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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1948
Page
2
An editor written sermonette urges parents to fulfill their duty toward children. It stresses taking kids to Sunday School, providing home guidance and wholesome recreation to curb juvenile delinquency. It cites church youth programs and Biblical stories as key tools for shaping character.
The Rev. B. M. Whitehurst to preach at 9 43 a m Sunday School 9 43 a m and 1 30 pm and 8 00 pm evening service Rosemary Baptist Training Union meets at 7 00 pm while pastor attends National Guard encampment at Fort Bragg.
The First Methodist Roanoke and Fourth The Hey presents Sunday services starting at 9 45 am with Sunday School offering classes for all ages. Rev James F Herbert will preach at 11 am and 6 pm with a Youth Fellowship at 6 30 pm.
The Rev. J. M. Walker, pastor, will preach at 11:00 am Sunday on How Much Can We Expect From God, and lead the 8:00 pm ring service on The Highest Good. Sunday school starts at 9:45 am and Youth Fellowship meets at 6:45 pm.
The Pentecostal Holiness Church at 798 Vance Street, led by The Rev. Jerome Hodg, will host Sunday School at 10 am, morning worship at 11 am, and evening service at 1:30 pm. The Youth Society meets at 6:30 pm, with a prayer meeting at 7:30 pm Wednesday.
The Rosemary Methodist Church at 930 Jackson Street announces two Sunday services led by the church youth. The Young Adult Men’s Class will host the afternoon service at 3:00 pm at the Halifax County Home, followed by an evening service at 8:00 pm themed Echoes, with Pastor W R Stevens presiding. Sunday School starts at 9:45 am and Youth Fellowship at 7:00 pm. A Woman’s Society life meeting is set for 8:30 pm and choir practice is Wednesday at 7:00 pm.
All Saints Episcopal Church at 700 Roanoke Ave observes summer worship hours. An early Holy Communion service is at 8 a.m. Church school and Bible classes start at 9 45 a.m. The Rev Edmund Berkeley rector will deliver the sermon at 11 a.m. service.
Christian Science services are held Sundays at 11 o clock and Wednesdays at 6 o clock. The reading room is open Tuesdays from 3 00 p m to 5 00 p m. It is located on the third floor of the Roanoke Bank Building.
The Very Rev. Peter M. Denger will lead an eight o'clock Sunday Mass in July at St. John’s Catholic Church Roanoke Rapids. A second Mass will be at St. Richard’s Church Emporia Virginia at ten o'clock with confessions before each Mass. Father Remegius Fleishell will handle sick calls in Roanoke Rapids during July.
The Rev. Floyd A. Boger presides at the Church of God on West Eighth Street Extension with a Saturday night service at 7 30. Sunday school starts at 10 a m and the morning worship at 11 o clock. Evening worship is at 7 pm on Sunday.
The Rev. Gordon L. Price pastors First Baptist Church at Roanoke Avenue. Sunday services begin at 4 am with Sunday School. The morning worship is at 11 am, followed by the Baptist Training Union at 6 45 pm and evening services starting at 8 oclock.
In San Francisco, veteran Paul L Widener proposes exiling pigeons to Oklahoma to solve the civic center nuisance. Widener, a Tulsa veteran starting a small-scale j squad farm, said he dislikes killing the birds and would rather have freight charges paid. The piece also notes a morning worship at First Christian Church with services at 11 am and 9:45 am Sunday School.
In Piedmont Missouri a runaway horse ridden by Charles Hartline collided with an automobile driven by City Alderman Glenn Blackwell at an intersection. The horse was uninjured while the car sustained considerable damage including a dented side and crushed door root. Hartline suffered a minor shoulder injury and was taken to hospital.
Historical Sunday School lesson from July 25 1948 highlights Jonathan son of Saul and David as paradigms of sacrificial friendship. It notes Jonathan loved David as his own soul defended him against Saul and tested loyalty through danger, with David and Jonathan’s bond enduring beyond their lifetimes.
Blunt's Island in Portsmouth Harbor New Hampshire is named for Captain John Blunt who piloted George Washington's boat across the Delaware River, a notable historic feat highlighted in the harbor's naming.
The Rev. Wilkinson of the Methodist Board of Temperance will fill Sunday services at Tabor Methodist Church at 11 am and Hawkins Chapel Methodist Church at 3 pm in place of the absent Rev. E. H. Measamer.
In Burlington Vermont Potash Brook has been allotted exclusively to children for fishing with 600 brook trout stocked. Adults are barred except as supervising Isaak Waltons. Opening day saw 82 youngsters arrive at 5 am, some aged four.
A state-wide exam of North Carolina school boys found 85 percent with defective teeth, 16 percent with defective vision, 16 percent underweight, and 14 percent with defective tonsils. A year later less than one-third of those with defects received any medical service.
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