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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1939
Page
4
Fragmented society column lists many names and addresses with scattered notes about visits, guests, church services, and events. It mentions Mrs Lewisville, Miss Ble, Dr. Cox, and others, with references to Cadumbine University, Hot Springs, Havana Springs, and a Christ's Ambassadors program.
WRST Baptist Church announces Ayres of Baptiste will be the pastor’s subject at the 1:64 service Sunday. The meeting includes a sermon on The Christ of Eternity and features J B Liard as a guest speaker from Nashville with an invitation to all Baptists for Christian fellowship and training at Sunday services.
Garrety Memorial Baptist Church led by Stollis A. Purtie invites congregants to Sunday school and worship noting the Lord’s command to assemble. A young peoples meeting closes with singing as midweek prayer services are announced to be led by Mrs. Walter Frith.
Rev Thunes B Htundll reports strong attendance at the Gospel Tabernacle Sunday School in Wah. Superintendent C B Bayse notes steady growth, with enrollment nearing five hundred as supervision continues.
An unstable OCR segment notes pastors First Methodist Kennet Spare and Tueker of Bearden delivering a service at Wiest Methodist church. It mentions a revo Mr. Tueler at Che oc standings and a Little Hork Conference audit. A worship event is planned for 150 p.m. with pastor Kenneth Spare presiding at Centerville six miles west of The Rowton.
The theater presents Movin a lively Polynesian star in Gir Foam Rie at the New Theatre through Saturday. Mavity, American Mexican by birth, rose from amateur theatricals to place in vaudeville and film, with Mutiny On The Bounty and The Hueverative among her films. Friday and Saturday feature Hoot Gibson in The Cowboy Comesar and Hawk of the Wilderness serial. Also shown are Bear Facts and a World Champion busker reel.
Lion wells operations proceed under Director AL M Crowell and the commission. Officers were dispatched from Union County at Governor Bailey and Sheriff Candy Bo Wooley’s request to supervise the work. The field shows activity around the wells with units deployed and investigators moving to secure the area.
A clipped, reflective piece notes vast research efforts and patenting poking at new drugs and ideas. It argues ongoing projects shape industries and material life, while politics dictates who wins between government and industry, amid unpredictable outcomes.
Continued report details a fatality linked to a mattress fire started by lightning and extensive wind damage in the DeAnn community. Damages include a roof, electrical fixtures, and several homes and farms, with one death and no injuries reported beyond the victim.
A garbled letter lays out Tyrone Power’s stage ascent through understudy roles and early performances with Sonja Henie Cornell and Miss Cornell in Romeo and Juliet and St Joan. It notes Rudy Vallee Edna May Oliver Mary Healy and Sidney Lanfield in a Ber lin production featuring new songs and a press agent role for Tyrone Power.
Lightning caused fuse blows in five city unsormers crippling service for about two hours. Superintendent C O Thuring noted minor damage to a rural electric line but service was restored. Record rainfall around Hampstead county totaled 7.77 inches. heavy rain ends weeks of heat with cooler clouds higher than six miles.
Christine Thorenson navigates danger and romance along Surf City’s boardwalk. Bill Cantrell teases a hidden past as a tense crowd gathers near the Twentieth Century Pier, while suspicions about Chandry and a political undercurrent deepen Christine’s perilous night.
The article discusses the Bible on drinking, noting rising liquor use especially among women and the persistent threat of drunkenness. It cites societal cycles of laxity and reform, compares England’s Restoration era to American trends, and predicts a Wesleyan revival and stronger temperance laws as a response to liquor’s harms.
Warning order in No 5325 directs Cicero Brown to appear within thirty days and answer Georgie Brown’s complaint. Clerk Ralph Bailey and attorney John P. Vesey sign, with Steve Carrigan as attorney ad litem. Date July 27 with notices July 28 and August 4 11 18.
A discussion highlights Belshazzar as a symbol of ruin brought by drunkenness and evil ways. It notes that divine judgment persists across ages, with human life and awe bound to moral order, unchanged since ancient times.
The Herring family reunion at Fair Park Hope Aug 14 brought 40 members and friends together for a picnic luncheon. Attendees included George Herrin Magnolia Arkansas Vernon Herring family from Waterloo Arkansas Malvin Herring Little Rock and other Herring relatives from Texarkana Shreveport Brownwood Rosston and Hope with neighbors Mrs J T Butler Jr and Mrs Hays Bailey among those who visited in the afternoon.
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