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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1940
Page
5
Community religious notices list services and study sessions across multiple churches. Rahal New World Order Library hosts Thursday studies with hours dial 1451-3 or 2441-2. St Peters Cathedral and other churches publish pastors, organists, choir directors, and Sunday school times.
Notices list weekly services for multiple churches including Church of the Full Gospel with daily weekday services from noon to 4 pm, Morning worship at 11 am, evangelistic services, mid week meetings, Dorcas circle sewing and mission work. Also Lutheran, Presbyterian, First Baptist and St Paul’s Methodist Episcopal details with Sunday school times, German and English services, youth programs, and mission society meetings.
A Catholic information sheet extols annual laymen retreats as life fortifying. It describes two day and private sessions, confession and Holy Communion, meditation on personal issues, and mutual vows. It notes 70 retreats nationwide with over 30,000 laymen yearly, urging women to join similarly.
Members of the Sunday school at Et Pau Methodist Church present a morning program at the church at 9:45. The lineup includes processional We Come Fromery, recitations Loving and Serving, Jolly Little Workers, Dad's Whatamalen, prayer, and songs by Primary and Junior groups.
Rev Oren TN Zurcher of Brak ane Washington opens a evangelistic series at Covurn Methodist church in Livingston and Hoberth. A Seattle Pacific college graduate, he has pastored in Seattle Idaho and has served as young people's evangelist for the Columbia River conference. Daily vacation Bible school each morning, June 11, with evenings at 8. Rev Zurcher will speak on Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord and From Behind the Counter to Behind the Pulpit. Public invited.
Washington reports President Hoover ordered transfer of Custer Battlefield National Cemetery in Montana from War Department to Interior Department effective July 2, aligning with prior moves for cemeteries near military posts. The action cited the site's symbolic character and consistency with similar transfers seven years earlier. London dispatch notes stalemate on the Fingen canal due to blocking by ships with concrete.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Bishop Thomas Ken, 17th century churchman and hymn writer of Morning and Evening Hymns. Born 1637 in England, Ken studied at Winchester and Oxford, authored hymns still sung today, and was buried beside a grave marked by an iron railing under the churchyard’s east shadow.
This column reflects on stamp collecting as a long lived mania and in aging hobbyists. It contrasts youthful enthusiasm with mature collectors who seek quality over quantity and pursue specialized areas such as U S commemoratives. It notes the social and historical value while wondering about future passion for stamps.
A fragmented OCR item notes a monthly discussion at an exchange where women speak while men adjust the room's fuxuliaze argintl. The text sporadically references market servants and a recurring chat, with garbled phrases throughout.
The United States cautions that foreign agents and fifth column activity threaten Latin America as Germany and Japan expand influence in South America. Germans and their allies run businesses, clubs, and aviation ventures across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, with pilots sometimes guiding planes in local air services. Diplomatic efforts aim to curb these activities and protect the Panama Canal region.
San Diego reports that women pilots could be called to fly mail planes in national emergencies. Mrs. Mark Beam of Albuquerque, NM, president of the World's Natural Aeronautical Association, noted the 99ers organization is examining the panel duty and possible roles for licensed women pilots in such a crisis.
Minnesota convention of the United Gantsh Lutheran church voted to raise a 200000 campaign fund tied to the 1946 start of anniversary activities. Proceeds will retire a church debt strengthen the pastoral staff and fund a new administration building for the synodical school at Dane College in Hall, Nebraska.
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