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Church Activities

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Trinity United Church held its regular meeting on Tuesday eve- ning in Bpivorth Hail in the room recently completed by this Society for 1L5 special U58. The devotional period was conducted by M155

Anne Philipson, who took for her theme “The Educated ‘Heart!’ Tire Bible Btudy was on the Develop- ment of the Christian Church” and the discussion was led by the min- ister on the period of the Middle Ages. A half _ hour: of games fol- lowed. The business period was in charge of the president. Plans were made to hold a sleigh ride at the next meeting. This organization, -n

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—-Th0 mesaiiy Liaising of the Y. P. B. o! the Summerside Church of Christ was a social evening. The devotional period was led by Don;

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'[9fld9(] 1,0 Rev, Garland and Mrs.

aid Barman, after which a short business session was in charge of the p. “ t. Many contlists ano games, under the direction o! the president. Many contests BUM games, under tho direction of the committee. Mrs. M. Mellieh, Ml. Keith Callback and the minister, gave a most enjoyable evening concluding with refreshments. -S.

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~The Y. P. U. 0d the Summer- side Church was held in the church hall on Tuesday eve- ning. The president. Arlene Jor- dan, was in the chair for the Jun- ior Group whose project was I“What is a Christian?" The The "lurks" won the three possible points in the competition. Ln tht Senior Group the devotions were ied by Miss Barbara Currie. The president occupied the chair. dur- ing the business period when the .fina.l arrangements were made for l the recital of Miss Portia White on February l9 in the High Schoo- quaetion box

Auditorium. The ‘queries were answered by the min-

ister. The "Southern Orose" won ‘ the pointa in the project. Two new imembcrs weie welcomedi-l.

. I O I l —'I‘l-ie "Guiding Light" 0. G. I. T. yo! Bummerside Trinity United Church held its regular meeting on lTuesday evening in Hipworth Hall with the president. Esther Moo- Kay. in the chair. After the devo- tions, led by Gloria. Woodside, Marion Cook conducted the Study Period, which was on the life of the Canadian Indian. A committee |to bring in a suitable motto foo, ‘the society decided u-pon "God is Our Guiding Iiight." Work was continued on- the proilofll- meeting closed with "Tape" after which games. under the direction o! the committee in ” - . W"! enioyed. June Geddis, Doris Hock- bert and Roby Best are in charge of the devotional period for nest meeting. -B. WILL IITAILIIIID

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Rev. ‘gather Rooney or 5t. An- thony's Pariah has returned from an enjoyable trip to Boston. Mass.

Decent arrivals in Olnary are Rev. l-LM. Burgess. Mrs. Bllliess and their two young children from Boston. Mass. Rev. Mr. Burgess is the Minis!!! o! the‘ 01A!!!’ Noll- arene Church.

I l-Iov. Harry Sagnali and Mrs. Begnail c! Springfield West were visitors to Oloery on Tuesday o!- tsrnooa, Jen. 30th. They made the tri from Springfield west to O U7. a distance of 0% miles in one hour by horse‘ and sleigh.

Mr. Allan Matthews, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Matthews of Ghoul! has joined the staff of the local branch of the Bank of Nova Scoiia. He succeeds Mr. Merril Hayden of North Sydney who has been transferred to Moncton, NJB.

Fire completely destroyed the fine farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer MacLellan of Springfield West, 61,5 miles from Odoary on Saturday Jan. 24th. The origin of the fire is not known but it made such a headway that no furniture could be saved. My. and Mrs. Mac- Lcllan have the sympathy of all the community in their great loss. Many bags of potatoes were also destroyed in the cellar. _,__. Shortly after Christmas .Mr. Arnold Wisoii, manager of the O‘Leary branch of the Bank o! Nova Scctia. was transferred to St. Andi-curs, NB. 141s place has been‘ taken by Mr. Jack Field of Montreal and he and Mrs. Field and their little daughter. Betty, is receiving e.‘ great welcome from the people of OLeary and district. Mr. Field is a native of Borden. P.E.I. __._\

Congratulations are being ex- Bvooks‘ of River Hebert. N-S- 011 the birth of s son ill Ssckville. NB. Both are former residents of dLeaiy and Mrs. Brooks was for- merly Miss Blanche Phillips. At. Christmas time the congfezaiioii

sent of $100 for their 800d “Kirk- They had Mrs. Brooks X89191‘. M1‘- Sanford Phillips of OIic-ory visit them during the Yuletide season.

-After the cold spell of the last week or so, there is a splendid sheet a! ice in the Olieary Rink. The Knutsford boys and the 0’1..es.ry school boys played on Saturday Jan. 24th in a hockey match and the score was 2-1 in favor of Kriutsford. The firsiwreg- ular hockey match was on Tues- i Cav night Jan. 27th when Alberton met Oliesry at the Oleery rink. The game ended iii favor of CVLeary with a, score of 6-2. The rink this year is under the capable management of Lorne Jelly and Arnold MacDonald.

A humbenof local residents have recently received gifts of honey from Rev. 0.0. Hewlett. The Rev. gentleman kept a number of bees last summer and the honey is his own product, gnd needless to say was gratefully appreciated and proved a tasty delicacy. The Min- ister was honored by his parish- ioners ef the Baptist Church at Chrisiirnas time by a gift of L‘ love- ly fur coat. Rev. Mr. Hewlett is I. veteran minister or the gospel, having been ordained in 1908. 40 years ago. He is an able carpenter and during the summer of 194'! buzlt a fine garage on the parson- age property besides fixing up the parsonage grounds, building a leu- nis court. etc. Rev. Mr. I-iowlett has had marked success in all his pastoral charges.

The Bloomfield United Church‘ Young Peoples Union met on Mon- day night, Jan. 12th at the home of Mo". and Mrs. Edward MucAusland and despite the cold weather, there was B, good attendance of fifteen young people. The President, Mrs. Errol stetson conducted the open- in worship and the study book w splendidly presented by Mrs. Alban Craswell. The feature of the evening was a presentation to Miss Mary Best of a cup and saucer and a nice tray in view of her coming departure to Wclfvilie, NS. where she will study for the hairdress- ing profession. Miss Best has been four years at Bloomfield and has always taken an active part in the Sunday School. the Y.P.U. and Church activities and will be greatly missed. She has the good wishes for hei- leglon of trends for success ‘in her chosen career. Jolly games were then enjoyed and delicious refreshments were served followed by the Miapah Benediction and the young fol left for their homes at a. late hour, tired but happy.

Ari-ion the other recent leaders in the professional life of OTaary (besides Mr. Field, the new bank manager, already mentioned in these riewii notes). the local phys- ician. Dr. George Dewar and Mrs. Dewar were new last year. like- wise the minister of the United Church. Rev. W.G. Dickson. Mrs. Dickson and their two daughters Norma and Jean. Rev. Mr. Dick- son came in August of 1841. New business establishments were started in 194'! in Olen-y u ‘foi- lowsz- Arch Suihcrlor‘ opened a butcher shop and meat market: Douglas Hardy opened a radio re- pair shop; Gerald Matthews ope - ed “Jei-ryh Grocetarla and TS Room"; Albert and Stan Dunvilie opened s-_new garage. All of these young men are we: veterans. Rod MacNevin opened a new restaur- ant "The Dingle" and there were a number o! nfll homes built or renovated. olesry has a populi- tiq equal to. i! it. docs not sur- pasl. its near neighbor. Aiberton; which is an incorporated town. Accordirigto‘ the Csnldian Offic- ial Railway Guide and Gaaette o!

1044 which contains the names and populations of ever-y place in Can- ada, the opuietion of Uhary la given as and the population of

turned. to their homes.

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Bloomfield siiieiniiy

-—Mk. Ink Oiiolioran of Lot 1mg» a recent visitor to Hiunoner- s . .

Miss Joan Deane, Dock Road, was a recent visitor to Bummer- side.

Mira. Jeaoe Bradshaw is at pros- ont visiting her son, Lloyd, e! B‘ - old Station.

oor. ‘Fred Its-inlay o! onmpbeu- ton nu taboo over; the gtore er Mr. Melvin Ramsay ed that place.

Mr. Orrin MacDonald of Mao- Neiira liiiiliieiwas a recent visitor to Bloomfield Station on business.

Mir. Melvin Richards, manager °i “he CWWQrative store, Bloom- field. was a recent visitor to 0'. UIPY- i Bloom. ___ . Mrs. ‘Iihoinao Griffin o! tho Dock Road. and Mrs. Leo Dalton of Roseville were recent visitors to Summersidio. e Messrs- Howard Griffin and Jimmie McCarthy ‘of the Dock

seek employment. Messrs. Ernest and » miners

Jones who recently spent a. couple of weeks in Summer-side, have re-

Mr. Jesse Bradshaw of iliiddle- ton recently purchased a very lovely hoi'sa from Mr. William MECIKBlldXiCk of Campbellton.

The following commercial trav- ellers were in Bloomfield Station rereiilly: Messrs. Gordon 'l‘ucmbs. Jack McEachern. Bmiciy DcAili. and Heath Warren.

lvirs. George Palmer of Bloom- ileld Station has returned to her home after spending a most eii- joyable visit with her daughter, Mrs. Kier Dunbar of S/ummersicle.

the advantages of a large town except the services of a dentist. The nearest dental surgeon ‘.5 at Summerside. A new post office was one of the big improvements in (Theory during 1947 as well as a lovely and modern new school, now nearly completed.

Mr. and ms. Alvin Webb haie recently moved from their home into the new Post Office building and their home is new being oi:- cupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Field and little daughter. Mr. Field ll the new manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia.

O’Leary United Church W.M.S. had a very successful year in i947. Splendid fellowship was.‘ enjoyed and much money. was given for Missionary purposes as the follow- ing report shows: Associate mem- bers $18.50; Mission Circle $188.93! Auxiliary $198.20; Miss on Band $63.89; Bab Band $37.61; Meni- bers iees; {i504 envelopes $39.45 thankoffering $112.75; mite boxes $24-00.

One of the greatest Church "ivcrkers iii. O'Leary is Mr. A.J. Matheson who has had thirty years experience as the most eificent secretary - treasurer of O’Leary United Church and alsq half a century (60 years) of most con- scientious and capable work as the Superintendent of the Oleary Sunday School which is one of the largest in West Prince with an enrollment of eighty-five,

‘The O‘Leary C-GJ-T. of the Un- ited Church is the only such group between Tignish and summerside and that takes in a lot of territory, The leader is Mrs. W.G. Dickson and the president of the Canadian Girls in Training for P.E.I. this year is a local girl, Adele Mu:- Ausland, at present atiendng Prince o1 Wales College in Char- lottetown. The vice-president of the c.0131‘. last year il also a local girl, Helen shelfoon.

The Week o1 Prayer was recent- ly commemorated in OLeaIy. The first service was in Brae and the soloist was Charles Casley. rho second service was on Tuesday at Knutsford Baptist Church. Mrs. Silliker was the soloist. Both ser- vices heard appropriate addresses by Rev. W.G. Dickson. On Wed- nesday the service was in Ubeary United Church and the speaker was Rev. I-LM. Burgess. On Thurs- rlay the service was ln the O'Leary Nazarene Church and the a er was Rev. 0.0. Hewlett. ‘The I nal service was on Friday night in Bloomfield United Church and was conducted by Rev. W.Ci. Dickson. The collections were Given for food parcels for Britain.

The annual meeting of the West Devon cbngregation of the United Church (an appointment on the O‘Leary pastoral charge) was held recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Grigg. The minister, Rev. W.G. Dickson presided. Reports submitted showed that this small and scattered tungmgotion of only thirty-three ferniLer had the best Year in 1941 that they had in the past twenty years. Mr. Charles Morcshead reported that 0311.00 was contributed and expenditures amounted to $349.00.‘ The Local Improvement society had raised $158.81 and the newly ‘organized Sunda Bchool and the recently forms Young Peoples Union had a splendid year- ft w..- decided to have an ‘anniversary crvice for the West Devon phurc which 1| over on; hundred years old in June and to fix 11;‘ the Church cemetery in the spr |.>.'1‘he West Devon co gruation extends from West on to O ‘Corner antic Coleman. The stewards were all re-appointod ma a how

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JANUARY so, 194;

Bedeque United; Church

The illstory of a Methodist circuit in Prince Eilwaril Island

Troclngivite Roots In the Cultural, Educational and l Commercial Fields of tlielComniunity. .

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Juuhwlnifitflqrian elder orivflweela theolmgqh could stray so is: in the Wesleyan way u to a Methodist tram seen-is almost unexplainable u-n-til it is known that Jesse strep; w“ ‘ brother-in-law d’ NWi-hariiol Wright's. A taitilidlul elder for wing“ o; Wvimileh Years. Jesse strong was one of the right-hand men or my John Keir who had been inducted into the large Princotqwn Parish in‘ 1810, and sat i-n at many meetings of mssion when straying mqnbm oi’ the Presbyterian flock were cited to appear and account for conduct llulbwom-lna in followers at mirist. Many offences. including "mum to support the gospel in. this congregation", quarreliine’. .m.,1gng' a“ bB-i-h brooklns. and the more carnal ains were charged to ohurohnum: W!“ W110 if 911111.?’ Were eimocfled to show true contrition and after b911,‘ Publicly rebuked, before either the sessio or congregation. were "ab. solved from the scandal o! their sin.” The iuilty umpenitent member us;

Road loft recently for Si. John to "fiuoipended from the sealing ordinances of the ohyroh" for a time a,“

later. iLoontin-uirig in sin. was “excommunicated!

Elders as well as members were under strict discipline o! new” and in_181'1 and 1818 when Jesse Strong commenced attending m, Mfillwdlsi mfloi-lils-house more often than his own, he doubtless er. [recited ihereproof of his fellow elders. The session, which met foi- lflvilne the June Communion of i818, which together with the gm communion of i817 had been marked with Jesse Strang‘; gnaw spoke of one of their elders walking disorderly (Le. attending lltaumgm services inprefencince to Presbyterian ones) and appointed David Mm- tgillliigii Alexander Anderson to interview liitii and report at the next

Caisnly Iooeived

A year later. June 9. 1810. the assembled session hoard from m committee that elder Jesse Strong's reason for leaving the church and going ivltli iho Methodists was “because ho could receive more benefit from tliir preaching." The report was calmly received by the M“, orator of the session, the eloquent preacher and learned graduate g GlB-ESOW Unlvflrfli-i’. Rev. John Keir. who next Sabbath told the gen. gregation that because o! his conduct Jesse Strong was no longes- cog, sidered a member or the church or session.

'l'hc new Methodist member 'served falthlfiuli-y in the, w

ninety years after his death the churches. to which in his life he had divided his H-lleslanoe. should be members of one great United Church neither Presbyterian nor Methodist. but both; the offspring 91 m, m“; significant ecclesiastical marriage in Canadian history. Many ed Jo‘.

alter his death in 1836 his son Gabriel Strong o! Searletoovn occiigleg the Straps scat on the trustee board.

were repeated for several generations: the name Jesse ie sti11 remem- bered by those viii-lo bore it in Huang, Wright. and Sohurman families. The most striking instance in Bedeque of the continuity 0d Citristiu names is that of the many direct descend-ants of Loyalist Major Hoop- er, ivilio carry, or have carried, the name Major:-Majcr Lcrwther, Mqqp Tiownshend. Major Unkletter, Major Macintosh, lyiiajor Hueetis. Maia ‘Vfiihli- Mil-ii?!’ Sim-ll Hid may others in the last hundred and fifty years have retooled their Hooper demnt in their first names.

Baker's anvil rang no more to his hammer blows after 1831 for Bedoquc‘: first blacksmith was gone to his rest. His cii-ider heap, added u; by ‘is successors and still evident years later in one of Owe Inimari’! fields. marked the site o! his forge. Art Lower Bedieque, Ben-Janus. Cole, whose family name would loo peripetaiated in a when! for eroany years, died in 1825.

the community's history. is long as there were open fires and the aged. crippled or infant folk were left unattended. found N18 milling business not without profit was seen by his iww‘ home ilaier to be known as the Howard Bchurman residence) erected around 1830. I-Lis second marriage in 18.20 at the ago of seventy-five to seventy-year-old widow Ohappeil. received press of that day.

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Nathaniel Might. whose earthly pilgrimage commenced on the borders of New England twenty miles from-New York, and whose youth- ful years knew war amt revolution and yellow fever, finished his join-no!

,l1i Bedequs on Air/til 25, 1826. at the early age of sixty. ‘Iiiiritt and

hard work hadniade for comfort and. plenty in the Wright homo Whose

many homes of 1950. The barn ation of draft oxen. horses, owl ~lirks and neat cattle showed a prosperous farmer. Dawn on the stream. the girist mill had company-of another. the earliest card-in! mill in Bedcque, but the miller was dead and the community inournd n. great loos. In less than tlwenty years’ dence, Nathaniel Wright had made ihis mark on Bedeque which is stii evident. Beginning with a flaming faith and iiwo or services, his borne as the a1 iaell established church in Bcdeque and a parsonage nearing sim- p e on.

servant." whim indeed was given him in an extensive memoir woittaa by his pastor George Jackson. which appeared in the Wesleyan Metho- dist Magazine ed i825. No other Islander before or since has had ihl

in the world. -A presentation copy oythis 1825 volume. still llN g1 the Eearlotown home of a descendant, has the following ineoriw 0n:-

"Fb-oni George Jackson. Wesleyan Missionary. to Mrs. Nathaniel

parted husband whose memoir is ' Halifax. N8" - June 2, 1626."

contained in this volume.

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the smaller homes and barns (e by the large stretches of virgin for- est through which wound roads which did not merit the name. In i-hl fall oi’ i804 tenders were called for the opening of a new V Bedequo, "commencing near the 17th mile of the old ‘Iiryon Road w‘ ninning ten miles to the Smith West brlfwh or Bedeque River." '11" following work was required: "nu trees and stump roots in wow i‘ surveyors lino to be taken out and thrown s. distance of ten feet 0| each side of tho line. ‘the ground to be levelled four feet wide upon W line to make a bridle reed."

Such was the pioneer road! little wonder that Nathaniel 13m did not live to see a carriage iii-Prince County. The first four‘- cnrriage was brought to Bedeque in 182d from Providence. Rhoda Blond- and its proud dwner. unknown u» history, took inn church one do‘ Sunday where tth mo: Bedeauors gated in awe ma wonder, while ti" wag of the day remarked it was poorly constructed, for if driven he knew the hind wheels would overtake and run down the tore wbrelll