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oh —(From Scottish immigrant James L. Sommerville, a civil engineer who had operated coal mines in Snow Shoe, opened mines in what was to become Winburne in about 1886. The first schoolhouse, a two room building, was also used for a non-denominational Sunday School. Once a month, the Rev. George Chappel came from the Kylertown Presbyterian Church to conduct services. The population grew rapidly. Berten Merritt, a lumberman who owned much of the land on which Winburne was built, alon gith Mr. Sommerville on others, decided to build a Union mee. The building, which cost $800, was dedicated in February 1891 to be used by Lutherans, Meth odists, Presbyterians and Bap tists. That building, with later ad ditions, is the Winburne Pres byterian Church today, the spokesman said. Before long, Swedish Luther ans built a church next door; the Methodists built on School Hill and the Baptists built their church, still in use, in Forest. The Presbyterians petitioned Huntingdon Presbytery for permission to form a church and on April 27, 1891, with the Rev. Chappel presiding, the Winburne Presbyterian Church, with 12 charter members, was orga nized. Nine of those, including Mr. Sommerville and family members, were transfers from the Bellefonte Presbyterian Church. The new church and the new town grew and prospered. By the early 20th century the town had an enormous red brick schoolhouse next door to the church, two large company stores and dozens of smaller ones, the Bituminous National Bank, the Winburne Water Co., (still serving the area as the Cooper Township Municipal Authority), trolley service to Philipsburg, train service to New York City, and a YMCA with a resident supervisor. Prosperity continued through World War 1, which demanded ever greater Peosue Hay of coal. Church memney peaked at 291. The Sunday School grew so large, more than 350, that the huge Men’s Bible Class had to meet in the local nickelodeon, an early movie theater, the spokesman said. The 1920s found the coal busi age 1— ness declining and many resi dents moving to cities to work in new industries. Those who stayed in coal towns such as Winburne faced irregular work and bitter strikes that brought the Depression to the area years before the rest of the country felt its effects. The church faced difficult times and lost members as the population dropped, but the congregation celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1941 with a week of special services. The Rev. Leslie L. Lease, minister at that time, resigned in 1952 after serving 21 years in Winburne, preaching also in Kylertown, Bigler and Glen Richey. After two years without a peakch, Presbyterian churches in sceola Mills, Kylertown and Winburne joined, with guidance from Huntingdon Presbytery, to form the Moshannon Valley Larger Parish. The Rev. Eugene W. Stam baugh, who had served as stu dent pastor, became the first minister of the new parish. He later married Phyllis Kay Lutz, a member of the Winburne con gregation and a great -grand aughter of Berten Merritt, an early elder of the church. Later parish ministers were the Revs. Graeme Sieber, John Kleffel and Dale Dykstra. In 1981 the Osceola church left the parish to call its own minister and a new Moshannon Valley Parish of Winburne, Kylertown and Snow Shoe was formed. The Rev. John Gehring -Anders was the first leader of the new parish and was succeeded in July 1989 by the Rev. Dill. Through most of its recent history, the Winburne church has maintained a membership of about 100. In its first 87 years, there were only five Clerks of Session, in cluding an unusual three generation tenure: James L. Sommerville, 1891-1912; Robert H. Sommerville, 1913-1943; Mary Sommerville, 1968-1978. In be tween were Stephen Rohart, who served for 20 years and Thomas C. Grey. The present clerk is Kathleen Sillman. Moynihan (Wrom Page)— Those same arguments were made last October when the Senate voted 54-44 for a similar proposal by Moynihan. The measure lost because 60 votes were required for passage for procedural reasons. The New Yorker had hoped to get at least as much support Wehnesdey when he would have needed only 50 votes to succeed. But while gaining backing from three Democrats and three Re publicans who voted against him last fall, he lost 16 Democrats and eight Republicans who had supported him then. oynihan said the lobbying against him was too much to overcome, “On the Republican side, there was a very strong White House insistence that this was a real issue,” he said. Moynihan did not say why he had lost so much Democratic support. But his aide for Social Security, Eduard Lopez, said the decisive factors were opposition by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and the American Association of Retired Persons. Several organizations repre- Senin senior citizens supported Moynihan, but AARP, the largest and most powerful such group, opposed him. AARP played a much quieter role last October, said Lopez. “Lloyd Bentsen was campaign ing hard against it, and so was AARP, and between them you got a lot of Democrats who wimped out this year,’’ Lopez said. Bentsen said he believed law makers were persuaded by arguments that the trust funds could be jeopardized if tax collec tions were reduced. He said lawmakers worried that if they voted for Moynihan, elderly voters might see that as weaken ing the Social Security system. 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Clearfield Progress
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Apr 25, 1991
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