Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-17

The formal ceremony of breaking
ground for the new United Brethren
church of this city, which will be built
during the coming summer at the cor
ne- OF Seventh and State streets, will
be observed next Sunday afternoon.
O'Clock, with Rev. Franklin E. Brooke,
D. D.. president of Leander Clark Col
lege, Toledo, the state educational in
stitution of the denomination, in
charge Dr. Brooke will be assisted
by Rev. Charles Evans Pilgrim, pastor
OF the church here.
The new church will cost $4,000, and
of the amount necessary to build it the
sum of $1,000 is already in hand.
Effort Heroic Ono.
The effort of a church congregation
only two years old and numbering in all
about fifty souls, to build a new house
of worship, is a heroic one in the full
est sense Of the word In the work the
people of the denomination turnout the
state have been most generous, and
were il not for the spirit of friendli-
ness shown toward the proposed Mar
shalltown enterprise the new building
"
$4,000 raised and in hand Rev. Mr..
Pilgrim has solicited personally $500.
The other $4,000 came in voluntarily
from different sources. The work Of
soliciting viii be kept up during the
summer, and later a local canvass will
be made. The church expects to have
in hand by fall the sum of $4,000,
which would bring the church to ded-
ica1ion day with an Indebtedness OF
about $4,000. This much Of a debt the
congregation feels that it could handle.
To Begin Work Soon.
The plans for the building have not
yet been received, but are expected on
every mail. When they are in hand
and blueprint copies are made bids
will be asked for at once, and as soon
thereafter as possible a contract Will
be let 1t is expected that the actual
work of building will be begun with
in q few weeks. The contract will call
for the basement to be complete and
ready for occupancy by Sept l.
Wilt Be Modest and Pretty Building.
The new church will be a pretty, yet
modest, building, but considering the
age and strength of the denomination
here the accomplishment in building
will be as great proportionately as
that Of any of the city churches in re-
cent years.
The building will be Of Grecian style
Of architecture. with a sub foundation
OF concrete. From the grade up there
will be base of Bedford stone. and
the main body will be OF buff brick
with Bedford stone trimmings. The
auditorium will be 5sx7s, and will seat
about $50 people. The interior Will be
finished IN dark oak, with both panel
and wainscoat ting effect, and the walls
and ceilings viii be tinted to harmon
ize with the woodwork. The church is
patterned after the Westminster Pres
byterian church of Waterloo.
The old church building, which the
church purchased of the Swedish Mis-
sion congregation when the organza-
ton was founded here two years ago,
has been sold to John D. Plumb, a
member Of the church. Mr. Plumb has
moved the building TO lot he owns at
Seventh and Jerome. and has given
the church the use of the building I'M
til Dec. l, if necessary. Following the
abandonment Of the building by the
church in occupying its new building,
Mr.. Plumb will remodel the building
| for a dwelling.