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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1951
Page
6
Local church notices promote weekly services Sunday School sermons and Wednesday prayers at Opdyke Baptist Ww T Waring pastor 1405 White Street and Taylors Baptist Hurd led by J R McDuffy with Vacation Bible School dates May 4 to mid June. Also Virginia McKitrick pianist and multiple revival style events listed with baptisms at Pump House and Sunday plans.
Evangelical United Brethren in Bluford and Oakdale schedules invite prayers and attendance through June 6 with nightly services and Sunday School. Oak Hill Mt Nebo marks June 10 homecoming with basket dinner and a 1 30 song service by Southern Harmony Quartet. INA Free Will Baptist lists weekend services, Bible School, worship, and evangelist service with a baptism.
No morning Service. Sunday evening services with business meeting at 7 30 p m. Our homecoming will be June 17. Basket dinner. Preaching by missionary Rev. Gerald Fox and special singing for the afternoon. H C Lovin Pastor The Mt Vernon Methodist Circuit Joseph C Harris Minister Hopewell Morning Worship 9 30 a m Church School 10 30 a m Donald Dalby Supt Pleasant Grove Church School 10 00 a m Marvin Sledge Supt Morning Worship 11 00 a m West Salem Church School 10 00 a m Wilbur Jones Supt Senior Youth Fellowship 7 00 p m Charles Thomas Sponsor Intermediate Youth Fellowship 7 00 p m Velma Felton Sponsor West Salem Church annual outing Sunday June 10 Giant City Park Youth Fellowship Group meets Tuesday June 5 7 30 p m Hopewell Centennial Homecoming Sunday August 5
Bonnie Methodist Church lists Sunday School for all ages at 9 45 morning worship at 11. Children’s Service at 7 p.m. Evening Worship at 7 30. Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7 30 led by Weaver Williams. Vacation Bible School begins Monday June 4 at 8 30 with Miss Eleanor Heil of Mt Vernon as leader. all community children invited.
East Side and Old Union Baptist Churches announce weekend services. James Adams will preach Saturday at 8 p m. Homecoming and Roll Call Sunday with Eld Luther Upton as afternoon speaker and a noon basket dinner. Daily Bible School starts Monday June 4 with 2:00 pm registration for boys and girls.
Everett Apgar pastor greets worshippers at the Bluford Baptist Church. Sunday School begins 9 30 with Willis Keele superintendent and Claude L Butler as song reader and Grace Russell on piano. Training Union at 6 30 with Dwight Bray directing. Evening Service 7 30. Wednesday Prayer and Praise 7 30 Burrel Bunday in charge.
DIX CIRCUIT Kell Methodist Church schedules 10 am Sunday School and 7:30 pm Evening Worship led by Pastor Leo Mabry. Salem Missionary Baptist announces Homecoming on Sunday June 10 with an 11 am sermon and noon dinner. R H Riley to speak in the afternoon. Eddie Funkhouser to direct songs. Franklin-Jefferson Singing Convention set for Sunday June 3 at 2 pm near Benton. Randall Sandusky, Secy.
The Antioch Baptist Church holds its annual Homecoming on Sunday June 3 with morning and afternoon services led by Pastor Bro Gene Auxier and Rev Cravens. The Mellodaires quartet from Mulkeytown will sing and a basket dinner is planned at noon.
Lepton Harpole, Pastor, invites members to a church gathering at Spring Garden Church Friday evening at 7 45 PM, noting it is the first Friday night in June and a fellowship meeting.
William E Gilroy discusses the Jewish diaspora and parallels to modern Palestine. He links the Babylonian exile, restoration in Ezra and Nehemiah, and the flourishing Jewish culture under shifts of captivity and return. Nehemiah is highlighted as the pivotal leader in restoring Jerusalem’s power and inspiration.
Each month will feature a different speaker and a special singing performance. The schedule promises varied topics and a musical element to engage attendees.
South Hickory Hill Christian Church will pause meetings for two weeks starting in June. Evening services begin at 7 45 with Bro Clarence R Taylor as speaker for the sessions.
Pastor Everett Lemay leads Sunday School at 10 a m and worship at 11 a m with Bro Ray Highsmith as superintendent. Homecoming features a noon basket dinner and 1 30 pm All American Quartet singing. Bird Green to preach. annal roll call. Prayer service Wednesday at 7 30 pm led by Miss Pat Eiler. No evening service.
Sunday school at 10:00 a m and evening service at 7 30 p m led by Pastor Omar Smith Omar Smith is featured for Sept Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m A baptism will take place Sunday at 3 00 p m at the lake on the Russ Garrison farm along State Route 460 southeast of Mt Vernon
The notice lists L. A. Adams as pastor and Wilton Smithpeters as superintendent. Bible School starts at 10 a m with Worship at 11 a m and Training Union at 6 45 p m. Evangelistic Service at 7 45 p m and the annual Roll Call is set for the fourth Sunday in June.
Marine Private First Class Richard D. Jay son of Mr and Mrs Charles F Jay of RFD 5 Vernon completed basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Calif and was promoted to Private First Class He has been transferred to a Casual Platoon and will be assigned to a duty station. Pfc Lester Sutton 18 son of Mrs Ida Sutton of RFD 3 Vernon entered the Airplane and Engine Mechanics School at Sheppard Air Force Base Texas.
Wilford N. Warren, son of Mrs. Marie Warren of Odin Illinois, is promoted to Sergeant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers after graduating. He studied at Mt Vernon High School in Hanau Germany and completed a 22 week course at Sheppard for intensive training in servicing inspecting and maintaining aircraft used by the USAF.
In 1946 Centralia Township High School graduate Pvt. Richard F. Smart joined the U S Army that June and later served in Korea. Pvt. Andrew J. Werner of Mt Vernon, son of Andrew H. Werner, belongs to the 77th Field Artillery Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea, where high explosive barrages by his unit have inflicted heavy losses on enemy troops and equipment.
A station wagon carrying Joppa atomic plant workers collided head on with a car near Joppa Massachusetts County. James Foster 39 of Johnston City Illinois died Eugene Wilson of Harrisburg Illinois driver of the other car was seriously injured. The Harrisburg men in the station wagon were Bill Johnson Blake Johnson Don Hobson Claude Hargrave and Richard Carpenter Four of the five were treated at Metropolis and Harrisburg hospitals. The crash occurred on U S Highway 45 about ten miles northeast of Joppa. The plant would supply power to a Kentucky atomic project.
Tokyo reports Kyodo News Agency says a Soviet patrol seized two more Japanese fishing boats off Hokkaido, bringing this year’s total to 13 ships seized with eight returned.
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