New Pastor To Be Installed Tonight Special Service At First Presbyterian
At 7:30 O’clock

Submitted by Peggy Wells

Installation of Rev. Martin L. Gerhardt as pastor of the First Presbyterian church will be held at a special service at the church this evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. Maurice P. Stoute of Portsmouth, moderator of the district, will conduct the rites and the sermon will be by Rev. Sam R. Curry of Ashland.

Special choir and other numbers are to be presented and a record attendance is anticipated.

Rev. Gerhardt has been with the local congregation for the last two weeks and he has already made many Ironton friends. He succeeds Rev. H. B. Vail, who died in Cincinnati some time ago.

Ironton Tribune, 24 June 1932, Friday, Page 12.

REV. AND MRS. M. L. GERHARDT

GIVEN WELCOME LAST NIGHT

Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Gerhardt, the new minister of First Presbyterian church and his wife, were given a very charming reception Thursday evening in the Sunday school room of the church, which was beautifully decorated by the Young Women’s Auxillary, who used quantities of palms, garden flowers and cut flowers and summer garden furniture, making a perfect indoor flower garden, a lovely background for the receiving line, which included in the following order Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moulton, Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Gerhardt, ??? and Mrs. C. D. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Pollock, C. A. Hutsinpillar representing the various boards of the church.

After the guests had been introduced and welcomed by about 130 members and guests, the following program was given and was in charge of the Young Women’s Auxiliary, of which Miss Eleanor MacNary is president, who gave announcement of each number as follows:

Piano, Polka De Concert—Mrs. Carl W. Moulton.

Voice (a) Paie Moon (b) Sweet Mystery of Life—Miss Clara Louise Mitchell.

Remarks by Hon. A. R. Johnson, welcome on behalf of the congregation.

Reading—Mrs. Clifford Edwards.

Remarks, Welcome on behalf of the Ministerial Association—Rev. R. D. Wood.

Violin (a) Liebesfrend (b) Prelude—Miss Ann Berger, accompanied by Mrs. Moulton.

Response—Rev. M. L. Gerhardt.

Ensemble, Voice, Violin, Piano, A Perfect Day—Miss Mitchell, Miss Berger, Mrs. Moulton.

After the program Mrs. Edward Feuchter, representing the Ladies Society, invited the guests to the social rooms downstairs, where ice cream and cake was served by the following group of young ladies: Misses Sallie Irish, Betty McGugin, Clara Louise Mitchell, Helen Feil, Alice Daniels and Florence Wilson. This was one of the finest welcomes ever tendered a minister, whose response showed an appreciation of every courtesy.

Ironton Tribune, 1 July 1932, Friday, Page 8