ST. PAUL'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL OF WARE

Union County Illinois Genealogy Trails

Church Dedicated

 Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter

            St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church at Ware was formally dedicated last Sunday, Rev. Henley of Murphysboro preaching the dedicatory sermon.  Judge Crawford and D. W. Karraker also made addresses and S. D. Hurst one along Sunday school lines.  Misses Bessie and Grace Barringer assisted in the musical program.  A Sunday school will begin immediately with Harrison J. Sitter as superintendent.  The Sunday school is regarded as the most important auxiliary of church work, and through its agency Bible study is carried on to a remarkable extend throughout the country.

            The attendance during the day was very large, the crowd being estimated at 300.  They came from the vicinity and quite a number were present from a distance.

            The church was dedicated free of debt, a balance of $150 being assumed by the trustees.  A collection of considerably over $100 was taken.  The total cost of the church was about $1,200.

            For dinner the people assembled in congenial groups in the hospitable homes of the neighborhood or wherever they could find shade.  Many of the visitors took their dinner, but the good housewives of Ware had made ample provision for everybody.

(Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, Friday, 26 Jun 1914)