Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — SABBATH-SCHOOL CELEBRATION. [ARTICLE]
SABBATH-SCHOOL CELEBRATION.
PROGRAMME. The children, parents and friend* will meet at the Presbyterian church at eight ■ and a half o’clock A. M., and there form a procession under the directions of the Marshals, and march, with music, to the Methodist church, where the exercises will be as follows: Singing by the children and assistant*. Prayer by the Rev. Thos. Whallon. Singing by the children. Reading of the Declaration of Independence, by Master Benjamin Cissel. Singing by the children. Address, by Dr. W. H. Martin. Singing by the children. After which the procession will be reformed and march to the Public Square, and join the procession of and march with them to the grove and participate in the forenoon exercises with them. After which the Sabbath-school procession will be re-formed,and march to the grove in R. H. Milroy’s inclosure, and there partake of refreshments. Ihe procession will be again re-formed and march back to the place of the citizens’ celebration. It was further resolved that the day shobld be concluded by a grand musical (vocal and instrumental) and convivial Soiree at the Court House in the evening. Single tickets of admission, 25 cents; tickets to admit a gentleman and lady, 40 cents; family tickets, 50 cents,. The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee of Arragements on the Soiree: John Warner, R. H. Milroy, Dr. W. H. Martin, Dr. A. G. Moss, D. Snyder,Henry Thompson and Cyrus Henkle. The proceeds of the Soiree to be appropriated to grubbing and clearing the grave-yard, and completing the fencing around it. French Gazette Medicale states that by ah accident charcoal has been discovered to be a cure for burns. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon the burn, the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on one hour the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. The remedy is cheap and simple, and certainly deserves a trial.
