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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
2
The German and English services are set for December 9 with Sunday school at 9:30. A Walther League rally at St Pauls church on December 9 at 2:30 pm expects 300 youths. supper at 5:30 followed by an evening program. Midweek Advent service December 12 in German at 7:80.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church observes Universal Bible Sunday on December 9 marking Luther’s Bible translation anniversary. Dr. Albert W. Carlson of Maywood Illinois will speak on The Bible Its Origin and Nature. Services include Church School 9:45 Worship 11:00 and Leagues at 6:45 led by Pastor Lee Ernst Coleman.
Immanuel and Reform Church announces German service at 9 o clock with Sunday school at 10 o clock led by Christ Dreshall supervisor. Divine worship at 11 o clock. Weekly catechetical instruction Saturdays 9 to 12. A musicale Sunday evening at 7 45 under the Immanuel choir with a program including Crown Him With Many Crowns and Rock of Ages among selections. all members and the public invited.
The Sandridge M E Church announces services on Sunday December 9 with morning worship at 9 15 and Sunday school at 10 30 and an evening service at 7 30 plus Junior League. Thursday December 13 features religious instruction at 8 30 and a prayer meeting at 7 30 with the theme Salvation is not a new start but a new heart.
Leopold Schneider leads Our Savior's Community Church in Wabash at 138th Street with Loyalty Sunday on December 9 1934 at 10 30 am. A December 16 service exchanges prayer cards, Junior Girls chorus debuts, operetta The Sunbonnet Girl plays December 12 at Bowen school. calendar lists Ladies Aid Christmas party Boy Scout shows and various class and youth activities led by Pastor Herman Keiter.
Ethel Bishop reports prizes in health and good work for Clement Jay Joyce De Vries and Patsy Newell in first and second grades. Room four hosted former students Margaret Miller and Redena Madison. The eighth grade nears science exams. The boys prepare for a game with Edgar Allen Poe school of Chicago but Coach Bishop suffers appendicitis. Dorothy Mottinger recovers from surgery. Room 4 enjoyed a planned turkey dinner.
Dr. Harry J. Hager leads a series at Bethany Reformed Church at 111th Place and Perry Avenue Roseland. Last Sunday afternoon vesper service discussed The Place of the Jew in Prophecy. Next Sunday features Why Hate the Jews followed by morning and evening sermons on Man-made vs Hand-made Christians and A Nest of Bad Eggs.
John L Zacharias 72 longtime Blue Island civic leader and first mayor at incorporation died Sunday at his home after a paralytic stroke Saturday. He headed the city for seven terms and served 44 years as Worth township justice of the peace. Survived by wife Louise and five children. He helped found Zacharias Bourke Co later becoming a national bank in 1925.
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