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Indians ToMissionaryi_ ICharles H. Cook jMonument To BelDedicated SundayMemorial services commemorating the 100th anniversary o41 the birth of Dr. Charles H. Cook land -the dedication of a monumenjt to the memory cf the pioneer mtejion-arv to the Pima Indians will bfi conducted at Sacaton Sunday.-The Services will be conducted at! the S:; cat on Presbyterian church! at 2:30 p. ra. and will be followed by the dedication of the monument at the site of the first Pima jday .school, two miles west of Sacaton, which Dr. Cook built and where he taught in 1871..Dr. Cook left Chicago where he was working with Dwight L. ^ Moody in September 1S70; for Sac-atom. He traveled by rail as far as the railroad went, then by stage and some of the way on foot. It took him four months to reach Sacaton where he arrived December 23. 1870.The ?torv of his work at Sacaton when the west was young and: the Indians not quite so docile as they ‘are now forms a thrilling story which will be told in part by Dr. George Logie of Phoenix who leneyr Dr. Cook well. jCook worked at Sacaton Toir 45 years and brought a large nurjiber of* the Fimas and Maricopas to Christianity, building churches in many Indian villages. 3t is one Of done by our denomination any lllace the outstanding pieces of work in this country. Three years before Dr, Cook left, Dirk Lay took up the work and carried it on till 5.937.Dr. Cook's daughters from jDcs Moines and. Sacramento will be at Sacaton Sunday.' jLoud speakers are to be instilled so that the many hundreds jwhb attend will be well able to near whether thqy are in the chureh or standing on the outside unable to get in. Sixteen Indian choirs jwill be in attendance from the villages where Dr. Cook worked in former dav*.
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Casa Grande Dispatch
Casa Grande, Arizona, US
Fri, May 27, 1938
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