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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1953
Page
6
Church notices list services for Colley Memorial Methodist and other area churches in Eagle Lake Texas. Times cover worship, Sunday School, youth groups, and evening services, with pastors named for each congregation and a schedule of Masses and catechetical events.
Local church notices list Bock Island Baptist with Rev. AL Taylor and Eagle Lake Assembly of God led by Rev. L E Show with service times on Sundays and a Tuesday prayer meeting. Eagle Lake Gospel Mission lists pastors Rev Emil and Selma Burger with morning services and a weekly Young People Service on Tuesday evenings.
Church services listed for St Pauls American and Baptist Church. Rev Andrew J Pate is pastor. Sunday School times 3 a.m 5 a.m morning worship training worship evening service. Wednesday prayer meeting 7 p.m Teachers and Officers meeting 7 30 p.m. Baptist Brotherhood meets first and third Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
American Lutheran Church in Eegie Lake invites worship at 7 30 p m Sunday May 24 Pentecost Sunday with church school Saturday 9 00 a m Attendance at public worship is urged Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lissie lists Sunday School 10 00 am Morning Worship 11 00 am Evening Worship 8 15 pm Prayer meetings Wednesday 9 9 pm Rehearsals Youth groups adults listed The Episcopal Church at CMUECH Comer Lake and Stockbridge led by Rev Lawton Riley offers Semi- Communion services 9 45 am Church School and Rector s Catechism Class 11 am Morning Prayer and Sermon Birthday of the Church Dinner in the Parish House speaker Mr J B Cashel Long Confirmation classes for toys and girls Fridays 3 30 pm Adults classes 3 00 pm
Episcopal Guild of Christ Church meets at Mrs. J L McCreary's home with eight members present. Minutes of two prior meetings approved. Sermon titled Soul and God discussed. Next meeting set for June 2 at the Parish House. Bible texts from II Corinthians and Psalms read. Christian Science concepts cited from Mary Baker Eddy.
A compact collection of moral maxims urging inner reign over passion and fear. Includes Milton like lines on ruling oneself and proverbs praising self-control as nobler than external conquest. Notable phrases remind readers that wisdom lies in governing impulses and resisting folly.
The Dolly Memorial Methodist Church invites members and friends to a church dinner at Eagle Lake Recreation Center this Sunday May 24 at noon after morning worship. Each family brings a large dish and utensils. bread and iced tea provided by the Woman's Society of Christian Service. If rain, dinner moves to the church Educational Building.
Presbyterian Women of Church held a regular meeting in the Sunday School room with Mrs. Preston Haley presiding in the president's absence. The Rev J R Durway led a Bible lesson. Circles 1 and 2 plan a general meeting next Wednesday morning at 9 30 at Mrs Ted Brunner's home with Mrs Brunner and Mrs S O Boothe as co hosts.
Freshman class will hold a bake sale Saturday at 9:00 a.m. at the Texas Southeastern Gas Company office. Homemade bread pies cakes kolaches and brownies will be available. Proceeds support the freshmen, with a note inviting all to visit for some of the best baked goods.
Weimar area farmer Bill Breithaupt Jr. reports hay yields tripling from about one ton to three tons per acre after planting 15 pounds per acre of low blossom clover seed and applying 200 pounds of superphosphate at planting. He plans terraces emptied into a King Ranch Bluestem waterway, with Soil Conservation Service technicians assisting under the Colorado Soil Conservation District board.
A second installment warns that the common house fly can carry millions of micro organisms from filth to food and people. It stresses a direct link between flies and disease and notes the risk to health from a single fly.
A brief note suggests seeking information at Eagle Lake on ways to fight persistent flies. Next week the focus will be Fly Control, outlining methods and precautions for residents and visitors dealing with the nuisance.
Miss Sue Wegenhoft Colorado county auditor was elected a director for a two year term beginning July 1 by the American Society of Women Accountants which has about 18 000 members in the United States She was also named by National President Marguerite Gibbs to chair the program committee planning the 1954 national meeting likely in San Francisco Gibbs also named Wegenhoft an ex officio member of the program committee to help plan the Chicago meeting next October The national secretary Miss Doris Parks of Seattle reported the election to the board of directors Also noted were family visits by Mr and Mrs W R Rex Graham and daughter Ann to Flyin visiting the Rev and Mrs Albert Brown former local pastor They were later joined by their son Guy who has lived in Abilene for five years EAT MORE RICE
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