Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1900 — Congregation Easily -Satisfied. [ARTICLE]

Congregation Easily -Satisfied.

lirookston Gazette. Rev. Charles S. Davisson, of the Wolcott Baptist church, has explained aud the church is said to be satisfied. Mr. Davisson merely took Mrs, Dillon out driving and d<Jwn to the banks of a warbling brook, to inspect and criticise some of her literary effusions, which he insisted it would not be proper for her to send to him by mail, as it might cause suspicion and unwarranted critiei m. He insists that his regard for Mrs. Dillon was purely Platonic, and thkt he felt sorry for her because her husband was such a deucedly plain fellow and so unworthy of the charms of his liter ary companion. His explanation has set everything o k with the reverend gentleman and his literary paramour and the entire blame is now attached to the uncouth Mr. Dillon. There is not the least doubt about Rev. D’s. innocense; people who aid in the circulation of such outrageously false stories have done much to set him ill at ease and to wound his generous spirit.