Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-10
ANOTHER AWFUL HOW-D'Y-DO
THREE SISTERS WHO THINK THEY
HAVE A MISSION.
They Propose to RevOIutiOnize the
Domestic State and Begin Their
Crusade in the Classic Town
of independence.

p new religious society WhlCn aims 10
strike the shackles from the weaker sex
IS being put on its feet at independence
by three sisters. While they expect to
revclutionize the social state of %thralldom
in which femininity has been kept since
creation. their plans are even more reach
ing. The three sisters expect to revolu-
tiCnize the domestic state completely.
Their success in this particular has been
marked. for the husbands of all three
women have left them.
Mrs. Amy Page, Mrs. Mabel Gaulter and
Mrs. Eula Marks, all late of Lamont. Ia,
are the sisters who are teaching the new
faith in Independence. Already they claim
that a number of widows expect to cor
form to their belief. and not a few mar
ried women. Tuesday evening the three
able to secure a hall, chose the public
square for their outdoor meeting. where
they told about the sins of others.
Mrs. Page, Mrs. Marks n Mrs. Gaulter
formerly belonged to the Latter Day
Saint church at Lamont. Members of the
church at Independence state that all three
sisters have been accommodated from
the church for Irregularities relative to the
church laws The sisters claim that the
church of the Saints has depressed from
the teachings of Joseph, the martyr. and
though the balance Of the church be
against them they expect to conform to
the early teachings as ~expounded by Jo-
seph. Mrs. Page stated yesterday that a
'mock" trial was held at Lamont and that
they were ousted without so much as a
hearing. The trouble leading up to the
accommodation was the result of some
poetry which Mrs. Page and her sister,
Mrs. Gaulter. had written and circulated.
Mrs. Gaulter says that her husband disap-
proved of her religious teachings and at
tempted to place her in an insane asylum
and she left him. Mrs. Page says that hel
husband came with her to Independence,
but that the church prevailed upon him
to return to Lamont and she stayed. Mrs.
Marks husband still lives at Independence,
but owing to outside influence, so she
claims. has left her. The three women
with their eight children live in one house.
DAME Bowen. their landlord. ran up
against a new state of things when he went
to collect his rent. When he presented his
little bill the women coolly informed him
that the Lord had commanded them to
take possession of his premises; that the
property belonged to the church, had been
bought during the time of Joseph, and that
Bowen had no. title from the Lord. but a
mere tax receipt. He was also informed
that Independence was cOnsecrated to the
Lord and everything was to be used in
common. Bowen ~strenuously objected to
being made the first victim of the consecra-
ton movement and has sued for his rent.
The three sisters are past middle age
the laws of the church in which they were
raised. They believe that the Scriptural
admonition that the wife obey the hus-
band refers purely to the state spiritual
and there it ends. CONTINGENCY is the pre-
rogative of the wife, and If under the laws
of the land the contracting parties are
made one, the wife should be the one. Mrs.
Page. the oldest of the three. in explaining
her religious belief, said that in the early
day of the Saints church, during the time
of Joseph. the Martyr. an order known as
the Order of Enoch was started. This or
der taught the conservation of property by
members OF the church. Everything was
to be in common. When one family had
meal and another had none, the family
without meal had a perfect right to help
themselves in the name of the Lord
Members of the Order of Enoch were them
selves consecrated to the work of the Lord,
and no thought of tomorrow was to him
der them in theilr work of doing good,
teaching the truth and taking care of the
poor. Mrs. Page believes that ~Independ-
ence has been consecrated to the Lord for
the use and benefit of the church. tina the
land was bought years ago and when the
in no way affected the matter of cOnse-
Grafton.
This is where Landlord Bowen felt the
conservation movement.
that all men were unholy and very wicked.
She said that she had come to this con-
clusion long ago having been married
three times. Her belief in regard to conSe-
grafton of all things for the use of the
Lord does not extend TO her daughter,
who expressed ~disappFoval of the new So
daughter had no use for the conservation
of things in common. Via belonged to
her mother she did not want and what
she, possessed herself no one could have
The advent of the sisters in Independ-
ence and the public p~roclaiming of their
set views on the streets has raised some
thing of a stir. Members of the Saints
church there are fearful that the move
ment may be misconStrued by the public
under the belief that the women are in
church. when, in fact. they were excom-
municated long ago.