Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . he new house Septem-ber, 1896. The following spring the Sun-day school was begun. The presentmembership is eighty, with D. M. Shorbas elder. WELLS COUNTY CONGREGATION. In the spring of 1896 Wm J. McCannand C. C. Barnard came to Wells countyto make their homes and thus becamethe first members of the Brethren to set-tle in that congregation. Steadily there 88 were accessions by immigration untilJune, 1902, some forty-five were scat-tered far and wide but still thought bestto be organized into what is known asthe Wells county congregation. FredCulp was the elder
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . he new house Septem-ber, 1896. The following spring the Sun-day school was begun. The presentmembership is eighty, with D. M. Shorbas elder. WELLS COUNTY CONGREGATION. In the spring of 1896 Wm J. McCannand C. C. Barnard came to Wells countyto make their homes and thus becamethe first members of the Brethren to set-tle in that congregation. Steadily there 88 were accessions by immigration untilJune, 1902, some forty-five were scat-tered far and wide but still thought bestto be organized into what is known asthe Wells county congregation. FredCulp was the elder chosen. Twenty-twoof the members were present at the or-ganization. Their preaching services aswell as Sunday school were held in theschoolhouse. The same year the love for territory in which to operate. It is afrontier congregation having all the ter-ritory west of it to the Missouri river. FAIRVIEW CHURCH, OSAGE,CANADA. The settlement that formed the nu-cleus of the Fairview church arrived inthe spring of 1903. No one can claim. Wells County Churchhouse. feast was held in J. M. Fikes buggy-shedon his farm. While from the very be-ginning a union school was conducted,on April 8, 1902, the Brethren organizeda Brethren Sunday school, appointingF. M. Dunn superintendent. During thesummer of 1906 a churchhouse was membership is now official body stands with Wm. elder; J. R. Smith, EdwardFike, Frpnk Dunn, and A. B. Long asdeacons. This congregation lacks not first settlership, for a unmber came atthe same time and in a body. They, atleast most of them, secured homesteadsthe fall before. We were then thirty miles from ourtrading town, Wolseley, but since thena new railroad has been built and thenearest railroad town, Osage, is nowtwelve miles from the churchhouse. The members met in Sunday-schoolwork a few Sundays after they were onthe prairie, also preaching and prayer S3
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