Church Dedication

ARNDT, FRITZ, JACOBSMEIER, KASKA, KURTZ

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Date: 2/9/2006 at 07:05:38

Brighton Enterprise
Sat. May 23, 1903
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CHURCH DEDICATION.

The new St. Joseph’s church in East Pleasant Plain will be dedicated Wednesday May 27…Permission to build a church in East Pleasant Plain was obtained early in the fall of 1900, but practically nothing was done up until about a year and a half later, when the new town on the Rock Island “cut off” began to take shape.

A meeting of the parish was called to choose committeemen and the following gentlemen were chosen: REV. B. JACOBSMEIER, FRED ARNDT, JOHN FRITZ, JACOB KASKA, and PETER KURTZ…..Corner stone laid Sept. 19, 1902….Thus was laid the foundation of the first Catholic church in East Pleasant Plain, Iowa. St. Joseph was chosen as its patron saint.