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MOUNT PLEASANT ITEMS—The new Episcopal Church is nearly completed. It
will be a very neat and pleasant house of worship. The Rev. Mr. Stout,
Rector of the Parish, returned from the East last week. He collected in
Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and other cities, about $2,000, to
aid in the erection of the building. Entire cost will be about $5,060.
Thanksgiving day will be generally observed. The two Methodist
congregations will have services at Asbury Chapel at 10:30 A.M. The
Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists and Episcopalians, will hold
union services in the Presbyterian Church at 10:30 A.M. Episcopal
services in the Presbyterian Church at 6:30 P.M., on which occasion the
Rev. Mr. Stout will preach a sermon on the recent action of the General
Convention at Philadelphia. The Methodist Sociables will give an oyster
festival in Union Hall in the evening.
The Methodist people propose to erect another fine church next season.
They already have one of the finest church edifices in the State, but
Methodism is very prosperous in Mt. Pleasant and the need of another
building is pressing.
The Iowa Wesleyan University is in a very prosperous condition. It is
now free from debt, and the list of students is larger than it has been
for several years. The Female Seminary, under the control of the Rev.
E.L. Belden and a corps of able teachers, is also an excellent
institution of learning, and has all the students that can be
accommodated. An enlargement of the building is in contemplation. Prof.
Howe’s school is also full and doing well. The Union school, with about
1,100 scholars, is the pride of the city, and we believe the official
statistics show it to be the most economical school in the State. A new
school house is under contract, to cost something over $8,000. The
building now in use cost something over $20,000. When the new one is
completed, Mt. Pleasant will certainly be well supplied with educational
facilities; as well, if not better, than any other Iowa city.
The new depot building is about completed, and will be occupied in a few
days. It is the best building on the line of the railroad, and was badly
needed. It is located three streets east of the old depot. The new
freight house is also about completed.
Wood is selling at $5.00 per cord, and is plenty.
(“Burlington Daily Hawkeye-Gazette”, Burlington, Iowa,
Wednesday, December 6, 1865, pg. 8)
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