Drunks Sentenced to Church Attendance

1911

DRUNKS DISLIKE NEW RULE

Cordele (Ga.) Mayor Has Novel Method of Cleaning Up Town.

Cordele, Ga., June 6 — Disgusted by the action of Mayor Dorris in announcing that all white persons convicted of drunkenness must either accompany him to church for ten consecutive Sundays or serve thirty days on the streets, chronic drinkers are taking the pledge or getting out of town.

The first man to receive the mayor's novel sentence was Scott Thomson, a well-to-do business man. Thomson accepted the church end of the sentence but he did not seem to enjoy the sermon.


BOLT GOES THROUGH GRAVE

Steel Casket Attracts Lightning—Fear Body Is Mangled

York, Pa., June 7.—Lightning played a queer prank in Prospect Hill cemetery, passing through a grave containing a metal casket and then tearing to pieces a large tree nearby. An investigation will be made to see if the casket is shattered.

The caretaker says that it seemed, as if a ball of fire had passed along the ground, entered the grave and came out of the other end. It is feared by relatives of the dead man that the body may have been thrown from the casket and mangled by the bolt.

—Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1911, page 4.