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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
5
Sunday masses at 7:30 and 11, daily masses at 7:30, Bible Study 9:45, song service 10:45, preaching 11. Bible Study 7:45 Wednesday. Geapet of Peace Tabernacle North Street Rev Wheeler, services Tue Thu Sat Sun at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 9:50 a.m.
The Church of God on West Hencall Street in East Pulham lists Sunday school at 9 50, preaching at 11, prayer service at 7 00, Tuesday midweek meeting, and Friday night service at 7 50. Pastor V Leb leads.
The Presbyterian church pastor Rev D D Els will preach Sunday morning July 17 on The Voice of Authority. In the evening he will speak on Deserting Christ for the Love of the World.
Reverend R S Rains of Sikeston Christian church will deliver the morning sermon on A Great Repentance on Sunday July 17. In the evening he will again preach on The Hungry Who Need Bread. A large Matthews Christian church delegation is expected to attend the service where baptism will be administered to several candidates.
Rev Jonn L Taylor, pastor, will preach Sunday morning July 17 on the subject Our Refuge and Strength. Church school services convene at 10 45 as usual. Members and friends are urged to attend these services.
Reverend E W Miller, who has led a two week revival at Farmington Baptist Church, will return to his pulpit at the Baptist Church in Sikeston this Sunday. Sunday school starts at 9 30 and the sermon at 11 o clock. Friends and church members are urged to attend.
Members of the Ben Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet next Monday night at the home of Mrs. Ruby Newsom. Mrs Harrison Tanner will lead the program with the topic Korea. Miss Edith Elmore will preside over the meeting.
On Thursday night members of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian church enjoyed supper served in Indian style. Miss Marian Schaeffer, a missionary from India, prepared and served the meal while visiting Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Bains and friends for several weeks.
India-born Harry Schaefer, son of missionaries, will be guest speaker at Matthews Church Sunday morning. He plans to return to India soon to join his parents in missionary work there. Communion will be served Sunday evening, with the Matthews congregation traveling to Sikeston for the service.
Miss Manan Schaeffer left Tuesday for Bloomsburg Pennsylvania where she will teach in a young people's conference. She will depart August 1 for Dixon Springs Tennessee to continue similar work as a missionary from India. During the past month she had been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. RF S. Rairs.
The Ebert Kready Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon July 21 at the home of Mrs Arch Russell. Mrs Katie Cook and Mrs O Kendall will be associate hostesses. Mrs O N Watts will lead the program and the devotional will be by Mr J L Tanner.
A called Potosi Presbytery session ended with pastoral relations dissolved for Rev. William J. Gammon at First Presbyterian Jackson and Rev. J. M. DeFriend at Ste Genevieve. Gammon moves to Missouri Presbytery to lead Perry church. DeFriend to labor outside the presbytery home missions in Oregon before foreign service. Gammon resigns as stated clerk. Rev. Ellis of Sikeston elected to fill.
Rev WG Lansehennig, longtime pastor of St Paul Lutheran Church Jackson, steps down after 40 years and will be relieved of duties. An all day meeting in Jackson High School auditorium on August 1 honors his half century of gospel work and service. He will stay in Jackson with daughter Edna, a East St Louis high school teacher, building a home on church land.
Members of the Expert-Kready Missionary Society of the Methodist church will host their annual birthday party Thursday July 21 at Mrs Arch Russell's home south of Sikeston. Guests are asked to bring a penny per year of age to boost the society treasury. Last Sunday night Christian Endeavor members from the Christian church visited Matthews church with Mr Ceci Link Miss Marian Schaeffer taking part in the program.
A Sunday School lesson on Judges 4 to 5.31 recounts Deborah as a wise prophetess who sits under a palm tree resolving disputes. She plans with Barak to defeat Sisera, aided by Jael who kills Sisera with a tent peg. The lesson emphasizes courage, divine credit, and the toll of war on women.
A children's rally will be held at the Church of God in Crowder on Sunday in September. Rev. John Cullins, the pastor, will lead the services and invite all to attend.
Pastor Lela Riley of the Assembly of God church in Salcedo announces Sunday school at 9 45 and preaching at 11 on Sunday morning.
The Dorcas Sunday school class will entertain with a swimming party and picnic Friday night at the Sikeston Natatorium. The Young Women's Auxiliary met Tuesday night with Miss Lois Edwards at the residence of Mrs A. E. Shankle on Center Street. Rev. Dorsey D. Ells, pastor of the Presbyterian church, left Wednesday for Fulton to attend a Home Mission Committee meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of Missouri and will return Friday.
Funeral services were held at 2:50 PM Wednesday at Frank Lair Mortuary Charleston for Miss Iva M Guthrie who died Tuesday from a complication of diseases Rev R M Talbert of Cane Girardeau officiated Interment followed at Oak Grove cemetery Charleston She was born November 16 1895 at East Prairie daughter of B B Guthrie and the late Mrs Marie Guthrie She lived in Charleston 18 years formerly with Southeast Missouri Telephone Co Survived by father stepmother sister Miss Anno Guthrie of Decaturville two brothers Byron of Charleston John of Detroit half sister Mrs James Tabler of Hardin Mo and half brother Davis Guthrie of St Louis
The Canalou 4 H Sow and Litter Club plans a Friday tour July 15 at 1 pm starting at Fred Geske farm. Eight members will present their projects with boars weighing 70 to 90 pounds. Registered Durocs may attract buyers. Six members aim for club camp July 18 to 21 at Arcadia. Participants include James Cope, Doyle Greenlee, Barn ey Blankenship, James Coppage, Dale Geske, and John Ingram.
The Kitchen Klatter Club led by Ellen Caverno elected Gwendoline Elderbrook president and Tommie Northcutt vice president after resignations. Members discussed canning fruits and vegetables, demonstrated canning steps, and set goals to judge demonstrate and exhibit. Meetings June 11, 18, and July 2 covered pledges, roll calls, budgeting, dues, fundraising for 4 H Club camp, and planning for a July 12 pie supper at Canaleu High School plus a July 16 meeting at Elderbrook home.
Kelso attorney John Keusenkothen visited Sikeston yesterday as a candidate for Scott County prosecuting attorney. He is a St Louis University law graduate, married with four children. his wife is Genevieve Diebold of Kelso. Alfred Vengennit, 54, was treated at a Cape Girardeau hospital after a rattlesnake bite while riding a hay rake.
Private funeral services were held for Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cordozo of the United States Supreme Court, who died Saturday night at 6:40 at Justice Lehman’s home in New York. Ill with heart trouble since last winter, he had spent weeks in an oxygen tent and had been absent from court since June. Cordozo, 68, had served on the court since 1932 after appointment by President Hoover. He was a bachelor.
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