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Newspaper
Batavia Herald
Location
Batavia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1944
Page
2
G Forsberg pastor leads Sunday services with Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m A sermon titled A Tragic Mistake follows The evening service at 7 45 includes Mistaking Means for Ends A midweek prayer meeting is scheduled Wednesday at 7 30 p m and Thursday 7 30 p m for the Plus Ultra class
Church school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 with theme Christ: The Complete Resource of the Church. Solo by J Harrold Blair. Evening service at 7 30. Children's day pageant The Bible Speaks. Parents and friends invited. Strangers welcome.
Sunday school at 9. Divine worship in English at 10 and in Swedish at 11 15. Sermon topic The Issue of Covetousness. Red Cross sewing Tuesday 1 30. Luther League 7 45. Ladies Aid Wednesday 2 30. Romayne Johnson to sing and devotions led by the pastor. Hostesses Mesdames August Johnson and Carl Johnson Walnut street. Woman's Missionary Society Friday 2 30 with a rescheduled meeting from June 30. Janice Lundberg and Gladys Anderson to sing. Society officers serve refreshments.
Ira A. Stone, minister, leads Bible school at 10 each Sunday with a program for all ages. At 11 o'clock worship and communion he will speak on the subject My Church.
Leslie J. Tuck will lead worship at the Congregational Church on Sunday June 11 with a youth worship service and church school at 10 a.m. The Primary department below third grade will meet during the morning worship.
Morning worship at 11 with special music and sermon by the minister. Bibles will be presented to the children graduating from the primary department. A baptism of children will take place during the service.
The Geneva Christian Science Church on South Second Street hosts a Sunday Lesson Sermon titled God the Preserver of Man. The service cites Jeremiah and Deuteronomy along with passages from Science and Health emphasizing spiritual Mind as the source of man’s dominion.
The church council meets Friday to prepare for the quarterly voters meeting. Sunday school at 9 with Bible class, prayer service for armed forces at 10, and choir sings The Heavens Are Telling. Lutheran Hour on WGN at 2 30. Monday choir rehearsal for Lady Frances and The Jerusalem Thimble Club. Tuesday voters meet at 8.
Wednesday evening is dress rehearsal for the choir. Thursday evening the adult class meets at 6. Friday evening the choir presents The Jerusalem Thimble Club and the operetta Lady Frances. You are cordially invited. An offering for the choir will be raised.
The church school will present a combined church school and morning worship service Sunday at 10:80. Mrs. Ray Nielson and Mrs. Henry Treest lead the program with recitations songs and dialogues by church school members.
Members and Congregationals will meet at Fabyan's after service for a potluck picnic. Extra transportation available. If weather is bad the gathering will be postponed a week. Friends of the church plan a regular worship and picnic on June 11.
At the last board meeting, Batavia Savings & Building Association reduced the interest rate on all loans to 5 percent effective June 1, 1944. The cut applies to new loans and to all existing loans in force.
Boys and girls are invited to join the Reading For Fun club at the Main Library and East Wilson street branch. Members who read and report on five books earn a club pin while those who report on ten books receive Reading club certificates. Last year 188 members joined and 122 received certificates.
Mr and Mrs Chester Davidson of Iowa bought the home of Mr and Mrs C N Livings on North Jackson street. The Livings have moved to Denver Colorado to live with their daughter Mrs Bess Lee. Mr Davidson works at Aurora Precision Device on Anderson boulevard in Geneva.
Cincinnati June 8 Kroger Grocery & Baking company will subscribe $3,000,000 in Fifth War Loan bonds for all locations on the basis of $1,000 per store in states where it operates. Company president C M Robertson announced.
Phi Sigma Phi sorority was entertained at Mrs. M. E. Brown's home with crochet of a Red Cross afghan. The Past Presidents' club of the American Legion auxiliary meeting was postponed due to Batavia High School class night and will be held next Tuesday at Mrs. Russell Strickland's home with Mrs. Homer McCoy assisting.
A Sunday reception at Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stumm’s home followed the wedding of Ruth Marie Esser to Lt. James Hill Gormson of Aurora. Ruth is Mrs. Stumm’s sister.
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