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Newspaper
Hill View Times
Location
Kerrville, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1926
Page
5
Pastor Hugh B. Warner reports growing Bible School attendance and a remodeling plan for the church to create a more inviting worship space. Work is to begin soon with regular services listed for next Sunday and a Ladies' Aid meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday.
Dr. W. L. Downing reports the eight day Presbyterian and Fellowship Meeting ended last Sunday night at the Baptist church in Center Point. Missionaries from foreign fields and Kerrville encampment ministers spoke to devout congregations. Local singers and youth provided fervent devotion. Walker of the Encampment assisted with vocal and instrumental numbers. Final service drew a packed house with reconsecrations and one church addition on profession of faith.
The Y's Wives Club met July 7 at 2 p m with strong attendance. Mrs James Harrison presided and the group voted to meet every second Wednesday at 10 a m for the rest of summer. A theatre party was planned and new members Mrs Peterson and Mrs Alvie Ledbetter joined. Officers Mrs O R Holbrook and Mrs S G Wilkinson return from vacation in Oklahoma. Legion patients' wives are invited to attend the August 11 meeting.
Members of the Y's Wives Club attended a theatre party during the Phantom of the Opera at the Arcadia Theatre. They were entertained at Mrs. H. Balsano's home before the show. Twenty ladies and ten children enjoyed refreshments later at Rawson's Drug Store served by the Legion Y M C A.
San Saba County and Central Texas received abundant rainfall through fall, winter and spring. Pecan orchards show flourishing first-year growth, with many nuts planted. If favorable conditions persist, numerous pecan trees will be set out this fall and winter, urging citizens to participate.
Mexico City reports government support for a school textbook titled Scientific Temperance to be printed in an edition of 20 000. Prof Andres Osuna described rising official moves to restrict liquor traffic and noted President Calles is a prohibitionist with labor groups claiming 1 000 000 members backing policies.
A playful verse recounts Adam and Eve losing work for fruit theft and raising Cain. It parodies Esau, Jacob, Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, Sally, Jonah, and Joseph with humorous twists on their roles and fates.
The group passed a unanimous resolution favoring temperance starting with restriction and moving toward prohibition. They stressed education as the foundation, noting teachers support the movement but lack teaching materials. Government funding will be used for a manual, with plans to extend the program beyond the primary school to all schools.
Bill Teague travels to San Antonio where his car is damaged by a Pierce Arrow in a city collision. After local mechanics fix the flivver a generator is stolen. Returning home at night two hijackers in another Pierce Arrow stop him, steal ten dollars and his gold watch before fleeing.
Mrs O T Anderson and Mr and Mrs Morriss Hanis spent a week in Kerrville and vicinity from Olney Texas to visit friends and relatives and bring Mrs A M Morriss home. Rev and Mrs J B Holt and children, former Junction pastor, visited Kerrville last Saturday en route to a vacation function.
Friends of Rev J W Allen a Presbyterian missionary to Luebo Congo in Belga Africa welcomed his Kerrville visit He stayed at the Presbyterian Encampment and preached at the Tabernacle Tuesday night Mrs Allen his devoted wife recuperates from the severe African climate at their Silver City New Mexico post.
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