Floating Baptist Church Sails Sea of Japan To Reach Japan
The Fukuin Maru, the world’s only floating Baptist church, travels among hundreds of Pacific islands delivering gospel messages. Northern Baptists seek a new captain preacher after Captain Luke Piekel’s death while planning 15 new churches and a Tabernacle style temple network in Japan.
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Sea of
Japan
Luke Piekel Cvho
Northern Baptists
Preacher
Firpen
New York
Tabernacle
Tokyo
Local Notices and Social Notes From a Past Era
Community snippets recount local names and places including Mike Hunt now called Mr Undertaker in Crawfordsville, Carl Ferguson with an eye ulcer, J W Newman visiting Fayette, Mrs Caldwell and Mrs Epperson in Lebanon, and families of Lawler near Roachdale at church. Remodelling by Charles Emmert, adoption of Norma Jean by the Thompsons, Cris Welden leaving Indianapolis, Whitecotton returning from Fittsboro, Ora Beaver aiding Christian Church plans, Nisley’s hip injury recovery, Lone Star Ranger film at the Lone Star theater, and social visits to M P Riner and Robt Fulwider.
Land of Peace Plenty and Pep in Boone County Indiana
A 1920 county land report highlights 27 574 acres across 278 farms in Jefferson Township Boone County Indiana with total land and personal values near 6 million dollars plus a 691 dollar dog tax. It lists crops livestock and farm assets including corn oats wheat rye barley clover alfalfa and pasture stock plus apparatus like tractors cream separators silos and fencing.
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United States
Wm. Speer
Gladewater
Texas
John Freestone
Oregon
Walter McLaughlin
Montana
Rosser Woods
Oklahoma
Jefferson Township
Boone County
Indiana
North America
Ray Davis
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Trade AT Home
Markee
Planter
CB &Q
Advance Hardware Co
Christianity
Northern Baptist Convention
Mike” Hunt
Mike
Crawfordsville
Carl Ferguson
J.W. Newman
City of
Fayette
Charles Caldwell
Jne Caldwell
Wm. Lawler
Roachdale
Charles Emmert
Solomon Buechler
James Kibbey
Dorothy Kibbey
Roy Kibbey
Frankfort
Chas Thompson
Near Union
Norma Jean
Cris Welden
Indianapolis
Lawrence Whitecotton
Fittsboro
Ora Beaver
Danville
Christian Church
Frank Nisley
Lone Star Ranger
Crand
Mr. Lucas
Mrs
Newt Meek
M. P. Riner’s
Robt. Fulwider’s
Paul Ross
U. S
Tom Ewe Ee
W.J. DeVol
J. H. Fink
H.C. Epperson
G. H. Waters
State Bank OF Advance
Advance
State of Indiana
I. H.C. Epperson
W. W. Caldwell
Jackson Township
James Franklin Self
Earl Ross
John Coons
Lebanon
Wm. Rohn
Sundey
Will
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Advance Lumber Co
Burrin’s
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