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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
2
Rev J J O Neill is pastor with Rev A H Hoormann as assistant. Mass schedule shows summer times 7 00 and 9 00, winter 7 30 and 9 30, holy days 5 45 and 8 00, weekdays 7 00 and 8 00, Saturday 8 00 in the Convent. Baptisms after the last Mass on Sunday.
Sunday School at 9 30 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Prayer Service at 7 50 p m Tuesday The Victory Leaders Band meets at 6 30 o clock each Sunday evening.
Rev Gayle Jackson pastors the Assembly of God. Sunday School at 10 a m and morning worship at 11. Evangelistic sermon at 7 30 p m. Prayer meeting on Tuesday and Friday at 7 30 p m. Everyone welcome.
Rev John L Taylor pastor of Sikeston Methodist church will preach Sunday morning June 1 on the subject My Witnesses There will be no evening services at the Methodist church because of the high school graduation exercises.
Rev A B Cooper Baptist minister of Charleston will preach at the Sikeston Baptist church Sunday morning June 1. He also preached at both services last Sunday, with services delayed due to the Sikeston high school graduation bac calaureate at the auditorium.
Rev J W Hoffert pastor of the Church of the Nazarene will use Gods Call to the Child as the morning worship sermon Sunday Sunday school begins at 9 30 oclock and young peoples service at 6 30 oclock There is no evening service due to baccalaureate exercises at the high school gymnasium
Reverend Jos P Read, pastor of Sikeston Christian Church, will preach Sunday morning June 1 on Why There Are So Many Churches. No Sunday night service due to Sikeston High School baccalaureate. Young people services proceed as usual.
Rev G C Schramm announces Power From On High as the morning sermon theme drawn from Acts 1 8. Services begin at 9 00 with Sunday school at 10 00. Pentecost Sunday prompts a special choir music program.
A historical quotation warns that diseases of the soul are more dangerous and numerous than those of the body, reflecting a moral or theological perspective on human frailty and virtue.
Rev D D MacAdams pastor of the Presbyterian church will use as his topic Sunday morning Christian Duty in the Present World Crisis Sunday school at 9 30 and the morning worship at 10 45 Young People services at 7 00 There will be no evening worship due to Sikeston high school baccalaureate services
Revival services continue at the Methodist mission in Smith addition with Rev. H. M. Andrews of Morley in charge. Rev. H. H. Harper announces regular weekend services. Harper preaches Sunday morning, Andrews leads evening worship. Public invited. services begin nightly at 7 30.
Rev. Marvin Haw, pastor of the Morehouse Methodist church, announces the pageant Who Goes There to be presented at 7 o clock Sunday night June 1 at the church. It features the Unknown Soldier and honors Memorial Day. Rev. H A Mitchell of Canaloa will preach Sunday morning on The Third Person in the Holy Trinity.
The Ruth Class of the Baptist church met Monday night at 7 30 at Mrs Paul Brown s home with thirteen members present Mrs Brown was assisted by Mrs Thurman Travelstead The next meeting will be at Mrs Glenn Nicholson s home on June 23
The Epworth League of the Methodist church held a combined service and weiner roast at Hunter's school Sunday evening. Members met at the church at 5:00 pm and then walked to the school for the roast and program. Eighteen league members attended.
The T E L Class of the Baptist Church will meet at 7 30 Tuesday night at Miss Lillie Travelstead home 824 Linn avenue. Assistant hostesses are Mrs Lem Council Mrs W C Edwards and Mrs Sarah Matthews Members are asked to bring recipes for the class cook book being compiled.
Twenty five members of the Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian church enjoyed a picnic supper and skating last Friday night. Mr and Mrs L R Burns and Mrs Elmer Poage accompanied the group to Scivally Park near Cape Girardeau where they ate and then skated at a roller rink in the Cape.
The General Board of the Christian Church will hold its regular meeting at the church Tuesday night, June 3, announced by pastor Rev. Jos. P. Read.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will hold its monthly business and program meeting at the church at 2 30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon June 4.
The article traces the shift of early Christian outreach from Jerusalem to Antioch as a cosmopolitan base. It details Barnabas recruiting Saul, the Gentile converts in Antioch, and Paul’s city-centered mission, noting Antioch as a radiating center for the church’s expansion and its role in sending aid to Jerusalem during famine.
The narrative notes rapid Christians’ growth in Antioch under divine guidance. Barnabas and others from Jerusalem aided a learned, versatile team that faced hardship and sacrifice. The gospel’s power proved superior across Greek and Hebrew thought, preparing leaders for future urban missions.
The Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation in Cape Girardeau will run four accredited courses this summer. Open to all students, with enrollment through State Teachers College. Courses cost nothing to students. textbooks provided via Foundation. Offered subjects include Christianity and Current Thought, Teaching in Religious Education, History of Religion in America, and Life of Christ.
The Co-Workers of the Methodist church hold an all day meeting Tuesday at Mrs. C. D. Matthews III home at 717 N Kingshighway with a basket lunch at noon. Members will turn in earnings totaling 105 dollars with one third not yet reported to fund church redecoration. Alma Ruth, Herschel Gilpin of Commerce and Paul Irwin of Morley had tonsillectomies Monday morning in Dr. H. E. Reuber’s office.
The Himalayas hold the highest peaks with Mount Everest reaching 29141 feet in altitude. The Indian rhinoceros relies on its teeth as its major offensive weapon rather than its horn.
Ecclesiasticus quotes a warning against undervaluing minor matters as a path to gradual decline. The proverb emphasizes attention to small duties and consequences.
A brief note from The Herald asserts trust in its reporting, inviting readers to take statements at face value and rely on the paper for community information without added context or verification.
C F Manly of Sikeston Compress & Ware house Co spoke at the Kiwanis meeting on cotton handling. He said the firm issues warehouse receipts, weighs cotton under US inspectors, and that certificates are negotiable nationwide. The plant is a subsidiary of Federal Warehouse & Compress Co with 76 plants.
Junior Chamber of Commerce members will hold a fish fry next Tuesday night at Bennetts Park replacing the regular dinner meeting at Hudson's Cafe. All members meet at Heisersers Drug Store at 6:00 o'clock.
Since the United States patent office began functioning 150 years ago about 20 000 patents have been granted to women. The figure highlights growing female contributions to innovation and inventorship over the long period.
Seventeen Sikeston Lions Club members attended the noon meeting at Hudson Cafe. Vice president Charles Dement presided in the president’s absence. A nominating committee was appointed to select officers for the coming year: Clay Mitchell, A. M. Jackson, John Welter, Elmos Taylor, Billy Walker, J. Wm. Foley, and Paul Norton.
Mr and Mrs M G Tully and their children travel to Lexington Kentucky to visit relatives before M G Tully begins a draftsman post in the United States Engineer's Department in Galveston Texas He has spent eight and a half years in the Missouri State Highway Department Sikeston and earlier three years in Jefferson City Mrs Tully and the children will stay with her mother until housing is arranged in Galveston.
Fred LeRoy Wire, 19, a radio technician, died at Poplar Bluff hospital at 5 30 Sunday morning from injuries suffered in a highway 60 crash last Monday. Passenger Leon Rhea, 20, had a head injury, Francis Williams was uninjured. The car, owned by C W Pace, Missouri Pacific Lines superintendent, had been taken without permission from a downtown garage. Charges against Rhea are to be filed.
Mrs. Wallis Clippard, Mrs. Jack Johnson and daughter Miss Helen will spend Memorial Day with relatives and friends in Oak Ridge.
The Herald corrects a past error misidentifying John Web Bowman as a West Point cadet. Bowman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bowman, is a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. He will return home on a forty day furlough next week.
The Miner Extension Club toured the LaForge project on Thursday. Miss Mary Lou Gissal welcomed the group and explained the experiment. The visitors also toured several farms, gardens and storage cellars on the site.
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