Show Historic Church Plans Facilities For or Newlyweds NASHUA IOWA Special accommodations accommodations ac- ac accommodations are being planned for honeymooning couples who are married married mar mar- ried Tied in the Little Brown Church in inthe in inthe the Vale the historical small church which was made famous by bya a 8 song written before it was built Harry of Worthington Minn has purchased the former Bradford academy property across the Ithe street from the church He plans to erect honeymoon cabins on the I property A photographic studio to accommodate accommodate the newlyweds and facilities for wedding dinners and receptions also are planned The church built in 1864 long has been popular for wedding cere cere- monies The peak was reached in hi 1940 when 1549 couples were mar mar- ried Tied The bride and bridegroom om usually ring the church bell after the ceremony the pastor admonishing them to pull through life together just as you are pulling on the bell rope The small neat church in a pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant rustic setting once served the religious needs of old Bradford a town of persons two miles from here The town died after it was bypassed bypassed by by- passed assed by a railroad in 1868 but the song has kept the church alive Attracted by the beauty of the site upon which the church later was built William S. S Pitts Pills a young visitor vis vis- from Wisconsin wrote his moving hymn The liThe Little Brown Brownin Church hurch in the Vale in 1857 He put his is manuscript away and it was forgotten In 1864 when the church was completed completed com com- Pitts who had returned to the town as a singing teacher was Basked asked to sing a solo at the dedica- dedica tion ceremony and he obliged with his bis own song written seven years before |