A gun battle in Fayette wasn’t news; one that left Hatfields dead though–that was a story. Devil Anse was baptized by Uncle Dyke on September 23rd at the age of 72, just before his two sons died.  He had been an agnostic all his life.  How much his newfound conversion to Christianity changed his business practices, we’ll just have to wait and see.

And now for something completely different.

Since it’s right there with the untitled ‘Hatfield’s Get Baptized’ article, why not?

Here’s two copies of the same article (pretty common for newswires)– A retyped version and blurrier original from the Martinsville Herald.  Differences: feud is spelled correctly in the latter and ‘faith’ at the end of the piece is uncapitalized.

Meanwhile mine operators’ actions to suppress unionization and enforce company rules as law through direct pay to sheriffs, appointing deputies, and use of private mine guards continued unchanged.

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