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October 29, 19r3. A FAMILY PAPER, 11<br />
NEW ALEXANDRIA, PA.<br />
In the absence of our pastor, who<br />
is taliing a rest for his health, our<br />
commumon will be held by Prof. J.<br />
Jl (Coleman, of Beaver Falls, Oct, 19,<br />
Our Young People's study class met<br />
last month at the home of Mr. and<br />
Mrs, Wm. McFarland, near Latrobe.<br />
After class, a pleasant time was spent<br />
in different amusements. During the<br />
evening, an elaborate and substantial<br />
lunch was served by our hostess, who<br />
excels in that line. All departed, feelingit<br />
was good to be there.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown, of Pittslinrgh,<br />
worshipped with us Sabbath,<br />
Oct. 4, . _ 1<br />
Our congregation contributed $80.00<br />
to Science Hall in Geneva College.<br />
We feel rather lonesome since so<br />
many of our young folios have gone<br />
\)iek to work. Marguerite Steel, Albert<br />
McFarland and Carlyle Beattie have<br />
gone to Geneva again; Misses ilary<br />
and Clara Beatt e teach in Greeasburg;<br />
Laura Duffield, near ilcKeesport;<br />
Laura McClure in Claridge; Del l\lc-<br />
Clure in Jamison No. 3; Geo, McFarland,<br />
Baggley, near Latrobe; Teresa<br />
Beattie in our home school; Miss Margaret<br />
O'Brien teaches No, S.<br />
Miss Violet Cannon is visiting her<br />
sister, Mrs. S. M, Steel,<br />
We are pleased to note Mrs. Mary<br />
Beattie is able to worship with us<br />
again.<br />
We regret to say we have the Sunday<br />
train and Sunday newspaper in<br />
our little town,<br />
Mr, Andrew Brown and Mr. Oliver<br />
Beattie are building a house for Mr, J.<br />
B. Steel on his farm in Hannahstowu.<br />
Mr. and Mrs, R. A. Steel of Pittsbugh,<br />
and niece. Miss Agnes Coleman,<br />
of California, and Miss Margaret Porter,<br />
motored down and were the<br />
guests of Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Porter,<br />
at Hedge Home,<br />
REGINA, CANADA.<br />
We have had fine weather here all<br />
summer, We have not suffered with<br />
either heat or drough, damaging<br />
frosts or snow. Thrashing is progressing<br />
rapidly, quality and yield of grain<br />
is good.<br />
IVIr, and Mrs, D, C, Patterson and<br />
(laughter, Claire, of Belle Center, O..<br />
visited with our pastor's family and<br />
other friends here on their way to the<br />
Pacific Coast.<br />
Walter Bell, who was operated on<br />
a short t'me ago for appendicitis, is<br />
3t>Ie to assume light manual duties;<br />
also Mrs. Delia C, Wilmot, who was<br />
operated on for the same trouble, is<br />
^Me to return to her home and is<br />
"uproTing nicely.<br />
Elder J, Muirhead has been absent<br />
for a few Sabbaths, looking after his<br />
Wm interests at Gull Lake, and has<br />
"sen greatly missed by all.<br />
Cleo, Chamber's mother-in-law, Mrs.<br />
McCullough, and her daughter. Ruby,<br />
«id son. Rev, w. J. McCullough, from<br />
Pwomoke, Md., have heen spending<br />
5 few weelfs with friends here,<br />
^rs. A, J. :gtewart and daughter,<br />
^^^'e. of Washington, Iowa, have<br />
f^ei visiting at the home of her<br />
'laughter, Mrs, Russel Bell.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. A. W, Edgar have returned<br />
from their trip abroad, feeling<br />
refreshed after their vacation, and are<br />
enjoying the hospitality of Mr, Edgar's<br />
old home, from which he had<br />
been absent eight years.<br />
Our pastor, Mr. Reed, is absent assisting<br />
at communion. Rev, T. M. Slater<br />
at Seattle, Sept. 28; Rev. P. D, Frazier,<br />
Portland, Ore,, Oct., 5, and Rev,<br />
G. W. Greer, Santa Ana, Cal,, Oct.<br />
12, and attend ng the meeting of Presbytery,<br />
Oct. 13,<br />
Mr. S, D. Tiblset, of Hopkinton, la.,<br />
has been vis ting at the home of Mr.<br />
Thos. Chambers, We are glad to hear<br />
our Winnipeg brethren are receiving<br />
the services of Rev, F, E, AUen for a<br />
tew Sabbaths, It is also gratifying to<br />
us that one by one of our brethren<br />
are beginning to realize the distance<br />
is not so great, the cold not so severe,<br />
and the foreign element not so<br />
dangerous as was anticipated.<br />
OAKDALE, ILL,<br />
The L. M. S. held its regular meeting<br />
Thursday, September llth. Interesting<br />
reports were given by our<br />
delegates of the Presbyterial meeting<br />
at Bloomington, Ind,, on the third<br />
of September. Mrs. J. W. Torrens,<br />
Miss Edith Boyd, and Mrs. Lou K.<br />
Auld, attended from our society. The<br />
officers for the year in our society<br />
are: President, Mrs, Flora Thompson;<br />
vice-president. Miss Edith Boyd;<br />
recording secretary. Miss Eva Murray,<br />
and treasurer, Mrs, Lizzie Carson.<br />
Miss Jane P per represents our congi<br />
egation in the Sparta High School<br />
this year, Oscar Floyd and Ringo<br />
McClay, Roy Floyd and Bessie Carson<br />
and Loyd Torrens are attending Nashville<br />
High School,<br />
Good rains have visited tliis section<br />
and cooler weather prevails. Farmers<br />
are busy preparing the soil for the<br />
fall wheat crop.<br />
Several delegates for the C. E. attended<br />
the Young People's Presbyterial<br />
convention at Coulterville in<br />
August, Mrs, Jennie Davis and two<br />
daughters, of Princeton, Ind., spent<br />
several days visiting at Oakdale, after<br />
the convention.<br />
Southern Illinois Presbytery met in<br />
Coulterville Church, the first Wednobday<br />
of September, Mr, Bert McElhinney's<br />
trials for licensure were<br />
heard and those who attended from<br />
this congregation are proud to acknowledge<br />
that he was once one of<br />
us, by baptism.<br />
Rev, J. S, Martin gave us a very<br />
forceful and convincing lecture the<br />
first Sabbath of September, on the<br />
IBible in the schools, Illinois, by action<br />
of the Supreme Court, has authorized<br />
it put out of the schools. It behooves<br />
us to take heed thereto. From<br />
this place he went to Coulterville.<br />
then to Sparta, on the same mission,<br />
Mrs, .lames Sloane and Mrs. M, A,<br />
Gault attended services in Sparta,<br />
Sabbath, the fourteenth of September,<br />
Mr. and Mrs, Thomas M'cLean and<br />
Mr, and Mrs. James Hood attende!<br />
the funeral of an old-time friend and<br />
neighbor, at Coulterville, recently.<br />
OLATHE, KANSAS,<br />
On October 9th occurred the death<br />
of .Miss Nettie Thompson, a beloved<br />
member of Olathe congregation, at the<br />
home of her brother in South Dakota,<br />
vhere she had been taken, in the hope<br />
that the change mght benefit her<br />
health.<br />
Her last illness extended over a<br />
year, and though her suffering was<br />
great, it was borne with marked<br />
patience and Christian fortitude. Funeral<br />
services were conducted at the<br />
church on Sabbath afternoon, October<br />
12th by Dr. McConnell, a United Presbyterian<br />
minister ot St, Joe, Mo, His<br />
text: "For me to Lve in Christ, and<br />
to die is gain," was especially appropriate<br />
to the beautiful life and character<br />
of Miss Thompson, who has left<br />
behind her a noble example, and a<br />
precious memory,<br />
•Mrs, Elizabeth Hutcheson, who lives<br />
with her son, S, R, Hutcheson, east of<br />
town, had a serious fall on October<br />
llth, which resulted In a fracture of<br />
the hip. At the time of the accident,<br />
she was visiting at the home of her<br />
daughter, Mrs, McClellan, west of<br />
town. Her great age and feeble condition<br />
render her sufferings doubly<br />
liard,<br />
Mr, J, M, IWilligan had the misfortune<br />
recently, to fall from the loft of<br />
his barn, breaking three ribs, and<br />
receiving severe bruises,<br />
September 21st being Temperance<br />
Day in the Sabbath School, our superintendent,<br />
Mr, W, E, Wright, put<br />
' j : j<br />
the Sabbath School hour in charge of<br />
the W. C. T. U, ladies of the congregation,<br />
instead of the usual study,<br />
the following program was given with<br />
Mrs. J, M. Milligan as chairman:<br />
Short talk, "General Temperance<br />
News," by Mrs, J, M, Milligan, "Temperance<br />
Statistics," by Mrs, Jas, R.<br />
Wi'son. Paper, "Recent Legislative<br />
Victories for Temperance," by Mrs,<br />
Robert HemphiU. Paper, "Tobacco<br />
and Cigarettes," prepared by Mrs, E,<br />
R. McElroy, and read by Mrs, Sterrett<br />
McElroy, Paper, "Encouragements in<br />
the Work," by Mrs, W, S, Mtchell,<br />
Short talk, Mrs. Wm, Cook, Paper,<br />
"Y'our Part," IMrs, James Lawson,<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS,<br />
Our congregational roll contains 75<br />
names.<br />
Our Fall communion, held Oct, 12th,<br />
was unusual in many respects. The<br />
attendance was remarltably good at all<br />
the services and the collection at the<br />
mornng service was the largest ever<br />
taken at a service in our church.<br />
Our pastor was assister by Dr, H, H,<br />
Ge<strong>org</strong>e, wlio preached to us with remarkable<br />
power, in spite of the fact<br />
that he was in poor health,<br />
Mrs, Ge<strong>org</strong>e gave a very interestin-j<br />
temperance address to the Young Peo<br />
pie's meeting and was listened to by<br />
the largest number that ever attendsd<br />
a Y'oung People's meeting in our<br />
church,<br />
Er, Ge<strong>org</strong>e's last message to our<br />
peo lie was in the form of a req-.ie t<br />
to fo m a little "catch my pal" movement,<br />
eve'y member takng the responsibility<br />
to bring another one into<br />
the church during the next year. He<br />
promised to come back and help us<br />
celebrate "he event if we could bring<br />
in at least 15 or 20 in a years time.<br />
On preparatory Sabbath, our pastor<br />
baptised Mary Adelaide Olive, daughter<br />
of the late Mrs, Adelaide McFall,<br />
Olive and William Watson Stewart,<br />
son of .Mr. and Mrs. Wm, C. Stewart.<br />
The service was very impressive.<br />
Miss Hannah Carson was operated<br />
on for acute appendicitis Oct. 13th.<br />
Although she was seriously ill for a<br />
few days the prospects for an early<br />
recovery are now more hopeful.<br />
Our pastor is preaching an interesting<br />
series of sermons on our Responsibility<br />
toward the Immigrant,<br />
Our session has authorized the preparing<br />
of a history of the Covenanter<br />
Church in Massachusetts.<br />
Any who have interesting datr. or information<br />
of any kind that would help<br />
in this work are urged to send it to<br />
Ge<strong>org</strong>e E, Elder, 31 1-2 Antrim street,<br />
Cambridge, Mass,<br />
We wouM like 2nd New York to<br />
give us, through the Nation, the details<br />
that led up to such a successful<br />
Rally Day in their Sabbath school on<br />
Oct, Sth,<br />
WHITE COTTAGE, OHIO,<br />
Miss Marjorie Ge<strong>org</strong>e is attending<br />
Muskingum College,'<br />
Our church picnic ths year was a<br />
mammoth affair. Many came from<br />
Utica and New Concord, and with our<br />
own people made nearly three hundred<br />
and the dinner embraced every<br />
good thing anyone could mention, our<br />
own people furnishing the ice cream.<br />
It was a day long to be remembered.<br />
The Ladies' Missionary Society held<br />
an all day meeting at the home of<br />
Mr. and Mrs, William Thompson, A<br />
fine program was carried out. Miss<br />
Eva Thompson wrote on our Mission<br />
in China, Miss Lena McFarland on<br />
our Cyprus IMisson and Miss Ethel<br />
lhom.pson cn Southern Mission,<br />
Mr, and Mrs, Jesse Ge<strong>org</strong>e of our<br />
congregation are riding to 'church in<br />
a fine new auto.<br />
Mrs, Calvin Ge<strong>org</strong>e has had a most<br />
pleasant reunion of her people this<br />
summer. One brother from Kansas<br />
and si5ter from New Y'ork, whom she<br />
had not seen for many years, and other<br />
relatives visited her at the same<br />
time.<br />
Cur communion will be held the<br />
fourth Sabbath of Oct.<br />
Mr, Eavid Gladstone has been able<br />
to be at church once recently, but is<br />
finite feeble at this writing,<br />
Mr. and Mrs, Chalmers Ge<strong>org</strong>e, of<br />
Pittsburgh, are visiting relatives in<br />
this congregation.<br />
Mis3 Esther Thompson, of White<br />
Cottage, is attending High School at<br />
Zaresville,<br />
Mrs, G, K. McFarland has returned<br />
from a pleasant visit with her daughter,<br />
Mrs. Walter Spencer, of Frazenburg.<br />
Misses Eva and Rose Thompson<br />
have had as their guest. Miss Grace<br />
l\'ccn, of New Lexington,