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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1930
Page
3
The page lists services for Associate Presbyterian and Methodist churches with pastors, Bible school details, morning and evening worship topics, speakers, and music programs. It notes attendance updates, an evangelistic revival plan, and a hospital absence of organist Miss Lucille Rhodes with Lenoa Crayton stepping in.
The notice invites all ages to the church Bible school at 9 45 A M and asks members and friends to join in fellowship. Communion service and worship are at 11 00 A M with the elders in charge and appreciation expressed for Baptist cooperation during the church’s events.
Bible school 9 45 a m Supt Mrs Dewey Hess Orchestra leader Milan Shields Worship 11 a m and 7 p m Sermon topics Morning The Prodigal Son Evening The Blessed Hope first in a series on this subject Christian Endeavor services 6 p m Intermediate society leader Evelyn Turner Topic How Can We Help to Make a Friendly World Senior topic Shall we abolish or expand missions Why Young peoples society leader har old Warren Topp The church in Washington These are vital subjects and our young people should be present and take part in these discussions.
Church service schedule lists morning organ preludes hymns and anthems with artists Kenneth Carris A Holm Henry Shields and F W Eastwood. Communion meditation and sermons follow with special music by Sullivan Mendelssohn and Elijah selections plus organ postludes and a young people meeting at 6 pm.
The First Baptist Church launches evangelistic meetings with Rev. L. H. Broeker of Chicago preaching morning and evening. Services include Bible school at 9:30, morning sermon What Will the Harvest Be, 11:00. evening Why Religion Should Have a Place in Every Life at 7:00, and nightly services at 7:30 all week. Frank R. Sage leads choir, Lester J. Thompson is organist, Arthur A. Vinz is minister.
Keota and West Chester hold morning services with Sunday schools at 9:45 and 10:45. Keota hosts a 9:45 service, West Chester 11 a m, followed by B Y P A evangelistic service in Washington. New Haven plans 2:30 p m. Merle LeFever is pastor.
In Crawfordsville the Willing Workers of the Presbyterian church held a 15 cent social in the church parlor Tuesday afternoon with good attendance. After a brief business meeting there was a contest and social hour followed by refreshments served by Mesdames Walker Rees and Miss Elizabeth Davis. A large birthday cake was part of the event.
Mrs Hugh Davis hosted a gathering with five ladies invited as guests of honor though two could not attend. Remarkable recovery news includes Mr Murphy after surgery and Frank Taylor walking on crutches after a kick. Mrs W Pool shows improvement. The Cyclones teams were set to face Cotter teams at home tonight.
The church schedules Sunday school for ten o'clock with no preaching services planned.
United Presbyterian Church lists events for the day with Sunday school at 10, morning service at 11 on the theme Unequally Matched, junior meeting at 11, Y P C U at 6 30, and a mission study class led by Rev A N Porter the pastor.
Sunday school at 10 o clock, morning worship at 11 o clock with theme Earthly and Heavenly. Epworth League at 6 30, union service at 7 30 with theme Witness for Christ. Rev. G W Pool is pastor.
The new film So Long Letty brings Letty to town with comic gusto. The lively adaptation preserves the stage farce energy and delivers plenty of laughs, Warner production values noted as high.
The Bros. perform a talking singing production at the Fox theatre with Charlotte Greenwod in the original Letty role. The cast includes Patsy Ruth Milder Grant Withers Bert Roach Claude Gillingwater Helen Foster Hallam Cooley and Harry Gibbon. The updated screen version follows the original play with modernized sequences and witty up to date titles. Harry and Tommy exchange wives leading to humorous consequences.
A wealthy girl and a poor suitor face honor or cowardice in Rich People starring Constance Bennett at the Graham theatre. Hell's Heroes follows three bank robbers fleeing to New Jerusalem with a dying mother’s baby, pursued by lynch law in a western desert tale.
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