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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
6
The M E Church announces that next Sunday will be the last preaching Sunday of the conference year with services at 10 30 a m and 7 00 p m A benevolent apportionment of 140 00 remains to be raised The pastor serves as treasurer A Peru Annual Conference is set for April 2 with a fine program A Sunday School at 9 30 Epworth League at 6 15 All are invited to attend
Sunday School begins at 9 30 A M and B Y P U at 6 P M Teacher Training Wednesday at 7 Choir at 8 Mrs Vesta Zook leads Young People's Service next Sunday evening Special contribution to the Six Million Dollar Fund requested before March end Pastor Wm Melton invites all to feel at home on the hill
Sunday School begins at 9 30 with Sam Clingaman leading the class and Christian Endeavor at six. Training Class and Choir Practice occur Thursday evening at seven and eight o'clock. The public is invited to attend all services. L A Myers pastor.
The Union Prayer Meeting for the ladies of Denver will be held Thursday afternoon March 27 at the home of Mrs. Charles Shoemaker. The subject is Love. All ladies are invited to attend. The prayers promise to be interesting and helpful.
Trustee Elbert Brown announces Perrysburg school will close Friday February 21 and Deedsville grades on Friday February 28. Deedsville High closes two weeks after. Commencement exercises planned around April 18.
A baby girl named Florence Gail weighed seven pounds at birth to Mr and Mrs Clarence Raber west of Denver Sunday night. Proud parents and grandparents celebrate the event as the Raber home welcomes its first child.
Mrs. Charles Bayless and daughter Ruth along with Mrs. Sarah Bayless and Rev. Teltoe visited George Staller and family last Thursday. Rev. Teltoe led a revival at the Baptist Church with good attendance and strong sermons during the week. Burton Green and family returned from Indianapolis where Mr. Green attended the legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walser were mentioned in nearby notices.
Community members spent Sunday visiting relatives including Rev Teloe and Rollie Bacon family. Several groups traveled to Peru to watch high water while others planned moves and school breaks. The Perrysburg school will close Friday March 21.
Mrs Adelia Lee is sick. George Abbot of Kokomo visited J S Waymire. William E Waymire, home on furlough from Camp Humphreys Virginia, met his grandmother Kathrine Waymire and relatives after France service aboard the George Washington. Mrs Chester McCalla and children visited in Rochester. Myrtle Pullian of Peru stayed with her parents. Meira Leedy of Huntington visited her parents L F Leedy and wife. Verne Baldwin underwent surgery at Dukes Hospital Peru and is recovering. J C Fretz of Waterloo and Ancil Hill of Tampa visited Deedsville. Asher Lockwood hosted Victor's twelfth birthday with friends Loren Conner Harold Norris Merrit Waymire Noah Lockwood.
Will Sunday of Peru and Om er Yoder of Perrysburg left Wednesday morning for Michigan to look into buying a farm. Mrs. F. C. Garritson and sons Mark and Robert of Peru visited Denver with husband and father and many friends. Little Miss Margaret Trent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dow Trent of Kokomo, is ill with chicken pox at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gustin in Denver.
The final institute of the schol year is set for next Saturday March 22 at Peru High School. With funds limited no special speaker is planned, but a special musical program will be offered and talks by all ex county superintendents of Miami County will be presented.
Katherine Holland Brown writes of 400 girl workers in a Michigan factory town nineteen miles from nowhere. Two YWCA secretaries and male workers built dorms, cots, towels, and hot lunches, transforming hardship into communal relief amid double shifts and sparse lodging.
A YWCA secretary describes how girls in munitions work stretch every cent to boost comfort for soldiers. She calls the YWCA their Big Sister and praises its role across the country in supplying cloth uniforms canned goods and morale support.
The French Government expresses deep satisfaction and gratitude for YWCA efforts aiding munitionettes. Foyers des Alliees clubs improved workers welfare, morale, and physical conditions, providing dignity and social education. Minister M Loucher signs warmly urging continued YWCA work to sustain social solidarity after the war.
Nurses at a French base hospital improvised a living picture show without film or scenery. They used broom horses and improvised backdrops with placards for sun and desert, inviting peers from a nearby hospital as audience. Countess Vacareascu of Roumania praised the performance as guests of honor.
Insignia curtains crafted from blue broadcloth skirts and plaid summer dresses by nine YMCA secretaries in Archangel Russia. They repurposed a voile dress for curtains to cover windows amid wartime shortages and army rations.
The YWCA reports Archangel as the fourth Russian center established for its work. Centers began in Petrograd and Moscow before moving 900 miles east to Samam. Elizabeth Boles, head of Russian work and a rare American staying through the revolution, sails to America via England to recruit workers for Russia.
A second YWCA hostess house is planned at Castner Oahu to cope with overflow of wives and children from the first house. In November the first center entertained 2,152 visitors of Philippine Hawaiian Portuguese Spanish Russian Puerto Rican Korean Japanese and American nationalities. French foyers for working girls have expanded to sixteen centers in six cities including Paris with three near the Eiffel Tower offering meals reading writing and English classes.
At Camp Lewis American Lake Washington the YWCA Hostess House logged over 400000 meals in a year. Most diners were visiting mothers wives sweethearts and friends of soldiers. 25000 children were cared for and 70000 women and mothers used the rest rooms. Information desk staff handled 97000 questions including travel connections and locating soldiers.
The Red Cross undertakes water purification initiatives in Italy to ensure safer drinking water amid contamination concerns. Projects focus on filtering systems, logistics, and cooperative planning with local authorities to protect public health across affected regions.
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