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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1939
Page
9
Topeka reports that hot dry weather in July reduced Kansas corn prospects to 34 percent of normal, yielding about 24.75 million bushels. Wheat output rises to 116.1 million with higher late-season yields, while sorghum and flax show mixed results and pastures remain extremely dry.
The Foursquare Gospel Tent revival on the corner of Seventh and Missouri street is open to the public every night except Saturday. The program includes song service and preaching with musical features. Sunday evening Rev. Betty H. Wilson will lead the services and her sermon is titled Seven Barriers to Hell.
Local residents host and visit across Sibleyville Lawrence and nearby towns. Visitors include Howard Randolph and Springer families, Helen Wier, and Oscar Yorks with extended families from Irwin Pa and Welcomes. Traveled trips to New York City and Colorado Springs are mentioned along with a missionary society gathering and a family birthday party.
First Presbyterian church at Ninth and Vermont presents Rev. T H Astman minister with Mrs C W Straffon organist and summer music director. Organ Prelude Melody Parker,Mary Elizabeth Ear offertory Organ Album Leaf Sehumann non as ac seeannae Postlude In G Tours.
Ninth Street Baptist Church at Ninth and Ohio Streets with Rev. B. L. Wightman B D pastor. Sunday school at 9:00 led by Mrs. M. Winn superintendent. Morning worship at 11:00 with preaching by the pastor on The Soul's Only Hope. Baptism before sermon. 6:00 B Y P U led by Miss Marie Coleman president. Evening worship at 7:30 with preaching by the pastor.
Clarke W. Comstock minister and Lucille Traynor pianist invite public to worship at Seventh and Elm. Service schedule includes Bible school at 9 45 a m led by John Hubbel and Earle Gordon, Lord's Supper at 10 50 a m with sermon Lot the Lingerer, junior intermediate senior C E, and a p m union service with Centenary M E folk.
United Brethren Church on Seventeenth and Vermont led by Arthur Ward splits events with 9 45 Sunday school overseen by Harold Brown and 10 45 morning worship Sermon on the necessity of operation and its result Evening service at 7 30 with a second sermon. Valley Grove prayer group led by Veda May Ousdahl discusses temperance. Nazarene Church at 19th and Vermont with W Lawson Brown. St James AME Church at North 7th and Maple with Noble Lee and guest Elder T T Cromer.
Free Methodist at 12th and Connecticut to suspend services for the summer with the next worship planned for September 3 at First Baptist Eighth and Kentucky. Plymouth Congregational at 945 Vermont Street reports discontinued summer services. Union Park in South Park hosts a 7:45 gathering. Assembly of God at Fourteenth and Rhode Island offers 11:00 worship with Mrs. Pittman speaking on Mine Own Vineyard Have I Not Kept.
The notice outlines services at Immanuel Lutheran Church located at Tenth and Kentucky streets led by Pastor W. W. Stoeppelworth. Youth service at 6 45 pm with Mrs. Bowen delivering the message and Brother Jackson directing a 7 45 pm evangelistic service on the theme The Making of Moses. A midweek 7 45 pm service and a gala children service are planned. Sunday school at 10 am Bible class, 11 am divine service on The Greatness of Peter's Confession. August 20 services canceled due to pastor attending Kansas District convention August 15 21. A McLouth service is scheduled at 2 30 pm next Sunday.
A detailed local church notices page lists events across multiple congregations. It includes service times at First Christian Church Harold G Barr minister and unified services 9 30 to 11 00 presiding M N Fen, guest speaker Rev Russell Carter, plus organ works and offertories by Mendelssohn and Bach Franko. It also mentions Sunday school times, union services, and upcoming evangelical campaigns.
A recipe contest announces the Market Basket prize for the best peach cobbler recipe. It details an ice cream making method and variations including pistachio cherry and pineapple add ins, with instructions on freezing and serving.
Joe M. Williams, director of vocal music at Lawrence Memorial High School, will be guest soloist at the early worship service. He will sing The Lord's Prayer. Dorothy Enlow Miller will accompany on the Russell Memorial organ with Exitus by Game, Serenade by Aitken, and Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin. Dr. Robert A. Hunt selects The Magic Word as the sermon theme.
H R Ekins United Press correspondent who was ordered from Italy yesterday when the Rome bureau was closed departed with his wife today for Paris.
A village roundup details visits and travels including the Dwyer family return from a western trip to Manitou Colorado and social visits by Irene Nordstrom Dorothy Bleakley Emma King and others. fall school openings prompt travel details and a Phenicie party camping at Lake Itasca with fishing reports.
The itemization recalls trips to Duluth and Canada with Mrs. Will Frost and a Topeka friend planning world fair attendance. It notes 4-H cooking meeting at Mrs. M. F. Black with custard and bread pudding. It reports Edward Bleakley’s 13th birthday and the death of Mrs. W. C. Bridges in Tonganoxie.
Mr and Mrs John Gilliland Willard Black and his sister Miss Doris Black departed Tuesday from Topeka for Denver and other Colorado points. On their way they were met at a junction by friends.
The Busy Bee club held its annual picnic at the state lake on Friday with large attendance though several members were absent for various reasons. The trip included a stop at Bird City, Kansas to visit relatives of John.
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