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Newspaper
Batavia Herald
Location
Batavia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1944
Page
5
Ira A. Stone, minister, leads Bible school at 10 Sunday. 11 am worship with Communion and message "Prayer". Evening evangelistic service on "How Can Prayer Help Us" with choir. Midweek Bible study Wednesday at 5.
The text records a Brethren church service led by Rev. Lowe with a pastor and superintendent named Robert Stuttle. It mentions worship at 1040 and a closing period, plus a concert by the Wigly ae Bionwey family of Lombard boys with numbers and an invitation to attend the services.
Morning worship at 10 45 with sermon In the Home Church Evening service at 7 30 with sermon Sincerity Prayer meeting Wednesday The Plus Ultra class meets Thursday at 7 30 p m Pastor G Forsberg leads the Mission Covenant Church activities with superintendent Conberg noted.
The Zion Evangelical Church led by Pastor J. W. Dahms hosts Sunday school at 10 am led by T. Andrews, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 with the sermon A Pastor's Prayer for His People. Evening worship at 7 30 with the sermon Murder Will Out. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30.
G A Doolittle is the minister at First Methodist Church. Church school meets at 9:45 with C W Furnas as superintendent. July attendance averaged 93 per Sunday at 463 total for the month. Morning worship at 11 features Dr Doolittle’s sermon Evil Desire. Walk by the Spirit and we shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Special music, vocal and instrumental.
The tenth Sunday after Trinity offers Holy Communion at 7 30 and morning prayer with sermon at 9 30 led by Rev George C Ashby Rector at Calvary Church.
Bethany Lutheran Church invites parishioners to Sunday school at 9 o clock followed by divine worship at 10 o clock. The topic for the service is The Art of Appreciation.
A church notice indicates the Soul as the topic of a lesson sermon in all Christian Science churches. The venue cited is the Christian Science Church on South Second Street near James in Geneva.
The Sunday service notes a Golden Text from Psalms and citations from Psalms 86 and the Christian Science Textbook, followed by a miscellaneous shower honoring Miss Virginia Wallman in Chicago. Guests included Miss Mabel Swan and Mrs. Swan, with a luncheon and decorated cake.
Mr and Mrs George Tincknell hosted a Sunday evening reception at their South Washington street home in honor of their daughter Mary Tincknell Yaeger following her July 10 marriage to John Yaeger Aviation family and close friends attended the event to celebrate the union.
A two course luncheon was served at a decorated Dawsonville table for Miss Genevieve Kraft of Toledo and her groom from Cane, Ma. Guests included Mrs Tincknell and Mr Yeeger. Out of town visitors were Mr Toward Yuneeer of St Charles and Mrs Ray Weber of Aurora.
A wedding for Miss Mrrtle Carlson and Reeer Bartelt took place in the bride’s mother home with Rev. Gunnar Forsberg officiating. Bernice Wenberg played the wedding march as Marie Carlson served as maid of honor.
The bridegroom served as best man with Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Aurora and Mrs. Sat ie Luessenhop among out of town guests. A reception for 70 relatives followed the ceremony at the Bartelt home. The couple plan to reside with the bride’s mother in West Chicago after a short honeymoon. Dr Annie Spencer’s Batavia home was sold at public auction as she moves to Bellevue Place. Frank Averill has enlisted in the Navy Reserve V 6 program and will train at Great Lakes.
Elof Anderson 21 South Mallorave, superintendent of the foundry at U S Engine and Penny company for many years, died yesterday after surgery at Community hospital. He was a Bethany Lutheran deacon for over 20 years and a respected Batavia citizen born June 6 1576 in Skonn Sweden. Survived by wife Nellie and six children, two sons Robert and Roy, and four daughters in Wisconsin and Illinois. Funeral services to be held Sunday at Bethany Lutheran Church with burial in West Batavia cemetery. Friends may call at Burnett and Johnson funeral home until Sunday noon.
The Rev. Fred W. Field former pastor of First Baptist Batavia has moved from Batavia to Baudette Minnesota to lead the Congregational church there. While in Batavia the Fields lived at Illinois Avenue and Jefferson Street. Ralph Finley of Geneva and his family bought the residence north of North Avenue on North Batavia Avenue, former Joel McKee home. Finley is a son of the late W H Finley former president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway and once a Batavia resident.
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