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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1932
Page
4
Local church societies plan January meetings with 3 pm gatherings on Monday. Auxiliary groups and women’s missionary societies hold events in church parlors. hostesses and presidents named. Community updates include marriages, bridge parties, music study club events, and attendees at homes around town.
Miss Abaigail Crawford departs Monday for Birmingham after visiting her mother Mrs. B. Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wiley and baby from Memphis stayed with Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Wiley. Glenn A. Newheart and family spent holidays in Jackson. Margaret Wilson of Russellville visits Mrs. Skeggs Crawford. Mrs. B. A. Crane and Athens Ga. family left after Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Peebles. The Meebes place on Jackson street will be home next week. Doctor and Mrs. W. P. Baugh and Phil drove to Birmingham for a visit. Mrs. A. T. Hanson remains ill at East Vine Street. Mrs. J. Goode remains quite ill at home. Mrs. A. R. Campbell leaves for eats Va with Conner Lile accompanying.
Athens Alabama sees many firms move to new quarters starting January 1 with several new businesses opening. A. G. White Hardware, Gloria Gift Shop, McFarland Drug Co and others prepare buildings, creating work for carpenters and painters this week.
D A Vaughn longtime Decatur resident died last night at his Columbia home of a heart attack. Funeral services will be Sunday at First Baptist Church Columbia with interment there. He was father to Mrs Frank Cook of Decatur and stepfather to Mrs T J Burt of this city.
The Ninth Street Methodist Church invites all to a New Year observance featuring a morning sermon by Rev. C. M. Tyndal on The Gift of Time a pantomime The Portals of 1933 and a candle service with resolutions from church leaders. Sunday school begins at 9 30 each week under A G Jones Religious Education.
Burglars broke into the W. H. Ritter grocery on West Vine Street Friday night. They pried out an upper front glass over the marquee to gain access and stole quantities of canned goods and other merchandise. A similar break occurred weeks earlier with a large haul.
Mr and Mrs Milton Andrews have returned from Denver Colo They saw Decatur resident Miss Marcella Collier who is much improved in health and plans to return home shortly
Church notices list times for Sunday school worship and services at Moulton Heights Baptist and other parishes. Details include pastor names, hymn subjects, and events like vestry meetings and guild gatherings with January 1933 dates.
J. D. Wallace leads a full New Year religious program including Sunday school at 9 30 Bible class at 9 15 public New Year services at 9 15 10 30 and 11 00 a m and evening worship with a sermon on How May We Be Sure the New Year Will Be Happy and Prosperous Teachers' Training class Tuesday at 7 30 p m Walther League meet Wednesday 7 30 with Mrs W P Adams theme A Changeless Christ for a Changing World You are welcome to attend.
The Woman's Auxiliary will meet at Mrs. J. C. Rice's home on Wednesday at 2:00 p m. The church service and school are noted for January 1 1933 with the 2:30 time reference.
Pastor James Allen Smith leads 9:30 a m Sunday school 10:45 a m morning worship 6:00 p m B Y P A and B A 7:00 p m evening services 7:30 p m Wednesday prayer meeting when he will hand out 200 copies of the Gospel of Mark. Sunday school lessons for early 1933 will study Mark with all members above the Junior department.
Wallace Beery stars in Flesh arriving Monday and Tuesday at the Princess Like Hotel. He plays a wrestling champion who rises from a German ring to face promoters in America with Karen Motley and Ricardo Cortez in support. Cast includes Hersholt Miljan Barnett and Brophy. directed by John Ford from Edmund Goulding story.
A grass fire at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Third Street in the west area caused no damage as the fire department arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze before nearby houses were threatened.
Sunday morning Bible class at 9 45. Services conducted by an elder at 10 45. Young People's meeting at 6 00. Evening services at 7 00. Wednesday prayer at 7 30. Thursday ladies Bible class at 3 00 afternoon. Attend any or all services.
A church notice invites worshippers to attend Holy Communion at First Methodist on Sunday morning.
West Side Presbyterian on Seventh Avenue led by Pastor A Gordon offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m with full attendance expected and morning worship at 11 a m featuring the sermon What the New Year Brings and Holy Communion Mrs Edwards to sing a special solo. Ladies Aid meets Monday at 2 p m
Reverend Arthur H Nstors invites the community to begin 1933 with worship. Sunday features Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning sermon at 11 a m a New Year message, youth groups at 2 30 and 6 15 p m and an evening program at 7 p m.
Willoughby Presbyterian at 6th Ave and 9th St invites worship and Bible study. Sunday 9:45 am Sunday school 6:00 pm Senior Christian Endeavor 7:00 pm Evening Worship with a New Year sermon. Monday 2:30 pm Ladies Aid meets Wednesday 7:00 pm Prayer. The year offers opportunities for Christians to be faithful from the first day.
Pastor Dr H B Woodward invites all to join Sunday school at 9 45 a m with J F P Springer as superintendent and G W Norwood as teacher The Men s Bible class meets at 9 30 a m and the B Y P U department led by C L Buck at 5 45 p m A community singing follows at 1 30 p m Everyone is welcomed to worship with a warm reception.
9:30 Bible School and 11:00 Morning worship followed by a special sermon on making 1933 a beautiful year. Evening worship at 7:00 with W M U promotion and pastor’s sermon Launching Out Into The Deep. Wednesday 7:15 mid week service centers on Job and the question Why do the righteous suffer.
J. D. Pickens, pastor leads Southside Baptist Church as 9:45 Bible school with L. B. Wright as general superintendent and 10:45 morning worship featuring a sermon on Starting the New Year.
S V Blythe ministers the West Decatur Methodist Church with Sunday school at 9 45 led by C P Parker preaching at 11 subject The Prosperous Church and again at 7 with Making New Vows Epworth League 6 pm Julian Moody presiding Boys and Girls World Club 1 30 Missionary Society 2 30 Monday Prayer meeting 7 pm Earl Riggs to lead New year call to attend church and work while it is day.
The First Methodist Canal and Lafayette presides with Pastor Dr. W. F. Price preaching at 11 am and 7 pm. Sunday school at 9:30 am includes superintendent J. H. Johnson and Sam Malone as president. Epworth League meets at 6 pm, board meetings follow, and special choir music features Mrs. W. E. B. Quarry.
Westminster Presbyterian on Jackson Street invites members and friends to a full New Year schedule. Sunday school at 9:30 with Elmer Elam as superintendent, men's and women's Bible classes, morning worship at 11 featuring The Holy Communion, Y P and C E at 2, vesper service at 5 with a sermon by the pastor on Building the New On the Dying Embers of the Old, and senior league at 6:15. The note wishes a happy 1933 year.
Austinville Baptist D W Griffin preaches new series starting Sunday. Sunday 9:45 Sunday 11:00 preaching Romans 13 and 14 15 16. Sunday 6:00 B Y P A and B A U 7:00 preaching. About sixteen sermons on obeying scriptures. Members invited to begin the new year right.
The 1933 program at Athens Presbyterian includes a New Year meditation on Out of His Treasure at morning worship, a 5 p.m vesper on Consecra tion, and the first Lord's Supper of the year on January 8 with new members received. Dr. Crawford preaches at Sunset Mission at 7 p.m. Sunday.
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