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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
9
Services will be held at the Presbyterian Church next Sunday with Rev Bartley Schwegler preaching. Sunday school classes meet at 945 o clock, and the young people's groups gather at 650 o'clock Sunday night.
The Baptist Church announces Sunday services beginning at 10 15 with the morning sermon by Rev E D Owen. Bill Hayden will be in charge at 9 30. Sunday night Rev Owen preaches “The Worthy Workman” at 7 30. Baptist Training Union meets at 6 30.
The Nazarene church will hold Sunday services starting at 10 15 am with Rev J W Hoffert preaching at 9 30 am and W H Thompson in charge The sermon topic is Refuge of Lies The youth groups meet at 6 15 pm A Daily Vacation Bible School enrolls 100 members 9 11 30 am daily assisted by Mrs Hoffert Clyde Nichols Mrs Chris Porter Mrs Kenneth Stovall Miss Marjean Phillips Miss Betty Anne Nichols and Clyde Launius at the Nazarene Church
The Ladies' Aid of the Christian's Church met last Thursday afternoon at Mrs W R Lewis's farm near Sikeston with 32 members present. Roger Bailey led the meeting and plans were made for a dinner on Sunday night June 417. To observe the church's 30th anniversary, Roger Batley presented a corsage to each woman who had 25 years of membership.
The Christian Church schedules a Sunday morning sermon The Churchs Care for the Kingdom Cause to be preached by Rev R M Talbert at 10 15 oclock Bible School classes meet The Christian Endeavor Society gathers with no evening service The LAW Class meets Tuesday at the home of Miss Omma Carroll East Malone street with Mrs George Uht in charge of the elections
The sermon next Sunday morning at the Methodist Church will use the topic My Commencement. Services begin at 10 15 with Pastor Rev E W Bartley preaching at 9 30. The Methodist Youth Fellowship meets at 6 30. Church practice is held Wednesdays at 7 20.
Elder John B Huffman will lead tonight at 8 15. He will preach Sunday morning from Revelation. Sunday night evangelistic services follow at 8 15. Regular services are held Tuesday Thursday and Sunday nights starting at 8 15. The public is invited to attend all services.
Members of the Walther League of Concordia Lutheran Church hosted a banquet at the Palace Cafe to mark the league's 50th anniversary. Twenty members attended with Herbert Rolf of New Madrid as toastmaster and Muss Dons Geske leading post dinner games. officers elected for the coming year were Armand Gemeinhardt president, Barbara Williams vice president, Neva Dell Gemeinhardt Christian Service chairman, and Doris Geske Christian knowledge chairman.
Pastor Rev Carol Cowden leads Sunday school at 9 45 am and Sunday morning worship at 11 o clock. crusader service for youth at 6 30 pm. Sunday night Bible study Tuesday 7 45 pm. divine healing prayer Thursday and Sunday night worship at 7 45 pm. A welcome awaits all to these services.
Pastor Gayle Jackson leads Sunday school at 10 am with W L Thrower as superintendent. Senior Christ Ambassador meets Tuesdays at 7 30 pm with Mrs Gayle Jackson in charge. Regular prayers Fridays at 7 30 pm led by the pastor. Evangelistic meetings Sundays at 7 30 pm with the pastor speaking.
The bulletin lists Saint Francis Xavier Church at Front and Stoddard Streets with Rev J J O Neall as pastor and Rev A H Hoormann as assistant. It details Sunday Mass times 7 30 a m and 9 30 a m year round, holy day observances including January 1 Feast of Circumcision and December 25 Christmas Mass times, daily Mass 7 00 a m and 8 00 a m, first Friday communion at 6 00 a m, confession times on Saturdays and Eves of Holy Days from 3 30 p m to 6 40 p m and 7 00 p m to 8 30 p m, with confessions also before Masses on Sundays. It notes church contact at 106 Stoddard Street, a Thursday holy hour 1 00 8 30 p m before First Friday, Perpetual Help Devotions on the first Sunday at 4 p m (except June to September after last Mass), and requests to notify priests in case of illness or accident.
In a postwar frame, Buttrick argues that betterment requires more people to choose goodness. He warns that swords breed sadness and urges drawing genuine goodness from God, the source of all good, to curb coercive greed and class bitterness.
The moving narrative follows Ezekiel and the captives in Babylon as they regain a manageable life, revive religious devotion, and contribute to a literary renewal. Cyrus the Great finances the exodus, returns temple treasures, and backs Zerubbabel’s temple rebuilding, while Ezra later enforces religious purity by divorcing outsiders.
The narrative shifts from Ezra to Nehemiah with Nehemiah as Artaxerxes trusted cupbearer and near prime minister. He restores the walls around the temple area, arranges a great gathering and holiday, as Ezra reads the recovered Book of the Law. The people respond with laughter weeping and feasting, embracing the Bible as a living guide.
An Australian Church Record poem declares that God’s blessings are not rationed including food and clothing and extends to skies, sea, sunshine, stars, trees, peace, hope, pardon, love, earth, and grace in a reverent, uplifting verse.
Church of Christ led by Pastor OT Bolding invites all to Bible study at 10 a.m on Sunday. Regular studies are held each 7:30 p.m with evangelistic meeting Sundays at 7:30 p.m led by the pastor. Welcome awaits all attendees.
A poem titled A Soldier-His Prayer by Mrs Margaret Ferguson of Sidney Australia was found by a soldier after El Alamein and inspired by Mas Ferguson. It was used by Field Marshal Montgomery on the eve of D-Day. President Truman Bridge, a $3,000,000 railroad span over the Missouri River, was dedicated yesterday in Kansas City.
Rev. E D Owen, pastor of Sikeston's Baptist church and Memorial Day speaker, has a busy district schedule. Last week included Kiwanis Farmers Night at Risco, commencements at Protageville and Annistough high schools, funeral at Flat River, Flat River Junior College and Flat River High, funerals in Sikeston, and baccalaureate at Kewanee high school. He also spoke at Vanclyser and Morley high schools and the Gideon teachers’ banquet, while conducting three church services and overseeing church work each week. It’s better to wear out than to rust out, he says.
Supreme Allied Headquarters reports the entire acting German government and the German high command in Flensburg have been taken into custody as prisoners of war. The move follows surrender events and signals a shift in the postwar occupation arrangement.
Harvey Johnson Jr. a Negro youth, died last Friday from gunshot wounds after attempting to remove a 22 rifle from a log in woods near his grandparents home in the Canalou community. The accident occurred while he and another boy, Rufus Thompson, were hauling wood. Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday at Second Baptist Church Sunset Sikeston, with burial in the local cemetery. Surviving are his parents, grandparents, and two sisters Carne Lee and Trene.
The Missouri Senate approved a controversial bill to create a 10 member State Highway Commission by a 21 to 10 vote on Tuesday and sent it to the House. Five senators altered their stance on the emergency clause, yielding 26 yes votes, three more than required.
Inient Col S G Neff of Kansas City announced that construction of 105 reservoirs in the Missouri River basin is to begin soon. The project is estimated to cost 400 million dollars and would provide a total storage capacity of 80 million acre feet of water.
Statewide plan by Chief Engineer Carl Brown outlines more than 86 million dollars for four postwar years. Projects include 13.9 million in cities over 5,000 and 48.1 million federal funds over three years. State matches and city road work expand under new constitutional changes. Construction could begin within three months after wartime emergency ends.
Mrs. Martha Truman, 92, mother of President Truman, told reporters in Kansas City that she went to see the strandest boy in the world during a 10 day White House trip. Accompanied by her daughter Mary Jane, she said she was glad to be home and resides in Grandview, Missouri.
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