The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-11
3 PASTORS REMAIN
REVs. cox, REINHARDT AND ELLI- SON RETURNED.
pr. 0. c. McGehee of Mobile Successor to pr. J. A. Rices Comes to Montgomery SOOn-New Year
 Begins Sunday.

The six Methodist churches of Mont
 Sunday with new pastors in three churches and the pastors of the ether three returned from the last year.
 pr. Oliver Clarke McGehee is the new pastor of the Court Street Church;
 Rev. I. w. Chalker will come to the
 South Perry Street Church and the pull
 pit of the Clayton Street Church will
 be filled during the next year by Rev,
 J. H. Holloway.
 Rev. w. N. Cox was returned to the Dexter Avenue Church, Rev. J. w.
 Reinhardt to the Fifth Avenue Church
 and Rev. R. R. Ellison to the Forest
 Avenue Church. Presiding Elder NJ. H
 HoltSha been returned to Montgomery Dr. McGehee comes to Montgomery from the St. Francis Street Methodist Church at Mobile. Dr. McGehee is one of the strongest ministers in the Ala bama Conference He was born in ] Montgomery County near McGehee's Switch. He lived In the county until in | his 18th year, when he went to Auburn
 to college He graduated in 1879. 6nd l taught in that college for three years
 and for three years afterwards was Superintendent of the high school al Eclectic.
 He then joined the Alabama Confer
 ence and was appointed to the church | es at Abbeville and Clopton, where he
 stayed two years. He served the | church at East Selma one year. the l church at Greensboro four years. Gov
 ernment Street Church, Mobile. four years: Opelika four years. Residing El- , der of the Greensboro Distrct three years. and for the past three years has been at the St. Panels Street Church l in Mobile.
 Dr. MeGehee has wife and seven children, five sons and two daughters His oldest son will graduate soon from
 medical college. and he has two sons who gre teachers In the Barton Acad- | emy for boys at Mobile. Dr, MeGehee will move with his family to Montgom- cry as soon as practicable.
 Rev. l. w. ChaIker, who comes to the South Perry Street tChurch, Is a young man, a graduate of the Southern University at Greensboro. He will bring with him to Montgomery his wlfo and two children. Mir. Chalker comes to Montgomery from the Broad Street Church at Mobile.
 Rev. J. H. Holloway. the new pas
 tor of the Clayton Street Church. comes from the Trinity M. E. Church at Ope- llka. He Is a graduate of the Southern University at Greensboro, and is a young man. unmarried. He takes the place which has been filled for the past three years by Rev. F. c. Moore. It i5 well known that Dr. John A.
 Rice. pastor for the past four years
 of the Court Street Church, has been
 transferred to the Louisiana Conference,
 and has been appointed to the Rain Me
 moriaI Church at New Orleans. This
 church Is built in the shadow of Tulane
 University. and is one of the oldest churches in New Orleans.
 Df McGehee is a worthy successor
 Dr. Rice. MT. Chalker succeeds
 Rev Henry Trawick at the South Perry Street Church.
 Mir. Trawick was appointed 10 the church at Greensboro. The Greensboro Church is considered one of the most important churches in the Conference
 from the fact of 1t being the church attended by the students of the south ern University. MT. Trawick's Mont Eomery friends regret losing him, but are pleased that his appointment should have been such as to place him pleas
 antly and proftahly- The three re-
 turning ministers are well known, and their congregations and friends are glad to get them back