Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1920 — AGAIN READY FOR SERVICES [ARTICLE]

AGAIN READY FOR SERVICES

REMODELING AND REDECQRATING OF METHODIST CHURCH HAS BEEN COMPLETED. The work of remodeling and redecorating of the Methodist church, which has been going on for the past three months, reached comply tion Friday, and the church will he thrown open for regular services Sunday. y The present improvements make of the edifice one of the most handsome and modern in this vicinity and the pastor and his congregation are very proud of it. The churqh was erected but a few yeapg ago and was even then the modern in the city. The improvements were made at a cost approximating 13,900.

The interior decorating of the church and parsonage was done hy Mr. Diedem qf Kentland with oil pynt and is indeed beautiful. A new drainagq system has also been installed at a cost of several hundreds of dollars, thus removing what has been a constant source of trouble to the heating plant through the lack of an efficient sewerage system. The vestibules have also been remodeled and the roof changed in some places that it may be better drained. The church is well appointed in every respect and includes a dining room, and many class rooms. Th« present membership tqteh about six hundred and twenty-five ( and it is th© hope of the Rev. Strecker that a Hrgq majority of 1 the membership be present at the services tomorrow morning. The church z has made - splendid progress upder the able leadership of the Rev. Rtreeker and has enWW h very gratifying growth.