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LITTLE CHURCH building for many washed each for over the Amen cor- lost gloves, handker- <br /> (Continued from Pages) years, was moving weekend. One hanging ner, two over the choir, chiefs, baby socks, <br /> get him up. Farmers, away, so a new janitor lamp that ran up and and one over the scarves -- anything that <br /> must be found. I, fif- down on chains, over organ; and a <br /> who had to get up ear- <br /> ly, teen ears old, and m the Bible stand; one chandelier that held <br /> didn't care much to y y See LITTLE CHURCH <br /> >4 sister two years older, wall lamp with reflec- eight! This also held (Continued on Page 18) <br /> go to evening services. <br /> A I was awfully proud figured that the twenty <br /> of Grandpa; in my <br /> five dollars for the next <br /> , <br /> v years work would <br /> estimation he was as <br /> 94 come in handy when <br /> o good as any preacher FIREFIGHTERS' STAMPEDE <br /> E-4 collected in August, <br /> v� that ever stood in the the end of next fiscal <br /> x pulpit. He was known as Uncle Willie to year. I don't think we <br /> ti <br /> everyone in the vicini- considered the job very <br /> 04 ty. Being quite deaf, he much, other than turn- <br /> always sat in the front ing the key in the door, <br /> seat near to the middle keeping the lamps <br /> SATURDAY <br /> aisle, the closest he trimmed and burning, <br /> could get to the and building fires. We <br /> preacher. As a small soon found out there <br /> imoo <br /> child I always felt a was more to it than ■ AmMm <br /> pang of jealousy when that. Twelve kerosene <br /> anyone else sat in his lamps must be filled <br /> place. When he passed and their chimneys - <br /> away at the age eighty- <br /> one, as a memorial his <br /> place was draped for <br /> forty days. <br /> He was a humble <br /> man and said very little WELCOME <br /> about his own affairs. <br /> Yet I think he felt he <br /> had just a little priority <br /> in church affairs, as he TO <br /> had donated the corner � 1 <br /> of the farm on which <br /> we live, to build the <br /> new meeting house. ' <br /> After he passed away, NEW <br /> I was told he was ask- <br /> ed for a donation forCARLISL <br /> the building, he told <br /> the committee to get / <br /> all they could and he <br /> would pay the rest, as <br /> he was no carpenter, <br /> and grain threshing all <br /> summer kept him too �. <br /> busy to worry about <br /> the building. The <br /> building material at <br /> that time cost around <br /> $2,000. <br /> When we were small <br /> children we were <br /> taught that it wasn't <br /> polite to turn around 0 <br /> and gawk to see who SERVING BREAKFAST <br /> was coming in when <br /> the door opened. But FRIDAY — SATURDAY ,..� <br /> we always knew when <br /> it was Mr. Carr. He was 8 : 00 A.M. — 11 : 00 A.M. <br /> a well to do farmer <br /> who could afford <br /> squeaky shoes. He <br /> would walk behind the <br /> back seat on the bare SMORGASBORD <br /> floor to the side aisle <br /> and proceed well up in FRIDAY — SATURDAY <br /> front to where his wife <br /> and children sat. 11 : 00 A.M. — 8 : 30 P.M. <br /> There were very few <br /> church weddings at SUNDAY — 11 : 00 A.M. — 7 : 30 P.M. <br /> that time. I was very <br /> young but remember <br /> the wedding of Mr. <br /> Carr's son William and ' <br /> his lovely bride, Grace, <br /> in 1892, as they came MILLERS HOME CAFE <br /> down the aisle. She <br /> was dressed in a lovely DOWNTOWN <br /> blue gown of her own NEW CARLISLE <br /> making, her golden <br /> hair accenting her <br /> beauty, and her poise <br /> and charm exemplify- <br /> ing her name in every <br /> detail. <br /> In the summer of <br /> 1903, Andrew, who <br /> had taken care of the <br />