The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-26


Baker. Matamora; G c Woodruff, Gen
eseo; W NJ Collins. Galesburg: F Smith,
Bloomington; E McKlish. Canton; ] F
James, Manitou; A Bower. Sheffield; L
Springer, Piper City.
ToDAy's SESSION.
The conference met at $50 this morn :
ing and proceeded,tO ballot for secretary
The first ballot for secretary resulted in
no choice a second ballot was taken. Tellers
were granted leave to retire. DR.. Ky
nette, DR.. Hart2ell and Rev r. R. Pearce,
of St Louis; Randolph, of East Tennessee
conference; s, W. Heald. of Upper Iowa
conference, and w. A. Spencer. of Rock riv-
er, were introduced to the conference. $50
o'clock was fixed as the hour for com
mencing the conference and IL for adj
journment The following standing com.
mittees were nominated By the elders and
appointed by the conference. T. J. Wood
was added to the committee to receive and
distribute reports. On motion the com
mittce on conference reports was ordered
to report all delinquents before the close
of the session tomorrow.
A draft for $50 on the chartered fund
and $270 on the book concern was or
dered.
The tellers reported that DR.. Cummings
had received a majority of the votes for
secretary.
The following are the different com
mites:
CONFERENCE STEWARDS d Wilson,
U Gilmer, S Van Pelt, E s Wilson, ]
E Keene, Fl D Clark, T Doney. @ r
Palmer.
. SUNDAY ScHocLs AND TRACTS. &C W
Aging. Fl c Birch, G W Abbott. W H
Hitchcock. W Fl Witter, W G Miller, D
McLeish, R B Seaman.
BIBLE CAUsE.-W C Knapp, II NJ
Lawry, E P Hall, ] W McCord, NJ V
Crumbaker, T H Pryor. P Garretson,
Fl Sanders.
TEMPERANcE.-M G Eigmus, II G
Clark, W otterman, J w Haney, T s
Fowler J E Taylor. A c Calkins, F Fl
Cummings.
USE OF TOBACCO. Il B Dennis, @ B
Snedaker. C E Rowe, J Rugh, A Bower,
P Warner, T Chipperfeld, G G Schaffer.
BOOK ACCOUNTS V B White, G W
Green, j E Williams, T J Wood, J A
Sanders. II C Birch, VIC Wilson, ] G
Adams.
SANcTITY OF THE SABBATH.-W A
Cummings, E 0 Raymond, J Torpin
J F James, ] Wilkinson, &C Knowlton
J Ferguson D Calhoun.
WoMANs' FoREIaN MISSIONARY SocI-
ETY. r. Haney, d @ Stoufer s P James,
E Springer, J W Frazell, J B Ollie,
Alexander Smith, W R Wiley.
CONFERENCE RELATIoNs.-J Millsap
W W Carr, s P Afford, C O Mccullough
E N Bentley, P A Cool, W M Collins, ]
A H Wilson.
FREEDMAN's AID SOCIETY. W T
Wilson, NJ P Lockland, w r Warner, W
R Blackwell, H K Metcalf J Rogers, a
Humes. j Hart
EPISCOPAL FUND.- F Cullom,
Crewes, W Wooley, H A Peters, g
Taylor, W B Alexander. r Barton, T
Henry.
MEMoIRs.--R Haney. w II Hunter, v
Underwood, z Hall, A Keller, G J Luck,
NJ G Bowlin.
STATE OF CHURCH s Gruber, M
B White, j D Smith, o M Dunlevy, E
Allen. W J Minimum, B C Dennis, T {
Moots.
PUBLIC WORSHIP. presidin.
elder of the district and the pastor Of til,
M E church of Rock Island.
| HOME MISSION WoRK.-W Watson,
H Anderson, H Brink, E B Borgess., /
Morey; II c Botkin, w T Keer, v
Matheny, q j Bailey.
CENTENNIAL.-AK Tnllis, A @ Price
Cummings. j s Millsap, G W Ayling
B w Baker, o Wasmuth M T Havermale
NEW York Book ACCOUNTS Hall
PosToFFIcEs. "A L Morse.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE REcoRDs.-G
w Burns. FL Brown. d T Wilson, ] 4
Sanders. G Haney. W X Collins, WI
Blackwell, + Robinson.
SELECT MEMBERS. m A Head, T
Henry, T James, s s Gruber. w Watson
@ NJ Morey. J W Denning, r Haney,
Wilkinson, W W Carr, s P Afford, c
Knnwltan WI Wilhur p A Cool