Treasurer Kept Church Funds in Barrel, Now Missing

Ohio, 1901

Church Money Lost

Wooster, O., Jan. 30.—Hugh Howey, a farmer in Congress township, treasurer of his church, kept the church funds and some of his own in a pocketbook concealed in an ash barrel for safekeeping. Tuesday an installment of the minister's salary was due and Howey went to get the funds. Of the pocketbook only a metal clasp was left and of $122 only small amount of coin. Some one had put ashes in the barrel without pouring water on them.

—Newark Daily Advocate, Newark, Ohio, January 30, 1901, page 1.