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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1945
Page
4
Rev John N Weiler pastor at 310 East 137th Street lists Sunday Masses at 6 00 8 00 9 30 and 11 00 High Mass. The article promotes faithful attendance and weekly service to God.
Lincoln and Sibley Boulevard address listed for Sandridge Methodist Church with minister G W Courrier. Sunday services include morning worship at 9 15 a m and church school at 10 30 a m.
Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 led by Rev C J Transberg. Brotherhood meeting Tuesday 7 30 pm at the church. Ladies Aid Wednesday. Sunday school teachers and officers meeting 7 15 pm at Mrs Walter Smith home.
Divine services at St Paul Church Missouri Synod Leyden Ave include German 9 30 English Communion 10 45 and Sunday school 9 50 am Pastor Rev Walter J Kemnitz announces sermon The War fare in your very Soul based on Galatians 5 16 24 concludes with a 7 30 pm V Day service The Christian day school begins Sept 4 at 9 am with opening devotion at 9 30 am and emphasizes Christian education and training
Bethany Reformed Church at Place and Perry Ave plans World Peace and Labor Day observances. Dr. Harry J. Hager will present messages at 10:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. with the 4:30 p.m. service broadcast on WAIT and WCFL 1000 kHz. The 7:30 a.m. weekday sermon will be heard on WAAF 950 kHz. The Bethany Men's Bible Class quartet will sing at 4:30 p.m. broadcast.
Department Commander Arthur E Canty of the American Legion appeals to World War II veterans to keep government insurance at current rates for eight years or reinstate lapsed policies at the earliest possible date. Legion director Lester Benston released the statement urging veterans to act before Canty’s term ends after the state convention.
The speaker calls on all Illinois veterans to contact local Legion post service officers for guidance on government insurance and to pursue the GI Bill of Rights for education. He notes about 50 000 veterans may benefit and 17 000 World War II veterans in Illinois are eligible for vocational training due to service connected disabilities.
Funeral services for Mrs. Frieda Schnell nee Berndt who died Tuesday at Roseland Community Hospital will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from the funeral home at 304 West 119th Street Chicago. She was wife of William Schnell mother of Kathryn Boyle and Ruth Russ sister of Robert Berndt Emma Seestadt Clara Houston and Katherine Dres halL She is survived by a half sister Lena Schmuck and two half brothers Frank and Fred Berndt. Interment will be in Beverly Cemetery.
Twenty one registrants from the Harvey draft board were inducted into the armed forces on August 13. Seventeen joined the army, three entered the marine corps, and one enlisted in the navy.
A group of trainees including Joseph Zurek Hart De lano James Rossman William Fleck Alexander Banaszak Carl Geffert Robert Burns Bernard Arendt Gerald Larson James Larson Robert Kay Norman Packingham James Rochfort Jr Lenvil Whitlow Robert Brown Chester Palczak and Robert Cook Sr entered the marines. Darwin S Gilmore is the lone navy trainee with Pvt George J Linard transferred from Sheppard Field to the army air field base at Amarillo Texas.
The passage notes that those involved in business and industrial development will share in the results of growth and benefit from the broad expansion of industrial activity through collaboration with local groups pursuing future progress.
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