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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
2
The notice lists church activities with Sunday School at 10 Morning worship at 11 led by the pastor Evening worship at 7 30 Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 Preaching at 7 30 Pastor W EF Biggerstaff to lead Sunday School 10 Worship 11 in charge of class Prayer Thursday 8 o clock
About 25 members gathered January 11 at Glendora Dunkin home for Oak Bill Aid with devotions by Classic Valentine. Virginia Taylor presided as Grayce Houchin was ill. Program included debates contests and readings. Hosted refreshments served by Hazel Wilson Letha Posten and Mayme Gold. Next meeting February 8 at Mabel Shafar’s with Mina Allen Lillie Liston and Myrtle Corbin assisting. Revival meetings reported well attended this week pending weather.
Mrs Marjorie Cerven spent most of last week with her sister Mrs Ralph Du Val and family in St Joseph Missouri to be near her mother Mrs Robert Akers who is in a hospital there. Mrs Akers who has been receiving treatments suffered a stroke on Sunday and was taken to the hospital where she is improving at this writing.
Dr. Carl van Doren argued at Columbia that American history centers on imagination. Settlers moved for a better world, then Americans learned to imagine a united country. The revolutionary to Civil War era shows imagination triumphing over regionalism as literature reflects popular ideas.
Indians are not sentimental yet possess a peculiar humor. A Westerner recalls Indian boys milking in Da Kota where a cow kicked over a milk pail, drenching one milker. The group laughed, but the victim rolled with laughter, treating the joke as on the cow rather than himself.
An elderly woman reflects that later years alter how hurts, disappointments, and ambitions are valued. She notes the westward sun clarifies truth, reducing the significance of possessions, injuries, resentments, and jealousies while elevating enduring interests whose worth may change with time.
Attorney and counsellor at law based in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building Bedford Iowa offers general practice in state and federal courts with special attention to estate settlements.
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