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Newspaper
Batavia Herald
Location
Batavia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1944
Page
5
The church holds a 10 am school service with the message Learning Demands Loyalty and a 11 am morning worship where the pastor preaches The Crux of Christianity. Special music and immersion observance follow as strangers and visitors are warmly welcomed.
Friday evening the A A L meets for its quarterly business. Sunday school at 9 with Bible class for adults. Divine worship at 10. Sermon theme Jesus Challenges Us. Lutheran Hour over WGN at 2 30. Men's club picnic at City park at 3. Vacation Bible school July 10 to July 28 for ages four to 8th grade. Registration opens 8 45 Monday morning. Classes 9 to 11 30. Registration free will offerings by children. Ladies Aid July 12 at 2. Walther league Thursday evening business and educational meeting.
Mission Covenant Church led by Pastor G Forsberg hosts Sunday school at 9 30 a m with Marguerite Wenberg as superintendent Morning worship at 10 45 featuring Christianity's Vanguard Communion follows service Evening service at 7 30 with Losing Sight of the Goal Wednesday Ladies Aid meets at 2 30 in the church parlors Hostesses are Mrs Sophie Redberg and Mrs Hilma Carlson
Bible school at 10 each Sunday morning offers a program for all ages. At 11 o'clock worship and communion the minister speaks on The Door to Eternity. Evening service at 7:30 features Dreams and Air Castles. Mid week service Wednesday at 7:30. Air cooled auditorium invites all to attend.
J W Dahms pastor leads Zion Evangelical Church with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11. Sermons titled The Most Important Person to Remember and The Experience of Personal Salvation. Evening worship at 7 30 p m with prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
Rev. George C. Ashley presides as rector. Holy communion at 7:30 and morning prayer with address at 9:30. Mike Kouzes of 96 North River Street admitted July 1 for surgery.
Earl W. Carlson announces the annual Sunday school picnic Saturday afternoon at Herrington Island Geneva. Meet at the church at 1 30. Next Sunday no Sunday school. Divine worship at 10. Ladies Aid meets next Wednesday at 2 30 with hosts Mrs Emil Larson and Mrs Anna Anderson. Midweek services Wednesday 8. Dr D Verner Swanson of Gowry IA will preach. YWMS sponsors an ice cream social on the church lawn Friday evening July 14.
Luther League announces the Rev Nordlander reception is moved from Thursday to Friday this week. The gathering will be in the church parlors then include a visit to Rev Nordlander's home. All are urged to attend.
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna J. Larson of 210 Morton street were conducted Tuesday at Burnett Johnson funeral home. She died Saturday at home after fifty years in Batavia. Interment was in West Batavia cemetery. Born November 15 1857 in Halland Sweden she came to the United States in 1892 with her husband John B. Larson and family. She was a Bethany Lutheran member and charter member of the Daughters of the North and Batavia unit of the American Legion Auxiliary. Surviving are three daughters Louise Marie Ellida and one son Alfred, all of Batavia.
Mr and Mrs Homer McCoy marked twenty five years of marriage with a quiet anniversary at their Mooseheart home. The couple, active in civic life in Mooseheart Batavia and nearby, have two daughters Carolyn and Winnifred. Ensign Mary Helen Barker stationed in the South Pacific wrote of meeting Ralph Kresser and Dick Millett Reeves from Elburn. J Uitvlugt of Toronto joined relatives for the holiday weekend. Dick Swanberg Jim Lundberg and Swen Soderstrom join Cisco Beach camp at Lake Geneva this week.
The American Red Cross Blood Bank Mobile Unit will be in the tri-cities for five days during the week of July 17. It will operate at Community High School in Geneva. Call Geneva 2484 for appointments and information. Donors aged 18 to 59 in good health may give blood, with parental consent for ages 18 to 21.
Recreation leagues report Wendell Johnson and Dean Johnson leading the A and B groups with high scores and notable performances by Leo Opperman Russell Watt and Jack Brading. First YMCA movie shows drew 125 children. more screenings planned at McWayne School with separate times for grades 1-4 and older kids. Tennis instruction starts July 13 at 1 30 p.m. at the athletic field.
Esther Latzke, director of Armour and Company's consumer service division, won the Josephine Snapp Award from the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago for outstanding contributions to advertising. Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska attended the dinner as guest of honor.
An editorial letter argues labor, farmers, and small merchants desert Roosevelt, leaving only CIO radical labor and the New Deal payraisers as supporters. It claims financial aid and vote buying may continue but predicts the New Deal will be a dead pigeon after the November election. The notice also reports the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs John Kielson of 210 East Wilson Street on June 30.
Sgt. John Elliott Lundberg returns from Australia for a three week visit, first homecoming since enlistment in June 1941. He arrived in California after stops in Honolulu, is stationed near MacArthur's HQ, and greeted by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg and uncle and aunt. A joyful reunion followed in Aurora. Other items note Agnes Kelley and mother on a Ohio River boat trip, and social visits involving Dr Leonhardt, Mary Clare Hanson, and several local families during the Fourth of July holiday week.
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