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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1952
Page
2
A Riverside Park Sunday church service in Murphysboro will feature a 30 voice choral group from Scott Air Force Base in Belleville directed by Earnest Brooks. The singers perform free with a voluntary offering taken, while Rev J D Thomas leads worship.
Members of Musicians Local Union 697 present a summer concert at Riverside Park Sunday at 6 30 p m. The program is organized with cooperation from Local 697 A O of M and funded by the Music Performance Trust Fund. The band includes musicians from Murphysboro Carbondale and other Southern Illinois towns.
Rev. O C Cooper will speak at both services at Walnut Street Baptist in Carbondale Sunday. Deacons and trustees meet Monday Aug 4 at 7:30 p.m. Business meeting follows prayer service on Wednesday Aug 6. Sunbeams meet Thursday Aug 7 at 3:30 p.m. Hathaway circle meets at Mrs Mary Jane Thompson home Route No 3 Monday Aug 4 at 7:30 p.m. Meet at church at 7:15 p.m. for transportation.
Rev Calvin L Rigdon of Carbondale will lead the Chapel of the Air on WCIL at 11 15 each morning next week. His topics include The Roads That Men Travel and The Road to Damascus The Road to Tarshish The Road to Em maus The Road to Jerico and The Road to Jerusalem.
Rev. Rigdon from the First Apostolic church of Carbondale returned from Perryville Tennessee where he attended the camp meeting of the Tennessee district United Pentecostal church on a hill overlooking the Tennessee River He spoke at the youth service Tuesday night at the camp.
Rev. William Janssen will speak on The Ministry of Solitude at the final summer service Sunday at 10 45 a m. Sunday school classes meet in August at 9 30 a m. Full schedule resumes the first Sunday in September upon Janssen and family return from a month’s vacation.
Members of the Egyptian Gospel Singing Association will meet Saturday at 7 30 p m at the community center Anna according to Wayman Presley president
Otto Brown a Southern Illinois University student from Mt. Vernon has accepted the role of music director at Hurricane Memorial Baptist Church in Herrin. He will assume his duties shortly according to Pastor L. R. Eddington.
Rev Clyde H Todd district superintendent of Carbondale Methodist district will be guest speaker at First Methodist Church Carbondale Sunday at 10 45 a m His sermon title The Royal Romance of Religion This service will feature piano solo by Mrs W Robert Hill a Van de Water The Penitent and a Bach Passacaglia played by Mrs Hunt Mitchell and Mrs Paul Margelli plus Mozart Allegro Other events include a Giant City park outdoor Union Youth forum What is Christian Recreation Transportation will be provided plus a Boy Choir ice cream social on the church lawn Monday from 5 to 9 p m Parents assist Harold Skelton directs the choir with Mrs Woodson Fishback on piano
Joe Burris assistant pastor and director of music at First Baptist Church in Anna has resigned and will enter Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth Texas in September A farewell party was held Sunday evening in his honor
Major L. Francis Scheffler pastor of the First Christian Church of Anna leaves Friday for Camp McCoy to attend Officers Organized Reserve Corps summer training. He serves as chaplain for the 405th Regiment. Noble Tribble of Cincinnati Bible Seminary will officiate Sunday services Aug. 3 at Anna church.
Francis Scheffler Jr son of a local pastor has been appointed to lead the First Christian church in Zeigler. He previously served at the Central Church of Christ Middletown Ohio and succeeds the former pastor.
William Huff aged 24 of Marion married Loretta Beasley daughter of Mr and Mrs Ivy Beasley of Creal Springs Route 1 on July 23.
Donald Lamunion of Bernie Missouri is visiting Creal Springs with the Lamunion families and other relatives.
A simple kitchen technique uses a wooden potato masher to crush cereal into fine crumbs. The result provides a crunchy topping option ideal for enriching casseroles and adding texture.
The University Baptist Church in Carbondale will show the film In His Name at 6 45 pm during the Training union hour in the auditorium. The dea cons meet at 2 30 pm Sunday to discuss expanding church facilities. A church business meeting follows next Wednesday to elect department heads for the new year. The church recently completed its new pastor s home at 1206 West College Street, marking the second building project in two years. A special service will honor new members on Sunday Sept 7, the first anniversary of the new church building.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Smith of Zeigler traveled to Chicago to visit their son 2nd Lieut Tommy Smith who was en route from Ft Eustis Va to Camp Cooke Calif with the Illinois 44th National Guard Division. They planned to stay in Chicago for the rest of the week to visit Mrs Smiths mother Mrs Mary Gazdik and other relatives.
Mr and Mrs Constance Salingue and their children from Wayne Michigan are visiting Zeigler with her parents Mr and Mrs Leo Hatfield. Mrs Salingue is the former Wilma Hatfield.
Mrs Henry Church returned to her home in Zeigler after visiting in Chicago last week with her family, Mr and Mrs Sino.
Mr and Mrs Irve Strohkirch of Zeigler and their grandchildren Marietta and Billy Hawkins visited in Greenville with Mrs Harley Redford.
Rev. William Janssen resigns as pastor of Carbondale First Presbyterian Church to become pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Normal. After a congregational vote last Sunday the resignation was accepted. In seven years in Carbondale the church welcomed over 300 new members and Janssen plans to depart in September.
A long roster details church names, pastors, and weekly schedules across Carbondale and nearby towns. Each entry lists Sunday school times, morning services, evangelistic events, and midweek activities with pastor names and addresses where given.
A list of church parishes with pastors and service times across Carbondale Murphysboro Cobden Anna Jonesboro Herrin and surrounding towns. Masses confessions and holy day schedules noted for Catholic parishes. Methodist Lutheran Baptist Church of God and other denominations listed with service hours Sunday school and special services.
Mrs Ellen O Daniel and daughter Miss Alice O Daniel of Perrine Street Johnston City host Mr and Mrs Louis O Daniel from Chicago. They will visit other Johnston City relatives. Mrs Certrude Armes of Johnston City visits with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Paul Howard Coulterville. On Sunday Armes and Howard depart for Jackson Mississippi to visit daughter Mrs Paul Whitfield and Mr Whitfield.
Johnston City women led by Mrs. Edgar Eberhardt Mrs. Eric Henson Mrs. Paul Odom and Mrs. Maurice Meson joined Line Officers Club of the Order of Eastern Star at the Masonic Temple in Murphysboro Tuesday night. Guests visiting Johnston City included the McClintocks and Yoders with a West Frankfort stop after dinner.
Mrs Savannah Eaton entertained at her Creal Springs residence on Wednesday with guests including Mr Nick Pappalas and Mrs Mary Taylor and two children from Wyandotte Michigan and Mrs Cynthia Odum of Johnston City.
Mrs. Mary Trammel of Dudley Missouri spends a month in Creal Springs with her brother J F Parks and sister Mrs John Doss and with other relatives in the Creal Springs area including Melvin Parks of Stonefort. She visited Tuesday with Mr and Mrs H L Motsinger in Creal Springs.
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