Four years ago the Riverside Drive house of Mrs. Paul Condit-Smith, sister of the late General Leonard Wood, was dismantled, loaded on barges, taken to Long Beach, L. I. There it was remodeled to become St. John's Lutheran Church-by-the-Sea. Last week it became the property of a Long Beach businessman named Charles W. Ackerman. He was scarcely pleased to have it. Businessman Ackerman's troubles with St. John's Church-by-the-Sea were of long standing. Last winter, as chairman of the church council, he squabbled over policies with the pastor, Rev. Felix G. Robinson. One day...
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