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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1952
Page
12
The Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints at 908 East Ninth Street holds church school at 9 40 a m Sacrament service at 10 40 a m Worship service at 7 30 p m Elder Philip Wagler is in charge with a message by Elder J W Bashear of Rock Island district president.
Calvary Baptist at Cedar and Fourth lists a 9 a.m. prayer service and 9:20 a.m. Sunday school. Worship follows at 10:30 a.m. with Paul Miller of Northern Baptist Seminary Chicago delivering the message. Junior church is at 11 a.m. Youth hour is at 6:30 p.m. Evening worship at 7:30 p.m. features Paul Miller again.
St Mathias located at 211 West Eighth Street serves Rev J J Welsh pastor and Rev L J Bergthold assistant pastor. Sunday masses at 6 8 and 10 a m Weekday masses 6 30 a m Holy day masses 6 7 and 9 a m First Friday masses at 6 and 7 a m Confessions Saturday 2 to 5 p m and to 8 p m.
The Evangelical and Reformed Church at 313 Sycamore Street led by Pastor Donald F. Koelling holds church school at 9 30 a m and worship service at 10 45 a m with the sermon Across the Table World Wide Communion observed. Youth Fellowship meets at 5 p m.
Ned Gillum is pastor at First Christian Corner at Fifth and Cedar. Church school 9 45 a m worship 11 a m scripture John 6 47 65 sermon The Bread of Life observance of the Lord s Supper. Board meeting Tuesday 7 30 p m choir practice Wednesday all day Christian Women s Fellowship work meeting Thursday.
Trinity Episcopal at 411 East Second Street lists Rev Richard M Pieper as rector. Holy Communion at 8 a m. Sermon and Holy Communion at 10 45 a m Inquirers class at 4 p m Youth group at 6 30 p m.
Bethel A. M. E. at 412 East Seventh Street lists Rev. A. W. Simpson as pastor. Sunday school starts at 9 30 a m with Effie Brown as superintendent, followed by worship at 11 a m.
The Church of the Brethren at 1133 Lucas Street hosts Sunday school at 10 a.m. with Howard Montgomery as superintendent and morning worship at 11 a.m. featuring Rev. J. D. Brower of Keota, Iowa, as speaker.
Numa V. Crowder ministers with Bible study at 9:30 a.m. Assembly worship at 10:30 a.m. Sermon titled Gods Word. Bible study again at 7:30 p.m. in the Pearl Harbor room of Hotel Muscatine.
Gloria Dei Lutheran will hold worship led by Rev. August Aden at the Durant chapel. World Communion Sunday observances include a 9 a.m. service and a 10 a.m. Union Sunday school session.
The Muscatine fairgrounds this year exclude liquor vending as the Good Templars and Mothers Temperance Society show their faith by work. Vendors lose rentals and stalls while temperance drinks vanish from the hungry crowds. Not a particle of drunkenness appeared on the grounds.
Marshal Price arrested a stranger on Cedar street who was drunk and delivering a speech to a crowd. After dragging the man for a block, a wagon was secured and he was jailed. Muscatine, with 18,000 people, drags drunks through the business district, a second such incident in one day.
Mrs. A B Swanson of Fruitland visited the city yesterday and returned by the afternoon train. Mrs. Phillip Wagner of Letts spent the day in the city and left on the afternoon train. Mrs. Charles Byrd of Summit also spent the day in the city and returned home in the afternoon.
Located at New Era Rev. August Aden, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Communion service at 10:45 a.m.
Rev M L Van Wagenen leads services at First Congregational Church with church school at 9:30 worship at 10:45 and a choir selection Behold the Hand of God Grieg. Pilgrim Fellowship invites families to a picnic at Weed Park at 3 30 p m.
The city council approved a permit for a Church of Christ at West Third and Pine despite a 15 signature protest. Officials said the restricted district still allows churches and the cement block building will be one story with a basement, 60 by 40 feet, stucco exterior, auditorium above and classrooms below.
Muscatine city council approved special assessment bonds to fund a sewer line in the Newell Heights addition. J D Smith promoted the plan and Des Moines firm Shaw McDermott and Co. will handle the bonds. City work will connect the new sewer to Logan street with state approval and easements in process. Curbs and gutters plans were referred to the pavement committee for next report.
Britannica reports the Amazon in South America has the largest water discharge, surpassing all other rivers. The claim highlights the river’s immense flow as a global hydrological benchmark.
City Engineer Robert Smith told the council that paving on Leroy street is completed except for final back grading and Geneva drive paving progresses very satisfactorily. Eight hundred eighty eight square yards of concrete have been laid on Geneva drive.
Engineer reports Grover street sewer project is finished except final backfill. The work covers about 5 700 square yards of concrete on Leroy street.
Arizona has 17 Indian reservations covering over 20 million acres and 14 Indian tribes with a total population of 50,060, making it the second largest in the United States.
The wildflower Dutchman's Breeches is a wild form related to the bleeding heart plant. It notes the plant’s variant nature and its association with the Bleeding Heart family.
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