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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
1
Editor THE MAURICE TIMES. J. F. VAN GORKOM, and Publisher. Issued every Friday. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Maurice In., under the act of Congress of march 3, 1879. Subscription $1,253 per year if paid in advance. If not, 31,50.
Trains schedules for G N R R and C N W R lines with north south east and west routes listed. Includes daily train numbers times and days of operation. Official county and city officers and post office hours and mail exchange details are provided.
A historical sketch recounts the founding of the First Reformed Church of Magurige in Orne City area, its organization, pastors, and growth. It notes construction of the church edifice completed November 6, 18xx, early membership figures, shifts of pastors including Rev HK Boer and Rev P Wagenberg, and later leadership. The piece details funding, remodeling in fall of 1907, and the expanded consistory, listing current elders and deacons and the church’s financial progress toward independence.
An in-store promotion invites customers to cut out the ad and present it at Maurice Studio to receive a ten percent discount on all photographs except post cards. Offer promises same high quality and urges early visit before the sale ends on November 13.
A reward of 32.00 is offered to the person who returns a black credential book lost in Maurice some time ago. The book contains a few credit tickets a picture and a few other items. If found bring it to this office to receive the reward.
The Maurice Review entry lists Ray and Goldie Hershey on the sick list, P. H. Moran attending Fred White’s talk in Alton, Dan Doherty building hog sheds, Noble and Zuumers at a Orange City Republican rally, Fred Ditmer's Clayton County trip, Peter Van Pearsem’s new painted home, Brunsman and Seegar at work, and farmers husking corn with yields from thirty to fifty bushels per acre.
A young theologian student who had supplied the Bushby pulpit for two Sundays asks hostess Mrs. Kingman if she liked the sermon. She compliments the material chosen and recalls telling Zeus that many sermons predictably expound the text, but this one clarified its difficulty.
The speaker recalls global declines in production and morale, noting factory closures in England and widespread weariness. He compares European output, cites English weakness, and questions societal decay amid a city tour from Vancouver to London, highlighting desolation and labor troubles across nations.
A quirky collection of aphorisms and offhand lines includes jokes about banking on a vane, self talking Jones, and a boastful argument. A joke about kisses not being poisonous ends with a poodle kiss, while theater seating humor notes a front-row observer at a church.
Fragmented OCR passage discusses burial practices among various peoples and mentions a critique by Richard Caker New York deputy charity commissioner. It references rituals at funerals and a reaction to professional beggars with a pointed aside about a witty remark at a social gathering.
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