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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1950
Page
6
A compilation of weekend services across multiple churches including SS Peter and Paul Adair First Presbyterian Zion Lutheran and more. It notes service times Sunday schools morning worships sermons vacations and upcoming meetings with dates and leaders where specified.
The First Congregational Church invites members to stay after Sunday worship for a business meeting to hear deacons and trustees report. Edward C. Stice, organist, will give a public recital at 8 p m on Sunday July 2 at the church. No charge, free will offering.
Sunday evening evangelistic service at 8 with special music and a full gospel sermon. Sunshine hour for grade and pre school children at 4 p.m. Services at courthouse assembly room. Cottage prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the pastor's home 901 Walnut.
The First Baptist Church announces Sunday school at 10 morning worship at 11 with the sermon The Need for More Stewards. Youth Fellowship at 6 30. Evening service at 7 30 with They Continued. Bible study at 2 Tuesday parsonage prayer meeting. Wednesday 7 30 bi monthly church business meeting. Friday 2 30 Bible study at Mrs Sturdevant’s home.
Local church notices announce Mass and confessions at Anita Catholic and Grieweld Catholic, Lutheran and Congregational services across Anita, Grinweld, Lewis, Oak Hill, Wiota, Marne, Walnut, and Avoca. Calendar items include Sunday schedules, Sunday schools, youth and ladies meetings, and a park picnic by Walnut churches.
Sunday school begins at ten with morning worship at eleven and a sermon titled What is Genuine Christianity. Evening worship follows at Westminster Fellowship at 6 forty five.
Immanuel Lutheran Pastor Hoemann leads Sunday school at 9 and divine service at 10 with Lord's supper to be celebrated July 2. Quarterly meeting noted.
Elk Horn Baptist Church led by Pastor D Halvorsen lists Sunday school at 10 morning worship at 11 and 8 30 evening worship plus Berean classes. A Thursday prayer meeting is set for 8 30 p m.
Franklin Two Lutheran Rodney W. Riese leads Sunday school and Junior Bible class at 9 15. Divine services at 10 15 feature sermon by Paul Sparling a Concordia seminary student in St Louis Missouri.
Cleveland article reports Dr Vere V Lopez elected moderator of the Empressional Christian churches for two years. The Berkeley pastor beat Dr L Wendell Fifield 406 to 200 at the group’s biennial meeting. Lopez has led the Berkeley congregation since 1939 and is a Grinnell and Yale divinity graduate.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church adopted a record 4.2 million dollar two year budget, 600000 above the 1949 50 allotment, and entrusted funds to the board of trustees. A proposed 190000 dollar Minneapolis headquarters was postponed pending merger votes as union plans advance with Lutherans and the National Lutheran council.
The Missouri Synod asked for guidance from its 41st triennial convention on whether church members may join the Boy Scouts and Lutheran Men in America. Wisconsin Synod leaders cite doctrinal bans on Scouts. In 1944 the Missouri Synod left scouting policy to local congregations.
Prof. David E. Lindstrom outlines a national rural policy at the northern Iowa Methodist conference banquet. The Methodist church will hold a national rural affairs conference in Sioux City from July 21 to 28, aiming to expand the churchs influence on rural needs through seminaries and administrative bodies.
At the first national rural conference in Lincoln Nebraska Prof Lindstrom emphasized the need for a national rural policy. In northern Iowa the federation of social action elected Rev M OB Dorr Payton president with A M Butler Dows vice president Rev Robert Crocker Iowa City secretary and Rev Rollin G Oswald St Anagar treasurer.
In Kimballton Audubon county Sheriff reports about $50,000 damage from a freak accident involving two 1950 cars. John K. Jensen Jr., 26, sat in a new Pontiac owned by his father while his mother operated the starter, causing the car to lurch forward and strike his Buick nearby. The Pontiac incurred about $250 in damage and the Buick about $150.
Millinocket Maine police say 18 year old waitress Ethel Pease was killed after a bear prowling near Kidney Pond camps was mistaken for the animal. A sheriff's party later killed a bear nearby. Game Warden Alexander Cummings confirmed the fatal shot.
Report mentions Cummings fired by Mare, a setup near Doxsee with Oscar Doxsee named as ramp owner. Camp location sits about 35 miles northwest amid deep weed as Miss Pease and her sister Dorothy Preman advise cautious driving and patience on the road.
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