Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1940 — Page 5

SATURDAY, AUG. 51, dt aer : Patsy Boggs Is Entertained at I.uncheon

Elizabeth To Be Party Guest A marriage announcement

pears a buffet supper notes on showers for brides-to-be in

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today’s nuptial news. Mrs. David O. Thompson, Chicago entertainea vesterday at Horuff's with a luncheon-bridge and magazine shower for Miss Patsy Bogas who will be married Wednescay tc Richard Vincent Ware In a ceremony at the Columbia Club. Miss Boggs is the daughter of Mr. ana Mrs. Harry Boggs. 5330 Ceniral Ave, and Mr. Ware is the son of Mr nd Mrs. Harry Ware, 4343 Broadm AV Mrs. Thompson was assisted by her mother, Mrs. William C. Harbison Guests with Miss Boggs, her mother and Mrs. Ware were Mesdames Richard Disher, Wiliiam B. Harbison. Harry Riddell, E. T. Dunning William Kingdon and Don81d Underwood and the Misses Ruth Marshall, Jane Renard and Eileen White

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marriage of Miss Dolores laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sauer, 1311 E. Kelly St, to er Sheridan, will take place at today in the rectory of St. ‘ine’s Church. couple will leave immediately trip through the East and will at home after Sept. 10 at 3711 E. 16th St.

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Overhiser., who is bride of Glenn M Sept. 7. will be honor a miscellaneous shower Tuesday night at the home of Mrs C. G. Fahy, 74 Terrace Ave, Mrs. Harold Hedegard and Miss largaret Bourgonne will be hostesses with Mrs. Fahy. Other guests will be Mrs. George Overhi the Dbride-to-be’s Mesdames Charles Smock, George Bourgonne, Thomas Hoover, Frank Webster, Hany C Paul Rasor, John Turner. Jack Fisher, Sven Hedegard, Jesse Lyle and Frank Kreps. Also attending will be the Misses ulal Alma Foster, VirMary Jane Glass, Ruth and Betty Fitch. {

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C. Rodocker, 1529 \ ill entertain with a supper and bridge party evening for her sister, Ann Vinson, ani John v. who will be married at SS. Peter Paul Cathedral at 9 o'clock Monday morning Other ts will be Miss Gladys ] Miss Louise George, the wedding; Miss Rodocker, junior Mrs. J. B. Donnelly, | t bridegroom-to-be, Margaret; Joseph best man, Mrs. Mazelin; Bevan, usher, Mrs. Bevan, Joseph Donnelly, brother of bridegroom-to-be and usher. Rodocker will be matron of the wedding.

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Engagements Are Announced

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Kindred Photo. Marion Sones, and Mrs. Clar-

Miss Sylvia daughter of Mr, ence M. Sones, will be married to Richard L. Peine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Peine, Sept. 15 at the Memorial Presbyterian Church. Miss Sones attended Butler and is a Delta Zeta Sorority member. Mr. Peine was graduated from Butler.

) Dexheimer-Carlon Photo, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Belton announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Alice, to Robert Pfendler, son of Mrs. Calvin Perdue. The ceremony will be performed at 8:30 p. m.. Nov. 16, at the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Pflender was graduated from Purdue University.

Don B. Wageners to Be at Home Here On Sept. 15 Following Wedding Trip in the South

Mr. and Mrs. Don B. Wagener are on a motor trip through the South | following their wedding at 3:30 p. m. yesterday in the Central Avenue Methodist Church. Mrs. Wagener was Miss Mary Ann Tindall, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Tindall,

1307

N. Alabama St. Mr. Waganers

parents are Mr. and Mrs. William F. Wagener, 950 Garfield Drive.

The Rev. Guy O. Carpenter officiated at the wedding,

the Rev. Frederick R. Daries of the Zion Evangelical Church. Miss’ Louise Swan, organist, played the bridal music. Baskets of white gladioli and asters, backed by ferns and palms, decorated the altar, which was flanked by two sevenbranch candelabra. The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a white slipper satin gown fashicned on Empire lines. The high, round neckline was trimmed at the front with a bowknot of seed pearls. The long. tight-fitting sleeves were puiled at the shoulders, and the basque bodice, shirred at the front, extended to a low waistline in back. The gored skirt swept into a long train. She wore the bridal veil worn by Mrs. Fred J. Grumme Jr, Irvington, N. J. the former Miss Doris Louise Brown, at her wedding June 12. It was of illusion in two fingertip-length tiers falling from a crown of orange blossoms. The bridal bouquet of whit® roses and babv breath was centered with a white orchid.

Sister Was Attendant |

Miss Charlotte Tindall, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Her gown of dusty rose slipper satin was styled on Empire lines. The molded bodice was finished with a sweelheart neckline and short, puffed sleeves. he wore a single strand of pearis given her by the bride and carried a bouquet of blue fringed asters matching the nosegay of

{asters in her hair.

Miss Betty Jane Grauel, bridesmaid, wore silver blue satin made like the maid of honor’s gown and carried pink fringed asters. She wore matching asters in her

[hair and a strand of pearls given

form the setting 1. today for the wedMiss Margaret Mann, Mr Philip E.

1 daughter of and Mrs Mann, to Basil DeStam, formerly of Connersvil Ind., son of Charles DeStam. Glenwood, Ind. at the home the bride, 4986 Ford St. ty Nay will play bridal ceremony will give 1d she will lace bodice over ime anda

his daughter wear a white and a doutaffeta with a short pul white il ry

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the linger she cal I'oses 16 Rosner to the and will carry ! of pale pink Ern Connersville best Join J. Mann of the bride, will usher. A dinner at Robinwood Inn will 11 the ceremony. A reception s home will follow the couple will receive home of the bride's

will wear bride's

Josep Siniiiar blue

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ke a short wedding at 1105 Windsor the bride will sheer dress with and a gardenia

will live traveling black

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Ralph I. Routzahn Marries Tomorrow Times Special MAI O Sry

N. Ind. Aug. 31. The Miss Kathryn Danner, of Mrs. Anna M. Danner, and Paul K. Routzahn. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 1. Routzahn, Indianapolis, will be performed here at the Madison Presbyterian rch tomorrow at 4:30

‘ne bride will wear a white lace made with a high neck line iong sleeves. The veil will be of She will wear a strand of pearls, gift of the bridegroom, and 1er bouquet will bewhite roses and a white orchid. Miss Martha Dan- { of honor and sister of and Mrs. Glenrov Danner, { O, sister-in-law of the bride, and bridesmaid, will wear dresses of maline in turquoise and peach colors. Roland Snyder, Cincinnati, O., will be best man, and ushers will be John Eaton, Terre Haute, Ind.. and Robert Zink, Sevmour, Ind. The couple will live in Indianapolis after a wedding trip to Niagara Falls. The bride is a graduate of Hanover College and attended Indian University, The bridegroom attended Butler University and Louisiana State University.

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7. Y Sunshine Club to Meet The Children’s Sunshine Ciub of Sunnvside will hold a business meeting at 4 o'cleck Wednesday evening in L. S. Ayres auditorium.

Board Session Scheduled

The Indianapolis Council of in IL. 8. Avres auditorium Tuesda}

at 10 4. m,

her by the bride. Clvde Norman was best man and ushers were William P. Kirk, Shelbyville, Ind., and Robert Wagener, brother of the bridegroom Mrs. Tindall chose a laurel leaf green crepe dress with brown accessories and wore a corsage of pompon chryvsanthemums in fall shades. Mrs. Wagener's autumn red crepe was worn with black accessories and a corsage of gardenias. Mr. C. A Tindall, grandmother of the bride, wore a black and white sheer with

black accessories and gardenias,

teception Followed

A reception for the wedding party and immediate families at the home of the bride's parents followed the ceremony The bride attended Butler University where she was a member of P1 Beta Phi Sorority. She also was a member of the Tipton, Ind. chapter of Tri Kappa Sorority. Mr. Wagener was graduated {rom Butler and is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. After Sept. 15 Mr. and Mrs. Wagener will be at home at 2144 Garfield Drive |

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Bride to Wear Her Mother's Wedding Gown

Reception to Follow

Church Service

The bridal gown worn by her mother and her sisters, Mrs. Robert E. Russell and Mrs. J. G. Wilcox | of Miami Beach, Fla., at their weddings will be worn by Miss Betty | Kalleen for her marriage to Richard M. Steele, Knightstown, Ind., at 4:30 p. m. today in the First Pres-! byterian Church. { The gown is of imported embroid- | ered batiste with lace inserts and is made in princess style with a very high neckline, long sleeves and a row of buttons from the neckline! to the hipline in back. With it she will wear a gold link necklace and

[cameo given by her grandfather to

‘ficiate before an altar 'with palms

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McNay-Gordon

Wedding Today

The Northside Church of God will be the scene of the marriage of Miss Marv Rebecca Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Gordon, to Eugene Harold McNay, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. McNay, tomorrow at 2:39 Pp. m. The Rev. P. B. Turner form the ceremony before an altar lighted with candelabra and decorated with palms. Mrs. Barney Allen, pianist, will play bridal airs for the ceremony. Mrs. Leonard Spellman will sing “Ah Sweet Mystery of Life” and a quartet composed of Mesdames Spellman, Glen Turner, Eli Williams and Alvin Sloan will sing “At Dawning’ and

will per-

| “I Love You Truly.”

The bride's father will give her in marriage. She will be gowned in embroidered organdy over white satin with a sweetheart neckline, long sleeves falling In poinis over the wrists and a tight basque waist. A seed pearl tiara will fasten ihe finger-tip length veil bordered with lace. Her bouquet will be a shower of Easter lilies. Miss Elizabeth Stephenson maid of honor and will wear a low net over taffeta dress. It will have a sweetheart neckline, short puff sleeves, tight basque waist and a ruffled skirt. Gladioli will form her bouquet. Miss Mabel Rose Fitzwater and Miss BEtha Struckman will be bridesmaids. They will be dressed in net over taffeta dresses with short puff sleeves, sweetheart necklines and full skirts. They will wear black velvet ribbon sashes, Miss Fitzwater will wear Nile green and Miss Struckman, peach. They will carry bouquets of gladioli Miss Nancy Turner, the bearer, will wear a yellow net taffeta dress. Miss Sylvia

will will be x

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train over Sloan

"and Miss Jackie Mae Spellman will

be flower girls and will wear floorlength dresses with short puafl sleeves. Miss Sloan will wear peach color and carry a while enamel basket filled with rose petals and and tied with a green velvet bow Miss Spellman’s dress will be green and her basket will have a peach velvet bow. All three will wear satin ribbons in their hair to match the color of their dresses. Mrs. Gordon will wear a aressmaker suit of black and white with white accessories. Mrs. McNay will wear navy blue with white accents. Both will wear corsages of roses and asters.

Frank Bover Best Man

Frank Boyer will be best man.

| Thomas Oberlies and Emerson Mc-

Waddell-Hohn Nuptials Today

Miss Helen L. Hohn, daughter of { Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hohn, and { Harry Waddell, son of Mr. and Mrs. IT. V. Waddell. will be married at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church. The Rev. Robert C. Kuebler will perform the ceremony. Miss Alberta Niemeyer, organist, will pilav and Miss Elfrieda Niemever will sing. The bride will be dressed in ivory satin made on princess lines and will wear a finger-tip length veil caught with clusters of orange blos-! soms. She will carry a colonial bouquet. Miss Mabelle Hohn will be her sister's only attendant and will be gowned in periwinkle blue taffeta of princess style. She will carry a colonial bouquet. Donald Carter will be best man. Robert Waddell, brother of the bridegroom, and Edward Hohn, cousin of the bride, will usher. The couple will friends informally at following the ceremony. They will take a wedding trip. The bride will travel in a soldier blue costume suit with brown accessories.

receive their the church

Horizons’ Is Topic Of Church Group

Calendar Circle of the Brookside | United Brethren Church will meet Thursday at 10:30 a. m. under direction of Mrs. Hazel Thompson, president. A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon. At 1:30 p. m. the Women's Mis-

Nay, brother of the bridegroom, will serve as ushers. The coupie will informally after the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents, 3139 Graceland Ave. Sisters of the bridegroom, the Misses Naomi and Ruth McNay, will assist. The bride will wear a dressmaker suit of black and white with black accessories for tle wedding trip to Now York and Niagara Falls. She will wear rubrum lilies in a corsage. The couple will be at home Sept. 10 at 1241 Congress Ave. The bride attended Butler University and was a member of Phi Chi Nu, freshman honorary organization, and of the Butler Independent Association.

receive friends

Club to Mcet at Y. W.

The Y. W. C. A. will be the scene 0

of the Alta Vista 1:30 p. m. Thursday

Wed Recently

lub meeting at

{sionary Society will hold an “Every |

‘Member Present” meeting. for discussion will be and Mrs. Eva Wickes,

Subject

Gladys Blake, president, {duct the business meeting.

"Horizons" | programs Women will hold a board meeting chairman, will lead devotionals, Mrs. !

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her grandmother as a wedding gift. Her long, imported tulle veil will be caught with an orange blossom tiara and she will carry white roses, valley lilies and orchids. Her father, James L. Kalleen, 3841 Washington Blvd., will give her in marriage. Dr. George Arthur Frantz will ofdecorated and white gladioli, chrysanthemums and asters. The family pews will be designated by white ribbons holding white gladioli and pompon chrysanthemums. Mrs. William H. Newcomer, organist, will play for the ceremony. Mrs. Russell will be matron of honor and will wear a shirtwaiststyle frock of white organdy with very full skirt and bishop sleeves. Mrs. Wilcox and Miss Mary Isabelle Steele, sister of the bridegroom, will be bridesmaids. Their gowns of white embroidered organdy are made in bouffant stvle with shirred hodices, square necklines and short puffed sleeves. All three will carry bouquets of white gladenias with trailing sprays of ivy. Brother to Be Best Man

The bridegroom's brother, Theodore Steele, will be best man and ushers will be Mr. Russell, James L. Kalleen Jr. brother of the bride: | Frank Smith and Philip Scudder, Willard Avery and Richard Wilson of Knightstown | After a reception at the bride's home, the couple will ‘leave by motor for a honeymoon trip. They will be at home in Knightstown upon their return. As her going-awav costume, | the bride will wear a brown wool jacket dress with brown accessories and white orchids. | 1 {

Valentia Meng Becomes Bride

The wedding of Miss Valentia C. Meng to Dr. C. Hawley Cartwright of Corning, N. Y., will take place at 3 p. m. today at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Meng, 5268 Park Ave. in the presence of the immediate families. Dr. Cartwright, formerly of Huntington, Ind. is the son of Forrest S. Cartwright of Indianapolis and Mrs. Mabel Hawley Cartwright of Los Angeles. Vases of blush pink glad©oli and white chysanthemums will be used throughout the house. Dr. Sidney Blair Harry will perform the ceremony. The bride, whe will be unattended, will be given in marriage by her father. She will wear a streetlength blue velvet frock made with short sleeves and silver buttons and belt. Her flowers will be Talisman roses. A reception will follow the ceremony. For the bride will dressmaker

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trip east the wear a nutria brown suit with brown suede accessories and a Talisman rose corsage. The couple will be at home after Sept. 15 at 46 W. 4th St., Corning. «

wedding

" . Former Resident r . 1 Weds in East {imes Special SILVER SPRINGS. Md., Aug. 31. —Miss Mary E. Wariield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Warfield, Washington, formerly of Indianapolis, will be married at 3 p. m. this afternoon to Acil W. McNali of Silver Springs. The Rev. Julius Grauel of Baltimore, Md., will read the service at the home of the bride here. Miss Williams, Indianapolis, and

| Gordon Trees of this city will at[tend the couple.

| vealed at the meeting,

After the ceremony, the couple will leave on a wedding trip to New York and will be at home in Silver Springs on their return. Mrs. Goldie Rosenbarger of Indianapolis will attend the wedding.

‘Secret Sisters’ To Be Revealed

Mrs. R. E. Elrod, 945 W. 35th St. will be hostess Wednesday at 1:30 Pp. m. to members of the Queen Elizabeth Chapter of the International Travel Study Club. Mrs. Ross Hewes will assist the hostess, A representative of the Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp will leeture and will illustrate the talk with pictures. “Secret sisters” will be re-

rgan. Recital Tomorrow Gustav Bischoff, organist at the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, N. will present a public organ recital at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Carroliton Avenue Reformed Church. Mr. Bischoff studied in Europe with Isidor Philipp qn the piano and with Charles N. Widor on the organ. Mr. and Mrs. Bischoff will be the week-end guests of Mr.

‘and Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, 47 Spenc-!

Rebekahs Meet Tuesday | {

er Ave.

Card Party Tonight The campaign committee of Pocahontas Council 350 will give a lawn | social and euchre party tonight at 1626 Brookside Ave. Members of the committee in charge are Mesdames Virgil Voyle, Harry Love, James Nicholas, James Campbell, Robert Eichel and Joseph Doyle,

Card Party Tomorrow | The Liederkranz Ladies Society will hold a public card party tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the hall a! 1421 E. Washington St. Mrs. August Koebeler is chairman.

Broad Ripple Sylvia Rebekah!

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‘Pamphlet Raid’ Due Soon for Indianapolis, But Churches, Not Hitler, Will Sponsor t

Dr. E. Stanley Jones at an Ashram

Fall Season Is Launched

All Saints Will Start New

Schedule Tomorrow.

The Autumn schedule at All Saints Cathedral will open tomorrow with Holy Communion at 7:20 a. m and 11 a. m. The Rt. Rev. Richard Aintlee Kirchhoffer, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis will be celebrant. Bishop Kirchhoffer has returned from a vacation in Canada and will preach and confirm a class in the cathedral Sept. 15, when women of the congregation will present the United Thank Offering. Also on Sept. 15, Young Churchmen of Indianapolis will hold a silver tea in the Cathedral House followed by Choral Evensong in the cathedral. Proceeds of the tea will be used to charter a bus in which voung people will go to the Episcopal general convention at Kansas City There will be the blessing of the renovated church school chapel of the cathedral and dedication office for church school teachers and officers Sept. 8 at 11 a. m. in the cathedral. Members of Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church who have risen valiantly on Sunday mornings this summer to attend 7:30 a m services will not worship tomorrow until 10 a. m., new fall and winter hour.

Annual Retreat Set for Sept. I5

jts

That the present time, with vars and political upaeavais m he regarded as the ministers opportunity for influence will be pointed out in the address at the annual retreat for Indianapolis Protestant pastors, Dr. Howard J. Baumegartel said today. Dr. Baumegarte] executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation. The address will be delivered by Dr. A. W. Fortune of Lexington, Ky., at the all-day retreat, Sept. 15. at the Boy Scout Reservation. Dr. Fortune is an instructor in the Bible at Transylvania University. a Disciple of Christ minister and a onetime president of the brotherhood's international convention. Drs. Ralph L. Holland and E. L. Hutchens will lead devotions. Virgil Martin will speak on the Community Fund Campaign and Dr. C. A. McPheeters on the Church Loyalty Crusade of the National Christian Mission. Methodist women ol Lawrence, Ind.. will serve luncheon

2 Ministerial Parrys Come Here

You can take a hot bath, play the organ, hold a religious service, cook eat, study or sleep, as the moment desires, if vou are traveling with the Rev. and Mrs. Howard Parry in their railroad chapel car. For the Rev. Mr. Parry is a Baptist chapel car missionary in Colorado. He is to tell of his work at

{the Indianapolis Baptist Association

meeting here Sept. 10 in the Emerson Avenue Baptist Church. For five vears, the minister and his wife have been going over Colorado, in the car, “Emanuel,” establishing new Baptist churches and holding meetings.

Both home and to

church

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Ministers Roll Up Sleeves and Serve Hot Dogs at State Fair

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER INISTERS are putting aside surplus dignity, rolling up their sleeves and loining aproned deacons and housewives of their congregations at the churches refreshment stands at the State Fair

Fun and excitement as well

penny of profit is to go toward liquidating the churches’ debts or other

necessary expenses Ham and hot dogs fills the air before 5 a breakfast.

between. The Rev. J. Luther look very clerical and morrow, but today they and cokes.” The Bethany pastor, cession the Rev. Mr. If vou ask, the Rev. Mr. church's dining room is a success

solemn

Lutheran

of beef or bake a ham to quite such a turn as his mother-in-law, Mrs Edith Stillabower. who is in charge of Bethany meals.

n n n n AST fall, Englewood Christian Church earned sandwiches 246 pies vere sold in addition to three full meals each aay and other A. Trinkle, pastor, says. So confident is Englewood of a “heavy trade” again this vear that

More than 18.250

articies, Dr. O

it has emploved a erew of men,

community hall and Sunday school rooms, whom thev expect to pa} out of the proceeds of their fair venture. The Garfield Park Evangelical and Reformed Church has a life= conductor, every autumn during its 13-year existence “We don't ask pecple to sit on hard benches without backs tone a comfortable chair and a big meal for the She savs the same people return to the stand vear after sow thev hold a kind of informal reunion each fall

long record as fair restaurant

Norman Schultz in the

“We give them

Mrs matters. money.” year until 1 In addition to Place. Castleton and Ingall Me alsn the interdenominational Latter Day Saints State congregations week Churches

the churches

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Times Speci HOWE, The 46th the Brotherhood of St close tomorrow with a public servthe Howe Military School

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ice at chapel, Several hundred men and from the United States and Canada attented the convention of the Episcopal Church organization. Speakers for the week included: The Rt. Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott, bishop of Lexington, Ky.; the Rt! Rev. Frank E. Wilson, bishop of Eau Claire, Wis.: the Rt. Rev. G. F. Kingston, bishop of Algoma, Canada: the Rt. Rev. William

boys

M. Thomas, hishop of southern Brazil, and the Rt. Rev. Campbell Gra, bishop of northern Indiana

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couple, the car is 80 feet long and §

9 wide and has a chapel with seating capacity of 100, organ, pulpit. blackboard and other religious equipment at one end. At the other. are living quarters, with modern conveniences. When the missionaries are ready to travel, they have their combination home and church attached to a passenger train and away they go. #" ” un

New Disciples Official Moves to Irvington

The excuse, “too old to learn.” is just so much nonsense in the opinion of the Rev. Wilbur C. Parry, who with his family, is establishing his home this week in Indianapolis The Rev. Mr. Parry believes that the 21 Disciples of Christ conferences for adults held all over the United States this summer not only prove that the “past-school-age pupil” can learn but that he has a delightful time doing it.

The new Indianapolis resident

Mrs. Vance McNeely was Miss [Lodge will meet at 8 p. m. Tuesday thinks one secret of interesting the

Maurie Alexander marriage Aug. 3.

St. and Riviera Drive,

before her [at the I. O. O. F. Hall. Bellefontaine jadult student is in selecting intrig-

uing courses, not the dry standard

The Rev. Mr. Parry (Baptist) . . takes church and parsonage with him.

| “stuf” that for so long has occupied study groups. He recommends such subjects as the relation of the church to community issues, Christian family life, war and peace, personal religious living and colorful Bible study. The Rev. Mr. Parry comes from St. Louis to continue here what he did there as director of adult work and field supervision in the departmert of religious education of the United Christian Missionary Society. In addition, he will promote the “special offering” in the Disciples’ churches at Thanksgiving, Easter and on Children’s Day The middle of September the Rev

Mr. Parry wiil go to the West Coast |

tart sizzling and that familiar aroma of coffee m. at the stands where the church people serve The stands remain busy all day since most of them also serve the other two meals and sandwiches, ice cream and soft drinks

Seng and the Rev. Clarence W. Baldwin may) as are busy as beavers handing out “hamburgers

Church. has the distinction of having the largest outdoor church conthe fair while the Union Congregational Church Baldwin serves as minister, has the largest indoor one Seng will

are

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Planes to Drop Circulars for Mission Nov. 10-17; Every Protestant Family in City to Be Visited Before Meetings Begin.

One day soon when leaflets start falling from the airplanes over Indianapolis, no one will need to be startled. For it will not mean that a pamphlet air raid has been launched against the country but that Indianapolis people are heralding a religious event of a kind new here. The leaflets, outdoor billboards, streetcar and bus signs and newspaper notices are all a part of the active preparation for the coming of the National Christian Mission, Nov, 10 to 17. Thirty nationally and internationally known speakers, serving without pay, are visiting 22 cities in ail parts of the United States, spending a week in each place as in Indianapolis, They will start in Kansas City on Worldwide Communion Sunday, Oct. 6, and finish March 23, 1941, at Los Angeles. The National Christian Mission is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ of America The visit of the mission here is to be the climax of a six-month interdenominational program sponsored by the Indianapolis Church Federation and a local committee of 100 of which Dr. Orien W. Fifer chairman. Preceding the mission, during the week, Sept. 29 to Oct. 8, leaders will call on the whole membership of the Protestant churches of the city, attempt to reclaim those who do not attend church regularly and invite them all to receive the sacrament on Worldwide Communion Sunday, Dr. Jesse M. Bader of New York, who heads the Federal's Council's committee sponsoring the mission, will speak to Indianapolis churchwomen at a retreat Sept. 27 in the Central Christian Church, preceding the annual promotional luncheon of the Indianapolis Council of Churchwomen, The week of Nov. 10 to 17 will open and close with mass meetings in the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds. Evening meetings on intervening days will be downtown and on the East, West, North and South Sides. In daytime hours, groups of speakers will address high school students, women’s clubs, factory employees and busi=nessmen in all parts of town. Bible study classes and seminars are also a part of the program.

Led By Stanley Jones

The 30 speakers coming to Indianapolis include two bishops, two women, two Negroes, four people from foreign countries, one former Indianapolis pastor and other ministers and laymen, Dr. Stanley Jones of India, international evangelist, Methodist mis= sionary and author of many religious books, is the leader of the mission. Dr. Jones arrived in the United States in July and recently led an “Ashram” retreat at Saugatuck, Mich, attended by a group of Indianapolis church people who are active in the National Christian Mission preparations Dr. E. G. Homrighausen, former pastor of the Carrollton Avenue Evangelical and Reformed Church here, now a professor in the Princeton Theological Seminary, is among the 30. The Rt. Rev. Robert Spencer, Episcopal bishop of Kansas City and Methodist Bishop Arthur Moore of Atlanta are among the speakers, So are Miss Muriel Lester of London and Miss Hilda Ives. The Rev. J. C. Austin of Chicago and the Rev. William Lloyd Imes of New York, both pastors of Negro Churches, are on the team of 30. Aimed at ‘Churchless’ Half In addition to Dr. Jones and Miss Lester, those coming from Foreign countries include Dr. Adolf Keller of Switzerland and Dr. Richard Roberts of Canada. “The objective of the mission is to reach the unreached,” savs Di Fifer. “One-half of America is not In any church —-Jew, Catholic or Protestant. This effort will be on behalf of evervone, no matter his position or station in the community.” The theme of the mission “Christianity Has the Answer “Certainly the answer to todav’ problems is not to be found diplomacy, government, business public education. The answer is Christianity with Jesus Christ at center,” says Dr. Fifer.

as work. run high, because every

they conduct church services to-

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which

say that one reason why his

is because nobody can roast a side

” ” $1200 at the drinks

fair,

20.673 bottles of soft and

now busy redecorating the church

. iS having had a concession S

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of one having experience in such

already mentioned, the Arlington

thodist Churches have concessions: and Friendship Church

and that of the

CHINESE MISSIONS

Indianapolis parochial school children are saving Kind of cancelled postage stamp that comes neir way not for their own ee. "ra ions, however, but for a more novel purpose, With other Catholic children over the country (and some adults) they are saving the stamps to give tuem to the church. The church in turn sells them, hundreds and hundreds of pounds of them, and uses the money for Catholic missions in China.

the food hiusiness and the NoblesChureh

little flyer in the Jamestown Zinnsgville Christian

U. S. Lutherans Face Huge Task

ey am

The United States may soon

yesponsible for all United Lutheran foreign mission work in the world. United Lutherans

the country

Indianapolis and those over been informed that they be asked to assist with a nationwide campaign to raise $500.000 for hospitals. schools and churches usually supported by Germany, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The campaign will take place between Sept 15 and Nov. 15 If Sweden also is unable to cari; on, the campaign goal will be Increased to $750,000. The Lutheran mission field embraces Africa, China. Japan, New Guinea, India, Madagascar and the Holv Land

have

5TH RETREAT OPENS

Miss Josephine Kot is chairman of a lay retreat for women which will begin at 6 p. m. this evening and close Monday on the Marian College campus. This, the fifth and last of the diocesan lay retreats for women to be held ‘his summer, will be ducted by the Rev. Fr. Thom Richards, C. 8. C.,, of Notre 1 University.

SCIENCE SUBJECT

“Christ Jesus” is the less non subject for all Christian Sc ‘hurches tomorrow The Golden l'ext is: "God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world: but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17.

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Summer Guests

THIRD CHRISTIAN CHURCH-—-The Rev. Bert Wilson, general representative of the pension fund of the Disciples of Christ, will speak on “The Joy of Steadfastness.” Mrs. Kathryn Bennett, soprano, will sing the McDermid arrangement of the 91st Psalm. ST. PAULMETHODIS T CHURCH-—The Rev. Rosa A. Robb will speak at the evening service at 7:30 o'clock.

IRVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-—-Dr, Alexander E. Sharp, executive secretary of the Synod of Indiana of the Presbyterian Church, will speak. His topic will be “The Church in the Present Crises.” WHEELER MISSION — The Rev. Rosa Lizenby Robb, Congregational pastor of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will speak at 7:45 p. m. Monday. The Rev, Mrs. Robb is the sister of the Rev, C. R. Lizenby, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church ‘ere, Mrs, Lizenby will sing at the service, CHR"

The Rev. Mr. Parry

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to attend a field workers’ conference and make plans for the year's religious education in Disciples’ churches. The Parry famliy consisting of the Rev. Mr. Parry, Mrs. Parry, a 15-year-old daughter and 8-vear-old son, are occupying the former home in Irvington of Mrs. J. G. McGavran and Miss Grace McGavran., Mrs. McGavran was once a Disciples missionary to India and her daughter is the author of various religious stories and plays. The Rev. Mr. Parry is chairman of the adult, professional advisory section of the (interdenominational) International Council of Religious Education.

I'TAN MEN BUILDERS, "HIRD CHRISTIAN CHURCH--Dr. F. M. Smith, Pension Fund executive secretary for the Disciples of Christ, will speak on “A Neglected Virtue” tomorrow at 9:30 a. m