16 Aug 1933
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Newspaper
Liberty Bee
Location
Liberty, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1933
Page
1
The St. Brigid church annual picnic runs Wednesday afternoon and evening at Liberty Park. The ladies will serve a supper from 4 o'clock, with refreshments and amusements for all ages. Liberty Band starts music at 5, a Taxpayers League speaker will speak, and a platform dance follows.
The Liberty Business Men's Association is requested to meet on the band stand this Thursday at 8 30 PM due to a chautauqua night. All business men are urged to attend.
The S S Convention convenes in Liberty at the Lutheran church on Wednesday August 16 with the theme Christ for Today. The program includes worship services, reports, forums, and elections across morning afternoon and evening sessions featuring Rev. Heath Rev. Chapman Mrs. Brooks Rev. West Rev. Dewhurst Rev. Bingaman Rev. Tisdall and Rev. Dewar, with a Young People Banquet and installation to adjourn.
The program lists daily events from Aug 27 through Sept 3 including Liberty Band Minstrels by St Brigid church Beverly Brotherhood Richfield Play Variety Night Old Fiddlers Night Burton Play and Rose Maiden with specific dates and acts.
A science backed look at perennial mother-in-law jokes. The American Weekly explains various “types” of mothers-in-law with analysis and humorous context, tying clichés to observed behaviors.
A meeting of business men from Barry New Canton Kinderhook East Hannibal Hull Payson Newtown Plainville Richfield and Liberty at Plainville adopted a code requiring openings no earlier than 6 30 am and closings at 6 00 pm daily except Saturdays when closing is 11 00 pm No Sunday openings Restaurants garages and drug stores are exempt unless handling standard merchandise Barbers must adopt their own codes A parallel meeting in Camp Point produced a similar code allowing earlier openings for northeastern towns
The 68th annual Union Sunday School picnic was a sunny homecoming day with 5000 to 6000 attendees. Activities included dolls and pet parades, contests, a loud speaker system, and music by the Liberty band and a girls chorus. Receipts totaled 377 dollars as fried chicken stands drew steady crowds. prize winners are listed in another column.
At Zion Church six children were baptized in the morning service Sylvester Delbert Cordell Floyd Diehl Betty Lou Taylor Donald Eugene Potter and Ronald Max Henderson. In the afternoon two private baptisms followed Lloyd Wendel and William Leaton. The postponed Luther League meeting of St Peter’s Lost Prairie will be held Friday at 8 pm at the church for devotional and social activities.
Notice invites all boys aged nine to fourteen to meet at the Lutheran Church Thursday at 7 o clock. Do not dress up as the event may include activities in the country. Pastor Kunkle and Messrs. Wilson Neubauer and Merle Graff will lead.
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