East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-30
CRITICISM OF DANCE
Anglers T.. w. COLBY
Owner of Old NJ. Il. Church Edifice
at Libertyviile Threatens to
Retaliate

Chicago.-Liberty Methodists. who
criticised E. w. Colby because he al
lowed the village bank to give a |
dance in the old First Methodist
church, have aroused his anger.
Mr.. Colby, who is about six feet
four inches in height. is aroused from
head to foot, and has promised that
things will be made interesting for
certain folks"
In his Chicago offic Mr.. Colby,
who is an attorney admitted that as
the purchaser of the old church
building he had rented the premises
to the band for the purpose of hold
ing a dance. He also said that he
would do the same thing again if the
occasion should arise. Mr.. Colby also
admitted that, although not an ex-
pert in the art of dancing, being pre-
vented by his size from enjoying
such pleasures" that the grizzly"
had been danced upon the old church
floor.
Among other. Interesting things
which may result from the adverse
criticism of the Methodists may be
the filing by Mr.. Colby of a COM
plant against the Lake county fair
management on charges that they
permitted gambling games to be run
during the fair just closed.
Charges Open Gambling.
There has been open gambling,
such as a chuck-a-iuck going on all
the days of the present fair" said Mr..
! Colby. 'In the next booth to this
game the young women of the Ep-
worth league were serving luncheon
| to hungry sightseers. don't think
| the Epworth league had anything to
| do with allowing this gambling, but
some of the righteous persons who
have held up their hands because
rented the old church for the dances
are interested in the management OF
the fair.
$50 far as the old church is con-
crned it has ceased to be church
The furnishings have all been remov-
ed and the building has been partly
torn down. The boys could find nc
other place to hold their dances anC
l let them have the building-no
the church-to hold their dances in
"The band boys have done grea
deal for the church. by playing a
open-air concerts and allowing tn
women to sell refreshments to tn
crowd they drew. In view of the fac
that the band was a village institu
ton and the church was a churcl
no more / allowed them to have
S for a dance. I saw no harm in
I then and l can't now,
S According to present plans tn
e company which bought the land o
4 which the church has stood for
e generation intends to erect a build
J. ing which will contain a theater Tw
II of the trustees of the church are II
&c terested in this company Dancin
IT and theater going are both cor
d demned in the same section of Tn
II Methodist discipline. Why am
d worse than they"
Is Dance Again in Church.
ID Tn band playd and the youth
/ Libertyvil.e again tripped the ligl
w fantastic across the old church floo
Today Rev. w. l.. Whipple. past'
IN of the Librtyv.lle Methodist churc
- is expected to denOunce in sweepir
terms the desecrators of the o
= church in which the fathers of Il
village have worshipped
Mr.. Whipple is assured of one a
dntor. Mr.. Colby has announced tn
he will attend church "for the fiji
n time in long while"
n 81 have purchased pair of viii
u trousers for the occas.o on and W
il wear my black Prince Albrt coat"
said Il want to hear what can
said against my having rented t
= old building"
The wreckers will again attack {
building and the lumber will be us
i'm the construction of bungalows.