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was nr imsELATE JEB8C JAMES CONDUCTED SUNDAY SCHOOL IN CALLAWAY COUNTY.ahd opened a singing schoolHe o* Jessa .fawns’ ^ ,,K^boolclaa*ha'! a beautiful voice and the°inging were drilled to march to the grounds,school had many pupils. Brother sinking. The number of peddlers andJoa:han McGuire, pastor of the Bap- horse traders who came into thejirsttnitpmcSalebralTHIS WAS IN THE EARLY EI6HTIES“Brother Johnson*9 Wes Name He Went Under at the- Time—Plans to Effect Hie Capture Wet e Given Away by Woman.tfet church, was anxious to open a country a week or ten days before f8 v Sunday school at Old Unity, a phase tic Sunday school picnic was aston- for of church wcrk that was undevclop- ish.ng and caused much comment.ed in that section. “Brother John- j Luther McKinney was prosecuting son” was made superintendent of attorney of Callaway county, nd the Sunday school, and hts sing- mcame to his house at midnight.ing was a feature of the sessions. or later, and he would go out andBrother Johnson would take the confer with them.li'Ue children out under the trees The night before the picnicWhen Jesse James was hiding in Callaway county In the ’80s he was a Sunday school superintendent for a month or more, and taught classes of little children Bible lessons out under the trees near old Unity church, southwest of Fulton, says the Columbia Tribune of Monday. The desperado was an excellentsinger and was well liked in thecommunity.Miss Sallie Flood, of Columbia,and William Babb, at that time* a young man living here, but now a successful Yvlchita editor, were nrrong a party of young people from Columbia, who saw Jesse James at a ^hureb convention held by thvBaptists at “Twfn Churches,” east of Columbia, in 1882, wheft the man who made-Missouri-famous was there Imown as “Brother Johnson.” t he officers were tracking Jesse James down in the early '80s, and he went to Callaway county, where he turned np near Old Unity churchppc son It I tivi the Infl adii w*»ols from the Bible. He was a good more conferences than usual, and i j teacher, according to the children, asked her husband repeatedly to ^ who are now' grown men and women. tfeU her what was on foot. “Well,” he His stories were always interesting said, “it can’t do any harm to telland kept the children enthralled, you row. Wc are going to captuieMost of those -who were in the class Jesse James tomorrow. He *s d;s-today stoutly maintain that “Jesse Ciuised and is teaching a Sunday James was a good man, the victim ‘vool class, and we are going to of circumstances, and I don’t care overpower and take him at the Sun-what you say. about him, I know, for day school picnic at Wbmmsck.” j I was in his Sunday .school class.” «t so happened that Jesse James One characteristic of Jesse James, saved the life of Mrs. Mcftin-the Sifrday school sup*-inteodent, is n*/s brlt;*her during: the Clril warremembered by every- one who at- by a P*©©© of wlld riding and goodtended Old Unity chnrch at that shooting, but of this fact her hus-ti.ue. He always called on some one ba^d, the prosecuting attorney, was else to pray. He did not himself ad- *««orant. She herself had never seen ^ dress the Throne of Grace in pub- J*s*€ Jam©® • r Iilr. However, as there were many1 After her husband was asleep she ™ brethren in the church “fortffled and 6tt'l© °«t of the house, called a negro gifted in prayer,” this wa8 not no- bIm instructions to ride to »the house where Blather Johnson ‘ orintIfamprlt;aninfnaetithtNcthlt;dfSt!Meed at the time. .... ....„ « j(w * boarded and deliver a note: The noteSnortly after Brother Johnson be* , .„ , . , , . . contained the Information that • thecame Sunday school superintendent .... . , voMuueroug peddlers began to come 8rhoc‘ ^ w8» the p!ac*through the country, selling trinkets 8«ted upo fo'h,s „S,d asking questions. Peddier, had' ™ d*y the crowdgather^datnever been known in the country ^..'Vommack introduetory talks were-* j mede and the crowd begun to be lalr. rUo« *m pat lent for the arrival of Brother tllt;A Sunday school picnic was plan-1 a wir. . . .. _ . ... ' Johnson’s Sunday school pupils, who LCn£a at Wonnnack, and the children ; ^ * . inlweie to cotne singing and marching Iaiin companies, marshaled by classes. m{Many strangers were at .the picnic ^and several times the deacons com- a® men ted to one another upon the alt;J number of strangers at the picnic and the wonderful good Sunday m school work was doing# The woods at jeere * full of horses hitched f to hiswinging limbs.tofWe take the greatest Care inprohiding 'Boys9Shoes that areformed to fit groining .ill-fitting Shot for boy means poor serbico.and m/my to his feet as bell.Boys9 Shoes of Choiee and Sturdy Le.iiQUOIN BUS.Suddenly an old woman came run- R olvg, with her bonnet trailing be- iu hind her head, as she shouted: “Bro- Cl ther McGuire, Brother Johnson ain't vc Brother Johnson; he's Jesse James, Fi and he‘s gone, he’s gone!” j DiThe special agents and deputies S] made a rush for their horses, Cl scrambled on and set off for Fulton, ha The timber about Wommack was K thiwk and they feared that Jesse. Mi James was in ambush with a gang M desperadoes, waiting to shoot (ai them down. | inThe deputes did not sop anti! al they galloped up to the public tiisquare in Fulton.Brother Johnson was not again in Callaway county.seenMeeting of the W. C. T. U.Twenty-three members of the Wl’ oi C. T. IT. attended Tuesday's meeting,at the home of Mrs. J. B. Gallic. Mrs. tlL. N. Guild gave a report of the state wconvention at Carthage last week. ljMrs. Louis Hoffman will be the next si hostess on Tuesday, October 25. I bDaughter Bom Monday Afternoon, pJ. H. Hkll. a carpenter, and wife. It have a daughter, born at their home, clt; 1218 East Thirteenth street, at 5:30 ilt; o'clock Monday afternoon, . . ibl
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Sedalia Democrat Sentinel
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1910
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