The Democratic advocate., 1883-07-21
West End of Freedom District Items,

Walter d. Musgrove died on the 10th inst,
in the 9th year of his age, of malarial con-
gestlon, leaving widow and one infant child.
Nicholas Jenkins, young married man,
on the 18th instant fell from a cherry tree,
striking upon the head and shoulders, and re-
oelved injuries from which he lies helpless
and in precarious condition. Miss Ella
Brandenburg also fell from cherry tree, in
juring the tree slightly by her breaking a
lower limb. Amputation will be necessary.
We will say a word for our prosecuted road
supervisors. Twenty-Five or thirty years ago
plows were scarcely used here on the roads;
| but instead, heavy teams hauled stones of
various sizes and dropped them in rows up
and down the hills wherever the water might
chance to sweep down rut which was the
case on all inclined planes. These rocks now
lie in unsightly ridges, some of them more
than foot high We mention one road upon
which this rock hauling has become a nuis-
ance-the Sans Creek road, from Woodbine
north for distance of eight miles, does not
touch a branch, ravine or swamp, and we
might safely say that there are three miles of
humps and bumps and ridges and clumps of
rock to give the traveller jumps and thumps
and dumps as he drives; all of which have
been hauled into the road as crude attempts
at macadamlzlng, In most cases where the
plow and scoop should have filled the mud
ponds and cutters.
Now word to our honorable Board of
Commissioners While little advice to su-
pervisors might be well, you will make some
allowance for their bad roads when citizen
who has to use them tells you that it would
take the entire levy for two years to pick and
remove those heaps of rock which the county
has paid for putting there, and of course has
the best right to pay for taking them out; and
there can be little agreeable hauling or driving
done till they are removed. We will say to
the credit of some of the supervisors, that
while they are using the proper tools, the
plow and scoop, they are also picking out
portions of those unsightly stones and huge
brakes.
A motion is pending to sell Mt. Pleasant
NJ. p. Church, two miles northwest of Sykes
Vile, to assist in building a new church some
three miles further in the same direction.
The former trustees of Mt. Pleasant Church
are all under the sod but one, who is over 80
years old. A new board of trustees has been
appointed, all of whom are interested in the
new building. Mt. Pleasant Church cost
about one thousand dollars a third of cen
tury or more ago. George Patterson, of
Springfield, who took in the situation, said
about that time that the church organization
there had cost one of its principal founders
individually four thousand dollars. The ashes
of that faithful servant of the church, the
founder of that particular sect in Freedom
district, with the dust of others, have long re-
posed there. Now we have given two items
of history, with the third of century be-
tween; let us overleap third of a century,
and give possible record that may be made
about the second decade of the twentieth cen
tury. The founders of the now new church,
then grown old and dilapidated, may be re-
posing in its burial place. The posterity of
the founders of old Mt. Pleasant may want
little new church around the corner, and
without consulting the pOsterity OF the found
ers of the now new church, try to sell the then
waXed old fabric to help build said little new
church few miles away. just here imagine
the wall that may go up from the same voices
that are now clamOrous for the sale OF old
Mt. Pleasant, when they see the ashes of their
fathers at the now new Brandenburg church
offered for sale. We will seal up the unwrit-
ten page Just here; but being one of those who
think freely, though dispassionately, we have
come to believe that there is some religion in
the churches as well as out ofthem, land we think
there should be faith enough in the church to
make it believe that it has no guarantee that
Heaven will shower blessings upon sacrlleglous
acts done calling upon the name of the Lord.
We are told that Mt. Pleasant Church lot was
decided for church purposes. If so, the title
is reversonary. Then the church should see
further than to sell it. Let Mt. Pleasant
Church fall with its dead, and lie there, till
in the future the church may see utility in re-
building the house for worshippers that the
| future may produce, when the stone that the
builders now reject may be prominent cor
ner, and very important church property.
| Churches are built for unborn as well as living
| WOrshippers.