Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City officials and schoolteachers demanded that Scott back up his accusations with names and dates, or retract. Scott refused to do either. Sympathizers flocked to his church, murmuring "Hallelujah" as Preacher Scott laid into sin harder than ever...
...other folks got madder. Detroit newspapers, which covered Rose City's uproar for all it was worth, discovered that Scott had been arrested in 1931 for drunken driving in Flint, in fact was converted to religion a short three years ago after a nondescript career as a salesman, industrial worker and beer-truck driver...
Through the Village. The anti-Scottists hoped that would convince the Detroit Methodist conference that Scott should not be reappointed. The conference gave Scott a hearing. Then, disregarding the advice of the committee on appointments, Bishop Raymond J. Wade sent him back to Rose City with exhortations to continue the "war against the liquor interests...
...Preacher Scott went back. Last week, motherly Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, whose well had supplied the parsonage for 29 years, cut off his water supply. When Scott went to the hardware store for a new bottle of cooking gas, the clerk told him he had none. The druggist refused to sell him anything. Newspapers were all "spoken for." Signs reading "We Don't Want Scott" appeared in windows...
...week's end, Scott and his wife were forced to move in with his staunchest supporter, Lumber Dealer Harold ("Tiny" ) Rice. Church trustees prepared a plea to the bishop to reconsider. Said Preacher Scott: "I shall not be moved...