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incapacitated due to the homemade spirits the local boys provided.

It was not unusual for the evening to end with a hearty round of fisticuffs. Some of the local lads would decide that the time and the place were right to settle some long-standing slights. The pastor usually attempted to restore law and order, sometimes by administering a few sacred knocks to the heads of the offenders.

Such was the way the last tea party in Sturgeon ended on July 3, 1940.