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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
5
Methodist Church holds morning worship and church school from 9:00 to 10:30. The Woman's Society for Christian Service meets at 2:30 PM on May 15 at the Church. Pastor A. G. A. Lee presides.
Catechism classes every Saturday at 2 32 pm and choir practice at 3 pm under Father Thomas C Harvison. Summer schedule lists first Sunday in May with Masses at 7 30 and 9 30 daylight saving time. Pastor ties the parish to St Joseph.
A parish notice lists a daylight saving time schedule with a 10:00 class, 11:00 worship service, and Mothers' Day services featuring special music by editors. Activities include a Wednesday Boy Scouts meeting at 7:30 and a Women’s Organization gathering at 11 with Mrs and F. Pacey on True Gay. May 8 at 3:30 a D. E. T. event, 8:30 C. 8. FT. Hostesses are Mrs. & Donaldses, L. F. Pasry, L. Vanghe, Mildred Pasey. Leaders are Mrs. D. H. Johnson and Miss Evalyn McGowse. Belleaii A Mother's Day poem. Sunday May 11 Mother’s Day Series led by T. G. Margreaves, Pastor.
The piece notes a Lutheran Sunday School at 9 30 am and a preaching service at 10 am with a national defense service theme. It recounts a Christian tale of a wealthy woman who, having embraced faith late in life, gains humility by giving to beggars and renounces temper, avarice, and frivolity citing Philippians about loss for Christ.
A season sermon cites Proverbs 28 13 and passages from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. It emphasizes confessing and forsaking sins to obtain mercy and outlines the spiritual method of paying sin’s wages by unwinding snarls and learning to discern between sense and Soul.
The article stresses the President's constitutional role as Commander in Chief, noting congressional limits on war powers, and cites the Neutrality Act authority to proclaim or lift combat areas while warning about damage from bombings of vessels during docking or loading.
The text outlines three priorities: fortifying national defenses with men, money, and materials. aiding democracies through equipment. and shaping national policy amid world conflicts. It urges tolerance, rejects name calling, and calls Congress to fund and authorize while stressing morale and unity as essential to triumph and salvation.
Sarsap? The piece explains that Peoria county secured two of ten government sponsored school shops to provide hands on farm mechanics and shop work for unemployed youth aged 17 to 24 with wages paid by the government. Princeville and Grimfield High are involved, and an election on May 17 in District 157 will decide acceptance. The writer urges support, highlighting pride and the opportunity to add a practical facility at low cost.
Saturday marks the final day of the National Hardware Spring Open House at the Johansen Archer store. The nationwide event, sponsored by the National Retail Hardware Association, showcases spring merchandise for Mother’s Day with over 10,000 hardware stores participating. The store emphasizes a wide variety of merchandise and reports customer satisfaction from Open House visitors.
Notice is given that on May 17 1981 a special election will be held in Township High School District 157 Peoria County Illinois Brimfield to submit to the voters the proposition to authorize the board of education to build a farm mechanics building The polls open at 12 00 noon and close at 7 00 PM daylight saving time Dated April 1981 Roy B Roberts President Charles M Travis Secretary and other board members are listed
A stray collection notes are from Paris and Wales to Lorient and Texas. It cites Emires in Paris and earthworms in Java while mentioning a closed cathedral in France and trout stocking in Cardiff to curb a tiny snail. It also reports a cattle birth on a freight shipment, a 100 year old Bible and a sword-cane exhibited in Tyler, Texas, and a large eel haul from the Willamette River at Oregon City.
A quirky column mocks a dining dispute with a waiter joke about a chicken and a master of the house who teases a maid. The dialogue pokes fun at manners and social class through garbled banter and a flirtatious back and forth.
A newly married couple travels to a lake for their honeymoon and takes a boat on the water. The next morning the bride's mother receives a postcard saying they arrived safely and are at the grand row before supper, noting surprise at how soon they began their voyage.
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