Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — THE MILK CHUROH MEETING [ARTICLE]

THE MILK CHUROH MEETING

Uncle Alfred McCoy is now the happiest man in 17 counties. It has long been his desire to get hold of some songs that would answer Joy “hymns” for his milk church Songs on the general subject of dairying, and matters thereto related. He has searched all the book-stores from Dan to Beersheba and and from Baltimore to Chicago, and written to the publishers of the Dairy papers, but nary a “milk church” song could he find or hear tell of. But Uncle Mac never gives up a thing he starts in for, and he made up his mind that if there were no milk church songs in existence, then some must be written, and he then did what he ought to have’done in the first place: Called upon our own Jasper county poetical genius to produce the songs. It was done, and lo! He has three as charming little songs as you may see in a day’s journey, and they are especially adapted for milk church singing. They have been adapted to familiar tunes, and were sung with great success, at the annual creamery meeting, at the court house last Saturday afternoon. The “Milk Church” choir being right along up “In line with all the rest” as their names will prove: Misses Genevieve Huffman, Mattie Robinson and Carrie Eger; Messrs. John E. Alter, Dal Yeoman, Ernest Wishard, John Healy with his fiddle and Will Wishard with his horn. They made splendid music and it is Uncle Mac’s intention to take this choir with him in his Milk Church evangelizing tours around the county and territory adjacent Their repertoire of songs will probably be enlarged by the addition of several more from the same source as the others. We had hoped to be abk to publish the three songs already written, but the author willed it otherwise.

Christmas is over and dow is the time to buy tne best goods in the jewelry line for little money at Clarke’s.