Baptist Church Full Day of Services and Music
The schedule lists 9 30 A M Bible school with classes for all ages led by C W Long. 10 45 A M Morning worship with a sermon by Rev M C Carstensen. 6 30 P M Young people study and fellowship. 7 30 P M Junior choir presents a Christmas cantata directed by Mrs W B Bond. Music includes organ preludes and postludes by Miss Wilma Walker and the church organist crew. Internal credits assign C W Long Rev H Fredmund Arthur Atack Mrs Lewis Warren Edna M Klein and others.
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Baptist
C. W. Long
M. C. Carstensen
Iowa
Nebraska
Jessel
Teorer
Chas. McConnell
Fredmund
Arthur Atack
Lewis Warren
Edna M. Klein
World Traveler and Lecturer to Speak at Four Square
George Dewey Blomgren, a nationally known lecturer and author, recently returned from war torn China, Manchukuo and Japan, will lecture and show pictures of China and Russia at the Four Square Tabernacle next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights at 7 30. He has toured many countries as a foreign news correspondent and political religious investigator into social unrest, including Russia and Italy where he was expelled for opposing Fascism. Washington residents are invited to hear this popular speaker.
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George Dewey Blomgren
China
Manchukuo
Japan
Russia
Four Square Tabernacle
Blomgren
Latvia
Poland
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Jugoslavia
Switzerland
Belgium
Greece
France
England
Italy
Washington
Crawfordsville United Presbyterian Church Services Summary
The Crawfordsville United Presbyterian Church schedules a 10 A M Sabbath School led by Mrs. Ida Wooley on Sept 11, a 11 A M worship with the sermon After Christmas What, a 6 30 P M youth service Is there room in my heart for Jesus led by Lorene Taylor, a 7 30 P M union service, and a 7 34 P M Wednesday prayer meeting. The annual New Year dinner is set for Jan 1. Pastor N G Webster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presbyterian
Ida Wooley
Jesus
Lorene Taylor
N. G. Webster
Frances Mast Weds Dr John Thomas Hanna in Oelwein
Frances Louise Mast and Dr. John Thomas Hanna married today at the Presbyterian parsonage in Oelwein. Attendants were Miss Myra Brink and Dr. Logan Tracewell. The bride, a Mercy hospital nursing graduate, will live at the Hotel after January 1 while Dr. Hanna practices in Iowa City.
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Frances Mast
Dr. Hanna
Gladden W. Mast
Crawfordsville
Frances Louise
John Thomas Hanna
Burlington
Presbyterian
Oelwein
Hautier
Myra Brink
Logan Tracewell
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Hanna
University Hospital
College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Booster club meeting and social hour at Masonic Temple
Notices show the Damascus Shrine No 10 such and such booster club regular meeting at 8 p.m. with social hour afterward at the Masonic Temple. Visiting members welcomed.
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Booster Club
Fred D. Stewart
Damascus Shrine
Masonic Temple
Party Honors Roth Couple at Melvin Gingerich Home
Mr and Mrs Melvin Gingerich hosted a evening at their home in honor of Mr and Mrs Arthur Roth of Orrtana Pa visiting relatives here. Twenty four Wyse and Roth cousins with their spouses attended from the Wayland area. Contests and games filled the evening with Arthur Roth winning the men’s prize and Mrs Ira Wenger the women’s. Christmas colored refreshments concluded the gathering.
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Melvin Gingerich
Arthur Roth
Orratona
Wyse and Roth
Wayland
Ira Wenger
Nuptial Vows for Kenneth King and Barbara Allen
Miss Barbara Ellen Allen and Kenneth King Kern wed at the Kern home in Columbus Junction. Rev Emanuel Jasmann officiated with a single ring ceremony. The couple, after a two course lunch, will reside in Moline where both hold good jobs. The bride’s brother gave her away.
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Columbus Junction
Barbara Ellen Allen
Elijah Allen
Cave Springs
Ark
Kenneth King Kern
George Kern
Columbus City
Kern
Emanuel Jasmann
Oskaloosa
Reformed Church
William Allen
Moline
Clement Davis
Wilton
Homemakers Club Christmas Meeting With Gift Exchange
Mrs. Lester Stone hosted a Wednesday afternoon gathering of twelve members and three guests at her home. The program featured music and dramatics by Mrs. Hubert Redlinger, a Silent Night singalong, a book review on Christmas the Loveliest Day by Marguerite Hering, news by Mrs. Clarence Goff, and contests led by Mrs. Charles Ritchey. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Stone and assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Stone
Homemakers Club
Clarence Goff
Hubert Redlinger
Marguerite Hering
Charles Ritchey
Stone
Raymond Baker
Lloyd Alliman
Delores
Elsie Wagner and Wayne Burlingame Wed in Perry
Miss Elsie L. Wagner of Washington and Wayne M. Burlingame of Cumberland Ohio were married yesterday noon at the Perry Methodist parsonage by Rev A S Smith. Attendants were Miss Lucille Coon and Ernest Wagner. They will reside on a Cumberland area farm after a wedding trip to New Orleans and the South.
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Elsie L. Wagner
Washington
Wayne M. Burlingame
Cumberland
Ohio
Perry
A.S. Smith
Lucille Coon
Ernest Wagner
John Wagner
Washington High School
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Underwood
Iowa
Burlingame
Cumberland High School
New Orleans
South
Christian Science Services Sunday Morning on South Iowa Ave
Services will be held at the edifice on South Iowa Avenue at 11 o'clock Sunday morning and the public is cordially invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Iowa Avenue
Christian Science Lesson Sermon on December 26
The Christian Science Sunday Lesson-Sermon for December 26 draws from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. It cites Revelation 12 and a section praising divine science that purges sin and hypocrisy and exalts pure religion.
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Christian Science Churches
Christian Science
Churches of Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Be of Good Cheer and China Revival Lecture
Four Square Gospel services list 9 20 Sunday school with Robert Stevens sermon on Be of Good Cheer. Crusaders at 6 15. 7 20 sermon by George Dewey Blomgren on Good News From Revivals of China. Blomgren to lecture and show China and Australia photos Monday and Tuesday next week. Come early. W J Stevens Pastor.
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Robert Stevens
George Dewey Blomgren
China
Methodist Christmas Sunday Service Attracts Attendees
The Methodist church invites all to December 26 services with Dr Atacks sermon The Message of the Closing Year at 10 45 morning worship An address on Japan by Robert Alexander of Tokyo at 7 39 PM Includes children sermon church school 9 30 and youth service 6 90 Also lists program music and solos for the day by local performers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse R. Busby
Christmas Day Religious Services Preview
Announcement for post Christmas events notes Sabbath worship at 9 45 a m and 10 45 a m with a New Year theme An Ideal Combination and Gods Endless Resources A Y P C U meeting at 6 30 p m plus evening worship at 7 30 p m with two New Year suggestions The service includes offerings organ prelude and several anthems led by Minister William M Nichol Jr Director Carolyn Hamilton and organist Helen Harvey
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United Presbyterian
Jesus
Williams
Brahms
Harvey Coulter
McGrath
Last Worship Service of 1937 At Vernon H. Carter Church
A Christmas and New Year greeting notes a final 1937 worship service schedule. Bible school at 9 45, Communion at 10 45, sermon Realizing the Impossible, Christian Endeavor at 6 20, Evening Worship at 7 30 with sermon My Last Sermon, C A Nicholson superintendent, Mrs W H Carter organist and Junior Church director, Pastor Vernon H Carter.
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C. A. Nicholson
W. H. Carter
Vernon H. Carter
Christmas Church Services and Music Program
The church invites all to Bible school at 9 30 a m worship at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m with sermons on Looking at the Future and Secret of Success in the Early Church A Christian Endeavor program begins at 5 p m with intermediate and senior societies at 6 15 p m The musical portion features Lucile Knox Lola Dittmer Dixie Carter and others performing Handel Gounod and Debussy selections with organ postludes and a final For Unto Us a Child is Born. Mrs Henry Shields directs with W Eastwood serving as minister.
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Bible School
Vernon Witting
Christian Endeavor
Adam Lucille Knox
Dixie Carter
Babe Divine
Hambler
Lucile Knox
Lola Dittmer
Handel
Svening Organ
Associate Presbyterian Church Services Next Sabbath
Usual services announced with morning Bible study and worship and an evening U P meeting and worship. Rev A M Malcolm is the pastor welcoming all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associate Presbyterian
U. P
A. M. Malcolm
St Paul’s Evangelical Sunday Worship and School
Washington morning worship at 9 30 A M Sunday school at 10 30 A M Carl W Klein pastor seeks worshippers and Sunday students in this local church notice
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul’s
Washington
Trinity Lutheran Christmas Broadcast of Carols
Trinity Lutheran schedules Christmas Day services with a 6:30 am dawn service and an 11 am broadcast of carols to the Christ-child. The event features a Christmas message on “The Birth at Bethlehem” with special music including a male quartet “All My Heart This Night Rejoices” and solos by Merrill Ostrus and Mrs. W. M. Tweeten, heard via a town loud-speaking system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of the Townsend Plan
Bethlehem
Merrill Ostrus
Nagareth
Mrs. W. M. Tweeten
Christmas Church Services and Watchnight Observance
The church schedules Sunday school at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 30 a m with a Christ the fall and rising of men message. The Lutheran Hour airs at 3 30 p m on WMT and KSO with a special Christmas day broadcast at 8 p m. The Walther League meets Thursday 8 p m at the parsonage. teachers meet Friday at the same location. New Year’s Eve service begins 8 p m with a fellowship hour and a watchnight service at 11 45 p m to 12 05. Visitors are welcome and pastor Theodore C Meibohm extends holiday blessings.
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WMT
KSO
Theodore C. Meibohm
Christmas Program Draws Crowds at Pleasant Hill Church
A large crowd enjoyed the Christmas program and Santa visit at Country Churches in Pleasant Hill last Monday evening. Regular services are next Sunday with 9:00 Bible school and 10:00 worship. The annual meeting and basket dinner are set for New Year’s, with election and installation of officers for the coming year. Howard Benn, Supt.
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Santa Claus
Howard Benn
Vernon H. Carter
Bethel Presbyterian Preaching Service at 11 A.M.
Sermon to be delivered by Rev. Hall of Columbus City at Bethel Presbyterian Church. The service begins at 11 a.m. and invites church members and neighbors to attend.
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Bethel Presbyterian
Rev. Hall
Columbus City
Valley Sunday School and Worship Schedule
Valley welcomes with Sunday school at 10 00 A M and morning worship at 11 15 A M led by Pastor Carl W Klein.
Ainsworth U P Church Announces Christmas Vision Service
Ainsworth U P Bible school at 10 A M and worship at 11 A M feature The Christmas Vision. Lesson subject Is There Room in My Heart for Jesus. Preaching at 7:30 P M titled The Claim of the Church. Annual congregational dinner on New Year’s Day urged for all members and adherents. date may shift by a day with a Sunday morning announcement by Pastor S Fred Sharpe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth U. P. Bible School
Y. P. Cc
Jesus
S. Fred Sharpe
Family Visits and Social Gatherings in Walnut
Mrs Carl Nelson reports a busy week of visits and social events in Walnut. Neighbors and friends including the Chorpenings, Tucker, Waggoner, Burroughs, Swick, and Nelson households shared meals, oyster suppers, and afternoon calls across multiple days.
Christmas at the Chorpening home with school pupils
Monday evening at the Ralph Chorpening home the eighth grade pupils Charles Norma Ruth Evelyn Donna Smith attended. Julia Huffstutter celebrated a birthday Friday December 17. The party included Harold Snider Edward Kauffman and a large Christmas tree. Vacation runs December 24 to January 3. Visitors included Mrs North Mrs Snider Aletha Mr Hunter Mrs Swift Mrs Miller Mr Clarence Benson and Edward Kauffman. Ruth Smith celebrated a birthday December 6 and provided popcorn balls.
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Charles
Norma
Ruth
Evelyn
Donna Smith
Eleanor Snider
Julia Huffstutter
Harold Snider
Edward Kauffman
North
Franklin escorted by aides after convention sessions
It is noted that Benjamin Franklin needed two delegates to accompany him after each Constitutional Convention session to keep the proceedings secret and prevent him from revealing confidential matters to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Methodist Sunday School and Union Worship Schedule
The notice lists a 10 o clock Methodist Episcopal Sunday school guided by Supt J W Rich. Worship follows at 11 with a sermon on Preparation for the New Epworth League at 6 30 P M. A union service occurs at the United Presbyterian church led by Pastor RK E Voss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
J. W. Rich
Epworth League
United Presbyterian Church
Christmas program and union devotional series announced
On Friday evening the congregation presents a 7 30 Christmas program with musical selections and a Nativity pageant to bring the coming of Christ to life Scripture readings and carols form the backdrop All welcome The Sunday schedule includes 10 o clock Sunday School and 11 o clock Morning Worship with Pastor sermon Looking Backward Christian Endeavors meets at 6 30 The society continues The union devotional series runs Sunday evening January 9 through January 14 culminating January 16 with Communion All are invited N F Chapman Pastor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavors Society
Siam
United Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church
N. F. Chapman
Horse Drops Dead at Bid of Eighty Dollars
At a Humboldt area public auction at Gottlieb Hanselman’s farm a horse collapsed and died after the bid reached eighty dollars. The auctioneer called for higher offers as the animal died instantly on the stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
Gottlieb Hanselman
Cathedral Portable Chairs Phrase Meaning Origin
An etymological note explains that cathedral comes from the Greek Kathedra meaning portable chairs used by philosophers for orations. The passage highlights how terms traveled from ancient Greek to Christian church usage.
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