The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-01-20
A SAHCTINONIOUS SUIT.
!. ". Dushong a
Plaintiff.
Ohio Street Methodist Church
Defendant.
Sued for TWenty-one Hundred
Dollars

Dollars
on the Witness stand.
Rev. J. w. Bushong. formerly pastor Of
The Ohio Street Methodist Church in ihis
city, sued the church in the .Peti. Circuit
Curt in the May term. 1879. Tor about 80,
100, being the amount Of certain no,e and
interest thereon, which Bushoug held.
againat the church ior money paid ~ Sc
curity on . certain note held by Cyrus
against The same church The
iuiI details If the TRANSACTION will be found
in the testimony given below h. Psr.:'n
Bushong, who - the os!y wi:.tr- ~he hAs
been examined.
Heard 4 Jsck.cn, attorneys for Buski"nx,
and Smith 4 Sh;rk .tioneys for the church.
Testimony:
xEv. J. ". BCsnOH0, SWORN
| am plsiuliG in this case l came to Sc
daiia in 1857 I am Methodist minister !;
1 came here from Coshoctcn, Ohio w.s
sent here n Minister Of The Ohio Street
Methodist Church, and remained
PASTOR TWO YEARS;
The church building is two--tory brick
building. and when came here The lecture
room or Placement etory was finished and
holding oil the services there the second
= .: k..x0
6oored aud enclosed T; the second story wss
completed in the winter Of 1857 and dedi-
Gated By Bishop Bowman, in she summer
u 1858 the Improvement. msde were sub
stsni,ai and good nicely finished.
Before I came ~ Sedsliz, received let
ters from persons here, ssking me 10 coIne
here 10 complete this church I came and
re had good sudiences, snd il wss desired
by the church officials 10 hsve larger and
more commodious place of worship than
We had in the basement.
WHO WANTED II?
Prominent among those who wsn,ed th,s
improvement, were DR.. Totias, Judge WASH
burn, A. J. Sampson. Goodman Br"thers
and Others.
Attorney Smith-Wa. Dr.. Hull in this
lot Who desired this church completed
Bushong-I don't inst remember about
the Doctor: He was a trustee when | came
here, but did not stay IN long after Wa
connected With the church.
WHO PUT Up.
| furnished 81 30 aud Cyrus Nrwkirk fur
nishsd 81 $50 each. TO complete the chu oh.
The note wss given me about January.
1873, il I remrnber corr-criy. IL wss . con-
certed plan with the church of6ci>is that
Newkirk and myself We're 20 furnish 81, 500.
10 1867, Brother Smith built the psrs"n-
age; he built the house :and paid the
bills; the chur.h tprrowed soiEe money
and paid me back.
I sent to Ksnsas, City in 1863. and Dor
rowed out Of the bank 81 800 Of Mr.. Hoi
den, Of Kansas city, Mr.. Newkirk, OF
SedsIis, going my security; when the
note became due, il Was sent here for col
lection, and p.id out OF money paid into
The bank here in liquidation "f the church
uotes had, which Newkirk held ~ colisi-
er.l for going my security in the hank n
Kansas City.
BrsHOSG PAYS.
subscribed $3.50 70 sssis, in iiquidasing
SuC UO0thuk CuutCo Otoss tuW NOuosSsoss
that my note was paid, and Oh the condi.
iion that 5000 was suhscribed and paid
toward the aame object nv note WIS Paid.
leo the $3.50 ] subacribed; IL was paid
shout the time nv thr-e years expired 1t
K.nsaa City: I subscribed $lO0, my wife
subscribed $50 and then sutecribed $3.50,
10 all, about 500 toward the completion
of the church.
THE XOTE.
SEDAIIA, No., Jan. II, 1868.
$3.50.
Twelve months after date We. or either Of
IA, promise to pay to the order of Cyrus
Nevkirk twelve hundred and City doilse
for salsas Fseeis~d, without defaicasion or
discount. with interest from date ., the
rate Of ten per cent. PER annu0.
GOODMAN Bros,
-. J. z. Tomas
+. W. WAsHBURN,
J.W. BUsa0Ho.
ARCH. J. SAMPSON.
L. AcRoREY,
JoRS K. OwExs,
J. A. SNIrH.
I paid this note 10 Cyrus Newkirk; !
vas sued 90 this note by NJ. Nevkjrk
vss then in Little Rock, Ark; be brought
suit BY atsschment, and the property wa
so'd for . aong 10 M. Sewkirk; subse-
quently Mr.. Nevkirk lst ne have tie prop
erty back BY my paying the note, interesis.
cosis. &c, amounting to s.. 800 or $1,000.
oE1n 1HE NOTE.
After I paid Neskirk OF he made the
following assignment on the note:
"For valne received, I assign the within
note over to J. w. BusbOng without re-
course ON me. C. NEwKIRk."
SEDALlA, No., July 1, n.
The preachers Of the Methodist church,
arr generally in the habit Of collecting the
debss Of the church: the money which
myself ADD Nesk,rk fursMhed vent to-
wssd eompietiag the chusch; I often me,
WITH the trustees Of the church; Hiram
Lowry did most Of the czrpenier work on
the audience room Of the church; Brother
]. r. Saith, . carpester. worked % the
church; rother smith put up The Arr,
stsire u the audience room, and il Cost
SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Goodman, Hancock, Newkirk and others
seisd ~ 4 conmitias to let the coatesets;
I mads no coutrscia myself . fas - ! can
nov remewher; friends in -. LOUIS gave
~ money 20 bny carpe,s. ehair, organ.
etc for the church; il ws- voluntary sub
scriPtions. .-.......
Croes-exsnined BY E. J. Smith, am
City years Old; Joined The cs.nferesee in
1851 or 1892 va . local preacher be.
iee>. 0as ehssla A. - 81 n. ss~ue IN