The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-23

~ nan (Lamar Hall,) / WAS hl>0'
p glad to hear that DR.. Anderson aud
J. Prof Bartlett were so kindly re-
membered by placing in the new
5 church a memorial window for
them. | also endorse what Prof.
Wilson has said v few months ago
"through your columns in memory
O' Prof Bartlett. | only wish /
could recall the time when had
the pleasure of hearing his sermons
and counsel. think they would do
me more good now then when q
giddy girl as l was then, but his eX-
ample of stability and christian
character do not think any Of us
who knew him and members of his
church and classes will ever forget.
Nor do forget the memory of Prof.
Crawford, Mrs. Bartlett, Rev.
Brown and other dead as well as
living members of the church and
College who have done and are still
doing so much tor society and
Christ.
My prayer is that the good work
of the Lord may go on through the
influence of all christian people in
all churches and nations. Il few
words about our little town may be
of interest to some of your readers.
1t is situated in what is known as
the Blue grass region Of south west
ern Iowa, on the Humerton & Shen-
andoah r. r. 1t is comparatively
! quiet town with population Of
six hundred and is we'll represented
in most lines of business. This
= couutry is II good farming and stock
I raising country, and as the western
+ people are very enterprising and in
s dustrious almost every person is
doing well rs far az worldly pros
perity is CONSERVED but as to the
r, fiMtment and spirituality Of the
:. people here I can't say So mach as
/ would like to say. The young
ladies as y rule are rud3 ami boist-
y rous so OF course we can't expect a
: great deal of the young men yet we
have some very nice yourg ladies
and good young men.
i We have four churches here in
! our town the United PRESBYTERIAN
Baptist, Methodist and Christian,
"a Il a good school building OF four
rooms with four teachers, nine
mOuths in the year, aud also good
= public school system in the State.
But so many are contented with
s just enough education to teach i'm
!, 5hese common schools and thinks
: that is all the education they need.
On sabbath days the churches are
well filed, but when the Weduei-
day evening prayer meetings and
Ladies missionary societies meet
there are only a handful of us to do
the work, yet it is encouraging to
us to see number of our young
people taking hold in their meeting
and | hope to see more work done
in the future.
Balls, theatres, Circuses and such
things were the entertainments
that drew the crowds for awhile.
Last spring we CT. U. women, took
up the work Of the Demorest med
die contest and had a well filled
hall, the first evening with very
very pleasing results as far as 1
know to all Interested. We held
j our fourth last Friday evening on
- the 9Th and are going to have a gold
o one in next month. Our meddleS
= have all been won by young ladies
= the young gentlemen came very
close to getting them. Tle young
Z lady who took the first silver med
die attended a gold NEEDLE contest
in neighboring town aud won the
a gold NEEDLE and she. i. now gone to
l. Burlington to attend the grand gold
e NEEDLE contest at that place. The
Y night of Pitterns society have also
: taken up the contest work,
e and have held to contests and all
are still wei; attended and have so
far proved TO be instructive, profit
able and interesting so we believe
e that in time we will rule out these
e other loving entertainments. we
l. have ha Mrs. Ganger and several
t. other good Temperance lecturers
A. here and can see that the interest
in the cause of Temperance and
a Prohibition Is growing, but there
1t are still only few of us G. L. wom-
n on and small majority of Prohi-
IT bition men yet to push the cause,
it but we mean to do all we can and
y although we did not scarcely ex-
pect to see Prohibition win this fall
a we do expect it to in the near fu-
y ture, for l believe the right will win
n and wheu church members vote as
, ,hor nrox, tbis evil of internprance