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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1914
Page
8
A long church directory lists Adventist to M E congregations with service times and locations across town. Welsh disestablishment bill passed third reading in London. outlines church dissolution, seats, and authorities affected.
Memorial day sermons will be delivered in several city churches tomorrow. Grace Methodist Church hosts a morning service at 11 led by Dr. A J Northrup with G A R veterans and related groups in attendance. Walnut Street Baptist offers Dr John Bunyan Smith addressing War and the Victories of Peace. First Congregational’s Dr Walter H Rollins speaks on Our National Ideals. St Paul M E Church invites patriotic order members to an evening service.
A reception honors newly installed pastor Dr DD Davies and Mrs Davies at East Park Presbyterian Church. Congregation members and prominent Presbyterian figures attended in the church parlors for an informal social hour, music and talks, ending with a mingling of refreshments in the dining room.
Calvary Newell Fourth Rev. J A Maehlen holds 8 p m and morning services with The Ascension of Jesus, Lafayette Park Rev E J Lang 11 a m and 7 45 p m services Sunday school 10 am Junior B P A at 2 30 pm Logan Avenue United Logan and Dane Rev J M Bamford services 11 am 8 00 pm Sunday School 9 40 am Junior KT 6 00 pm Kod CB 7 00 pm Morning Paul’s Concern for the Spiritual Welfare of the Churches evening God in the Hands of Man the Victory of Faith in the Spiritual Realm Lutheran First Maple and High Rev H Mueller services in German 10:30
The Universalist Church of the Redeemer on Mulberry hosts a 10 39 a m service titled The Untated Heroisms of Life with Rev Effie McCollum Jones D D. Evening service is not held. Salvation Army and Y M C A items follow on Fifth street east and Water and Fourth with a 10 30 a m holiness meeting junior meeting at 2 00 p m and Young People’s Legion at 8 00 p m. Bible class Sunday school Lord's supper and gospel meeting noted at various times.
Members of the Young People's Alliance of the Calvary Evangelical church present a Monday evening program in the church auditorium. The event features a debate on woman suffrage, musical selections, and a mock first degree murder trial with an intriguing frame-up, followed by a box social. The public is invited.
Rev Mr and Mrs Robert C Jones Siam missionaries supported by a prominent church member visit the Black home on Independence avenue. Rev Jones will preach at both morning and evening services at First Presbyterian Church tomorrow and discuss his work in Siam. Mrs Jones will address Mrs Black's Sunday school class at noon.
Dr Walter H Rolling, a director of the Congregational church missionary board, resumed city duties after attending an important meeting in New York. He had been away since Sunday evening.
Thirteen year old Evanston lass answers twenty six Old Testament questions at a Congregational Sunday school test. Professor Frederick Oxtoby supplied the answers, noting difficulty with proper names. Questions cover figures from David to Gideon and Job, with responses including Deborah, Ruth, Jonah, and Jehoiakim.
Members of Fred Willer camp United Spanish War Veterans met last evening to coordinate with the G A R for Decoration day observances. Helen Gould auxiliary served supper. David Merriman entertained on violin. Committees assigned to cemeteries west and east. Majestic theatre decorations. flower donations accepted at Tremont hotel or G A R hall. New member Nicholas Scharle joined. G W Freek and Henry Harbsieb transferred from Sixth Illinois. Auxiliary lists coordinators for each cemetery and car duties for west and east sections.
Dr. F Sage returns from the Iowa City convention of the Hohenemann Medical society where a case of Roy Kivell, a 14 year old speechless boy, was studied. Psychologist Prof Sylvester helped diagnose and recommend a dedicated instructor to teach vocal use. A sunstroke at age two is blamed for the speech loss, and treatment will begin immediately.
A collage of brief humorous snippets from 1920s newspapers. The Bright Side notes a couple facing appendicitis on their wedding day and jokes about the cost of a honeymoon. Other lines tease vanity, dining habits, street crossings, and a comic photo moment.
A memorial day service is planned at the Y W G A rooms on Sunday at 4 o clock. An unusually interesting program includes special music with a solo by Miss Ethel Garrabrant and readings by Mrs. W A Nelson Miss Inez Bristol and Iva Eggleston. The young women of Christ Episcopal church will host during the at home hour.
Epworth League marks silver jubilee with a 7 20 pm program at Linden Methodist Church featuring songs prayers readings and dialogues. Highlights include installations by Rev E A Baker and a range of readings and performances focused on church and community themes.
Miss Hazel Strayer, noted reader and Iowa State Teachers College alumna, will perform next Wednesday at the First Brethren church in Waterloo. She will be assisted by Miss Wilma Basher and Mrs. Emmett J. Covell under the King's Daughters auspices as they pledge their new church home. Also visiting are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dietrick of Lincoln, Neb., guests at F. B. Dietrick’s home, planning a two month overland tour through the Midwest and beyond.
The Courier notes sustained profitability from its classified advertising section. Market demand remains strong for jobs, rentals, and small notices, highlighting steady reader engagement and advertiser interest in local listing services across the publication.
A Sunday School sermon exhorts reliance on the Holy Spirit to discern God’s will, noting that what pleases God offends worldly men. It urges forgiveness without limit, casts the duty mindset as unhelpful, and calls for living in the love, righteousness, and joy of the kingdom through continual forgiveness and humility.
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