Religious Services and Quarterly Meeting Notes
Local church notices list Sabbath School times and preaching schedules for Cumberland Presbyterian Baptist and M E churches. References include Rev Strarp Rev Gro Clements, updates on General Review of lessons, attendance 70, collection 1.15, and Pa toka quarterly meeting January 10 1908 with sacraments and sermons by Bro Becker and Bro Cox.
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Boulder
Mound
Creighton ‘Ashton
Patoka
Becker
Bro. Cox
Vernon
Christian Church Sunday School and Revival Services
Sunday School at 1 30 a m and social service at 10 45 a m Elder Leland Brown to preach next Lord s day both services All invited. M E Church South notes Dec 29 attendance 71 with Ada Griffin s class leading giving 1 12 and a promise of a stronger faith in the new year Union Revival and quarterly meetings announced with dates across Patoka Westcott Chapel Toad Island Zion and other locations including prayer meet Tuesday.
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Leland Brown
M. E
Church South Sunday School
Ada
Griffin
N. Nichols
M. E. Church South
Patoka
Monroe Smith
Westcott Chapel
Zion
Toad Island
Ex–accordionist Clyde Haskell draws crowds
Extemporaneous musician Clyde Haskell impresses audiences with a soulful, distant gaze while performing. he often stays seated when not standing. In a separate note, Editor Landy of the Buffalo Lake News offered a year’s subscription for barley, prompting a prank exchange via a neighbor who sent a tobacco sack containing barley to Sandy with a News receipt.
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Clyde Haskell
Comstock
Landy
Buffalo Lake
Minn
Sandy
Halloween Mischief and Rural Rambles from 1907 Verse
A fragmented verse recounts Halloween night mischief by a group including Stubbie Fatty Billy and ME, moving Brighams gate, pranks on Frank Tinker, a mule tied to a school bell, arrests discussed, and a rustic anecdote about social norms, gardens, and fruit. The narrator, William, reflects on lying to his father and the chaos of a rural gathering, ending with rural table anecdotes from Girard Illinois.
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Hallowe
Stubbie
Fatty
Billy
Brigham’s Gate
Frank Tinker
Sing
Harriet King
Stub
Harriet
Schwartzkopf Family News Update
Carl and Earl Hiser aided Lewis Schwartzkopf in ditching last week. Lewis Schwartzkopf and family visited relatives last Sunday. Jake Schwartzkopf returned from Milwaukee where he visited his daughter. L Schwartzkopf cooked apple butter last Monday.
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Schwartzkoff
Carl
Earl Hiser
Lewis Schwartzkopf
Jake Schwartzkopf
Milwaukee
Wis
L. Schwartzkopf
Indiana
Life as a Stage: The Curtain Falls on Each Life
The piece compares life to a stage where every man acts and most are not stars. It urges naturalness over make up and notes that success fades without timely effort. The author warns against vulgarity and high pride, ending with a reminder to strike while the iron is hot.
A Miserable Imposter Selling Wart Remedy Scams
A rude tale accuses a faker of traveling the country selling a wart removal recipe. The crowd claims the only true method is rubbing a potato then burying it at midnight in a northeast graveyard corner after burial by a Black person. as the potato decays the wart vanishes.
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Hanlon Tex
Torpedo
Notice of Trespass Prohibition on Private Lands
A notice forbids hunting or trespassing on lands owned by the undersigned parties. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Signed by H. T. Gernisn.
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H. T. Gernisn
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