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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
2
The Churches announce English language services on Sunday September 2 at 10 am with Lord's Supper and 9 30 am preparatory service. No Sunday school that day. A September 4 service at 9 am begins the Christian day school year led by Pastor W J Kemnitz. All children are urged to attend.
Dolton M. E. Church lists services including 9 45 a m Bible School with Micah Champions the Oppressed and 11 a m Morning Worship Labor Day Meditations 6 45 p m Hi League and Epworth League meetings on topics New Frontiers in the World of Work The National Council of Young People of Methodism meets at Evanston First Methodist Episcopal Chicago Heights rally Sept 18 Rev A M Pennewell speaks Erwine Thompson pastor
Next Sunday services at Our Savior's Community Church will be led by Milton Englehardt with the sermon titled Inescap able Influences. Special music by the Women’s chorus and Ladies Aid meet September 5 at 2 PM at 31 E 187th Place. Rehearsals for Women’s and Girls’ Choruses Friday evening.
The Sandridge Memorial Evangelical Church lists services for Sunday September 2 with 9 15 am morning worship 10 30 am Sunday school and 7 30 pm evening service. Week events include Thursday September 6 2 30 pm Womens Missionary Society 7 30 pm prayer meeting and 8 30 pm official board meeting. Pastor Leopold Schneider.
Immanuel Evan Church announces Sunday school at 10 o clock with Christ Preshall as superintendent. Divine worship follows at 11 o clock with the subject Every Laborer is worthy of his hire. Church council meets Tuesday. Ladies Aid Thursday at 2 pm. If you have no church home you are welcome. The church ministry seeks to life. Is its ministry reaching you.
Bethany Reformed Church at 111th Place and Perry Avenue will open a large evangelistic campaign in September led by Dr. Harry W. Vom Bruch of Long Beach California. Vom Bruch is noted as a prominent evangelist and will direct the meetings in Roseland.
The younger field evangelist brings nationwide experience and will strike blows against sin. Dr Vom Bruch preaches with fearless faith and gospel love, upholding the Old Book and Old Faith. The Bethany Church choir will lead nightly meetings at 111th Place and Perry Avenue Roseland through Sept 23 with Mac Mace Donald directing.
Trustees address street curves and a 15 foot pole move near Sheridan. A no parking sign will be placed on Main Street to improve sightlines at Chicago Street. Water leaks on Oak Street and Main at Chicago repaired. Fire and police salaries raised and an ordinance passed. Bids sought for coal and a stoker. vaudeville license set at one dollar per night.
The 9th Ward pleasure seekers will gather at Calumet Grove in Blue Island for the annual family outing of the 6th Ward Regular Democratic Organization. Citizens attend to forget politics for the day as crowds grow yearly and prize drawings promise valuable gate prizes for all ages.
Gordon Crane, 58, is recovering at Frances Willard hospital after an operation to remove about ten feet of his small intestine. Without surgery he faced possible death, following advice from University of Chicago and Northwestern experts. Crane, from Rochester, New York, trusted Dr Otis M Walter, hospital chief surgeon, as major work concluded. He suffers an unusual advanced liver cirrhosis amid cautious optimism.
Secretary Edward J. Hughes announces a General Drive across Illinois to enforce the Motor Vehicle Law. City sheriffs, chiefs, and marshals are urged to arrest drivers without proper license and prosecute violators starting September 1, calling the effort the Clean-Up Drive.
A young man who proposed to a chorus girl visits his future mother in law. The mother greets him with a forbidding, ghoulish smile and questions his intended role as son in law, prompting the stunned suitor to groan at the daunting prospect.
A cluster of workers endeavor to establish a reputation but find themselves stuck at the starting stage. The piece notes many begin with ambition yet end short of progress, likening effort to laying a corner stone.
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