World Council leaders meet at Buck Hill to shape postwar church role
Nine teenage nations and churchmen, including Greek and Russian Orthodox delegates, convened at Buck Hill Pennsylvania to plan the World Council of Churches first world assembly in Holland in August 1948 and to expand church based relief for Europe and Asia. notable participants include Taft Mott Oxnam Cavert Mackay Leiper Horton Van Dusen Oldham Wentz and MarCracken. The dialogue stressed reviving the church through divine grace and Holy Spirit to meet Communist youth challenge and to widen church participation in global revival. Michigan Methodism marks 100th anniversary of Judean Coll China mission start in 1847 amid local roots near Ann Arbor.
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Buck Hill
World Council of Churches
Holland
Charles P. Taft
John R. Mott
G. Bromley Oxnam
Samuel M. Cavert
John A. Mackay
Henry S. Leiper
Douglas Horton
Henry P. van Dusen
Europe
J. Hutchinson Cockburn
Idinburgh
Scotland
New World Connectors Council
Buc
Brits
United States
China
Unadill
Ann Arbor
Collins
Samuel J. Harrison
James Oscar Lee Named Leader of Churches of Christ Effort
The Rev Dr James Oscar Lee of Adu Vtty is named to lead the Departments staff at the Churches of Christ and succeeds Dr George W Peachy. Lee, previously secretary of the National Council and pastor at Union University, Hampton Institute, and chaplain at Hampton, is noted for advocating educational and religious standpoints. The communication praises his vision for morality and church-led education while warning against state funding of parochial schools and media moral decline.
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James Oscar Lee
Adu
SLPS
Front Union
Ay. Pichid
Churches of Christ
George Wi
Estonia
Ata
Vale i Africa
Lee
Contounetl of Churches
Professournia Union University
Paspy
Vaklyn
N. Y
Hampton Institute
Stanley I. Stuber
Northern Baptist Convention
Gus Church
Reminiscences of Bill and the Board Bill
A humorous column recounts a man named Bill who owned a billboard and a board bill. He sells the billboard to pay the board bill, ending the annoyance. The piece then travels through odd anecdotes about divorces and a farmer’s misfortune with a hen, ending with local visitors from Sahula, Iowa.
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Bill
Bill Aso
Farm Bureau Membership Tops 1947 Goal in Illinois
Illinois farm bureau reports April membership at 142 375 surpassing the 140 000 target set for Oct 1, 1947. Carroll County membership stands at 1 048 this month, up from 13 802 a year ago, with Illinois Agricultural Association president Charles B. Shuman praising the service program driving the rise.
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Illinois Farm Bureau
Carroll Farm Bureau
Charles B. Shuman
Sullivan
P Dent
Ilinois
Rooster Clockwork Ends Up in Hen House
A quirky old chronicle describes a rooster as a fine alarm clock with works of barley and flax. The bird keeps all its ticks in the hen house and can be wound up with an ax.
City Clerk Sells Fishing Licenses Amid Busy Season
City Clerk Elmer Johnson has been selling numerous fishing licenses as the fishing season peaks. Mrs. George Knauer is recovering from surgery at Freeport hospital. Mrs. Hunzelman of Galena, a PTA director for eight years, spoke at the year end PTA meeting at the high school. The junior band played, refreshments were served, and officers for next year were elected. The government lists a million plugs of chewing tobacco in surplus, moving slowly due to slight mold but deemed saleable. A local man recounts tobacco handling habits with colorful, old time flair, concluding with a rough joke about ladies.
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Elmer Johnson
George Knauer
Freeport
Hunzelman
Galena
PTA
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Keteles
S. 2Nd St
Marvin E. Brookstra
Walter Building
Hhiness
Western Auto
Savatina
Mt. Carrol
J.a.bull & Son
Union Grove
J. W. Struve
Sahula, la
Herman Aude, Jr
Wilson
Considines
Cash For Dead Hogs
Morrison
CO Morrison, Ill
Farm Bureau
O. D. Brissenden
Ilinois Agricultural Asociation Organzation
Stuedemann
Patel
Manufac
Our Bank
Fulton State
Skyrider
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Martin Morris CO
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