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ST. PAUL PASTORATE TO BUILD PARSONAGE, j On Sunday morning l nooKed up III and with two of my American J boys and their mother went down to St. Pauls church for service, this being the home church of my childhood I always enjoy attending service there, and' then Pastor Koon always has an interesting sermon. I was late, because I was under the impression that service was there at 12:00 o'clock, but the pastor has moved j " "* * ? 111 _ A 4 <4 the hour up ana now it is neia at n o'clock. On the way we picked up j Mr. T. J. Wilson and from his home on to the church the engine was bad. j He must have been my Jonah because from Newberry to his home the carj never did run better. And from the church back to his home we had the j same trouble, or that is nearly all j the way. I was fortunate to meet j ! young Mr. Quattlebaum, the auto doctor from Prosperity, and he very kindly and willingly helped me out. We had dinner with Mr. Wilson and his good family which we all enjoyed. 0 ? j . After the sermon at St. Pauls the; question of building a new and modera parsonage was taken up. And' /]aai/]A/1 4-V*Of o nattr IQC t'UIIglCgaviUIl UCV1UCU uiav a uv n j parsonage should be built just where < the present parsonage now stands, j And that the other two congregations now in the charge should be permitted to have part in the building, if they so desired. The St. Pauls congregation owns a most desirable, property consisting of about 60 acres j of fine land which it has held for J something like 150 years, and so the j congregation decided the two other j churches of the charge, and both; much younger, St. Phillips and Bachman Chapel, should participate in the building with the understanding that if the charge were ever changed and : these two young churches should withdraw that they could have back whatever they had put in the parson-' age as their rightful property, but j no part of the property now owned by St. Pauls would be transferred. These people are very jealous of their fine property, and rightly proud j of it, but it will help the work in the j charge and make all the congrega- j tions cooperate more readily in the ! duties of the pastorate, if all of them i are given the opportunity to have a share in the building of the parson- J age. It is well. One member of St. J Pauls said he had given $1,000 to- J ward the new parsonage, and it will j not take many subscriptions like that j to erect a very handsome and modem parsonage, and many of the members i can do as much. It is a large con- j gregation and a strong pastorate and, there is no better place for a modern ; country home than here at St. Pauls. | T oro ffniro" tfl hnild a ! X axil giau vuv/ <uv bv***^ ? j new home for the preacher, and that it was decided that all three of the, congregations should have the priv-1 ilege of taking part in the building, and that arrangement is made to pro/ tect the property rights of all of them should there be at any time in the j future a division of the pastorate. Both Bachman Chapel and St. Phil-1 lips you might say are children of St. i Pauls. True some of the St. Phil-1 lips folk came from Bethlehem. But' there is harmony and good feeling all { around now, and that is the way to ' * - > ii. "j ! build up a cnurcn ana a community. t o I feel a peculior interest in the St. j Pauls congregation. It is the church , of my childhood and where I first went to Sunday school and church j and to day school, and the church of my forebears for at least two genei> ations, and I am glad to see the movement to give the pastor a good ! home. The present parsonage has been there as far back as the day, when Pastor Margart served the congregation, and that w^s away back before the war between the sections, j and I do not know how much further. back the present building dates. It was stated that no record of the , deed could be found, but it is very, vertain that the congregation has t , been in adverse possession of the' jroperty for more than a hundred years. There have been several; church buildings here and the landwas a grant from King George away | hpfnre the Revolutionary war. . The Annals of Newberry states that .he church building was dedicated in June, 1830, but that there had been j a church there for more than eighty | years prior to that date. Messrs Rauch and Schwartz officiated at the dedication of the church (building in 1830. It is stated that there was a sort of revival in religion following the dedication of the building and hat thirty seven persons joined the hureh. There ar3 always large con ^regations here at all the services. Somehow I feel somtimes that I am -orry they took down that hijrh pulpit hat once s~ood there and the sour.dn? board that ruD? above the pulpit, nzi i >e congregation wanted to improve the church, and rightly go. and r; 'J)PV 00->' the ol;' til;- ?3 . .V. ..?;J I reckon tli'fj rl; ht, Lul 2 \ I ( 9 would be glad to see them kept in ( | some of the old time churches so j that we might see now in this day j j how they built churches in the other! I [ | days. But we must keep up with ] ! modern progress and development, j | and the most important thing in any' j community is the church of that com-! Imunity, and the people want t^ Veepj jit moving along so as to mai> in <ie j j leadership which it should Hi. e if i ithe community is to grow a. ' 1-j op in those things which make .jr a| . Ka+taw on/1 nnVtlai* ^ifivoncllin onrl o j | tttl OiilU UVUiVl VAW4?4VliOIii|/ UtftVI M I j better state. And in order to do so, j the old order of things must give way j ! to the new. o Some time in the future I am go- J j ing to have more to say about this j ; church and its history. But I want \ I to commend the congregation for I the step that has been taken and hope to see the work on the new pastor's home started very soon. It was also decided at this meet-j ing on Sunday to take up the matter I of the monument to Pastor Sligh which was delayed by the great war and other things and to have the monument built. Those who would like to contribute to it may send the money to Pastor Koon and those who have already subscribed and have not paid may send the money to him. Whatever is given is to be a voluntary subscription. The road down to St. Pauls after you leave the Piedmont highway at Mr. John C. NeeFs is very good, except that it is entirely too narrow. I reckon when it rains f the authorities will drag the road from here to Prosperity there will be a good road, but now, oh, my. Down* at Richardsonville Walter Richardson has about completed his! store building and he has a nice one, j too. A credit to the community and! " - * * r 1 1 . a _ ' to Walter. 1 hope he maymaKe 1015 of money for Walter is a fine fellow j and had the misfortune of a fire j soon after he opened at this place', j but now he has a real store building; with plate glass front and all the \ things that go to make a good store. I am sure these good people of St. Pauls will permit me to express an opinion and a wish, and it is that when they come to build the newj home for the pastor that they may I find a suitable place on this finej landed property which they possess that will not necessitate the tearing down of the present building. It is a good house and I would like to see it remain, and then in this day there is need for more houses, and it seems to me they might find a suitable location on this land for a home for the pastor that would not require the tearing away of the present building. But this is a matter upon which they should all argee, and not have any division on the location. I almost forgot to mention it. Mr. ? - ? i j T. J. Wilson tola me cuiixiuciii>iaix^ that he had been suffering at times with slight cramps, after retiring at night, and that some one had recommended that he try an old remedy, after you remove your shoes and just before retiring place the shoes bottom side up under the bed. Mr. Wilson doesn't care for Mrs. Wilson to know, but he has been trying it because he dpes not believe in such things, or $}at it what he has been trying to make her believe. He didn't say what effect the remedy had upon the cramp, but I reckon it j cured him. You know if you take a drop of blood from a wart and place it on a little salt tied up in a sack i and bury it, that is the sack of salt, { under the eave of the house, and not let any one see you when you bury it, that it will remove the warts, or any number of them if you count them and just rub the sack with the sclt on them. There is no doubt about this. I would not like for you to tell any one about the shoes, because I am sure Mr. Wilson does not j wrr.t Tlrs. Wilson to know it. E. H. A. I . Pat and Mike were fighting in j the street, and although they had j previously agreed that when eitheri had sufficient of it he could cry j out, "Enough!" Pat, who was ob-j viously getting the worst of it, still j remained silent. , ; Then, as the fight progressed, the I tables seemed to turn, and Mike j began to get a terrible hiding. | Suddenly Pat caught him one fairj . one on the point of the jaw, wincn j 1 sent poor Mike sprawling to the j ' ground. I "Enough!" he cried. ! "Glory be!,? exclaimed Fat. Tha't's1 ? K the word I'v been trying to rernem. be * for the Isst ten m-nutos!"'?Tit ! Li:'?. "Jhor., wr:.t booK > that tiie j ' baby's chev;;ng? It looks !i5:e our Ovn.PT Khe\ v?in." "it if. i : "' ' ? thj ' ell pi- , i '^r i. . * . WILSON'S WORDS7 ! CLEAR UP DOUBT CALIFORNIA THROWS OVER ITS LEADER, JOHNSON, AND RALLIES TO LEAGUE. . I tvrcT mure uiu nuATinil VVLUI UHLU mm uim ivnj All Doubtful Features of Pact Are | Explained Away By President, and Former Doubters Hasten to Give Him Their Support. (By Independent News Bureau, formerly Mt. Clemens News Bureau.) Aboard President Wilson's Special j Train?A continuous ovation along the ; Pacific coast and then on his eastward! way back toward the capital was given to President Wilson as he came toward the end of his month daylong, cnpaVinp- trmr in behalf of the League of Nations. California, particularly the deligh^il city of Los Angeles, went wild in its enthusiasm for him and his advocacy of the League, and it was in that state, perhaps, that he did his most"1 successful missionary work. Hiram Johnson, California's former governor, now her United States senator, and considered by her as the most likely Republican candidate for the presidency in 1920, had before the arrival of President Wilson, convinced a great number of citizens that the League as at present formulated was not a good thing. He had told them that the United States, because of it, would be drawn into every petty European quarrel; he argued that we would lose our sovereignty by joining with the European nations. He had blamed the president for assenting to the possession by Japan of the Peninsula of Sh^n Tung in China. ; BUREAU CHANGES NAME S The Mount Clemens News Bureau, which h-s been furnishing reports on President Wilson's tour in behalf of the League of Nations to 5,500 papers, has adopted a new name and will hereafter be known as The Independent News Bureau. : > But Mr. Wilson, with clear logic and with compelling eloquence, answered to the entire satisfaction of California's people every objection which Senator Johnson had made to the League. And thousands of the state's citizens deserted the Johnson stand ard immediately and rained to tne support of the president More than that, they came forward and said, "We were against you, Mr. President, but you have cleared everything up and now we are with you he^ and soul." < J Still more than that, they Jet Senatoi;' Johnson know that they were no1 longe* with him and that they disapproved of the speaking tour which he himself was making in opposition to the League and so powerful was the: volume of public opinion which reach- i tho* fVua cAnatnr almost im*! cu aim, utu? vuv mediately abandoned his tour. The ' Shan Tung question, because of the! anti-Japanese feeling which undoubtedly exists along the Pacific coast waa the most serious which the president had to answer. He explained to the people that he had been powerless to j prevent the rich peninsula from being j given to Japan. England and France, I through a secret treaty, had promised! it to Japan for entering the war ana j remaining in it. That treaty had to j be carried out. Anyway it was notj China that was losing Shan Tung, but j Germany, which had seized the terri-! tory from China in 1898 and held it! ever since. Japan had promised, the president explained, to return Shan \ Tung as soon as the peace treaty was; ratified and it was only through the! ratification of the treaty with thaj League of Nations inclusion, that! * -t i I China could ever expect to get uei, former property back. And she surely j would get it back, he declared, through the ratification of the League. There' j fore, through the same instrumentality no other nation pould again prey upon j the "Great, patient, diligent, but help-1 less kirj^dom." As to our being drawn. into any European conflict. The pres- j ident pointed out that no direct action j such as the sending of troops to a^y| part of the world to maintain or re* j store order could be taken by the j Council of the League without a unani-; mous vote of the council members,1 thorDfnrfl rmr vote could at once nega-1 V&V* W -w ? tive any such proposition as sending j cur soldiers where we did not want j tiiem sent. Besides, Mr. Wilson argued,! "If you have to quench a fire in Cali-1 fornia you don't seftd for the fire de-! partment of Utah." But, he argued, j there probably never will be another I war, if the League is established, for j the members promise either to arbi-! trate their difference and accept the J decision of the arbitrator, lay the differences for discussion and publication before the Council of the League for a period of six months, and then, if possible, accept the council's advice. That failing, they agree to refrain from war for a further jjeriod of three j months and nine months of "cooling \ off/' the president contended, would j prevent any armed conflict. Thes^* clear ! explanations saij-tloj every reasonable hearer destroyed the "Bugaboos" ! which Senator Johnson and others had ] ? ?i -? ? ?+ T.pturns Thrniich i ntitSUU ? w? rugged Nevada into Utah, f!ie land of j Mostdc ns, preside -it swc pt to find J /: ;. . were tsjartily 11 Kh ! Lcacc* and 4 per- j JliiiH ?i -V'i pcuvU ? " j I AII ( CORN * Absolutely Rat Proof; A Scientific Vei / rrTTtiDT? n A T \T A XTT^T7T^ l nrjoii uau v vijljiujls CHEAPER THHAN WOO i STOP FEEDING THE R, V / OF YOUR CORN AND OA YOUR STOCK WITH CO* i INATED BY RATS. SIZES FROM 100 TO 3,0( ? 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