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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1932
Page
5
A verse about a woman’s garden as a living epitaph contrasts with a long letter from Los Angeles describing Olympic fervor. The missive paints Hollywood’s Olympic lore from banners and maps to village life, uniforms, and international pride in the early Games era.
The notice promotes Pattern 2060 with reversible apron style, pocket, and hem details for sizes 16 to 20 and 34 to 4, priced 15 cents each, plus catalog options. It lists fabric needs and mailing address in New York, urging readers to order and state size.
The column records various social happenings including a Delta Beta Sigma backward dance guest list at Riverside Country Club, Mrs. Jack Rogers hosting her nephew Herbert Lee Jarrell, Misses Lelia White and DeLois Pace returning from Huttig Arkansas, and a June birthday party for Mr. Thomas with guests and cake. It also mentions Choral Club planning for next season and several regional trips by families.
Mrs. Fred Johnson of Holly Ridge who has been a patient in St. Francis sanitarium has recovered sufficiently to be removed to her home. Mrs. Johnson is a former resident of this city.
Contributed column hints at scheduling a debut performance and the idea of preparing in advance, noting a staged process. The piece conveys light community theater planning and the feeling of anticipation for an upcoming event.
Dixie chapter O E S meets at the Masonic hall 8 p m Tuesday. Business and Professional Women's club at 8 p m. W B A review No 11 at Woodman hall 7 3 p m. Presbyterian Auxiliary circles meet at specified addresses. Methodist Missionary Society circles 1 12 meet at 3 p m in listed homes. Baptist Missionary circles meet at 3 30 p m at designated addresses. Logtown Community club meets Wednesday 2 30 p m 7 30. Officials of Presbyterian church and school to meet.
Church services listed with times for Sunday school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 a m and evening worship at 8 p m The pastor continues a series on Introducing new to Christ with sermons on What really happens when a man becomes a Christian and The Change from a self centered to a God centered life Also notes evangelistic 7 45 p m Troubadours junior N Y P S devotional 4 p m missionary Japan study 7 p m W M S Bible study Friday 2 p m mid week prayer and praise Thursday 7 45 p m Christian fellowship welcome to all
Services listed for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity include a 7:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist, 9:45 a.m. church school, and an 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with hymns and sermon. The collect asks for God’s almightiness shown through mercy and grace to run the race of His commandments, while the epistle ties faith to morals and belief in the resurrection as a salvation requisite. The gospel contrasts self righteousness with what is acceptable to God.
Sunday school begins at 9 45 am with J E Lindsey as superintendent. Morning worship at 11 am and evening worship at 745 pm. Services are held every Tuesday and Thursday night. The public is invited to all services.
A revival begins Sunday morning August 14 1932 at Pennle Baptist Church and continues nightly through August 20. Services include good singing and a sermon by the pastor all are welcome.
O A Morgan and C C Calvert will be ordained as deacons Sunday morning. The pastor will speak on The Origin and Office of the Deaconship. Rev Hastings will address the deacons and church. Evening topic Adultery the Scarlet Sin of Adam's Fallen Race. Sunday school at 9 45 preaching at 10 55 and 7 45 B Y P U at 6 30.
S L Bunch will serve as supply pastor at Chappell Hill BaptistChurch. Sunday school starts at 10 a m B Y P U of this church plans a special program for the Cheniere church B Y P U at their new building Sunday night August 7 all invited
Sun day school and Bible class meet at 9 a.m. Bible class discusses the conclusion of the Lord's prayer. Chief service begins at 4:45 p.m. Pastor's sermon titled The Christian Pilgrims Sojourn and Vision of His Future Home. Hebrews 13 14 We have here no continuing city but we seek for one to come.
Chicago August 6 the plan to build a tower twice the height of Paris Eiffel Tower for the 1933 world’s fair was offered to officials. The 2063 foot tower would stand on Lake Michigan site, 1079 feet taller than Eiffel and 813 feet higher than the Empire State Building. Forty passenger elevators would move sightseers at 1600 feet a minute. Estimated cost 3 million dollars, with funds from admissions and rental of offices and concessions. Architect Frank A. Randall proposed the plan.
A single lightning flash during an electric storm can release as many as 1,000,000 kilowatts of electrical power.
Madge pressures the hotel manager to cooperate in keeping their kidnaping plot secret while Hugh or I plan an attack and Lillian must not be told. Noel and Noel's ally converge on the inn as Helena Brixton collapses prompting urgent explanations.
A narrator revealing the kidnapping of the Underwoods and Brixtons’ daughters at Whitney Hall confides that government secret service ties shield the case from police and publicity. The hotel owner promises discreet cooperation while the narrator moves toward Helena Brixton’s room where faint moans suggest a developing scene.
S. L. Yeager presides at Sunday school at 9 50 a m with a short worship program including Prelude Old Rugged Cross Song Doxology Prayer Scripture Psalm 107 1 21 Talk Gratitude Duet When I Survey the Wondrous Cross Benediction Christian Endeavor at 7 00 p m
First Nazarene Church led by H F Camp invites all to Sunday school at 9 40 sharp aiming for 200 in Bible school each Sunday. At eleven Rev B M Hall of Bethany Peniel college will speak on Christian education. Hall will be joined by the college Troubadours.
At 11 o clock Dr Scott preaches The Cross and baritone Dix Ellett sings Before the Crucifix at the morning service. Evening service at 745 features Spiritu al Misers with choir directed by Mrs Clyde Sanders singing Savior When Night Invokes the Skies.
Ernest Duncan Hollow is minister. Church school at 9 45 with classes for all ages. Sermon at 11 by Rev Ralph Mc Raney of St Joseph while Rev Hollo way is on vacation. Christian Endeavor meeting at 7 00. Cordial invitation to attend all Sabbath services.
At 10 am Sunday school led by O. K. Bailey, 11 am preaching, 7 pm B Y P A programs directed by Wilson Peters, 8 pm preaching. W M S meets Wednesdays at 3 pm and Prayer meeting each Wednesday at 8 pm. Church extends welcome to the public to worship with us.
At Gordon Avenue Methodist Corner of Gordon and Dixie Sunday school starts at 9 45 a m with morning services at 11 The morning topic is I Die Daily and the message centers on daily giving oneself for Jesus Epworth League meets at 7 p m and evening worship follows at 7 45 p m with the topic I know in Whom I have Believed The lesson covers the phases of Christian evidence.
Calvary Baptist Church on Mississippi Street opens a revival this Sunday night with Rev J J Brooks preaching and Lloyd Mercer leading song. Services occur on the church lawn with parents night for children and the usual morning preaching at the set hour. Night services begin at 8.00.
Christian Science services invite attendance at First Church of Christ Scientist corner Auburn Avenue and North Second Street with Sunday 11 a.m. service and 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Wednesday 8 p.m. testimony meeting. The August 7 Lesson Sermon centers on the theme Spirit with cited Bible verses and passages from Science and Health.
In a staged romance, Sondra Kent endures five years of loneliness after secretly marrying Mark Merriman. She hides the union from her sister Flora while he departs for a Congo job that could fortune him. Sondra and her friend John Anderson share uneasy, probing exchanges about happiness and past mistakes as Beatrice Taylor enters the scene.
Mary Baker Eddy explains that Spirit is the proper name for the Supreme Being in Christian Science. Spirit denotes both quantity and quality and refers only to God, with reference to derivatives describing quality rather than Spirit as God.
The Central Baptist Church at 3400 Lee Avenue will hold regular services this Sunday with Pastor Roger M. Baxter preaching at both worship periods. In the last three weeks the church has conducted a successful revival.
A church invites members for services as the pastor announces Sunday morning sermon on Why I Am a Baptist and Sunday night sermon on Cured at Last urging all members to attend in their places.
Dr and Mrs George Wright traveled to the Gulf Coast on Thursday to join their son Billy and Miss El Haynes and Tommy Wyatt of Mr and Mrs J A Wyatt. They occupy the McConnell cottage at Waveland and will spend the weekend aboard a schooner in the Gulf of Mexico before returning home early next week.
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