CHOIR ON STRIKE
TROUBLE WITH VICAR
LONDON, 18th May.
Trouble has speedily followed the appointment as vicar of Stebbing (Essex) of the Rev. Franklin Hutehinson, whose disappearance from Doddinghurst (Essex) in August, 1928, caused a sensation lasting several weeks, Until lie was located in Canada.
He has been in his new living since Easter and, according to the "Weekly Dispatch," the villagers resentfully allege that without consulting anyone ho moved church ornaments and fittings, including a model of the church, and also the bible rest from the pulpit. The bellringers -and choir men went on strike.
Mr. Hutchinson says that the objectors represent a small section of the congregation, and that his alterations were trivial.- Ho merely placed the model in a nieho, while he personally sawed off the reading desk because it hid him when preaching. The churchwarden had refused to carry out the alteration. As for the choir, it was only a one-man affair.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1930, Page 11
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156CHOIR ON STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1930, Page 11
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