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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
12
Rev W Milner announces Christmas night prayer service at Sikeston Baptist Church at 7 30. The mid week service is Wednesday night and on Christmas night the program centers on the Christmas theme with carols. Members of other churches are welcome to attend.
Rev EH Milner pastor will preach Sunday morning on Redeeming the Time at Sikeston Baptist Church. Evening sermon topic will be Becoming Sons of God. Regular young people's and Baptist Training Union services will be held.
Rev John L Taylor pastor of Sikeston Methodist church will preach Sunday morning December 29 on Resolutions for the New Year and at the evening hour his sermon will be Wave Faith Regular services will be held by the Sunday school and young peoples organizations
Rev J J O'Neil pastor announces Sunday masses at 7 00 and 9 00 daily masses at 7 00 Communion at 7 00 on first Fridays Confessions Saturdays eves of holidays and first Fridays 3 30 5 30 and 7 00 8 30 or anytime on request Baptisms after last Mass on Sunday
Nathan Nelson pastor leads Sunday School at 9 30 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Prayer Service is 7 30 p m Tuesday The Victory Leaders Band meets at 6 30 p m each Sunday evening.
Christmas Eve services at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church include an 12 o'clock midnight high mass on Tuesday night December 24 celebrated by Rev A H Hoorman. A choir directed by Rev Hoorman with Lucille Todt organist performs traditional pieces before and during the mass. Additional masses follow on Christmas morning with Rev J J O Neill officiating at 9:30, chorus of Christmas chorals, and an offertory antiphon O Little Town of Bethlehem. The choir roster includes Mr and Mrs Frank Hoel Jer, Mr and Mrs John Layton, Mrs Henry Schwab, Mrs T P Scherer, Ruth Ann Middleton, Geneva Schwab, Pauline Layton, Mildred Scherer, Robert Burch, Paul Layton, John Dydin and Bernard Seyer.
More than four hundred children and adults attended the annual Christmas program at the Baptist church Monday night. Alva F. Vaughn led the event with department superintendents assisting. Santa Claus distributed fruit and candy at the end of the program.
After Sunday services at the Methodist church, long active members who have passed the seventy-year mark were each presented a poinsettia. Honored were Mrs. F. M. Sikes, Mrs. A. B. Dill, Mrs. Katie Harris, Mrs. Kate Kornegger, Mrs. J. W. Baker Sr., Mrs. O. E. Kendall, Mrs. John L. Tanner, Mrs. Calvin Greer, Mrs. J. H. Vowels, Mrs. J. N. Ross, and Mrs. Amanda Elmore.
Rev Gayle Jackson presides with Sunday School at 10 and morning worship at 11 each Sunday. Evangelistic sermon at 730 pm by the pastor. Prayer meetings held Tuesday and Friday nights at 730. Everyone welcome.
The January meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will be held January 9 instead of January 1 due to the New Year holiday, an announcement this week said.
The First Baptist church audience nearly filled the auditorium for the choir’s first cantata titled The Nativity Song. Choir director Willard Sexton led the program as Rev. E W Milner read the Christmas story and led in prayer.
Mrs W C Reid directed the Prince of Peace pageant at Sikeston Christian Church on Sunday night December 22. The play used carols to tell the coming of the Savior ending with a Madonna tableau. Main cast included Tom Bloomfield Elizabeth Bloomfield Joe McCord Clyde Propst Claud Turner R A McCord Glenn Matthews Charles Solomon John Sutterfield and Opal Crouthers with many church members participating. Mrs Glenn Matthews was the pianist.
The Christmas program at the Sikeston Methodist church drew a full house Sunday night with the story Why the Chimes Rang directed by Mrs. Keith Collins. Cast included Wm. C. Hopkins Mrs. J. N. Ross Mrs. Val Sharp Mrs. Clarence Felker Jr. Roy Wagner Garwood Sharp and Jean Herschberg with children from the primary and beginners departments. The choir under Mrs. H. J. Welsh performed several musical selections themed The joy of giving.
The lesson warns that evil doers hide crimes and hope to reform before judgment. Jesus teaches readiness, faithful service, and divine justice, noting rewards for watchful servants and severe punishment for those who neglect duty. All will be judged according to works and gifts given.
The Sikeston Presbyterian church staged The Christmas Strike on Sunday night directed by Mrs. Elmer Poage. The production depicted a toyland strike led by Santa Claus with cast members James Martin Audrey Dillender Pat Bishop Jewel Bishop Billy Bob Shankle Harley Propst Mary Bishop Charles Rafferty Allan Carter Louis J Dillender Billy Haters Reese Bishop Richard Dillender Joanie Bishop Dotty Huters Lola Dillender Stella Jean Shankle Evelyn Kaiser and others assisting.
Mr L E Allard his wife and daughter Patricia spent the weekend at the home of Mrs Allard's parents Mr and Mrs D L Sanders in Poplar Bluff.
The Missouri Mississippi and Illinois rivers lie within an eight mile radius of a point in Calhoun county Illinois.
Pope Pius XII urged Christmas prayers and charitable gifts for war sufferers, especially children, in a letter to Cardinal Maglione. He spoke of shortened days of suffering and thanked American bishops and Catholic donors for their generous aid to the Holy See and the suffering church.
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Rev. A. B. Cooper former pastor of the Charleston Baptist church will be guest speaker at watch night services at Sikeston Baptist church Tuesday December 31. The combined service and party begins at 8 o'clock for members and families with refreshments served during the evening.
Wanda Adams a Wayland College student sat in her car in Plainview Texas when she remembered a Christmas gift left at a store and then went to a hospital for treatment of bruises. She forgot the car was on a hydraulic hoist at a service station.
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