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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
4
The Missouri Synod church on Leyden Avenue lists German service at 9:30 and English at 10:45 with Sunday school at 9:30. Sermon from Luke 8:4-15 on hearing the word. Lutheran Hour airs Sunday at 2:30 on WGN. Voters meeting set for Feb 14 at 7:30 pm.
Lincoln and Sibley Boulevard. Frank T. Palm pastor. Sunday services include 9 15 a m worship and 10 30 a m church school led by James Diekman. Catechism class at Berger School Thursday Feb 17 at 2 p m. W S C meets at Mrs Russell Bales 13845 State St Riverdale Thursday 7 30 p m with Six Pillars of Peace discussion.
St Marys Church at 310 East 137th Street lists Sunday Masses at 7 00 8 30 high mass 10 00 and 11 00 oclock. Pastors are Rev John N Weiler and Rev M H Hoffman with emphasis on faithful attendance as service to God.
Sunday services include 9 15 a m Sunday school led by Bessie DeVries and 11 a m worship with 7 p m Pre Hi and Epworth leagues. Choir rehearsal Thursday 7 30 p m. Friday Circle at Miss Edna Lund’s home. Valentine party for girls Feb 14 led by Mrs Eugene Johannes and Valentine league party Feb 16 at 7 p m at the church.
Ivanhoe Community Church hosted worship at Roosevelt School building with minister Freeman at 9 15 a m and Sunday school. The sermon drew from the First Epistle of Peter and Scouts planned to join next Sunday service. Confirmation class meets Feb 19 at Marilyn Gorton’s home at 10 30 a m. Choir rehearsal Feb 17 at Clarence Brown’s home. Official Board meeting Feb 18 at Floyd Mix’s home.
The English Lutheran church at 138th St and Wabash Ave lists events for the week. Second year confirmation Friday at 4 pm, first year Saturday at 1 pm, services Sunday at 9:30 am Sunday school and 10:45 am worship, Luther League meeting 7:39 pm Tuesday, choir at 7 pm, Women's Missionary Society 1 pm Wednesday at Mrs Lawrence Engel's home, and a Father and Child banquet Friday Feb 18 at 6:30 pm hosted by the Brotherhood.
The Bethany Reformed Church at 111th Place and Perry Ave hosts Dr. Harry J. Hager this Sunday evening for the fourth in a series titled The Shape of Things to Come Some Hints to Post- War Planners. The pastor leads a discussion on postwar Palestine and related themes.
A hymnsing opens at 7 30 with choir directed by Goldie Ashlund. The Feb 20 sermon is Good Signs in Bad Times The Hand of God in Recent Events. Communion at 10 and 3 00 p m vesper. Bethany radio broadcast at 4 30 on WAIT 820 kce Dr Hager speaks on What Makes the Modern Church So Feeble.
The Paul Gall Unit 308 American Legion Auxiliary holds its regular meeting tonight at 8 oclock. Past Presidents are honored and guest Elsie Parkins Chicago Heights Eighth District Director attends. Dues requested for 100 percent membership. Junior Auxiliary meets Saturday February 12 at 1 30 in Legion club rooms with a Valentine party.
The Dolton Riverdale Junior Women’s Club will hold its regular business meeting on Monday February 14. The meeting location details follow in the notice.
In Riverdale, Misses Magdalen Dumais Marie Kinney and Millicent Dieck were noted as attendees. Mrs Caroline Rentner and Mrs Rita Ackermann attended the Ridge Park field house gathering where Florence White Williams the artist was featured. State president Mrs W Rennie and state junior chairman Miss Dorothy Dohrman were honored guests.
The St Pauls Parent-Teacher League will stage Lovely Ladies a three act comedy at St Pauls school auditorium on Feb 17 and 18 at 8 p m. Cast includes Mary Lamb Renato Schroeder Wilma Williams Phyllis Peiguss Caroline Jones Vera Sellin Minnie Bertha Bernahl Mrs George Crunch Lily Stier Gloria Crunch Selma Kainrath Marian Van Arsdale Elsie Kalkbrenner Nanette Florence Hammermeister Teresa Betty Hammermeister Sally Rowan Eleanor Fredericks Greta Edna Messerschmidt Margaret Roth with Carl Peters directing. Admission is 40 cents for adults 20 cents for children.
St. J. C. H. Blackburn of Ivanhoe is noted as a 13 time donor. Lt. Howell W. Blackburn, stationed at 406 West 144th Street, completed his thirteenth donation, reflecting continued service and charity by local residents.
Walter Deichen of 27 East 138th Street, Anthony Dunker of 408 West 144th Street, Humbert Hernandez of 14825 Parnell Avenue, and Helen Ballard of 19821 Dearborn Street were recent blood donors at the Red Cross Blood Center on North Wabash Avenue in Chicago. Deichen was a six time donor, Dunker four times, Hernandez three times, and Ballard a recent donor.
Francis Kaiser, overseas with the Army Air Corps for over a year, is in the base hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana for recuperation. He arrived in New York Tuesday January 25 and met Corporal Russell Wirtz of Dalton who has been confined to a hospital there. Previous to his return to the States.
Sgt Kaiser spent seven months in a base hospital in England and expects to come home on furlough as soon as he is released.
Funeral services for Mrs. Roy Gossman, 98065 Oakley Avenue Beverly Hills, who died February 8, will be held Friday at 9 30 am. She was the wife of former Dolton teacher and principal at Lincoln school.
The Ivanhoe Reading Circle will meet next Tuesday afternoon February 15 at 14219 Clark Street, the home of Mrs Cyril Skidmore. Mrs A Brown will review Yesterday's Children by Chicago author La Mar Warrick.
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