The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-06-15
CHURCH CORNER
STONE TO OBELAID
SUNDAY, JUNE II


at 2:30 o'clock the corner stone Of the
new Methodist Episcopal Church Of
Big Springs will be laid. A large
number of guests are expected to be
present. Rev. DR.. Melvin E. Gilbert,
of Kearney, Nebr., the district super
intendent of the Kearney district has
been invited to be present and lay the
stone. The program of the day will
be as follows:
1000 A. M.-Sunday School at
which full attendance is urged.
.11:00 A. M.-Morning Worship.
Sermon by the pastor or one of the
guests.
12:45 A. M.-Community basket
dinner in Railway park to which
everybody is cordially invited.
1880 P. M.-Band concert and recog-
milton of Sunday School classes.
2:30 P. M.-Corner stone laying
500 P. M Evening Worship.
Speaker to be announced.
Big Springs and vicinity has made
a remarkable record this spring in
the way the work of building the new
Church has been done. On March 9Th
the work of wrecking the old frame
building was begun. All the labor
was donated. In three days the Church
was completely wrecked, the lumber
was cleaned Of nails and piled on the
back of the lot. The excavation was
Immediately begun, and completed in
a remarkably short time. Each day
there were from fifteen to thirty men
on the job. Each noon the ladies of
the community served splendid din
ner in the basement of the parsonage.
In all the ladies' served forty dinners
I and fed over five hundred hungry men
in the improvised dining room.
After the excavation was completed
the work of putting in the footings
and wells was begun. Under the lead
ership of the pastor, Rev. Louis H.
Kaub, who. fortunately has had build
ing experience and readily reads the
blue prints, the building was laid out
and the concrete footings run in place.
The pastor worked daily with his men.
Then Rev. Kaub put the men to build
ing the cement wall forms and in a
remarkably short time the wells were
complete to the water table line. At
the elevation level the concrete drops
back five inches to allow for the
brick veneer. From the water table
on up the walls will be entirely of
brick and tile. Rev. Kaub and his
workmen are to be congratulated up
on their success in constructing these
walls. The angles are erect, the walls
straight and plumb and flawless. The
contractors who are completing the
church are we'll pleased with the walls
upon which they are to begin their
work.
In all, it is figured that the donated
labor was worth over thirteen hundred
and fifty dollars. The donated din
ners were worth more than two hun
dred and fifty dollars and the team
work which was also donated amount
ed to over one hundred dollars.
Merse and Doran of Ogallala. have
been awarded the contract to practi-
cally complete the church. The
building will be a splendid brick
church, having a seating capacity OF
four hundred. The basement will be
large, light and splendidly arranged
for Sunday School and Social purpos-
es.
The new church has been greatly
needed for a long time. The old
structure was totally inadequate for
the rapidly growing society. The
new Church will be one Of the best
planned church plants in western Ne
braska and constructed at very NOM
inal figure.
The canvass for the church is not
yet complete. The response has been
remarkable. The pastor recently said
| that the spirit of cooperation and
generous, even sacrificial giving which
has been manifest throughout has