What the Rural Church Is Doing in Growth and Service
Rev J K Lynn of Ss L W Church in Greeley Colorado discusses the rural church's role in health, farming, and community life. He outlines four farmer stages, stresses the church as a force for ideals, education, social life, and cooperative action, and urges a rural church bureau and stronger training for rural ministers. A concluding note announces a stockholders meeting for The First National Bank of Greeley on January 14, 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. KE. Lynn
Ss. L. W. Church
Greeley
Colo
Warren H. Wilson
Butterfield
Ross
Indiana
Illinois
Waters
Lynn Street
God’s Acre
Little Red
Tennyson
Sir Plunkett
Holland
Food River
California Orange Raiser
Rural Life Commission
Susan Farmier
C Church
State Agricultural College of Colorado
First National Bank of
Colorado
The Agrarian Revolution of America in Rural Life
The account traces westward pioneers through Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado, describing hardy individualists, itinerant preachers, and evolving rural life. It notes the shift from tight-knit farming communities to immigrant farming, transformed schools, vanishing country churches, and weeded cemeteries, signaling a broad reconstruction challenge for rural society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Ross
America
Butterfield
Goat Team Runs Away in Platteville Saturday
A herd of goats led by Roger Snyder escaped from a small wagon on Saturday morning in Platteville causing a lively chase as a large crowd pursued and eventually stopped them. Also recorded are the Women of Woodcraft officers elected for the year with Mary Terry as G N and Lillie Birkle as I S among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platteville
Roger Snyder
Old Settlers' Row in Greeley Nostalgic Portrait
J Max Clark chronicles a circle of early Greeley residents who arrived in the 1870s and 1880s, describing their longtime homes on Fifth Street and Eleventh Avenue. He recalls neighbors, farms, and the sense that Colorado’s climate and the city’s ties bind them to the land and to each other, ending with a pledge to remain till death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer
Gene’ Thayer
Colorado
Greeley
Arthur Hotchkiss
Jesse Gale
Sixth Street
Eleventh Avenue
Mr. Gale
Charles Mason
John M. G. Wadlin
E. E. Baker
Abner
Baker
Thompson
Claud
Maud
University At
Boulder
Daisy
California
S. K. Thompson
Camfield Hotel
Twelfth Avenue
S. . Brewer
Gerta
W. R. Clark
Eaton
Cameron
Samuel
B. F. Woodruff
Four Corners
Fifth Street
J. H. Benton
Willis Hill
J. Max Clark
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Sally
Mary
John
Ieceaa
Home Missionar Society
Country Church
J. E. Lynn
S. L. W. Ranch
Nebraska
Kansas
Krow En
Peter Cartricht
Hlinots
Ss. L. W. Ranch Church
OLD Settler's Row
the Tribune
New West
Denver
Greeley Tribune
Benjamin
Ceer
Coats
the Park Merchandise CO
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