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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1930
Page
4
The Methodist congregation reports growing attendance with Sunday school sessions at 11 o clock and a 945 Men s class studying international lessons this July and August. Des Plaines Camp Meeting opens Friday with Bishop Waldorf as speaker and runs through the second Sunday.
The First Presbyterian Woman's club at Tenth and Greenleaf lists Rev Clyde Randolph Wheeland as minister with services at Greenwood avenue and the Church Office in the State Bank building. A sermon titled A Spiritual Tragedy The Unconscious Loss of Religion is set for Sunday July 6. Preliminary church building sketches by Architects Childs Smith were submitted to the Plans and Contract committee. Gothic and Colonial designs will be revised to meet activity needs. The Young People's Christian Endeavor will summer meetings at 6 30 with devotional study following Open Forum. meeting place to be announced in Sunday School and church services.
The Third Sunday After Trinity service at 11 A M features a sermon Repentance and Its Reaction. Sunday school is recessed in July and August with summer worship by the pastor and guest preachers. Church council meets July 9 and Women's Missionary Society on July 10 at Mrs S S Smith Sr 525 Lake Ave. Visitors welcome.
St Johns Lutheran Wilmette located at Park avenues Wilmette and Prairie avenue hosts regular services through summer. Sunday times include 9 30 A M for services 11 A M for second service and 3 45 A M for Sunday school. Thursday July 38 Senior Young People meet at the Sunday school rooms. Pastor M A Herman W Meyer notes he plans a family vacation this week.
The minister was to be assisted by a pastor traveling east on special duty. If a replacement isn’t found, the regular pastor will preach in the pulpit next Sunday.
Vere V. Loper minister and Elizabeth B. Webster director invite visitors to 11 o clock Sunday services in Wilmette. Next Sunday Dr Loper will preach The History of the Communion with a musical program featuring Federlein Stebbins Mendelssohn and Lemmens. Church school meets at 1 o clock in three departments under Wheelock Meade and Loper supervision.
Katherine McClure, daughter of Mr and Mrs W Frank McClure of Wilmette, died at the McClure summer home in Traverse City Michigan on Wednesday night June 25 after seven years of ill health. She was a New Trier High School graduate who briefly attended the University of Illinois before health declined. She had winters in Colorado Springs and Tucson, and spent later winters at home in Illinois. She was a longtime member of the First Congregational church of Wilmette. Funeral services were held at the Wilmette church with Rev Vere Voper and Rev R D Scott a great uncle of the deceased officiating. Burial was in Memorial Park cemetery.
Miss Sarah Minor of 929 Sheridan road travels to Bay Shore Long Island to visit classmate Miss Elizabeth Huber for two weeks. In mid July her parents will join her in the East before a two week stay at a summer farm in Orfordville, New Hampshire with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Lewis. In August she will visit Miss Virginia Hitchcock in the Berkshires for a house party. Mrs. Willis H. Huston hosted a luncheon and bridge for Mrs. Cortlandt F. Ames and Mrs. Charles B. Stearns with guests from Chicago and Evanston.
Mrs. Dorothy Aldis read from her children's books as the first program in the National College of Education summer session. The lineup includes Dr. Rachelle Yarros July 3 on Russia and Europe, and Walter Siders July 10 on World Citizenship, with others to follow in Harrison hall at 11.
A North Shore wedding united Miss Katherine Brown and Robert Lindsay Scott Jr at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston. The ceremony was followed by a small reception with maid of honor Hortense Page-Wood and bridesmaids from Roycemore school. Best man Donald Rogers and a line of ushers from Evanston and nearby towns attended.
Miss Betty Backus daughter of Mr and Mrs J Trumbell Backus former Kenilworth residents returns to Hamilton Ohio after two week visit with Miss Harriet Webster and Miss Marianna Hilton of Kenilworth. She left on Monday with friends.
Caroline and Martha Roberts daughters of Mr and Mrs John Marshall Roberts of 328 Warwick Road Kenilworth depart for Camp Wanalda in Northern Michigan to spend the summer months at the youth retreat.
Mr and Mrs William Dale of 519 Ash Street Winnetka prepare for a three weeks tour of northern Wisconsin with departuresoon.
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