Evening journal., 1912-03-13
HARD YEAR
FOR EASTON
Despite Drought and Severe
winter DR.. Watt Reports
Progress on District
MANY CONVERSIONS
ARE REPORTED


ton NJ. L. Conference today, dwells |
on the disastrous drought, which
coupled with the hard winter, caused |
a depression of the peoples finances
and made harder the financial prob
lens of the church in the district
While the residents suffered. several
OF the pastors experienced sickness
at their homes, but those afflicted
recovered. Among these were the
Rev. Warren Burr, of Greensboro,
who was serious III for awhile. The
REV. Leonard White, stationed at Cor
dova, had his young daughter and
son stricken i'll with scarlet fever
This was during the heat of a revival
and as result the parsonage was
\ placed under a strict quarantine. Inl
| spite of these serious Interruptions
/ the pastor came to the session with
/ glowing reports, and each charge
shows an advance over the previous
year. Another minister of the dis
trict, who experienced sickness at his
home, was the Rev. William e. Mat
thews, of Smyrna district, whose
daughter was seriously i'll for three
weeks and this coupled with the fact
that for seven weeks weather pre-
vented him from holding services IN
two Of his churches, has been over
come and nothing will suffer
Dr. Watt also referred to the death
OF Gideon Hukill, of Middletown, who
was one OF the most generous givers
in the church.
Another one of the strange provi-
fN.anN
watt continues, was the business fail
ure that seriously crippled several Of
the most liberal supporters of the
church The standard of the church
relative TO benevolences has been
maintained for with a membership Of
but 26O. the moneys for benevolences
amounted to nearly 5000
Last spring, at his own request. DR..
Aipheus 5. Mowbray was transferred
to the Baltimore Conference. Uh
Aowbray was IN his second year 4.
smyrna and his ministry was in
creasingly useful. The Rev. William
Davidson Parry was transferred finm
the Baltimore Conference to fill .he
vacancy
The Rev. Earnest A. Gillispie IN
october, was transferred from Crump-
ton to the Wyoming Conference and
his pulpit has been supplied by the
Rev. John Thornton. a local minister.
, Church properties in Easton and
= Royal Oak have been improved. the
old Ebenezer church at Easton having
r new granite front. At the reopeu-
ing services $4,000 was asked and
70 $3.50 was received. The Rev. Thomas
!, Terry is the pastor. now closing hi;
= fourth year At Royal Oak. the OLD
T. building has been replaced by a beau.
- tiful church. At the reopening al
+ but $500 of the $4,000 necessary wa,
raised.
Among the other churches improved
u are Odessa. the Rev. J. Howard GRAY
!, pastor, which with the parsonage was
improved at the cost Of $500: Center
VILE the Rev. w A. Wise. pastor. has
added $3.50 in improvements and the
o property is free of debt. Trappe has
= spent Sl75 in improving its parsonage
\ Bayside. Sl25; Hillsboro, SIS :Cordova
f 800; Wye Mills, like amount; Piney
Neck, $50; Still Pond. $50 and Fairlee
q where the church has been beautified
), at a cost of S400. and at Church Hill
= the Rev K. H. Derrickson has caused
e the improvements 10 total $500. At
h St. Micheals, $3.50 was expended for a
e like cause; Sudlersville. 1925; Hen
l. derson, $40: making a grand total OF
It nearly $1,000 and the total paid on
q debts and Improvements nearly
e $4,000.
y Dr. Watt stated that according Il
> the official year book for 1911 the tota
Il Indebtedness of the church propert,
in the conference was S1O2.9OO and o
\ that amount SS9O6 was credite,
- against Easton district. This has beer
y reduced during the year. the most not
able achievement being at TOwnsen,
where debt OF $1,000 had been al
lowed to exist for the past nine years
!, Early in the year Rev. L. I. McDougle
:. the pastor. started plans to reduc
y this and through a personal canvas
y, by the middle of December four-fifth
~ of the money needed was in hand tn
balance in sight. Among the othe
charges reporting debts paid are, III
Rev. /. G. FOsnOcht at Clayton, re
in ports $500 on parsonage; st. Michael''
! S420: Fairlee, $50: Cecilton. S125
- oxford. S4OO and Still Pond 5000.
The average salary on Easton dis
trict is over $500. Ten charges hav
= advanced their salaries during tn
. year: Ridgely from $500, four year
ago. TO $1,000. Wye Mills adds S12O
Cordova and Pomona, 800; Royal Oal
$50: and Oxford Trappe, Queenstown
Bayside and Bozman $50; Salem an
Zion add $3.50 to the total amount,
net increase of $1,000 or $4,000 in tw
years. Galena becomes a two-churc
station without any reduction no
withstanding that three of its lare
est givers have died during the yea
DR.. Watt says that with sane
financial system. we'll worked, the ave.
age salary on Easton district coul
easily be made $1,000.
Smyrna still leads in salary pal
and in its contributions to the bene'
Ilolences DR.. Watt added. Dr. Louis
Barrett of Chestertown with but 2.
members gives to these causes near
$3.50.
Greensboro, the Rev. Warren Bur
reports the largest increase toward
benevolences, in the district and II
Rev. Leonard White. of Cordova. r
ports the largest amount ever recor'
ed from that charge. Others who ha'
set new records are Hillsboro Ba
side, Sudlersville, Royal Oak
Michaels, Still Pond and Henderso
Among the churches there have be-
noteworthy revivals, especially at Ne
witt on Bozman oN@~ge and at Buzz
on Henderson charge where the mer
bership was more than quadruple
AT Trappe, seventy-fve persons we
ladded to the church. There were