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Newspaper
Hardin County Index
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1954
Page
13
Divine worship at 9:00 and 10:00 with an 10:00 adult class and nursery for children. Sunday School at 9:00. Sermon titled The Church and Racial Tension. Farewell potluck dinner at 12:00 in the fellowship hall.
Rev Howard Blandau serves as chaplain for Sunday morning worship at 10 00 a m with sermon and boys offering special music. Bible class for Sunday at 1 00 p m in the small chapel and Bible class Wednesday at 6 00 p m. Public invited to all services.
At 10 a.m. the Church School meets for Bible study led by George O Brock, General Superintendent. The 11 a.m. service features a sermon titled Ship Wrecked Faith. Evening worship at 8 p.m. includes a sermon The Answer to the Sin Question. B Y groups meet at 7 p.m. A singspiration fellowship at 9 p.m. in the Mulford room follows prayer hour on Thursday at 8 p.m.
The Community church in Union invites the Chester ladies to a Missionary Society Guest day on Wednesday afternoon July 28. Friday July 30 hosts a family night supper at 7:00 p.m. Mrs John Smith will speak of her Hawaii trip and Delbert Schiebal will sing.
Pauline Comly presides at Illinois Grove Friends with 10:00 a.m. worship and 11:00 a.m. Sunday School. A noon basket dinner at John Lane’s home follows a contest conclusion with the blues supplying ice cream. An 8:00 p.m. Thursday prayer date is noted and August 3 guest speakers Leonard and Edith Wines, returning missionaries from Africa, with Chester invited.
John K Moore leads at First Methodist Church with Church School for all ages at 9 a m and nursery for children. The 10 a m service features a sermon titled Christ the Hope of the World.
St Marys Catholic Church lists daily and SundayMass times 7 1 700 and 1000 Confessions Saturday 4 6 and 7 9 Vigils Holy Days 4 6 7 9 First Fridays 4 5 7 8 and notes confessions before masses on Sundays and Holy Days for penitents. Programs include children three divisions at 9 on Sundays high school at 730 Thursdays private instruction by request inquiries welcome baptisms 230 Sundays.
W L Beasley pastor presides at the Assembly of God Church with 10 am Sunday School for all ages and 11 am morning worship. Evening programs include 8 45 pm Christ's Ambassadors for youth and 7 45 pm evangelistic meeting plus midweek services on Tuesday at 1 30 and Thursday at 7 45.
Gifford residents hosted many relatives visiting from Waterloo Eldora Whitten Marshalltown and Des Moines plus Northome and Fairmont Minnesota. Visitors included Lyle Adams Merle Adams and several children along with the Bowers Jones Long Gunderson and Estes families. Barry Trout Neal Blair Kinney Debra Steelman and others are noted in passing.
The Eldora City Council in Hardin County Iowa will meet at City Hall on August 2 1954 at 7 30 P M. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for 1955. A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements will be available at the hearing.
A wedding reception for Mr and Mrs Stephen Cree was held at the Radcliffe Methodist Church after their June 20 1954 marriage in Toledo Iowa. The event included a program with music and remarks, 107 guests served treats, and out of town relatives from Toledo Ames Luther Tehran Iran Denver and Dallas.
Rev Dewey Lamprecht will lead Sunday evening July 25 services at 7 30 p m. Rev John Daake conducts the Sunday 11 00 a m service. The Glen couple left Saturday for Illinois to visit family and attend a reunion in Lewistown and Princeville.
The New Providence Garden club schedules a 1 o clock picnic on Wednesday July 28 at Mrs Mintie Wilsons home with a rain option in the New Providence church dining room. The community notes visits include Mrs Walter Bond and baby from Eldora Memorial hospital, relatives from Runnells aiding at home, a Reece reunion in Hubbard, Des Moines visitors, and travel updates from Supt W D Murray and family to Colorado Wyoming and Canada.
Lawn Hill residents hosted and visited neighbors this Sunday including Crosser, Beasley, Mitterer, and Blair families. Guests from Hubbard, Marshalltown, Hudson, and Iowa Falls joined the Crosser and Beasley homes for meals and calls. Florence Beasley of Nashville Tennessee left after two weeks with relatives. multiple youths and children visited or stayed with kin around Lawn Hill.
Mrs Mitchell’s parents are the Nicholsons once lived here thirty years ago. A. E. Sopher and Luther Williams visited at University hospital in Iowa City. Cliff’s Market marked its anniversary with daily drawings giving groceries valued at 7.50 to registered families. Names drawn included Lance Minear Don Dickerson Maurice Ruddick Willard Martin Alice Pool Dale Moon Bill Robertson Karen Wooten Ed Jones Annabel Reece K. C. Whitehead Kenneth Bernard.
The ceremony Friday evening at the Eldora Baptist Church joined Nadine Nassen and Dean Smith. Attendants included Tomas Hagen and many Panthen and Crosser families. The couple plans to live in New Providence. Mr Smith works at Lawn Hill Co op.
Fragmented village notes report visits by Mrs T O Mossman and relatives amid mumps in Iowa Falls area. Additional lines reference an appointment notice and a contested estate matter for Mary Priestwell with executor Langdon McMileen and attorneys Cameron & TDHckinson, dated the 18th.
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