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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 21 Aug 1926, p. 8

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CARDINAL TEA HOUSE (ARDINAL TIA HOUSE 841 SPRUCE STREET (Just west of Center St.) Winnetka 2536 Luncheon ...... 11:30 to 2:00 Special Plate Luncheon Ir RR TN 40 and 50 cents (A la Carte) Afternoon Tea and Refresh- ments. . 5 A Tae ad to 5 Dinner, $1.00...... Sunday Dinner, $1.25 se SE 12:30 to 3 Special attention given to Luncheon and Bridge Parties AUTO LIMERICKS By Bob Johnson A tourist whose last name is Gale Imagined his car The Fast Mail He saw not our town I But the judge sent him down To view the inside of our jail. VIEW OUR VULCANIZ- ING is a worthy tire--one that will stand up against its work for mileage enough to make you feel that it was a = proper investment. Johnson Motor Service Tires -- Vulcanizing -- Repairing Telephone: Winn. 2048 806 Oak St. | HERE IN EARLY DAYS Rev. Quincy L. Dowd, Recalls Earlier Winnetka in Sermon Before Congregationalists Rev. Quincy L. Dowd, who was pastor of the Winnetka Congrega- tional church forty years ago, delivered a most interesting sermon, featured with a reminiscence of that long ago when Winnetka was a hamlet of 600 souls. Sunday was also the golden wed- ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Dowd. The venerable pastor and his wife now reside at Lombard, TIL While in Winnetka they were guests at the home of Mrs. W. H. King, 672 Maple avenue. On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Douglas Smith, of 915 Sheridan road invited some of the old-time friends of Mr. and Mrs. Dowd to her home where they enjoyed a brief visit with their former pastor. Mr. Dowd's sermon was from 'the text, Titus, 2:1-5 "But you must teach people the things that properly belong to wholesome teachings, etc." He said: "After forty odd years have passed since our coming to Winnetka to min- ister in Christ's name for the Gospel's sake, this is my chance to speak once more as 'an older man' to you who are 'older men' and to the 'older women' too. Do not aged people need and en- joy an occasional sermon meant ex- pressly for them? Paul particularly charged Titus to pay attention to 'older men and women' in the Cretan churches, beginning his teaching first with these friends before going on with his instruction of 'younger men and women. Needless now to remark on the special points of 'wholesome teaching' mentioned in our text pas- sage. Happy To Be Here "Today, it is pardonable if I count myself happy in being in beloved Winnetka, with friends of older and newer times. Edmund Burke had a right understanding of such things in saying, 'For us to love our country, MARINELLO BEAUTY SHOP 733 Elm Street For Appointment Phone Winnetka 822 Winnetka, since it was found so love- ly here, and you've kept busy together all these years, creating more and more beauty for village and homes. "Will you then bear with me for a half-hour while I try to bring back in mind some account of things of forty years ago and since. Naturally one is reminiscent on a golden wedding an- niversary today, having also a back- ground of fifty-one years of Christian ministry. Following ten years spent for the most part at home missionary service on frontiers in Wisconsin and Minnesota, our steps were turned to- ward obscure, hidden-in-the-woods Winnetka, where we arrived October 1, 1885. Can you imagine the appear- ance of things then, the small, ugly, drab, frame-station onto whose rickety wooden platform we alighted from the Milwaukee train? It was set high- up on piles, mere posts in the mud, its platform only reached by climbing several rickety steps. The about 600 inhabitants of that rude, remote past, bore hardships bravely and survived it all, some of whom abide in strength among you till this day. Thinking it over now and counting up Sundays and week-days between 1885 and 1901, in the fashion of that famous stati- tician, C. C. Thorne, it appears that during the sixteen years' pastorate here, fully 800 Sundays and 4200 week- days were put in in Winnetka, a total of 5,600 days. That ancient prayer comes to mind, 'Lord teach us to so number our days that we may get us a heart of wisdom. Recalls Earlier Days "The subject announced for my speaking todav is 'Religious Values or Meanings." Rapidly scanning golden mile stones swiftly passing, let me take you into our confidence by saying that on the eve of October 8, 1876, our wedding date, we took the night boat from New Haven, Conn., for New York. En-route to our first parish we stopped off at Philadelphia and gave a week to viewing the Centennial ex- position at Fairmont park. One trif- ling sensation of the big show was the newly invented Bell telephone, set up in Machinery hall, a mere toy it seemed, but as Don Pedro, of Brazil said, 'It talks" Who has yet meas- ured the 'religious value' of the tele- phone? It makes for human inter- course, near and far; it fosters good neighborliness; it calls doctors in emergency cases; it saves time and money at an enormous rate; it helps the pastor in his work beyond esti- mate. "Other events affecting Winnetka and having religious meanings, was the Columbian exposition in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America in 1492. In con- nection with this World's fair, the Congress of Religion held its sessions 563 Lincoln Avenue Winnetka, Illinois Telephone Winnetka 1811 MISS HERBST Announces That new importations are starting to come in. Constant New Arrivals BE

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