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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-27
College Golf Play
At Greenwich, Conn.
Strait Holds Lead

Greenwich. Conn. June 2s-Lauren
Epson of the University of California,
medalist in the qualifying round of
the intercollegiate golf championship
tournament, defeated w. G. Soule, of
Harvard, two and one in the second
round today.
The third round and the semi
finals will be played tomorrow and
the finals on Saturday.
Dexter Cummings, of Yale. present
title holder. won easily from T. Cam
non of Pittsburgh. seven and five.
w. H. Taft of Dartmouth, who fin-
ished second among the qualifiers,
eliminated H. Byrne Of Columbia,
three and two. The only upset was
the defeat OF II. w. Comstock of
Williams, third among the qualifiers.
by B., Nudge of Princeton, by a score
of five and three.
Stephen Berrien Of Wesleyan. de-
feated ]. NJ. BatcheIder of Dartmouth.
four and three.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-27

London. June 26.-America took
third place today in the officers
jumping competition for the Prince
of Wales cup at the International
Horse Show at Olympia. Finland
won the cup and Italy was second.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-27
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Baltimore IS: Newark 8
Syracuse s; Buffalo Z
Jersey City 1; Reading 5
Rochester 10; Toronto 4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-27
NEW YORK

x-batted for Scott in Sth.
xX-batted for CASTOR in Sth.
BOSTON
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-27

Total SO 0 Z "a 10 q
Y-Ratted for Stenhensnn In 9th
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

deed, I thought myself very happy that day; first, that it had pleased God to make way for my going and, then, that 1 should have. had the honor to ride behind MT. Bunyan, who would some times be speaking to me about the things of God. The meeting began not very long after we got thither, and the Lord made it sweet season to my soul"
 But Bunyan told her he was not going back the way he had come, and she had to look around for another way to get back. Reluctantly, she accepted the offer of another young woman, who passed her sisters house. "As the road was very dirty and deep, it being the depth of winter, I was afraid to venture behind her; but at last I did. and she set me down at Sister Pruden' 8 gate, from whence 1 hastened through the dirt, having no pattens, hoping to be at home before my father was in bed"
 Alas for that hope Among those who had seen her riding so proudly behind John Bunyan, was an Episcopal minis ter named Lane, who hastened to in form her father. Her father hurried at once to the home of his married daughter, and asked the hired men with whom his daughter, Agnes, had ridden away. and they confirmed the news. She had ridden away with John Bun van. The hussy! That was what he called her. She had left home with the statement that she was to ride behind Mir. Wilson, and instead she had gone off with John Bunyan! Agnes was ac- customed to coming home and finding the door locked; but her fathers hbait
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4- q ls was to take the key to bed with him, and when she tapped at his window to pass out the key to her. Tonight when she got home she found the key in the door, and her father shouted to her that she might spend the night where she had spent the day.
 The Scandal Out :,
 q conld indeed have gone to my brothers who lived about q quarter of mile. off, and where, might have had a good supper and a warm bed" But she preferred to spend that night in the barn in prayer, "and indeed it was g blessed night to my soul. The Lord was with me in a wonderful manner 0 the heart-ravishing visits he gave me!
 Next morning. her father still being obdurate, she went to her sisters and her brother-in-law ardently urged her to stand by her faith and suffer perse- cution for Christ's sake. Sunday after noon she went to her father, and ne partly relented, and she promised, her brother-in-law representing her, that she would not attend the nonconformist service without her fathers permission.
 Meantime, Mir. Parry had been busy ana MT. lIdHC HUI AuICg uh0 knew that Agnes had been turned out of doors because of John Bunyan. "They raised vile scandal upon us. though, blessed be God. it was false. Mir. Lane reported at Baldock fair that we had been criminally c0nversant together, which vile report ran from one end of the fair to the other" And Mir. Parry did not permit the story to lose any Al. 1tuh ha kn hfo aHvo mi o O a
 But Monday and Tuesday were rather happy days with Agnes. Although her brother-in-l Jaw came over and reproach- ed her. she was re-establishing herself on good terms with her father, who confessed that he had been too harsh with her. She cooked him some good meals. On Tuesday night he ate heart fly, smoked pipe and went to bed apparently as well as he ever had been. In the middle of the night she was reused, and found him in great pain. She built a. fire for him, and, half dressed, ran though the dreadful night to her brother-in-law's house. When they got back, the two hired men hay ing preceded them, the old man was drawing his last breath. They set Thursday for the funeral, but Mir. Parry thC NOhVhCA Nhob hC OOhNfS< Agnes had poisoned her father. Now for woman to poison her father was more than murder; it was 'small trea- son" and the penalty was to be burned at the stake. Agnes had often thought of the dreadful possibility of her suffering most justly the pains of hell fire, but never had expected to die at the stake as criminal. "Singu- lar experience" indeed!
 Survived Her Trials
 There was an inquest. The coroner at first seemed stern, but, after the tes- timony of Parry and the physician, he questioned her kindly. It relieved her much that each of his questions was ad- dressed to her as sweetheart" That pet name did much to reassure her But she had been much in prayer, and was confident that God would stand by her. Agnes insisted that the doctor should "open my father but the doctor said it was unnecessary. Acute indiges- tion and a flabby heart were writ plain on the story of the dead man s symptoms. So Agnes was acquitted. But Parry went to her brOther-in-law and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

learn that the father had made his will three years before this story begins, and had left all his property to Agnes. The lawyer who had drawn the will is the villain this story He was named Parry, was unmarried, and was a suitOr for the hand and fortune of Agnes.
 For three months Agnes had been having religious experience. She had dreams all of which appeared to have q meaning. She was overcome by emo tion, and there was not a convenient hedge-corner near the farmhouse which she did not remember as the scene of one or more of her seasons of prayer. She had Il good knowledge of scrip ture She was profoundly moved by the preaching of Bunyan, whom she heard occasionally. Her father, too, heard him and was impressed. But Parry told him that all dissenters were hypocrites i; that Bunyan was mere tinker turned to preaching, and would better be avoided. Especially did Parry warn him against the interest Agnes appeared to be taking in Bunyan.
 So far as this narrative shows, Bun van did not preach regularly at Hitchin, but went occasionally to Gaminghay, pronounced Gam'gay, which lay beyond Hitchin from Bedford, and broke bread" with some of his flock there resident. It became known to Agnes that on the following Friday Mir. Bun van was coming to Gam gay. She prayed very earnestly that she might go, hay ing discovered, as she said, that when she prayed hard enough she could usually persuade her father to let her do as she chose.
 To Hear Him Preach
 "The Lord was pleased to grant me my request" she wrote. Upon asking father, the day before, he seemed un- willing at first, but pleading with him, and telling him that l would do all my work in the morning, before went out, and return at night, 1 gained his con sent. Friday being come, I prepared everything to set out. My father in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

advised him to enter suit to break the will, and Agnes had to settle the matter out of court with present to her brother-in-law. And meantime the story was going yet farther that her conduct with. John Bunyan had killed her father with grief and aDger. Soon house was burned, and Agnes was accused of set ting 1t on fire. The number of rumors that got in circulation was just as many as would probably have occurred in this day.
 Another day of the local fair oc- cured, and it was reported that Agnes would not dare ot show her face. But she prayed much about it, and God gave her cheerful confidence born of clear conscience and she put on her very best frock and went to the fair {; and although she knew that fingers were pointed at her and that tongues were busy, she kept in the center of things all that day, and went home at night confident that it had been good day for her,
 In time theS rumors died down and she married, as the coroner assured her she. would, and Mir. Parry lost out all afouad. Agnes prayed for Mir. Farry's conversion, but if she prevailed it is not known. Meantime she united with the church. at Bedford, and she wrote her narrative, telling about her dreams and ecstacies and sufferings and triumphs and of the gracious dealings of God with John Bunyan in the chair and Mrs. Bunyah among those present. Mrs. Agnes Beaumont, that eminent servant of God, survived these trials many years, and her last husband was a person of considerable substance and great seriousness" When the Baptists built meeting house in her own town of Hitchin, she Subscribed toward its erection the sum of one pound and fif- teen shillings, which was counted a generous gift. In Hitchin by her own request, her body was buried, but her church membership was at Bedford, where she had great joy in listening to that eminent man of God, the Rev. John Bunyan. As for Agnes, she was a yirtuous, pure-minded young woman, highly emo tional and not always prudent but she survived her trials many years, and her name is treasured in this volume among the eminent saints of Bedford county and parishioners of John Bunyan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

quired, who carried me? I told him l thought Mir Wilson of Hitchin, as he told my brother the Tuesday before he should call Y; to which he said nothing I went to my brothers and waited, ex pecting to see Mir. Wilson but he not coming, it cut me to the heart, and fear ing l should not go, burst into tears, for my brother had told me the horses were at work, and htat he could not spare one more than what he and sister were to ride on. and it being the depth of winter. could not walk. Now l was afraid that my prayers on this account were lost"
 Mir. Wilson was the local pastor. and Agnes was very willing to ride behind him on his horse, but she admired Mir. Bunyan much more than she did her own minister. Her brother-in-law, Pruden, whom she calls her brother, was sorry to see her weeping, but not sorry horse than that on which he and enoughS to take from work another his wife were to ride.
 At last, quite unexpectedly, came Mir. Bunyan.
 She implored her brother-in-law to ask him to permit Agnes to ride behind him.
 knoknplayeddLfy (hft5. vbgkqj, shrdlut
 But Mir. Bunyan answered, with some degree of roughness, No, l will not carry her. These words were cutting indeed. and made me weep bitterly. My brother, perceiving my trouble, said. Sir, if you do not carry her you will break her heart But he made the same reply, adding, Your father would be grievOusly angry if I should.'"
 Sweet Season to Her Soul
 Then Agnes made her plea direct, and assured John Bunyan that her father would not object; and John let her ride behind him on his horse.
 Il had not ridden far before my heart began to be lifted up with pride at the thought of riding behind this servant of the Lord, and was pleased if any looked after us as we rode along. h.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
JOHN BUNYANHAD ONE PARISHIONER WHO WAS ARDENT
Agnes Beaumont United
 With Church Under His Preaching

On the 50-cent counter of second hand book store in New York recently I found "An Abstract of the Gracious Dealings of God with Several Eminent Christians, in Their Conversion and Sufferings. Taken from Authentic Manuscripts and Published for the Com fort and Establishment of Serious Minds: by Samuel James, NJ. A The first edition was published at Ilitchin. near Bedford. in England. in 1T60. The copy 1 procured was of the Ninth Edition With Considerable Additions, and Memoirs of the Author, by his son, Issac James," writes William E. Barton in the Christian Century, and was issued just one hundred years ago. ih 1924. The manuscripts from which these gracious dealings were tran scribed dated principally from the last half of the seventeenth century. They are touching and pathetic. and they bear their own evidence of genuinenPsS.
 I do not know whether these two ministers, Samuel and Issac James, father and son, were the ancestors of Henry and William James; they may have been the forbears of the other pair of James brothers, Frank and Jesse. Of this, however, I am sure. if William James had had before him this quaint old book he could have added profitable chapters to his 'Narieties of Religious Experience" 1 read this old volume through and was interested in every page of it. l desire to write of one of these gracious dealings" that experienced by Mrs. Agnes Beaumont. She died at the age of 6S and we have from the editor an account of her funeral and the text of her epitaph.
 ! I judge that this narrative was pre- pared by Agnes in 1872, and was used by her as her statement of religious ex- perience on the occasion of her unitiring with the church in Bedford of which John Bunyan was minister. She was then 20 years old. and she preferred to ride several miles to be in that church instead of uniting in her own village of Hitchin At that time John Bunyan was AS, had been in prison and had published Pilgrims Progress and ether books.
 Moved By Bunyan
 Unlike some of the other narratives ln the volume, Agnes had no story of bonds and imprisonment. Her "Singu- lar Experience and Great Sufferings' covered a period of three months, and AOt, us III tHe caSe oI SoIne Ol IneSe udr- rators, a long series of years. Agnes father, a farmer, was a widower, and she lived alone with him on his farm The family was in comfortable circum- stances. Another sister was married to man named Pruden, and lived quar- ter of mile away. Whatever religion Agne's father had was in the estab- lished church, but he does not appear to have objected strongly to his daugh- ter's worshipping with the Puritans and Baptists. Pruden and his wife were Baptists. No break appears to have oc- cured between the father and the mar ried daughter and her husband, yet we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
cApES EOR THE REACH

One can be as gay as one desires this summer in the choice of bathing cape, for fashion offers the most strik- ing wraps made of bright colored Ro- man striped silk lined with rubber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28

the colcred man swerved in front
of him and attempted to bring him
to halt
Police are searching for a colored
woman who took $21 from Arthur
Friedman, 1914 N. Senate Ave,
stopping him in the 200 block n.
Capitol Ave, Saturday.
Other thefts reported to police:
T. J. Foster, tailor shop, 298 w.
Fortieth ST., entered; Adam Reichel,
drug store, 4001 Boulevard Pl., win
dow smashed and pay phone con-
tanning SIS taken; Bernard Cohen,
726 E. New York ST., drug store en-
tered, worth of stamps and money
stolen; Herman Kothe, 3S45 Guilford
Ave, diamond set fraternity pin
valued at $500; Mrs Glenn Pell,
1910 Central Ave, diamond ring val
ued at 125, taken from downtown
beauty parlor; Herbert Smith, 1913 z.
Raymond ST., $40 in auto accesso-
ries from car that was stolen; HelIy
Porter, 2402 Northwestern Ave, $40
by raised 81 bill: c. B. Haynes,
North Vernon, Ind, $14 by pickpocK-
ct; William Gilmore, 100 w. st. Clair
ST., SIT from home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
OFFICER G|BLIN
AFTER ACCUSER
Denies He Won So in Base
ball Pool.

Benny Flagler. SAG Union St, is
due TO appear in Chief of Police Her
man Rikhoff's Office today if Patrol
man Frank Giblin makes good his
threat Of Saturday.
I'm not going to wait until Flag
Ter complains TO the chief that I
Won IS in a baseball pool" Giblin
said after Flagler had accused him
in city court Saturday. I'm going
to get Flagler and take him to the
chief"
F'lagler became incensed Saturday
when his companion, Joe Surber. 514
w. McCarty ST., was fined $50 and
costs on a vagrancy charge. Flagler
and Surber were arrested in front
Of a poolrooom at 25 Kentucky Ave.
late Friday by Giblin.
Flagler told Judge Delbert o.
WiImeth he saw Giblin collect So as
a baseball pool winnings. Wilmeth
told Flagler 20 report it to the chief.
Rikhof said he had received no such
complaint.
Flagler's case will come up in city
court Tuesday. He is held on a
vagrancy charge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
LIEUT.. METCALFE,
POLICE VETERAN,
DIES |NHOSPITAL
Service Record Of Twenty
One Years Is Closed
Cited During Flood.

Lieut. Charles P Metcalfe, so. Of
1915 Marlowe Ave. a member of the
police department for twenty-one
years, died today at city hospital
from an ailment from which ne had
suffered for years.
Metcalfe was taken to city hospital
last week and was operated on Sat
urday. He has undergone two opera
tons before and was considered to
be in a weak physical condition.
Metcalfe was promoted to a SER
geant three years after his appoint
ment in 1908.
He has been a member Of thu
traffic department for years. and in
1913 was placed on the roll of honor
for work in the flood. At the be-
ginning of the present administra-
ton he was made a traffic heuten-
ant.
The lieutenant is survived by the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
PROSECUTORAND
GOVERNOR CONFER
Highway Commission Probe
s. Is Taken Up,

A formal conference was held to-
day between William H. Remy,
Marion County prosecutor, Claude
VI. Morley. his special investigator.
Governor Emmett F. Branch and
State Examiner Lawrence F. Orr.
Details of an investigation Of the
State highway commission and its
division of equipment for considera-
ton of the Marion County grand
jury were worked out.
They said there We're no state
ments to make.
Governor Branch asked Remy to
make the investigation following
conference with the commission last
Friday. Worley spent Saturday at
the Statehouse in conferences with
Orr and Fred E. Schortemeier, sec
rotary to the Governor.
Criticism Of the highway garages
handling Of surplus war material
was made in 1920. Recently the &C
counts board reported mismanage-
ment, extravaganza and inefficiency
in the department. Examiners are
now investigating the commissions
disposal of war materials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
TWO CITIES BEAR
WRECK BRUNT;;
3DEAD, IS HURT
Fl, Wayne Citizens Killed.
Anderson Persons In
jured in Accidents.

Three persons, all of FIT. Wayne,
were killed, and thirteen Anderson
persons were injured in State auto
accidents over the weekend.
Harry Kirchner. 50, and Mrs. Ola
Sallier, 40, were killed at Columbia
City when their car went over a
twelve-foot embankment. Kircher,
it is said, was out on bond at FIT.
Wayne on charges Of transporting
liquor.
Charles w. Arnold was fatally in
jured at FIT. Wayne when he was
struck by a. car driven by Clifford
Gray. He died at a hospital. Gray
was exonerated.
Two autos collided at Sulphur
Springs, near Anderson, and nine
were hurt, including: Mrs. Charles
Hall, face cut; Kenneth Hall, IS.
bruised; Katherine Hall, y, should
er crushed: Francis Hall, 16, hurt in
ternally; Helen Hickey, Is, injured
about head; Ralph Reynolds, As, cut
and bruised; Mrs. Ralph Reynolds.
fractured hip; Carl Reynolds, broken
arm.
Four more Anderson people were
hurt when a touring car driven by
Webb Paschal colIided with a milk
truck driven by a son Of Richard
Brunt. Injured: Mrs. Webb Paschal,
two ribs broken; Mrs. Cora Booram,
sprained ankle; Almeta Paschal,
sprained wrist, and S-year-old daugh-
ter of Mrs. BoOran1 had her shout
der wrenched.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
SUNDAYS RAIN
KEEPS DRIVERS
FROM SPEEDING
Only Five Arrested for
Violations = Thirteen
Slated Saturday,

Sundays rain cut arrests Of al
legged speeders, police reports show
today. Thirteen persons were slat-
ed Saturday night, however. Five
were held Sunday.
Those charged with speeding:
Harlan j. Lewis. 81. OF Beech
Grove: Graha~ Hunt. 20. of 1899
Washing q Hivd.; William Burgess,
%, Of los 'tcClain ST.; Richard
Stewart, 2 of. 1910 oliver Ave;
Emmett C'brien, 10. of 2S1 Hanson
St; II. Newborn, "a, Of 1922 Win
throp Ave; Ralph F'ausey. 80. cf r.
r. L., Box, 335. Walter Z. Murray,
81, OF 1443 Richland St; Boyd Cour-
in, 81, of 1924 Kcnwood Ave, Harry
Brown, %, of 3009 w. Michigan
St; George Katanich, q. OF 1905 n.
Delaware St; Brooks Bushong, 10,
Of 1858 n. Meridian St; Elmer Nc
Cornlck. %, of Lawrence. Ind;
Harry Eastes, II. of "a Eastern
Ave; Harry Hasewinkle. SO. Of 421
n. Arsenal Ave; G. Z. Snider, 20, Of
$50 S. :, W Jersey St; p. J. Plunkett,
IS, OF IS n. last Sta also charged
with driving on left side Of the
street; Michael Doody, 29. Of 1923 f.
Vermont 81. Is charged with speed
ing and driving through a safety
zone.
Nettie Sherwood, 60. OF 720 N.
Riley Ave, is charged with, driving
on the left side of the street.
Russell Uhl. 20, of 1881 N. Tuxedo
St; Percy Shorter, IS, colored. 1914
n. Yandes St; Joe Goe, AZ, of 1884
n Mount St; Harry Chappell. 35,
of Fortville. Ind; Roy Leanord, 27,
Of $50 Udell St, are charged with
driving while intoxicated.
Ernest Hale. 20, colored, 16 Ogden
St, is charged with failure to dis
play title; Arthur Scholz, %, of 1925
N. Beville Ave, is charged with
driving through funeral procession.
and Frank Craig, As. Of 124 N. New
Jersey ST., and Elrler Stewart, 2S.
Of Go e. Georgia ST., are charged
with failure to display license and
title. George Seidensticker, %, of
1925 Broadway, is charged with fail
ure to stop after an accident.
Marion Holman, 40. and William
Porter, "a. both of 500 Scioto St.
and Albert Steiner. 2S, of 2403 w.
McCarty St, are charged with fail
ure to display lights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-28
CITY QUIZ STILL
ALIVE, WISE SAYS
Individual Investigation Is
Under Way, He Explains.

A, reported let-up in the city coun-
Gil probe of alleged Irregularities in
city government was denied today
by Walter w. Wise, president of the
council, and Lloyd D. Claycombe,
chairman of the committee.
while we haven't had any ses-
sions recently" said Wise, we're
doing a little Individual investiga-
ton which will come out in time. "
Councilman Otto Ray likewise in
Dictated that the committee was still
ready to act in case other matters
came before it. Activities of the
park board may bring additional in
vestigation of that bodyI he said.
Findings Of the committee to date
have brought about the designations
of Fred Cline, park board member,
and John L. Elliott, city engineer.