Churches

FRIENDS CHURCH - BLOCK 14, LOTS 1 & 2, Ist ADDITION

September 16, 1924: "A signboard is up announcing Union Sunday school and services at the big tent every Sunday." (The Klamath News)

October 18, 1924: "A Biltmore folding organ has been received by the local church. It is a gift from Mrs. Schaufele of Los Angeles to the Friends church." (The Klamath News)

April 3, 1925: "The prayer meeting has been discontinued for a while until the influenza epidemic is over." (The Klamath News)

May 7, 1925: "On last Monday evening a number of our best citizens held a meeting to formulate plans to build a church at Sprague River, and a committee was appointed to take the matter in hand." (The Klamath News)

May 28, 1925: "There will be a mass meeting at the tent Wednesday evening in the interest of a Friends Community church. Everyone is invited." (The Evening Herald)

June 30, 1925: "The work will begin on the new Friends' meeting house this week." (The Evening Herald)

March 4, 1926: "The work on the Friends church has started again after quite a recess. They hope to have the roof on by the last of the week, if weather permits. The building is 39 x 48 and is bungalow style."

"Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, of Washington, D.C., sent a donation recently to the Friends church at this place." (The Evening Herald)

April 16, 1926: "The Friends church is now inclosed and now having services in the new building." (The Evening Herald)

May 6, 1926: "There will be Mother's Day exercises at the church next Sunday. Everybody is invited to attend." (The Evening Herald)

April 10, 1927: "Rev. David Delano, pastor of the church here, has by utilizing his spare moments, completed putting the siding on the church and giving it the priming coat of paint. This makes the building more comfortable and adds to it attractiveness. He also installed more comfortable seats. The church has a seating capacity of 100. The pastor is desirous now of building a porch with a belfry, later on installing a bell. Let us all do what we can do to help him." (The Klamath News)

March 27, 1928: The deed for Lots 1 & 2, Block 14 of the first addition filed with the County Clerk. (Klamath County Clerk Records) Purchased from Western Cities Company.

December 7, 1932: "Dean George, an Indian, has succeeded in violating the laws of man in God's house and is reposing in the county jail as a result.

George was fined $30 by Justice Frederick Hubbard for being drunk in the Sprague River church. He was arrested by reservation officers and brought to jail to serve out the fine at $2 a day." (LaGrande Observer)

January 4, 1936: "The Sprague River church has been treated to a new coat of paint both inside and out. The pews have also had a coat of varnish." (The Evening Herald)

August 18, 1936: "Our local church is to have a new minister, Mrs. VanDusen, recently arrived from Eugene, Oregon. She will take up the work where Rev. Johnson of Chiloquin was forced to leave it because of illness." (The Klamath News)

September 1, 1936: "The local church holds services every Sunday morning and evening with Mrs. Frances van Dusen, the new pastor." (The Evening Herald)

August 31, 1937: "The community church is receiving a coat of paint this week." (The Evening Herald)

November 19, 1940: "Filled with fervor and firewater, McKinley George, of the Sprague River Georges, attended church for the first time in his life Sunday morning but wasn't lulled by the solemn sermonal intonement.

Apparently not in accord with the general pace of the reverend's address at the Sprague river church, George lurched to his feet in the middle of the sermon and launched into a public diatribe of his own.

He found however, like Mr. Wilkie, that his offer of debate was not acceptable, when several more devout redskins ushered him to the door.

A fine of $29.20 for disturbing a religious meeting was levied in Justice court Monday." (The Klamath News)

November 14, 1941: "The Sprague River church has flourished very successfully since a year ago with Reverend Cole in charge. Labor, lots and material was donated to make this truly a community church." (The Evening Herald)

June 26, 1942: "Reverend and Mrs. Cole have accepted the call to act as pastors of the Sprague River Tabernacle church. A vacancy was recently created when Reverend Grant Sickles tendered his resignation to accept a church in Redondo Beach, California.

The Coles are well known here, as they were instrumental in getting the local church organized several years ago. They left Sprague River to take up church work at Lowell, Oregon, where they have served for the last year and a half.

Several years ago Reverend and Mrs. Cole were sent to Sprague River to organize a church. There was no building and the couple went to work to organize a congregation and build a church. A large tent was borrowed from a Klamath Falls church and meetings were held in the vacant lot next to Passole cabins. The church was started and the men of the town worked on their days off to furnish the labor for the building. In a few months a large well constructed church was built and a large congregation built up. Mr. and Mrs. Cole state that one of their big aims in returning to Sprague River is to see the final completion of the church which lacks interior decoration." (Herald and News)

October 30, 1942: "The Latter Day Saints of Sprague River meet every Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Art Fuller or the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Powell.

They have been having an average attendance of about 18 members. Last Sunday. Elders Keith Richan and Rodney D. Peterson of Klamath Falls were present and told of their experiences as missionaries." (Herald and News)