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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1930
Page
5
Associate Presbyterian Bible school at Baear preaches at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Y P meeting at 6 p.m. A M Malcolm, Pastor House. Recent canvassing shows ample material for a Lutheran church in Washington. Robert Grote, Pastor.
The church holds services every Sunday at 7 30 p m except the first Sunday when the pastor is elsewhere. Next service is December 14 at 7 30 p m. Location is the new Sherman funeral home across from the court.
Bible school at 9 20 a m with superintendent Leigh W Soule. Morning worship at 10 45 a m with theme The Book. Evening worship at 7 30 p m with speaker Mr Henke on Half Born Men. Special outside talent expected. box supper Tuesday night. church board meets Monday. Speakers and talent invited from Pleasant Till Brighton Kalona Keota. R C Keller superintendent Eva B Diller organist.
The church invites all to worship next Sunday with Bible school at 9:45 led by H. W. Ramseyer and worship at 11. Evening themes cover The Church's Real Job and The Surrendered Life. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 30 with varied topics. music features Mendelssohn and Wagner pieces and organ solos under Minister KF. Eastwood.
Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 11 a m class meeting at noon A C E League at 6 p m preaching again at 7 30 p m Mid week services Prayer meeting Thursday evening Teachers meeting Friday evening 7 30 p m H J Parker pastor.
Services will be held Sunday morning at 11 o'clock with the subject God the Only Cause and Creator. Public cordially invited to attend.
The training school invites worshipers and workers as churches and church schools aim to spread new ideas. Bible school 9:45 a m led by Neil Trotman. Morning worship 11 a m on The Sword of the Spirit. Evening service 7:30 p m with What He Did About It. Music by West and Towne organs and Concone and Pattison anthems. Frank R. Sage, chorister. D Chalmers Fulton director of music.
Lester J. Thompson is listed as organist and Arthur A. Vinz as minister in the church notice, confirming key staff roles for the congregation.
Sunday school at 2:00 p.m. followed by preaching at 3:00 p.m. All members and friends are invited. Arthur A. Vinz of Washington will be the preacher.
Service times listed include 10:00 a m Bible school and 11:00 a m preaching. Rev H H D Rielmond, field representative of the Lord's Day Alliance, will speak. Christian Endeavor meets at 7:30 p m with a preaching service at 8:00 p m led by Rev M Lefever.
The Crawfordsville report lists Sunday school at 10, morning worship at 11 with Theme The Vision Splendid, Epworth League at 6 30 on The need of a better world, union service at 7 30 The Gate of Life, Ladies Aid Tuesday at 2 pm, choir practice Monday, World Bible Sunday observed, and junior meeting at 11 with Leader Mrs Harley Rhea. Also mentions visitors to Wash ington and a 15 cent Presbyterian Ladies Aid social with plans for an auction.
Dougherty Bros. Clothiers celebrates 42 years serving the community with a major sale. The store announces heavy stock reductions and a store layout overhaul under C. I. Brannon’s supervision, inviting customers to view clearly marked items at what they call the largest savings in their 42 year history.
A sale will be held December 11 at 1.40 p m in the Fletcher store building. Mrs T F Maxwell Mrs D Williams and Miss Elizabeth Davis are served. The first quarterly econference of the local Methodist church is set for Tuesday evening December 9 presided by district superintendent Rev Mr Bentsinger. A sermon by Pr Bentzinger precedes the conference and all church members and friends are invited.
Nov. 23 to Dec. 3 notices list numerous Thanksgiving visits and dinners. Victor Wenger and Leslie Gates hosts are noted along with the Propst, Mathess, Blanchard, Chorpening, Porter, Wright and Welden families visiting relatives in Verdi, Des Moines, Hedrick and Brighton.
Mrs Roy Schulty to meet Thursday for all day with quilting and officers to be elected. Mr and Mrs Carl Anderson and Wenona visited Sunday at the parental Anderson home in Washington. Sympathy to Mr and Mrs Nate Benson on the death of their baby boy buried Sunday at Washington. Mrs Banks Mouser taken to Washington county hospital Tuesday for treatments after time in Iowa City. Former teacher Helen Birka, Helen Anderson and Opal Wilson visited Pilotshoro school last Friday. Albert Stransky and Joe Vodickas visited John Lang home Sunday. Will Brown shredding folders this week and Charle Shulty of Washington called at Carson Wilson home Tuesday.
Crawfordsville December report notes a well patronized bake sale by the Legion Auxiliary on Wednesday afternoon. Visiting Burlington guests included Mr Lisle Maxwell Mrs Daisy Huber and Mrs RT Williams among others. Helen Huston hosted friends Friday evening and Harold Lowe, attending Quincy business college, was home for a few days. Lee Shaffer suffers an eye ulcer treated in Iowa City. Wagner has returned.
Corning Iowa recounts Thanksgiving visits as relatives from Riverside Columbus City and Iowa City arrived or returned. Mrs Marion Neal, Margaret Robertson and Hull family are noted among local connections. The community mourns Stanley McConnell whose tragic death at Ainsworth touched many friends and relatives.
The observatory notes that the day length at the equator changes by less than a minute over the year with solar noon slightly longer at solstices. The sun's upper limb rises and sets with an interval of about 12 hours 7 minutes at the equator.
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