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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
8
A stance on dispensing prescriptions with careful study, accuracy, and a pharmacist’s guarantee. It emphasizes pure, fresh drugs, correct compounding, honest pricing, and alignment with a physician’s orders.
Frost Baptist Church on Herron Street in Winthrop lists worship services at 10 30, Bible School at noon, Christian Endeavor at 6 16, and evening worship at 7 30 The next week includes a study class, prayer meeting, and Tuesday and Friday evenings The CE topic Commending Our Society by Consistent Living is led by Mrs W H Phillips Two hundred sixteen attended Bible School last Sunday with several new members The annual church supper and roll call is scheduled for Monday evening Rev Herbert Manchester of East Boston Presbyterian Church preached last Sunday evening The pastor conducted four funeral services last week preached at the union Thanksgiving service in the Methodist Church and spoke in Hingham on Thursday The Sunday morning sermon centers on The sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow I Peter 1 11 with the evening text from Matthew 10 21 Thou shalt have treasure in heaven Everyone is welcome and all seats are free
Corner Hermon and School streets Rev W C Litchfield minister services listed for Sunday including morning sermon Present Sacredness. Y P R Union to discuss Julia Ward Howe led by Miss Lulu Dyer. Woman's Alliance Suffolk Norfolk branches meet December 7 at Boston 25 Beacon street. Federation meeting at Dedham praised by Rev BE Horton.
The First Church of Winthrop, 215 Winthrop Street, Rev. Charles Tilton, minister, lists parish activities. A quartet and musicians are named, with services and programs including communion, Sunday school, Tilton Class, Junior League, Epworth League, a sermon on the tobacco habit, class meetings, and prayer meetings.
Congregational Church on Tewksbury street in Winthropah holds worship at 10 30 with sermon by Rev Enoch Bell of Boston and a large choir directed by Mr Fred Ellis. Sunday school at noon. Christmas concert preparations underway. Seamen's Friend Society collection noted. Evening praise at 7 30 led by the choir. pastor to speak on The Well ordered Life. Cherryflower Club meets Tuesday at 7 30. prayer meeting Friday at 7 30 followed by teachers' meeting at 8 15.
The Boys' Brigade will present a cantata The Shepherd King on Thursday December 17 with soloists and instrumentalists. Congregational Church Union offers 500 toward church debt leaving 550 to raise by January 1909 after 420 paid since January 1. Community support already includes sizable checks and pledges to help the religious institution.
Mrs Lafayette Goodbar, the church’s popular young soprano, sang "Hear Oh Israel" from Eliza at the morning service and the solo part in Gounod's Gallia at the evening service. She resigns to join Ruggles Street Baptist Church in Boston. A 34-voice chorus accompanied the performance.
The Frost Public Library opens every weekday from 1 30 to 9 00. New titles include The Book of the Little Past by Josephine Preston Peabody 811 100 and The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan 821.173 along with Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe volume 1. Other items include Out of Doors in the Holy Land by Henry Van Dyke 915.692 St Botolphs Town by Mary Caroline Crawford 974.46-142 The Big Fellow by Frederick Palmer P181.1 Fate's a Fiddler by Edwin G Pinkham P657.1 The Galleon Treasure by Percy Keese Fitzhugh F578.1.
The Winthrop Co operative Bank directors adopted resolutions mourning Edward J. Clark a valued original board member. They express sympathy to his family and ordered the resolutions forwarded to the family, recorded, and sent to the local newspaper. The resolutions were unanimously approved with Almon E Whittimore signing as secretary.
The piece argues there is no salvation beyond a life of good deeds and pure thoughts. True salvation comes from character development through wise actions, not supernatural intervention or pardons. It likens salvation to a ladder each person climbs step by step.
A Christmas giving party takes place Thursday evening December 10 from 7 to 9. A pleasing program precedes light refreshments. Admission is one new toy or useful article for the Medical Mission in Boston or Emigrant's Home East Boston. money is also accepted.
Edward James Clark born August 29 1851 in Cambridge to Scotch English parents. He joined North Avenue Baptist Church at 18 and studied under Dr. Apsey. He married Mira Harding May 7 1877, leaving two surviving sons Edward and William while two others predeceased him. He moved to Winthrop in 1890 and led the Henry Murray Marble and Granite Co. for twenty years.
The town honors Mr. Clark a sculptor of the soldiers' monument Pro Patria who shaped civic memory. A Republican leader and longtime selectman he served churches and fraternal orders, including Odd Fellows and Masons. He died November 23, 1908 at age 57 after a period of ill health.
The Deane Winthrop House, oldest standing in Old Boston, is open weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Visitors are asked to leave cars at Ocean Spray station. A Boston Globe feature last Sunday profiled the house built by Mayflower captain and notes the custodian change and upcoming monthly meeting andirons donation sought.
A reader notes that if an advertisement were placed here others would see it, implying the reach and visibility of posted notices in this space. The remark underscores awareness of public exposure and potential audience size.
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