Mrs. Horatio Bowness was President for a time, but Mrs. McLean held this Office for a great many years, when she was succeeded by Miss Barbara Nicholson who served until she left the community in 1945.

Subsequent presidents were:

Mrs. Harry Leard Mrs. Frank MacDonald Mrs. John Simmons Mrs. Joseph Trowsdale Mrs. Percy Dawson Mrs. William Waddell Mrs. Robert Dawson Mrs. Ralph Myers

Mrs. John Leard

Mrs. Hazel Court was Sec. Treas. for many years, and Mrs. John Nicholson has acted in that capacity since 1936.

While Miss Nicholson was President, the World Day of Prayer came into observance, and this society was happy to invite St. John’s W.A. to join with us. This custom has been carried on alternately ever since, and it is good to worship together in this service of prayer.

» The Ladies’ Aid of the Church is carried on in conjunction with the W.M.S., and has done much to help the Church and Parsonage.

Our W.M.‘S. has functioned continuously since its organizatiOn, and we bow in humble gratitude to those early members, whof‘carried through with zeal and courage.

Many of our present older members remember when Miss Anna Nicholson was with us —— how she lifted us above the petty cares of life on the Wings of prayer. Her eyes were without sight, but her soul saw all that was lovely and holy; and we left her, feeling like those, “who only touched the hem of His garment.”

The Coulthard Mission Band was formed in 1909, during the in- cumbency of Rev. W. A. Thomson, and through the initiative of Mrs.

Thomson, with a membership of 34. Miss Hazel Reid was the first Cor. Sec’y.

The 24th. Annual Report in 1841 of the Wesleyan Missionary Auxiliary Society for the Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island District, contains a list of contributions from the Bedeque Charge:

The list of contributors from Crapaud Methodist Church for 1840, contains the following names:

Collected by Wm. Inman

Crawford Howatt Lowther Turnbull Fall Tnman Nicholson Wigginton. Goldsmith Mclnnis Parsons Wilson Hutchinson Lea Rice Wellner Halliday Lane Reed TOTALS

Crapaud .................. 14 — 19 — 9

Tryon ...................... 16 ——- 16 — 0

Bedeque .................. 13 — 16 — 0

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