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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
9
Rev. John J. ONeill, pastor, releases the church mass times. Sunday services are at 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. Daily masses will be held at 7:30 a.m. These schedules guide parish participation.
The weekly schedule lists Bible Study at 9 45 am and again at 7 45 pm on Wednesdays. A song service begins at 10 45 am with preaching at 11 am every Sunday.
At 17 West Kendall Street the Church of God led by Pastor E. Br Pulnam holds Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer service at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday L. B. at 7:50 p.m. Friday night.
Concordia Lutheran church on Wakefield avenue holds divine worship at 9 oclock each Sunday with Sunday school at 10. Pastor Martin L. Cook extends a cordial invitation to attend these services.
Rev. C H Morton pastor of the Presbyterian church in Cape Girardeau will be the guest preacher at Sikeston church Sunday morning with services at 9 o clock. In the evening the Young People will present a Mother's Day program led by Miss Jewell Bishop. James Martin will lead devotionals and Mrs Elmer Poage will sing. Sunday school at 10 o clock following the morning sermon with Bartley R Schwegler superintendent in charge.
Special Mother's Day services Sunday May 14 feature Rev. E. W. Milner preaching on A Mother's Throne and The Liquor Curse. Choir directed by Willard Sexton will render music. Milner also discusses the proposed by the drink law to be voted on June 6 in a Sikeston special election.
The sermon by Rev John IL Taylor titled The Higher Path will be preached at Sikeston Methodist Church Sunday morning May 14. In the evening he will describe the Uniting Conference of Methodism held in Kansas City last week. Church school and Epworth League services occur as usual.
The Christian church led by Pastor Rev R S Rains will preach Sunday morning on The New Testament Westmin ster Abbey. The evening sermon will be Jesus and a Blind Man. Mid week services occur Wednesday night as usual.
An Apron Party will be given on Thursday May 25 by members of the Willing Workers Class of the Christian Church. The event, to be held in the church basement, will start at 4 50 o clock. Entrance fee payable at the door. Attendees must have waistlines measured and pay a penny for each inch recorded. Mrs Hugh Stewart, president, will direct activities with a planned program prior to the social hour.
Members of the Sikeston Baptist church hosted a basket supper for Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Brate and daughter Mrs. Edward Schaechtele of Eureka Kansas who visited friends here. Brate formerly pastored this church and the auditorium was filled Sunday when he preached. The party also included sons Duncan and Joe as they toured nearby communities before returning to Kansas.
Rev Dorsey D Ellis, pastor of Charleston and Sikeston Presbyterian churches, travels to St Louis Friday to arrange for art glass windows replacement at the Charleston church. Two windows were destroyed by fire and are being replaced as memorials for Jacob and Maggie Smith of South Pasadena and Charleston, respectively. Ellis will conduct business at Marshall, Missouri, over the weekend.
Members of the Dorcas Class of the Baptist church entertain their mothers and guests at the Palace Cafe for the fifth annual mother-daughter banquet. Miss Winifred Freeman presides with welcome, followed by toastmistress Ellen Davey. The program features musical numbers and readings by Mrs. E. W. Milner and several class members.
The Sikeston Woman's Christian Temperance Union met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E Mount on Gladys street. The program leader was Mrs T M Solomon. Rev and Mrs RS Rains will leave Monday for a two week visit with relatives in Indiana and Texas.
Methodists at their uniting conference voted to consolidate large mission enterprises. The plan creates an incorporated board for church missions and church extension with three divisions foreign missions home missions and the women s division of Christian service. It merges former autonomous setups and brings women s societies into the unified plan. Nine men were named to the judicial council and seven bishops were given permanent assignments. Bishop John Calvin Broomfield was assigned to the St Louis jurisdiction and other bishops reassigned including William T Watkins to Atlanta and J Lloyd Decell to remain at Birmingham.
Members of the Philothea Class of the Ben-Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist church plan a Mother's Day banquet in the church dining room on Monday night May 15. Russell-Bradley Society will serve, with Mrs. Frank Schulte and Miss Lucille Mount in charge of arrangements and program.
Members of the Methodist church Sunday School class taught by Miss Louise Wood enjoyed a party in the church basement last Friday night. After games and contests they went to Ashley's confectionery for refreshments with Mrs. R. D. Sorrells and Miss Mildred Jackson assisting. The 16 members were all present. A rummage sale by the Ebert-Kready Missionary Society last Saturday in the Young building netted $18 for the society’s treasury.
The Miner Baptist Church will host its annual Mother's Day program on Sunday May 14. Each Sunday school class will participate and the pastor's sermon title will be The Power of Womanhood. Special Mother's Day music will accompany the worship hour followed by a church basement dinner where gifts are presented to the oldest and youngest mothers. The largest and smallest families will also be recognized.
At a Scott County Young People's Union meeting in Morley Miss Louise Wood of Sikeston was chosen secretary Others named were Margaret Adams president Rod Cannon vice president Hess Porter treasurer and Marshall Arnold publicity superintendent All officers except Miss Wood reside in Benton
The Ebert Kready Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet at Mrs R K Bone's home on Ranney Street Thursday May 18. Assistant hostesses are Mrs Kate Harris and Mrs Kate Kornegger. Miss Sadie Emory leads devotionals and Mrs Arch Russell the meeting.
A meeting of Baptist ministers discussed establishing a foundation at State College to offer four classes taught by an instructor. Baptist funding would cover all expenses with no state money used. students from any denomination could attend free, earning up to 10 hours credit. If approved, courses would start in the fall term under President W W Parker. The Methodist Mission Study Group met at Edith Elmore’s home Monday.
A Southern Sunday School lesson treats Acts 18 20 and Ephesians 2 13 noting Paul’s farewell at Miletus to the Ephesian elders. It highlights the Christlike teaching that giving is happier than receiving and recalls Paul’s missionary journeys and fervent appeals to church leaders.
Mrs B J Dowell of Beaumont Texas died Sunday night and funeral services were held in Fayetteville Arkansas attended by her sister Mrs Roy V Ellise of Sikeston and her brother Henry Brandes of Troy Missouri who reside nearby. Interment followed in Fayetteville cemetery as the body was brought back to the former home for burial.
Minnie Jane Heltibrand 52 died Tuesday morning after a two year illness. Funeral services were held at Spring Valley Methodist Church near Springfield Mo. She was born March 30 1887 in Madison county and lived in Chaffee many years before moving to Fredericktown in 1938 with her husband D A Heltibrand. Surviving are her husband three daughters Earl Rosemary and Ollie Jane two brothers and one sister. The Vota Vita Class of the Baptist church will meet Monday night May 15 at 618 William Street with a date change noted.
Funeral services for James M. Maxwell 65 a prominent Morehouse district farmer were held this afternoon at the Morehouse Methodist church Rev M H Markley led the services with interment in Memorial Park cemetery He died at a Poplar Bluff hospital late Tuesday night after a long illness Surviving are his widow a son Loren Maxwell of Sikeston and a sister Mrs W A Newton of Flint Michigan
District Governor P. G. Fix of St. Louis was the principal speaker at the Sikeston Lions club luncheon at Hudson's Cafe. Twenty three members and two guests attended, with Gene Potashnick in charge of the meeting.
Excelsior Springs Missouri report shows only two bank robberies last year with total losses of 1466.98, down from 12 holdups and 40216.97 previously. Five robbers were sentenced to prison. one killed resisting arrest. W T Kemper Jr notes loans unlikely to rise soon as bankers seek new earnings sources.
Charlotte Jean Strain and Jean Jackson marked their 13th birth anniversaries with a party at Houdson's Cafe Wednesday night entertaining more than fifty young friends. Their mothers, Mrs. Harry Strain and Mrs. George Limbaugh, helped host the event.
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