Autobiography . ellar and called on Sargent to help him out, when Sargentcoolly replied he did not know as he had any to spare. PAGE SEVEN Methodist Chapel and Church Closely allied with this in point of time is my recollection of townmeetings at the old Methodist chapel on the east side of North Mainstreet at the base of Sugar hill. As my home was about midway be-tween the chapel and Central Square, I could but notice the constantstream of humanity that travelled between the chapel and the squareon election days, and my curiosity was rewarded with the informationthat after a ballot was deposi
Autobiography . ellar and called on Sargent to help him out, when Sargentcoolly replied he did not know as he had any to spare. PAGE SEVEN Methodist Chapel and Church Closely allied with this in point of time is my recollection of townmeetings at the old Methodist chapel on the east side of North Mainstreet at the base of Sugar hill. As my home was about midway be-tween the chapel and Central Square, I could but notice the constantstream of humanity that travelled between the chapel and the squareon election days, and my curiosity was rewarded with the informationthat after a ballot was deposited each man made a trip to the squarefor a drink. At that time liquors were sold in the grocery stores of thetown, at the hotel, and in saloons. I presume it was owing to home influences that I had a venerationfor the old chapel and I wondered that so many of the boys delightedto club the old building, that some threw stones at the windows atevery opportunity, and that one boy on a Fourth of July, to prove that. Methodist Chapel built in 1814 he could fire a piece of paper through an inch board, drove the waddingof his gun through one of the doors of the chapel. This chapel under the hill was an ancient relic when I was a well remember its interior for I attended meetings and lectures the two doors, next to the front walls, were a few seats eleva-ted above the rest, which accommodated the singers. When the peopledetermined to modernize the chapel by heating it during service, a boxstove was located between the front seats and the pulpit in the east plank platform was hung from the ceiling over the singers seats, andon this the chimney was built. A funnel extended from the stove tothe chimney. There was then so little room above the heads of thesingers that they had to move about cautiously, else their heads wouldcome in contact with the stove pipe. The chapel had no gallery—there PAGE EIGHT was no room for one; the pulpit was reached by three or fou
Size: 2306px × 1084px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectdakotai, bookyear1921
