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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
2
The Wilmette church lists Sunday programs including 9 30 am church school 11 am worship 6 pm Epworth League with My Country topic. Week notes cover lunch at Y M A 12 20 pm Scouts meetings 7 39 pm Girls Work 4 pm midweek praise 7 pm Junior Scouts. Names of Intermediate league graduates announced.
English Lutheran Greenleaf and Seventh William Guise, Pastor, announces services on June 29 with preparatory service at 11 o'clock and Holy Communion. The day centers on the beatitude Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God with music and graded lessons for new scholars.
Sunday school meets at 9 30 each Sunday visitors invited. Next Sunday the sermon titled The Church and Present Day Patriotism focuses on patriotism with G A R American Legion and Boy Scouts noted. A single morning service at 11 o clock is planned.
St Augustine's Parish will hold Holy Communion at 3 in the morning next Sunday June 25 for St Pat Day. Choir boys and St Augustine group members depart for camp in Minnesota for two weeks with Rev F J Trump in charge. Thomas Jerton choirmaster attends. church school sessions are suspended for the summer.
Community notices from St John’s Lutheran Wilmette list worship times and Sunday school, club meetings, a YMCA youth event, and a picnic at Glenview Forest Preserve. The text mentions church leaders, a church address at Prairie Avenue, and plans to improve chancel and pulpit areas.
The note calls all Sunday school teachers and officers to attend a Monday June 30 meeting to discuss vacation work and organization and to hear papers prepared by teachers plus a report on the association meeting as part of church life. Services are stated for all seasons rain or shine. A separate item notes Public Service Co. winning the 1923 Coffin medal for its electric service with 92 percent of stockholders as customers.
Wilmette youths Joseph S. Monfort Hopkins and Ove Weberg join 800 to 900 boys en route from LaSalle Street Station to Camp Roosevelt for a three week session. Gov F. L. Beals leads the Chicago public schools program under government supervision with support from Red Cross Y M C A and war department.
The Public Service Company of Northern Illinois invites 21,000 preferred and common stockholders to subscribe to a new 7 percent cumulative preferred stock issue with a subscription right. Subscriptions are limited to one new share for every five held, with $100 per share options in cash quarterly or ten monthly payments. Subscriptions close August 1. The issue funds expanding generating capacity and equipment to meet rising ice sales and demand.
Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, health director, likens the surgeon's knife to punishment for cancer and notes no cure for advanced cases. He cites early treatment and X Ray methods as having limited success, urging careful physician guidance on cancer care.
Mrs J H Long and her granddaughter Evelyn Mack of 15 Gregory Street will travel to Washington Boston Philadelphia Atlantic City and New York before returning home around July 1. They are accompanied by Evelyns father Walter L Mack.
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