Keith Vaudéville at Passaic Playhouse Draws Local Crowds
A fragment notes the Keith Vaudéville show at the Passaic Playhouse attracting growing local attendance with uncertain reception from townsfolk.
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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1917
Page
4
A fragment notes the Keith Vaudéville show at the Passaic Playhouse attracting growing local attendance with uncertain reception from townsfolk.
A report notes the fourth incident that has frozen and bursted within the last ten days, indicating a pattern of repeated failures.
The notice lists church services and meetings including a 11 a.m. sermon on The Church in the World Crisis, a 7:45 p.m. evening service with a youth talk Money Bags, and a 2:30 p.m. Federation Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies meeting with Rev. J. S. Schilling as speaker. It also covers Boy Scouts Troop 3 events, Holy Family Mass schedule, parish devotions, confessions, baptisms, and various monthly Holy Day observances.
Before the special meetings, home gatherings will be held in all town sections on Friday evenings starting February 9. Rev. Thomas Houston, a blind preacher and singer, will speak. a York, Pennsylvania newspaper notes he impressed hundreds at an opening revival.
Tomorrow and every member can vases with be conducted by the men of Franklin Reformed Church. Twenty teams of two men each will visit the homes of all members of the parish. The committee in charge is composed of: Ernest TM V. Cockefair, former Mayor John P. Lux, George A. Hill, Edgar Dickerson and Rev. Harold W. Schenck, the pastor, ex-officio.
Plans for Nutley's first Grand Council assemble soon with Camp Fire Girls. Edith Kenthorne of the National Headquarters will oversee the event. Nutley camps will join in an exhibition of Camp Fire work with five torch bearers and ten firemakers promoted.
The second in a four part series of foreign mission meetings took place at St. Pauls Congregational Church in Passaic Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. TW Gowen of the Foreign Mission Board spoke while Rev. William Doidge led the devotional. Miss Elizabeth Van Winkle sang, and refreshments were provided by the church women.
A May 1915 quarrel between farmer John H. Vanderwert and Essex County Mosquito Extermination Commission inspector Richard T. Cadmus escalated on Vanderwerts Brookdale land. Cadmus says Vanderwert struck him. Vanderwert claims he only pushed after being ordered off. The incident led to a recorder complaint that never surfaced.
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