical score are six tunes one of which Over the has become a hit and was an un- known recruit Today in Here I Am A Stranger 20th at the Grand for three days next week starting Thursday he is a star The studio says his growing popularity is the reason His supporting cast in Here I Am A includes Richard Dix Brenda Joyce Roland Young and Gladys George Miss Joyce one time Paris visitor is a newcomer too not yet risen as high as Greene She is being boosted following her screen debut in an earlier film The Rains carne The a youth who reaches manhood as a stranger to the world in which he has grown up Greene looks his prettiest in it Church 4TH STREET i A hula musical Hawaiian Nights and a affair in the zona wastelands Bad Lands RKO are first up at the Street next week tomorrow Monday and Tuesday Hawaiian Night is just what you think done by Constance Moore Mary Carlisle Johnny Downs Eddie Quillan Matty neck and his orchestra and Sol Hawaiian Band The story concerns a swing band in the South Seas Times by Malneck in- When Hawaii Sang Me To I Found My Hey Good and Then I Wrote the Minuet in G Bad Lands is a story of ten sudden deaths in the desert told by a bunch of grizzled characters including Robert Barrat Douglas Walton Andy Clyde Robert Coote Guinn Williams Francis Ford Noah Beery Jr Paul Hurst Ad- dison Richards Francis McDonald and Jack Payne Barrat is the only man who lives lured away from Gene Autry SOSNA Three days starting tomorrow the Sosna will show The tures of Huckleberry M- adaptation of the Mark Twain classic which gave Mickey Rooney his first solo starring role The screen play is near enough the story of the river boy of 1850 who aided a runaway slave to escape to freedom to satisfy most casual readers of Mark Twain and remote enough sometimes to make Twain students squirm The familiar characters of Huckleberry Finn are ed by Walter Connolly William Frawley Rex Ingram Carver Jo Ann Sayers Watson and others Lynne Minor For four days starting the Sosna will show The Citadel and Hard Rock Harrigan Hard Rock Harrigan present George O'Brien as one of a crew of drillers tunneling through a mountain to complete an the at- or and covenant services at which time all members will be expected to give praise and ation to God and His goodness The President of the United States is asking that all es and denominations make the month of October a month of prayer Starting the first day tomorrow the pastor be- all members to fall in line that his church may keep abreast with the movement Evening music tomorrow win be by the Senior Choir The ad- ministration of the Lord's Supper Services Sunday observed and the sermon The Church of God Holiness meeting will be held each Sunday at 1132 Emerson street in the building which has been rented for that purpose Services tomorrow will be day School at o'clock ing at 11 by Miss Ula Clark of Kansas City who will preach again at the o'clock worship hour Regular weekly prayer meeting will be at o'clock Wednesday night An invitation is extended to the public CHILI SUPPER soup Central Church Oct 3 5 p Christ All are welcome to attend these services For Rent Ad win find a good tenant for you Do you do Repair Work? in- form the public Use a Want Ad CaU 123 The Rev E B Strong pastor of First Christian church will go to Antioch church just off way 24 about five miles east of town to preach at 2 o'clock morrow afternoon His message will be Light At Eventide with the text taken from Zachariah There will be a study of the Bible School lesson at o'clock Everyone is given a cor- dial welcome to be present at that time Wednesday night at a special midnight performance Grand will present a stage traction feats of legerdemain and a spook show by Francisco the Magician Francisco's show is the first of a new series of stage attractions Manager H L Golladay has planned for the Grand October 20 and 21 Jack Wardlow and his Rolling Rhythm Revue is to play here The revue including low's CBS orchestra has a cast of eighteen Cleo Rivers songstress and Buddy Dunn comedian are featured Also forthcoming at an date will be the Brush Creek Follies out of Kansas City Baptist Mission The Rev O R Burham pastor of Immanuel Baptist church will preach at o'clock tomorrow morning at Northeast Baptist x AK Sunday School is at o'clock Attendance is growing consistently at the Mission and the pastor the Rev J Clark Hensley and his membership cordially in- vite anyone living in northeast berly to attend services there There will be a Men's Day Sunday October 8 at grim Rest Baptist church for which men of the church will contribute one dollar apiece and the women 50 cents Carson bilee Quartet from St Louis will have charge of the program The public is invited by the pastor A year ago Richard Greene who since has played various portant supporting roles the most recent of which was in Stanley Wednesday and Thursday the 4th Street will offer Behind Prison Gates which s stuff and Sky Patrol a new Tailspin Tommy adventure Brian Donlevy gets himself sent to prison to learn more about crooks in Behind Prison Gates Jacqueline Wells Dick Curtis and Richard Fiske are in the cast John Trent Milburn Stone Marjorie Reynolds Jackie Coogan Bryant Washburn and others fight an aerial smuggler who turns out to be a munitions dealer in Sky Patrol Munition dealers make swell villains these days Friday and Saturday the 4th Street will show a Charles rett Western Riders of Black River com- pany this time includes Iris dith and the Sons of the Pioneers Jefferson Church Promotion Day the Rev Mr Johnson to come Promotion Day will be ed this Sunday in the Church School at Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church Those in charge announce that plans are being completed for an accurate classification of the School and all officers and teachers are ed to be present Sunday in der to assist with the promotion of members service will begin promptly at Plans for the new year's work will be discussed The regular preaching service will begin at The people will begin their Epworth League service at Charlene Kirk one of the members of the League will be the leader An interesting service has been to which al people are invited The evening preaching service will begin at The regular monthly meeting of the board of stewards will be to this program held Tuesday evenng An Event to Look Forward ON THE Do Not Confuse Francisco With Ordinary Mystery Shows He's Very Very Unusual Midnight Show Wednesday Only duct project Irene Hervey Fred head O'Brien and s porting cast In contrast to that American The screen sion of Dr A J Cronin's fine lovel is one of the best films to come out of England The Citadel followed A Yank At SALISBURY Sept 30 The Chariton County High School Association was organized at Salisbury at a held here Wednesday evening by electing land Kennedy of dent Miss Blanch Osborn bury vice-president and Miss cile secretary and treasurer Among the items of business transacted the date for the county track meet was set for Nov 10 and U at Brunswick The literary and music activities will be much the same as last year with monthly speech carnivals held throughout the county dates and places to be announced later The annual music festival in which all of the schools of the county participate will be held at Brunswick in March MRS STUART OF PARIS ELECTED BY AUXILIARY LEXINGTON Mo Sept 30 AP W J Gammon of Perry Is the new president of the auxiliary of the Missouri Syn- od of the Presbyterian Church U ROXY Theatre Huntsville Mo Adni LAST TIMES TONIGHT Double Features Stronger Than Desire Virginia Bruce Walter Pidgeon Also Bough Riders Roundup With Roy Rogers SUNDAY and MONDAY Our Leading Citizen Bob Burns ENDS TONIGHT Cassidy in RANGE WAR Ml iff SWAYING TORRID YOUNG LOVE It's the spell of the lure of romance In Swing and Sway the Hawaiian DIPSY DOODLERS WHO TAUGHT HUIA GIRLS A NEW KIND OF 1 Johnny DOWNS Mary CARLISLE Constance MOORE Eddie QUILLAN Matty MALNECK and his Sol HOOPII Hawaiian Band Etienne Samuel S Princess Prince BAD LANDS with Barrat Noah Beery Jr Boy Williams Andy Clyde 3 DAYS STARTS 4th STREET TOMORROW HU f witti WALTER CONNOLLY Also Cartoon and Comedy The Laff More fun than tearing down the goal GRAND Owl Show Tonight Come at 9 O'clock See Two Complete Features No Extra Charge The Wonder I Show of Song of stage 1 and Judy GARLAND Frank MORGAN Ray BOLGER Bert LAHR jack HALEY k MARGARET BURKE HAMILTON 1 CHARLEY and THE MUNCHKINS r P Fi First Actual Scenes of the Fighting in Europe RITA RIO ORCHESTRA 4 GREAT DAYS STARTS TOMORROW GRAND
