Evening journal., 1910-11-14
new CASTLE
JUBILEE
Week Of Services to Com
memOrate goth Anniversary
Of Methodist Congregation
DEAD AFTER AN
APPENDICITIS OPERATION

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEW CASTLE, Nov. 14.-Old friends
met here yesterday when the ninetieth
anniversary celebration Of the Meth
odist Church commenced. The Rev. J.
B. Mann, who was pastor of the
church in 1874, preached at the morn
ing and evening services.
Andrew j. Brown, Of Delaware City,
attended the Sunday School and de-
livered an interesting address. A song
service by the choir was feature of
the celebration. Former pastors Of the
church will preach during the coming
week. Among the ministers expected
here are the Rev. Thomas E. Terry, of
Salisbury; the Rev. e. l.. Hubbard, OF
Baltimore; the Rev. Thomas z. Mar
tindale, the Rev. r. Irving Watkins, of
Staten Island; the Rev. Cornelius W.
Prettyman, of Snow Hill; the Rev.
Geo T. Anderson, of Newark, and the
present pastor. the Rev. Frederick X.
Moore. The Rev. DR.. Albert E. Craig,
pastor of Grace Church, Wilmington,
also will assist, and special music has
been prepared under the direction OF
Chorister John b. Mankive.
The church really dates back to 1772
when Methodism was introduced into
Delaware by Francis Asbury, the pio-
neer bishop of American Methodism.
He was not well received, however,
and, after several visits, left here in
May, ITS, when he said 81 hope my
skirts are clear of the blood of the
people of this little town. whether
they reject or accept an offered saliva
tion"
The Rev. Benjamin Abbott was the
next preacher. and at one time he
came near being Drained by a bottle
of rum i'm the hands of a rowdy, but
he persevered, and in 1920 the church
was established with roll of 16 men
and 21 women at the home of Thomas
Marshall, with Joseph Rushing as the
preacher, and Henry |. Pepper as
leader In the same year a meeting
house was built on the land now oc-
cupied by the cemetery.
The Rev. Andrew Manship, who be-
came the preacher in 1849, declared
that one of the things that stood in
the way OF Methodlsm in New Castle
was that there existed in that place a
greater amount of aristocracy than
I'm any town he had ever labored. The
church was named Nazareth, and the
preacher at the time took for his
theme: "Can Any Good Come Out of
Nazareth" That name APPARENTLY was
an i'll omen to the church, for IL was
dropped for the name it now bears,
the New Castle Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The church grew, and in 1856 the
Rev. Thomas Tasker, president of the
Tasker Iron Works, of Philadelphia,
which plant afterward was moved to
this city, made II possible by his gen.
erosity to build the main editice, a
pretty structure to which has been
added the large school and class room.
John A. Walls died last evening in
the Homeopathic Hospital, Whining
ton. where he went under an opera
tion last week for appendicitis. For
many years he was one of the com
mission men who bought shad and
carried on the butcher business. Some
years ago he built a $4,000 property in
! Delaware street and since then has
! been in the ice cream business. In
the days of the Single Tax agitation
( he was an advocate OF the theory and
at all times claimed the present tax
system here is wrong. His widow sur
wives him.
In the presence of immediate friends
Richard Brown, of Frankford Pa, and
Miss Essie Kirby were married here
on Saturday evening at the home OF
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
red Kirby. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. S. B. Wylie. Miss
Ethel Frederick, of Philadelphia. and
George Brown, brother of the bride
groom, were the attendants. Miss Ma
Ida Wolfe, a niece OF the groom
played the wedding march
In St. Peters Church tomorrow
Miss Mary l.. Sullivan. daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Sullivan, Of this
city, and George Pennock, of Whining
ton, will be married. The wedding will
oe quiet owing to the fact that Mrs
sullivan and son John are now in the
Delaware Hospital suffering from ty-
phoid fever
Many gunners left here to-day for
points down state.
Representative elect John NJ. VIII
son is spending a week in New Haven,
onn.
Mayor Boyd who was defeated by
ir Wilson, is spending a few weeks
a Chester county towns.
Arrangements are being made for a
thanksgiving dance to he given here.
Complaint has been made Of Il young
.,,or who sold ofcfuroe hare lost ,r,.of-