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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1930
Page
7
Local church listings show West Decatur Methodist announcing Sunday activities and a revival underway at Westminster Presbyterian with Pastor Hart. An upbeat Union service at a tent features Evangelist Geo Tucker, while a long reading extols railroad workers and warns against sins during the revival era.
A clustered local ad listing used tire sizes and prices, roofing inspection offer, and a catalog of metal works and machine parts from Southern Sheet Metal Works and H. and H. Machine Works in Decatur Alabama with contact details.
The Junior League will meet at six p.m. Mrs. Percy Newsome leads Sunday school at nine thirty a.m. J. H. Johnson preaches at eleven, Dr. E. R. Naylor new Athens College president. Evening service canceled until pastor returns. prayer meeting skipped due to Geo. Tucker revival ongoing.
The notice lists a Sunday sermon at 11 a.m. on the subject Soul, Sunday school at 9 45 a.m. A testimonial meeting weekly at 8 p.m. Reading room hours 9 to 4 on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. All services in the Morgar County Bank Building. Public invited.
Central Methodist invites a record Sunday with 930 am Sunday school led by J F Lovin and 11 am morning worship. A 7 45 pm tent service heads the George Tucker Evangelistic effort in partnership with Christian forces for the community outreach.
Sunday school at 9 30 am and morning worship at 11 am with the pastor's sermon. No evening preaching service at 7 pm due to the Tucker revival. The public is invited to all meetings.
NINTH STREET details Sunday schedule with M. M. Newton pastor leading Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. A. G. Jones is superintendent. No evening service. worship at the tent urged as an unusual opportunity for the congregation.
St Pauls Lutheran at Sherman St and 4th Ave holds Sunday school and Bible class at 9 30 am followed by a 10 30 am Divine Service with the sermon on Justification. Everyone is cordially invited.
Pastor Frank T. Smith leads at 9:45 a.m. Sunday school with T. C. Hardin as superintendent. Morning preaching at 11, B Y P U at 6 15, evening preaching at 7 30. Rev B P Collier, former pastor, will preach at 11. Smith assists revival at Antioch church but returns to preach at home Sunday night.
A religious talk in Jackson uses railroading imagery to urge churches to run the race of life with speed and vitality. The speaker likens the church to a fast train, noting rail workers now lead community life and that active, progressive churches fill benches. He closes by urging speed in spiritual pursuit and attendance.
Maj. Gen. Abel Davis, veteran Illinois National Guard commander, remarks urge Democrats to seek a complete victory in November and delay selecting House and Senate leaders until after the general election. He calls for unity, forgetting past wounds, and subordinating personal ambitions to the party’s success.
The Roper family expresses gratitude for tender expressions of sympathy and condolences from friends and neighbors during the illness and death of their wife and mother. Ac 1 Societies and Lodges.
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