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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1949
Page
1
The article notes church invites to attend services this Sunday including a Mass at 9 30 and a servers meeting. It records seven Youth Society members being received last Monday and a building fund started August 26 1945. Archbishop Lacey visited Wednesday for an official inspection and dined with parishioners before returning to San Antonio.
Cables to the United Board for Christian Colleges in China note eight mission supported colleges in occupied areas continue regular operations with no major changes. Reports cite Yenching and Nanking universities seeking new teachers for fall. Church World Service highlights skilled foreign doctors seeking U.S. licensure, while missionary societies log Christian growth across Nigeria, Belgian Congo, Panama Canal Zone, and Brazil with substantial gains in multiple denominations.
The agape, a shared meal for fellowship, returns to Hilgay parish as a unity effort among denominations. Rev G I F Thompson says true service of unity is Holy Communion, but agape offers a practical approach. meals involve only baptized members with personal discipleship, bread broken at the rails and shared via baskets between pews.
A historical note highlights Omar Khayyam as the author of the Rubaiyat and as a notable mathematician. It also mentions common coverings for windows in China as paper cloth or shell.
An article surveys historical state churches in early America and overseas, noting Massachusetts Congregational favoritism, other nations with established churches, and the 1789 First Amendment forbidding government favoritism. It closes with brief notices of visitations by the Lehne family and J B Birt's group in Texas.
Miss Maxine Lange of San Antonio visited her parents Mr and Mrs Max Lange for a weekend gathering.
The House spent most of last week debating a new wage and hour bill. A Republican Southern Democrat coalition produced the most workable version increasing minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents while narrowing coverage to interstate commerce related activity. The measure reduces overreach by excluding purely local or intra state industries and clarifies what falls under federal control. The Senate Agriculture Committee backed mohair inclusion in the farm program, with House already including it. Local visitors included Mr and Mrs Willie Hilyer of San Angelo and Mayor Earl Rudder of Brady.
Miss Anita Lange received a lawn shower on August 14 hosted by relatives at her mother Mrs Theo Lange’s home. Guests signed a Bride's Book, gifts were displayed with dahlia corsages. bingo prize winners were named as Olivia Bernhard and Frances Moellendorf. The honoree and groom's mother attended. the couple wed September 1 at Bethany Lutheran Church.
Mr and Mrs Arnold Zesch and children of Mason visited Mr and Mrs C W Granville on their route home from Uvalde. Mr and Mrs Charles Gam menthaler and Janice were San Antonio visitors. Reuben Thiele and children of Abilene spent days here visiting relatives. Kerrville Bakery advertises fine cakes pastries and bread. Mr and Mrs M R Duderstadt and children weekend in San Angelo with her parents.
The famous Rangers traveled to Cleveland for an annual convention and Rudder led a unit that scaled cliffs along the Normandy coast hours before the main invasion. Their mission was to surprise the enemy and neutralize guns to enable the later landings.
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