Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1921 Page: 12 of 16
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RECORD. ALVA. OKLAHOMA
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 11, MZ!
.The Better Cities
Campaign
(Continued from page 1.)
Have a system of research and
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teacher association the central pqr-1 post a list of same in all churches.
pose being to study local school-and-
nonie problems and to bring about
improvemnts s° decided upon.
44. Issue regular multigraphed
ose being to study local school-and- ' 42. Attempt to organize a parents'
‘ class or a child study class in every
statements to parents summarizing
ways whereby they may co-operate
with the purposes
of the school and
inquiry in the high school intended to keep stfp wjth its progress,
bring out and encourage the hidden 47 |*sue all appeal to parents so-
genius in each pupil—In science, in- j liciting their assistance and signed ap-
dustrial art. tine art, handicraft, and pr0val in the inanagentent of a week-
evening, home-study program for high
the like.
SI. Keep >>n display in at least one
city show window attractive examples
of the art and handicraft of the high j
school pupils, changing these fre-
quently.
32. Once a year have an exhibit
week for all schools in the city sture
windows showing the ail and handi-
craft of every grade of the public
schools.
33. Have a class m English trained
to supply regularly a department in
the local press with items of infor-
mation and propaganda from
grades of the schools.
school pupils
48. Conduct twice per week or oft-
ener a regular high school assembly
and make this a clearing house for
healthy school sentiment and propa
ganda.
hj. Issue from the school multi-
graphed circulars as to home enter-
tainment, home reading courses, the
intelligent use of picture shows, and
the like.
SO. Undertake to organize the
school and the home on a common
I bond of sentiment and purposes to
‘the use and abuse of the automobile
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Have a civic class trained to |)S (|u. young people
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51. ( onduct a systematic all-church
campaign for increased attendance at
make maps and charts of proposed
Icoal improvements in conditions of ........
parks, traffic highways, drainage and ,|u. Sunday -school, using business and
water systems, all in course of plann mo,|t.ri) advertising methods,
nitig a future ‘city beautiful.” 52. Develop a plan for the regu-
35. Maintain a \. M. I . A. and <* ]ar advertisement of all the Sunday
.Y. W. C. A , each attempting to con- schools, through the tt.se of posters,
dqct a judicious management of the . ;„dotv cards, bulletin hoards, and the
intra-school religious needs of the j;kei
pupils, attempting to assist every pit- Have the manual department
jiil in finding normal religious exper-1 0f public school make uniform and
icnce. ornamental church announcement
34. Plan pupil organizations whtclj frames to he attached to outside walls
shall definitely discourage cheating at 0f s(urr buildings in business districts,
games, gambling and betting, social 54 Provide a standard system of
excesses and cigarette smoking wek-day advertising, of sermons, Sun-
arnong pupils. j day school lessons, scripture verses
37. Conduct in the grammar grade aI)() special religious programs, to use
of ehe schools a department of j„ wa|j frames suggested in No. 53,
patching and mending," with elective above. —
credit as an inducement, and here 55. Attempt to establish the of-
have girls mend and darn at a nominal fjre „f cj|y superintendent of Sunday
charge for the women of the school schools with some capable business
Sunday school, to study the psychol-
ogy of training and the local juvenile
situation along with the Bible text.
43. Make an effort to secure for
use of all Sunday schools a modeyn
song book with abundance of selec-
tions suited to child and juvenile life
and interest.
44. Seek to give every younger
Sunday school class art attractive
name—e. g “The Gladiolas, “The
Garners,” "The True Rlues"—and to
have every class carry out‘at least
r | one project annually. j
45. Conduct at least once a year anjs
all-day Sunday rally, with all schools
in a line of march and with drums,
flags, banners and mottoes conspicu-
ous. Follow with mass meeting and *
reverently make all a matter of relig-
ious propaganda. !
44. Conduct, perhaps twice annual-
ly, a big all-community Sunday school ;
fair and picnic, with careful chaper- ' g
onage and freedom from comnter- j
I cialized sweets and dissipation.
Friends Church
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Corner of College and Center Streets
district.
34. Train
a small class of high
man as the appointee. Have him
give, say. three regular office hours
67. Organize for the open'season
an inter-Sunday •school baseball
league to play at the twilight hour on |
Saturday afternoons. Seek otherwise 3
to Christianize athletics and play. ' ' ;
68. Conduct a systematic campaign •
among all churches to (lecorate and j
beautify every Sunday school class 3
room in the city. Dispense with all N
parrenness and ugliness. l|
89. Undertake to try to arrange j
that public high school pupils may |
receive special elective credit in vocal 3
Meetings for Worship, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.m.
Edwin and Ida Niles, Pastors.
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school girls to visit homes and specify : per day to the work and pay him ac-
plans 'for household decoration and , cordingly. -
ing
othc
improvement.
31. Have high school girls conduct
two afternoons a week a baby nursery
at which mothers may leave their
babies during the hours 0/ shopping
and calling.
49. Give pupils school practice
work in business and thrift in con-
nection with arithmetic and other
classes. Give actual practice in trad-
at stores, dealing at banks, and
Iter business transactions.
4l. Make the manual department
of the junior high school a center of
actual shop practice where each
learner may be taught to make some-
thing useful and perhans ornamental.
41. Have pupils of higher grade
make all necessary tables, benches,
lockers and other simple accessories
of school buildings and grounds.
43. Emphasize the idea of the pupil
manufacture of all school playground
apparatus and of play devices to be
used in the homes of the district.
48. Train lower- grade boys to
make for public disposition such use-
ful articles as chicken coops, bird
houses and fly traps.
4S. Conduct regularly a parent-
St. Stephen’s
. Episcopal
Church
REV. C. W. DU BOIS, Rector
58. Depend upon the city superin-
tendent of Sunday schools, to make
general plans, to announce special
Sunday programs, to supply teacher
vacancies, to stimulate weak schools,
and the like.
• 57.. Have united Sunday schools
promote missionary instruction, Bible
supply and study, relief work, and
the like among the poor and neglect-
ed districts of the city.
58. Undertake to have a troop of
Boy Scouts and a similar organiza-
tion of girls in every larger church
or Sunday school and to place these
under a regular scout aexecutive.
59. Have Sunday School commit- . , w , . . .
tees to organize schools in outlying 1 Evening service. 7:30, first and third
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Walter S. Bales, Supt.
6:30 p. m.
Christian Endeavor.....
/ Bernice Cox, Pres.
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WELCOME
Morning service, 11 a. nt.. second and
4th Sundays.
The friends has always laid its emphasis upon the
moral and spiritual in the Christian religion. Worship
is in Spirit and in Truth, John 4:24. God desires truth
in the inward parts, Psa. 51:(). To be a Christian is to
be as clean as one appears to be.
districts, to visit and encourage such
schools, to extend mercy, relief and
good rheer to invalids, shut-ins and
aged persons.
60. Conduct annually a regular in-
ter-church Sunday school teachers’ in-
stitute, with- conspicuous public pro-
grams and religious propaganda in-
cluded.
91. Establish in the city library a
regular department of church work-
ers’ and Sunday school literature and
Sundays.
Sunday School 10 o’clock.
Holy Communion, second Sunday.
We have an organized Men’s Class in Sunday Sbhool
and you are invited to come and be one of its leaders in
the discussions of various questions.
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believes that Alva is the best town
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family. This church is striving to
serve the Kingdom of God by serv-
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Sunday School.... 9:45
Preaching .....11:00
Junior C. E......3:00
Vesper Service .... 4:00
Senior C. E.......5:00
Prayer Meeting Wednesday Evenings, 7:30
There is a helpful service and a yrarm wel-
come awaiting you in this friendly church, i
LeRoy Thompson, Pastor.
St. Michael's
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to assist in the Better Cities
Campaign, and help make
Alva a cleaner, bigger and
better city.
ALVA CAN WIN
MUST WIN
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Blakey, R. F. Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1921, newspaper, February 11, 1921; Alva, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1076608/m1/12/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.