When Perry Wheeler, energetic young newspaper reporter, decided to leave his promising position in Des Moines, and bought a one-way ticket to the town of Batesford, he didn't know that train trip would change his life. He didn't know either that the brawny men of Batesford would, when they was him reading a Bible, declare bluntly, "There's one thing Batesford don't need. That's preachers!"
But Perry knew that the town, a challenging combination of business opportunity and drinking rowdies, needed Christ. He did more than revive the declining Batesford Bugle; he brought the message of salvation through Christ's atoning death
Jim Kelly, George Pomroy, Moss Gunther, Buck Redfern--these men of Batesford were uncompromising as the sun and the rain, but God and Perry changed them and their town. And Batesford--particularly charming young Leota Pomroy--changed Perry.
When Perry Wheeler, energetic young newspaper reporter, decided to leave his promising position in Des Moines, and bought a one-way ticket to the town of Batesford, he didn't know that train trip would change his life. He didn't know either that the brawny men of Batesford would, when they was him reading a Bible, declare bluntly, "There's one thing Batesford don't need. That's preachers!"
But Perry knew that the town, a challenging combination of business opportunity and drinking rowdies, needed Christ. He did more than revive the declining Batesford Bugle; he brought the message of salvation through Christ's atoning death
Jim Kelly, George Pomroy, Moss Gunther, Buck Redfern--these men of Batesford were uncompromising as the sun and the rain, but God and Perry changed them and their town. And Batesford--particularly charming young Leota Pomroy--changed Perry.