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AI STREET FI.3tFonl City July 20—Alleged to have found on personal investigation “quite nil a lot of gambling joints including pit paddle wheels and similar devices, in ta operation” at the street fair which op* ag ened here last night under the an- 8t spices of the locat baseball team. Rev H* J. E. Dunning, pastor of the Ford Me- wl mortal M. E. church. Rev. Elder Craw on ford, pastor of the Ford City P-osby- thlt; tcrian church and Rev, A. B. Bowser, tin pastor of the Ford City Baptist church ih« tailed upon Burgess Amos Fair. Ccn m« stable Hoy Wolfe, District Attorney C. tl.i O. Morris and Judge J. W. King this | norning to enter their protests as “private citizens against the alleged flagrant violations of the law.The ministers are said to have been given assurances which led tlmm at neon to predict that “conditions will ho better during the remainder of thet! week. Ore of the clergymen in ueeilon stated that they did not believe that the carnival would be closed as the result of the objections hut that they did anticipate that objecionable, illegal features would be eliminated“We felt as ministers that we could not be perfectly quiet despite the falt;t that the camiva) ts being conducted under the auspices of tiic hall team, which wq are heartily in favor of A personal investigation made at tne car ttlial last evening showed there was quite a lot of gambling joints in operation and we entered our protests as citizens against the failure to en iorce the statutes.itROW AMONG THREE familieseyimfr\enft r iniapin(hiOilOil h a i*€(AhSt’DuEdRuOnRoBrlt;Tic1Foi
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Kittanning Simpsons Daily Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 20, 1920
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