Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-14
LAMENTATIONS OF
EX-M|N|STfR Who
SAYS SHE WAS MIS-
TREATED IN IDAHO
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ed more Christianity than all the rest
of'them.
Before we left, I took money that
we really needed and paid her husband
who was a merchant, for they tried
to help us, and if the others had tried
as hard to help us there would never
have been any trouble.
II experienced enough grief and
worry at HALEY to make one crazy.
The delegate to the annual conference
told former pastor who had trouble
at HALEY that l had taken a trip to
the eXpositions which was a deliber-
ate falsehood for had told the dele
gate and wife in their own home why
l had gone to California. l was ar
ranging a special service for a sun
day night, and l went to one of tho
Sunday school teachers and asked her
to help. and she said she could not,
for she had promised to take her
children to the picture show, as there
was special attraction. This same
lady with others later said they did
not attend a certain Sunday evening
service l arranged because / had some
moving pictures of the white slave
traffic, as 1t was out of place for
sunday evening. More Inconsistency
PREACHED IN BOISE.
| supplied a pulpit in Boise two
weeks and when we returned to HALEY
one of the church women remarked to
neighbor in critical way they all
ave new hats, too" In fact, nv wife
had purchased some clothes and fixed
Vher hat over, and had bought two
frames at Is cents each and made the
children hats, and the whole amount
expended was IS cents for three hats.
Then some people wonder why self
rSspecting men and women do not
want to be ministers. NY choir leader
and leading man worker save an aged
man. would be missed on Sunday ONLY
to find out that he had gone fishing
or for a Sunday picnic. He also UNI
PRED Sunday ball games. On Memoir
ial Sunday when | had planned a spe
cial service, he and family went for
picnic.
i Heard one of my church workers.
VINO was mother of girls, speak to a
man whose Consort owned a number
OF buildings which were rented to
women of the underworld, calling him
pN MS given name only. A lodge gave
oall for the school children mind YOU.
and employed the two men who played
the drum and piano in the red light
@lstrict to furnish the music. and
there seemed to be no particular OBJ
lection. These same men played for a
number of dances given bv the i'm
proVement association. If it had not
been for the Bellevue people and some
ouptsiders we could not have stood 1t
there.
When we left Haley I went to those
to whom / was obligated and told them
! would settle as soon as | could. out
Of the first money I received at st.
Anthony ! paid money as follows.
Rev Hellman. $12; Idaho State bank
at Boise, $25: Beamer company, S..
and Mr.. Choate, s35. | paid all this
shortly after reaching our new work
and out of the small support | was
receiving. What better evidence could
give of n desire to be square? Al
though | had sent one concern re
mittance and promised more when
could, they wrote a lawyer at st. An
thony, asking him to collect the rest
Was this giving me a show?
BURNED OUT.
While at St. Anthony we had a bad
fire which destroyed the parsonage and
number of valuable pictures we had
saved and many other things we could
not replace which were stored in the
attic. ! lost a valuable reel of motion
pictures and a number of special views
that cost three dollars each and there
was no insurance on these things;
only on the furniture and clothes.
J have often wished that the fire had