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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1934
Page
19
Calvary Fifth Avenue at Sixth Street SW holds Sunday school 9:45 a.m. and morning worship 11 a.m. Special guest speaker Cyrus Metcalf. Other churches share times and sermons, with Bible study and prayer meetings. ImmA Cul. Conception, St Ludmila's, St Matthew's, St Patrick's, and St Wenceslaus listed with Mass times and clergy.
Services are held at 1242 Second Avenue with Sunday worship at 11 a.m. Subject Mind. Sunday school begins at 9 45 a.m. Wednesday testimonial meeting at 8 p.m. Reading rooms at 518 Paramount Theater building open daily 9 30 a.m. to 5 30 p.m.
First-840 Third Avenue SE hosts church school at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 10:45 with sermon The Miracle of Miracles Good in Christ. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p.m. Lenten service at First Congregational Church Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Second-Third Avenue at Sixth Street SW offers morning worship at 10:50. Chorus directed by Harry Concannon with sermon Gods Exp ectancy at 7:30. Rev Blaine Hyten guest speaker at evening service.
The Rev Galen T Lehman pastor conducts Bible school at 9 45 am morning worship at 11 with the message The Christian s Battlefield Intermediate and senior young peoples groups meet at 6 30 pm. evening worship at 7 30 features the drama sermon Welcome Home in four acts Cottage prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 at J S Miller home 1254 D avenue NE
Evangelist W. Karl Ketcherside of Nevada Missouri will preach at the Church of Christ 714 Seventh Street SW Sunday at 7 30 pm with Bible study at 10 30 am and worship at 11 am announcements pending at the church.
Laverue and Eighth Street NW hosts Unified morning worship and Bible school at 9 45 a.m. Junior and senior Y M C A Youth programs at 6 30 p.m. Evening service with song and sermon at 7 30 p.m. Midweek prayer and praise service Wednesday. Reverend A E Rather presides.
Bethany church on Sixth Street NW led by Rev Wright offers 945 am school 1100 worship with sermon The Solvent Church at 630 pm and 730 pm midweek services St Johns Episcopal on Nineteenth Street at Park led by Rev Charles F Edwards lists 8 am Holy Communion 10 am Sunday school 11 am litany and sermon 7 30 pm Evening service Grace Church of Our Lady of Grace at Avenue Sixth Street NE holds Lent services 7 30 am Holy Communion 9 45 am church school 10 am confirmation class 11 am choral mass and sermon 7 30 pm solemn evensong Stations of the cross 445 pm Friday plus usual hours for other services.
The notice lists services for Evangelical on First avenue at Third street with Rev J L Baumgartner including Sunday school 945 am worship 11 am sermon Tools in the Hands of a Master and evening 730 pm with Why Be A Christian The Crusader youth program 630 pm. Also Free Methodist at 6 avenue at Highth street NW with Rev Guy Pickering including Sunday school 945 am worship 11 am class meeting 12 noon YPMS 645 pm and evening 730 pm.
Interdenominational Holiness Church on Fifth Avenue at Third Street SW lists morning worship at 11 with sermon Life's Most Important Question and evening service 7 30 with Gods New Covenant with Man. Latter Day Saints reorganized church at Sokol hall 415 Third Street SE led by Rev Levi Pennington with church school at 10 am Theme Worship in Thy Home. Lutheran Trinity Missouri Synod at First Avenue and Fourteenth Street W with 10 45 am service and 9 45 am Sunday school. Lenten services 7 45 pm Wednesday and 9 15 am service as usual. Saron at Second Avenue and Third Street SW led by Rev Engquist offers morning worship 11 with sermon by C Olander of Rock Island and evening 7 30. First U S C A at Third Avenue and Tenth Street SE with School of Religion 9 45 am and sermons The Borders of Love and The Missionary Message of The New Testament.
A Wednesday 7 30 p.m. service features a Ber man theme titled So Judas Iscariot the third in the On The Calvary Trail series. The event emphasizes reflective discussion and spiritual outreach.
St James Ellis boulevard features morning and evening services led by Rev Homer A Crumb with a sermon God’s Man and an Epworth league one act play at 615 pm. John Huss First Street hosts morning worship Jesus of Nazareth in Meet My Friend series with Epworth league at 630 pm and evening service at 730 pm. St Paw’s Third Avenue outlines services including youth church school junior and intermediate departments 945 am morning worship at 11 with Up North the Forgotten Man drama by Cornell Players at 730 pm.
A sweep of Sunday school times morning worship and evening services for Memorial Seventh street Ninth avenue SE Sinclair Memorial and Olivet churches plus Union and Westminster parishes list Bible schools, sermons including Dreams That Come True and The Christ Method, and midweek Lenten programs led by various pastors.
Mrs. Jewell Bothwill Tull author of The Forgotten Man a one act religious drama will be presented by the Cornell Players at St. Pauls Methodist church Sunday at 7 30 p m Prof Clyde Tull of Cornell college directed the play There is no admission charge and the public is invited
The church announces a sermon titled The Business of Christian Giving and a prayer meeting at 7 30 p m on Wednesday Mrs Lester DeYarman reviews a chapter in March On Bible school starts at 9 45 a m Morning worship at 11 includes a repeat sermon by special request Evening worship at 7 30 features Bible reading report and study of John 19 Y P C U gathers at 6 30 p m Church night runs 6 30 to 9 p m on Wednesday Rev W Greer Mc Crory is the pastor First Third Avenue at Second Street SW.
The Rev Goldie C Richardson leads services at 728 Fourth Avenue SE with Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning worship at 11 a m and a young people's forum at 6 p m an evening lecture at 8 p m about I Thirst A Christ school of Master ship offers daily classes 9 to 11 30 a m and 1 30 to 4 p m with an evening lecture for the public Lessons in Truth is Thursday at 2 30 p m a prosperity lesson Friday at 8 p m and a reading room with metaphysical literature hours 9 to 5 plus a story hour each weekday starting at 4 30 p m
TIFFIN Lowell Hartsock and Helen Chipman of Tiffin were married at Cedar Rapids Friday by Rev. L. D. Stubbs. Both are graduates of Tiffin high school and Mr. Hartsock is employed by the telephone company here.
The Rev. Dr. Robert Little of First Presbyterian will speak at the third of six midweek union Lenten services at First Congregational Church. His sub topic is His Courage under the theme Intimate Glimpses of the Master. Participating churches include First Christian First Baptist First Presbyterian St Pauls Methodist Westminster Pres byterian and First Congregational. Services run Wednesdays at 7 30 p m through March 21 and are open to the public.
An Epworth League gospel team will conduct the evening service at John Huss Methodist Church Sunday at 7 30 PM The topic is That Social Yardstick The Golden Rule Speakers include Madaline Hunter on The Golden Rule in the Family Emily Stelcik on The Golden Rule in the Community and Frederick Anderson on The Golden Rule in Industry The young people s mixed choir will assist with music
Edward Weston of Cedar Rapids dies at Jefferson Barracks hospital from a poisoned overdose while seeking treatment. Edward Derby’s home at 346 Sixth Avenue West sustains fire damage estimated at 1200 dollars. George R. Peck resigns from Greene’s Opera House and Orpheum Des Moines to start a Florida venture. Cedar Rapids union carpenters secure a wage increase to 1.05 dollars per hour, a record for the city.
Owen T. Barry of Cedar Rapids was chosen secretary treasurer at a Des Moines meeting of the Central Iowa Retail Lumbermen's association. C. E. Petot of Cleveland leased space near Wix stead drug store to open a shoe business. Belden Hill signed William Tornado Grey, who is wintering in Valley Station Kentucky.
Miss Daisy Harris sails to Chicago for art school. Charles Henry Aussicker of Cedar Rapids marries Rose Ferguson in Mechanicsville. Mrs. Emmett M. Ryan hosts the Utopia club with six handed euchre. California governor James Rolph, Jr. approves a bill granting 720 acres of tidelands near San Francisco for airport use.
A dense schedule lists musicians and orchestras across NBC CBS and local stations. Performers include Victor Chenkin Nat Shilkret Duke Ellington era acts and various city stations, with programs from 6 to 11:30 featuring orchestras, singers, and news features across WEAF WJZ WABC WLS WCCO KOA and more.
In Troy Mills and Van Horne neighbors held farewell surprise events for moving families the Dudley and LeClerc households. The Dudleys head to a Spencer area farm March 1 and the Le Clercs to Cogge on March 1. Attendees included local relatives and friends. In Blairstown a Benton county auxiliary officers’ dinner and school of instruction were hosted for the county organization with plans for an April convention. Local junior high declamatory winners were named at Marengo with a slate of prize recipients in various categories. The Marmingo 4-H group welcomed Ruth Marie Hense. Monticello contest champions were named advancing to next week’s regional competition.
Mrs. T. Hickok hosted a Friday afternoon event at 2018 Fifth avenue SE for the Protheon class of the First Congregational church. Mrs. J. F. Ball spoke on Early American Cookery, detailing colonial kitchens and foods shaping American traditions. Mrs. Homer Gittings wore colonial dress and sang two old songs starting with Believe Me. A tea with early American antiques and gingers cake, applesauce, and tea followed, with Mrs. W. S. Newell assisting.
A kitchen shower honoring Miss Irma Hunt was held at the O. L. Hunt residence 706 L Street SW. Guests included numerous friends and relatives such as Harriet Yerkes Marian Grant and Julia Stewart. The event closed with dinner and a mock wedding featuring Harriet Yerkes as bride and Mrs Tyler as bridegroom with Marian Grant as flower girl.
Neighbors held a farewell party Thursday evening for Mr and Mrs Louis Rozek of 805 Oakland Ave NE on their move to 372 Twentieth St SE. A gift was presented after a 500 prize game. Guests included the Langs Wachals Luses Lacys Peters Morises Johnston Buckners.
Misses Edith Wylam and Bergit Samuelson hosted a Washington birthday dinner for the Alpha Pi class of the First Baptist church school at 1815 Grande avenue SE. Twenty guests sat at smilax and red geraniums decorated tables. Mrs Cheater Pollins gave an inspiring devotional, followed by a brief business meeting and entertainment afterward.
The second annual Fayette County Older boys and girls conference will be held at the Oelwein Presbyterian church Monday. Speakers include Rev. O G Herbrecht Des Moines Rev John D Clinton Fayette Rev R A Hallet Hazleton Rev Louis Smith Arlington and Dr C Co Hall Maynard. Officiating and assisting workers from Volga West Union Warren Duke Maynard and others are listed. The county director Rev Ada Marie Hillis chairs with Gregg Stevens Warren Duke and Treva Carmichael among officers. Prof W C Van Ness of Fayette presides over the County Sunday School Council.
The Dramatic Art Department of the Woman's Club held a Friday program of imitations at the club house with about fifty attendees. Mrs. E W Kreikard delivered current events while members and the club chorus assisted. Performances included Mrs Lulu Engleman Welty as Rachmaninoff and other impersonations by Mrs John Yeager Mrs Joe Sinaiko Mrs A R Menary and Mrs Krickard with Miss Louise Powell performing a blackface St Louis Blues dance. Tea followed with a patriotic motif led by Mrs Leo Powell.
Mr and Mrs George Sweet were surprised Thursday as neighbors and friends hosted a celebration at their home with picnic baskets. The evening featured a game of five hundred and gifts were presented to the couple.
The Order of Rainbow for girls will hold a meeting tonight at 7 30 at the Masonic hall to initiate new members.
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