The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02

from there to the back part OF the
lot where Judge Standeven lives;
from there back in a tent on the said
McGrdy lot. from there to lot
where a. NJ. Welch now lives; from
there into the southwest room of
the basement OF the Lincoln school;
from there to the northwest room Of
said basement and finally TO its pre- s.
ent location"
with 13 charter mem bers, me
Bellview NJ. +. church was organized
In 1911 by Rev, j. w. Magee. Later
Rev. f. e. DaglCy reorgauizCd the
church and II wac from this estab-
lished beginning that the present
church. OF which Rev. Landor L.
BranNon Is pastor, was established in
1920.
Christian Science.
No group OF people more truly
pioneered in Tulsa than did thoss
why made up the first Christian
Sc. .cnce organization in the city. TN
der the name of the christian Sci
euce Society in Tulsa, Oklshom8."
five or six peufle began meeting in
November OF 1904 In each others
homes. Outgrowing these accom-
modations, small room was rented
in the downtown district and after
ETY. warranted, in its members upin-
ion, the organization of a church. In
November OF 1907 the First CHURCH
of Christ, Scientist, of Tulsa. Okla,
superseded the society and in Jan
uary of 1905 was granted It's charter
under the laws OF the state of Okla
hOmd. At that time. services We
being held in the Rosenfcld built
ing at the corner of Fret and Main.
This and other quarters occupied
successfully were soon outgrown and
arrangements we're made for a hall
to be built upstairs in the Brockman
building, corner Ninth and Main.
and beginning in 1911, services were
held here Tor six years. In 1914
the present site of the Christian
Science church. the triangular lot at
Ninth and Boulder, was purchased
and in 1917 an additional so feet on
the north was added TO il, giving a
frontage Of l59 feet, with 1I0 feet
on Eleventh. Ground was broken
for the building in 1917 and con-
struction begun. Conditions brought
about by the war prompted the de-
cision to delay completion of the
building after Sunday school room,
foyer ana cloak rooms had been fin
ishcd and the Sunday school and
ing here. With its seating capacity
of 500, the room is inadequate to
accommodate the Christian Science
congregations and since March OF
1921, when IL was voted to complete
the building, construction of what is
to be one of the most beautiful
church edifices in the southwest. has
been and still is being carried on,
Laid Episcopal Foundation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Hunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyle Dickey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hounker. and Mrs. w. N.
Robinson are among the members
Of a little group OF Tulsa people who
In 1905, when Tulsa was town of
about 800, laid the foundation for
what is now Trinity Episcopal
church. Rev. r. d.. Baldwin of
Vinita preached at the first services
held in a music studio on the second
floor OF business building. Lyle
Dickey was the first senior warden,
Hounker the secretary of the first
vestry. Bishop Francis Key Brooks,
pioneer in the church in the south
west, visited the little church occa-
sionally. .,a.
Going out into the country for the
first church site, because in so doing
they had to pay less than 1t would
have cost them to come into town.
the members of the congregation
bought a part of cornfield for their
first church home. This was what
Is now the corner OF Fifth and Gin
cinnati, whore the picturesque little
vine-coveTed brick church stood, un-
I'll recently. This was not only the
first brick church in Tulsa, but ii
was the Hrst to have a pipe organ.