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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1905
Page
4
Easter services at Presbyterian Methodist Baptist Catholic and Episcopalian churches featured special sermons prayers and musical numbers. Notable performances included organ preludes orchestral pieces soloists and a choral anthem. The day ended with a benediction following a sermon on Life and Immortality.
Eastertide observances at the Methodist church included a 9:30 Sunday School rally with about 826 attendees and a large collection. The 11 o'clock service featured primary and intermediate department recitals and songs, a solo by Mr. Chas. Truesdale, and a male quartet. Rev. Schireckengast spoke at evening service on Modern Prophets. Two new members joined during the morning service.
The Easter day was observed at the Baptist church with regular service and a large choir. The morning program featured Hallelujah Christ is Risen and If We Believe that Jesus Died, plus a tenor solo The Resurrection Morn. The evening included Christ Is Risen and Jerusalem as anthems and two strong sermons by Rev. Dite McMasters on the meaning of the resurrection to church and world.
Large congregation attended Easter services at St James Catholic Church. Father Sueppal, a noted musician, led a newly rehearsed mass with the choir, sung at yesterday morning's service amid exceptional lily decorations.
Trinity Episcopal Church held Easter services with lilies and palms adorning the small church. Pastor Rev. R. G. Jones preached two sermons, morning on Christ the Cornerstone of Christianity and an evening message on The Ever Living.
The newly vested choir led the singing and performed Read's Communion service in E flat during the morning. attendance was very large for both morning and evening services.
Pretty services were held at Eureka church with lilies and evergreens decorating the hall. A large audience heard an Easter program by the Sunday School featuring songs recitations and a brief address by Rev. J F Robertson focusing on John 1 4 In Him as life.
The last of Miss Daisy Hall's pre nuptial trials will be held this evening by Miss Ellen Reid at her West Washington home. A six o clock dinner party will entertain a group of young people. Mrs. Fred Bragg hosts Queen Esther Circle at her South Iowa Avenue home. A group met at Chas Nicola’s southwest of the city for games and late refreshments. Miss Irma Harrison hosted friends four miles southwest of Washington with several local and visiting guests.
Crawfordsville April 24 reports the death of B. F. Hough at about three o'clock this afternoon at his mother's home after a long illness with creeping paralysis. The event ends a period of expected bereavement for the Hough family.
H. G. Crawford of Ainsworth visits the city today. L. S. Patterson leaves for Des Moines. New cement walks will be laid along the south side of the Charley King building near Cowger & Jones shops and extended along the Conductor Warren property. Dr. J. A. Mackie of Des Moines, inspector of state and county institutions, visits the county farm and inspects the county house, reporting everything in excellent shape.
Judge Williams in Milwaukee circuit court rules that a marriage formed in another state between Wisconsin divorced partners within a year without a dispensation is void. He also requires a new paragraph in divorce decrees to deter hastily remarried ex spouses in neighboring states. The case arose during alimony proceedings in Milwaukee.
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