Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29
Congregational Church Resolutions

| pastor OF THIS Congregational church O
Cresco, Iowa, has, by his own confession
borrowed large sums of money of hi
parishionere and others. and.
WHEREAS, By his own confession he
has misrepresepted and deceived some ol
those of whom he has borrowed money
in that he said to them that he wanted
the money for his and his family's pres
ent needs, and after securing the money
he used it for other purposes, and after
repeated promises he has put forth Nc
effort to pay his store debts contracted
for supplies for his family, nor for bor-
rowed monies, and,
WHEREAS, We deem the Rev. J. 81.
Boggess no longer worthy of our conf
dence-no longer worthy to occupy the
position Of a public teacher-no longer
worthy to occupy the pulpit of this
church as the exponent of the doctrine
Of Jesus Christ, Therefore,
Resolued, That the relations of pastor
now existing between the said Rev. j. Fl.
Boggess and this church, be, and are
hereby terminated.
This set OF three whereases and one
resolve, were unanimously adopted
by the Congregational church and
society November 20. 1885, Had the
society been informed fully of the
man as in the PLAIN DEALER expose.
the resolutions Of Mr.. Harlau would
have been adopted if those who dared
tell the truth and shame the devil''
were in the majority.
On Monday after the departure of
Mr.. Boggess, knowing as the PLAIN
DEALER did his antecedent, we
sought among the members of the
rpI, rnt h Safx e.
had led to his abrupt departure. From
those who were fully informed, we
met evasion and in some instances
what recent developments show to
have been untruthful state ments. In
the PLAIN DEALER printed Monday
afternoon, in short article we sumar-
lied the information obtained
mostly unreliable, and rather com
plimentary to the dismissed pas
tor. Tuesday Mr.. Crawford called to
know the source OF our information
for that brief article. We told him
we had put in nearly half day chas-
ing down members of the church
therefor. Toward night the same
day q lady member of the church
called at the Office, excited and vexed
ut the semi-endorsement given the
dismissed pastor, and informed US
that a church meeting was called to
take the matter into consideration.
With this information we called upon
Mr.. Crawford who said he was not
aware of any church meeting being
called, but at our request promised
us all the information of the matter
he could obtain, at the same time
telling us that the Times editor was
also investigating the matter, and re-
quested us not 10 make use of what
he might be able to furnish, until our
paper Of the 26, that it might not be
SO much in advance of the Times ar
ticle. To this we assented. On
Thursday the 81, about two hours
before goins to press Mr.. Crawford
came to the office and left the reso-
iutions which appeared the day fol
lowing. We had talked with Mr..
amount Of Mr.. Boggess' loans and
who from and supposed they were to
be u topic Of the meeting. In the
office at the time were our office force.
Marbles advance agent, Mr.. Kaldec.
and Geo. II. Kellogg, before whom but
little was said, beside requesting us
to leave q note for Mr.. Harlan to see
Us that night after his work aud lie urn
from him the full particulars. This
we did not do because at that hour
we should be busy mailing our papers
and beside from the caption to the
resolution we believed they had been
adopted, and feeling disposed to get
ia scoop on the Times, immedi-
ately had them put in type and pub.
lished that afternoon. These are the
facts, and the PLAIN DEALER makes
no apology for their appearance. The
truth is the leading men of the church
knew his history before they gave
him a call. they wanted a pew-filler,
man who would draw, but when he
drew from their pockets under false
pretenses they kicked. They got
the kind OF man they were after, a
man with lots of mouth combined
with deceit and hypocrisy, and in the
recent event have their punishment.