The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-06
CHURCH SPECTATORS
Sixteen BTainy Women Who
Turned Dollars Into
Cents.
RYE BRGADl BUITBNIIQLES And 5 QgEEzERS
Houses Of Worship Closed for Re-
pairs and Decoration.

Some people have laughed ut the idea
of a woman specializing successful v, nut
the Indies who are members of the Social
Union Of Simpson N. E. Church can, by
stubborn facts and figures, prove
that it is possible. About three months
ago sixteen ladies' Of this society each
took from the treasury five cents to invest
and multiply as much as possible.
On Monday night the society met to learn
the result of the Investments and al
though but eight Of the sixteen had their
reports ready, the total sum these re-
turned was Ss5. Each lady handed in a
written history of her investments and
the journals. proved to be INTEREST," ng
reading.
RYE DREAD PROFITABLE
Mrs. William Eak.ns, the PASTORS wife,
first invested her i've cents in a goblet.
This she sold for twenty-five cents, realiz-
ing an enormous profit. The twenty 1--WE
cents was then used to purchase the in
gradients for making rye bread. and the
luaves were sold for fifteen and twenty
five cents each according to the size. The
money realized from the sale OF each
batch Of bread was invested in the same
manner until Mrs. Eakins had quite a
large number of customers who SO much
enjoyed the fresh home made bread that
they gladly paid the prices On Monday
night Mrs. Eakins' investments had real
lied the neat sum of fourteen dollars,
which she proudly handed over to the
treasurer.
OTHER GOOD rgvEsTMESTs
Another lady invested the live cents in
sewing silk and bought twelve spools.
With this she worked two button
holes and charged for the work twenty
four cents. This money was again in
vested in ribbons and lace for fancy
articles, which were sold at good profits.
Quite unique investment was that OF
one lady who bought wood and had it
turned into lemon squeezers, which sold
for remarkable prices and fully paid for
the work and left large profit. Another
lady tried usrry as q sure way of making
a paying investment, and at once sold her
five cents for ten, and Il had quite III
creased by this means before it came to
be invested IN any enterprise The early
venture did not seem to detracb from its
good reputation and work, for it made a
goodiy sum for the church.
On Monday night Che ladies were sur
prised and delighted to find how large
the grand total was The smallest sum
realized was 81 and the largest S14.
Eight more Indies have taken out Ave-
cent pieces to be invested, and when their
three months have been completed they
hope TO have the results as dattering as
those of their co-workers.
WoRKMEN KEPT BUSY
Nearly all Of the churches on the Hill
will be closed during August and many
Of them will close in July and not open
again for services until September. This
being a good time for the repairs which
are always needed to be done, the major
ity Of the churches win be under the
hands of WOfkmen during the time this
pastors and congregations are taking q
vacation. The New Westminster Church
viii be handsomely frescoed The Der.
gen Reformed Church will have the
organ painted and repaired, and st.
johns German Church will receive q
fresh coat of paint and the parsonage
will be renovated and repaired. The
work on the new churches is progressing
and summer is not altogether an idle sea
son with them