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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1919
Page
8
Mrs. Leslie G Hall presented a timely paper at the Round Table gathering on Monday afternoon titled The effect of the war on Women in Industry. The discussion following the talk was engaging and well attended.
Mind, His Teaching About God and Sin, and His Choice of the Cross are presented. Services occur nightly except Saturday at Luther Memorial church with preparatory services Wednesday and Friday evenings. Christian Mothers club of St. Francis church met Sunday afternoon and planned a country store and social for April 23 Wednesday.
Members and friends of the Salem church attended the Cross and Crown league reunion Sunday evening. Confirmants from different ministers’ groups were seated separately and announced by name. A pleasant program featured many musical numbers. Confirmation services occurred in six churches Sunday morning with large classes at Luther Memorial Salem St James and St John and sizable groups at St Peter and St Paul. Potted palms femms and castor flowers adorned pulpits. Holy Week services continue most Quincy churches each weeknight except Saturday with sermons focusing on Sanctifying Christ as Lord The Badge of Discipleship Abiding and Bearing Fruit The Cross in Human Experience and other topics at several congregations. Services also planned for Presbyterian church midweek with topics The Man and His.
The United Brethren Missionary society to hold a Friday afternoon prayer service with Otterbein Guild conducting the evening service. Ruth and Naomi society of First Christian church to meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Robert Boschulte at 80814 Maine street. Aid society to meet Wednesday afternoon. Church choir to practice Wednesday evening at 1 30 in the home of Mrs. W Smith.
English services will be held at St Paul Evangelical church Thursday evening. German services with communion are planned for Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
The St Paul church choir will present the cantata The Lighted Cross on Sunday evening at the church in a program described as a devotional musical work.
The Easter cantata Christ and His Soldiers was performed Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of St John with William Spencer Johnson in charge. A number of delightful solos enhanced the production.
Eye Ear Nose and Throat doctor and staff details. residents and visitors listed with hometowns and travels. Notes include Dr Stannus addresses, Hamiltons from Chicago, Bartletts from Kansas City visiting Mr and Mrs Ochs, Judge McCarl moving, various local movements, hospital, and a Barn dance near Rock Creek with one hundred guests. Six new members initiated in Grace Whipple chapter Eastern Star.
Prominent physicians warn that nerve hunger keeps people from success and joy. They tout Phosphated Iron as a tonic to strengthen blood nerves and brain, restore energy and ambition, and aid overworked or worried individuals. The OWL DRUG STORE and leading druggists advertise capsules and warn against counterfeit pills.
Mrs Ed F Black chairman of the Quincy unit of the American Fund for French Wounded reports the local unit has completed its quota of garments and shipped 248 items to Chicago headquarters for France. The committeemen thank many societies and individuals for labor and funds. Proceeds from a carry all bag sale help finance plans for a new American Memorial hospital in Rheims with 100000 guaranteed by the fund and additional endowment gifts.
Members of the Quincy unit will receive distributions from the New England Branch. The summary notes ongoing organizational support and planned member allocations, with no additional details provided in the fragment.
Ballard School of the Central Branch Y W C A in New York City expands equipment to train women as trained attendants. Normal classes of about 40 grow to 150 during war times with graduates serving in France since 1914. The eleven week course uses complete hospital equipment and live models for nursing practice.
The first course in anatomy and nursing theory with ethics and emergencies was offered in 1896. Similar courses are conducted by the Y W C A in Brooklyn St Louis Bridgeport and Germantown, covering invalid cooking and bandaging along with practical nursing topics.
Williams of LaBelle Mo and Miss Mary Gaile Hadley of Washington DC were married by Rev. Robert Van Meigs at Central Baptist Church Monday at 4 30 PM. Attendant A H Rogers. They will stay in Quincy a few days then move to the groom’s farm five miles from LaBelle. The critic has been engaged in government work in Washington.
Daniels of East St Louis and Miss Catherine Kratzer were united in marriage by Justice of the Peace E. J. Bonney in his office on Monday evening, with details limited to the ceremony and parties involved.
Paris April 14 German Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann reportedly assured that the Entente has indicated the final peace terms to Germany and that the conditions will be accepted. The Havas report notes the Allies have already expressed the terms.
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