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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
8
A short maxim contrasts income with assets, emphasizing possession over salary. It underscores personal wealth as a measure of value rather than earnings, suggesting prudence and accumulation over immediate income.
The First Baptist Church at 179 Hermon Street Winthrop lists morning worship Bible School and evening services with a solo by Charles Roberts and a former contralto Rath Whitman from Columbus, Ga. The Northern Baptist Convention is the next topic, with the pastor delivering a patriotic sermon.
The First Church at 215 Winthrop Street lists Rev Charles Tilton as minister with a parsonage at 15 Jefferson Street. The church quartet includes Mrs G W Goldsmith soprano Mrs A S Nickerson contralto Mr C A Sawyer tenor and Mr E E Rowland bass and director with Miss Minnie Floyd as organist. Services include music majors morning and evening with a 10 20 am sermon and 7 30 pm sermon by the pastor. Sunday school Epworth League and class meetings are scheduled weekly.
Corner Hermon and School streets hosts Rev W OC Litchfield with morning service at 10 45, Sunday school at 12, Young People's Union at 6, baptism for several children, and a children's concert. St John’s Bowdoin and Buchanan holds 8 am Holy Communion, 10 30 am morning prayer, 7 30 pm evening prayer and address. last 7 30 pm service before September, 5 pm summer hours. Union Congregational Winthrop Beach at Tewksbury Street offers 10 30 morning worship, 7 30 praise, solos by Marion Croley and Phyllis Jordan, with a talk on Corrective Temperaments and noon Sunday school. prayer meetings Fridays at 7 45. Everyone invited.
The Sunday school librarian asks all books be returned promptly since the library will close until autumn. The Cradle-Roll fifth annual party is set for the third week of September, led by Miss Wilhelmina Koerner. A midsummer fair is planned by the Ladies' Aid Society, inviting donations of fancy work and useful articles.
An essay from All Soul's Church argues that spiritual maturity mirrors a child's walk. A person leaves inherited creeds and, thinking independently, walks on with his own mind.
The Queen Esther Circle of the First M E Church held a social in the church vestry last Thursday with 19 attendees. Guests included Mrs E H Leonard, Mrs Ernest Anderson, and Miss Winnie E Davison. The program featured readings by Beatrice Douglas, a piano solo by Grace G Douglas, a piano duet, and games with illustrated drawings, followed by ice cream and cake.
Mr and Mrs Samuel Wheelock marked fifty years of marriage at their Wheelock Street home Wednesday. Married by Rev Nathaniel Parker in Nova Scotia they have four children Arthur George Joseph and Ida and four grandchildren. They have long ties to Winthrop Baptist church with Deacon service and enduring good health though Mrs Wheelock suffered paralysis last fall.
Daniel Stowell, a veteran Boston druggist aged about 59, died Thursday at his home 28 Thornton Place after a brief illness. Born in New Gloucester Maine he came to Boston as a child and lived in the North End and Chelsea. He practiced as a druggist for 40 years and had long been at 1067 Washington Street. He resided in Winthrop for three years with his second wife Mrs. Jane Tewksbury and their six year old son Frank. Funeral services were held at his home.
Mr and Mrs Sueji Miyamori of Japan present a stereopticon lecture titled Japan and Japanese at the Baptist Church next Wednesday at 730. They are graduates of Des Moines College University of Chicago Divinity School and University of Michigan respectively. Admission free and silver collection proceeds go to the speakers.
Miss Winona G Gorman of Winthrop Street returns home after a pleasant several weeks stay with Miss Beatrice Creighton at their Exeter New Hampshire residence.
The committee on Revised Town By Laws of Winthrop Massachusetts will hold a public hearing in Town Hall on Wednesday July 1 1908 at o’clock p m for all interested to be heard regarding changes or additions to the By Laws. Orcutt Mitchell Sleeper Sampson Secretary.
Public auction of a Winthrop land parcel of 5500 square feet with buildings, per plan by James Adam, on Emerson and Lowell roads. Property to be sold subject to first mortgage and taxes, with terms announced at sale. Trustees E Hawes Kelley and Eustace H. Brigham, solicitor William E. Clapp, June 25 1908.
A runaway horse hitched to a heavy wagon owned by Mr. MclLeases of Revere disrupted a Beacon Villa game last Saturday. The frightened animal dashed through a large crowd, scattering spectators before Captain Alonzo F. Woggins of chemi cals halted it after the horse dragged him about 60 feet.
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