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...national church body. But Teamster Allen felt that Methodism was better for Negroes. He bought a blacksmith shop, began holding services, accumulated enough followers so that in 1799 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer U. S. Methodist. In 1816 the congregation of Negro Allen's Mother Bethel Church elected him the first U. S. Negro bishop...
...families is William Bingham II, son of the city's biggest wholesale hardware dealer, grandson of Samuel Colt (firearms), related by blood and inheritance to Colonel Oliver H. Payne of Standard Oil. Rich but shy at 59, Mr. Bingham spends most of his time in his home in Bethel on the banks of Maine's Androscoggin River. He first went there to be near his old Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died in 1932, aged 75, Mr. Bingham, who had given...
...where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles as a nurse...
Three years ago Rector William Casper Munds of the Church of the Good Shepherd invited Rabbi Sidney Wolf of Temple Bethel to join him in a union Thanksgiving service, with the Episcopal church decorated by its women's Guild and the Jewish Sisterhood of the Temple, Episcopalians and Jews acting as ushers, the day's offering to go to the needy of both congregations, and the sermon to be preached by the rabbi. His subject this week: "True Brotherly Love...
PETER, CALLED THE GREAT-Maurice Bethel Jones-Stokes ($3). Heavily romanticized biography which makes Peter out a queer mixture of hysterical stallion and sadistic genius. ARTIFEX: SKETCHES AND IDEAS-Richard Aldington - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Miscellaneous papers by an English writer whom the modern England much annoys. THE LADY OF BLEEDING HEART YARD- Laura Norsworthy-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A determined attempt to rescue the reputation of a high-tempered, comely, not-always-truthful Jacobean lady whom legend has confounded with others of the same name. WITHOUT GREASE-Frank R. Kent- Morrow ($2.50). Collection of the syndicated columns...