The earliest church services were probably held in the open air. Other services are documented to have occurred on the second floor of the Humes General Store.  Churches provided the spiritual strength and hope for hundreds of boom town residents. The activities of the following churches were printed weekly in the city newspaper between 1913-1915. The First Presbyterian and the Methodist Episcopal churches were organized in 1904-05.  The Christian Church and St. Anthony’s Catholic churches trace their city roots to 1906.   The Church of the Good Shepherd was organized in 1909.  The Italian Presbyterian Mission started in 1912 and built a church in 1914.   The Free Methodists ministry was in the process of building a church in 1915.

• (See Timeline: April 1914, “Church Census..”)