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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1920
Page
1
Dilltown Sunday school delivered a fine Easter program to a large audience. Credit goes to Superintendent Charles Sarvnson and teachers for their dedication, with Mrs. Andrew Kerney presiding at the piano.
The Interchurch World Movement to emphasize personal evangelism through the Win One Legion. Dr W B Bremer leads Pennsylvania resources organizing auxiliaries to mobilize pastors and congregations for a nationwide Easter climax. The pledge urges each person to win at least one more to Christ and join the church, boosted by Scriptural guidance and prayer.
Mrs Abel Abel and daughter and Miss Grace Barr visited Indiana hospital on Wednesday to see patient Mr Abel. Sara Stitt returns home after working at Indiana. Samuel Burker made a business trip to Arcadia. Oliver Wolf, wintering in New York City with his father, visits with grandparents the Burker and Douglass families in Deckers Point. Frank Rice and sister Mrs O Neil of Dixonville called. The grange to hold a spelling bee Thursday evening. Hugh Hicock, knee trouble, taken to Dixonville hospital. Miss Zola Burns returns home after two weeks with the Burns family. Mr and Mrs Sharp Stonebraker hosted a kitchen shower Saturday.
The Interchurch World Movement gains recognition through highway ties in Pennsylvania. The state highway department filed clippings showing links between road works and rural religion, after Irvin E. Deer, state supervisor for Pennsylvania, forwarded Susquehanna county survey items. The department circulated its own story statewide, praising the Movement.
Irvin IW Deer Rural Survey Supervisor for the Interchurch World Movement reports in Pennsylvania that 30 percent of surveyed rural churches have under 25 members, 30 percent have 26 to 60, and 26 percent have 51 to 100. Among those under 25, 76 percent are losing members. 40 percent of 26 to 50 members and 25 percent of 61 to 100 members are losing.
Interchurch rural survey workers report a $60,000 two story community building planned for Austin Potter county Pa The facility will include a restaurant bowling alley club singing and school rooms motion picture rooms and indoor sports Aimed to provide constructive family entertainment under one roof Promoter Warry Ward a Methodist Episcopal pastor and board president leads the project with Interchurch County Survey Council involvement
About 50,000 to one missionary crowds, including wives and 1,860 native workers, serving a field with one evangelistic missionary per 50,080 people. Siam and Indo-China governments push for a robust public school system. In Central America’s five republics only ten evangelical church buildings exist.
Mrs Jay Mumau of Idamar visited Thursday with Mrs Murray McQuown, sharing a social call and time together in the community.
Creps school teacher Miss Alverda Kinter of Rayne township closed a successful term Friday and was surprised at her home that evening by pupils and district friends. Guests arrived unannounced and shared a lunch from well filled baskets.
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