Hello, all, do any of you have info on the church above? A Teacher and Minister's wife told me about it. She was raised in that area. and several Erath County citizens came fron the area. Story goes that they took their corn by muleback in liquid for in jugs and the Church house was built on the pledges from the income of 40 gallons of Whiskey. To a Texan this sounds very wierd, as some Texas Baprtist Churches in 1920's refused members who sold or abused whiskey. Most did use it for medicinal purposes and antiseptic and mix honey in it for cough medicine. Take Care, Charles A. Wyly
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CA4A66E89C58D93D53848E69 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit wyly1@juno.com wrote: > > Hello, all, do any of you have info on the church above? A Teacher and > Minister's wife told me about it. She was raised in that area. and > several Erath County citizens came fron the area. > Story goes that they took their corn by muleback in liquid for in jugs > and the Church house was built on the pledges from the income of 40 > gallons of Whiskey. To a Texan this sounds very wierd, as some Texas > Baprtist Churches in 1920's refused members who sold or abused whiskey. > Most did use it for medicinal purposes and antiseptic and mix honey in it > for cough medicine. > > Take Care, > Charles A. Wyly > In 1945, my parents bought a restaurant in a small, very "dry", Georgia Bible Belt town. That spring (Easter, I think) Dad prepared a special Sunday dinner that included a large bowl of thoroughly spiked punch. Working as a waiter, I had many requests for seconds on the punch from those good Baptists and Methodists --- and not one complaint. Jim Blease --------------CA4A66E89C58D93D53848E69 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="leds.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Jim Blease Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="leds.vcf" begin:vcard n:; x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 end:vcard --------------CA4A66E89C58D93D53848E69--