Taylor County GaArchives News.....Antioch Sunday School Convention - 1894 May 29 1894
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The Butler Herald
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, May 29, 1894
Page Three

Town and Country

Fully five hundred people attended the Sunday school convention at Antioch last 
Sunday.  The church was filled to its utmost capacity and many were unable to 
find standing room in the church.  Rev. M.C. Howell in a short but appropriate 
address welcomed the members and visitors of the association and a more free 
and easy feeling never prevailed over any congregation.  The church was well 
arranged and provided with a handsome organ.  Everyone present enjoyed the 
singing.  The reports show a full attendance and most of the schools in the 
county prospering.  At 12 o’clock the convention adjourned for dinner, when we 
realized more forcibly than ever the true intention of Mr. Howell’s welcome.  
Language fails to express how well the table was supplied or the delicious 
viands it contained – suffice it to say there was more than enough to have fed 
a thousand people of the very best food this country affords.  The entire 
community crowned itself with glory in preparing for the occasion.  All who 
attended are certainly under many obligations to the good people of the 
neighborhood of Antioch for their hospitality.

At 1 o’clock the association reassembled and for an hour was entertained by 
recitations and speeches from the following young ladies and gentlemen: Miss 
Annie Belle Garrett, from Pleasant Hill; Brooks Benns, of Butler; Miss Alma 
Brand, of Reynolds, Elie Garrett, of Pleasant Hill; Miss Belle Gill, of 
Pleasant Hill; Miss Annie Montfort, of Butler; Jack Gill, of Pleasant Hill; 
Miss Oweida Chapman, of Butler; Miss Rossie Smith, of Butler, Misses Beulah 
Davis, Lillie Jarrell and Mary Riley, of Antioch.  

We cannot discriminate where everyone did well and elicited praise of the 
entire assembly.  About four o’clock the convention adjourned without a shadow 
to mar the pleasure of the day.

Prof. Searcy, being elected secretary of the Association, we hope he will 
furnish us with full proceedings of the day for our next issue.


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