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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1966
Page
4
Saint Stephen's Assembly of God lists weekly worship times on Market and Rapp Streets with Sunday and Thursday services. Immaculate Conception Catholic Church provides daily mass times, confessions, and weekend devotions led by Msgr. Holtgrave and assistants, plus parish societies and meeting dates.
St Pauls Lutheran Church and St Paul United Church of Christ share Bible classes Sunday School and worship times at 8:00 and 10:15 a.m. with radio broadcasts on WCBW FM. First Baptist Church lists services, Sunday School, Training Union, and midweek Prayer Meeting. Evening Guild meets Tuesday. location inquiries via phone.
The article recounts Catherine Milward, her link to minister John Mumford, and as mother to Catherine Mumford who married William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. It emphasizes witnessing by daily life and spoken words as a missionary act and ends with a prayer and a thought for the day by Henry M. Savacool.
Schedule lists Wednesday 6 30 potluck dinner for outgoing and new consistory cemetery board personnel church officers and families. 8 00 cemetery board and church consistory meeting. Thursday 11 30 Women s Guild Prayer Circle 12 00 Guild Guest Day with pot luck luncheon Evening Guild and Junior Women s League guests Speaker Mrs Earl Lischer. Thursday evening All Choirs rehearsal. Saturday 9 00 11 00 Confirmation Class sessions.
Zoar United Church New Hanover Illinois announces Sunday School at 8 45 a m and church service at 10 a m Reverend Wilbur L Biasch pastor also notes ladies visit to County Nursing Home Waterloo at 1 p m on January 2nd.
The Illinois State Scholarship Commission named four Columbia Community High School seniors as semi finalists for 1966 67 scholarships. Recipients include Barbara Lehenbauer Nancy Ramsey Carole Schlemmer and James Stumpf. Two Columbia at tending SS Peter and Paul High School Waterloo also named Allan Schmidt and Kathy Rard. Kathy Rard top in Betty Crocker Future Homemakers test. ISSC awards hinge on ACT scores and class rank. From 32845 applicants, 10348 became semifinalists.
Mrs. Earl John Lischer a former Ghana mission worker will speak at St. Paul United Church Afternoon Circle Women’s Guild meeting on Thursday February 3. The Lischers recently returned to the St. Louis area after three years in Ho Ghana teaching missions. They are long time church workers and will show colored slides of life in Ghana. A pot luck luncheon begins at noon with Prayer Circle at 11 30 a.m. in the sanctuary.
The International Order of Job's Daughters Bethel 65 in Columbia held its initiation at the Masonic Temple on January 17 with Candice Hoffman presiding. Initiates were Vickie Bean and Verna Hood. cheerleader tryouts were January 19 with six selections. Plans were made for the Grand Session April 29 to May 1. BerNice Bess reported and the event closed at 8:30 p.m.
Clyde Ramsey of East Carondelet R 1 is listed as a medical patient at Centreville Township Hospital.
Mr and Mrs Curt Hayden of Columbia announce the birth of a seven pound five ounce baby girl at Memorial Hospital in Belleville on Thursday January 20 at 4 58 AM. This is their first child and Mrs Hayden is the former Jean Marie Eschmann. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Earl Eschmann and Mr and Mrs Everett Hayden of Columbia. Mr and Mrs Norman Lang of 833 North Main Street announce the birth of a baby boy at Centreville Township Hospital on Saturday January 22. They now have two boys and a girl.
Mr and Mrs Walter Rau announce the birth of a baby boy at St Elizabeths Hospital Belleville on Monday January 24.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Roediger of 210 Monroe Street Columbia announce the birth of a daughter at Centreville Township Hospital on January 22 naming Cynthia Ann The Roedigers now have three girls and one boy Mrs Roediger is formerly Ruth Ann Black Grandparents are Mrs Otto Roediger and Mr and Mrs Herman Block of Columbia
Mr and Mrs William Brown of 140 High Forest Street Belleville welcomed a baby girl at Memorial Hospital Belleville on Monday January 24. This is their firstborn. Mr Brown formerly taught in the Columbia Public School.
Dr and Mrs Otto L Kremer of 328 Thomas Street Columbia welcomed a baby girl at Centreville Township Hospital on Friday January 21.
The January meeting of the Columbia Day Unit of the Monroe County Extension Association Service was held at the home of Mrs. Vincent Schmid with co-hostesses Mrs. Oliver Hoffmann and Mrs. William Hamilton Jr. home adviser Al Hoffmann led lessons. next meeting Feb 9 at Mrs. Ernst Huch for a Valentine Social. Charles Klein discharged from St Elizabeth's Hospital and at home. Emil and Roy Koch returned from a sixteen day motor trip to Mexico Texas and the Rio Grande Valley.
In St Louis January 22 at Deaconess Hospital nursing students Mary Lou Tunze and Maybelle Mueller, 1945 Columbia High School graduates, completed probation in the Nursing School after entering in September 1945. Evelyn Harres played the processional as faculty and students entered. Both made the honor roll. about twenty five Columbians attended. Staff Sgt Warren A Brucker, discharged from the Army at Jefferson Barracks after three years in the Pacific, daughter and son-in-law Mrs Anna Brucker and Dorothy Tigges of St Louis.
The Newman Auxiliary will hold its annual spring meeting on Sunday January 30 with Father Cletus Hentschel as moderator. Mrs Ermantine Groninger president announces a program at Fischer's Restaurant Belleville starting with dinner at 12 30 p m East St Louis Deanery representatives will hostesses Reservations with Mrs Floyd Wohlrab by January 26.
A reflective editorial urges readers to stop silent bystanders and offer aid to those in trouble. It argues life is shared and personal safety should not block responsibility to help others, noting eventual need for assistance ourselves.
A winter citrus centered dessert recipe highlights vitamin C rich oranges and grapefruit with Sucaryl as a sugar substitute. The Sherry Sunshine Salad uses orange juice gelatin, sherry, ginger ale, and fruit including orange sections banana and avocado. Each serving runs about 91 calories with protein and carb details noted.
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