Decoration And Singing At Hangingdog

Decoration And Singing At Hangingdog


At the Decoration and Singing at Hangingdog May 30th, the following program will be rendered:

  1. Assembly by singing at 9 a. m.
  2. Devotional exercises by W. O. Adams.
  3. Introductory by Chairman T. C. McDonald**.
  4. Song by choir.
  5. Address of welcome by Rev. G. W. Davis*.
  6. Song by choir.
  7. Address on Decoration by Rev. J. L. Mulkey.
  8. Song by choir.
  9. Address on history of old Hangingdog Church by W. A. Adams.
10. Song by choir.
11. History of Decoration by J. H. Harwood.
12. Song by choir.
13. March to the Cemetery and decorate the graves.
14. Dinner on the grounds.

The Fifth Sunday Singing Convention will be in session in the afternoon. The public is cordially invited to come and be with us.

T. C. McDonald,** Chm. Decoration.
W. A. Adams, Pres. Singing Con.
J. C. Odell, Sec'y.

W. O. Adams,
W. T. Lovingood,
Program Committee.


SOURCE: old issue of The Murphy Scout, Murphy, NC, Friday, May 21, 1915, found and typed into html by Sandra (Nipper) Ratledge for this website only

*great-great-grandfather of Sandra (Nipper) Ratledge

**first cousin of Mrs. Mary Ann (McDonald) Davis, wife of G. W. Davis listed above

This site is dedicated to the memory of my mother Beulah Cline Nipper, a beautiful product of the Knobs.

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