FORD, Lyron - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

“Sunday Schools Should Pep Up Classes” – Case C-378: Lyron Ford, aged about 38, is the oil dealer at the little town near which we have our summer home.  But he is also the teacher of a Young People’s Class in the local Christian Church and a very capable one, too.  Recently he and his wife served an 8:30 a.m. breakfast to 17 members of his Sunday School Class on Sunday morning.  This was not a special Easter breakfast, such as many churches now engaged in on easter Sunday.  No, it was just a routine means of promoting good fellowship.  But it also guaranteed that at least 17 young people would be on time for Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. for they attended in a body.  Jesus was the greatest Applied Psychologist who ever lived.  In the revision of my college text – fact, I have included a section in book to show why I consider him the world’s outstanding psychologist.  So Jesus would delight in such wholesome strategy as having an 8:30 a.m. breakfast.  Christ’s Method – For he fed people, too, at religious services. Indeed, he started the first church picnic by feeding the 5,000 men, not to mention the women and children in the crowd.  He liked parties, too for he delighted in spending the weekend at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus.  His first miracle was at a wedding feast, which was the outstanding social event in ancient times.  He certainly enjoyed boating and sailing.  He showed his Apostles how to catch fish.  He also served them a breakfast of broiled fish one morning after his Resurrection thus setting a precedent for modern church.  He tried to teach them humility by personally washing their feet.  He used the “reversible why” to confute the critics who hoped to trap him on the two-horned dilemma, as when they asked: “Master, is it lawful to render tribute to Caesar.”  Jesus was a smiling clergyman, too, for children clustered around him, but neither children nor dogs will be attracted to a person with a harsh voice and a sourpuss expression.  Jesus believe in using advertising methods, for he sent the 70 disciples ahead of him, two by two to recruit the crowds.  He believed in polls of public opinion, as when he asked his Apostles, “Who do people say that I am?”  I think he was also probably feigning sleep in the ship at sea when it was about to be destroyed in the storm, for he wanted to see how much faith his Apostles really had after three years in his company.  Jesus would doubtless recommend movies at 9:30 on Sunday morning to get the children to Sunday school on time.  I’m sure he would have employed the “block” system by which two teenagers are responsible for surveying the religious affiliations of all people in a given city block, and then urging them to attend the church of their choice.  He would undoubtedly approve of church suppers and family night on Sunday eveni8ng where a light supper, a 50-minute religious service and simple group games would fill the evening till 10 p.m.  Send for my bulleting, “How to Pep Up Sunday School,” enclosing a stamped return envelope, plus a dime!

Source: Indianapolis News Wed 3 Feb 1965 p 4

Lyron Ford of Hillsboro is luckier than some race drivers have been.  Ford’s fully loaded gasoline truck went out of control on Ind 341 and rolled over three times but did not catch fire.  The truck was demolished. Much of the cargo – 300 gallons of gasoline, 200 gallons of fuel oil and several gallons of lubricating oil – ran out on the ground.  Ford, uninjured, crawled out of the wrecked truck and walked to a nearby farmhouse to call for aid.

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier Sat 30 Sept 1961 p 17

The 4-H key awards to 10 outstanding boys and girls were presented by Lyron Ford. They were Sharon Newman and am Holt, Cain; Raylene Campbell, Carolyn Sowers and Sarah Moffet, Jackson; John McKee, Richard; Colin Foster, Shawnee; Nancy Galloway and Connie Moudy, Troy and Merlin Maltsberger of Van Buren.

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier 22 Aug 1950 Tue p 4

Newtown LaChorale celebrated its 25th anniversary with a program in the Newtown Presbyterian Church.  Hostesses were Mrs. Arthur Sheridan, Mrs. Russel Stokes, Miss Ozark Palin and Mrs. Fred Coleman. The president, Mrs. Albert Cushman, presided and welcome was extended by Mrs. John Crawford, Miss Leolia Black, a charter member and who named the club, gave a talk.  The president gave highlights of the club’s history. Mrs. HP Barnes, an honorary member of the club and who is a member of the Indiana Federation of music clubs’ Golden Anniversary Who’s Who gave a short talk.  Piano numbers were played by Miss Patricia Quirk and vocal numbers were sung by Mrs. Walter Bennett.  Mrs. Omer Pevler reviewed Trapp Family Singers by Maria Trapp.  The serving table was decorated with a lace cloth, white tapers in silver holders and a centerpiece of cut flowers.  Appointments were carried out in silver.  Favors were miniature notes and cleft signs in silver.  Refreshments of ice cream, punch, cakes and nuts were served to 60 persons. Charter members present were Mrs. James Whitesides and Mrs. Robert Douglass, Crawfordsville; Mrs. HS Shultz; Mrs. Harold Shultz, Miss Black, Mrs. George Lawton, Mrs. HG Quirk, Mrs. Fred Coleman, Mrs. Russel Stokes, Mrs. Carl Quigle. Other living charter members are Miss Marie Coen, Mrs. Isabelle Wilson and Mrs. Frances Brown.  Other guest included Mrs. Harvey Duncan, Mrs. Lowell Martin and Mrs. Philip Gray, Mellott; Mrs. Ernest Ferguson and Mrs. Carrie Nehemiah, Attica; Mrs. Joe Bell, Lafayette and Miss Mary Ruth Ball, Newcastle, PA.  Newtown guests were Mrs. Belle Kerr, Mrs. Belle McKinney, Mrs. Donnell Mitchell, Mrs. Marvin Townsend, Mrs. CW Howard, Mrs. JH Stahl, Mrs. JR Campbell, Mrs. Anna Gray, Mrs. Ernest Chester, Miss Ruth Aydelotte, Misses Patricia Quirk and Marcia Dickerson, Mrs. Mary Palin and Mrs. Florence Brown.  Greetings were read from Mrs. Lyron Ford, Hillsboro, president of the Sixth District Indiana Federation of music clubs who was unable to attend.