The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-05-28
COUNTY S. 5. CONVENTION
Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting 10 Be Held
at wariordsbnrg Wednesday and
Thursday, June I0-Il.
EFFORTS TO MAKE 1T THE BEST YET.

VeDJlOu vi Jiie y uibou OOuuUJ Jun
day Schooi Association, Will be
held at Warfordsburg, Wednes
day and Thursday, June 10Th aud
1lth Every effort is beng put
forth by the officers of the asso
ciation to make this the very best
of the many good conventions
held in this county since the be
ginning of the organization's ) work
The growth of the Sunday School
movement in this county--the ln.
crease 10 the number of schools
the advance in methods of in
struction awakening of pop
ular lnterest-and the almost to-
tai disappearance of the opposl-
ton to Sunday school works. a
matter of much qualification, to
those who have been identified
with the work during these TWEEN
ty-elght years.
While there were two or three
county conventions at irregular
intervals 10 this county prior to
1880, 1t was on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 14th of that year that repres-
entatlves of the various schools
in the county met in McConnells.
burg and the present association
was formed by making Rev. b.
f. Kautz, of the Lutheran church
McConrellsburg, chairman; John
w. Greathead, of the M. E..
church, McConnellsburg, secre-
tary, and Rowland Austin, of the
Greenhlll Presbyterian church,
'easurer.
The opening address to the de-
legates was made by VIM, B.
Skinner, Esq.
OF the twenty. five schools then
in the County, the following were
superlntendents; NJ. &. Sunday
school, Knobsvlle, Adam Val
lance; Greenhlll Presbyterian,
Rowland Austin; U. B. at Forest
Dale, Nathan II. Bishop; Pine
Grove In Wells Valley, j. Wesley
Johnson; Wells Valley Presby-
terian Geo. A. Stewart; M. e
church at Akersville, FL. Q. Akers,
M. E. Church at Emmaville INC
Kendree), G. M. Truax; M. E.
Church at Oakley, A. j. PlLtman;
Warfordsburg, Stephen G. An.
.drews; Eoenezer. Jas. H. Akers;
Lutheran church, McConnells
burg, Henry A. Comerer; Re
formed church, McConnellsburg,
George Hoke; Presbyterian
church, McConnellsburg, Wm.
b, Skinner; M. e. church. Nc.
Connellsburg, D. B. Mace; M. e.
church Hustontown, Thomas
Kirk; M. b church, Clear Ridge,
S. +. Stevens; Fairview, Jos. Ii.
Lohr; Center, Geo. S. Newman
Fort Littl ton, j. Wesley Frakeri
Back Run, j. w. Lathero; Dublin
Mills, It. q. Peterson; New Gren.
ada, S. H. McClain; Big Cove
Tannery Lutheran, John Bech'
tel; aud Burnt CABINS, d. H,
Matthias.
If there were any other Sun
day schools in the county at thai
time the records of the assocla
ton do not show 1t.
The first four conventions were
held in McConnellsburg; the next
(lS84) was held In Wells Valley; IL
1885, at Greenhill; 1886 at Nc
Connellsbure; 1887, at Warfords
burg; 1888 at Fort Littleton; 1888!
at Burnt Cabins-and, so on.
The object of an annual con
ventlon of the Sunday schoo
workers of the County is to bring
them into closer touch with eacl
other; to exchange methods, h
hear the instruction of special
lists, and to confer with view t,
accomplish most speedily ant
effectually the great end To-
which the Sunday school wal
brought into existence. Wha
the teachers institute is to th,
public schools, the Convention
should be to the Sunday schools
The results to be obtained there
from, will depend largely upol
The general interest taken.
each school in the county shoS
sunlclent interest to elect dele
gates that are aetiva aarnes