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.

Store Wedding a Happy Affair

Iowa, 1914

Justice Kuhns performed the ceremony in the happy event that united Mr. John Hutchinson and Miss Emma Steinke in the bonds of matrimony yesterday afternoon in the Paul Davis store, and, when he had concluded Dr. A. J. Northrup, pastor of Grace M. E. church, gave the young couple a few words of good advice to guide them on their way, and offered a short prayer.

An Edison phonograph played the wedding march, the selections being "In Happy Moments" and "Hearts and Flowers." The bridal couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Steinke and the Misses Jorgensen, two pretty young lady employes of the store, acted as ribbon bearers.

The ceremony was witnessed by something like two hundred people and at its conclusion many of the spectators went forward and offered congratulations. Before the wedding party disbanded, a flashlight picture was taken of the group, including the minister and justice of the peace.

—Waterloo Evening Courier, Waterloo, IA, Jan. 1, 1914, p. 8.