Pastor Bars Hobble Skirt

1910

No Woman, Wearing Garb of Latest Fashion, Can Enter New Jersey Village Church

Groveville, New Jersey — Rev. Peter Henry, pastor of the First Reformed church, has refused admission to his church to any woman who wears a "hobble" skirt, and has denounced from his pulpit those who have adopted this style of dress. He terms girls and women who wear them as "walking balloons," "lunatics" and "godless." He says the style is a travesty, and asserts the girls and women who wear such skirts should be "spanked."

Since the minister began his crusade few of the "hobblers" can be seen in these parts, and although a number of women in his congregation had gone to considerable expense in placing skirts of this style in their wardrobe, they are now bemoaning the expenditure, as they have destroyed them or given them away.


Lincoln — Learned or Unlearned?

Congressman Wise of Virginia, in his address on Lincoln, said: "Abraham Lincoln had neither the learning, the experience in public life, nor the social advantages of William H. Seward. Nor had he the political training, the polish, or the skilled weapons of debate possessed by his great antagonist, Stephen A. Douglas. What he had was a faith which knew no variableness nor shadow of turning, and a purpose that he boldly announced at the outset and never abandoned under any discouragement. It is a mistake to say he was an unlearned man."

Pastor Acts As Floor Walker in Department Store

1922

Union Hill, New Jersey, March 23. — Unable to make financial ends meet on his salary of less than $24 weekly as pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. W. C. Ramsay, spends six days each week as a floor walker in a store and the seventh in his church.

He was found today in the position of floor walker and section manager of a big Manhattan department store, a position which he has held the past year without the knowledge of his parishioners. Rev. Mr. Ramsay has been pastor of the Union Hill church for 30 years.

"The average human being doesn't work enough," he said. "I find that I can work as a floor walker, write my sermons, study and lecture in the evenings, preach twice Sunday and wake up Monday eager for my store job." — Associated Press.

Domestic Woe Caused By Phrase in Bible

March 1914

NEWARK, N. J. — Before Vice Chancellor Emery John P. Hammer, who is seeking a divorce from Anna Hammer, gave as the basic cause of his marital troubles his wife's too literal interpretation of the biblical injunction, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife."

"We often had words on account of my mother," Hammer explained, and so I got in the way of going to see her without saying anything about it to my wife. She used to say that, according to the Bible, after a man married he had no business to see his father and mother or other relations, but should stay by his wife.

"When my stepfather died in December, 1910, I attended to the funeral arrangements, as my mother was too old to do it herself, being about 80, and when I got home my wife said to me, 'Did you have a good time?'

"Then I told her that while before I had been going to see my mother secretly, thereafter I would do so openly."

This declaration. Hammer testified, brought on a serious estrangement, and his wife finally, on March 24, 1911, left him, after a violent quarrel.

Rome (Georgia) Regrets Losing Dr. Jones

New Jersey, 1907

An extract from the Tribune of Rome, Ga., shows in what high esteem the people of that place hold the Rev. C. O. Jones, who has been called to the pastorate of the First M. E. Church, this city. The article refers to Dr. Jones's farewell service last Sunday, and is as follows:

"One of the most affecting services ever seen in Rome took place Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church, when Dr. Charles O. Jones bade the members farewell after laboring for a year as their pastor.

"His theme was 'Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness,' and the eloquent speaker was at his best. His words deeply moved his hearers, and when the closing song, 'God Be with You Till We Meet Again,' was sung there was scarcely a dry eye in the house. Dr. Jones and his family leave for his new field, Trenton, N. J., tomorrow, and the best wishes of all Methodists and all Romans go with him.

"At the farewell service there was not a vacant seat in the house and many members of other denominations were present."

—Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, N.J., Dec. 7, 1907, p. 7.