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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1967
Page
2
E Eugene Smith pastor announces weekly events with two worship services at 8:00 and 10:15, Sunday School at 9:00, and weekday circles, meetings, and fellowship activities including Evening Circle Tuesday and Women’s Fellowship Thursday.
Sunday School at 9 30 morning service at 10 45 training union at 6 30 evening service at 7 30 Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 45 nursery open during services Rev Roy W Simpson is the pastor located at 626 Bottom Avenue SBC First Baptist Church bracketed.
Rev. Wilbur L. Biasch presides at Zoar United Church in New Hanover Illinois with Sunday School at 8 45 A M and church services at 10 00 A M.
House of Prayer holds Sunday services at 10 00 a m and 7 30 p m Open Bible Study Friday at 8 00 p m Location available by calling 281 4875
Market and Rapp Streets services listed by Rev. R. H. Davis include Sunday School at 7:45 a.m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Evening Service at 7:20 p.m. Family Night Service at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are always welcome.
Msgr Elmer Holtgrave Rev John Vogt and Rev Edmund Fitzmorris listed as pastors and assistants. Weekday Masses 630 and 815 am Confessions 815 845 am 4 5 pm 7 8 pm. Saturday devotions Benediction 7 pm Sunday Masses 630 800 930 1100 am Holyday Masses 530 and 800 am Evening Mass 730 pm. Society dates St Vincent DePaul Wednesday Altar Society third Thursday Holy Name Society third Tuesday Mothers and Friends Club first Tuesday. Weekly inquiry class in Rectory Monday and Friday 7 pm.
Divine services at 8:00 and 10:15 am with 8:00 am broadcast on WCBW FM. Sunday School and Bible Classes for all ages at 9:05 am. Visitors welcome at YM Services.
The Columbia Woman's Club sponsors a Christmas visit and treat for Monroe County Home residents in Waterloo on December 28. Mrs. Virginia Landgraf leads arrangements. group meets at the Dough Boy at 1 30 pm and travels to Waterloo. Children from St Paul Evangelical and Reformed church will perform. donations of cookies candy fruit or cash requested at William Vogt Store by December 26. Fred G Rapp, 76, celebrates birthday December 6 and is longtime superintendent of the Sunday School. Mr and Mrs Burton Stumpf announce birth of a son at St Clement's hospital Red Bud on December 6.
Miss Jean Maeys and Miss Maybelle Mueller attended a six o'clock dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Phelps in Dupo. The church Junior Department hosted a Candle Light Service with a four scene play The First Noel and a dramatization How Silent Night Was Written. Families joined in a pleasant afternoon to celebrate the season.
Mr and Mrs William Killey marked their 15th wedding anniversary with a five oclock dinner for guests including Mr and Mrs George Roessler Sr and Jr and families Mr and Mrs Oliver Roessler and family and John and Louis Roessler. Also dining were Mr and Mrs Lorenzo Vogt and family plus Mr and Mrs Nelson Mueller of Millstadt and Mr and Mrs Arthur Berneking and daughter Shirley of East Carondelet.
A teenage reader asks about dating a younger boy and an underage status. The reply notes laws on driving and voting, stresses maturity and responsibility, and urges parental guidance to help the teen reach adulthood. The piece invites further teen letters to the Community and Suburban Press Service in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Mr and Mrs Harry Reichert celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with a dinner at the Brass Rail Restaurant attended by 52 guests. The couple, formerly Alma Reed and Harry Reichert Jr of Columbia, wed December 24 1942. Attendants were his sister and brother in law Beryl and Mrs Smith from Creve Coeur. The Rev R K Kelly officiated at Carondelet Baptist Church St Louis. They have four children Gary Dean Janet and Pam and two grandchildren.
A family returns home after a winter flood to a mud-filled house and a salvific Christmas moment. The piece blends a devotional message with a Thanksgiving prayer and notices of relatives visiting from Detroit, Chicago, Waterloo, and Versailles over the holidays.
The text lists Mrs. Henry C. Mueller, Ralph Mueller, and Miss Pearl and Miss Twila Mueller as residents of Columbia, indicating a family reference or social mention in the column.
Miss Ruth Ship and Robert James Hanna were married in a double ring ceremony at Immaculate Conception Church in Columbia on December 20. The bride, a Cahokia High School and Missouri Baptist Hospital X ray School graduate, works as an x ray technician. The groom, from Webster Groves, Missouri, attends Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. They will reside at 2728 Studio Drive Cayucos after a wedding trip to the Ozarks.
Raymond Hesterberg of 903 North Rapp Columbia, a four week patient at St Elizabeths Belleville, shows improvement after a second setback last week. Cpl Jack Toenjes, son of Mr and MrsArthur Toenjes of 821 North Main Columbia, returned home from Viet Nam last Thursday after two years in service and will rejoin January 10 1968. Brunch guests included Dr and Mrs F E Franke and others from St Louis and Columbia. Christmas day spent with East St Louis relatives.
Mr and Mrs Ernst Dutton and their family of 907 North Main Street Columbia move to Cupo this weekend. Mr Dutton works for the Waterloo M s Company.
Mr and Mrs Bill Cash of Hayward California host relatives including Mr and Mrs Paul Cash and Mrs W R Cash. Christmas Day visitors include Mr and Mrs Bill Vogt from St Louis MO Mr and Mrs Michael Vogt from Columbia MO Mr and Mrs David Taylor from Springfield MO and Mr and Mrs William C Kolmer of Waterloo IA.
Miss Yvonne Ruff and Richard A. Trost were married in a 5:30 p.m. ceremony at Holy Cross Lutheran Church Wartburg on Saturday December 23 Pastor Alvin Horst officiated. Miss Ruff’s gown featured white peau de soie with an empire lace bodice and alencon detailing. The altar held red roses and candelabra with Christmas pine decorations.
Mrs A C Metter of 322 North Metter Avenue, patient at Memorial Hospital since Thanksgiving, spent several hours at her home on Christmas Day. Nurse Florine Burks and son-in-law Clifford Haberl arranged her return as Mr Metter and Clifford Haberl and Eugene attended church. Family served turkey dinner at the Metter home, then she returned to the hospital. Her condition shows improvement.
The wedding of Mrs. Trost and Mr. Trost was held at the V F W Hall in Waterloo. Mrs. Trost is employed at the First National Bank of Waterloo, and Mr. Trost serves as Monroe County Clerk, the first in Illinois to sign his own marriage license.
Tax guidance explains that a home office deduction requires you to provide own space for business and regularly use it for business. If 10 percent of home is used for business and all conditions are met you may deduct 10 percent of rent heat light real estate taxes and mortgage interest, plus depreciation. If the space is used half the time only 5 percent may be deducted. Other questions cover long term capital gains six months itemized deductions child care employment agency fees withholding exemptions dependents moving expenses and moving reimbursements.
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