Sunday School and Evening Service Announcement
Archi Fi Sunday School at 9 45 o clock a m Preaching service next Sunday evening at 7 30 p m Everyone invited to attend these S F Harter Pastor.
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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1914
Page
1
Archi Fi Sunday School at 9 45 o clock a m Preaching service next Sunday evening at 7 30 p m Everyone invited to attend these S F Harter Pastor.
The notice invites attendance at Sunday School each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Preaching occurs Saturday nights before the second and fourth Sundays and again Sunday night. B Y P A meets Sundays at 6:00 p.m. Prayer is held Thursday evenings at 7:00. Allie Stith is the pastor.
Christian Church announces communion and preaching at 10 30 a m with Bible School at 11 15 a m. Evening preaching at 2 00 p m Thursday prayer at 7 30 p m. Preaching on the second and fourth Sundays. All unaffiliated are urged to attend. Pastor A A Honeywell.
Bible School at 9 45 a m and Meeting for Worship at 11 a m planned by Pastor Austin Osborn with monthly meetings and additional services March dates noted. Interior Department rule requires pensioners to present certificates to postmasters or letter carriers before checks are delivered.
Mr and Mrs Perry Wigle of Kokomo spent Sunday with relatives in this place. Mr and Mrs Lanny Daisy and their little son of Kokomo visited Mrs Daisy’s parents W T and Mrs Ratcliff Sunday.
Floyd Marshall and Harry Oilar, both Purdue students, were weekend guests of their parents in town for a Sunday visit.
Mrs L M Oilar and her daughter Lyeile are visiting relatives in Kanaas this week.
A Newcastle businessman challenges Indiana auto law in a test case now headed to a higher court. He seeks to prove provisions unfair to auto owners, including the license tax and taxation of autos as property. The suit stems from a damaged auto truck involved in a street incident with a horse. The local verdict favored the horse’s owner, and the auto owner appeals to test the law.
Fire originating from sparks on the shingle roof destroyed the farm home of Geo E Gordon one half mile north of town Saturday forenoon. Loss about 3000 dollars with 1300 dollars insured. Chicago plasterer Mr Philips adjusted the loss for Hanover Fire Insurance Company and paid 1000 the full policy as total loss, reflecting well on the local agency under C H Allison.
Thomas A Edison, employing 6 700 men at West Orange New Jersey, placards works with signs stating Cigarettes not tolerated They dull the brain. The crusade follows talks with Henry Ford of Detroit. Edison detests cigarettes though he smokes cigars and chews tobacco.
The article explains that insects breathe through body pores and can be suffocated by oil. Dropping sweet oil on a wasp quickly kills it, and coal oil is presented as an effective repellent and exterminator for flies mosquitoes roaches and other vermin in homes.
The Clover Leaf railway general offices in Frankfort Indiana were burned to the ground May 20. The fire started from a defective electric wiring, gutting the two story brick building and destroying most records. Superintendent Hinkle estimates the loss at seventy five thousand dollars.
The Senate ratified a treaty with the United States and European nations to suppress traffic in obscene publications including post cards. It provides punishment for distribution importation or advertising such trade and requires further legislation to fix fractional terms. The convention, drawn in 1910, was sent to the Senate by Taft in 1912 and reported by the foreign relations committee weeks ago.
Charles Allison and his wife attended the Rebekah Assembly in Indianapolis the first of the week.
About twenty members of the Russiaville degree team attended Saturday evening and conferred the third degree on two Greentown Lodge No. 328 J. O. O. F. candidates. The visitors’ work drew high praise from the home lodge and others. A banquet followed with abundant food from Jericho, including chickens and noodles, on well prepared tables.
Decoration Day activities listed for New London include grave decorating at 2:00 p.m. at the cemetery, a G A R service at the mound, and a ritualistic service at M E church at 3:00 p.m. with songs, readings, and addresses. A Memorial sermon and closing exercises follow at Peaville church and M H church with invitations to all.
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