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Shelburn Methodist Church To Observe 65th Anniversary SundayThe Shelburn Methodist Church will observe its 65th anniversary on September 18th with a special morning worship at which two former pastors, Rev. C. A. McCullough and Rev, A. M. Couch-man are expected to speak. A basket dinner will be held at noon. The special day will be concluded with an afternoon service at which Rev, John Sutch of Loogootee, one of the young men who left this church to enter the 'ministry, will speak. Friends of the church are cordially invited to any port or all of the day.More than sixty-five years ago there was on the southwest corner of the crossroads at Currys-ville an old frame church for id* Uig about sixty feet long and thirty feet wide, in which the Methodist people of that day used to worship—in the old-fashioned way, no loubt, when Methodism used to ghoul and nobody became alarmed.The farmers and miners of that distant date drove theirhorses hitched to wagons, buggies. and sleds from miles around to this church, tied them to the hitching posts around the building, reverently toon their places inside, prayed and sang heartily and thoroughly enjoyed fellowship with Hod and mm.Curry sville at that time waspractically surrounded by woods and not much was known of tfo town, save that it boasted a coal min** a barrel stave factory, end a railroad which passed through it. The citizens of Currysvillc certainly must have been proud of their town, for as time mir ed onsome members of this Method is* church decided that Shelburn, r little town half a mile south wasa better place to have church and made up their minds to move the little frame building from its it sling place at Currvsville to Shelburn. At this decision agreat wail arose and resentment was §o great that many of the members ceased to attend and would not be reconciled. But(Continued on P*ge 2, Col. 1)
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Sullivan Daily Times
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 14, 1949
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