Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1915 — Former Mt. Ayr Minister In Trouble at Covington. [ARTICLE]

Former Mt. Ayr Minister In Trouble at Covington.

Rev. B. F. Clifton, formerly pastor of the Methodist church at Mt. Ayr, and now pastor of the Methodist churches at Kingman and Salem, has just been released on 'bond following his arrest on a charge of stealing two lighting tanks from automobiles. He has since issued a signed statement announcing that his marriage to Miss Olcie May Hesier, of Hillsboro, which was to take place next Wednesday, had been “postponed indefinitely”. He said that he had resigned his pastorates and would enter the practice of law with his brother at Connersville. While at Mt. Ayr this very same minister made a statement that proved to contain no truth in the least. This statement made by the aforesaid notorious character was that he was to receive a large legacy from a relative. The statement was published but our dear Mr. Clifton has not yet learned of the source where he is to obtain the legacy. Judging fpdm this and other capers by the so-called minister he would make a deserving candidate for a cell in some penal institution.