Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1958 — Page 8

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Completes History Os Pleasant Mills Church

(Mrs James F. Halberstadt. Sr., of Pleasant Mills, St. Mary’s township historian, recently completed a very interesting history of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, founded 91 years ago. Histories of all local churches and organizations are being collected by the Adams county historical society in hopes* of publishing a complete history of the county. At the next meeting of the historical society, Tuesday evening, Feb. 25, county superintendent of schools Gail Grabill will speak on the early history at Adams county schools. The following is an abridgement of Mrs, Halberstadt’s history.) The very early settlers of Pleasant Mills gathered at the various homes to hold worship. Coming from east and north, and east and southeast, they brought with them their various faiths. An| itinerant preacher would expotnd the scriptures to them from' time to time. That was back when — sometime before short sermons! The common people heard them gladly, their humble cabin home became God’s house for the time being. Isaac McCoy was the first known Baptist preacher to visit these parts. He maintained headquarters at St. Mary's, Ohio., and worked among the Indians and early settlers. In 1837 he organized a Baptist church at Fort

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Wayne. Log Meetin’ House A log house was raised in the early days just east of the pres-ent-day Goerge Foor home, where highway 33 intersects a county road. The communicants of various denominations gathered there for worship when a preacher was in the vicinity. The school building stood for many years, and many now living recall when it was razed. Monmouth had a Baptist church in later years, and the Baptists of the Pleaiant Mills area worshiped and held their membership ther e . Before good roads it was a long trip to Monmouth, ride horseback ~r in a tiresome buckboard, ex iig slow moving sled in winte. ,/er the Piqua road. April 27, 1367 the following oersons met and organized the Peasant Mills Baptist church: Edward McLeod, Eliza McLeod. Joseph H. Wilmore, S. A. Silnore, Josephus Johnson, Major Mathewson, Elizabeth Mathewson, Susan Jackson, S. B. Merris, Margaret Merris, Jasper Winans, and Hester A. Winans. (This list was copied by Mrs, Halberstadt from the book used that April day, 91 years ago. The nk is beginning to fade, but the formation of the letters is still tiscernable.) The newly-organized church vorshipped in the new frame ‘meetin’ house" of the Old Con■titution United Brethren to Pleasant Mills. It was one of those one-room, no-steeple, two-doors-in-the-front churches. An aisle ran to the pulpit from each door. The men or me congregation ised one door and the women the ither," and they sat on their own side of the church. It was a ‘‘Too-forward maiden” that would dare sit on the men’s side. The three back seats were reserved „at night meetings for : the ■oung swains and their chosen naidens. It was the only time the sexes were permitted to sit together in meetin’. After mar--aige they separated at the fork as the path in front of the church, used their own door and sat on their own sides. Brick Church Built ZJZZ The number of members increased, and in 1881 a new brick church was built, with a steeple, and the two doors were placed together in the middle of the front gable, and they • had a center aisle. ’ The tradition of the women’s side and the men’s side lingered long, and the Amen corner remained until April, 1917. About the time the church was built, most of the members had become convinced that SATAN was not in the old foot pedal organ. The sacred music of their hymns was convincing enough that it caused no serious division, as happened in many early churches. A crown organ was purchased, and the singing clerk laid his tuning fork on the shelf beside the kerosene lamp. Mrs. J. N. (Kannie) Fristoe was the first organist. Mrs. Margaret (Yager) France was organist many years. In the spring of 1916 Wesley Ray and Jim Halberstadt were appointed to buy a

piano. Mary Ray was the first pianist. John Bohner wired the church at this time. Wire andi fixtures were purchased at the| Schafer Store, and they presented the piano lamp which is still in use. In the spring of 1920 the church building underwent extensive repairs, under the guidance of Steve Longenberger. A basement and a coal burning furnace attached to a new outside chimney has been an efficient heating system. Ministers The Rev. Maupin, pastor of the Methodist* church; redecorated the interior. The exterior was given a coat of stuCco. In the autumn of 1932, the old pews, bench style, were replaced with opera chairs, a great increase in comfort for the congregation. The Rev. D. B. Reckard did outstanding Work in the last decade of the 19th century. His wife died while here, and he married a girl from the church Maggie Hill. The Rev. W. H. Day, of Liberty Center, and later Bluffton, was pastor for about 35 years. In the early years he rode the Clover Leaf from Liberty Center, and in later years he walked to a near by interurban crossing in the vicinity of his home, rode to Bluffton, then the Clover Leaf to Pleas ant Mills, and still later he drove over by automobile. In 1947 he closed his pastorate. He was a man of deep devotions and his wife was a great power in the church. The present pastor is the Rev. Oakley Masten. Lowell Noll is the Sunday school superintendent. Flava Halberstadt is president of the W. M. S. Mary Melching is pianist. Loretta M. McCollough is the chorister. Will Noll is the caretaker. C. S. Winans and Jasper Winans were licensed to preach by the church. C. S. Winans became a minister of great prominence after his ordination. He was called to the First Baptist church in Kokomo at a time when it was the largest Baptist church in the Judson circuit. On <**ll*B work there he was called to> the Girst Baptist church in Van Wert, 0., where he remained until his death. While it has never been a large church, the Plewam Mills Baptis hurch has ci-sed its door only once—during the great flu emdemic during the autumn of 1918 The Baptistry Pleasant Mills’ new brick Baptist meeting house boasted of a baptistry. It did not compare with the baptistry of 108 feet diameter prepared for the chuYch in Florence, Italy, in the sixth century. It was however, thought to be the last word by the St. Mary' s township residents. It is und ®* the pulpit, where the carpet rolls back to the north wall of the church. It is about 8 by 10 feet, and lined with pure zinc. After completion of the building an evangelistic meeting was held ( a "Big Meeting.”) Several came forward confessing their sins and desiring to be baptized and to unite with the church. Pleasant Miylls people turned out with" buckets of water, as if going to # fire. Teakettles of hot watej wefe carried cautiously to the baptismal reservoir. The late Della (Fristoe) Bowers was one of the candidates immersed that- eventful evening. This all happened in the ninth decade of the last century. B. E. (before electricity.) First Wedding On a cold December day in 1882 the first marriage was solemnized in the new brick structure. Tall, handsome blonde Ezra Mcßarnes, of Decatur, claimed the village dressmaker, Lydia Smith, as his bride on Dec. 23, 1882. There whs an audible rustle of cold-starched cambric petticoat ruffles under the everpresent hoops and bustles of that period, as the lovely couple walked down the aisle, coming from the Hampton Fristoe home, next door to the church. How lovely the tall and stately couple looked as they stood before the audience, pledging their troth, in an atmosphere so sacred It could be felt. Kannie (McCleod) Fristoe and Lydia Smith purchased the first pulpit Bible for the new church. If you have something to sell or rooms forrent, try a Democrat Want Ai- They bring results. O'P ir.vi--«i4HMßra WK:' . r< MATE CAUGHT NAPPING- Mrs. Athlie Joan Irvine Penniman, who at 24 has a $125,000,000 fortune, is shown as she won a divorce tn Los Angeles on grounds that her husband, Russell S. Penniman, ! stayed in oed till noon and wouldn’t get a job. Mrs. Penniman inherited half of the $250,000,000 real estate fortune of her grandfather. f Infer HattofioLl

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Noel Hemphill Dies Sunday At Hospital Funerai Services Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Yager funeral home in Berne for Noel Hemphill, 57, a resident of that community for 22 years, who died about 5:30 a.m. Sunday M the Adams county memorial hospital. Hemphill, a native of Marion county, had been a patient three weeks with a heart ailment. He was a salesman for the Allied Finishing Company, Chicago, Hl. Surviving are the widow, Madge; his father. Court Hemphill, Greenwood; a brother, Nelson Hemphill, Greenwood, and a sister, Mrs. Virginia Nichols, Indianapolis. Mr. Hemphill was a member of the, Decatur Masonic Lodge, and the Scottish Rite and Shrine in Fort Wayne, and the Greenwood Methodist church. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after 2 p.m. today. The Rev. C. A. Schmid will officiate at the funeral service. The body will be taken to the Burkhart funeral home, Greenwood, for a second service at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be at Greenwood. A brother, Lewis L Hemphill. 12, Knoxville, Tenn., a salesman, died recently while on a business rip to Little Roek Ark. Good Vacation SALT LAKE CITY — (UP) - Mrs. Glen Brannigan, Big Sandy, Mont., on vacation here took tijae out from visiting friends to play golf for the second time, promptly spanked her tee shot on the No. 3 hole for a hole in one.

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Music Students Os County Are Winners Regional Contest Is Held Saturday Several Adams county musicians won first and second division awards in the instrumental regional contest held at Harrison Hill school in Fort Wayne Saturday, it was( learned here today. The Indianapolis state finals for both instrumental and vocal performers will be held next Saturday. Miss Carolyn Luginbill, a baritone solo, and Gary Millington, trombone solo, Pleasant Mills, each won first division ratings. Fram Adams Central, superior, high school brass quartet, Brenda Sommer, Duane Arnold, Delora Mishler, Jim Hoffman; B-enda Sommer, trumpet solo; David Sommer, trumpet solo; Janet Rupp, clarinet solo: Excellent, junior high brass uartet, David Sommer, David Tohnson, Meryin Mann and Null "on Gu to- clarinet quartet, Doris Bluhm, Mae Christener, larbarf Steiner, Ruth Sipe; two ►-umn.' •>-lns, Duane Arnold and Sondra Mattax; trombone solo, Jon Gunten. From Monmouth, superior. John Fuhrman, trombone solo; Nyla Girod, clarinet solo; Kent Girod, baritone; excellent, Calvin Caston, baritone, and Kenneth Fuhrman, trombone; and a brass, sextet, John Fuhrman, Kent Gi-1 ■ rod. Roy Fuhrman, David Caston, Gene Kalthoff and JAfck Mil-x ler, " I No students from Decatur highschool or Decatur Catholic high 1 school were entered in the con-

test. High school individuals or groups who placed in the superior rating will take part in the state finals next Saturday at Indianapolis. Susan Macklin, of Decatur junior high, and Sharon Sue Harmless, of Monmouth junior high school, won excellent. ratings with a piano duet a week ago. They are students of Miss ’ Mary Schumm at the Decatur Music House, and were omitted from last week’s story on the music contest. Schedule Os Events For Youth Center The schedule of events at the Youth and Community Center for this week was announced today by Richard Linn, center director. . The schedule follows: Today — Lions club, 6:30 p.m., front auditorium; Boy Scout troop 61, 7 p.m., Boy Scout room. Tuesday— Girl Scout troop 200, 3 p.m.,. Girl Scout room; Girl Scout troop 6, 3:30 p.m.. Boy Scout room.; Adams county medical society, 6 p.m.. Girl Scout room; Air Force reserves, 7:30 p.m., Boy Scout room; Psi lota Xi, 7:30 p.m., front auditorium; Beta Sigma Phi. 7:30 p.m., rear auditorium. Wednesday — Girl Scout troop 5, 3:30 p.m., Girl Scout room; dance class, 4 p.m., auditorium; Business and Professional Women's club, 6:30 p.m... Boy Scout room; Brownie leaders, 7:30 p.m., . Girl Scout room. I Thursday — Rotary club, 6:30 p.m., front auditorium; Boy Scout ; troop & 7a.HU> Boy Scout room, Friday —After game dance. j ! Saturday Rural youth meeting, afternoon and evening auditorium. t

Drive For Crusade For Freedom Here Legion Auxiliary Aids In Campaign Adamq Post 43 of the American Legion auxiliary Will participate in 1 the annual crusade for freedom drive in support of Radio Free Europe, Mrs: Dee Fryback, national security chairman, announced today. The Decatur drive will be held " Feb. 12 to Feb. 22, from Lincoln’s birthday to Washington's birthday, she added. The crusade for freedom, en--1 dorsed by the national American Legion and American Legion auxiliary, supports the truth broadcasts of Radio Free Europe. A non-profit, private American organization, Radio Free Europe sends news and information to five Soviet-dominated countries of East Europe — Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. “The success of the 1958 crusade >r freedom irive will mean the ontinuatki. of Radio Free Europe’s’ vitrfi work in providing undistorted broadcasts for countries

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which have no free press or free radio,” Mrs. Fryback said. Truth dollars contributed by the American people are used in maintaining 29 powerful transmitters in Europe, Mrs. Fryback pointed out. These transmitters are strong enough to succeed against the jamming efforts of the Communists. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, >ne of the crusade's founders, recently said, “The crusade for freedom has long enlisted my support. The stirring events of the last year (in Poland ano Hungary) are proof that the spirit of freedom is alive in the hearts of people everywhere and that these people are deceptive to the message of Radio Free Europe.” Just In Time EAST SYRACUSE, N. Y. - M — Charles Roberts picked an excellent time to move his family from their former trailer home. A few hours after they left, the trailer was destroyed by a $3,500 fire. <l,f ■■■■ Your tomorrows will be brighter if you give Christ priority in your life. Attend Special Informal Services To- ‘ night at 8 o’Clock at Zion Lutheran Church. 34t3