The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-12-03

OF THE FIRST M. e. CHURCH OF
BROOkINGS WILL TAKE
PLACE NEXT WEEK
$4,000 OF IMPROVEMENTS THIS YEAR
Appropriate Exercises will Mark Open
Organ Recital to Be Feature

The congregation of the M. E.
church have during the past year ex-
pended over $4,000 for improvements
and now have the finest church proper
ty in the city, the total cost of which
is over $50, 900. The improvements in
clude a substantial addition of the
same general design as the main build
ing, a new pipe organ and a splendid
new parsonage. The addition will give
needed roc to extend the activities of
the church. In the new part rooms
will be fitted up for the enjoyment of
the young people, which they are
privileged to use any time, and there
will also be room in the addition for
Sunday school and other church work.
The remodeled church will be form
ally re-dedicated with appropriate ex-
ercises the coming week. On Sunday
morning and evening DR.. Thos. H.
Coole of Chicago, will be the speaker.
Monday evening DR.. Coole will give
an illustrated lecture, and Tuesday
evening DR.. Heagland of Mitchell, will
deliver a lecture under the auspices of
the Epworth League. After Tuesday
evenings lecture open house will be
held and an opportunity will be given
to inspect the new addition. All of
the above exercises are free and the
public is cordially invited.
The opening recital on the new pipe
organ in the remodeled church will
take place Wednesday evening, De-
cember 9, at eight o'clock. Mr.. Ken
dali B. Cressey, organist, of Sioux
Falls, who m to play this program,
has held church positions in that city
for the past eighteen years, during
which time he has given many recitals
appeared in concert programs, and has
been called to cities such as Mitchell,
Huron, Norfolk, and others for re-
cital work.
He was organist and director of
music at the First Congregational
church of Sioux Falls for fifteen years,
and on January 1, 1914, was called
to the position of organist in the First
Methodist church of that city CDR. Pot
ter, minister), which has the finest
auditorium and the largest organ of
any church in this part of the North
west. At the beginning of the new
conference ear Mr.. Cressey was APP
pointed choir-master as well as organ
list of this church, which is the highe,
salaried position of it's kind in the
state. His appearance in Brookings
will be anticipated with much interest,
and an exceedingly large audience will
listen to his playing.
Some of the ~organist's press notices
follow:
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader:-Mr.
Cressey's program vas varied and was
highly appreciated by all present;
judging from the generous applause
each number was considered the best.
Sioux Falls Press:-Mr. Cressey
seemed to catch an inspiration from
the large audience which awaited the
first number of his organ recital last
evening and his program was present
ed with the greatest, taste and feeling
throughout. Numbers that particular
ly pleased the audience were the
"Triumphal March" of Buck with its
grand melody, and the Berceuse by
Delbruck with it's sweet long drawn
out cadences. At the close of the re-
cital the audience endeavored fol-
some time to get Mr.. Cressey to re
spond to an enthusiastic encore, and
left the building with regret.
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