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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1949
Page
1
Local Harper newspaper page dated December 16 1949 highlights community notices and brief items from Harper Texas. Names places and events reflect small town civic life with typical ads and notices.
The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America urges a moral shift for peace, calling for broader sympathy, understanding, and responsibility. European needs persist despite some improvement, including clothing, shoes, food, medicines, and targeted aid for children, elderly, refugees, displaced, bombed-out, and frail groups.
The National Study Conference of Church and Economic Life meets February 16 to 19 in Detroit under Dr. Arthur H. Flemming. Clergy and laymen examine how churches share responsibility in economic life, covering motives, freedom and controls, living standards, and church programs globally. Rev. Cameron P. Hall leads conference planning.
The institution in Tokyo served over 3,000 students before war damage. rebuilt buildings include a primary school, a junior high, and a girls junior college funded partly by Japan and partly by the United Methodist Church through Crusade for Christ. Future plans call for coed college classrooms, labs, dormitories, and chapel restoration as Universal Week of Prayer, January 1–8, focuses on witnessing and church unity.
The American Mission to Lepers voted to rename itself American Leprosy Missions, Inc. Chaplain Clifton E Rash of Union Protestant Church at government Leprosarium in Carville La says the term leper carries stigma that hinders disease elimination and victim welfare, noting its historical references in antiquity and its global persistence.
Mr and Mrs G B Stephens of Eden and Mr and Mrs Wolf and children of Edna Texas were visitors in the W C Fletcher home Sunday.
Friends here regret to learn of the death of Bryan Cobb who died of heart failure and was laid to rest at Mountain Home Monday.
Storage of deer for the big game season nears 2000 as cold storage plants in Gillespie County report totals of 1829 deer and 364 turkeys since opening November 16. Heaviest six pointer dressed 93 pounds. other notes include unusual buck fights near Harper, hunters visiting from Bay Town and Dallas figures, plus progress on the Presbyterian Manse.
Church notices from Harper's churches present Advent schedule with services on December 18 and 21. Includes sermons, Christmas programs, family nights, and mass times across English German and Catholic congregations. Highlights: Christmas Eve and Day programs, communion, choir rehearsals, and missionary society meetings.
The First Baptist Church led by Rev. Jack Minter offers Sunday School at 10 a m and Morning Worship at 11 a m. BTU meets Sundays at 7 30 p m. WMS and Brotherhood meet the 2nd and 4th Friday at 8 p m. The RA and GA groups gather the same Fridays at 8 p m with a warm welcome to all.
Elder E. V. Gibson of Harper leads the Primitive Baptist Church with regular services. The Methodist church pastor B. E. Breihan offers a layout of weekly events, including Sunday School at 10 a.m. and Public Worship at 11 a.m. Lunch and Fellowship follow at noon. Welcome!
Mr and Mrs Watkins Tarr are seen driving a new two door Chevrolet sedan, a compact family car noted for its style and efficiency. The scene underscores postwar optimism and growing popularity of smaller American autos among couples.
Mr and Mrs W E Fletcher traveled to Menard last Thursday to join the celebration of Mrs M Fletcher aunt of the couple as she turned eighty eight years old with family gathered for the occasion.
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