Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — ODD DIVERSION OF CHARITY [ARTICLE]

ODD DIVERSION OF CHARITY

When Church People Refuse to Aid Needy Trio of Vaudeville Troupe Others Rally. Shippensburg, Pa. —Because Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans and little son, stranded vaudeville actors, were refused assistance by wealthy church people here and obtained liberal help through collections raised in poolrooms and cigar stores, the town resembles a skeptical foreign mission field today, with church and nonchurch factions bitterly criticising each other, and those on the fence declaring (hat things are going to .the demnltlon bow-wows. The Evans family arrived in town recently, on their way to —somewhere. The head of the family is partially paralyzed, and on account of his inertness and the age of the husband and wife, they failed to keep up with the pace that tire vaudeville stage set them. Anyway, they arrived here stranded. Being adherents of a religious denomination, they sought the pastor who, although pinched financially himself, gave them forty cents and presented their cause before a wealthy member of his congregation. But the wealthy member and others neglected to assist The Evanses, discouraged, appealed to the proprietor of the Sherman house, who gave them beds, and in the hotel they found charity. Several hotel "lodngers” went out to the poolrooms and cigar stores and raised a comfortable purse for the family and sent them on their way to relatives at Steelton. The whole affair has set the gossip pot boiling. _