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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1934
Page
20
A dense listing of church notices across multiple congregations. Details include service times, Sunday schools, worships, youth programs, choir practices, baptisms, Bible studies, and special sermons led by ministers such as Reverend Judson and Reverend Austin, with locations on streets like Second, Fifth, and Sixth avenues SE. Also notes Catholic and Lutheran parish schedules with mass times and confession hours.
Services are held at the church building 1242 Second Avenue with subject Love. Sunday school at 9 45 A M. Wednesday evening testimonial meeting at 8 o clock. Reading rooms open daily 9 30 A M to 5 30 P M at 518 Paramount Theater building.
Christian church at First-840 Third Avenue SE led by Rev Blaine Hyten offers church school 9 45 am morning worship 10 48 sermon Average Man s Chance to See God and Christian Endeavor 6 30 pm Bible study Wednesday 7 30 pm Annual evening of opera Thursday 8 Second Third Avenue at Sixth Street SW led by Rev I E Linkletter conducts church school 9 45 am morning worship 10 50 sermon The Christian and His Bible evening worship 7 30 sermon Conquering Enemies C E 6 30 pm Bible study and prayer service Wednesday 7 30 pm
The Church of the Brethren on Fourth Avenue at Twelfth Street SE lists Bible school at 9 45 a.m. Morning worship at 11 with the sermon Praying to Be Healed. B Y P D meets at 6 30 p.m. Evening worship at 7 30 followed by an evangelistic sermon and short drama.
Bible study at 10 30 a m worship at 11 a m preaching at 7 30 p m led by Elder W C Wilson of Toddville Bible school starts 7 30 p m Monday and runs each evening that week Open to all conducted by D A Sommers of Indianapolis Ind
The Rev. Nelson G C Dreler presides at worship at 10 55 a m on First Washington Avenue at Seventeenth Street SE. Church school meets at 9 45 a m and Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m.
The Rev. A. E. Rather presides. Combined Bible school and morning service at 9 45. Junior and senior young people at 6 30. Evening song and sermon at 7 30. Midweek prayer and praise Wednesday at 7 30. Cottage prayer meetings Friday afternoon.
St John s Nineteenth Street at Park Avenue SE led by Rev Charles F Edwards offers Holy Communion at 8 a m Sunday School at 10 a m and Holy Communion and sermon at 11 a m Youth group meets at 6 p m Grace Church of Our Lady of Grace on Avenue at Sixth Street NE observes Sexagesima Sunday with Matins and Holy Communion at 7 30 a m Church School at 9 45 a m Confirmation class at 10 15 a m Choral Mass and sermon at 11 a m Evensong follows. Evangelical Church First Avenue at Third Street W led by Rev I L Baumgartner has Sunday School at 9 45 a m worship at 11 a m Woman s Missionary Society observes Day of Prayer pastor speaks on The Value of Self Denial Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m Young People s Missionary Circle sponsors 7 30 p m service with playlet Re trenchment Halted and program Bible study Wednesday.
The Rev and Mrs Myron Sackett pastors the Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle at 609 First Avenue W. Sunday school starts at 9 45 am followed by morning worship at 11 and a communion service.
The Rev. Guy Pickering, pastor, schedules Sunday school at 9 45 a m and a class meeting at 11 a m with no evening service. He will attend a district quarterly meeting at Waterloo.
A. J. Stokes, pastor, conducts morning worship at 11 with a sermon titled Reconciliation. Sunday school at 2 p.m. and evening worship at 7 30 with a sermon titled Freedom. An old-fashioned Methodist prayer and testimony meeting is Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at Fifth Avenue and Third Street SW.
Sacrament services begin at 10 1.m. followed by church school and a 11 a.m. service led by Levi Pennington, pastor. Gleaned from a church notice, this summary records timings, leader, and program order for the congregation.
Trinity Missouri synod services at First Avenue and Fourteenth Street include communion at 10 45 am with the cry of the penitent Let My Soul Live and Sunday school at 9 45 am The 9 15 am service continues weekly Junior catechumens Monday 6 30 pm Adult class Wednesday 6 30 pm Junior Walther league Thursday 7 45 pm Home Missionary meets Wednesday 2 30 pm Bethany Missouri synod English Lutheran Church at 2040 First Avenue E offers services with holy communion 10 am Sunday school 9 am Children's instruction Tuesday and Thursday 4 30 pm Tuesday evening class 7 30 at A Mager kurth home 1352 H Avenue NE Bethany Mission circle at Mrs Charles Bohn 1820 Eighth Avenue SE Thursday 2 pm First U S C A Third Avenue at Tenth Street SE led by Rev John Gent Sunday school 9 45 am School of Religion Sexagesima Sunday morning worship 11 am topic Putting Gods Kingdom First and conduct that furthers the Gospel Luther league 6 30 pm lesson Where Have We Come From Miss Evelyn Longstreth leader Council meets Tuesday 7 30 pm Augsburg room Catechetical classes Saturday Seniors 9 am Juniors 10 am Saron Second Avenue at Third Street SW Rev C T Engquist pastor Morning worship 11 am Sermon The Parable of the Sower Luther League 6 30 pm Miss Bess Reznicek leader Evening worship 7 30 pm Sermon What Is Worship
John Huss First Street at Fourteenth Avenue SW holds morning worship at 11 with a sermon on The Master and the Disciples and an Epworth League service at 6 30. Trinity on Third Avenue at Fifth Street SW offers morning worship at 10 50 with a sermon When a Feller Needs a Friend and evening service at 7 30 with choir music. Kenwood Park at 302 Thirty third Street NE hosts Sunday school at 9 45 and a 11 o clock sermon The Load That We Are Loath to Put Down and John Huss Epworth League program at 7 30. St Pauls on Third Avenue at Fourteenth Street SE presents multiple departments, morning worship at 11 with The Will, Epworth league and other youth activities at 6 30, and Junior to senior schooling times. Regular midweek service every Wednesday evening.
Presbyterian Olivet on A avenue at Tenth NW lists morning worship 11 with sermon Christ and Reformatory Forces. evening service 7 30 with sermon Learning to Forget. Westminster-Third Bever avenues SE holds morning worship 9 45 Sunday school. evening 7 30 with Second Covenant sermon. Central Park A avenue at Seventeenth NE offers 9 45 Bible school and 10 55 worship with Rugged Individualism. Christian Endeavor and prayer meetings shown at each site.
Directory style listing of Sunday services across Hus Memorial Seventh Street First Third avenues SE Sinclair Memorial and Rompot Stump Town Christ Church and Kenwood Park led by pastors Bren Little Cramer Montgomery Brown with Bible schools morning worship sermons sermons include The Man Who Beat the World and That My House May be Filled plus Youth groups and Midweek services and Fill the Church campaign.
The Rev. William C. Feller leads a church with Sunday school at 9 45 a m and evening Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m The Rev Frank Helmich presides over another church with Sunday school at 9 a m morning service at 10 a m sermon The Mystery of God in Christ Made Manifest and an evening service follow on Czech Second Street and Sixteenth Avenue SW.
Ensign and Mrs H M Uptegrove in charge present a full weekly program. Sunday services at 11 a m and 8 p m with Sunday school at 2 30 p m and Young People's Legion at 6 30 p m. Tuesday prayer and public service at 8 p m. Thursday public service 7 30 p m. Friday Young People's Bible class 7 30 p m. Saturday public service 8 p m.
The Rev Francis K Ward founder and the Rev Frank H Ward superintendent lead a church at 121 123 Second street NE. Bible classes Sunday 9 15 a m and 4 p m Sunday school 3 p m evangelistic services 8 p m each night of the week cottage prayer Monday 2 p m young peoples class Tuesday 4 p m women’s class Thursday 1 30 p m children’s class Thursday 4 p m officers teachers class Thursday 7 30 p m Helping Hand Band Friday 2 p m.
The Rev. Melvin I. Welke leads morning service and sermon titled The Bible as Literature at 11 a.m. A School of Religion session starts at 9 50 am followed by Prof L E Garwood’s adult forum. The Young Unitarians meet at 7 p.m. in the church at Peoples Third Avenue and Sixth Street SE.
Sabbath school at 9 45 a m with lesson Putting Gods Kingdom First Matthew 6 1 34 Morning worship at 11 00 a m Sermon by Prof H W Ward Y P S C E at 6 30 p m subject Youth Among the Denominations
United Presbyterian on Grande Avenue lists Sabbath school at 9 45 a m worship at 11 with a sermon Prevailing Prayer. Young people meet at 4 p m on interdenominational work topics. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m God’s Care of His Own Children. First Third Avenue at Second Street SW morning worship 11 sermon What Shall I Render unto the Lord. Y P C A 6 30 p m missionary pageant at 7 30 by Women’s Missionary Society. Cottage prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 at 1609 B Avenue NW.
The Unity Center at 728 Fourth avenue SE led by Rev. Goldie C. Richardson offers Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning worship at 11 a m a young people forum at 6 p m and an 8 p m lecture titled What Would I Have God Do Classes in Lessons in Truth occur Wednesday 8 p m and Thursday 2 30 p m A prosperity drill is set for Friday 8 p m Reading room is open daily 9 to 6 with access to metaphysical literature Story hour runs each school day at 4 30 p m.
A pageant titled The Challenge of the Cross will be presented next Sunday at 7 30 PM at the First United Presbyterian Church on Third Avenue and Second Street SW. Directed by Mrs George C Keyes and Mrs W C Taber, with a short study by Mrs Ira A Moore, it features special music and an after service lunch. No admission charge, but a silver offering supports the Womens Missionary Society work.
The Young People's Missionary circle of First Evangelical church will sponsor the evening service at the church Sunday at 7 30. A playlet Retrenchment Halted will be performed by Mary Pauline Adams Vivian Danberg Marie Perkins Muriel Tyerman Helen Rupperle and Mrs I L Baumgartner. Tyerman will present a monologue Action Versus Inaction Baumgartner will give a talk on Why I Believe in Missions.
A deer is noted to reach speeds up to fifty five miles per hour in reported measurements. The fact highlights the animal's notable running capability and agility for wildlife observers.
London reports a sixty cent dollar new parity knocks wages for Americans employed overseas. Many fear losing savings as checks drop to market exchange rates. The American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin protests funding cuts for consular staff and warns the situation is nearly impossible for families in major European cities. About two thirds of embassy and consulate workers earn small salaries around $100 monthly, now worth about sixty dollars.
In Tsinan on Saturday, General Han Fu Chu, Shandong governor, ordered arrest of women with curled hair. Police shaved the women’s hair as examples while citing curling as harmful to youth. The crackdown follows his earlier move to bar lawyers from Shantung courts.
The New York taxi strike expanded to independent drivers, reducing available cabs as 85 percent of the city’s 15 000 licensed cars were withdrawn. Talks at city hall with Mayor LaGuardia and fleet owners followed nights of sporadic violence as strikers pressed for all five cent fare tax proceeds, shorter hours, better conditions, and union recognition.
Peoria reports Joseph Weil known as Yellow Kid was jailed while police examine a suitcase of equipment for a confidence game. Weil and two companions were arrested. A suitcase in his hotel room held folders labeled $20,000, each containing blank paper. He allegedly planned to swindle George Chiames proprietor of a recreation parlor.
Bethany Congregational church at 1300 Sixth Street NW will host two weeks of evening spiritual uplift meetings beginning Sunday February 4 at 7:30 PM. Rev N C Dreler of First Congregational Cedar Rapids will preach each night at 7:30 except Saturdays.
Washington AP reports a bill toward a nationwide job insurance plan. Drawn by Senator Wagner and Secretary Perkins, it would tax all employers with exemptions for states running approved unemployment programs. Roosevelt reportedly interested though not yet backing the measure.
Omaha born senator and newspaper proprietor born Sept. 18, 1859 died after a life spanning politics from 1898 to his retirement in 1930. He served as congressman and senator, backed Wilson’s war effort, and promoted the Versailles treaty and league of nations covenant. Survived by his second wife Martha Harris, two daughters Ruth and Margaret, and three grandchildren.
In Centralia Illinois a mass sympathy strike paralyzed the town from 3 to 6 pm when shoe factory workers and their backers protested a grievance. Stores and services paused including theaters bakeries and coal deliveries as union and factory executives negotiated a settlement.
Hanford Post and American Legion entertained patients at Oakdale Sanatorium with a varied program Thursday night. Ernest and Robert Singer and Lester Kataska performed on accordion saxophone and drums. Dorothy Bowser danced acrobatically. Dorothy Bailey and Donald Maloney from Edna Dieman school did tap and military dances. Arthur Davison of Hanford post read twice and La Verna Drapela from Maddigan school read several numbers. Dempsy Jones Jerry Hula and Billy Jones formed a musical trio and offered a comedy skit.
In Tokio the Japanese courts ended the terrorism case from May 1932 that killed Premier Ki Inukai. Twenty civilian defendants drew prison terms from three and a half to twenty years, led by Kazaburo Tachibana with a twenty year term. The assassins had earlier received fifteen years or less.
Eunice Norton, young American pianist from Minnesota, impressed at Sinclair Memorial chapel with a vital, virile touch. Her Brahms Op. 76, Beethoven Bagatelles, Stravinsky Petrouschka Suite, Liszt Mephisto Waltz drew enthusiastic applause and extra encores.
The board seeks a public sale to fund school construction with a 30 percent government grant of about 227000 dollars. Construction awaits government contract approval and possible delays from objections by unsuccessful bidders alleging discrimination. If approved, contracts may be awarded after bond sale. next board meeting is Monday night to decide.
Checks totaling 3628.73 from the state emergency relief headquarters are ready for distribution to merchants holding federal aid merchandise orders at the office of Miss Cora Jacobs, county director of relief. Benjamin Tait, county emergency relief chairman, announced Saturday. The 145 checks cover mostly January orders.
Hollywood. Roscoe Ates earns about $40,000 yearly and his wife Mrs Giara Ates seeks temporary alimony of 1561 a month in superior court. She outlines spending on food auto gas maid entertainment laundry and utilities while accusing him of abuse.
Gov Allen uses a 54 year old statute and executive order to authorize Senator Huey P Long and the state AG office to probe New Orleans city hall. Criminal District Judge O Hara grants the petition with limits, enabling twin inquiries next week into local and state agency operations.
Miss Nedra Arendts hosted a Friday dinner and theater party at 1721 A Avenue NE in a series of pre nuptial events for Miss Virginia Vane. Vane will wed J. Vincent Heuer next Tuesday and guests presented her gifts amid a social gathering. Additional bridge party followed at 1540 Third Avenue SE with Ruth Kemp and Lila Palmer hosting and presenting another gift to the bride.
Freya Kensington met at Miss Hanna Wall's home on For est drive SE Thursday evening with 24 attendees. Mrs. Nils W. Janson assisted as hostess and the group spent the evening in bridge after discussion of current topics. Prizes went to Mrs. John Ecklund and Mrs. John Nelson.
Mothers and fathers of Boy Scouts met at Big Springs school house with twenty one parents present. Mrs. C Putnam was elected secretary. After business, the troop boys performed with Dale Barnhart on piano Charles Putnam on saxophone backed by Francis Darling Dick Spencer and a Hawaiian guitar solo. Next meeting set for February 6 at Mrs. Wesley Belcer’s home.
Mrs J A McReedy of 2326 C avenue NE is recovering from a serious operation. G A Perkins will speak to the Central Park Presbyterian Men s Bible class at 9 45 tomorrow morning. Firemen battled a grass fire at Memorial drive and Meadowbrook drive BE. Mrs E W Jerow left for Dallas. Harry Murphy Carl Cassidy and Frank Young were fined 50 dollars for intoxication. Young’s fine suspended. James L Cosgrove of Minneapolis will address the Railroad Employes National Pension Association at Moose Hall at 2 30 Sunday. all railroad and express employees and spouses invited. Refreshments served.
Mrs. Ida Vail of 415 Seventeenth Street NE slipped and fractured her left leg in a downtown drug store. An ambulance carried her to St. Luke's Hospital at 6 p.m. Friday where X rays confirmed the fracture and she remained confined at the hospital.
A. C. Blagsvadt of Decorah asked police Saturday forenoon to locate vandals who slashed one tire on his car Friday night while it was parked on First avenue between Third and Fourth streets. The tire was cut with a sharp knife and ruined. Blagsvadt, a traveling salesman, said he was in Cedar Rapids every Friday night.
Firemen were called at 1 50 a m Saturday to a roof blaze at the home of H A Taylor 1100 Fifteenth Street BE Then at 2 50 a m Company No 4 battled a smoldering fire at the city refuse dump below the Rock Island railroad bridge for four hours No injuries were reported.
Des Moines AP reports Senate debate stalls on the house approved interim committee tax plan. Senator Patterson proposed reducing the sales tax from two to one percent. Opponents press a two thirds vote challenge to the revenue allocation provision claiming it could be unconstitutional if enacted by a simple majority.
The YWCA of Coe College hosts a World Fellowship Tea from 3 to 5 pm at Voorhees Hall with guests from University of Iowa and Cornell College. About fifty attendees are expected. speaker Aziz Jahangiri will discuss his Persian name, and James Manville will sing spirituals. Dean Mary Bell presides. Ethel Ryan and others oversee the tea.
The Jane Boyd circle of King's Daughters met with Mrs. Sam Lee at 30 Blake Terrace SE for a luncheon with twenty members and nine guests. Mrs. Fred Nie meier read an annual report on Community House and Indian relief and a gift was given to retiring county president Mrs. Tom Walpole. Elizabeth Bender outlined plans for a summer camp and Mrs. Rufus Culver spoke on the Order’s work and goals. A letter invited neighboring circles to a get acquainted meeting.
Fifty members of the Young Peoples club of St. Wenceslaus church met at the school auditorium. A one act play directed by George Zachar featured Marguerite Roushar Emil Bartosh Adeline Jandi Frances Roushar Lester Moucka and John Zarubs. Plans were made for the ninth annual banquet on February 7 at 6 30 with entertainment and prominent speakers and an orchestra for dancing at 8 30.
Mrs. George Holsinger hosted a Friday afternoon celebration on Patricia Marie Holsinger's first birthday at nine teenth avenue SW. Guests included Mrs. Wes Machacock and daughter Marilyn, Mrs. Cecil Boona and daughter Beverly, Mrs. Hubert Underwood and son Jimmy, Mrs. Frank Suchomel and children Teddy and Junior, Mrs. Carl Holsinger and Arlene, Mrs. Earl Cheney, Mrs. George Samuelson, Mrs. Harold Ammons, and Mrs. Gr. Holsinger.
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