Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Deacon Slept-Pastor Resigned. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Deacon Slept-Pastor Resigned.

Rer. W. C. Jones, pastor of the First Congregational Church In Sharon, Pa., has resigned, giving as the reason that

some members of his church sleep during he services. He charges one of the deacons with sleeping fifteen out of sixteen Sundays. I.aat Sunday Rev. Mr. Jones detected a deacon napping while he was preaching. The pastor at once cut his sermoa short and dismissed the congregation. Ha

then handed In his resignation. Workmen digging a ditch near Round Prairie, Ohio, have uncovered one of the finest and best preserved mastodon skeletons yet found in that State. Unfortunately they damaged one of the enormous tusks before they knew what It was. The tusk is 9 feet in diameter at the socket end. During the last ten yenrs more than $10,000,000 has been expended In the United States in the maintenance of agricultural experiment stations, $7,000,000 of which has come front the Federal government.