The Church on the Changing Frontier

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ek, six miles west of the city of Sheridan has about 250 negroes. There are six negro farm owners at Cat Creek with farms of 320 acres each. Considerable community spirit has been developed, which is manifested by increased friendliness and by pride in the farms. The Plum Grove Clu

a Mutual Aid Society with fifty members and three lodges which are all inactive at present. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Pe

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g and a parsonage. The combined value of the church buildings is $3,500, of the parsonages $500. The Baptist church has recently been rebuilt. Both churches use weekly envelopes for raising their money which amounted to $2,887.14 last year, $1,164.25 of which

ar preceding the survey. The Baptist church has twenty-six members whose membership ha

Sunday school, with an enrollment of twelve, meets for only seven months. The Methodist church has three other organizations-a Woman's Missionary Society, a Willing Workers and Ladies'

ors in the last ten years. The present pasto

ch is manifested by a willingness on the part of the white churches to help the

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part of Hughes County, and about 70 per cent. of the people living in th

morning service a month. There are twenty-six members, of whom twenty-one are active. There is no Sunday school

was started about 1911. The priest comes from outside the county and hold