Mower County transcript. [volume], October 21, 1903, Image 1

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DEDICATION OF
W
Members of the cemetery board
c%gym$n-of t%^yfoj||ho AQiil^
^setft Mi speaml,th%Masoiiic lquar
ftte
which led the singing with Mrs.
Birkett as pianist and others-. The
afternoon was mild for the season
ajhjcl the large audience oepmned th^
la^ 8urround^yglm Br, p-2--'
d^iit of the fcoirdjf nifi\ch#rJeF
program. After preliminary devotional
e&^rcises and scripture reading by Rev%
J$!\ S. Dascomb, pastor of the Congrega
tional ekairf3)U& hi^Urloal alldress was
reid by Mr. O. VV. Shaw, which is so
print and iciiich wHich eoon •cannot" be
THE NEW CHAPEL.
gathered up, that We print it entire. It
"is a record of- permanent,vgj^^ Fol
lowing.Mr.iShfiw'8 Mdressv.Bev, J. M.
ritJrown, pastor of the E. chtirch,
spoke on
"The God of all Consolation"
and Rev. F/L. Anderson, pastor of the
Baptist church, spoke on "Proper Re
spect
for our dead." Rev.
nue.
The
D.
J. \V.
Somerville, pastor of the Episcopal
church,
gave the dedicatory prayer, and
after the benediction the large congre
gation went through the new chapel
and
made a thorough inspection of it.
All of the clergymen' of the city were
cordially and seasonally invited to par
ticipate in the program of the day and
urgent engagements alone prevented
all of them from being present.
The chapel lias cost complete about
$4,000. It is of Gothic style with
shingled sides as will be seen from the
•accompaning picture. 'It faces to the
west and is located in the new addition
some distance back from Lansing
CENIETERY CHAPEL.
aver
building is 28 42 feet with
porch six feet wide over the main door
way on the west and connected with
this is a spacious port cochere, 13 feet
wide, furnishing ample protection from
rain while getting in or out of carriages.
As you enter the main doorway, on the
right of the hall way in the southwest
corner is the superintendent's office with
outside stairway as well as opening
into the interior. On the other end of
the
hall, stairs go up to the choir gal
lery above which contains an organ
and seats for choir and others. Under
the stairs is a closet. On the main floor
of the auditorium are beautiful oak
pews capable of seating 125 people with
plenty of room for chairs to accomo
date including the gallery about 8C0
people. At the east end oi the audi
torium is the rostrum with pulpit and
chairs. On the south end of this plat
form is a small closet for the uee of of
ficiating clergymen. In front of the
pulpit is a lowering device for lowering
caskets to the vaults below. On the
left ofj the pulpit platform, as you
face it, is the stairway leading down to
the vaults. The floor is of solid cement
on brick arches.
In the basement is afire proof vault
with capkcity for 75 caskets. This will
be used for storage purposes during ithe
winter time. It is of iron frame laid
in solid cement and has iron doors
across its entrance on the east. There
is a porch on the east of the building
over the outside entrance and steps to
the vaults The chapel will be used
for burial services during the inclement
weather and for whatever funerals may
be desired to be held there at any time.
Its use will be absolutely free for all lot
owners. 'l
The Justin Cemetery Associa
tion may well feel under obligations to
its excellent bdard of trustees for the
completion ef this substantial improve
ment. The present officers are: pre
f$k
At
Large Crowds Were Present Last Sunday Afternoon
at Oakwood —The Weather Auspicious—A Very ..
(i interesting Program—Full Report of Hon.
rt! -0 W. Shaw's Histpr|?al Address,
Over a thousand people gatl|ered in sident,.. H. Stimson secretary, Dr.
O^kwdod cenieferl "test Sundarhfftei^ W ^.Mliytep treasiiTk^ Sr A/Smith?
noion on the occasion of the dedication
of the iieW l^entlF^c^plet^
A platform was erected in the port
ISTORICAL ADDRESS.
.^aorm-
The life of a community for a day, a
month, a year, or a generation is an
aggregation of individual experiences,
and as in the life of every individual, so
likewisexinrth^histor^ of
days, they are wholly imperceptible ,bu|
fpr all that they- are no
Jess real TKe
Iqountengjnee of a fipennd fa saw. yesterday
aind me't-t^s morning! h|s to ,me under
gone no alteration, but let separation
occur and the- absence of years in
tervene, and how apparent the change.
This, to us as individuals and as a
community, is an occasion of special in
terest# 'twill tmng to some of you tender
memories Of days long gone :perchance
of departed ones with whom in the glo\y
of life's morningjyou walked along our
streets perhaps of disappointed hopes
and bitter griefs that time may nevel:
heal, but whatever it may bring to you
or me, to a single one it does not fail to
repeat its appropriate and impressive
lesson thai, change i|T hyman lives is an,
unvarying law.
X.XXVI—No AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1903.
J,
superintendent, A., Frederich other
Following is Mr.
the
be
4Shaw's
historical
O
I
aS
1
'tis in the contrast of'^conditions pre.
vailing in the community at the time of
the establishment of this burial place
•with those now existing, and in these
alone that may be found proper realiza
tion of the, changes which the passing
years have wrought, and'tis in the pre
sentation Of such contrast that today
your thoUghts will be largely called to
what is long gone.
Primarily we ate assembled to dedicate
to its proper use this crowning accom
plishment in this home of ttie. dfead, in
cidentally too, we areobserving the
fiftieth anniversary of the building of
the first house erected in this county,
within rifle shot of the very place of this
gathering.
Within the assigned limits I can make
little reference to the very infancy of
the settlement along this river bank
sufficient to say that the coming of the
pioneers of 1853 and 4, followed by the
influx of 1855 and 6, gave the population
proportions of some magnitude. So far
as I know there has not been found
among us a proper record of the attend
ant privations and hardships that marked
that earlier period. Such as they are
chiefly exist in the recollections of the
few surviving participants, whose num
ber is so rapidly growing less.
In 1858 the scattered cabins had be
come a hamlet of less than two hundred
souls. Nevertheless with the involved
possibilities this number was sufficent- to
attract the coming of the first newspaper
the "Mower County Mirror," of which if
there are any files among us, I have
never seen them. It was removed to
Rochester in i860. In December of the
same year was issued the first number of
Austin's second newspaper, the "Minne
sota Courier," which continued about
three years. In July, 1863, was issued the
first number of the "Register," and files
of both have been kindly placed in my
hands by Mr. H. O. Basford. I have
looked through these with absorbing in
terest. This was- a little world within
itself. As Mate as July 16, 1862, the
Courier said "Our latest St. Paul papers
are dated 9th inst. and under our present
mail facilities we are forced to go to
press without anynewS later than those
contained -in the paper of above date."
*Xnd here we have in hand the preserved
record of its affairs in which, my, friends,
the participants are lying all about
U9.
All its circumscribed local interests are
before us—its homely social life its
politics, conflicts of opinion, its bicker
ings and strifes, (for it had them) selfish
ness, and with&l, the ties of friendship
and mutual trust, bet weep fellowmen,
love, sympathy, generosity, sell-denial
human nature, as i* broadfer .• fields,^re
peating all its diversified characteristics.
'Tis from these files, with here and
there a gleaning from some old settler's
story," that I am indebted for the memo-'
randa that I shall present, much curtail-*
ed "by. the[linrit9 of this occasion.
•\Following the salutatpry in the first:
number of the "Courier," dated Dec. $th,'
i860, the'editor (I quote the language in
substance) makes known to that portion
of the duter world hitherto in darknes^
that, |n th^^utti-^fes4 4°rner of Moweii
County there is a vigorous, thriving towiij
yclept Austip, an£|says
"•tfteri was^ifot frariied ftousi'ufion the
spot .where to-^ay we look from oUri
iar^ctiini -iohl fbun Crowidedi1 -business'
streets a quarter of a mile long and
e^trQn|itf along,
the fine higtr bottom Rive©
well stocked, five lawyers, two gop^:
dpfifg wa^ancgf^l fe«tablis|^'
m^ht, one good hotel, one gristt and t^'i
saw-miysAtwbscabine| sh^ps,J^volwaglogii
sliopg
3thrfeer1
fey^rXfCom-.
|nutrit|,%|e|r ale »ai#ns of|
•morte-folfmoWIn Jry-*inter«C vS'heie are+
occasions when not only individuals but
wholfelctiiwmbpiti^s. arejfOreibly ffetnirid
ed of the rapid flight of time and of the
changes effected in a series of years.
These changes are not confined to any
one
dieted oLj^^
admit
fanntilg-Mlr tj^l
black-smith shops, one tanner, one drtig
|t(^e,4thr^ shoe ^shops aqjd a host of
ution% |«rhich'v^^- space wi:P
nrentibnirfg.'
Now regarding the population,
doubtedly considerable allowance shou|(ij
be m§(|crfpffth^^itpr'g e^ub?eign^fanj:Ji
As a fact given in the Register in Se^|
temberr i8664 the population of- Austifi
^hat^
with' these SWUmerated e^id^nces" of
grJ3Ktb i,does it not seettLaatrange con
dition that at tfeis ,time and later, wit||
this^^eopl^no di^ti^t provision of place:
had beejf ifiade foMhe burij.1 of i^s deadf
The ^yja%jA.br||am stood before
"sons o'f Heth and said: "I am a stranges
and a sojourner with you. Give mi
possession of a burying place with you^
that I may. bury my dead out of my sigh^
From our- stand point does this apparenf:
neglect
rin
the^ early days of this conf|
munity seem "to set at naught a senti-t
ment inherent and :prevailing in ever^
civilized community^ Does it^ indicate
indifference to a Custom that in the
strongest manner appeals to one of thi
finest instincts of hurnin kind? And yetg
my friends that was a kindly people,*
abounding in good impulses and alive to
all the humanities that claim publrf:
sympathy and support. This I
learned^while' scanning the happenin^|l
among-them andhas
increased my respect
for the generation, of jnchom so few re
main this side of the great river.
Let us fead a. record of November,
1861, "Died Nov. 1st, Mrs. Pluma Yates,
wife of Mr. J. B. Yates of this village,
aged 22 years." Where will she be bur
ied? "Where is your burying ground?"
asked the'new comer, Henry Jacobs, of
Mrs. J. L. Davidson, a part of whose
store room he occupied, on the site of
what is now Mr. Waldecker's building.
"I.cannot say" was tfie reply. "We have
no burying ground." Strange?—No
longer strange to me for from those
musty records I understand the stress
and pressure under which those men
and women labored on the foundations
of a fabric, the glorious cap-stone of
which children's children are yet to see.
'Twas the genesis of new homes and new
hopes a composite structure into which
at the hands of the laborers each mater
ial must bide its time and take its proper
place.
Of course in these early years there
were deaths in the community, but the
ones mentioned as occurring during the
period covered by the first volume of
the Courier seem incredibly few, and
this fact itself is a striking commentary
on the vigor of men and women who
^earned to endure and who had become
hardened for every task before them.
That the necessity, emphasized as Mr.
L. N. Griffith has told me by the circum
stances of Mrs. Yates'death, for a public
burial place had become iully realized
is evidenced by- an item in, the same pa
per under date of March 19th, 1862. "The
cemetery meeting on Saturday last was
very well attended and our prominent
citizens manifested a disposition to aid
the enterprise and do all* in their power
to secure a place for burial of the dead."
.And what transpired at that meeting
in its final actionals supplied by the copy
of the certificate of incorporation,' writ
ten out on the opening pages of the
Book of Records kindly loaned me by
Dr, W. L. Hollister of the Board of
Trustees.
"The following named persons organ
izing themselves into an association
under the name of the Austin Cemetery
Association,—L. N. Griffith, Solomon
Snow, E. W. Ford, .Sylvester Smith, B.
F. Jones, John S. Lacy, C. J. Shortt, Or
manzo Allen, G. H. Bemis, E. F. Gurney,
~J.Ap.
B."]F. Lindsey, George B. Hayes, W. W.
Cook, V. P. Lewis, Henry Jacobs, Joseph
Bougard, J. L. Davidson, Oliver Somers,
P. B. Johnson, and 'tis of mteriest to note
just here that one of these, Rev. Mr.
Gurney, was the first person, buried in
these grounds. 4.1?
Five trustees -were chosen, L. N. Grif
fith,- Ormanto Allen, for one year, John
^Lacy and Oliver Somers for two.years,
lomon.Snow for three years.
flpord
1
'JOf- these nineteen men, fifteen I subse
ently knew. All of them I believe
ye passed away except two. Esquire
iiffith and Mr. Jacobs are among our
izens. I hope they may long remain.
Tis greatly to be regretted that the
of these early proceedings of the
gsociation have not been prtiserved
^he only entries of transactions appear
ing in the Record Book for the first six
jind one-half years were of meeting of lot
pwners May 6th, 1865, and of election of
bfficers May 13th, a week liater, and
^iese were eopied into the book by Mr.
H. Davidson kfter his election as sec
^ptary in August, 18^, undoubtedly from
l|ndom memoranda.
$fFrom this date, Aug. 1868, tp the pres
ent time, the records appear complete.
|br late lamented friend, Charles H.
Davidson, heldthe office of secretary for
|fore than twenty five years. That it
as his hope to discover some* formet
icprds i^ indicated by the consecutive
[ank leaves which he left for the inser
n. of such should they ever appear.
fortunately*from sources I have indi
ted we have fair knowledge, of some of
important transactions' for the period,
he first .Kuty pf the Commiftee of thfe
rustees, ,Mr. .Griffith,. Mr Spith and
r. Snow/to obtain a site. for. the cemer
t^ry was not easy.-- People seemed to
fiilike to sell land for that ipurpose, and
jlrhen Mr. Baudler offered to sell them
live acres^lyirig just north of his house,
i^en standing viery near the site of the
Krick house west o£ the roadway, now
owned by., the association,' they were
much surprised, as Mr. Griffith has re
Beiitly told ine. And Mr. William Baud
ler told me the' past week 'that he was
also surprised, but said his.brother did
qn-''account bf' Elder ParTcer, who
greatly'[desired -it.. This purchase was
fhe five acres including 'Hhe swale in the
Corner south of the east and^west road
past south of Mr. Litchfield's.
,The selection of -this Site was nc^t
|gfeeable to Mr. Boynton, Mr. Litchfield
|nd some others and an arrangement
was made by which, for payment of $25
Additional, the same number of acres
iWas obtained on this side of the roadway,
'pate of Mr. Baudler?s deed was March
129,1862.
Litch^^has^&c^^^l^j^e
tffaTMiv Boyntoif,"luis" fethetiin^wf^rac'
himself contributed each $10 of the $25
paid in making the exchange.
If I am in error in transcribing any of
these old memoranda, I trust any old set
tiers present, who know the facts, will
correct me.
In the Courier of July 2nd,1862, notice,
signed by L. N. Griffith, President, artd
S. Snow, secretary, calls for meeting of
stockholders of the Austin Cemetery As
sociatiOn for July 5th, for the purpose of
drawing their respective lots.
In the Register of Tuly 26th, 1863, is
mentioned the previous purchase of the
beautiful grounds from Mr. Baudler, and
the formation of a Ladies Mite Society
to provide means to fence same.
Sept. 3rd. A call signed by Rev. H.
I. Parker inviting all subscribers for lots
to meet at the cemetery for selection.
Oct. 29th. The Mite Society held its
last meeting with Mrs. C. J. Shortt. It
was well attended and the contributions
liberal. The society has been in exist
ance for something like a year and has
during that time accomplished its object,
which was to fence the Austin cemetery.
The fund has been raised and we soon
expect to see the grounds entirely
enclosed. This society -has done, so
much good that we believe a similar one
could do much good for other objects.
It meets next Tuesday with Mrs. Asa
Brown at the Lacy house.
And that society continued its labors,
changing its objects from time to time,
including contributions for Minnesota
sick and wounded soldiers, for the war
was on and the nation engaged in a
struggle for its life.
July 28th, 1864. Shortt and Johnson,
surveyors of Qakwood cemetery, give
notice that they will be on the grounds
Tuesday following for purpose of com
pleting its survey. It is proposed that
all turn out 'to cut up the brush, to pre
pare and drive stakes. The ladies also
propose to give a substantial dinner.
On Aug. 4th, is given a lengthy account
of what occurred on that day most inter
esting in connection with the accomplish
ed improvement of the grounds.
Let us see what were the, happenings
hereabouts on the second day of August
thirty nine years ago.
OAKWOOD CEMETERY PICNIC.
"The notice we published last week
that the ladies of Austin would prepare
refreshments for such gentlemen as
would volunteer to aid the surveyors in
completing the work of laying out our
cemetery grounds, called out a large
and spirited force. During the forenoon
the company of men in various depart
ments of the work increased from hour
to hour and the work went briskly" on.
A^out eleven o'clock the ladies began to
eome in, bearing provisions of all desir-
able kinds. Tables 'were spread in the
grove near Crane's front door, mak
ing free use of Mrs. Crane's stove,
and various culinary implements, and
bringing into service an outside fire.
Our ingenious ladies contrived to 'sgrve
to their weary and hungry lords a warm
and most excellent dinner. Thorough
exercise gave to it an unusual zest.: The
occasion, so far as the repast was con
cerned, reminded us of many a celebra
tion: of the immortal Fourth.
"The completion ofjthe survey prepares
the way for distributing titles to the lots,
Collecting the money to be paid for them,
and completingr the enclosing of the
grounds. Before long we should set
apart a day to clear up the main streets
through the grounds. Individuals own
ing lots will, then be stimulated to clear
and otherwise improve: them." The ap
propriate name '•Qakwood'' as Mr. Grif
fith has told hie was" suggested by Mrs.
W. W. Cook known to many of. you and
now living in St. Paul
Feb. 28th, 1865/ An appeal to lot own
ers. -v •:. .-i
May 3rd, 1865. It is a shame that
Oakwood should remain so long in its
present condition, and implied blame of
the Trustees/ •::.. ^c.
I trust the reading of these quite ex
tended memoranda has not wearied you.
'Tis as a revelation of sdme passages in
the busy- lives of men and women whose
mouldering forms are lying all about us,
and on. the whole 'tis a commentary of
honorable mention.
From the commencement of reliable
records of proceedings from August, 1868,
for several years'I find nothing unusual
in the administration of affairs of the As
sociation.
In the early seventies it does not ap
pear that funds came in too. rapidly and
on March 11, 1871, by resolution of the
board, lots were deeded to H. M. Allen
and D. J. 1 ubbs each for work in putting
in an archway over the main entrance.
In Jutyj 1870, is the first indication of
inteintion to buy. more land for cemetery,
purposes as the motion phrased it, a:
committee was chosen "to see about it."-
In April, 1879, a committee had been
appointed to "Confer wit^jjwners of ad
joining properties with view of purchas
ing. land for enlargement.
Iii March, 1887, a. rnotion indicates pur
pose to take action to procure land on
fe9! condemna
May, 1889.' Voted to Withdraw con
demnation proceedings which had been
begun.
Aug. 5th, 1889. Voted to authorize
purchase of 27 19-25 acres of land in the
northeast corner of the northeast quarter
of Section No. Nine, Township No. One
hundred one, Range No. Eighteen at $50
per acre, south of the fair grounds, which
was made.
Aug. 10th, 1891. At meeting of the
Trustees voted to appoint a committee
to act with the Ladies Cemetery Im
provement Association to order and
superintend the improvements. about to
be made on Oakwood Cemetery.
And how introduces a new factor.
Eleven days before (July 30th) there had
been organized a society of that name,
whose records kindly loaned me by Mrs.
Ida Smith-Decker I have examined.
At its second meeting, Aug. 6th, it was
voted that the directors wait upon Mr.
Adler and obtain his price for the land
adjoining the present cemetery. At the
third regular ipeeting, Aug. 13th, "Re
solved that it is the sense of this meeting
that the Trustees of the Austin Cemetery
Association be requested to dispose of
the land they have bought south of the
fair grounds, and to buy land near the
present cemetery."
And here, as in the light of the present
we must all admit, is the record of one
the most important of the steps in a pro
gression of development whose crowning
accomplishment we observe today and
it was the intuition of the finer instinct of
Woman's nature joined to broad compre
hension of the possibilities of this site in
its wholeness that prompted the mover
of that resolution and the vote that rati
fied it. The mover of that resolution
was Mrs. D. H. Stimson.
And now, my friends, we are on famil
iar. ground. 'Tis not necessary for me
to trace the relations between these two
Associations., 'Tis sufficient that we
know that through their seven years har
monious co-operation the best results
were achieved.
Neither is required rehearsal of the
negotiations for a final purchase of the
Adler farm of one hundred sixty acres
in October, 1894.- Deed dated Nov. 5th.
The needed sum for payment $8,000
was borrowed of the city banks on notes
signed by twenty fout citizens, which
cancelled notes, as I understand, have
been preserved arranged behind glass in
the office of the Superintendent, and in
like manner should be exhibited and
preserved the respective Baudler and
Adler deeds, all as documents significant
of interesting, periods in the history of
the cemetery.
The same ye"ar witnessed tfe sale of
the tract south of the fair grounds, to­
TERMS:—$1.50 Per Annum, in Adv&ncc*
gether with that portion of the Adler
purchase lying east of the river and then
follow initial plans for proper survey
and platting of the recently acquired
contiguous addition, and the result has
been a creation that to.every citizen
among us is an object of civic pride.
What is patent to every intelligent
man is hardly necessary to repeat, that
the affairs of the Association have been
wisely administered, and even with in
creased care incident to enlarged plans,
there have been corresponding time and
labor freely rendered, and as it seems to
me, most sagacious planning and fore*
thought.
And assuming in this presence to
speak for the Austin Cemetery Associa-
tion. and in view of a history, some parts
of which today I have briefly recalled,
I feel. I shall be derelict in duty if I fail
to express on this occasion the Associat
ions gratefuljiacknowledgment for serv
ices.rendere.^in the past by many of oiir
citizens, many of"thejm living, some dead.
Mr. C. H, Davidson, for more than
twenty five years the efficient secretary
of its board of trustees (lying out'yonder
among the Sleepers), N. P. Austin, John
Fi Cook, A. P. Kirkland, W. T. Wilkins
and A. E. Fairbanks all gone,: Mr. L.'
N." Griffith, yet living, one of its incor
porators more than forty One years ago,'
its 'first president, and for many years'
filling the sam£ office, Mr. R. O. Hal',
for years unsparing of time in its service,
and wise 'adviser on its official board!
H, W Page and C. M. Fernald removed
Others are with us and of us,- Messrs.
Decker, Litchfield, Pooler, Gr'eenmati,
McBride, Leonard, Scott and others,
honored citizens.
At the last annual meeting of lot owers
in March last, there was authorized the
erection ot a vault and chapel, and it is
the carrying out of this expressed desire
that the present board of trustees pre
sent to you to-day this completed work,
in its designed purpose for the free use
henceforth of every lot owner in this
cemetery, and with the accompanying
guaranty of free perpetual care of every
grave within its borders. Your trustees
submit it as the best result obtainable
from the expenditure made, in the firm
belief and ardent hope that it will meet
your approval.
The total cost has been $4000, a sum
.far exceeded by the value of-Other pro-
side-the cemetery grounds, and here, my
friends, follows fitting place for some
words concerning your present official
board.
On these it is not for me to bestow
praise that might be by any one con
sidered invidious. I know what I be
lieve. These men have wrought in
harmony with ambitious endeavor and
pride for the attainment of the end they
sought and have found. Difficulties
of which the public knows little they
have overcome, and today, my friends,
in full view of a broad pathway from
which all obstacles have been removed,
let us as citizens award honor where
honor is due, In generous appreciation
of rendered services one ot the present
board has within a few days informed
me in writing that to Mr. D. H. Stimson,
president of the board, more than to any
other man, is due the crowning success of
this great enterprise. It is the testimony
of a co-laborer and in accordance with
the formal resolution as copied in the
records. And this statement in no way
detracts from his
associates, Dr. Hollister,
Mr. F. W. Kimball and Mr. S. A. Smith,
or from our most efficient superintendent,
Mr. A. Friedrich, the meed to them be
longing.
My friends, today we have assembled
within the precincts of a city whose tide
of population is ever incoming and never
outgoing. All about us are these
memorial stones impressively reminding
of our common mortality, and in their
very silence appealing for kindlier feel
ings between fellow men.
With these before us we bow with
reverent spirits to the Divine behest,
"Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou
return," and in the ceremonial of this
hour dedicate this finished structure to
the service of our dead for ever more.
We dedicate it in the faith of Christian
men and women, with songs of praise
and of thanksgiving that these spirits
are linked to an existence beyond thrs
life, and that for the hope that is set be
fore us we may cry out "O death, where
is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory?" "Thanks be to God who
giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ."
Amid all the glories of this autumnal
day, we dedicate it with ascending prayers
to the Eternal Goodness, the Father of
Lights and of these spirits, that' upon
this service may rest the Divine bless
ing, and that toward us and those.that
shall come after there shall be con
tinuance of His abounding mercies^
—The 'Bapfci8t Ladies' Aid Society1'-r.:f£&£'
will hold their annual sale and sttpper
during the second week of November*