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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
5
Sunday school at 10 a m and evening services at 6 30 p m and 7 30 p m. Sermon titled Is America on the Eve of a Revolution with special music. Pastor Fred E B Carter invites all to attend.
Sunday school at 10 a m preaching service at 11 a m Young People's Meeting at 7 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday evenings 3 o'clock All are invited Location at the ten corner of Hancock and Washington streets Elders in Charge John A Reed and David C Glick
Bible school at 1 in the morning with Ethel Rieder as superintendent. Preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m by K H Sickafoose. Ipworth League 6 36 p m. Prayer Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Chas BE Gibson and other pastors listed with morning and evening worship times. All are invited to attend.
The pastor will be away at the annual Salem conference session next Sabbath and there will be no evening service. Sabbath school will meet and there will be preaching at Silam. All are welcome.
Sunday school at 6:45 a m and 6:30 p m B Y P U follow. All are invited to these services in the church.
The Seventh Day Adventist church lists Sabbath school at 6:30 a.m. and preaching at 7:46 a.m. on Saturday, with a Wednesday prayer meeting noted.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. with preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:36 p.m. Wednesday prayer and testimony meeting at 7:30 p.m.
The Chehalem Center Church outlines its weekly plan with Sunday services at 10:00 and 7:00 PM, an 11:00 AM Christian Endeavor, and Thursday 8:00 PM prayer meetings. Pastor Paul H. Lewis leads the congregation with a monthly business meeting held on the last Thursday.
Dundee M E Church announces Sunday school at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m and evening service at 7 30 p m Rev J H Gillespie is pastor within the local church notices section of the paper.
The snippet lists a Wednesday church schedule with 11:00 worship and 6:30 Christian Endeavor. It mentions Pastor Carl F. Miller leading the services.
A terse report notes difficulties in a scene as actors embody storm elements and describe a lightning strike. The lines suggest a prompt to consult the Graphic for printed bills or notices related to the event.
The scene of Romola rests in fifteenth century Florence. Eliot’s Italian journey split her life with new ideas and sources of interest. After returning to Providence she faced great difficulties and despair before persevering to produce a historical tragedy.
At Monteroaso near Spezia Italy a giant cement sculpture of Neptune supports a seaside villa terrace. By Ar rigo Minerbl the 83 foot tall life like statue forms a hollow reinforced body with a spiral staircase inside.
A concise note tracing the phrase All for a Song from its literal origin. It recalls a rich man's son wasting a golden era on the Great White Way and recounts how Queen Elizabeth I ordered a £100 token for Edmund Spencer, with Lord Burleigh’s remark All this for a song.
The article debunks a longstanding legend claiming William Penn bought extensive Delaware lands with a bull hide trick. It notes the tale is ancient, appearing in Dido legends and Irving's Knickerbocker as the Dutchman Tenbroeck, who supposedly wore multiple pairs of trousers to cover Manhattan.
Canon Hannay or George Birmingham tells tales of a dead foe once likened to a devil’s captive. A clergyman rebukes the harsh judgment hoping the man avoided punishment. The reply asserts if the devil has not got him there is little point in keeping a devil.
Doctor Kane the Arctic explorer recalls rats as a dire food source aboard his ship during endless winter nights. He describes chopping rats into tallow balls and sharing rat soup with Hans, noting companions' reluctance yet his own increasing immunity to scurry.
In a tale from Youth's Companion Dr. Grenfell recounts a sailor with a severe toothache who refuses a real extraction. The doctor pretends to charm the molar with a code and a quick chant then removes a quarter as payment. The patient reports the pain gone, leaving the doctor astonished.
The article notes early references to the corset dating to May 24 1206 in Eleanor countess of Leicester’s register showing garments for Richard king of the Normans and for his son Edward, suggesting male use. It discusses possible etymologies from corps, cors, or corse materials and mentions the term stays appearing about 1600 in England and bodice sometimes spelled bodies.
A state game warden found a single beaver colony along Taylor's Creek in Bayfield County Wis constructing a 12 foot high dam extending a quarter mile. The beaver house 16 feet high and 40 feet wide housed nine beavers and a clean dry floor with winter stores.
A discussion of why men place engagement rings on the left hand’s ring finger. It cites the old belief of a vein linking that finger to the heart and notes Macrobius referencing an Egyptian priest for this origin.
Melville E. Stone defends pastors families against harsh judgment. He notes heavy expectations from congregations and frequent magnification of minor faults. Across a long life he has seen many preachers' sons and deacons' daughters rise to respectability and integrity.
Oregon teachers push for a two mill elementary school measure known as the Children's Rights Bill to spread taxes for basic schools across the state. The piece notes teacher shortages, school closures, and urges state action to raise salaries to attract and retain educators amid funding debates and New York comparisons.
Superintendent Spaulding of Cleveland warns that male teachers are vanishing from elementary schools due to low salaries. Three decades ago the male female ratio matched. now four men to six women. Cleveland cannot hire men for manual and physical training, urging a two mill levy as remedy. Cincinnati Schoolmasters Club joins nationwide plea, urging the National Educational Association to act.
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