Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1918 — HATRIOTS COT PASTOS’S HAIR [ARTICLE]

HATRIOTS COT PASTOS’S HAIR

/ i Mennoniie Is Roughly Handled for Failure to Aid War Work Drive. flrhann, Tnd. —United war work solicitors in Salem township, this county. took Rev. S. E. Allgyer, Mennoniie preacher, from his home, where a cottage prayer meeting was In progress, and after his refusal to subscribe to the fund, clipped his hair with horse clippers. Other Mennonlte homes were visited, but subscriptions were forthcoming. The minister was called to the door and asked tor his subscription. He stated that he didn’t- know to whom be was talking. His porch light was turned on, and every member of the committee and his neighbors stood out clearly. After parleying a while he flatly refused to donate and some cried: “Bring him out.”. After another refusal he was taken into the road in front of his home, and while his wife embraced him, holding an American flag over him, the ancient pulling horse-clippers were applied. The men then went on their way.