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...behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble...
...president of the bank, without pay. Frank B. Kramer, Mrs. Kramer's brother-in-law, is the cashier and generally considered active head of the bank. Both he and Mr. Black are of Greene County's best old stock. Mr. Black is a Baptist, Mr. Kramer a Methodist. Mr. Kramer used to be a general merchant. One of the directors is B. E. South, retired carpenter. Another is C. C. Davis who owns the motion picture house. Greensboro is a farming community but has been helped by coal developments. Last week when the bank did not open, Greensboro...
...there was good news in Clinton, 90 miles from England. The Van Buren County Bank opened after a short suspension. Its president and chairman is Garner Frazier, 55, an attorney-at-law, a native citizen of Clinton, and a leading citizen of Van Buren County. He is a devoted Methodist and a great civic worker. The bank is located in the heart of town (Clinton does not need street numbers), in a one-story concrete building. Brad Frazier, Garner's brother, is cashier. The whole county was glad to hear the bank was transacting "business as usual...
...returned last year and joined with Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores to make a deal with the then President Emilio Fortes Gil whereby the law was conveniently relaxed. Since then the State has ceased to fret the Church, the Church the State. Meanwhile U. S. Protestant denominations, notably Methodists and Presbyterians, had been rushing into the religiously roiled country, have been vigorously evangelizing with prayerbook and purse. There is now a Methodist Church of Mexico...
...Mexican people feel instinctively a repulsion from Protestant propaganda. The names Protestant, Methodist, Presbyterian fall on Mexicans as a species of stigma because of the marked character of the North American dominion all these Protestants bring to Mexico. Hence the popular opinion that Protestantism is one of the elements upon which a powerful neighboring nation counts to effect slowly but surely domination, hegemony or realization of its imperialism in our land...