January 1926

JANUARY.

(TWENTIETH YEAR).

PRICE TWOPENCE.

1926.

KILVERGAN.

In the old days; before the Church was disendowed, Seagoe Glebe consisted of

two townlands—Lower Seagoe, containing 290 acres: and Kilvergan, containing

*17 acres;- Kilvergan lies about miles north east of Seagoe Church.

It is said; that a burial ground formerly existed there and possibly a Church may

have been there at one times which would account for the inclusion of the

Townland in the Glebe, although so far from the Parish Church. All the houses

seem in the photograph are occupied by members of the Church of Ireland,

The excavation seen in the right hand corner are portions of the lime quarries

opened by Archdeacon Saurin in 1840 to provide employment for the people at

a time of scarcity and distress. Kilvergan is always regarded as the most

picturesque townland in Seagoe Parish.

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Seagoe Parish Magazine.

JANUARY, 1926.

A Happy new year to all our Readers.

Our Twentieth Year.

Seagoe Parish Magazine enters its twentieth year

with this issue. Some Parish Magazines are very

short-lived, but Seagoe Magazine has weathered

many storms, including even the stress of the Great

War, and still lives and thrives. It has outlived

many of its contemporaries. We have received

many letters from Seagoe people in all parts of the

world testifying to their interest in the Magazine

and saying how eagerly they await its punctual

arrival each month. It is gratifying to know that

the Magazine is a link—binding together those who

are separated by continents and oceans from the

old Parish.

During the New Year upon which we have

entered we hope to continue all the old features

which have made the Magazine so popular in the

past and it may be possible to introduce some new

features. We will always be glad of the help and

advice of our readers, especially in our Old Seagoe

Notes. There are many facts relating to the past

history of the Parish which might be of great interest

to the readers of the Magazine if they were

published. If such facts or records were written

down and forwarded to the Rector he would be

very glad to publish them in the columns of the

magazine.

Our Advertisements.

We ask the special attention of our readers to the

advertisements which appear in the Magazine.

Some of our advertisers have advertised with us

for the past twenty years. The Magazine possesses

many qualifications as a medium for advertisements.

It is eagerly bought up each month and it

unusual for any copy to remain unsold after the

first day or two of publication. It is also read

carefully and passed on from one to the other.

Most of our readers keep their Magazines from year

year, or send them by post to their friends in

distant lands.

The number of advertisements is

so strictly limited so that the Magazine is not

overcrowded with competing advertisements. Our

readers can help us greatly by reading the

advertisements and getting their goods from those who

advertise. Without advertisements our Magazine

would be a financial failure and could not continue.

We thank all those who have inserted them.

Our Christmas Services.

The Services at Christmas time were brightened

the singing of the Christmas Anthem " There

Were Shepherds." Christmas Carols were also sung

on the Sunday evening and Wednesday evening

services before Christmas. The fine, dry and frosty

weather made Christmas seem more like Christmas

than in other years A generous distribution of

gifts was made by the Town Council to the widows

and orphans and ex-servicemen living within the

urban district.

Men's Recreation Room

The Recreation Room in Bridge St. has been

filled nightly by the men of Edenderry, who are

taking full advantage of it. The air gun League

matches have created great interest throughout the

Parish. Every match has been keenly contested.

Carne Still heads the list. Levaghery, Seagoe, and

Carne have strong teams as well as Edenderry, and

practise every evening in the, different centres.

During December competitions have been held each

Friday, and prizes have been very kindly given by

the following—Mr. R. J. Uprichard, a brace Of

rabbits; Mr. Gibson, of Edenderry, a bottle Of Lime

Juice Cordial; Mr. David Jeffers, hand lamp.

Christmas Shooting Competition.

During Christmas week a great competition took

place for three substantial prizes. We are greatly

obliged to Mr. W. J. Green, of Edenderry, who most

generously presented a 20 shilling bag; of flour as

first prize. The second prize Was a rich Christmas

cake, and the third prize a box of chocolate. After

a keen struggle Mr. Jack Wright was declared the

winner of the bag of. flour. Tom Liggett shot for

him and made the splendid score of five bull's eyes

in succession. - The second prize was won by W.

Hewitt, and the third prize, by James Ruddell. We

are in need of more games for the Recreation Room,

also newspapers. They might be sent Co the secretary,

Mr. Thomas Metcalfe, Carrickblacker Road,

or to Mr. Jack. Wright, and will be thankfully received.

Letter from Rev. W. R. Crichton,

Mr. Crichton sends us the following interesting

letter. from Madras. His many friends will enjoy

reading it:—

Fort St. George, Madras,

30th November, 1925.

Dear Canon Archer—Just a line to wish you

Happy Christmas and New Year. I meant to write

to you long ago to thank you for a copy of the

Parish Magazine, but I have been very busy for the

last four months.

In April I was elected Hon. Clerical Secretary of

the Madras Diocesan Council, which corresponds to

your Diocesan Synod in Ireland. This entailed a

lot of work as it is a new organisation and

practically everything had to be worked out from the

beginning. In addition to all this I had to arrange

hospitality for the country members, and I was also

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appointed Hon. Secretary of the Sacred Synod, a

body composed of bishop clergy only. The

work is particularly interesting to me as we are

making provision for the disestablishment of the

Church of England in India, which may take place

in 1929. Of course it will not affect Government

Chaplains, but we are all doing what we can to

secure the welfare of the future Church of India.

The Indian Christians show a very sound grasp of

essentials; their great weakness seems, to be a lack

of potential bishops. At present there is no one

up to the standard of Dornakal.

When all this was over, the actual work is not

finished yet. I had to arrange for the celebration

of the 245th Anniversary of the Dedication of my

church. This was a fine function. The Governor

rolled up in his State Coach with bodyguard, etc.;

the music was supplied by our band and a massed

choir of 150 voices. As for the congregation, I

never saw people packed so tightly before. Some

stood in the aisles, and the windows were festooned.

My next excitement will be to move off to

Wellington in February. It is a military station quite

close to Ooty, where I was in 1921-22. Some people

say it is the best Hill Station in India, but I prefer

Ooty. What attracts me most is that I shall be

Chaplain to the Ulster Rifles, and in all probability

will know some of them. I have two or three

Portadown lads here in the Lancashire Fusiliers, but

they belong to a younger generation than the one

1 knew.

I almost forgot to say that this move of mine

cancels my leave next March. The bishop was too

short of men to let me away, although I have a lot

of furlough due to me, and so is giving me the

Hills to enable me to bring the family out. Probably

I shall not go home till the end of 1928 or the

beginning of 1929. The climate of Wellington is

much better than the average climate of Ireland.

My family is quite fit now and will join me in

spring.

You had better ascertain the Madras wave length

very soon. Some enthusiasts here maintain that

they pick up 2LO. I think I told you that I broadcasted

the first sermon for the Madras Radio Club.

Probably it was the first sermons broadcasted in

India. Hitherto the apparatus has been too ex

pensive to broadcast services from a church. India

does not yet provide all the amenities of civilisation.

I must close now as it is about midnight. With best

wishes for Christmas and the New Year.—-Yours ever

W. R- CRICHTON.

Good Wishes from Nebraska.

The Rev. J. N. Mackenzie sends us all good wishes

from St. Stephen's, Grand Island, Nebraska, U.S.A.

They are contained in a prettily printed leaflet

which he circulates through his Parish.

The Rector has also received good wishes for

Christmas from Mr. Thomas England, of Brooklyn,

formerly Churchwarden of Seagoe.

Seagoe in Chicago.

Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr, 17 Palestine St., Belfast, formerly

of Seagoe, sends us the following interesting

letter which she has received from her recently

married daughter in Chicago, Mrs. Youngdahl. We

commend its contents to our Sunday School teachers

and to our finance committee. It contains valuable advice:—

Dear Mother, I have been going to the Church

School Teachers' lectures for five Monday nights,

and had to write up the examination last night

It was a couple of days late, on account of our

Iowa trip, but I hope the Reverend Mr. Simms will

accept it anyway. If you go to 12 sets of lectures,

you become a full accredited teacher in the National

Association, which means you could teach in any

part of the country if you wanted to. My Sunday

School class is still going strong, with the best

attendance of any of the classes, and high marks.

The kids surely are interested in the work I am

making up for them. I borrowed a book from Mr.

Annable to get more material from. Will give them

a lesson next Sunday on the vessels used in the

Holy Communion, etc., which I never learned in

Sunday School myself. All they get in the other

classes are Bible stories over and over, the same

ones, until they get tired of them and stay at home,

whereas I am giving them a course of my own on

all the services in the prayer book, from cover to

cover, and the parts the minister, bishop or deacon

takes in each service, and the acolytes, choir, etc

so that now most of them can find every prayer

chant or psalm, gospel, epistle, etc. in every service,

which is more than most of the adults can do

because it never seems to be taught to anyone, and

they drift along 011 their lives without ever knowing

such things, or else pick up parts of it here and

there,

They have started an every member canvass

in Holy Trinity with a corps of captains and lieutenants.

The finance committee members are the

captains, and each captain has five lieutenants

Each of the latter have to keep track of five church

members, that is, to get them to make pledges, come

to Church every Sunday, advise them of all social

doings, such as bunco parties, bazaars, etc.—in other

words, ride herd on them. The minister appointed

me as a lieutenant, and I have to keep a line on

our own family; Mrs. Carson's who is Mrs. Dennett's

sister; Mr. John Robinson's who is Geo. Robinson's

brother; Mrs. Belfry's who is Nhus. Smith's; sister

and another family by the name of Siry.

Encouragement.

Mrs- Joshua Caddell, of 34 Logie St. Govan, Glasgow,

a subscriber of many years, sends us the following encouraging letter

Canon Archer – I enclose postal order for as for the Magazine.

My late husband prized ill greatly, and I long for its

coming every month- With all good wishes.—Yours

sincerely, E. CADDELL

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Death of Miss Dawson.

We deeply regret to record the death of Miss Mary

Dawson, which occurred after a long illness, on

Tuesday, December 22nd, at Bangor, where she

had resided for some time past. Miss Dawson, with

her sister, Miss Cherry Dawson, did a splendid

work in Seagoe Parish up to the time that Dean

Dawson resigned in September, 1905. After the

Dean's death they resolved to undertake Missionary

work among the Indian tribes in Chili, South

America. They returned home for a holiday during

the War, and with great courage, sailed again in

war time to a Mission station far south of South

America. After working there for a time Miss Dawson

became ill, and they were compelled to return

home. Since then her health steadily declined until

the end came. Miss Dawson had much literary

ability and was highly educated, being a graduate

of the late Royal University. One of her verses

written during her last voyage from South America

has pathetic meaning now

The West! the couch of the dying day,

The end of a lifetime fair,

But out from the West and beyond decay,

The Homeland of all is There."

The sympathy of all in Seagoe will go out to Miss

Cherry and to Dr. Dawson in the sad loss they have

sustained. The funeral took place on Christmas

Eve, the first part of the service being taken in

Seagoe Church by the Rector and the Rev. R. W.

Johnston. The remaining part of the service was

held at Knocknamuckley, where the remains were

interred.

The New Envelopes.

New sets of envelopes for 1926 have been circulated

through the Parish. Everyone should have a set

so that on each Sunday of the year they may set

apart a sum, even small sum, to further God's

work in the Parish. 450 sets are available, and more

if required. The envelopes for Edenderry District

are red, and for the country districts white. We

ask all who take sets to increase their weekly offering

this year. We are in great need of more help.

If all those who give would resolve to double their

offerings this year the Parish would be

placed beyond the reach of its present difficulties.

If by any chance an envelope for your annual

subscription has not reached you, please place it

an envelope, with name, and address and amount

and send it to the Hon. Treas., Mr. Hugh Stoops,

Killicomåine Road, Portadown, or place. it on the

collecting plate in the Church at any service. The

Parish accounts close on Dec. 31st of each year.

The text on the envelopes: this year reminds us

God's gift to us: " He loved me and gave Himself for me.'

Parish Register for December.

Baptisms,

The following were baptized in Seagoe Parish

Church on Dec. 5th, 1925:—

Morton—Martha Jane, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Gertrude Morton, of Killicomaine.

Sponsors—Martha Sophia Haack, Elizabeth Gertrude Morton.

M'Murray—Helen, daughter of James " Henry and Margaret M'Murray, of Levaghery.

Sponsors—Sarah Ethel M'Murray, Margt. M'Murray.

M'CuIIough—.John Hopps, son of David and Margaret Letitia M'Cullough, of Balteagh.

Sponsors—Elizabeth Gracey, Margaret Letitia McCullough.

Jennett—Allen, son of William and Evelyn Jennett, of Edenderry.

Sponsors—Gertrude Reid, Evelyn Jennett.

Lester—Edna Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Lester, of Lower Seagoe.

Sponsors—Joseph Lester, Elizabeth Lester.

Marriages.

Calvert and Ryans—Dec. 10th, William James Calvert, of Legacurry,

to Mary Ryans, of Drumnacanvey.

Kilpatrick and Gott—Dec. 16th, Robert Kilpatrick, of Upper Seagoe,

to Mary Elizabeth Gott, of Armagh.

Hunter and Webb—Dec. 25th. , William James Graham Hunter, of Belfast,

to Emma Webb, of Edenderry.

Trail and Matthews—Aug. 6th, at Ayr, North Queensland, Robert Trail, of Ayr,

to Ellen Matthews, formerly of Edenderry

M'LoughIin and Turkington—Nov. 18th, at Ardmore

Parish Church, by the Rev. J. Smith, M.X,

Rector, Robert John M'Loughlin, of Drumnagoon„

to Margaret Elizabeth Turkington, of Derryinver, Bannfoot.

Youngdahl and Kerr-—June 24, at Holy Trinity,

Union Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A., Carl H.

Youngdahl, of Chicago, to Anna Kerr, foremerly of Seagoe.

Burials.

Magee—Nov. 15th, Eliza Magee, of Edenderry, aged 75 years.

Forbes—Dec. 3rd, Sarah Anne Forbes, of Tarson aged 79 years.

M'Donald—Dec. 5th, Richard of Edenderry aged 1 year.

M'Donald—Dec, 11th; Sophia M'Donald, of Edenderry. aged 4

Dawson—Dec. 24th, at Bangor, Mary Louisa Dawson. formerly of Seagoe aged 57 years.

Collins—Dec. 31st, Mary Jane Collins, of Kernan aged 71 years.

SEAGOE PARISH MAGAZINE.

CLERGY :

Rev. Canon Archer, B.D., The Rectory, Seagoe,

Portadown.

Rev. R. W. Johnston, L.Th., 51 William Street

Portadown.

CHURCHWARDENS :

Mr. Robert Price (Rector's).

Mr. Thomas Martin (People's).

Thanks.

We acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of

10s from Mr. James Vance, of Bridge St., towards

the Poor Fund of Seagoe Parish.

Jumble Sale,

A most successful Jumble Sale was held in the

Parochial Hall on Friday, December 18th, at 7. It

was organised by Levaghery Sunday School, and

realised £15. Everything was sold in quite a short

time, A calf, kindly presented by Mr. George

Jennett, of Breagh, was shot for and won by Fred

Carville.

Drumgor Carol Service,

A Carol Service was held at Drumgor Church

Hall on Sunday, Dec. 13th, at 4 0'clock. A large

choir, trained by Miss Wilson, of Knockmena, sang

carols very nicely. There was a large attendance.

SERVICES.

THE PARISH CHURCH.

HOLY COMMUNION—1st Sunday after Morning

Prayer ; 3rd Sunday at 8 a.m., and on the Chief

Festivals.

HOLY BAPTISM—1st Saturday of Month at 3 p.m.,

and during any Service in the Parish Church

if notice be given ; Two Sponsors at least are

required, and they must be Confirmed members

of the Church. Churchings are held at each

Baptism. Mothers are expected to bring a thank-

offering. (See Book of Common Prayer.)

MORNING PRAYER—Sundays and Chief Festivals

11.30 a.m.

EVENING PRAYER—Sundays 7 p.m., Wednesdays

8 p.m.

DISTRICT SERVICES.

Hacknahay—Last Sunday of Month at 3.30 p.m.

Drumgor—Second Sunday of Month at 4 p.m.

Regret.

We regret to announce the death of Miss Elizabeth

Magee, one of the oldest and best friends of Seagoe.

She passed away after a few days' illness and lies

in the Old Ground at Seagoe, which she loved.

Much sympathy is expressed at the sad loss

sustained by Mr. and Mrs. M'Donald, of Florence

Court, in the death from measles of two of their

little children.

Marriage,

The marriage of Miss Anna M. Kerr and Mr.

Carl E. Youngdahl took place in the Church of

Holy Trinity, Union Ave., Chicago, Ill., on

day evening, June 24, The wedding was' indeed

very beautiful one. After the ceremony a reception

was held in the parish hall, where the bride

and groom were greeted by their many friends.

Anna is one of our most faithful members—our

Assistant Organist and Church School teacher. The

happy couple spent their honeymoon touring to

Washington, D. C. The parishioners wish them

much happiness in their new life,

CLASSES,

ADULT CLASSES--sundays at 10 a.m.

For Men—Edenderry and Seagoe. For Women—

Seagoe School.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS—10 a.m. Edenderry Parochial

Hall and Seagoe School. 3 p.m. Seagoe, Edenderry Parochial Hall, Levaghery, Hacknahay,

Carne, Drumgor.

Men's Recreation Room, Bridge St., open every

night from 7 p.m.

Seagoe C.L. Brigade in Edenderry Parochial Hall,

on Tuesdays at 8 p.m.

Mothers' Union, Edenderry 1st Tuesday, at 4 p.m.

DAY SCHOOL—Seagoe, 9.30 a.m. Principal—Mr. S

Rennix.

MARRIAGES must be performed between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Licenses are issued by Rev Canon Hannon,

Rectory, Lurgan. Due notice (48 hours) must be given to the Rector of intended weddings. FEES—

By License—Labourers 5/-, Tradesmen 10/-, Merchants and Farmers 15/-, Professional £l. By Banns 5/-.

FUNERALS will be attended by the Clergy if proper notice be given. SICK CASES should be notified to

the Clergy without delay. FEES FOR CERTIFICATES BAPTISM, 3/7; Children (Factory), 1/- and 2/--

(non-residents) ; MARRIAGE, 3/7. An extra search fee is chargeable in certain cases

A copy of the Magazine will be sent post free to any subscriber for 3s per annum.