Show PREACHER PROVES A AN EXPERT IN BUSINESS DEALS Amasses Fortune of Half Halt Million in Leisure Moments Mo Mo- merits ments in Four Years Ye rs CHICAGO April 16 A A real estAte te transfer Just made In the routine of ot th recorders recorder's office reveals the tho story of or a ChiCago Chicago Chi Chi- ago cago minister of or the gospel who has hns gained s a 0 fortune of or during dunnS his spare time from preaching Four years ears ago o ho he left Chicago with slender means to lo nurse a l daughter r back ck to health Today iy he lie is III th the owner of or landed estates and an exclusive metropolitan metro melro politan n apartment building The hero heto of or this fair fairy tale talc of or finance nanc and religion Is the R Rev v. v Richard A A. A for for- ley icy a a. Methodist Episcopal pastor who was waa stationed for several years In iii Chicago Chica Chica- go and Oak Park churches Th The fhe story In the thc purchase b by th the mints mints- ter of or an m apartment hotel for or In 1 1304 0 Mr r. r MOTh l' In an effort to save his daughter from tuberculosis exchanged ox- ox changed pulpits with a minister at Las Vegas N. N M. M Shortly afterward he purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a ranch nearby at a tax sale salo and this was tho the beginning of at hl his prosperity He Ho bought more mor land lan and sold old It tt at a large profit and within two years year earR was owner of or a Q tract now worth orth Branching out further he ho purchased a 1000 acre farm near nar Kansas City ono one In tn Wisconsin and ond two farms in 11 Illinois All this time ho he has never missed a Sunday in his pulpit nor a a. Wednesday evening prayer meeting U S hen he lie re removed removed re- re moved movel to tho the west vest he says fays av ho he did not dream of ot entering Into bush business ss transI trans trans- I actions |