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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
3
The church marks World Wide Communion Sunday with the Lord's Supper at 10 45 a m and special choir and organ music. Sunday school begins its new year at 9 30 a m with parents urged to enroll children. Teacher meeting Monday at 7 30 p m and catechism class Saturday at 10 a m for confirmation prep. Choir rehearsals Friday 7 30 p m.
Divine services on Sunday October 6 include a German communion at 9 30 a m and English at 10 45 a m The gospel lesson from Matthew 22 1 14 urges ongoing mission work despite disappointments and failures God desires all to be saved and His marriage feast will be shared Guests invited to prepare hearts and minds for Mission Sunday October 18 Sunday school and Bible studies begin at 9 30 a m
Rev John N Weiler and Rev M H Hoffman lead daily and Sunday Masses at St Marys Church with Masses at 7 00 8 30 high 10 00 and 11 00 on Sundays The note urges faithful attendance as service to God and weekly devotion.
Sunday services on October 6 at 10 30 a m with church school led by Elmer Meyer superintendent. No preaching due to Rock River conference in session at Freeport. Christian Discipleship clinic October 19 at 7 30 p m and official board meeting October 10 at 8 30 p m.
The Open Bible Church at 13563 Indiana Avenue led by Rev Otis Wasson lists services for Sunday October 6 with 9 45 a m Bible school 11 a m morning message on The Healing of the Woman with the Issue of Blood 6 30 p m youth fellowship 7 45 p m evangelistic service 1 30 p m Wednesday missionary prayer 7 30 p m Bible class studying Acts 1 7 30 p m Friday cottage prayer. Rev Walter G Taylor and wife will speak Wednesday evening. they come from the Pacific Garden Mission now in Florida. Monthly men meeting resumes Saturday October 12 at 6 p m with special music and speaker supper served.
Rev Ph H Bassler pastors a church school at 10 with Samuel Jessen supervising. Prof Herman Sanders to preach at 11 as bishop fills in for absent pastor. Mission festival at Monce Evangelical church. church activities announced for Monday through Thursday inviting all.
Sunday at First Methodist Church corner Grant and Sheridan. 9 45 am church school with Bessie DeVries as superintendent. Rally day program aims to unite young and old around Christ and urges parents to attend. Morning worship at 11 includes sermon Them He Also Called. World Council of Churches loyalty crusade observance with full attendance urged. Evening events include Hi League and Epworth League at 6 45 pm. Midweek activities include Young Married People club Wednesday 8 pm and Woman's Society of Christian Service Thursday 10 am. Church school board meets Friday 8 pm.
Rev. Donald R. Crocker leads a Roosevelt School Building service at 9:00 a.m. with church school and morning worship. Sermon theme is Them He Also Called.
Merlene Linback returns from the West after climbing Mont Evans. Franklin Wildcats beat the Berger Bears seven to five with Russell Michalski hitting a home run. P T A plans a library meeting in October. Students visit a fire station and create art while studying Indians with posters and relics.
John Mudge moved to Dubuque Ta and John Gorman injured his arm after a tree fall. Joan Cassin brought a puppy to school. Dickie Popper returns to the fourth grade after a San Francisco Exposition trip. Third and fifth grade pupils prepare for a Field Museum visit studying Hopi and Navajo Indians.
Barbara Dreshall and Janice Brand lead first graders in making vivid Alice and Jerry scrapbooks filled with pretty pictures. The third grade student Gordon Olengoo has been absent, and the group misses him and wishes for his return soon.
Thursday a school magician show will run with ten cent admission. Third graders craft designs while eighth graders paint pictures and study government in civics. The sixth grade draws an Ancient Egyptian Scene and studies living things in science. The science exhibit features caterpillars and ants. Cleo Broom leads an insect collection. Lincoln boys lose to Franklin 17 18. they plan a game with St Marys Friday.
John Bardwick Jr says housing scarcity in Harvey and nearby areas is creating a landlord's market as rents rise and more building shifts to leasing. The Harvey Federal Savings and Loan report shows 8 months of 1940 loans totaling 505,226 with 68 percent for purchases, 14 percent for remodeling and new construction, 152 outstanding mortgages since January 1.
The Navy announces two new radiomen and signalmen training schools for volunteers in Chicago and Indianapolis. They will offer reserve service afloat during the current emergency, with pay of 21 dollars monthly plus clothing, meals, housing and medical care. Age limits were expanded to allow ex Navy up to 50 to enlist, and non veterans aged 17 to 35 may enlist. ex-service men are ineligible for the schools.
The Franklin school P. T. A. will hold its first meeting of the year on Tuesday October 8 at 1:80 o clock in the Franklin library. A free dance and pinochle party with prizes precedes the business meeting. Last year’s members are invited and asked to bring friends considering joining.
A young man grows up in a hardware store and becomes night chief of a newly incorporated town. He faces a week of curfew enforcement, including ducks and a quarrelsome dog, before being fired. The piece shifts to a printer and then to a meditation on homemaking, motherhood, and the value of a mother’s work. It urges women to dramatize their roles and embrace the rewards of family life.
A reflective piece explores the roles of a mother and housewife in daily work. It dramatizes routine tasks as meaningful labor, highlighting care, organization, and resilience within family life and domestic duties.
Aunt Patricia reports housewives stockpile flour sacks as tea towel outfits rise in popularity. An Iowa woman sewed half a dozen sacks into an evening gown and won a style show, signaling a wide spread interest in flour sack fashions for home use. The piece notes the trend may grow, with women busy sewing.
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