Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Dowieite Run Out of Dyer. [ARTICLE]

Dowieite Run Out of Dyer.

Wednesday afternoon, tie Dowieite elder under whose ministrations the, 8 year old son of Albert Stommel, of Dyer, died one day last week, of diptheria, (came down to Dyer again, to visit the family, on the milk train. His visit was expected and he was met at the depot by a crowd of the justly enraged people of the village, who put a rope around his neck and gave him to understand that if be didn’t get out aud stay out, they would bang him until he was too dead for all the Dowieite elders od earth to resuscitate. What the final result was, we have not learned, but understand the Dowieite was put on the next train north, which was due in a few minutes. The methods these Dowieites take to excuse their failures and to keep up the faith of their ignorant dupes, is well illustrated by this Stommel case, by an incident related by the Hammond Tribune. Stommel is a general merchant at Dyer, and after his boy had died the “Elder” came baok last Sunday and told Stommel that the reason why his prayers for the boy did not avail was because a part of Stommel’s stook consisted of tobacco. Instead of asking the elder why he did not inform him of the evil effects of tobacco selling before tbe ohild died, instead of afterwards, and then breaking tbe elder’s head with a club, as he ought to have done, tbe poor deluded Stommel set to work and made a bonfire of all of the tobacco in his store.