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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1926
Page
3
Morning and evening worship led by Rev Ross of Iowa City. Bible School at 9:30. BY P U at 7. Evening pageant and Santa Claus greet children after Christ Child pageant. Choir performs Christmas pieces directed by Mrs J E K Ream with Maurine McLaughlin on organ.
Associate Presbyterian Bible school opens at 10 with preaching at 11 and 7 pm. Morning sermon titled Consider Christ Jesus. Evening message Consider Self and Others. Bible school and Y P will consider important subjects inviting all to worship. A M Malcolm, pastor.
The Presbyterian Blue Church announces 9:45 a.m. Sunday school and 10:45 a.m. worship with morning themes on The Christ of Christmas and a Christmas lesson in song. Evening services at 7 p.m. feature Cantata The Story of Bethlehem and a candle-light service with choir music.
Mrs S A Dickerson presents a postlude and Haydn organ pieces. Lester Offertory and Dethier Cantata are performed with cantabile pastoral style. Dr W W Bowers pastor and Jesse J Miller director of music oversee Mary Hunter on the organ.
Come to the Bible school at 9 45 a m We have another good lesson to study Further announcements will also be made rewarding the Christmas program Everybody is invited The communion service is held at 11 o clock The fourth sermon in the series on the Church will be given The subject is A Glorious Church Vera Keating leads the Christian Endeavor meeting at 6 00 o clock Come Young People The subject of the evening sermon will be The Names of Jesus Frank W Sutton Minister.
There will be no services next Sunday December 19 after. Schrodt will preach at the Valley church that day. A Christmas program is planned for Christmas night Saturday December 25 at the church with all invited. Further announcements will appear next week.
The Sunday messages by Rev. Russell Ross focus on morning service titled What Christ Brought With Him and an evening talk titled Negative We comes Positive. The evening sermon aims to engage young people and all are warmly invited to attend.
The church offers Bible school at 9:45 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. A 6:00 p.m. YY. P. C. U gathering precedes the 7:00 p.m. evening worship. The morning service features a Conservation Service with Mr. C. C. Millson speaking on the India Mission. the evening choir presents the cantata The Star of Bethlehem.
Sabbath school at 9 45 a m and public worship at 11 a m with the sermon My Son Give Me Thine Heart and a Conserva tion Fund offering merged with the White Gift gift. Evening service features Mr C C Millson of the Gujranwala India Boys Industrial School speaking for the Foreign Mission Board. Christmas entertainment and party set for Thursday December 23 at 7 p m. Wilard Wylie pastor.
A newspaper seeks advertising revenue and argues a court trial will prove the need for payment. The piece frames the demand as urgent to readers and advertisers, implying financial pressures on the publication.
No preaching at Lexington Methodist Church next Sunday due to revivals at West Chester. The Lexington community is invited to attend the service led by Pastor P. B. Gray.
Sabbath school begins at 10 a m with morning worship at 11 a m The 11 o clock service proclaims Gods Answer to One Man in Trouble The pastor Wallace A Stockwell invites listeners to hear about this man.
Pleasant Hill pastor B W Pettit announces his thirteenth anniversary as minister. Services December 19 include an 11 a.m. sermon Gods Holy Mountains and an evening Christmas Spirit. A Christmas program starts at 7 p.m. Bible school at 10 a.m. An oyster supper is set for Friday evening December 17 in the basement of the chute. All invited.
The Methodist church revival winds up Sunday night with Dr. Cooke delivering "Jesus Christ before the bar of public opinion" and morning themes "Partnership with Christ" The schedule omits afternoon services but expects strong turnout both sessions Tonight the evangelist discusses "What the Bible teaches about the second coming of Christ" and Saturday night "God's Unspeakable Gift" The revival has blessed the church and community and a great Sunday is anticipated.
Verdi H J Martz of Marenso struck a ditch en route to Montrose and required the White Way wrecker to recover his car. Joe Janecek’s wagon with hogs also went into a ditch but none of the hogs were injured. An accident caused a bolt to pierce a front hound and a broken tongue. Richard Schiebel is ill with a cold. Pauline Griffith improves slowly. Walter Mickey of Davenport performs at Eden McKinnie farm. Anthony Eberly delivered hogs to the Farmers Union in Washington and hauled hoes to Washington for Will Johnson with George Clapper and Anthony Eberly.
Mrs John Godlove Haskins reports Miss Fern Fenn a Haskins teacher visited Davenport Friday and returned to Washington Sunday. Mrs Merchant came back Monday from a three week stay with relatives in Fairfield and Burlington. Ben Harrison shipped a carload.
Report mentions hog shipments to Chicago on Sunday and a car trip by George Ebner on Tuesday. Mrs. Jim Cherwinker and granddaughter Mary were in a business car. The Haskins school plans a Christmas program for next Wednesday night at the church. Mrs. Dora Bean stayed with her daughter in Ainsworth for the past week. Mrs. Lew Bennig and Marion shopped in Washington Monday. Mrs. L. E. Mathers will travel Thursday to Houston Texas to spend the winter with daughter Mrs. Robert Gregory and family.
West Chester report from correspondent J. D. Dayton on December 17 notes a Chicago cold spell, a frozen wagon wheel on the number 2 road, and mud encrusted wheels. It mentions rising 1927 license numbers, Alex Miller’s improvement, walnut shipment from Wellston, high freight costs for Colorado hay, and a playful aside about Frank Macon’s hat and suspenders.
A family in Ainsworth recalls passing down suspenders once worn by a relative of George Washington. Orville Ider and Ralph Shannon wore them a week before gifting them, and the narrator wore them a week prior to mailing. The narrator calls it a great honor to own such Washington lineage items.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts the newest craze among girls is taking walks with a hopping white rabbit on a leash. The quirky fashion draws attention as a playful trend spreading through the area.
Josephine Bailey, a Dana Hall student from Wellesley, Massachusetts, returns home last evening. Keith Sweet also home from Mercy Hospital in Iowa City after five weeks and several operations on his mouth and nose to relieve an infection, showing marked improvement.
Toledo Ohio December 17 seed prices list cash prices for lower seed imported at 20.40 domestic at 22.75 with December 17.40 bid and February 17.55 March 17.50 bid Timothy seed cash 2.65 December 2.85 March 3.00.
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