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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1939
Page
2
The Gazette lists mass times for Catholic churches led by several pastors at St Anthony Sacred Heart St Agnes St Anthony Boom er Immaculate Conception St Patrick St Francis and Baptist and Mt Calvary Randolph Street churches. It also notes Sunday church school B Y P U prayer meetings and sermon topics for the various congregations.
A long list of Central Methodist through Sixth Street and Wesley Methodist churches report morning services around 11 a.m. with varied sermon topics including Memorial Services, Healing Shadows, Made for Mastery, and Grace and Glory. Evening worships at 8 p.m. feature several topics. Sunday school gathers at 9:45 a.m. with Epworth leagues meeting in the evening. Union services and vacation Bible school are noted at multiple locations across Greenlee, Dunbar, and nearby parishes.
St Johns Church on Quarrier and Broad Streets holds Holy Communion at 8 a m, summer church school at 9 30 a m, and morning prayer with sermon at 11 a m. St Lukes Church on Ohio Avenue and Randolph Street offers Holy Communion at 8 a m, church school at 9 45 a m, and morning services. St Matthews Church at Bridge and Norwood Avenues conducts Holy Communion at 8 a m, church school at 9 45 a m, and morning prayer and sermon at 11 a m.
Weekley Memorial United Brethren Church at Tennessee avenue and Roane Street lists services led by Pastor J M Knight D D Morning worship at 10 30 with sermon by Rev Fred Brown evangelist from Tennessee Evening service at 8 00 Sunday school at 9 30 Christian Endeavor at 7 00 Prayer meeting Wednesday Volunteers of America at Ciendenin and Kanawha avenue Rev B G Entsminger in charge services at 7 30 Revival continues under Rev Bowman leadership with lunch at 10 30.
A rundown of services across Ruffner Memorial, Lydia Robson Memorial, Belle, Schwamb, Bowers, Bream Memorial, and related ministries. Includes pastors, service times, sermon topics, Sunday schools, and midweek prayer and Bible school activities.
Breams Missions Hilldale Sunday school at 10 30 a m Prayer meeting Tuesday at 8 p m Hobbs Sunday school at 9 45 a m Boy Scouts Friday at 8 p m Littlepage Sunday school at 9 30 a m Evening worship at 8 p m Young people's leagues at 7 15 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p m Boy Scouts Friday at 8 p m
In 1848 girls at St Marys Hall Burlington planned a flag raising and asked Bishop Doane to write a hymn. He produced Fling Out The Banner later nicknamed The Banner Of The Cross, a missionary hymn first circulated in 1875 in Songs By The Way. Bishop Doane, born in 1799, led the New Jersey church, founded St Marys Hall, and became bishop in 1837.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p m at Church of Christ Oakwood drive South Side led by Pastor Earle G Thompson. Morning service at 11 a m with sermon Reaching the Unsaved. Evening service at 7 45 p m with sermon The Greatest Things In This World. Sunday school at 9 45 a m. Communion services each Lord s day. First Church of Christ Scientist Bradford and Lee streets holds 11 a m service Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force sermon. Reading room at Daniel Boone hotel open weekdays 11 a m to 5 p m and Sundays 2 30 p m to 5 30 p m.
St Pauls Lutheran Church on Lee street Beauregard led by Pastor Herman Mees Meyer holds 11 am service with the sermon The Highest Responsibility. Sunday school starts at 9 45 am. Trinity Lutheran on Lee and Elizabeth streets with Rev William P Cline D D presents Making Light of the Kingdom at 11 am. United evening service at Baptist Temple at 8 pm with 9 45 am Sunday school and Luther league at 7 pm for installation of officers.
Morning services at Spring Street Holiness Tabernacle on Spring Street at 11 a.m. Evening services 8 p.m. Sunday school 10 a.m. Old time class meeting 2:30 p.m. Preaching 3 p.m. next week by Rev. D. Estep and Curtis Cox. Pilgrim Holiness Church on Seventh Avenue and A Street with Rev. Marie N. Green, pastor. Morning service 10:45 a.m. Evening 7:30 p.m. Open air 7 p.m. at West Washington and Stockton streets.
The note lists multiple churches with Sunday school times from 9:45 to 10:15 a m and worship at 11 a m. It includes Lick Branch Presbyterian Church Mac Corkie avenue Rev J Blair Morton D D pastor with evening sermon by Dr Morton and other First Presbyterian Missions such as Mahan South Park Cabin Creek with evening sermons by various pastors, plus Kanawha Presbyterian Church and Kanawha City Twelve Church with service details and prayer meeting times.
Mae Bell A. Jones announces a two week course on special problems of vocational home economics at West Virginia State College starting tomorrow. Japan faces a steel shortage as a separate note.
State road commission seeks bids for surfacing 70 miles of secondary roads across 11 counties at an estimated 225000 dollars. Bids open July 5. Kanawha county projects include one mile from U S route 21 to Johnson bridge and 3.6 miles to Coons creek bridge. Additional projects span Cabell Logan Wayne Cyrus Gilmer Randolph Randolph Tucker Fayette McDowell across multiple routes.
Salesmen of the Parris Huffman company RCA distributors who recently led a sales campaign will depart for the New York World Fair at 4 32 p m today. They will travel in special C and O pullmans with three cars attached to the Fast Flying Virginian.
Knoxville report details a Cocke county moonshiner letter asking alcohol tax officials to leave them alone for ten days to restart production. The missive, dated June 17, was shown by Sam McKinney, chief investigator of the alcohol tax unit, describing losses and pleas of poverty.
A party will visit the Camden New Jersey RCA plant tomorrow morning and be luncheon guests of plant officials. A banquet will be held at the Lincoln Hotel New York tomorrow night as salesmen and dealers tour Radio City. They return Thursday with F G Parris and W W Huffman in charge of arrangements.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth concluded their month long North American tour with a full day in Newfoundland. They boarded the Empress of Britain at Portugal Cove nine miles from St John’s and sailed to Southampton at 535 p.m. local time. Royal guards fired a salute as crowds cheered throughout their world visit from Quebec to Holyrood.
Empress of Britain returns home after a royal Newfoundland tour. Brief showers did not disrupt a crowded schedule as King and Queen hosted a reception for prominent citizens and a Government House garden party. They reviewed Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and planted two England-sent oaks near the war memorial, where Sir Humphrey Gilbert is said to ashore in 1583.
The Central West Virginia fair will resume after 12 years from August 7 to 12 in Clarksburg. Seven civic groups sponsor the revival with Oscar J. Andre as general chairman and R. A. Andre as executive secretary.
Advent Christian Church at 615 Randolph Street lists J Fremont Whitman as pastor with morning services at 10 45 a m and an evening sermon at 6 p m The morning topic is Consider the Lilies How They Grow and the evening topic A Deathless World The Last Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed Is Death Sunday school begins at 9 45 a m First Christian Church at Washington and Beauregard Streets features Rev Leland Cook from Kingston NC preaching at 10 50 a m Union evening services occur at 8 p m in the Baptist Temple with Sunday school at 9 45 a m and Christian Endeavor at 7 p m
The First Spiritualist Church of Light at 1202 Elmwood Avenue, with Rev. Edgar Wiseman and Rev. Beulah Brison, hosts evening services at 7 30 p m and Sunday school at 2 30 p m. A Thursday prayer meeting also occurs at 7 30 p m. The Spiritualist Church of Sacred Science at Corner Washington and Stockton, led by D D F L Ransberger, D D, offers 7 30 p m services with spirit messages following the sermon The public is invited.
Mountain Mission at Seventh Avenue and Stockton Street led by Rev. Hobson D. Fisher with Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m Evangelistic services at 7 45 p m feature the Happy Four Quartet Dunbar Mountain Mission East Dunbar Avenue under Rev. O D Cavendar Jesus Union Mission Washington and Clendenin Streets led by Pat B Withrow with 8 p m evening sermon The Coming World Dictator Mrs Fred Brown and the Melodians provide special music Sunday school at 2 30 p m and a tabernacle service at Bim Students League of Many Nations also listed."
The Church of Christ on Fourth Avenue in South Charleston led by Pastor Chas E Fogle offers morning worship at 10 30 with the sermon Cities of Refuge and evening service at 8 with Rebuilding the Walls of Jerusalem Sunday school at 945 a m and the Lord s Supper observed
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