Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — Pay Too High. [ARTICLE]

Pay Too High.

Oape Girardeau, Mo.—The Rev. Eugene F. Abbott, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here, resigned, giving as one reason that his salary of $2,000 per annum was excessive considering the amount appropriated in charitable and other church work. He has accepted a call to a church at Fulton, Mo., where his salary will be SI,BOO per annum.