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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1952
Page
4
Dr. Ro Q Eastland has been admitted to the Iowa Optometric Association and the American Optometric Association, joining professional societies to advance practice and standards.
S W Livingston and Robert Day operate the Abstract Dept in Office 204 West Main St. Contact numbers 147 or 964 for legal abstracts and related services.
Dr James Hamilton relates a parable about a walrant office pursued by overwhelming force. His followers urge speed while he discovers a loosening saddle-girth. He repairs the buckle then dashes off, saving himself and his mission. The moral warns against neglecting prayer and bible in haste.
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod launches a ten million dollar fundraising drive named Conquest for Christ. Funds will expand facilities at 14 colleges and seminaries and establish a new Lutheran senior college. Three and a half million will seed global missions as new stations open on every continent. A home to home canvass is planned.
The Missouri Synod congregations plan a church wide pledge drive titled Conquest for Christ Trinity Lutheran Church and nearby congregations will offer members a chance to contribute. Rev O Ho Moll leads with Walter Schroeder as con gress committee chairman along with BE Blatter OF L Verners and Trinity Ladies Aid and Walther League representatives listed.
The notes list church leaders and events including Senior MYF meeting at 6:90 PM, leaders Bill Hazelett and Sandra Orndutt, WSCS spring rally on Tuesday March 25, and Bt Madison WSCS on Thursday March 27 at 2 PM. Clergyman Carl Steefel is mentioned.
Crawfordsville Methodist and Federated churches list Sunday activities including Sunday school at 10 30 morning worship at 11 Union young people's meeting at 7 pm junior youth group at 6 30 pm union Sunday night worship at Federated church 7 30 pm and Bible study and prayer at 7 50 pm Wednesday and a quarterly conference set for Tuesday night March 25 led by Dr Lauren Thomas.
A public meeting will conduct the business session and elect officers. The Federated Church invites Methodist men as guests on Thursday night March 27 at the Federated Church with Rev. Clare E Boos officiating.
Sunday select services at ACM Morning Worship Tea Scam and Junior Youth group at 6 30 P M Federated church Young Peoples 7 P M. Methodist Union evening service Fine P M The Homebuilders meet Tuesday March 25 at 7 50 P M ATL members urged. The Methodist ten guests Federated Men’s Club Thursday March 27 at 7 50 P M speaker Dick Shook sheriff Des Moines county All men invited Ernest Smith minister
Eighteen women from the Women's Fellowship of the Christian church attended a Thursday afternoon gathering at the airfield hosted by the Christian Women's Fellowship. About 122 guests from district churches participated. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Humeston Jr. and family and Rudy Schmidt, who had been staying at the Herbert Pauly home, were mentioned as visitors and local residents faced a medical setback requiring hospital transport to Wirksville, Missouri, by ambulance at 10 o'clock Thursday night.
Brighton March 17 Mr and Mrs Donald Drish Davenport spent the week with their parents Joe Crish and Mr and Mrs M M Gowey Mr and Mrs Hubert Morgan Patricia Coffman and Mr and Mrs Ralph Coffman and baby of Cedar Rapids visited at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Van Erus S M Grove returned from Texas after a dry winter He reports very little rain and warm weather Other locals visited family and friends including the Zickefooses Riches Stacys Montgomerys and Dunbars with church services attended by Rev K E Voss at Kilbourne and Birmingham Methodist churches
A near Riverside couple observes their lith wedding anniversary as family and friends gather. Lois Ellen Stapp, daughter of the couple, is mentioned among those paying tribute.
Mr and Mrs Donald Stapp of Columbus Junction today hosted a celebration. Divte Lee Wallace tasted a cake for a birthday. Other honorees were Mrs Liova Swift Mrs Henry Miller Nene Miller S W Kasteer Mrs Paul V Shearer and Maria Jane Mapet daughter of Mr and Mrs Lae Mapet of Danville. Maria Jane is 15 today.
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