To obtain the services of a priest with a knowledge of Polish language, the parishioners of St. Joseph Parish, Webster, sent a demand to Fr.

Joseph Dabrowski, founder and rector of the Polish Seminary St. Cyril and Methodius University in Detroit.

The money was collected within two weeks, and among the largest offerings $100 was a gift of three Americans: Messers G. Tracey, John W. Dobbie and Louis E. Pattison.

Chałupka celebrated their first midnight Mass in the newly built, as yet unfinished, wooden church.

When the church was under construction, the United States were hit by the hardest, although short-term Depression in American history.

Chałupka resigned from the parish and in 1908, moved to Turners Falls, where he began overseeing the construction of the new church.