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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1958
Page
9
The Rittman church meets temporarily at Union Hall Both Chambers with a 9 30 a m service and 7 30 p m evangelistic services. United Brethren and Brethren churches list morning worship Sunday school and evening activities including prayer meetings and choir rehearsals.
Multiple congregations list weekly times for Sunday School Morning Worship Evening Service and midweek activities. Names include Rev Virgil Snyder Rev J E Wheeling Rev Robert S Kelly Rev Arnold Klaiber and Rev O Sloan Whitacre with services at Mitten Presbyterian First Church of God Creston Methodist and others.
Wadsworth Main Street Baptist Church Reverend Gerald K. Ford leads Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Evening Worship at 8 p.m. Training Union at 6:45 p.m. Prayer service and Bible study Thursday at 7:45 p.m. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Reverend J David Mumford with matins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. The Common Service 10:30 a.m. Luther League at 6:30 p.m. Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church Reverend M G Bishop, Pastor with Richard Brenneman Superintendent. First Church of the Nazarene, North Gym at Maple-Wadsworth Reverend Lloyd D. Morgan, Minister. Sunday Bible School 9:30 a.m. Taylor Wilson Superintendent. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Youth Services 6:45 p.m. Evening Service 7:30 p.m. Church and Family Night Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday.
Evan United Brethren Church lists morning worship at 10 30 a m with junior church and extended church school plus nursery and a 7 00 p m youth fellowship on the second and fourth Sundays. Sterling First Brethren Church shows BYF at 6 30 p m Jet Cadets at 6 30 p m choir practice Wednesdays 7 p m and prayer meeting at 7 45 p m.
Sunday notices list sermons and services at First Church of God First Brethren Church Ev United Brethren Church Wesleyan Methodist St Ann s Catholic St Baptist with pastors and topics including The Will of God The Secret Place A Prayer for Others In Thine Hand Just What the Doctor Ordered and other catechetical activities plus choir practice and Sunday School details across Lincoln Park Vermillion and nearby communities.
Ritz Beauty Shop offers service for young people at 7 30 pm with Rev Wheeler addressing Our All Sufficient Saviour. Vernon Osborne, formerly Barbados missionary, will speak at First Church of Christ.Daily Vacation Bible School enrollment stands at 149 with 148 average attendance. Youth groups end 6 30 pm meetings until early September. Wednesday prayer time shifts from 7 15 to 7 30.
John Etling presided as eight candidates sought membership in the Rittman Grange meeting at Milton Township School. Winners in the campaign against Walter Bauman included Mrs Charles Duskey and group. New members named: Mr and Mrs Adam Bachman, Mr and Mrs Lynn Welker, Dorothy Noble, Dianne Lutz, James and Dan Winter. A picnic at Rittman Central Park on Sunday June 29 was the payoff entertainment. Larry Chase received a Safety Contest pin from lecturer Mrs Eldon Wiles. Youth Month program led by Mr and Mrs Richard Lutz and Gary Duskey honored Fathers, with “The Forgotten Man” theme and male members in front seats. Lutz led singing. Gary Duskey performed in costume a humorous piece titled “Man.”
A Grange program featured a quiz on What a Fellow Thinks of Dad at various ages by Louis Gasser and a reading What a Real Man Is by Dick Lutz. Lutz led Faith of Our Fathers sung with Mrs Harlan Schar at piano. Howard Schick and group won an apple peeling contest. Hostesses named. Juvenile Grange No. 187 set July contest plans. bake sale proceeds aid Greek team Jo and Wim Blankers. rules given to members.
Marilyn Elizabeth Harrington and James A Capron announce their engagement. The bride, daughter of Charres W Harrington of 90 South Second St, Rittman, is a 1954 Rittman High School graduate who studied at Baldwin Wallace College and Charmette Finishing School where she won the Charmette Award in 1957. The groom, son of Mrs Paul Capron of 1380 Hardesty Boulevard, Akron, and the late Mr Capron, is a Kenmore High School graduate (1951) and works as an apprentice at Austin Print Works Company in Akron.
Twenty two members met Monday to amend the club constitution to shift meeting time from 7 30 to 8 p m starting September. The final 1957 58 meeting was at Mrs J W Frye with co host Mrs George Alexander. Officers and chairmen for 1958 59 were elected and announced along with plans for Library and Rockefeller report summaries and a Library Story Hour next fall.
A flag display was announced at the Grange Hall. County Juvenile Night will be held on June 30 at Madisonburg, and the Ritt man Grange is expected to select a member to participate in the program.
Ramona Kreider won first prize with a 104.35 average as Mrs. C L Norton and her junior music pupils met Friday evening at Terry Bell's home with Jimmy Holcomb assisting. Mary Jane House took second with 104.12, Myron Weber earned 101.8, Clyde Begly presided and Leonard Kilmer was secretary. After the piano program, refreshments were served by the hosts.
Judy King hosted a gathering of Senior Music Club pupils of Mrs Anna Norton on North Fifth Street Saturday. Patricia McComas won first prize for top music grade for the month, Delores Bodager took second prize. Entertainment featured piano solos by members followed by a dessert course with potato chips and soft drinks.
Albert Graber 76 died after a brief illness at his Massillon home Saturday. Services were conducted Tuesday at Arnold-Lynch Funeral Home Massillon with Rev Paul B. Kiewit officiating. Burial followed at Sixteen Cemetery. He was born in Bluffton Iowa and lived in Massillon most of his life. He retired from Griscolm Russell Co. and belonged to International Machinists Local 550 and Grace United Church of Christ. He leaves wife Pearl daughters Mrs Stanton Crofut Alberta two grandchildren ten and four great grandchildren, son Ralph, stepson Jonas Howells, and brothers Henry of Rittman and William of Mogadore.
Mrs Georgia Glider returns to Houston Texas after a two month stay with her daughter Mrs Leslie Barrett and family. Mr and Mrs Ralph Kennedy attended a Sunday operetta in which their grandson Gregory Jewell participated.
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