Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-05-19

with YOU to make your little city sweet
and clean and a desirable place in which
to build up home.
Deacon Pake joins me in wishing you
continued blessing and prosperity.
Keep faithful! Continue to sow the
| good seed through the "burden and
heat of the day." remembering
1.-The tissues of this life we weave,
With colors all our own;
Aid in the fields of destiny,
We reap as we have sown.
Faithfully Yours,
MARGARET r. PAKE.
Laurel, Fla, April 18th, 1911.
! FROM C. l.. MARKEE
Mrs. w. S. Manning, Secy. Ladysmith,
Wis, Dear Madam:
Your favor of the 18th at hand and
think it very fitting thing to do, to
review the hard work and successes OF
the Congregational organization at
Ladysmith.
While God cooperates with us in
building up his cause, it takes earnest
efforts on the part of the people to
accomplish what has been done by the
Congregational Church at Ladysmith.
This was my church home while |
was in Ladysmith and remember well
it's beginning. | certainly appreciate
the help that was given by people of
means and those who had little, to build
a church that we can be proud of, in
growing town.
Ladysmith has had wonderful
growth and there is no reason why
that growth shall not continue, and
this church is keeping pace with your
town. Much credit is due the people
who looked:past the village of yester-
day, to the city of today, and built the
church accordingly.
regret very much that cannot be
one of your gathering on the 14th, as
charter member of your church.
Wishing your organization continued
success in representing Gods work in
| L H., l.
| Yours truly,
C. l.. MARKEE.
Hilsdale, ILL.,, May 10, 1911.
BY REV. D. A. RICHARDSON
My personal knowledge of this church
dates from July. 1902, when ! received
call to become its pastor. At that
time the church building had been
finished. The pews had just arrived
with the pulpit. There was no heating
plant in the church except one stove.
There were also about 40 chairs and a
set of dishes which had, think, been
donated by the Royal Neighbors.
These with the church building were
the total assets Of the society.
At that time the city was still viii
| lage with perhaps a thousand people
with streets ungraded, scarcely any
side-w walks. In fact there was almost
everything to be done to make a city
but the people then on the ground and
| who came later were largely those who
were determined to cut out of the
woods, city that would bear compar
isOn with those of southern Wisconsin
or of New England On this account
the more their wants to be done and
the greater the difficulties, the higher
the spirits of the pioneers. So it was
not strange that on our arrival, Mrs.
Richardson and were feared with en-
thusiasm of the place.
What mattered it if the only avail
able home for us was the old abandoned
country school house? What mattered
it if few days after our arrival
stump blown out by dynamite passed
within few feet of our heads and
went through the loaded glass window
of the church? What mattered it if
we cooked and ate our meals in the
church kitchen when one morning with
the thermometer 20 below zero the
coffee would freeze on the table before
we could drink it sitting 3 feet from
the kitchen stove?
At that time there were Is members
of the church and indebtedness which
with the crude interest rose to $4,000
before having paid was part of the
church furniture which | omitted to
mention. A heating plant must be put
in the church, hymn books must be Sc
cured, a bible must be borrowed to be
latter replaced by a better one, the
property of the church. An organ
must be secured, the church grounds
must be graded, ceiling should be
put in the auditorium, carpet is de-
sirable, but not considered necessary,
walks must be put in leading to the
two church doors. In fact as grand a
vista of opportunity opened before the
church and it's Is members as ever a
company of stout-hearted settlers
faced.
One difficulty to be met was the