Show Evangelist Held o on Desertion Charge CHIC CHICAGO GO Oct 31 United Press Re Rev George Sturtevant 51 Itinerant Itin fUn evangelist today was brought Into the domestic relations court to tell why ha he left his wife wite and kept company with Miss 1 Ethel Kee 24 24 a pretty sawdust trail trall usher asher The evangelist and the I girl were brought roUght back here from fromI i I Lansing Mich Uch I Mrs Emma Sturtevant the tho wife charges desertion I Detectives charge that the evangelist and Miss McKee who Is from Valley City N. N D. D entered a alove Jove love pact a copy of or which they said they found round on the couple The pact reads We e do hereby pledge our love and ard fidelity to each ea-ch other as long longas longa a as we shall both live Uve and we will as soon as the way Is Js open be become become become be- be come husband and wife Salt Lake Dr Cassidy will win be ac accompanied accompanied accompanied ac- ac companied by Mrs Cassidy who has made an enviable reputation for herself hersell during her many years of or work among the young joung married women women women wo wo- men of the Baptist church throughout through through- out the southwest During the pastorate of the Rev Her Cassidy In Wichita the First Baptist church of or that city Ity became one of ot the strongest and most mast influential churches in the southwest according according according accord accord- ing to word received in this city As an Instance it is said that when he took over the pulpit In the Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas town the ben benevolences of that congregation amounted to about a 0 year while during his final year of or service erIce the amount devoted to such work had reached a annually It is reported that durIng during dur dur- ing Ms his Wichita pastorate Dr Cassidy Cassidy Cas Cas- sidy added 1758 names to the membership membership membershIp mem- mem mem mem- rolls of his church making making- it one of the leading churches qt the Baptist denomination in th tha central west Aside from strictly spiritual world work for tor his flock the Rev Re Cassidy is ia noted for his devotion to athletics He is an enthusiast for tor clean athletics athletics athletics ath ath- according to advices from Wichita and because of or this Interest Interest Interest Inter Inter- est in sports he is one among them with the young men of or the church No less leS'S than her husband Mrs Cassidy has earned a reputation for tor herself in the work of the church In the tho spring of or 1907 she conceived the Idea of at bringing the young married mar mar- ried ned women of the denomination together for spiritual mental and s. s social cla growth She organized t the Bethany Bathany circle with eighteen charter charter charter char char- ter members She later became president of or this circle for two terms 1911 She also served two terms as superintendent of ot the county Sunday school ol association during her residence In Inthe Inthe inthe the Kansas town and two years year as president of or the Missionary Social So So-r cial union of or all the 1 I churches of ot every denomination in irr that county In securing the services of Dr Cassidy reads the statement of the the- board of trustees of or Immanuel church we feel teel that we have s se secured secured se- se cured a man who will not only be a great help to the church but who will also be an n uplifting force Inthe Inthe in inthe the life me of the community We also ruso feel that Mrs Cassidy will be of at great assistance In the work of the young oung women of this city |