Wednesday, September 21, 2022

After Disagreement, New Pipe Organ Removed from Church, Chopped Up, Set on Fire, Sept. 20, 1922

Pipe Organ Chopped Up and Then Burned

Henderson, Sept. 19—The Christian Church at Borderly, Union County, recently installed an organ after several months’ wrangle among the congregation. Today a mass meeting of smouldering embers was all that remained of the organ. It had been removed from the church, taken into the church yard, chopped to pieces and set on fire after coal oil had been poured over the pieces.

Reports reaching here were to the effect that a woman member of the congregation had destroyed it.

Court action will be taken soon.

From The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1922

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