The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-17
The Chautauqua Grounds on
Thursday Afternoon Will Be
Filled to Overlooking With
Church Members.
Centennial OF THE
FOUNDING OF CHURCH
Program Arranged for the Big
Event Is Full of Interest
History Of Church in Wayne
County.

Interest in the Methodist Centen-
NAL, which will be celebrated at Glen
Miller on Thursday, August 10, is
great. Methodists from all over this
part OF the country will attend the
celebration which will be the biggest
affair OF it's kind ever attempted by a
church organization in this city. Sew
eral prominent speakers from other
cities have been secured for the occas-
ion and some excellent addresses will
doubtless be heard.
The committee in charge OF the cele-
bration has been busy for the past
month gathering information relative
to the early history OF Methodism In
Wayne county and securing curios
which will be exhibited at the centen-
NAL. Two OF the original logs, which
were in the first meeting house in
Wayne county, will be on exhibition.
Ono of the logs will be sawed into
small blocks and sold for souvenirs at
ten cents a piece. The date 1909
1909" will probably be printed on
them. The program in full will be as
follows:
Program In Full.
Afternoon
1880 D. m.-Music.
Invocation-Rev. e. B. Rawls, d.
D.. indianapolis. Ind.
Historical Address, Rev. Orange
Harrison, Richmond.
$3.50 p. m.-Music.
Address Bishop David H. Moore,
D. D.. L. L. D., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Music.
Miscellany.
Benediction.
-Evening.-
700 p. m.-Band Concert.
1880 p. m.-Music.
Invocation-Rev. T. M. Guild, D.
D., Richmond
Music-Quartette
500 p. m.-Address-J. F. Berry, D.
D., L. L. D., Buffalo, N. Y.
Hallcaujah Chorus, so voices.
Benediction.
Badges will be given to each Meth
odist.)
Its Early History.
The early history OF Methodism in
Wayne county is very interesting.
There Is a tradition that a class of
Methodists was formed in Clark's
Grant as early as 1902 The Rev.
Hugh Gull, local preacher, settled in
the Whitewater valley country as ear
ly as 1905, having visited the coun-
try the year previous. His farm was
located south Of Richmond in Boston
township.
The first circuit in Indiana was
called Whitewater circuit and be-
longed to the Ohio district in the old
Western Conference. 1t embraced all
the country from the Ohio river along
the eastern line of the territory as far
north as there was any white settle,
ments, which was the cabin of George
Smith, on what is known now as the
James NJ. Starr farm, northwest OF the
city.
The first Methodist preacher to
preach in Indiana was the Rev. Pete,
Cartwright. The first Methodist
meeting house built in the state was
erected In Wayne county in 1908, the
year the whitewater circuit was form
ed. 1t was called Meeks meeting
house and was built on Clear Creek
southeast Of Salisbury. the first coun
ty seat OF Wayne county. It was used
Tor meeting house for several years
Second Meeting House.
The second Methodist meetins
mouse was built in Wayne county in
IsoS on the land belonging to John
Cain, three miles northwest of Rich
mend. 1t served as a place Of wor
snip for number of years. It was q
log structure. about eighteen bv TWEEN
ty-two feet.
The third Methodist meeting house
was erected where Boston now stand,
mad was called Salem Russell Bieelon
was the first Methodist preacher te
preach in Richmond, that being IL