Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1910 — CHURCH BOWS TO “SKEETERS" [ARTICLE]

CHURCH BOWS TO “SKEETERS"

New Jersey Pastor Compelled to A bait don Evening £ervlce Until Frost Comes. South Orange, N. J.—The pastor of the Hilton Methodist church. Rev. A. Boylan Fitzgerald, has never taken much to the idea of summer vacations. He has been holding services regularly both morning and evening end they have been well attended. But for a while the evening service will be replaced by the vesper service at about four o'clock In the afternoon until frost comes and drives away the mosquitoes. . Far several weeks each Sunday night the pests have kept the pastor Blapplng jst them while conducting the service. Tie provided screens for the doors and windows but the mosquito of 1910 defies screens. - 4On Sunday It was announced from the pulpit that hereafter until the mosquito season ends the congreg*. tton will steal a march on the borers and get all the services out of the way before he leaves his haunts ad the shades of evening falL