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A Night of Music for the Baptist Church

Fairhaven's local talent shines in a successful benefit performance at the Prosser house.

The entertainment for the benefit of the Baptist church given at the Prosser house last Tuesday evening was a decided success for which Miss Prosser is entitled to much credit. She secured the talent for the occasion and was untiring in every way in the matter. Every seat in the house was taken, and the audience, which was from among the leading people, was evidently very much pleased. Miss Prosser opened the entertainment with a brilliant piano solo and later on sang with much feeling and sweetness of voice winning an encore. Mrs. Wright recited 'Bairnies Cuddle Doon' and sang a hymn so well that she was heartily applauded. Messrs Freygang and Young were twice on the programme with guitar duets which were delightful. Messrs Kinghorn and Cohn rendered a vocal duet excellently well and Mr. Cohn received a recall on a tenor song. W. L. Visscher gave some humorous recitations and Miss Hopkins sang with a high and sweet soprano which gave evidence that with age and cultivation she will make a brilliant vocalist. She is now only about 14 years old. Miss another younger girl also sang a solo very sweetly for such a little lady. Two other young ladies whose names the Herald reporter failed to get gave a piano duet and Dr. Erwin furnished a very pleasing humorous recitation. The entertainment closed with a chorus, 'Savior Breathe an Evening Blessing.' It is to be hoped that entertainments of this kind, so successful and pleasing, will become more frequent in Fairhaven.

“It is to be hoped that entertainments of this kind, so successful and pleasing, will become more frequent in Fairhaven.”

— Printed in Fairhaven Herald (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890
Then · 1890136 years apartNow · 2026

Community-funded arts and church benefits were the primary cultural engine for Fairhaven’s early residents. It highlights the role of domestic social spaces, like the Prosser house, before the arrival of large civic auditoriums.

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Fairhaven Herald (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-04-10. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

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From
Fairhaven Herald (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, APR 10, 1890, Page 4
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