Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-21
Strikers Paid OF.
coNeREeATIoNAL NEWS NOTES.
Several Iowa Pastors Assigned to New
Fields Of Labor.


Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell. Aug. PA number of
changes in Iowa Congregational
churches are announced to take place on
Sept. /. Aside from those pastors who
will change their fields of LABOR. others
are brought into the state who are new
in the Iowa field.
Rev. Roscoe Douglass, son OF Rev. F.
j. Douglas, pastor of the church at
Chaplin, has accepted call from the
church at Victor, Iowa county. Rev.
E. Kent, who leaves Victor, accepts
call from the church at Dunlap, Harri-
son county. Both of the pastors will be-
gin their work on Sunday Sept. = Rev.
Kent was for years pastor Of the
church in Eldora.
Rev. Charles Cushman, Grinneil boy
and graduate of Iowa College, has just
commenced work as pastor of the Eng
lish Congregational church at Avoca,
Pottawattamie county
Rev. w. E. Sauerman, of Oklahoma,
has accepted a call from the church at
Blencoe, Monona county.
| A new pastor at Pennington, Van Bu-
| rem county, will begin work on Sept. /,
| in the person of Rev. w. d. Williams,
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Ripon, Wis.
A new man in the Iowa field is Rev. G.
w. James, who has just returned from
an extended European trip and will
begin his labors at Hitcman, Monroe
county on Sept l.
| At Mitchellvile. Polk county, Rev w
L. Brandt, of Kellogg. has accepted a
call and will begin his work Sept.
Rev. DR.. 7. o. Douglass, of this city,
secretary of the Congregational Home
Missionary Society, dedicated on Sunday
the new German Evangelical church at
/ Minden, Pottawattamie county. Minden
1 is town of 400 inhabitants and this is
! the first and only church established.
| Many residents are German-speaking.
hut both English and Germans are sat
,sfied with one church. The church
| building cost $4,000 and has fine new
pipe organ. The property was dedicated
| free from debt, the remaining incum-
brance, $500, being raised at the dedica-
tory service. The morning services are
| to be conducted in German, while the
| Sunday school, Christian Endeavor and
evening services will be in English. Rev.
Osthoff is pastor.
Wisconsin Girl to Wed Jap.
Madison, Wis., Aug. 21.-News has
come that G. S. Ishikawa, for six years
| student at the state university here,
doing special work under Prof. r. T.
Ely, and Miss Mary McCrae, for four
years stenographer in the railroad COM
missioner's Office here, were married at
/ Alexandria, Ont, last Thursday. On
Monday they sailed for Japan. Ishikawa
was brilliant student, having taken
his degree as doctor of philosophy here
last June. He is preparing himself
for consulate service in his native land.
He lived in America ten years. He is
about 30 years of age. Miss McCrae
was born in Canada, but her recent
home has been in Alma, Wis.
Half Rates to State Fair at Des Moine.,
Via the Northwestern line. Excursion
tickets will be sold at one fare for the
round trip, Aug. 90 to 81, inclusive, lin.
tied to return until Sept. 2, inclusive
i Apply to agents Of the Chicago & North
western railway.
Iowa State Fair, Dss Moines, Ia, Aug.
I. % to 81, 1901.
i For this annual event, SO important
to all interests in the state, the Chicago
Great Western will on Aug. 20 to 81,
sell excursion tickets to Des Moinea
good to return September 2 at $1.75 for
the round trip. For further informa-
ton apply to j. A. Ellis, Ticket Agent,
Marshalltown, lows.
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