“Wonder if that is the Rev. Sylvester Betts of Raleigh, a minister who is pictured with Carrie Nation during an anti-saloon swing through Raleigh sometime around 1907. Never could find a blood kinship to Sylvester, though.”

Jack further wonders whether “that V.C. Royster mentioned in the article was the father of that other Royster, Vermont Connecticut Royster, late of the newspaper biz? {Wall Street Journal]”