and circumstances bearing upon the local church. Mr. Allen Ramstedt, 84 years old, read a portion of the Scriptures, led in prayer, and, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Carl Oberg, on the piano, sang a song very efficiently, and concluded with a few remarks. Mr. Gustaf Johnson, in whose home the first service was held, the first Swedish Lutheran confirmed in the Pacific Northwest, and the congregation organized 1884, October 12th, read a well-written paper touching on the earlier days of the church in Moscow. Mr. Olpf Olson, now of Spokane, the first secretary of the church, gave several glimpses of the conditions and difficulties characteristic of the days of the Palouse pioneers, and Mrs. Olson supplemented his remarks with a spirited narrative of pioneer days as seen and experienced by a lady member of the church. Mrs. C. Edwins, daughter of the late Rev. Carlson, read a letter which that venerable church veteran had written a short establishment and early history of the local church. Mr. 