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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1934
Page
3
Christian Science services on Sundays with a Family Day event and evening talks. United Presbyterians and other denominations list services, Sunday schools, and choir music, urging community participation and spiritual guidance for the New Year.
A church outlines 9 a m Sunday school for children 10 a m Communion and 10 30 a m Public worship with visitors welcome. Epiphany Sunday explains the term meaning shining forth from Matthew 2 1 12 and contrasts the star guiding the Wise Men with the Bible as a sure guide to faith.
A church notice invites study of the Bible, quoting Jesus and prophets on the Word enduring forever. Pastor T. C. Meibohm invites attendance next Sunday for a sermon titled The Word of God the only proper Guiding-star on the Way to Heaven.
The report lists church schedules including Ainsworth Baptist Haskins Presbyterian Westchester Baptist and Crawfordsville events. Sunday services at 3 PM 10 AM and 7 30 PM with Sunday schools at 10 and 11 AM plus youth meetings.
Community churches share plans for January events including Sunday school at 9 30 and a 10 30 sermon on Three Links of a Great Life at St John s Lutheran. Epworth League meets at 6 45 with young people invited. B Y P U hosts New Year program ending with Revelations theme.
The annual Week of Prayer starts Monday with daily 9:30 am meetings in homes across all four wards. Leaders and host addresses listed. morning sessions last 30 minutes under the local Ministerial association. Men’s gatherings run 9:00 am daily with topics on Christ and world needs, home life, economy and missions.
STRINGTOWN reports families sharing Christmas meals at multiple homes including Peter Graber Jr and neighbors. Roselie Widmer helps at Martin Whitaker place. Donald Brooks spent vacation at home with Ethan Brooks Rex Swan and others visiting Edd Cummings home.
Plans for the county older boys and girls conference in town January 25 are announced with several committees named. Church notes cover Presbyterian, Methodist, and Union services with sermon themes, meetings, and leaders listed for the week.
The public library receives new titles for general readers and serious study. Noted gifts include works by B S Aldrich Janet Reich and Louis Bromfield along with The Fault of Angels and Slippy McGee. Additional serious reads feature Van Dusen God in the Slums Economic Nationalism and The Age of Big Business.
Mr and Mrs Rennie Dawson marked their 25th anniversary with a New Year dinner hosted in Bethel. Guests included Mr and Mrs H B Wilson and family, Mr and Mrs Sherd Wilson and three daughters, and Mr and Mrs Glenn Wilson with Jo Ann. The gathering overflowed a long table with baskets of food and desserts as car lights lined the window.
Mrs Homer Birney and Mr Vernon Witting hosted relatives while Jas and Richard Birney returned from Ames Friday night after attending the four short course. Miss Edith Reed spends the Christmas vacation in Keokuk with her parents Mr and Mrs George Reed. Mr and Mrs W D Stafford Velma and Mr and Mrs Vernon Witting visited Rennie Dawson home on New Years day.
A finding shows that adding a certain substance to hydrogen reduces its flammability by about eighty percent. If scalable, the breakthrough could enable safer dirigible operations in nations lacking helium, potentially transforming lighter than air travel and storage.
A Massachusetts woman who has just separated from a husband who previously divorced her faces a pivotal legal outcome. With game tied at one win each, the forthcoming ruling on their divorce settlement and final status draws heavy public interest in Detroit coverage.
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