Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1902 — M. E. Church Re-opens Sunday. [ARTICLE]

M. E. Church Re-opens Sunday.

Trinity M. E. church, which has been closed for five weeks while extensive repairs and refittings have been in progress, is .now all ready for use again and will be reopened next Sunday, when all the regular Sunday services will be held in it. The walls and ceilings have been frescoed, new carpets laid, the furniture and woodwork re-varnished and the pulpit furniture upholstered. Also a new choir platform built, the electric lights re-arranged and new ones added, also the outside of the building repainted, In short the whole church put in fine condition for the coming annual conference, and at a cost of S6OO or more. Next Sunday will be the regular quarterly meeting day, and Dr. Beck, the presiding elder, will be present