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June 9, 1955
RANDOLPH - Rev. R. O. Louthan, pastor of the Methodist church, is leaving Randolph after eight years of service at the local church to assume the position of dean of men at the Chicago Evangelistic Institute at University Park near Oskaloosa, Ia. These duties will start at the opening of the fall term, but he will assume the pastorate of the Deacon Methodist church near the college before the first of July.
The pastorate of the Randolph church will be filled later and had not been announced the first of the week following Methodist conference at North Platte.
During the Louthan pastorate here the church has shown a constant growth in membership and worship attendance. Over 160 new members have been received into the church during that time, the Methodist Youth Fellowship group membership has grown, and a young married peoples group formed.
In a material way, improvements at the church have been many in the last eight years. New carpets and velvet back drapes, an organ, complete new gas heating system, new worship centers, new communion service, public address system with record playing attachment in the tower, time clock for lighting the south window of the church, motion picture projector are included among the major improvements and additions. Both the church and parsonage have been painted and redecorated.
The Louthans came here from Meadow Grove and Rev. Louthan also served the Battle Creek church.
During his residence at Randolph he has been pastor also of the McLean Methodist church, which has grown extensively.
June 9, 1955
RANDOLPH - On June 9, the Rev. Mr. Dominic Daws, O. S. B., will be ordained to the priesthood by the Most Reverend Louis B. Kucera, D. D., Bishop of Lincoln, in the church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Falls City.
He will offer his first Solemn Mass next Sunday at 11 o’clock in St. Frances de Chantal church, Randolph, at which the pastor, Rev. R. G. Auer will be presbyter assistant, Rev. Walter Wiesmeier, O. S. B., Benedictine Mission House, Schuyler, deacon of the Mass, Rev. John Koros, pastor of St. Michael’s church, Coleridge, sub-deacon and the Rev. Charles Bresson, O. S. B., chaplain of Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Norfolk, master of ceremonies. The sermon will be preached by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph B. Falke, V. F., pastor of St. Ludger’s church, Creighton. Monsignor Falke was pastor at Randolph when the Rev. Mr. Dominic Daws was still known as Kenneth Daws.
Kenneth Daws was born May 9, 1917, at Randolph, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Daws, who were parents of 13 children. He received his elementary and high school education at Randolph high school, where he was graduated in May, 1935.
Rev. Mr. Daws is a convert to the Catholic church, having received his instructions from Rev. Harold Ginter at Cascade, Ia. in 1941. He was inducted into the army in 1942 and served three years in Alaska.
