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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1940
Page
3
A description of the June 30 lesson overview lists subjects and scripture texts chosen and published by the International Council of Religious Education for use by Dermission.
A sermon outline on Jonah 3 4 centers on God's mercy and second chances for Nineveh and for Jonah. It contrasts divine patience with human selfishness and calls for revival prayers and active personal witness to win souls for Christ.
A devotional prayer asks for divine guidance to choose and stay true to the right path, requesting grace to be loyal to righteous principles throughout life and faithful to the highest ideals known to the believer.
Gas from the sewage of a population of 480 will generate one horse continuously in a well run age disposal plant.
Washington church schedules morning worship at 9 30 and Sunday school at 10 20. Carl W Klein is the pastor.
Public invited to attend. Christian Science is the subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, June 30. The Lesson Sermon includes Bible quotations and selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Trinity Lutheran Church at 802 Second Street East schedules Morning Worship at 9 15 and Sunday School at 9 30 with William F Krueger as pastor.
St James Catholic Church schedules two Masses at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. led by Rev. H J Corcoran, pastor.
The church invites worship with Bible school at 9 20 a m and morning service at 10 45 a m led by minister F W Eastwood. Evening union open air service at 7 30 p m features Mendelssohn pieces and choral offerings. Young people groups paused until September.
The Church of Christ urges observance of Patriotic Sunday on the Sunday before the 4th with music and messages tying national greatness to Christian faith. Minister C Breidenthal calls all communities to fill pews, highlighting Sunday school at 9.45 worship at 10.45 Christian Endeavor at 6.30 and a park community service in the evening.
Bible study hours are 10:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship at 11:90 a.m. Tonight at 7:30 begins preparatory service with sermon Do You Enjoy Christianity. Tomorrow at 2:30 second preparatory service theme The Light of the World. The Lord’s Supper observed at Sabbath morning service. Sabbath school 9:45 a.m. Morning worship 10:45 a.m. Sermon The Fall of Babylon. Orations by Beulah Stewart, William Brewer, and Dorothy Darnell on This Is My Task. Y P C U 6:20 p.m. First union evening service in Central Park at 7:30 with United Presbyterian in charge and Pentecost Preacher. Miracle Book club to host Westervelt family and eight mission-field attendees.
The church schedules morning worship at 10 45 with a sermon titled America Keeping Faith with God. Music includes organ prelude chorale and pieces by Bach Dudley Buck and others. Soloists Edna M. Klein and Mrs Milo T Sorden join the program with violin and vocal selections.
A Baptist congregation invites all to join daily worship with 9 30 a m Bible school 10 45 a m worship led by the pastor sermon be hold the sower went forth to low 6 30 p m senior young people's meeting 7 30 p m union park services open air gatherings in the city. The United Presbyterian church leads the opening service Rev Wm M Nichol will preach. Music includes Cantique d a Diggle and Nocturne with Lawrence as organist and Mrs Chas McConnell as choir director.
The Church of the Nazarene invites participation in church school at 10:00 A M morning worship at 11:00 A M M Y P 8 at 4 80 P M gospel service at 7:30 P M pastor James E Morris invites families to services designed to help them.
A community invitation to a Sabbath service at the United Presbyterian Church at 3:00 PM with organ preludes and selections including Fantasia on America the Beautiful and Hear Our Prayer. Rubenstein offertory, Reverie by Borodin. William M. Nichol pastor and director of music with Carolyn Hamilton on organ and Helen Harvey listed.
The Foursquare Gospel church conducts a week of services led by Rev. W. J. Stevens. Topics include Insanity on Parade and The Coming Blitzkrieg. Sunday activities feature Sunday school at 9 30 A M and youth literature distribution.
Morning worship at 9 30 a.m. Sunday school at 10 30 a.m. C B E meeting at 7 30 p.m. Topic You Haven't a Chance led by Thomas Elmer Jones. Evening worship at 8 00 p.m. Rev. David C Davies is pastor.
The notice lists St Pauls Evangelical Church events with a Sunday school at 10:00 A M and morning worship at 11:15 A M led by Pastor Carl W Klein.
Sunday school starts at 10:00 A M followed by public worship at 11:00 A M The sermon topic is The Stabilizing Power of the Gospel The staff welcomes all to attend William L Clapp minister and Mrs Clark Wagner superintendent listed as church officers
Prairie Flower Baptist Church outlines 10:00 A M Bible school and 11:00 A M preaching service. Next Sunday morning the topic Mussolini and Hitler in Prophecy will be discussed. Missionary offering for Miss Velma Booth in China requested. Pastor C B Strong.
West Chester Methodist holds Sunday school at 10 A M with a class for you. Morning worship at 11 A M features the sermon What God Has Joined. Evening service at 7 P M at the Federated church led by young people from the Westervelt Mission school with an offering for the school. George Pennington, Pastor.
The church announces a morning worship at eleven o clock and a Sunday school for all ages at 19 10 a.m. An adult and senior lesson study titled The Outreach of Gods Love will precede the service. Junior and Senior Leagues meet at seven o clock with a note of interest and helpfulness. C KE Coggeshall
The 9 30 worship service will be omitted next Sunday due to the pastor's absence. Church school will meet as scheduled.
Superintendent Theodore Meyer announces classes for all ages and Sunday gatherings with church items next week. Pastor N F Chapman invites participation as democracy and spiritual freedom are linked to the Declaration anniversary. Bethel and Cotter churches list schedules and July 7 sacraments.
Crawfordsville Methodist Episcopal lists Sunday school at 10 00 a m with J W Rich superintendent Morning worship at 11 00 a m sermon Render Unto Caesar Epworth League 6 30 p m leader Virgil Hor ne Union Service 7 30 p m sermon The Direction God to Moving Rev Lester H Bill pastor
Sabbath school begins at 10 a.m with Mrs Ida Wooley as superintendent. At 11 a.m the Westervelts from Batesburg SC will lead the service. Ten members plan to attend from the Westervelt home. Y P C U meets at 6 30 p.m led by Violet Fletcher.
The church announces Sunday morning classes for all ages at 10 o clock with Lati mer Davis as Superintendent. No Worship service next Sunday due to the pastor's absence. The Christian Endeavor Society meets at 6 30 p m in the church and further announcements follow for midweek and other gatherings.
BRIGHTON R 1 June 27 Those who enjoyed a picnic dinner at the Seth Carris home Sunday include Dan Kleinschmidt Harper Leo Shaw and son What Cheer Helen Baker Clarence Brown Glen Mullikin Seth Carris and families. Dinner was cafeteria style.
Hardwoods are obtained from trees of the dicotyledon group, exemplified by oaks. The term contrasts with softwoods from conifer trees and denotes dense timber used in furniture and construction.
Riverside board president Mrs Cecile Doud announced Miss Frances A Kopesky of Sehueyville has been chosen to teach in the fall term. A 1940 graduate of the State University of Iowa she will teach typing and home economics and replaces Miss Maizie Langell. The staff includes Superintendent Robert Smola Newton principal Ema Lee Matousek high school director H C Borup and others.
The account tells how Frank E. and Hagan s and Elmo Scott Watson recount the tale of Glenn Butcher a doughboy in the Sixth Infantry who kept a carrier pigeon named Petey on a Lockport farm. After Petey was stolen in Chicago the bird survived a fall and a wooden body threw at it. Petey traveled 45 miles up the river using a swagger stick as a crutch and reached Butcher's yard after seven days.
A false plan by the American Patriotic League to bathe the Statue of Liberty with a new supersuds solution spreads across newspapers. War Department officials deny knowledge, and a New York editor exposes the hoax revealing the league shared an address with a soap company’s advertising firm.
Remont family and Dautremont relatives report visits from Mrs. Mary Mottet and Miss Alice Kucera at Iowa City. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Swab spent time with relatives in Wellman. W A Gay of Iowa City visited Anna Walter at Karl Walton's home. Kate Ingram of Riverside will represent Washington county at the Rebekah assembly in Sioux City next October. Ruth Pogge of Iowa City visited the Power family. James Skola has returned home after hospital care near Riverside.
The article notes that tomatoes were not eaten until the middle of the nineteenth century and were considered poisonous beforehand.
A historic schooner is reported to have been built in Gloucester Massachusetts around 1713 by Captain Andrew Robinson. The claim cites early shipbuilding tradition and a notable colonial vessel attributed to the Gloucester yards.
Local brief from Gray by W. C. Longer reports haymaking in progress. Forrest Walker injures lip and teeth while engine work on cement mixer. Doyie Plocker buys hay leader Cy Rush installs eighty rounds of something. Roy Smith from Pueblo visits. John Warner travels with Mell Crandall. Storm damage includes barn destruction. Mellie Steel near the southwest. Alberts family visiting from Chicago. Frank Snider hosting and sisters visiting. Forrest Walker barn nearing completion. three new barns noted.
A reflective note on women who distrust miracles and judge beauty through the lens of modern photography, exploring how seers and skeptics weigh appearance against faith in miraculous events.
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