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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
5
Sunday masses are at 7 and 9 o clock with daily masses at 7 o clock. Communion is at 7 a m on first Fridays. Confessions run 3 30 to 5 45 p m and 7 to 8 30 p m on Saturdays eves of holidays and first Fridays, and any time on request. Baptisms take place after the last Mass on Sunday.
Pastor E R Pulliam leads Sunday School at 9:30 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Prayer Service 7 30 p m Tuesday V L B 7 30 Friday night Church notices include service times and meeting.
Regular preaching services will be held Sunday morning August 13 with Rev. John L. Taylor in charge. The Epworth League service with devotional tea and social hour will be Sunday night. No evening preaching service.
Rev. C. F. Transue, pastor of the Sikeston Church of the Nazarene, will deliver the Sunday morning sermon on Christian Evidences. Regular Sunday school and youth activities proceed as usual, with evangelistic services planned for the evening hour.
Rev D D MacAdams, pastor of Sikeston Presbyterian, will preach Sunday morning August 11 on The Chart and Compass of Faith and in the evening on Religious Sentiment. It marks the third in a series of Sunday evening sermons on Christian Resources, with a continuation of the Psychology of the Christian Personality at Wednesday prayer service August 14.
Rev G C Schramm will preach at Sikeston Lutheran Church next Sunday on God solving sorrow based on Judges 6 13. Service starts 9 00 am and Sunday school follows at 10 00 am. The pastor will conclude the Western District Convention report.
Rev J Wilson Crichelow superintendent of Methodist churches in the Cape Girardeau district will lead prayer services at the Methodist Mission in Smith Addition tonight. The sermon series runs Saturday night Sunday morning and Sunday night with Rev H W Harper in charge. Sunday school members and friends are urged to attend the 10 o'clock Sunday morning service.
Rev Darnell Tabb a young Oklahoma minister will lead a Youth Revival at Sikeston Baptist Church starting Sunday morning August 11. Nightly services feature Missouri Baptist State Headquarters youth from Kansas City with Tom Wood as choir director and Mildred Backer delivering devotionals. Katherine Summers directs youth conferences as the group, staying with church families, conducts similar meetings across Missouri.
The Sikeston unit of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet in the public library auditorium at 2:30 this Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. E. W. Milner will lead the afternoon program and Mrs. J. A. O'Hara, the group president, will conduct a brief business session.
The T. E. L. class of the Baptist church will meet at 7:30 tonight. Hostesses include Mesdames Dean Marshall W S Sidwell W P Crowe E H Lewis and Walter McCuiston.
The Russell-Bradley Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet in regular session at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13, in the church parlors. Mrs. H. E. Dudley, vice-president, will preside over the meeting.
Rev A C Sullivan will lead revival services at Landers Ridge Baptist Church starting Sunday August 11. Pastor Rev A E Ray announced the event and extended a cordial invitation to the public and church members.
The Ben-Jon Missionary society of the Methodist church will hold a special meeting at Miss Lucille Mounts home on West Gladys Street next Monday evening at 7 30 Members are urged to attend this meeting.
Members of the Business Women's Circle of the Baptist church hosted a covered-dish pot-luck supper Tuesday night August 6 at Mrs Miles Limbaughs home on West Kathleen avenue. Plans were made for participation in the Youth Revival at the church next week. Attending were Mrs Limgaubh Christine Cauthorn Irene Altom Muriel Edwards Pearl Edwards Lillian Belle Taylor Helen Johnson and Edna Hedden.
A two weeks revival at the General Baptist church in the Smith addition closed July 29 adding thirty-one new members to the roll. Twenty four received baptism as Rev. Lonnie Masterson and pastor Rev. J N Warren led sessions that drew large crowds throughout the campaign.
Members of the Ebert Kready Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold a social meeting and birthday party at the home of Mrs. G A Dempster on Thursday afternoon August 15. Each attendee will donate a penny for each year of their age to the society fund. Mrs John Sellards leads the program with Mesdames Truman Ball and A H Reese assisting.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian church will hold its regular meeting at 2 30 oclock Thursday afternoon August 15 at the church Mrs Claude Turner president will be in charge of the session
Mrs. G H Harris led the Royal Service program at the Baptist Woman's Missionary Society monthly joint meeting. The T E L class met Tuesday night at 7 30 with a business program and social hour, hosted by Dean Mashall Walter McCuiston W S Sidwell G H Lewis and W T Crowe. The King's Daughters class of the Presbyterian Sunday School met at Mrs Ruby Hamby’s home on East Gladys street Tuesday night following a brief business session and social hour. Mrs L R Burns teaches the class.
A series of birth announcements from families near Sikeston Doniphan and Essex detail newborns including Anna Sue to Mr and Mrs A F Pierce born July 19 at Doniphan Shirley Frances to Mr and Mrs Amos Denton August 5 near Sikeston James Larry to Mr and Mrs Earl Lenderman August 1 near Essex Michael Jan to Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Frink Lilbourn August 3 and other newborns.
To the home without a porch a terrace or small porch may be added with funds from qualified lending institutions under the Modernization Credit Plan of the FHA. Built in wooden benches boxes for flowers or lattice for vines may be added creating a welcome summer living space.
The Sikeston Public Schools column outlines plans for the new term including a colored school opening Aug 12 with a staff led by Joseph Gaines and Ethel Jones. A general band rehearsal is set for Aug 12, and school opens Sept 2 with pre enrollment the prior week. All students must show smallpox immunization or proof of prior disease, and nurses will check immunization status at opening.
In 1932 English railways transported more than one billion passengers and suffered a single accident that claimed three lives.
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