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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1929
Page
4
Local residents are noted traveling to Chicago and Texarkana for family visits and summer homes. Numerous names appear attending social events, church meetings, and Watermelon Festival activities. Mrs. Ruffin Boyett returns to Little Rock, while Miss Mary William McRae Hornet visits relatives in Chicago.
Cleely Nu at at the Pirat Mette tuuxe church will meet at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon at the home of ho E Springer with Sheshinies Orrie Reed Roy Jonesy and T D Henry as associate hostesses
Francis A Buddin pastor at First Methodist Church invites all ages to church school and announces services. At 1 o clock Rev A Henderson will preach as Prescott district Elder, followed by a third quarterly conference at 2 pm. Worth League meets at 7216. Union service at First Presbyterian at 8 pm with Rev W A Bowen. Midweek service Wednesday at 8 pm.
John G. Reese is the minister. A Bible study meets at 10 o clock with all expected to attend. Morning worship planned with preaching at 11 o clock. No evening service due to a ministerial meeting at Midway. Sermon title VAIN RELIGION. Welcoming all services.
First Baptist Church led by W A Bowen reports Sunday schedule with Sunday School at 9 45 a.m. and a sermon at 11 o at Saul's Band of Men. Attendance rose last Sunday. An 8 p m union service will be held at First Presbyterian Church.
Ben Cox, 80, died at his home after a brief illness. He is survived by his parents and a sister, Mrs. T. M. King of Mot Springs. Funeral services will be Sunday at 10 at Telock, with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Thomas Edison in a white suit greets Lay geniuses from every state chosen for his contest awarding a technical education at his West Orange lab. Judges Louis Parry, George Eastman, and Henry Ford stand with the inventor as Ellison welcomes the candidates before examinations.
The National Rifle Association announced a special match at the National Rifle and Pistol matches in Camp Perry Ohio featuring marksmen firing ancient flintlocks once used by Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. The event recalls the 1926 Sesquicentennial at Sea Girt when famous shots tested old rifles. organizers have secured early American rifles for a showing expected to attract strong interest in Perry.
The Philippine goby is the world's smallest fish and one of the tiniest backboned creatures. It measures three sixteenths of an inch, about the size of an ant, with only seventy five specimens observed by scientists. Males perform the championship, while females reach about a quarter of an inch in length. They inhabit Chal creeks a few miles down from Manila.
An Oregon high school boy was severely burned after a 2,500 foot slide down a mountain. He required hospital treatment after a fall that left him with broken bones, according to Topular Science Monthly.
An 8800 mile voyage by a glass bottle was reported by the U S Navy hydrographic office. On September 27, 1927, an officer aboard the American steamer K R Kingsbury cast the bottle into the Pacific off Lower California. Seventeen months later, February 13, 1929, the bottle was found in the Philippine Islands, establishing a Pacific drifting distance record.
A fragment notes a claim that the longest possible body of water voyage was 118 miles. It says the greatest voyage by a floating battle ship began in the southeast Indian Ocean and ended at Cape Horn. The record drift began in May 1909 and ended in May 1912.
P G Nelson aged 21 was crushed to death while trapped in a machine at the Memphis factory where he had worked nine months. His parents, Mr and Mrs Dave Nelson, reside in Blytheville Arkansas.
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