Crossroads and Characters
36. THE CHURCH OVERLOOKING.
From the roof of what is now St. Paul's Church, here is how Dunning appeared in 1919. Prominent, next to the stack of the gas-works on the Lower Granco, is the steeple of St. Serf's. While the churches still looked down physically, they fortunately no longer oversaw the morality of the village as they once had in their sternest Protestant days. One tale recounted by Dunning historian the Rev. John Wilson was of a Janet Millar of Clevage being visited by two Kirk officials. It was reported that 'she has profaned the Lord's Day by taking kail (cabbage) out of her yaird to her house'. When she refused to appear before the kirk session to answer the charge, they asked the owner of the land where she was tenant to 'take some course for ridding the parish of her'.
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