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Polson United Methodist Church 1911
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The Lake Shore Sentinel, Polson’s first newspaper,

gives the following facts:

September 16, 1909Minister arrives in Polson to take Methodist Pastorate

“Rev. H. H. Twyford of Denver, Col., arrived in Polson this week and will accept the Methodist pastorate here, to which he was assigned by the recent conference of the Montana M. E. Church. The Rev. Mr. Twyford was formerly pastor of Harkness Heights M. E. Church in Denver, where he was most pleasantly situated and well liked by his congregation, but he was lured by the glowing accounts he had heard of Polson and asked to be transferred to the Montana conference that he might accept the charge here. Regular devotional work will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Twyford beginning next Sunday, in a tent to be put up this week on the church property here. This tent will be used until the completion of the handsome new edifice which the Methodist denomination will build in Polson this fall. Mr. Twyford will very soon by joined by his family, who at present are visiting friends in Kalispell.”

October 1, 1909 –

“Carpenters this week finished the building of the Methodist parsonage and this will be occupied within a few days by Rev. H. H. Twyford and family. Mr. Twyford is the minister who recently came from Denver to accept the charge here.”

October 15, 1909 –

“The cornerstone of the Polson Methodist Church will be laid next Sunday afternoon at two‐thirty o’clock. The services will be in charge of Rev. O. A. White of Kalispell, district superintendent. Rev. Mr. White will preach in the tent at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.”

October 22, 1909Cornerstone Laying Impressive Ceremony

“First Methodist Church of Polson will be completed soon. A large crowd, among them many out‐of‐town people, was present last Sunday afternoon to witness and take part in the impressive ceremonies of laying the cornerstone of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Polson. Rev. O. A. White of Kalispell, presiding elder of the church district in which Polson is located, had charge of the service, being assisted by Rev. H. H. Twyford, the pastor, C. E. Redecker, and the board of trustees of the church. The stone was put in place by J. E. Hern and L. H. Bailey. Within the cornerstone was placed copies of the Discipline of the M. E. Church, Journal of the North Montana Conference, Pacific Christian Advocate, Gospel of St. John, and The Lake Shore Sentinel, names of the official board of the church, membership of Polson Chamber of Commerce, names of all subscribers, several silver coins, and one copper coin. The generous spirit of those in attendance on the ceremonies was amply shown in the collection, the sum o f $1,112 being pledged for the church. Work on the main body of the church will be started Monday. The carpenter work will be done by Contractors Bailey and Hern, whose bid of $1,165 was the lowest received. The building is to be completed within sixty days.”

 

 

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