Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1917 — Here’s a Minister Who Won’t Marry Slackers. [ARTICLE]

Here’s a Minister Who Won’t Marry Slackers.

The first minister in this locality, says the Monticello Journal, to take a stand against the practice of getting married to escape military duty, it Rev. John Walton, pastor of the Baptist church of Bumettsville, who says he will not officiate at a wedding ceremony where_lt is known or suspected that the groom - is entering matrimony to escape military duty.