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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1963
Page
3
A weekly Church Pages feature showcases notices and community updates from local businesses. Read across listings from automatic retailer to floral service and dairy, including banks, lumber yards, paint stores, lighting firms, and service providers offering parishorship information and event reminders.
A collapsed set of church notices lists multiple congregations and service times. Rev Norman L Walking heads a Latricia King led church with Sunday school at 9:39 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. special services to be announced. Rev Larry G L Robert and Rev Frieda McLeland are also noted with various worship times. Other entries include St Mathias at West Eighth Street with weekly masses and Holy Day masses, Seventh Day Adventist at 292 Mulberry with Sabbath school at 8:30 am, and various Bible studies and prayer meetings across Wapello and nearby towns.
A 1968 Keister Advertising Service notice urges regular church attendance with a brief biblical reference to Timothy. The message promotes steady participation and personal reform in a period church-card style.
The Muscatine Journal highlights a roster of local enterprises including Mckee Feed and Grain Co, Muscatine Plumbing and Heating, Muscatine Seed and Supply Co, Sun Mart Stores, Trade and Labor Assembly, Peter Products Co, Poole Transfer, Harold Rosenberg Agency, Schmidt Auto Service, S. G. & P. Stein Furniture Store, Sterneman Clothing Co, and other area shops.
A town church directory lists multiple congregations with service times. Townsend Ave Foursquare, Oak Wilton, New Era, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salvation Army and related groups outline Sunday school at varied start times, worship, evangelistic and midweek services, with youth and ladies groups on select days.
Church of Nazarene Fifth and Sycamore lists pastors Rev Paul R Shields and Rev Chryston Rollan with weekly schedules including Sunday school at 9 30 am worship at 10 45 am and evening services. At 1502 Oregon Rev Chryston Rollan leads Sunday school 9 30 am worship 12 noon crusaders 1 30 pm evangelistic service 7 30 pm. Wednesday schedule includes praise and prayer service and a Saturday prayer meeting. Rev Caleb Larsen presides at another church with Sunday school 9 30 10 30 am worship 10 30 11 30 am sermon Thursday choir prayer Bible study and prayer at 7 30 pm.
An OCR fragment shows St Marys parish at 19 Green Street with Rev Car F Clems as pastor and Rev Donald Waldschmty as assistant. It lists Sunday masses at 6, 9 and 11 a.m., weekdays 7:30 and 8 a.m., confession on Saturdays and eves of feast days, and Holy Day masses 6, 7 and 9 a.m. plus first Fridays.
The First Church of Christ Scientist schedules Sixth Sunday events with Sunday school at 8 and 11 a.m. and a reading session daily except Sundays and holidays from 1 to 4 p.m. A Wednesday testimony meeting is noted. The Bible Lesson on Substance emphasizes spiritual things as substantial. Bible readings begin with Psalms verse 104:24 about manifold works and wisdom in creation.
Faith United Church Of Christ at Thistland Chestnut Kleffmann area holds church school at 9 30 and worship at 10 00 with sermon The Challenge Church by Dr Carl Klein of St Service will follow a dinner Youth meeting at 6 30 pm details fragmentary but indicates church activities and leadership names.
A scanned church directory lists multiple congregations with weekly schedules. It notes pastors, Sunday school times, worship hours, and sermon topics across Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Pentecostal, and Evangelical churches, emphasizing services and youth activities on daylight-saving time.
Local church schedules list Trinity Lutheran services at 10 a m and 1 15 p m with sermons and doctrine lessons, plus activities at First Christian Church including Sunday school at 9 30 a m and evening gospel service. Firemen meet in Illinois City. Martha Citel dinagr proceeds noted for kitchen stove purchase and church budget payment. Senior MYF car wash planned. local residents visiting relatives and students moving to Normal, DI, to attend teacher’s college.
The United Presbyterian Women plan a September 19 meeting at 7 PM. Committee members include Mrs. Evelyn Houseal Mrs. Joan Garrett and Mrs. Shirley Wonley with Miss Helen Orr in charge of the program and Miss Effie Kelly leading devotions. A coin offering will be taken and officers will be elected.
Autumny Tiny and boys aged five or older will begin swim classes at the Muscatine YMCA. The Sept. 23 session runs at 1:30 p.m., while the Sept. 4 session begins at 10:30 a.m. Parents should enroll by phoning the YMCA.
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