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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1916
Page
23
In honor of the emancipation proclamation the anniversary will be observed in Baldwin ark next month with colored residents from the city and surrounding towns noted.
The annual meeting of the St. Cecelia choir of St. Francis Catholic church takes place today in Wand Springs near Melrose chapel. Choir members will attend 10 o'clock mass at Melrose church.
The long history of St John s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Quincy traces from a 1837 German Protestant flock meeting on Fifth Street to the formal organization under Rev Johann Sumpel. It chronicles building the Hill Church in 1838, internal doctrinal struggles, multiple pastorates, a renamed congregation, growth, parsonage and school expansion, a corner stone in 1868, and a 1915 campaign to rebuild with a sinking fund as the church nears its milestone anniversaries.
The church now has 85 voting members and 465 communicants, with 218 in Sunday school and about 700 souls total. Names of former St. John's school attendees include G. Weisel, H. Steubes, Herman Pl Werner, R.TM. Treiber, J. H. Hargens, John Bruening, G. Eigel, H. Hoelter, R. Held, C. Scheiderer, Emil L. Brackmann, Marie Waack, and Margaret Frei.
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