Mrs. M. E.
Watts, Simcoe Lady,
marries in Tawas City
A romance of more than usual
interest to Norfolk County people took place in Tawas City,
Michigan, on 3 Apr 1921, when Mrs. M. E. Watts, 74 years of age, of
Simcoe, was married to Rev. John Bayner Lomas, 84 years of age,
Methodist minister of Tawas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Lomas are now
in Simcoe and will reside on Norfolk Street south. Mrs. Lomas is the
mother of Mrs. Wm. Cutting.
After a varied career in
newspaper work and in the pulpit in this country and England, Rev.
Mr. Lomas has been advised by a throat specialist to retire for at
least three months.
For 34 years he preached and
lectured under the auspices of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in
England, and for three years he reported for one of the English
dailies during the Fenian troubles.
He first located in the
United States as a minister at Port Rowan, and since then has built
three churches, all of which have been paid for within 12 months of
completion.
During the war, Rev. Mr.
Lomas was a four-minute man. He holds an autographed souvenir of
President Wilson as appreciation of his services. He is a strenuous
opponent of the whiskey business and his methods are said to
parallel those of Billy Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Lomas' first wife
died in February 1920, and has a grown-up family.
