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THE POST, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941
PAGE THREE
Housing Program Transforms Free
Methodist Camp Into Modern Town
01d Timers Recall Camp Meetings of ‘13
When Tents Surrounded Canvas Tabernacle
When the Free Methodist folk of the Wilkes-Barre District gather
this summer for camp meeting in East Dallas, a few old-timers among
them will recall the days long past when the faithful from this section
pitched their patched old tents on the rustic grounds of Whipp’s Grove,
Dallas . . . that was back in the years before the first World War,
when camp meeting meant all its®
name implies . . . a vast settlement
of tents, tiny cooking fires flaring
fitfully in the dusk of evening,
horses stamping impatiently on the
long picket lines, and nightly ser-
vices in a huge old canvas taber-
nacle.
A far cry from those rough and
ready days is the summer meeting
of these days, held in the pleasant
and modern encampment at B. T.
Roberts’ Grove in East Dallas, along
the Fernbrook - Center Moreland
highway. There the hundred or so
Free Methodists who will attend the
camp . . . to be held this summer
from July 31 to August 10 . . . will
be housed in the 25 neat frame cot-
tages which have been built in the
past three years, or perhaps pitch
their tents on stout wooden foun-
dations. All meals are cooked in
the big, modern kitchen on the
grounds and served in a spacious
indoor dining hall, and services are
held in a new wooden tabernacle.
All of this has grown from the
good work of Rev. A. G. Miller, who
was Elder of the Wilkes-Barre Dis-
trick back in 1913. Before he came
into office, the Free Methodists
from this section had to travel to
Thompson, N. Y.—main grounds of
the New York Conference—every
summer for camp meeting, and
while a surprisingly large number
made the annual heigira, it was an
inconvenient and expensive pro-
cess. So Rev. Mr. Miller, in the
summer of ’13, arranged to have
a district meeting in Whipp's Grove
just outside of Dallas . . . and it
was so successful (on the first Sun-
day of the ten days’ encampment
more than 2,000 thronged the
grounds) that the district has had
its own meeting ever since,
The present grounds were chosen
in 1922, and while many of the first
meetings there retained the hardy
flavor of earlier years, permanent
construction was promoted by suc-
ceeding Elders. This has been par-
ticularly true of the last three years
under Rev. A. K. Lindsley of
Trucksville, present District Elder,
during whose term of service a
of the buildings now situated on]
the camp grounds were constructed.
Twenty-one cottages have already
been completed for the convenience
of camping church members, and
four more are now nearing com-
pletion. Incidentally, while mater-
jals for the buildings were bought
from district funds, the actual work
has been done by the local clergy, : :
with a number of the lay members] esti, Ohio and Miss
, ary on
contributing their services, too. ml
As Rev. Mr. Lindsley puts it, a leave from the Dominician Republic.
Free Methodist minister has to be!
a carpenter, brick layer, plasterer
and plumber besides an ecclesiast
in order to serve his people in the
proper manner, and he himself has
probably driven more nails put on
the grounds than any of the other
working brethren. When a report-
er from The Post went out to see
him, he was hard at work on one
of the hew developments, along
with Rev. H. D. Olver, ‘youthful
pastor ef the Trucksville F. M.
Injuries Fatal To
C.B.Rosengrant
Former Wyoming Co.
Man Buried At Eaton
The funeral of Charles B. Rosen-
grant was held from the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Eckley Kocher,
Main St., Shavertown, last Wednes-
day afternoon at 2:30, with services
in charge of Rev. Russell May of
Shavertown Methodist Church.
Death came to Mr. Rosengrant
Monday, June 30, at 5 a. m. in
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital
where he had been a patient since
sustaining injuries two weeks ago
when he fell out of bed.
Mr. Rosengrant was born in Eaton
Township, Wyoming County, and
spent the greater part of his life
there, moving to Shavertown to
live with his daughter about fifteen
years ago. He was a member of
the Eatonville Baptist Church, and
attended services at Shavertown
Methodist Church where he served
for a time as custodian.
served his eighty-sixth birthday an-
niversary in May.
Beside his daughter, Mrs. Kocher,
he leaves the following * children:
Mrs. Cecil Fassett, Mehoopany; Mrs.
S. R. Pembleton, Buffalo, and sons,
L. D. Rosengrant, Scranton, and
Walter S. Rosengrant, Cortez, Pa.;
also 24 grandchildren and 18 great-
grandchildren
Pallbearers were all grandsons:
Byron Kocher, Levi Fassett, Harry
and Julius Rosengrant, and Robert
and George Rosengrant.
Interment was in the Brick
Church Cemetery at Eatonville,
ises to be even more successful than
the first, attended last year by some
300 youngsters from New England,
New York, Pennsylvania, Mary-
land and Ohio, and will be devoted
to classes in theology, art, music,
literature, nature study and other
subjects.
Rev. C. B. Archer, nationally
known youth evangelist from Me-
Pherson, Kansas, will head the fac-
ulty, which will include Prof. E. A.
Holdwick of Greenville College,
Prof and Mrs. R. W. Woods, also
of Greenville, Rev. C. W. Newland
Besides the cottages, the district
ministers have built a large frame
tabernacle, a new dining hall and
kitchen, and some years ago put
up a two-story home for the care-
taker of the grounds. Rev. Mr.
Lindsley estimates that in materials
alone some $3,000 have been invest-
ed in improvements there since he
took office as Elder.
The cottages stand in two semi-
circular rows in the rear of the
tabernacle, which fronts on the
Fernbrook-Center Moreland Road,
and intermingled with them are a
number of tent foundations which
have stood for a decade or so and|
are still used by perhaps half
the camp population. The din-
ing hall and caretaker’s home stand
to the left of the tabernacle, and
the grounds are surrounded on
three sides by pleasant shade trees.
During weekdays of the engampy
ment about 100 persons live on the
grounds, and over the two Sundays
of the meeting as many as 2,000
have participated in the activities.
For the third time since the camp
was erected the annual conference
of the New York Conference will be
held at East Dallas this summer.
Beginning on July 23, the conven-
iton will last four days, during
which at least 200 Free Methodist
clergymen and lay delegates will
be quartered on the grounds.
After the conference the grounds
will be prepared for the camp meet-
ing, which will begin on the 3lst.
Rev. Elmer McKay of Greenville,
Illinois, will be the evangelist for:
the meeting, in which a number of
visiting clergymen will participate,
together with the following minis-
ters from the Wilkes-Barre District:
The Reverends A. K. Lindsley, T.
M. Holcomb, L. R. Guier, L. A.
Smith, A. P. Reining, J. D. Howard,
David Callen, L. H. Seifert, Herbert
Oliver, Howard Deats, H. A. Fred-
erick, Marjorie Sweppenheiser, R.
W. Sweppenheiser, and Esther How-
ard.
A Youth Camp will be held at the
grounds beginning August 25, with]
Rev. Herbert Olver of Tracksville]
as chairman.
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forces.
gun has been dismantled for greate
r stability.
A unity of spirit prevails among the nations of Europe, some of them occupied but none of them con-
quered, who fight desperately on in the Allied and united cause of a new world united for free men.
the leaders of the other governments—Australians, Belgians, Czechoslovaks, Free French, Greeks, Luxem-
burgers, Dutch, Norwegians, Polish, and Yugoslavians=Prime Minister Churchill is a favorite of the Allied
Shown above he watches the action of an anti-tank gun operated by Czech soldiers.
With
Note that the
Trees Topple As Giant
Tractors Clear Way
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and old road coming into the basic
pattern, and few developed prop-
erties will be traversed. Under pres-
ent arangements, only four struc-
tures will have to be removed to
make way for the road bed . . . the
home of R. B. Shaver and four cot-
tages at Harvey's Lake along Car-
penter Road owned by George W.
Bennethum.
Contract price for the highway,
unusually high because of the rough
nature of the terrain through which
{ most of the thoroughfare will pass,
was $398,000, awarded to the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania Construction Com-
pany in April. The highway will
pass over five small concrete
bridges, including one to be con-
structed at its origin point in Dal-
las, and will take an estimated
78,000 square yards of concrete.
Central Penn has sublet none of the
work, and the only other contractor
involved is A. F. Blessing of New-
ville, Pa., who has the guard rail
contract.
Resident superintendent of con-
struction is William Butler of Hazle-
ton, working under John Brun, gen-
eral superintendent of the project.
Fifty-eight men, drawn from this
) section and all parts of Luzerne
THINK
County, are now at work on the
highway, and Mr. Butler estimates
that employment will average 75
men, all of whom have already been
hired.
Instead of employing a fleet of
private truckers, Central Penn will
use only its three giant Euclid dump
trucks. At work on the road bed
now are three ten-cubic-yard La-
tourneau scrapers and a sturdy
Northwest steam shovel.
How long it will be before the
highway begins to take shape is in-
definite, according to Mr. Butler. In
a month's time scarcely more than
a mile of ‘the projected road bed
has been cleared, with several hun-
dred yards of woodland and two
miles of rough terrain remaining
to be excavated. The contract calls
for 330 calendar days, and the firm
anticipates no great delay. To date
work has preceeded slightly ahead
of schedule.
Harvey's Lake Dog Show
Winners in the dog show held
at the boat house of G. Howard
Lewis at Harvey's Lake Thursday
afternoon were: “Buster,” a French
bull owned by Dianee Lewis;
“Skippy,” an English spaniel by Ina
Smith; “Scamp,” a bull terrier
owned by Eleanor Dennis, and
“Laddie,” a cocker spaniel owned
by William Lewis. The show was
directed by Diane Lewis, Gordon
Roberts and Peter Lenahan.
of The Whole
OF IT!
Mr. and Mrs. John Lee
Bre Married 52 Years
Mr. and Mrs. John Lee of Ide-
town celebrated their 62nd wed-
The
couple were married by the late
Rev. P. Bailey in the Dallas Meth-
odist Church July 5, 1889. Mrs.
Lee is the former Miss Isabella
Bealer. They 6 have five children:
Mrs. Jchn McDaniels of Plymouth,
Mrs. William Weaver of Harvey's
Lake, Roy of Springville, Claude at
home, and Earl of Outlet.
ding anniversary Saturday.
REWARD
$5 for evidence
that leads to ar-
rest of person who
shot Boston terrier
owned by William
Niemeyer Sunday.
WILLIAM NIEMEYER
Dallas, Pa.
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