Putnam patriot., 1925-11-13


 #af the committee, Al those who had helped thus To beautify the approach
 ,a the church and 70 add to it's equip |mept for service Short speeches of Hc5nFratulati0n were made by a num- Hher af guests. interspersed by eom- ImunItv songs under the leadership of J. Leon Baker The following brief
 sketch of the early history of the church was read by the pastor, Rev Frederick C Baker:
 Hi.,sry q the Church
 By Rev. Frederick C. Baker r. was thought by some of the com mittee having charge of the arrange ments for this gathering that Il might be of interest to the friends to have brief review of the history of this church: and they appointed the pas t0T Co the task of preparing it. Like many another task that comes to us. ! it is easier said than done.
 How to compress the history of eightv-three years into the narrow i time limit which this occasion would ! justify. so tha, you should not be | bored m listening has been a prob l lem too big for me to solve. In brief glance over these pages the things have said that perhaps i ought nat ta have said, and more especially the things l have Jeff unsaid that l ought to have said. makes me pro
 feaudiv conscious of its shnrt-com-
 iugs But. such as l have give l thee"
 The earliest records of Methodism
 n what was then called Baskerville,
 hat since 1866 has been known as
 North Grasvenurdale, date back Co It#l At thiz time a number of Me
 fH8di#ts W h0 lived in She vicinity and
 others 0ha were not get members.
 formed tHe project of building a
 rHuraH r chs place for the worship
 of Amshzs God.
 \ tHe Hrt 8eetiBe af winch @e hase the records March ls4l, 1t was
 eafed tHat ihe church huuld be own #s# hH stockholders. \ Constitution Eaf eleven #Ft#eles 3as drawn up anI
 adopted Article two of this toustI- 4 sutton read .The stock of said Hous. | hall be divided into thirty shares oi $ S1pG each. and every person suhserib
 ine to these articles shall be enttl [ ed te one vnte for every share h' ' subseribes for
 Article five reads. -slt is agreed e and understood by the subscriber < that said House -hui he for tine us .e and occupation of Che Methodist Epts \. capat church of the U S. as a Hous and place of Worship, according t a the rules and discipline which iron
 time to time may be agreed upon an il adopted at their General Conference n and that at all times hereafter the e will permit the ministers and preach n ers of said church. as from time [ ' time shall be authorized by said Gen Id ernl Conference Co preach and eN
 pound Gods word in said church. ' = Shares Disposed of
 The thirty shares were soon dlspos
 ed of to the following twenty persons
 William Fisher & Sons shHres
 George Nichols 3, Robert Prince Edward Aldrich 2 John Shumwuy Nathan Prince 1. Schuyler Corhiu 2 John Alton l. Joseph J Green
 Solomon r. Tracy Hammond Shum
 .Wav l Wheeler Barrett l. Lahaa |
 Wilson | Japeth Curtis l. Rufu
 HGnaen Stephen T1uffelIottt I HuEI
 IetEIp 1, Edward LiRpet l. Lymai
 Upham 1, Chester Chafee
 Al meeting of the stockholders
 hold June 70. ls4l, it was "votei
 Hth8t wc consider the subscription fo
 o0o sufficient for the building of l House tu answer eur desires. An, b at this meeting a building committee h of three. William Fisher. Ed@ar' . Aldrich and Edward Lppitt was ap 1 pointed. and it was voted Co bull !. the wills of brick.
 Y The church was completed and de 1 dieated in August is42, two month Is after the arrival of their first pastor { Rev Charles (. Barnes. Some of th y first members of the church came b 'd letter from our church in Webster 1i but the greater number were trans E. ferred from the Methodist church 1 x, West Thompson Al the close of th ~ first year the pastor reported Go Cor n- ference l2s members. This was 7, magnificent growth for the new hs ~ ginning. but the strange thing abot m it IS that the church reached it's hig ln water mark of membership in ths k first year Of it's history The nes year the same pastor reported il' to For a number of years the member .e ship ranged in the neiEhhnrhoed C 1, Loo. but ln 1899 it had dropped ,f seventy three and twenty probl l. tluNGfe. ne HtAttht tk tNtE NAfN Ie to the high water mark of the fins it year was in 1895 when Brother Has
 Iings reported HIS members. - The first trustees were appoiutc < March %. ls43. when the followin II vote was passed Voted that we hay ' trustees Co take deed of the Ian | on which the meeting house stand ' and for sheds. etc"
 ' Voted that George Nichols, Josep llJ. Green and John Shumway serve [ \ trustees
 \ Second Pastor
 \ The second pastor of the ehurc I was Anthony Palmer. who stayed fo \ two years. during which there was \ good spiritual interest. and som | twenty conversions In 1863 after \ lapse of seventeen years. Bro. Pa \ mcr was again appointed as pastOl \ But he stayed only one year, and lei \ to accept il chaplaincy in the U \ Army. During his first pastorate th N e..-4-ar.ti1f.sst aat5F.r sxraa EH1T Nsanr